Laura Henn - Research Information System | University of Kassel

Dr. phil. Laura Henn

- Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR)

Research Areas

Research Interest

As an environmental psychologist, I am dedicated tot he overarching question of how psychological knowledge about the interaction of humans and their environment can help to promote sustainable lifestyles. People act pro-environmentally if their environmental attitude is sufficiently high to overcome the effort necessary to perform the pro-environmental behavior in question. Therefore, I am interested to find out how the environmental attitude can be increased on the one hand because this would lead to a person showing more effortful pro-environmental behavior, on the one hand. On the other hand, I am interested how the behavioral environment can be designed in such a way that pro-environmental behavior is easier, requires less effort, and thus more people will engage in it.

In my research, I address topics like spillover phenomena, attitude measurement, behavioral engineering, defining sufficiency as a psychological construct, behavioral costs, 'nudging', and the ecological relevance of psychological constructs (e.g., relationship between sufficiency and natural resource consumption).

Thematically my research encompasses various fields such as sustainable consumption and non-consumption, energy saving, smart-meter-feedback, mobility (e.g., airplane travel, car sharing), recycling behavior (e.g., waste separation, electronic waste), sustainable food, consumer behavior in bioeconomy, and ecological footprint.

Work Experience

09/2014 - 09/2020	Research assistant at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Department for Personality and Social Psychology (Prof. Florian G. Kaiser),
05/2014 - 08/2014	Scientific Research Assistant, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
10/2013 - 03/2015	Contract teacher at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart, Germany

Academic background

since 10/2020
Post-Doctoral Researcher at CESR (University of Kassel; Prof. Andreas Ernst)

10/2020
PhD (Dr. phil.) in Psychology at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Prof. Florian Kaiser), Germany

08/2013
Master (M. Sc.) in Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany

08/2011
Bachelor (B. Sc.) Psychologie, University of Freiburg, Germany

Publications

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2021	Otto, S., Beer, K., Henn, L., Overbeck, A., 2021. Das Individuum in der nachhaltigen Wirtschaft: Konsum in digitalen, algorithmenbasierten Entscheidungsarchitekturen, in: Matheis, A., Schwender, C. (Hrsg.), Als gäbe es ein Morgen. Nachhaltigkeit wollen, sollen, können. Metropolis, Marburg, S. 409–426.
2020	Kaiser, F.G., Henn, L., Marschke, B., 2020. Financial rewards for long-term environmental protection. Journal of Environmental Psychology 68, 101411.
2020	Henn, L., 2020. Handeln im Kontext mit ökologischen Folgen: Das Campbell-Paradigma als Beitrag zur Umweltpsychologie und zur Umweltschutzpsychologie. [Dissertationsschrift, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg]. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/35254
2020	Warning, B., Henn, L., 2020. Machen ist wie Wollen, nur krasser: Meinungs- und verhaltensbasierte Messung der Umwelteinstellung im Rahmen des Campbell-Paradigmas. Kurzbericht. Umweltpsychologie 24, 173–182.
2020	Henn, L., Otto, S., Kaiser, F.G., 2020. Positive spillover: The result of attitude change. Journal of Environmental Psychology 69, 101429. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101429
2019	Verfuerth, C., Henn, L., Becker, S., 2019. Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 28, 374–380.
2019	Yakovenko, V., Henn, L., Bettendorf, M., Zelinska, N., Soloviova, G., Hoffmann, G.F., Grulich-Henn, J., 2019. Risk Factors for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Ukraine and Germany. J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol 11, 247–252. https://doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2019.2018.0157
2019	Henn, L., Kaiser, F.G., 2019. Sustainable societies: Committed people in supportive conditions, in: Hoff, J., Gausset, Q., Lex, S. (Hrsg.), The role of non-state actors in the Green Transition - Building asSustainable future. Routledge, Abingdon, S. 17–33.
2019	Henn, L., Taube, O., Kaiser, F.G., 2019. The role of environmental attitude in the efficacy of smart-meter-based feedback interventions. Journal of Environmental Psychology 63, 74–81.
2019	Kaplan Mintz, K., Henn, L., Park, J., Kurman, J., 2019. What predicts household waste management behaviors? Culture and type of behavior as moderators. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 145, 11–18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.01.045

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