Short Profile
Johannes Lautenbacher is a research associate at the Institute of Psychology, Department of Social Psychology. He is doing his PhD at the University of Leipzig on (group-based) reactions and strategies in dealing with (control) threats. In his current research, he is investigating whether threats to individual control lead to increased acceptance of in-group hierarchies and authorities in order to strengthen the in-group's agency.
Work Experience
- 10/2018 - 03/2020
Research assistant, Department of Educational Psychology (Prof. Peter Noack), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - 09/2019 - 02/2020
Research assistant, Department of Communication- and Mediapsychology (Prof. Tobias Rothmund), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - since 04/2020
Research associate (phD) in the DFG-funded project “Collective Spirit or False Consciousness under Conditions of Economic Threat? Testing an Integrated Stage Model of Extended and Secondary Control” at the Department of Social Psychology (Prof. Immo Fritsche), Leipzig University
Education
- 10/2013 - 09/2107
Studies in psychology (B.Sc.) at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - 10/2014 - 06/2105
Research internship on Literature & Emotions, Department of Neurocognitive Psychology (Prof. Arthur Jacobs), Freie Universität Berlin - 10/2017 - 03/2020
Studies in psychology (M.Sc., module Work, Education & Society), at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Lautenbacher, J. M., & Fritsche, I. (2023). Agency through hierarchy? A group-based account of increased approval of social hierarchies under conditions of threatened control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104500.
- Lautenbacher, J., Jahnke, S., Speer, D., & Beelmann, A. (2021). Evaluation des webbasierten Trainings „OHA–Online Hass Abbauen “–Teilmodul Straftaten und Gewalt. Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, 15(2), 134-142.