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Andreas Diekmann

Andreas Diekmann

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
15717
World Ranking
3751
National Ranking
98

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Andreas Diekmann is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, particularly within sociology and political science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including management, monitoring, policy and law, safety research, speech and hearing, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work cover a range of themes related to environmental and social issues. These include environmental education and sustainability, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, experimental behavioral economics studies, climate change communication and perception, noise effects and management, environmental justice and health disparities, and acoustic wave phenomena research.

Diekmann has published in various recognized academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Games, Rationality and Society, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Diekmann demonstrate a focus on environmental and social studies:

  • Large and persistent effects of green energy defaults in the household and business sectors, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • How Norms Emerge from Conventions (and Change), 2022, Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
  • Environmental Inequality in Four European Cities: A Study Combining Household Survey and Geo-Referenced Data, 2022, European Sociological Review
  • Annoyance due to residential road traffic and aircraft noise: Empirical evidence from two European cities, 2021, Environmental Research

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Preisendörfer
  • Ulf Liebe
  • Wojtek Przepiorka
  • Heidi Bruderer Enzler
  • Jörg Hartmann

In 2001, Diekmann was recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their work in economics and empirical social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Empirische Sozialforschung: Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen

    Andreas Diekmann

  • Green and Greenback: The Behavioral Effects of Environmental Attitudes in Low-Cost and High-Cost Situations

    Andreas Diekmann;Peter Preisendörfer

  • Persönliches Umweltverhalten : Diskrepanzen zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

    Andreas Diekmann;Peter Preisendörfer

  • Volunteer's dilemma.

    Andreas Diekmann

  • The Wealth of Nations and Environmental Concern

    Andreas Diekmann;Axel Franzen

  • ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN ASPIRATIONS AND REALITY

    Andreas Diekmann;Peter Preisendörfer

  • Umweltsoziologie : eine Einführung

    Andreas Diekmann;Peter Preisendörfer

  • The Power of Reciprocity: Fairness, Reciprocity, and Stakes in Variants of the Dictator Game

    Andreas Diekmann

  • Not the First Digit!: Using Benford's Law to Detect Fraudulent Scientific Data

    Andreas Diekmann

  • Reputation Formation and the Evolution of Cooperation in Anonymous Online Markets

    Andreas Diekmann;Ben Jann;Wojtek Przepiorka;Stefan Wehrli

  • Umweltbewußtsein und Umweltverhalten in Low- und High-Cost-Situationen: Eine empirische Überprüfung der Low-Cost-Hypothese

    Peter Preisendörfer;Andreas Diekmann

  • Spieltheorie: Einführung, Beispiele, Experimente

    Andreas Diekmann

  • The social inheritance of divorce: Effects of parent's family type in postwar Germany

    Andreas Diekmann;Henriette Engelhardt

  • Cooperation in an asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma game Theory and experimental evidence

    Andreas Diekmann

  • Bestimmungsgründe des Ehescheidungsrisikos : eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten des sozioökonomischen Panels

    A. Diekmann;T. Klein

  • Do Parents of Girls Have a Higher Risk of Divorce? An Eighteen Country Study.

    Andreas Diekmann;Kurt Schmidheiny

  • Lifting the veil of ignorance : An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations

    Andreas Diekmann;Wojtek Przepiorka;Heiko Rauhut

  • Individual heterogeneity and costly punishment: a volunteer's dilemma

    Wojtek Przepiorka;Andreas Diekmann

  • Methoden der Sozialforschung

    Andreas Diekmann

  • Subjective discount rates in the general population and their predictive power for energy saving behavior

    Heidi Bruderer Enzler;Andreas Diekmann;Reto Meyer

  • Cooperation in an asymmetric Volunteer's dilemma game theory and experimental evidence

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Frequent Co-Authors

Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport University of Toronto
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
Eldad Davidov
Eldad Davidov University of Cologne
Karl-Dieter Opp
Karl-Dieter Opp Leipzig University

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