Short Profile
My research focus lies in how multiple social identites can be represented and how people react to norm conflict between ingroups. Particularly, I am interested in dissonance arising from such norm conflicts and how individuals cope with this dissonance. I am further interested in how wearable sensors and feedback on environmental stressors (e.g., particulate matter) can inform healthy travel behaviour for pedestrians and cyclists and what motivates pro-environmental behavior.
Working Experience
- since 06/2024
Research associate at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the project “Act Local and Notice the Impact: The Emergence of Personal and Collective Efficacy Beliefs in Biodiversity Conservation (BioACT)” - 01/2023 - 05/2024
Research associate at Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammnhalt (social cohesion reseach institute) in the project "Together through the pandemic - collective predictors of social cohesion in crisis situations" - 02/2020 - 12/2022
Research associate in the DFG project "ExpoAware - Environmental volunteered geographic information for personal exposure awareness and healthy mobility behavior", at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Leipzig - 09/2018 - 10/2019
Research Assistant at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Leipzig
Education
- 10/2017 - 01/2020
Master studies in Psychology at the University of Leipzig - 10/2012 - 09/2016
Bachelor studies in Psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and at the University of Adelaide
- Hoppe, A., Becker, A. M., Fritsche, I., & Lautenbacher, J. (2025). Make it Through Tough Times as a Group: On the Importance of Collective Predictors of Protection Behavior and Policy Acceptance of Mitigation Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Influence, 20(1), 2447272. https://doi.org/10.1080/15534510.2024.2447272
- Becker, A. M., Helbig, C., Mohamdeen, A., Masson, T., & Schlink, U. (2023). Environmental Tracking for Healthy Mobility. In: Burghardt, D., Demidova, E., Keim, D. A. (eds) Volunteered Geographic Information. Springer Nature, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35374-1
- Becker, A. M., Masson, T., & Fritsche, I. (2023). Dissonance within the social self: exploring the effects of norm conflict between ingroups. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2023.2214965
- Becker, A. M., Masson, T., Helbig, C., Mohamdeen, A., & Schlink, U. (2023). Wearable sensors increase perceived environmental health threat in cyclists and pedestrians: a randomized field study. Journal of Transport & Health, 32, 101660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2023.101660
- Helbig, C., Becker, A. M., Haufer, A. L., Masson, T., Mohamdeen, A., & Schlink, U. (2023). Individuelle gesundheitsrelevante Umweltexpositionen im Rad - und Fußverkehr–Trends, Auswirkungen und eine Fallstudie zu Resilienz gegenüber Umweltstressoren. In S. Kabisch, D. Rink, & E. Banzhaf (Eds), Die Resiliente Stadt: Konzepte, Konflikte, Lösungen (pp. 231-
245). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66916-7 - Helbig, C., Becker, A. M., Masson, T., Mohamdeen, A., San, Ö. O., & Schlink, U. (2022). A Game Engine based Application for Visualising and Analysing environmental spatiotemporal mobile Sensor Data in an urban Context. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 1639. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.952725
- Becker, A. M., Marquart, H., Masson, T., Helbig, C., & Schlink, U. (2021). Impacts of personalized sensor feedback regarding exposure to environmental stressors. Current Pollution Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-021-00209-0
- Helbig, C., Ueberham, M., Becker, A. M., Marquart, H., & Schlink, U. (2021). Wearable Sensors for Human Environmental Exposure in Urban Settings. Current Pollution Reports, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-021-00186-4
- Vesely, S., Masson, T., Chokrai, P., Becker, A. M., Fritsche, I., Klöckner, C. A., Tiberio, L.; Carrus, G. & Panno, A. (2021). Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses. Global Environmental Change, 70, 102322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102322
Awards:
- 2021: Prize of the social psychology section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) for an outstanding Thesis in social psychology for the master thesis "Social identity and norm conflict between ingroups"