We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people’s mental wellâ€Âbeing in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action...

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

Die Grünen befinden sich seit Monaten in einem Umfragehoch. Derzeit erscheint es nicht ausgeschlossen, dass die Partei nach den anstehenden Landtagswahlen erstmals einen Ministerpräsidenten oder eine Regierende Bürgermeisterin stellt. Die Spekulation hierüber wird vor allem durch...

Rund 5,3 Milliarden Euro, so ergaben Umfragen des Sozio- oekonomisches Panels (SOEP), spendeten die Deutschen im Jahr 2009 - mitten in der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise. Art und Höhe der Spenden sind in Deutschland gut dokumentiert. Nur wenige Informationen gab es hingegen bislang darüber, wer...

Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009- right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. However, until recently, there was very little...

The Greens have been riding high in the polls for months now. In Baden-Württemberg, a stronghold of the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU), Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green party candidate to be elected Minister-President of any German state. This article looks beyond the current...

Politics and business often involve making risky or dangerous decisions whose outcomes can be predicted only with difficulty, if at all. As attitudes toward risks and dangers vary between individuals, it is reasonable that people with different attitudes are active in areas requiring decisions...

Die Grünen befinden sich seit Monaten in einem Umfragehoch. Derzeit erscheint es nicht ausgeschlossen, dass die Partei nach den anstehenden Landtagswahlen erstmals einen Ministerpräsidenten oder eine Regierende Bürgermeisterin stellt. Die Spekulation hierüber wird vor allem durch...

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...