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Niklas K. Steffens

Niklas K. Steffens

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
45
Citations
7238
World Ranking
452
National Ranking
29

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
8960
World Ranking
2971
National Ranking
214

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Niklas K. Steffens is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work centers on social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management, with a strong focus on group dynamics, leadership, and social identity processes.

Their research encompasses several subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, gender studies, and developmental and educational psychology. Key topics addressed in their publications include social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, sport psychology and performance, motivation and self-concept in sports, health disparities and outcomes, and management and organizational studies.

Steffens has contributed to scholarly articles published in a number of academic venues. The frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • The Leadership Quarterly
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Steffens demonstrate their research interests and scholarly engagement with leadership and social identity theory. Notable publications include:

  • "Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality," 2020, Organizational Psychology Review
  • "Life Change, Social Identity, and Health," 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health," 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID-19 test case," 2021, European Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Where is the human in human-centered AI? Insights from developer priorities and user experiences," 2022, Computers in Human Behavior

Steffens has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. The most common co-authors include:

  • S. Alexander Haslam
  • Catherine Haslam
  • Sarah V. Bentley
  • Rolf van Dick
  • Jolanda Jetten

Best Publications

  • Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

    Jolanda Jetten;S. Alexander Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Katharine H. Greenaway

  • Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Michael J. Platow

  • Why a nudge is not enough: a social identity critique of governance by stealth

    Frank Mols;S. Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Niklas K. Steffens

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of Social Identification and Health in Organizational Contexts

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Sebastian C. Schuh;Jolanda Jetten

  • Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Charlotte McMahon;Tegan Cruwys;Catherine Haslam

  • Up close and personal: Evidence that shared social identity is a basis for the ‘special’ relationship that binds followers to leaders☆

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher

  • Believing in "us": exploring leaders' capacity to enhance team confidence and performance by building a sense of shared social identity.

    Katrien Fransen;S. Alexander Haslam;Niklas K. Steffens;Norbert Vanbeselaere

  • Social identification-building interventions to improve health: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Niklas K Steffens;Crystal J LaRue;Catherine Haslam;Zoe C Walter

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality:

    Niklas K. Steffens;Katie A. Munt;Daan van Knippenberg;Michael J. Platow

  • Social Identity Mapping: A procedure for visual representation and assessment of subjective multiple group memberships.

    Tegan Cruwys;Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam

  • Identity leadership going global: Validation of the identity leadership inventory across 20 countries.

    Rolf Van Dick;Jérémy E Lemoine;Jérémy E Lemoine;Niklas K. Steffens;Rudolf Kerschreiter

  • Life Change, Social Identity, and Health.

    Catherine Haslam;S Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tegan Cruwys

  • Social group memberships in retirement are associated with reduced risk of premature death: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study

    Niklas K Steffens;Tegan Cruwys;Catherine Haslam;Jolanda Jetten

  • Power through 'Us': Leaders' Use of We-Referencing Language Predicts Election Victory

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health.

    S.Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Jolanda Jetten

  • A social identity approach to leadership development: The 5R program.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Niklas K. Steffens;Kim Peters;Rosalie A. Boyce

  • True to what We stand for: Championing collective interests as a path to authentic leadership

    Niklas K. Steffens;Frank Mols;S. Alexander Haslam;Tyler G. Okimoto

  • A social identity analysis of responses to economic inequality.

    Jolanda Jetten;Zhechen Wang;Niklas K Steffens;Frank Mols

  • There is no leadership if no-one follows: Why leadership is necessarily a group process

    Michael J. Platow;S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Niklas K. Steffens

  • The Neuroscience of Inspirational Leadership The Importance of Collective-Oriented Language and Shared Group Membership

    Pascal Molenberghs;Guy Prochilo;Niklas K. Steffens;Hannes Zacher

  • Inspired and appreciated by the group: The social identity approach to creativity

    SA Haslam;I Adarves-Yorno;NK Steffens;T Postmes

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Tegan Cruwys
Tegan Cruwys Australian National University
Catherine Haslam
Catherine Haslam University of Queensland
Filip Boen
Filip Boen KU Leuven
Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick Goethe University Frankfurt
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Mark P. Stevens
Mark P. Stevens University of Edinburgh
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Remco Polman
Remco Polman Queensland University of Technology

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