Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer

Academic Education and Positions

• 2000: Diploma in Psychology, University of Trier, Germany
• 2004: Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Trier, Germany
• 2005-2010: Associate Professor of Methodology and Evaluation,  University of Koblenz-Landau; Department of Psychology, Co-Director of the "Center for Methods, Assessment, and Evaluation" at the University of Koblenz-Landau  (Methodenzentrum)
• 2010-2018: Full Professor of Psychological Methodology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
• since 03/2018: Full Professor of Social Psychology, LMU München

Scientific Engagement / Memberships:

• Member, Senate and Grants Committee on Research Training Groups, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2020-2022)
• Member, Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2022-2025)
• President, “Open Science” Committee of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) (2019-2020)
• Member, “Teaching and Education” Committee of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) (since 2013)
• Book Series Editor “Perspectives on Justice and Morality” of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) (since 2018)
• Member, EFPA Board of Scientific Affairs (since 2021)
• Mentor, Leibniz Mentoring Program (since 2021)
• Coordinator, DFG Priority Program META-REP (SPP 2317)

Editorial Activities / Editorial Board Memberships:

• Associate Editor,  Social Justice Research (SJR)
• Consulting Editor,  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB)
• Editorial Board Member, Personality Science
• Guest Associate Editor, Journal of Organizational Behavior (Special Issue: “Justice Enactment – Research on “Doing Justice” in Organizations”; Heft 42(6), Juli 2021)
• Guest Associate Editor, Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Topical Issue: “The Motivational Basis of Punishment: Conceptual Replications of the ‘Intuitive Retributivism’ Hypothesis”, Heft 230(2), April 2022)
• Guest Handling Editor, Personality Science (Theme Bundle: “Ten Steps Toward a Better Personality Science – How Quality May Be Rewarded More in Research Evaluation”; Heft 3/2022)

Memberships in Scientific Societies:

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
• European Association of Methodology (EAM)
• European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
• International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Research Interests

• Social psychological research on retributive justice (including revenge and punishment)
• Individual differences in "justice sensitivity" and their relation to moral reasoning and moral behavior
• Science communication and (motivated) science reception
• Replicability / Meta-Science

Research Projects

• Coordination of the DFG Priority Program META-REP (“A Meta-scientific Program to Analyze and Optimize Replicability in the Behavioral, Social, and Cognitive Sciences”; SPP 2317; 2021-2024)
• "Victim Sensitivity in Complex Social Interactions: An Interactive-Process Approach" (2016-2020), funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG

Publications

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Books:

• Eid, M., Gollwitzer, M. & Schmitt, M. (2016). Formelsammlung Statistik und Forschungsmethoden. Weinheim: Beltz.
• Eid, M., Gollwitzer, M. & Schmitt, M. (2017). Statistik und Forschungsmethoden (5. Aufl.). Weinheim: Beltz.
• Gollwitzer, M. & Jäger, R. S. (2014). Evaluation kompakt (2. Aufl.). Weinheim: Beltz.
• Gollwitzer, M., Lotz, S., Schlösser, T. & Streicher, B. (Hrsg.) (2013). Soziale Gerechtigkeit: Was unsere Gesellschaft aus den Erkenntnissen der Gerechtigkeitspsychologie lernen kann. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Gollwitzer, M. & Schmitt, M. (2019). Sozialpsychologie kompakt. (2. Aufl.). Weinheim: Beltz.
• Gollwitzer, M., Pfetsch, J., Schneider, V., Schulz, A., Steffke, T. & Ulrich, C. (Hrsg.) (2007). Gewaltprävention bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Steffgen, G. & Gollwitzer, M. (Eds.) (2007). Emotions and aggressive behavior. Göttingen: Hogrefe & Huber.

Recent peer-reviewed journal articles (selected):

• Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., …, Gollwitzer, M., …, & Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 880-895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
• Fischer, M., Twardawski, M., Strelan, P., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Victims need more than power: Empowerment and moral change independently predict victims’ satisfaction and willingness to reconcile. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(3), 518–536. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000291
• Magraw-Mickelson, Z., Süssenbach, P., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). The virus of distrust: How one victim-sensitive group member can affect the entire group’s outcomes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(3), 487-499. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2832
• Abendroth, J., Nauroth, P., Richter, T., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Non-strategic detection of identity-threatening information: Epistemic validation and identity defense may share a common cognitive basis. PLOS ONE 17(1): e0261535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261535
• Aharoni, E., Simpson, D., Nahmias, E., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). A painful message: Testing the effects of suffering and understanding on punishment judgments. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 230, 138-151. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000460
• Altenmüller, M. S., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Prosociality in science. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 284-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.011
• Gollwitzer, M., & Schwabe, J. (2022). Context dependency as a predictor of replicability. Review of General Psychology, 26(2), 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211015635
• Gollwitzer, M., Platzer, C., Göritz, A. S., Zwarg, C., & Twardawski, M. (2022). Does lockdown compliance reflect a latent trait? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(4), 884-891. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211043989
• Kreuzer, M., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Neuroticism and satisfaction in romantic relationships: A systematic investigation of intra- and interpersonal processes with a longitudinal approach. European Journal of Personality, 36, 149-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211001258
• Rudert, S. C., Gleibs, I. H., Gollwitzer, M., Häfner, M., Hajek, K. V., Harth, N. S., Häusser, J. A., Imhoff, R., & Schneider, D. (2021). Us and the virus: Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through a social psychological lens. European Psychologist, 26, 259-271. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000457

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