Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer
Chair holder
Social Psychology
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