Research Focus
Research in the Environment and Community Lab covers both environmental psychological issues (e.g. motivations for protesting for and against energy transition) and community psychological issues (e.g. success factors for intercultural communities), with a focus on emotional processes.
Lab Members
Lab Head
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- Helen [dot] Landmann [at] aau [dot] at
Lab Members
Funded Research Projects:
– Hemmnisse für den Windenergieausbau in Deutschland (Hemm-den-Wind), BMWK, 2022-2025
Selected Publications:
Environmental Psychology
Landmann, H., Ziegler, W., & Gaschler, R. (2024). Simulating climate policies influences how laypersons evaluate the effectiveness of climate protection measures. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05028-z
Landmann, H. & Naumann, J. (2023). Being positively moved by climate protest predicts peaceful collective action. Global Environmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13186
Landmann, H. (2020). Emotions in the context of environmental protection: Theoretical considerations concerning emotion types, eliciting processes, and affect generalization. Umweltpsychologie, 24(2). 61-73. http://umps.de/php/artikeldetails.php?id=74
Seger, B., Wullenkord, M., Hamann, K., Chokrai, P., & Landmann, H. (2021). Psychologie des sozial-ökologischen Wandels: eine offene virtuelle Vorlesung. In L. Dohm, F. Peter, & K. van Bronswijk (Hrsg.), „Climate Action“ – Handlungshemmnisse und Handlungsmöglichkeiten in der Klimakrise. Psychosozial Verlag http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/download/Psychologie_des_sozialoekologischen_Wandels.pdf
Landmann, H. & Rohmann, A. (2020). Being moved by protest: Group-efficacy beliefs and injustice appraisals affect community-oriented and punishment-oriented collective action for forest protection via positive and negative emotions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101491
Diversity and Inequality
Peter, N., Landmann, H., Cañadas, B., Bastias, F., & Rohmann, A. (2024). What are the causes of global inequality? An exploration of global inequality attributions in Germany and Argentina. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(1/1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1285/i24212113v10i1p49
Eckerle, F., Rothers, A., Kutlaca, M., Henss, L., Agunyego, W., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104492
Yalçin, Ö., Landmann, H., & Rohmann, A. (2023). Winning Is Owning: The Role of Perceived Group Superiority on Territory Ownership Attributions. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pac0000716
Landmann, H., Kachel, S., Kommerscheidt, L., Lange, F., & Richter, I. (2023). Assessing Diversity Dimensions in Environmental Psychology: Challenges and Recommendations. Umweltpsychologie 27(1), 8-33. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7cx4k
Klocke, U., Landmann, H., & Heider, B. (2020). Queer meets Islam: Begegnung als Zumutung und Chance. Forum Gemeindepsychologie, 25(1). http://www.gemeindepsychologie.de/186.html
Sense of Community
Landmann, H. & Rohmann, A. (2022). When loneliness dimensions drift apart: Emotional, social and physical loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown and their associations with age, personality, stress, and well-being. International Journal of Psychology, 57(1), 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12772
Landmann, H. & Rohmann, A. (2022). Group-specific contact and sense of connectedness during the COVID-19 pandemic and its associations with psychological well-being, perceived stress, and work-life balance. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 32(3), 438-451. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2564
Landmann, H. & Buecker, S. (2022). Facetten, Quellen und Auswirkungen von Einsamkeit. In: L. Arlt, N. Becker, S. Mann, & T. Wirtz (Hrsg.), Einsam in Gesellschaft. Zwischen Tabu und sozialer Herausforderung. Transkript
Rohmann, A., & Landmann, H. (2022). Einführung in die Community Psychology. In: Astrid Schütz, Matthias Brand und Sabine Steins-Löber, Psychologie, 6. Auflage. Kohlhammer
Emotion Research
Landmann, H. & Strick, M. (2024). Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower. Cognition & Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2372380
Landmann, H. (2024). Direct and indirect empathy in refugee aid. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 101, 102008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102008
Landmann, H. (2021). The bright and dark side of eudaimonic emotions: A conceptual framework. Media and Communication, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3825
Landmann, H., Cova, F., & Hess, U. (2019). Being moved by meaningfulness: Appraisals of surpassing internal standards elicit being moved by relationships and achievements. Cognition & Emotion, 33(7), 1387-1409. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1567463
Landmann, H. & Hess, U. (2018). Testing moral foundation theory. Are specific emotions elicited by specific moral transgressions? The Journal of Moral Education 47(1), 34-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2017.1350569
Landmann, H. & Hess, U. (2017). What elicits third-party anger? The effects of moral violation and others’ outcome on anger and compassion. Cognition & Emotion, 31(6), 1097-1111. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1194258
