Research Interests

Decision-Making

Self-Regulation

Goal Pursuit

Policy Acceptance

Sustainable Consumption

Representative Publications

Hofmann, W. & Grelle, S. (2025). What makes people want more impactful climate policy? Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 61, 101479. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101479 

Grelle, S., Kuhn, S., Fuhrmann-Riebel, H., & Hofmann, W. (2024). The role of framing and perceived effort in green nudging acceptance. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-16. doi: 10.1017/bpp.2024.8

Diel, K., Grelle, S., Hofmann, W., Boecker, L., & Friese, M. (2024). Prepare to compare: Effects of an intervention involving upward and downward social comparisons on goal pursuit in daily life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/01461672231219378

Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Bak Coleman, J. B., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Grelle, S., ..., & Lutz, A. E. (2024). The international climate psychology collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific data, 11(1), 1066. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1 

Grelle, S., & Hofmann, W. (2024). When and why do people accept public policy interventions? - an integrative public policy acceptance framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(1), 258–279. doi: 10.1177/17456916231180580

Grelle, S., Bauer, J. M., Nielsen, K. S., Kukowski, C. A., & Hofmann, W. (2024). Is dietary goal failure associated with goal-supportive policy attitudes? Behavioural Public Policy, 1–22. doi: 10.1017/bpp.2024.31

Hofmann, W., Grelle, S., Nielsen, K. S., & Kukowski, C. A. (2024). Self-control and behavioral public policy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 59, 101873. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101873

Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak-Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., Grelle, S., ... & Lutz, A. E. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science advances, 10(6), eadj5778. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

Grelle, S., Fuhrmann-Riebel, H., Kuhn, S., & Hofmann, W. (2023). When do people accept green nudge interventions? In G. Reese, A. K. Römpke, A. Bernd, C. Dolderer, & A. W. Mues (Eds.). The puzzle of transformation: Impulses from environmental psychological research (pp. 15–20). Bundesamt für Naturschutz. doi: 10.19217/skr658 

Grelle, S. & Hofmann, W. (2022). Verhaltensökonomie und Nudging [Behavioral economics and nudging ]. In P. Ozimek, H.-W. Bierhoff, E. Rohmann & S. Hanke. Angewandte Sozialpsychologie (S. 272-285). Kohlhammer Verlag.

Ponizovskiy, V., Grelle, S., Oettinghaus, J., & Hofmann, W. (2022). Predictors of covid-19 health behavior: A scoping review of causal research. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Diel, K., Grelle, S., & Hofmann, W. (2021). A motivational framework of social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(6), 1415-1430. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000204