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Tobias Greitemeyer

Tobias Greitemeyer

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Psychology
Austria
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
65
Citations
15757
World Ranking
2838
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Tobias Greitemeyer is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research spans a variety of topics within psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on social and intergroup psychology, personality traits, and the psychological effects of media.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Prosocial modeling: person role models and the media, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • The dark and bright side of video game consumption: Effects of violent and prosocial video games, 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Are women the more empathetic gender? The effects of gender role expectations, 2021, Current Psychology
  • Going Green (and Not Being Just More Pro-Social): Do Attitude and Personality Specifically Influence Pro-Environmental Behavior?, 2021, Sustainability
  • Greenwash yourself: The relationship between communal and agentic narcissism and pro-environmental behavior, 2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Jana Sophie Kesenheimer
  • Andreas Kastenmüller
  • Yashvin Seetahul
  • Verena Aignesberger
  • Birgit Weinberger

Typical publication venues for their work are:

  • Acta Psychologica
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The primary topics in Tobias Greitemeyer's research address:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Best Publications

  • The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.

    Peter Fischer;Joachim I. Krueger;Tobias Greitemeyer;Claudia Vogrincic

  • Video Games Do Affect Social Outcomes A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of Violent and Prosocial Video Game Play

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Dirk O. Mügge

  • Effects of prosocial video games on prosocial behavior

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Silvia Osswald

  • Facebook’s emotional consequences: Why Facebook causes a decrease in mood and why people still use it

    Christina Sagioglou;Tobias Greitemeyer

  • A meta‐analytic review of help giving and aggression from an attributional perspective: Contributions to a general theory of motivation

    Udo Rudolph;Scott C. Roesch;Tobias Greitemeyer;Bernard Weiner

  • The Unresponsive Bystander: Are Bystanders More Responsive in Dangerous Emergencies?

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer;Fabian Pollozek;Dieter Frey

  • Preference-consistent evaluation of information in the hidden profile paradigm: Beyond group-level explanations for the dominance of shared information in group decisions

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Stefan Schulz-Hardt

  • Playing prosocial video games increases empathy and decreases schadenfreude

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Silvia Osswald;Markus Brauer

  • Highlighting Relatedness Promotes Prosocial Motives and Behavior

    Louisa Pavey;Tobias Greitemeyer;Paul Sparks

  • Effects of songs with prosocial lyrics on prosocial thoughts, affect, and behavior.

    Tobias Greitemeyer

  • Red, Rank, and Romance in Women Viewing Men

    Andrew J. Elliot;Daniela Niesta Kayser;Tobias Greitemeyer;Stephanie Lichtenfeld

  • “I Help Because I Want to, Not Because You Tell Me to” Empathy Increases Autonomously Motivated Helping

    Louisa Jane Pavey;Tobias Greitemeyer;Paul Sparks

  • The effects of risk-glorifying media exposure on risk-positive cognitions, emotions, and behaviors: a meta-analytic review.

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer;Andreas Kastenmüller;Claudia Vogrincic

  • Self-regulation and selective exposure: the impact of depleted self-regulation resources on confirmatory information processing.

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer;Dieter Frey

  • Effects of Songs With Prosocial Lyrics on Prosocial Behavior: Further Evidence and a Mediating Mechanism

    Tobias Greitemeyer

  • Music and Aggression: The Impact of Sexual-Aggressive Song Lyrics on Aggression-Related Thoughts, Emotions, and Behavior Toward the Same and the Opposite Sex

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer

  • Media violence and the self: The impact of personalized gaming characters in aggressive video games on aggressive behavior

    Peter Fischer;Andreas Kastenmüller;Tobias Greitemeyer

  • Subjective socioeconomic status causes aggression: A test of the theory of social deprivation.

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Christina Sagioglou

  • Prosocial video games reduce aggressive cognitions

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Silvia Osswald

  • Effects of Prosocial Media on Social Behavior When and Why Does Media Exposure Affect Helping and Aggression

    Tobias Greitemeyer

  • Denying Humanness to Others A Newly Discovered Mechanism by Which Violent Video Games Increase Aggressive Behavior

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Neil Marvin McLatchie

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Frey
Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Paul Sparks
Paul Sparks University of Sussex
Bernard Weiner
Bernard Weiner University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew J. Elliot
Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
Ilona Papousek
Ilona Papousek University of Graz
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University

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