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Overview

Mario Gollwitzer is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Within these areas, notable subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics such as Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Ethics in Business and Education, Personality Traits and Psychology, and Cultural Differences and Values.

Mario Gollwitzer's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries" (2025, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Public acceptance of Covid-19 lockdown scenarios" (2020, International Journal of Psychology)
  • "Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample" (2022, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "When research is me-search: How researchers' motivation to pursue a topic affects laypeople's trust in science" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Downstream Consequences of Post-Transgression Responses: A Motive-Attribution Framework" (2021, Personality and Social Psychology Review)

Throughout their career, Mario Gollwitzer has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Marlene Sophie Altenmüller, Mathias Twardawski, Moritz Fischer, Anne Gärtner, and Omid Ghasemi.

The scientist's research has been published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to Psychologische Rundschau, Zeitschrift für Psychologie, Psychology Archives, European Journal of Social Psychology, and Nature Human Behaviour. Psychologische Rundschau represents the venue with the highest number of publications.

Best Publications

  • Statistik und Forschungsmethoden

    Michael Eid;Mario Gollwitzer;Manfred Schmitt

  • Justice sensitivity : assessment and location in the personality space

    Manfred Schmitt;Mario Gollwitzer;Dima Arbach

  • The Justice Sensitivity Inventory: Factorial Validity, Location in the Personality Facet Space, Demographic Pattern, and Normative Data

    Manfred Schmitt;Anna Baumert;Mario Gollwitzer;Jürgen Maes

  • A revised film set for the induction of basic emotions.

    Johannes Hewig;Dirk Hagemann;Jan Seifert;Mario Gollwitzer

  • Structural equation modeling of multitrait-multimethod data : Different models for different types of methods

    Michael Eid;Fridtjof W. Nussbeck;Christian Geiser;David A. Cole

  • What makes revenge sweet: Seeing the offender suffer or delivering a message?

    Mario Gollwitzer;Markus Denzler

  • Asymmetrical Effects of Justice Sensitivity Perspectives on Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior

    Mario Gollwitzer;Manfred Schmitt;Rebecca Schalke;Jürgen Maes

  • Effects of objective and subjective account components on forgiving.

    Manfred Schmitt;Mario Gollwitzer;Nikolai Förster;Leo Montada

  • Expectancies as core features of mental disorders.

    Winfried Rief;Julia A. Glombiewski;Mario Gollwitzer;Anna Schubö

  • Cyberbullying as an Act of Revenge

    Andreas Konig;Mario Gollwitzer;Georges Steffgen

  • What gives victims satisfaction when they seek revenge

    Mario Gollwitzer;Milena Meder;Manfred Schmitt

  • Why and when justice sensitivity leads to pro- and antisocial behavior.

    Mario Gollwitzer;Tobias Rothmund;Andreas Pfeiffer;Conrad Ensenbach

  • “Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader:

    Stefanie Sprong;Jolanda Jetten;Zhechen Wang;Kim Peters

  • Individual differences make a difference: On the use and the psychometric properties of difference scores in social psychology

    Mario Gollwitzer;Oliver Christ;Gunnar Lemmer

  • Get the Message: Punishment Is Satisfying If the Transgressor Responds to Its Communicative Intent

    Friederike Funk;Victoria McGeer;Mario Gollwitzer

  • The “true” indirect effect won't (always) stand up: When and why reverse mediation testing fails

    Gunnar Lemmer;Mario Gollwitzer

  • There is broad consensus: Media researchers agree that violent media increase aggression in children, and pediatricians and parents concur

    Brad J. Bushman;Mario Gollwitzer;Carlos Cruz

  • Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie

    Ali Teymoori;Jolanda Jetten;Brock Bastian;Amarina Ariyanto

  • Macbeth and the Joystick: Evidence for moral cleansing after playing a violent video game.

    Mario Gollwitzer;André Melzer

  • A transdiagnostic internet-based maintenance treatment enhances the stability of outcome after inpatient cognitive behavioral therapy: a randomized controlled trial.

    David Ebert;Torsten Tarnowski;Mario Gollwitzer;Bernhard Sieland

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Birgit Spinath
Birgit Spinath Heidelberg University
Edgar Erdfelder
Edgar Erdfelder University of Mannheim
Linda J. Skitka
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Eid
Michael Eid Freie Universität Berlin
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Cornelius J. König
Cornelius J. König Saarland University
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong

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