Prof. Dr. Anna Baumert
Research Focus
Psychology of justice and morality; personality and information processing; psychometric properties of economic games
Academic Career:
- since April 2021 Professor for Social Psychology and Personality at University of Wuppertal
- 2017 – 2022 Max Planck research group leader (associate professor)
Honors and Scholarships
- 2020 Early Career Award der International Society for Justice Research ISJR
- 2020 Award for Outstanding Contribution to European Personality and Social Psychology, by the European Association for Personality Psychology and the European Association for Social Psychology
- 2017 William-Stern Prize for outstanding innovative research in personality psychology by the German Psychological Association
Recent Publications
Dang, J., Barker, P., Baumert, A., et al. (2021). A multilab replication of the ego depletion effect. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 12(1), 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1948550619887702
McCarthy, R. J., Gervais, W., Aczel, B., Al-Kire, R. L., Baraldo S. M., Baruh L., Basch, C., Baumert, A., Behler, A., Bettencourt, A., Bitar, A., Bouxom, H., Buck, A., Cemalcilar, Z., Chekroun, P., Chen, J. M., del Fresno- Díaz, A., Ducham, A, Edlund, J. E.,…Zogmaister, C. (2021). A multi-site collaborative study of the hostile priming effect. Collabra: Psychology, 7 (1): 18738. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18738
Mõttus, R., Wood, D., Condon, D. M., Back, M., Baumert, A., Costantini, G., Epskamp, S., Greiff, S., Johnson, W., Lukaszewski, A., Murray, A. L., Revelle, W., Wright, A. G. C., Yarkoni, T., Ziegler, M., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Descriptive, predictive and explanatory personality research: Different goals, different approaches, but a shared need to move beyond the Big Few traits. European Journal of Personality, 34(6), 1175–1201. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2311
Adra. A., Li, M. & Baumert, A. (2020). What they think of us: Meta-beliefs and solidarity-based collective action among the advantaged. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1292–1305. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2675
Baumert*, A., Maltese*, S., Reis, D., MacLeod, C., Tan-Mansukhani, R., Galang, A. J. R., Galang, M. G. C., & Schmitt, M. (2020). A cross-cultural study of sensitivity to injustice and its consequences for cooperation. Social Psychology and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1948550619896895
Baumert, A.*, Li, M.*, Sasse, J.* & Skitka, L. (2020). Standing up against Moral Violations: Psychological Processes of Moral Courage. Editorial to Special Issue in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103951
Sasse, J., Halmburger, A., & Baumert, A. (2020). The functions of anger in moral courage—Insights from a behavioral study. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000906
Adra, A., Harb, C., Li, M. & Baumert, A. (2020). Predicting collective action tendencies among Filipina domestic workers in Lebanon: Integrating the Social Identity Model of Collective Action and the role of fear. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219885180