Person: Lammers, Joris

National Geographic, 26. Januar 2024 | Sarah Langer

“Klimawandel, politische Unruhen, Inflation, Krieg: Zahlreiche Krisen beunruhigen die Bevölkerung. Doch wieso reagieren einige mit Wut und Aggression darauf? […] Angst ist es, die schnell in Wut umschlagen kann. Das erklärt auch Dr. Joris Lammers, Professor für Politische Psychologie an der Uni Köln. “Unsicherheiten in der Gesellschaft lösen auch immer Unsicherheiten in jedem Einzelnen aus. Fragen wie “Was bedeutet das für mich persönlich?”, “Reicht das Geld?”, oder “Wie werde ich in Zukunft leben?” spielen eine große Rolle. Die Unsicherheit gilt als der größte Auslöser für Wut und Aggression bei uns Menschen.””

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6. November 2020 | Lara Thiede

“Der politische Psychologe Joris Lammers erklärt, warum der republikanische Präsident trotz vieler Lügen immer noch beliebt bei vielen US-Amerikaner*innen ist.”

Scientific American, 20.07.2020 | Lydia Denworth

“In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs that distort judgments and lead to irrational decisions […] Dutch political psychologist Joris Lammers of the University of Cologne in Germany had previously been studying responses to climate change, where he recognized people’s inability to grasp the exponential growth of carbon dioxide emissions. In June Lammers and his colleagues published a set of three studies in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that showed the same problem in the pandemic. […] Our cognitive and political biases intersect. “People are more susceptible to biases if they fit their own political narrative,” Lammers says.”

New York Magazine, 31.03.2016 | Melissa Dahl

„You’ve been offered a promotion. […] There is, however, a teensy catch: Your new title doesn’t actually come with any more money than your current one. But think of the prestige — the power! So. Will you take it? No, you most likely would not [ …]. Across nine experiments, the researchers — from the University of Cologne, the University of Groningen, and Columbia University — consistently found that, although employees without a lot of power do indeed desire more of it, ultimately ‘gaining autonomy quenches the desire for power’. […] In one experiment, the researchers — led by Joris Lammers at the University of Cologne — guided people through the above thought experiment.”