Lotte Pummerer

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 615 citations indexed

About

Lotte Pummerer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Lotte Pummerer has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 615 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Lotte Pummerer's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (16 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (5 papers). Lotte Pummerer is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (16 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (5 papers). Lotte Pummerer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Lotte Pummerer's co-authors include Kai Sassenberg, Kevin Winter, Lau Lilleholt, Robert Böhm, Ingo Zettler, Matthew J. Hornsey, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Jéssica Esther Machado Farias, Gaëlle Marinthe and Jakub Šrol and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lotte Pummerer

19 papers receiving 596 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 194 citations Lotte Pummerer, Robert Böhm et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

2022 193 citations Valerie van Mulukom, Lotte Pummerer et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lotte Pummerer Germany	9	492	225	211	100	97	21	615
Kenzo Nera Belgium	10	414 0.8×	186 0.8×	190 0.9×	61 0.6×	79 0.8×	21	489
Sinan Alper Türkiye	11	492 1.0×	206 0.9×	277 1.3×	74 0.7×	66 0.7×	33	692
Gaëlle Marinthe France	8	353 0.7×	166 0.7×	158 0.7×	34 0.3×	53 0.5×	16	462
John Funchion United States	8	650 1.3×	179 0.8×	121 0.6×	219 2.2×	193 2.0×	17	736
Ricky Green United Kingdom	11	452 0.9×	129 0.6×	210 1.0×	60 0.6×	75 0.8×	23	592
Mikey Biddlestone United Kingdom	12	482 1.0×	103 0.5×	188 0.9×	72 0.7×	79 0.8×	25	602
James Henry Rubin United Kingdom	6	486 1.0×	233 1.0×	91 0.4×	108 1.1×	98 1.0×	19	717
Irena Pavela Banai Croatia	9	291 0.6×	154 0.7×	131 0.6×	38 0.4×	45 0.5×	22	441
Christina E. Farhart United States	10	878 1.8×	227 1.0×	171 0.8×	329 3.3×	228 2.4×	19	1.0k
Jéssica Esther Machado Farias Brazil	7	277 0.6×	128 0.6×	109 0.5×	34 0.3×	43 0.4×	9	385

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lotte Pummerer

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2025). Leaving the Catholic Church: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Predictors of Leaving Intentions. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 36(1). 115–132.

Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, Timo von Oertzen, Matthew J. Hornsey, & Kai Sassenberg. (2025). Conspiracy belief and opposition to wind farms: A longitudinal study. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 104. 102620–102620. 1 indexed citations

Pummerer, Lotte, Kevin Winter, Kai Sassenberg, & Helen Fischer. (2025). “Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 38(1). 65–77.

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2025). Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 55(5). 343–358. 2 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2025). Not that different after all: Pro‐environmental social norms predict pro‐environmental behaviour (also) among those believing in conspiracy theories. British Journal of Psychology. 1 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2024). Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8888–8888. 14 indexed citations

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2024). The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories. Psychological Inquiry. 35(3-4). 159–178. 1 indexed citations

Pummerer, Lotte. (2024). On Different Operationalizations and Conceptualizations of the Tendency to Believe in Conspiracy Theories. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 232(1). 55–58. 5 indexed citations

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2024). Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence. The Journal of Social Psychology. 165(6). 825–840. 2 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2023). Change by (almost) all means: The role of conspiracy mentality in predicting support for social change among the political left and right. European Journal of Social Psychology. 53(7). 1563–1575. 2 indexed citations

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Mulukom, Valerie van, Lotte Pummerer, Sinan Alper, et al.. (2022). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine. 301. 114912–114912. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pummerer, Lotte. (2022). Belief in conspiracy theories and non-normative behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology. 47. 101394–101394. 30 indexed citations

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Scholl, Annika, et al.. (2022). Let’s stay in touch: Frequency (but not mode) of interaction between leaders and followers predicts better leadership outcomes. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0279176–e0279176. 2 indexed citations

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Pummerer, Lotte, Kevin Winter, & Kai Sassenberg. (2022). Addressing Covid-19 Vaccination Conspiracy Theories and Vaccination Intentions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 1–12. 14 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2022). Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms. Nature Energy. 7(12). 1200–1207. 29 indexed citations

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Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2022). Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(8). 952–963. 11 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, Matthew J. Hornsey, & Kai Sassenberg. (2021). Pro‐vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology. 27(2). 390–405. 52 indexed citations

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Pummerer, Lotte, Robert Böhm, Lau Lilleholt, et al.. (2021). Code for: Conspiracy theories and their societal effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology Archives. 1 indexed citations

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Mulukom, Valerie van, Lotte Pummerer, Sinan Alper, et al.. (2020). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: a systematic review. Pure (Coventry University). 54 indexed citations

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Scholl, Annika, et al.. (2020). Out of sight, out of mind: Power-holders feel responsible when anticipating face-to-face, but not digital contact with others. Computers in Human Behavior. 112. 106472–106472. 7 indexed citations

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