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Benjamin Buttlar is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany. His research focuses on cognitive conflict in decision-making at the intersection of social, environmental, and biological psychology. He investigates why people make decisions conflicting with financial, health, sustainability, or moral goals, using mixed-method approaches including experience sampling, process tracing, and virtual reality experiments.
- Key research themes: Meat paradox, moral disengagement, ambivalence dynamics, stress-attitude links
- Editorial roles: Associate Editor at Collabra: Psychology, Consulting Editor at PHAIR
- Recipient of 8 university start-up grants (2016-2022) and EASP Seedcorn Grant (2021)
His work reveals how ambivalence drives dietary behavior change, with recent studies showing ambivalence's role in meat consumption dynamics (2025). He developed the Meat Ambivalence Questionnaire (2023) and TUNA image database (2024), and has published extensively on stress-coping mechanisms and their physiological correlates. His 15 most recent articles span 2025-2022, focusing on meat-related conflict resolution, false memory formation, and ambivalence-induced information seeking.
Scientific awards include: Outstanding Dissertation Award (2019), Trier Publication Award (2019), ESCON Finalist (2018). He supervises PhD/MSc theses, teaches social psychology courses (BSc/MSc level), and actively communicates science through media appearances (Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, Quarks) and science slams.
