Sozial-, Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspsychologie

Forschungsinteressen

  • Interventionen zur Reduktion von (gewaltsamen) Intergruppenkonflikten
  • kollektives Handeln (normativ und nicht normative Formen)
  • politisches Vertrauen
  • prosoziales Verhalten
  • psychologische Aspekte internationaler Beziehungen

Lehre

  • WiSe 2018/19: Sozialpsychologie Kooperation&Konflikt mit Fokus Friedenspsychologie, Master of Science Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • WiSe 2018/19: Empriepraktikum Bachelor Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • SoSe 2018: Kooperationsförderung&Konfliktprävention, Master of Science Psychology, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • WiSe 2017/18: Sozialpsychologie Kooperation&Konflikt mit Fokus Friedenspsychologie, Master of Science Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • WiSe 2016/17: Sozialpsychologie Kooperation&Konflikt mit Fokus Friedenspsychologie, Master of Science Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • SoSe 2016: Sozialpsychologie für Bildungswissenschaftler*innen, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • WiSe 2015/16: Empriepraktikum Bachelor Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau

Publikationen & Vorträge

Publikationen

Knab, N. & Steffens, M.C. (accepted). Emotions for solidarity: The relations of moral outrage and sympathy with hierarchy-challenging and prosocial hierarchy-maintaining action intentions in support of refugees. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 

Knab, N.*,Winter, K.*, & Steffens, M.C. (in press). Flexing the extremes: Increasing cognitive flexibility with a paradoxical leading questions intervention. * shared first-authorship. Social Cognition.

Bareket, O., Shnabel, N., Kende, A., Knab, N., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2020). Need some help, honey? Dependency-oriented helping relations between women and men in the domestic sphere. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000292

Knab, N., & Steffens, M.C. (2018). One world in diversity: A socio-psychological intervention to foster international collective action intention. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6, 8-26. 

Maltese, S., Baumert, A., Knab, N., & Schmitt, M. (2013). Learning to interpret one's own outcome as unjustified amplifies altruistic compensation: a training studyFrontiers in Psychology. 4:951. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00951 .

Manuscripts in revision, under review and submitted  

Knab, N. & Steffens, M.C. (in revision). Why do you think Christmas will never ever be celebrated again? A paradoxical intervention’s potential to reduce destructive social conflict in the asylum context.  

Dupont, J., Bytzek. E., Steffens, M.C., Knab, N., & Schneider, F. (in revision). Do election pledges matter?The effects of broken and kept election pledges on citizens’ trust in their government.

other: 

Knab, N., Pauls, I., Harnack, K., Lienen, C., & Cohrs, C. (2018). Mit Psychologie Frieden fördern? Beiträge aus der psychologischen Forschung zur Reduktion von destruktiven Konflikten und Friedensförderung. Special Issue In-mind. 

Knab, N. (2017). Mehr Bewusstsein für Wechselbeziehungen – Sicherheit und Menschenrechte gemeinsam denken. Blogbeitrag für die Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen.

Knab, N. (2017). Wolf im Schafspelz – welche Hilfe ist im Asylkontext hilfreich?. Wissenschaft und Frieden (2-2017).

Knab, N. & Maltese, M. (2014). Warum ein abgeschnittenes Ohr die Wertschätzung eines Kunstwerks steigern kann. Forschung erleben.

Vorträge/ Konferenzbeiträge

Knab, N., & Steffens, M. (2019). Why do you think we will never ever celebrate Christmas again? A paradoxical intervention improving intergroup relations in the refugee context. Talk presented at the Annual conference of the Society of Psychological Study of Social Issues, San Diego, US. 

Knab, N. (2019. Filling the Science and Practice Gap: Refugee Integration in Germany. Talk presented at the Annual conference of the Society of Psychological Study of Social Issues, San Diego, US. 

Knab, N., & Steffens, M. (2018). Why do you think Christmas will never ever be celebrated again? A paradoxical leading questions intervention to support conflict-reducing cognition and action tendencies towards refugees, German Psychology Association (DGPS), Frankfurt, Germany.

Knab, N., Steffens, M.C., & Nadler, A. (2018). Helpers as wolves in a sheep’s clothing? 
The role of norms and perceived threat for action tendencies towards refugees, American Psychological Association, San Francisco, USA. 

Knab, N., & Steffens, M. (2017). Why do you think Christmas will never ever be celebrated again? A paradoxical leading questions intervention as an opportunity to support conflict-reducing cognition and action tendencies towards refugees, Biennal Conference of the German Social Psychology Association, Ulm, Germany. 

Dupont, J., Bytzek, E., Steffens, M. C., Schneider, F. M. & Knab, N. (2017). Does information on broken and kept election pledges affect trustworthiness of the federal government? Posterpresentation at the ISPP at 40: Revisiting core themes of tyranny, intergroup relations and leadership, 29.06.-02.07., Edinburgh, Scotland.

Knab, N. & Steffens, M.(2017). One World in Diversity – a Psychological Intervention to Foster Collective Action. Annual Conference of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, New Mexico, US.

Dupont, J., Bytzek, E., Steffens, M., Schneider, F., & Knab, N. (2017). The effect of information processing of political news about kept and broken election pledges on political trust. Conference for Mediapsychology, Landau, Germany. 

Knab, N., & Steffens, M., & Nadler, A. (2017). Helpers as wolves in a sheep’s clothing? The role of norms and perceived threat for action tendencies towards refugees. Talk at the 30th Conference of the German Peace Psychology Association, Chemnitz, Germany.

Dupont, J., Knab, N., Bytzek, E., Steffens, M. (2016). How does information of broken and kept election promises affect political trust. Talk at the the 50th Conference of the German Association for Psychology (DGPS), Leipzig, Deutschland.

Preuß, S., Knab, N., & Steffens, M. (2016). Make Attitude Change Happen: Effects of Interventions on Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men. Poster at the 50th Conference of the German Association for Psychology (DGPS), Leipzig, Deutschland. 

Knab, N. (2016). Jubel und Gewalt: Reaktionen auf Asyl und Migration aus einer sozialpsychologischen Perspektive. Vortrag an der Uni Trier, eingeladen durch die Hochschulgruppe für Außen-Sicherheitspolitik. 

Knab, N. (2015). Psychology and Conflict Resolution - Unfreezing conflict supporting beliefs. Talk presented at the Third Youth Forum of the European Center for Peace and Development, Belgrade, Serbia. 

Knab, N., Weinlich, S., & Steffens, M. C. (2015). One world in diversity - fostering international relations and collective action from a socio-psychological perspective. Poster auf der 15. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie, Potsdam, Deutschland.

Knab, N., Baumert, A., Maltese, S., & Schmitt, M. (2013). Kann jeder zum Altruisten werden?- Ein Training zur Induktion einer ungerechtigkeitssensiblen Interpretationstendenz zur Förderung von prosozialem Verhaltens. Talk presented at the 14. Arbeitstagung Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Greifswald, Germany.

Knab, N., Baumert, A., Maltese, S., & Schmitt, M. (2013). Kann jeder zum Altruisten werden?- Ein Training zur Induktion einer ungerechtigkeitssensiblen Interpretationstendenz zur Förderung von prosozialem Verhalten. Talk presented at the 12. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie, Hagen, Germany.

Workshops

Knab, N. & Weinlich, S. (2014). Surviving with cooperation- Cooperation at the global level. Workshop presented at the conference of Germanwatch e.V. 11.10.2014, Vallendar, Germany.

Knab, N. (2014). Diversity as a catalyst for cooperation. Workshop presented at Global Negotiation Conference, 03.09.-05.09.2014, Bern, Switzerland

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