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M.Sc. Psychologie Marlene C. L. Batzke

Research Interest

Being a social and environmental psychologist, I am particularly interested in how people deal with internal and external conflict situations. How do people handle attitude-behavior discrepancies, contradictions and ambivalences? How do they behave in dilemma situations? I focus on the processes of norm and value development and their change - within individuals as well as with regard to social change in societies. How do the changing environmental demands and the personal response to them influence the individual’s self-image? These processes are of particular relevance with regard to the challenges of the environmental and climate crisis and the associated socio-ecological transformation.

Academic background

since 2024

Postdoc researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany

2019 - 2023

PhD student at the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany

2018

M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany

2017

B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany

2016

Study abroad at Pennsylvania State University, USA

2015-2019

Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Publications

2024	Batzke, M.C.L., Ernst, A., 2024. Distinguishing fast change in social norms and slow change in personal norms in cooperative decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology 15, TBD. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1380341
2024	Mundt, D., Batzke, M.C.L., Bläsing, T., Gomera Deaño, S., Helfers, A., 2024. Effectiveness and context dependency of social norm interventions: five field experiments on nudging pro-environmental and pro-social behavior. Frontiers in Psychology 15, 1392296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1392296
2024	Dannenberg, A., Gutsche, G., Batzke, M.C.L., Christens, S., Engler, D., Mankat, F., Möller, S., Weingärtner, E., Ernst, A., Lumkowsky, M., von Wangenheim, G., Hornung, G., Ziegler, A., 2024. The Effects of Norms on Environmental Behavior. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy NN. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1086/727588
2023	Batzke, M.C.L., Ernst, A., 2023. Conditions and Effects of Norm Internalization. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 26, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.5003
2023	Batzke, M.C.L., 2023. Dynamics of Norms in Decision - Making A Psychological Analysis Combining Theory, Experiment, and Social Simulation. https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-202401299448
2022	Batzke, M.C.L., Ernst, A., 2022. Explaining and Resolving Norm-Behavior Inconsistencies—A Theoretical Agent-Based Model, in: Czupryna, M., Kamiński, B. (Hrsg.), Advances in Social Simulation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, S. 41–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8_4

Lectures

06/2023	Dynamic Norm Effects on Sustainable Behavior. International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP), Aarhus, Denmark
06/2023	Effectiveness of Prescriptive and Proscriptive Social Norms on Meat Consumption Reduction. International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP), Aarhus, Denmark
09/2022	Norm effects in social dynamics of change. Kassel Institute for Sustainability Kick Off Conference. , Kassel.
09/2022	An experimental study on norm change processes. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Association (DGPs). , Hildesheim
07/2022	Fast and slow adaptation of norms in a social dilemma game. 19th International Conference on Social Dilemmas. , Copenhagen.
10/2021	The dynamics of norms – An agent-based modeling approach. 3rd International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP). , Siracusa, Italy.
09/2021	Explaining and resolving norm-behavior inconsistencies – A theoretical agent-based model. Social Simulation Conference 2021 , online