Immo Fritsche
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Research Interests and CV
* Group processes (e.g., social identity, social influence in groups, intergroup conflicts, collective action)
* Motivated social cognition (e.g., impact of threat on collective cognition, basic psychological needs)
* Social psychology of the global environmental crisis (e.g., determinants of pro-environmental action, consequences of environmental threats)
2002: PhD at the University of Magdeburg
2009: Habilitation: University of Jena
Since 2011: Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Leipzig
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Law and Public Policy
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Asbrock, F., & Fritsche, I. (2013). Authoritarian reactions to terrorist threat: Who is being threatened, the me or the we? International Journal of Psychology, 48, 35-49.
- Fritsche, I. (2005). Predicting deviant behavior by neutralization: Myths and findings. Deviant Behavior, 26, 483-510.
- Fritsche, I., Barth, M., Jugert, P., Masson, T., & Reese, G. (2018). A social identity model of pro-environmental action (SIMPEA). Psychological Review, 125, 245-269.
- Fritsche, I., Cohrs, C., Kessler, T., & Bauer, J. (2012). Global warming is breeding social conflict: The subtle impact of climate change threat on authoritarian tendencies. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32, 1-10.
- Fritsche, I., & Häfner, K. (2012). The malicious effects of existential threat on motivation to protect the natural environment and the role of environmental identity as a moderator. Environment and Behavior, 44, 570-590.
- Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., Ablasser, C., Beyer, M., Kuban, J., Manger, A.-M., & Schultz, M. (2013). The power of we: Evidence for group-based control restoration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 19-32.
- Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., & Fankhänel, T. (2008). The role of control motivation in mortality salience effects on ingroup support and defense. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 524-541.
- Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., Fischer, P., Koranyi, N., Berger, N., & Fleischmann, B. (2007). Mortality salience and the desire for offspring. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 753-762.
- Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., & Kessler, T. (2011). Collective reactions to threat: Implications for intergroup conflict and solving societal crises. Social Issues and Policy Review, 5, 101-136.
- Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., Niesta Kayser, D., & Koranyi, N. (2010). Existential threat and compliance with pro-environmental norms. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 67-79.
- Fritsche, I., & Jugert, P. (2017). The consequences of economic threat for motivated social cognition and action. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 31-36.
- Fritsche, I., Kessler, T., Mummendey, A., & Neumann, J. (2009). Minimal and maximal goal orientation and reactions to norm violations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 3-21.
- Fritsche, I., Moya, M., Bukowski, M., Jugert, P., de Lemus, S., Decker, O., Valor-Segura, I., & Navarro-Carrillo (2017). The great depression and group-based control: Converting personal helplessness into collective responses. Journal of Social Issues, 73, 117-137.
- Giannakakis, A., & Fritsche, I. (2011). Social identities, group norms, and threat: On the malleability of ingroup bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 82-93.
- Hoppe, A., Fritsche, I., & Koranyi, N. (2017). Self-transcendence as a psychological parenthood motive: When moratlity salience increases the desire for non-biological children. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 488-500.
- Jonas, E., & Fritsche, I. (2013). Destined to die but not to wage war: How existential threat can contribute to escalation or de-escalation of violent intergroup conflict. American Psychologist, 68, 543-558.
- Jonas, E., Martens, A., Niesta Kayser, D., Fritsche, I., Sullivan, D., & Greenberg, J. (2008). Focus theory of normative conduct and terror-management theory: The interactive impact of mortality salience and norm salience on social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1239-1251.
- Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2017). The groupy shift: Conformity to liberal ingroup norms as a group-based response to threatened personal control. Social Cognition, 35, 374-394.
Other Publications:
Courses Taught:
- Aggressive Interactions
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Behaviour Under Conditions of Threat
- Social Influence and Social Norms
- Social Psychology of Pro-Social Behaviour
- Well-Being and Social Identity
Immo Fritsche
Social Psychology Group
Institute of Psychology
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D-04109 Leipzig
Germany
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