About Me 

Johann M. Majer (Ph.D.) 

The transformation towards sustainability is by far the greatest challange humankind has ever faced. To manage this tranformation, indvidual behavior change is essential, as well as system change through effectively resolving transition conflicts. Mutually beneficial solutions can promote better policy solutions, increase their acceptance, and facilitate social change. My research interests revolve around these challenges and investigates the tradeoffs that people face across different conflict situations in the transformation towards sustainability. I am passionate to understand why sustainability transitions often fall short and how we can promote sustainability at the individual, organizational, and societal level. To adress these research questions, I use interdisciplinary approaches combining psychology, economics, sustainability sciences, and insights from other social sciences with a variety of methods such as lab and field experiments, archival data, or surveys. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

My work benefits from contributions by many friends and collaborators: Matthias Barth, Roman Trötschel, Carolin Schuster, David Loschelder, Adam Galinsky, Daniel Fischer, Andreas Mojzisch, Astrid Kause, Marie van Treek, Marco Schauer, Florian Kapmaier, Martin Schweinsberg, Denise Fischer-Kreer, Hong Zhang, Kai Zhang, Marco Warsitzka, Mario Mechtel, Paula Bögel, John-Oliver Engler, Mathias Kauff, Caroline Heydenbluth and many more. 

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