Scientist
Lotte Pummerer
Member of Social Processes lab
Lotte Pummerer has been a researcher and PhD student at the IWM since April 2019 in the Social Processes Lab. Her research interests are social influence, esp. social norms, group identification, world views, political attitudes as well as ideologies. More concretely, in her PhD project she will focus on conspiracy theories and information processing.
Lotte Pummerer studied Psychology (M. Sc. 2017) with a Fulbright Scholarship at Georgia Southern University, USA, specializing in Social Psychology, Moral Psychology and Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. She also studied theology in Leipzig, Beirut and Tubingen. During her studies she was a research assistant in the Psychology Department. Part of her job was to tutor courses in statistics.
Articles in refereed Journals
Pummerer, L., Böhm, R., Lilleholt, L., Winter, K., Zettler, I., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Societal Effects of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Scholl, A., Sassenberg, K., Zapf, B., & Pummerer, L. (2020). Out of sight, out of mind: Power-holders feel responsible when anticipating face-to-face, but not digital contact with others. Computers in Human Behavior, 112, Article 106472. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106472
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Chapters in Edited Books
Pummerer, L. (in press). „Selbsttranszendenz" – ein Überblick religionspsychologischer Forschung über Spiritualität und Sinnsuche bei Nichtreligiösen. In A. Haußmann & R. Höfelschweiger (Eds.), Spiritualität und Sinn. Seelsorge und Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie im Dialog. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
Conference Contributions
Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2020, June). Going against the grain: Believing in conspiracy theories predicts adherence to social norms. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Krakow, Poland. (Conference cancelled). https://easp2020krakow.com/ [Talk]
Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2020, July). Societal Consequences of Corona Conspiracy Theories. 43rd Virtual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) (online Meeting). [Talk]
Pummerer, L. (2019, August). Meaning in Life apart form Religion: Developing and Validating a Multidimensional Scale Measuring Belief in Science. International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR). Danzig, Poland. [Talk]
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