INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY

Marie Brügemann has been a research assistant and lecturer in the Department of Personality and Social Psychology since October 2021. The focus of her work here is on the role of attitude for behavior, especially in the area of sustainability. Between February 2023 and December 2024, she was also a research assistant at the Institute for Biology Didactics at the University of Cologne, where she evaluated interventions on education for sustainable development (ESD) among pupils. In addition, she was involved in a project to develop an outcome indicator test to record and operationalize ESD competencies of pupils in Germany (OIT-BNE) and at the University of Hohenheim in a project to develop and evaluate a Pedagogical Education Tutor (PET).

Since January 2025, she has also been a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Psychology. Her research here focuses on behavioral psychological interventions in the field of the circular economy.

Marie Brüggemann studied psychology at the University of Bielefeld (B.Sc.) and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (M.Sc.). During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the methodology department at Bielefeld University as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods as and as an intern at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW).