Lotte Pummerer

Dr. Lotte Pummerer is a Research Fellow at the University of Bremen, affiliated with the Social and Economic Psychology Group. She earned her PhD in Psychology from Tübingen University (2022) and holds a Master of Science in Psychology from Georgia Southern University (2017), supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. She also holds a diploma in Religious Studies from Leipzig, Beirut, and Tübingen.

Her research focuses on science skepticism (e.g., conspiracy theories), social norms, prosociality, and moral psychology. Specific interests include the correlates and societal effects of conspiracy theories, how moral views and norms shape these phenomena, and the motivations behind prosocial behavior. She teaches social psychology courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels and supervises student theses.

Key publications include studies on conspiracy theories during the pandemic, non-normative behavior linked to conspiracy beliefs, deliberation’s role in prosocial norms, and addressing opposition to renewable energy through conspiracy belief analysis.