Profile
Abstract
My research focuses on basic processes of social identity, with an emphasis on group-based social influence (conformity and deviance to group norms), multiple social identities, threat and collective emotions. Furthermore, my research focuses on the explanation of - especially collective factors of - environmental behaviour and the perception and evaluation of environmental crises.
Professional career
- since 01/2018
Research Associate (since 2018: budget-funded), Department of Social Psychology, University of Leipzig - 01/2016 - 01/2018
Research assistant, Department of Social Work, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Evaluation of Intervention Measures to Promote Private Flood Prevention - 01/2010 - 01/2016
Research Associate, Department of Environmental Policy, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Leipzig, Research Fields: Environmental behaviour, sustainable consumption, sustainability transformation - 01/2005 - 01/2009
Senior Project Manager, Dienstleistungszentrum für Internationale Bildungsprojekte GmbH (DIB), Coordination of Curricular Development Projects in Higher Education in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan)
Education
- 01/2013 - 01/2018
Dr. rer. nat in the field of social psychology, University of Leipzig - 01/2006 - 01/2007
Studies in business administration (focus: economics), TU Bergakademie Freiberg - 01/2000 - 01/2005
Studies in International Business Administration (European Business Studies), Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, University of Derby (UK)
- Processes in and between groups (social identity, collective action, social norms, collective emotions, motivated cognition).
- Environmental psychology, sustainable consumption decisions, ecological lifestyles
- Evaluation research, especially in the areas of environmental and health behaviour
- show detailsExpoAware - Environmental volunteered geographic information for personal exposure awareness and healthy mobility behaviourMasson, TorstenDuration: 02/2020 – 01/2023Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Sozialpsychologie
- show detailsSocial Identity in Agent-based Models (SIAM)Scholz, GeeskeDuration: 01/2020 – ongoingInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Sozialpsychologie
- show detailsSPARCS: Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieSFritsche, ImmoDuration: 10/2019 – 09/2024Funded by: EU Europäische UnionInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Sozialpsychologie
- show detailsECHOES - Energy Choices supporting the Energy union and the Set-planFritsche, ImmoDuration: 11/2016 – 10/2019Funded by: EU Europäische UnionInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Sozialpsychologie
- show detailsMasson, T.; Fritsche, I.We need climate change mitigation and climate change mitigation needs the 'We': a state-of-the-art review of social identity effects motivating climate change actionCurrent Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2021. pp. 89–96.
- show detailsBarth, M.; Masson, T.; Fritsche, I.; Fielding, K.; Smith, J. R.Collective responses to global challenges: The social psychology of pro-environmental actionJournal of environmental psychology. 2021.
- show detailsFritsche, I.; Barth, M.; Jugert, P.; Masson, T.; Reese, G.A Social Identity Model of Pro-Environmental Action (SIMPEA)Psychological Review. 2018. 125 (2). pp. 245–269.DOI: 10.1037/rev0000090
- show detailsHamann, K.; Masson, T.Kollektives nachhaltiges Handeln und Psychologie.In: Genkova, P. (Ed.)Wiesbaden: Springer. 2022.
- show detailsRelke, S.; Fritsche, I.; Masson, T.; Kleine, A.-K.; Thien, K.; von Glahn, L.; Leuteritz, K.; Richter, D.Personal Condition But Social Cure: Agentic Ingroups Elevate Well-Being in Chronically Ill Patients Through Perceptions of Personal Control.British Journal of Health Psychology. 2022. pp. 666–690.