Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer

Academic Education and Positions

• 2000: "Diploma" (equivalent to M.Sc.) 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 and Co-Director of the "Center for Methods, Assessment, and Evaluation" (Methodenzentrum) at the  University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• 2010-2018: Full Professor of Psychological Methodology,  Philipps University Marburg, Germany
• 2012: Visiting Fellow, Psychology Department, Princeton University, USA (Fulbright Fellowship)
• 2016: Visiting Fellow, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia
• since 03/2018: Full Professor and Chair of Social Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Scientific Engagement / Memberships:

• Member, Senate and Grants Committee on Research Training Groups, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2020-2025)
• Member, Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2022-2025)
• Member, “Open Science” Committee (president between 2018 and 2022) and "Teaching and Education" Committee of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
• Editor for the book series  “Perspectives on Justice and Morality” of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) (since 2018)
• Member in the Editorial Board of the Institute for Replication (I4R); Section „Behavioral Science“ (since 2024)
• Coordinator, DFG Priority Program META-REP (SPP 2317)
• Spokesperson, Social Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) (2019-2021)

Editorial Activities / Editorial Board Memberships:

• Editor in Chief, Social Psychology
• 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”; Issue 42(6), July 2021)
• Guest Associate Editor, Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Topical Issue: “The Motivational Basis of Punishment: Conceptual Replications of the ‘Intuitive Retributivism’ Hypothesis”, Issue 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”; Issue 3/2022)

Memberships in Scientific Societies:

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
• 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

Current Research Projects

• “TiCS: Trust in Citizen Science” (together with Dr. Marlene Altenmüller; funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research / BMBF); 2023-2026
• 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); funded by the German Research Foundation / DFG; 2021-2024
• “Art-BEAT: Art as Bridge to Engagement with the Adversities of our Time?” (together with Dr. Marlene Altenmüller; Program “Art Seeking Understanding”); funded by the Templeton Religion Trust; 2022-2023
• „Victimization Narratives as Catalysts of Intra-Societal Conflicts” (together with Prof. Dr. Karsten Fischer); funded by Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung; 2022-2023
• „Revenge, Retribution, Justice: Legal Implications and Social-Psychological Research” (together with Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölbel; Program “NEXT – Law Between Normativity and Reality”); funded by the Volkwagen Foundation; 2023-2025

Publications

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Books:

• NEW EDITION: Gollwitzer, M., Pohl, S. & Jäger, R. S. (2023). Evaluation kompakt [Evaluation compact] (3rd ed.). Weinheim, Germany: Beltz.
  
• Gollwitzer, M., & Schmitt, M. (2019). Sozialpsychologie kompakt [Social psychology compact] (2nd ed.). Weinheim, Germany: Beltz.
• Eid, M., Gollwitzer, M., & Schmitt, M. (2017). Statistik und Forschungsmethoden [Statistics and research methods] (5th ed.). Weinheim, Germany: Beltz.
• Eid, M., Gollwitzer, M., & Schmitt, M. (2016). Formelsammlung Statistik und Forschungsmethoden [Equations for statistics and research methods]. Weinheim, Germany: Beltz.
• Gollwitzer, M., Lotz, S., Schlösser, T., & Streicher, B. (Eds.) (2013). Soziale Gerechtigkeit - Was unsere Gesellschaft aus den Erkenntnissen der Gerechtigkeitspsychologie lernen kann [Social justice: What society can learn from research on the psychology of justice]. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
• Gollwitzer, M., Pfetsch, J., Schneider, V., Schulz, A., Steffke, T., & Ulrich, C. (Eds.) (2007). Gewaltprävention bei Kindern und Jugendlichen [Violence prevention among children and adolescents]. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
• Steffgen, G., & Gollwitzer, M. (Eds.) (2007). Emotions and aggressive behavior. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe & Huber.

Recent peer-reviewed journal articles (selected):

• Brotzeller, F., & Gollwitzer, M. (2024). Exploring asymmetries in self-concept change after discrepant feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Advance Online Publication]. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241232738
• Köhler, L. J. E., Strieder, K. L., Altenmüller, M. S., & Gollwitzer, M. (2024). Why should I? How victim sensitivity affects pro-environmental engagement. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 95, e102276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102276
• Zein, R. A., Altenmüller, M. S., & Gollwitzer, M. (2024). Longtime nemeses or cordial allies? How individuals mentally relate science and religion. Psychological Review. [Advance Online Publication]. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000492
• Altenmüller, M. S., Kampschulte, L., Verbeek, L., & Gollwitzer, M. (2023). Science communication gets personal: Ambivalent effects of self-disclosure in science communication on trust in science. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(4), 793–812. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000489
• De Vel-Palumbo, M., Twardawski, M., & Gollwitzer, M. (2023). Making sense of punishment: Transgressors’ interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(3), 1395-1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12638
• 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
• 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
• 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., & Okimoto, T. (2021). Downstream consequences of post-transgression responses: A motive-attribution framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25, 275-294. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683211007021

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