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

Academic Education and Positions

since 03/2018
Full Professor and Chair of Social Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Germany
2016
Visiting Fellow, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia
2012
Visiting Fellow, Psychology Department, Princeton University, USA (Fulbright Fellowship)
2010-2018
Full Professor of Psychological Methodology,
Philipps University Marburg, 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
2004
Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.),
University of Trier, Germany
2000
"Diploma" (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Psychology, University of Trier, Germany

Current Research Projects

  • Coordination of the DFG Priority Program META-REP (“A Meta-scientific Program to Analyze and OptimizeReplicability in the Behavioral, Social, and Cognitive Sciences”; SPP 2317); funded by the German ResearchFoundation / DFG; 2021-2027
  • „Agile-RDM: Introducing an agile and needs-based orientated strategy for research data management in psychology“ (together with Dr. Katharina Blask, ZPID Trier, and Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt, LMU München); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; 2025-2027
  • “TiCS: Trust in Citizen Science” (together with Dr. Marlene Altenmüller; funded by the German FederalMinistry of Education and Research / BMBF); 2023-2026
  • 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;
  • Programm „NEXT – Law Between Normativity and Reality“); VolkwagenStiftung; 2023-2025