Dr. Josephine Tröger

• Environmental attitudes, esp. sufficiency orientation in consumer behavior
• Attitude changes and interventions for sufficiency-oriented behavior
• Quantitative and experimental methods of empirical social research

Lecturer for Environmental Psychology and project-oriented seminars in the interdisciplinary degree program “People and the Environment” (B.A.) as well as in the psychology degree program (M.A.) at the University Koblenz-Landau

Heidbreder, L. M.; Tröger, J.; Schmitt, M. (2022): Exploring the psychological antecedents of private and public sphere behaviours to reduce household plastic consumption. In: Environment, Development and Sustainability. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02186-w.

Tröger, J.; Menzel, C. (2021): Widerstandsfähig in einem sich wandelnden Klima? Evangel Magazin für missionarisches Pastoral, 1. https://www.euangel.de/ausgabe-1-2021/resilienz/widerstandsfaehig-in-einem-sich-wandelnden-klima/druck.html

Tröger, J.; Wullenkord, M. C.; Barthels, C.; Steller, R. (2021): Can Reflective Diary-Writing Increase Sufficiency-Oriented Consumption? A Longitudinal Intervention Addressing the Role of Basic Psychological Needs, Subjective Well-Being, and Time Affluence. Sustainability, 13(9), 4885, https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094885.

Wullenkord, M.; Tröger, J.; Hamann, K. R.; Loy, L.; Reese, G. (2021): Anxiety and Climate Change: A Validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-Speaking Quota Sample and an Investigation of Psychological Correlates. Climatic Change 168, Article number 20 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03234-6.

Loy, L. S.; Tröger, J.; Prior, P.; Reese, G. (2021): Global Citizens – Global Jet Setters? The Relation Between Global Identity, Sufficiency Orientation, Travelling, and a Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Mobility System. Frontiers in psychology, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622842.

Tröger, J.; Reese, G. (2021): Talkin’ bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation. Sustainability Science, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00871-1.

Tröger, J.; Wullenkord, M. (2020): Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – ein Schlüssel zur Suffizienz?. Ökologisches Wirtschaften 33(4), 20-21, https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW350420.

Reese, G.; Hamann, K. R.; Heidbreder, L. M.; Loy, L. S.; Menzel, C.; Neubert, S.; Tröger, J.; Wullenkord, M. C. (2020): SARS-Cov-2 and environmental protection: A collective psychology agenda for environmental psychology research. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 70, 101444, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101444.

Reese, G.; Drews, S.; Tröger, J. (2019): Warum haben wir Angst vor dem Weniger? Umweltpsychologie und Suffizienz im Fokus. In: Voget-Kleschin, L.; Bossert, L.; Meisch, S. (eds.): Damit gutes Leben mit der Natur einfacher wird. Suffizienzpolitik für Naturbewahrung (pp. 135–149). Metropolis-Verlag GmbH.

Steinmetz, Z.; Wollmann, C.; Schaefer, M.; Buchmann, C.; David, J.; Tröger, J.; Munoz, K.; Frör, O.; Schaumann, G. E. (2016): Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation? Science of the total environment, 550, 690-705, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.153.