Stollberg Janine

Jonas, E., Stollberg, J., & Klackl, J. (in press). Auswege aus der Angst: Wie soziale Gruppen Menschen in Krisenzeiten aktivieren. Psychologische Rundschau.

Stollberg, J., Reiss, S., & Jonas, E. (2026). The moving potential of global crises: Threat and future visions are linked to collective action through feelings of being moved. Emotion. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001636

Stollberg, J., Koch, F., & Jonas, E. (2025). When neoliberals become activists: social crisis threats motivate ingroup and outgroup prosociality among neoliberals. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1677265.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1677265

Stollberg, J., Bogdan, D., & Jonas, E. (2024). Empowering the younger generation increases their willingness for intergenerational reconciliation in the context of climate change. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17825.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68145-9

Stollberg, J, Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2024). To change, but not to preserve! Norm conformity following control threat only emerges for change norms but not for status quo norms. Self and Identity, 23(5-6), 484-504.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2024.239986

Stollberg, J., Klackl, J., & Jonas, E. (2024). Empirical test of a general process model of threat and defense: A systematic examination of the affective-motivational processes underlying proximal and distal reactions to threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110. 10452.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104526

Jutzi, C. A., Willardt, R., Klackl, J., Stollberg, J., Reiss, S., & Jonas, E. (2023). A threat-and-defense perspective on the psychological dynamics behind the Covid-19 pandemic. International Review of Social Psychology, 36(1): 18, 1–15.  https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.792

Klackl, J., Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., Schindler, S., & Jonas, E. (2022). The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, 104256.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104256

Stollberg, J., & Jonas, E. (2021). Existential threat as a challenge for individual and collective engagement: Climate change and the motivation to act. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 145-150.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.10.004. 

Jonas, E., & Stollberg, J. (2021). Homeostasis as affective-motivational state: A threat and defense perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 32(4), 247-252.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2021.2004818

Jugert, P., Šerek, J., & Stollberg, J. (2019). Contextual moderators of the link between national and European identity among European youth. Journal of Youth Studies, 22(4), 436-456.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2018.1510176 

Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I. & Jonas, E. (2017). The groupy shift: Conformity to liberal ingroup norms as a group-based response to threatened personal control. Social Cognition. 35, 374-394.  https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2017.35.4.374 

Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., Barth, M., & Jugert, P. (2016). Extending control perceptions to the social self: Ingroups serve the restoration of control. In M. Bukowski, I. Fritsche, A. Guinote & Kofta, M. (Eds.), Coping with lack of control in a social world (pp. 133-150). London: Routledge Psychology Press.

Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., & Bäcker, A. (2015). Striving for group agency: Threat to personal control increases the attractiveness of agentic groups.  Frontiers in Psychology, 6.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00649  

Other publications and third mission activities:

Stollberg, J. (2026, January). Der Mönchsberg als Lebensraum und Teil der lokalen Identität Salzburgs. Invited speaker and co-organizer MÖNCHSBERG – Der Stadtberg als Natur-, Kultur- und Lebensraum, public event between University of Salzburg and Festspielbezirk 2030.  https://www.festspielbezirk2030.at/blog/moenchsberg-der-stadtberg-als-natur-kultur-und-lebensraum/

Müller, D. (2024). „Protestwähler: Wer fühlt sich nur benachteiligt – und wer ist es wirklich?“. Salzburger Nachrichten (online & print).  https://www.sn.at/wochenende/protestwaehler-wer-166037446

Kinder, N., Mühlberger, C., Schiemann, S.J., Stollberg, J., Jonas, E., & Greif, S. (2020). Was macht erfolgreiches Coaching wirksam? 1217 Klienten beantworten Fragen der Wissenschaft. [What makes successful Coaching efficacious? 1217 Clients answer scientific questions] Coaching-Magazin, 1, 42-49. 

Invited talks:

Stollberg, J. (2025, November). Let’s talk climate. Wie wir über die Klimakrise reden (sollten). Invited talk at the Robert-Jungk-Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen, Salzburg.  https://jungk-bibliothek.org/2025/11/01/janine-stollberg-stefan-veigl-harald-kienzl-lets-talk-climate-wie-wir-ueber-die-klimakrise-reden-sollten-jbz-tv/

Stollberg, J. (2025, March). Talkin ‘Bout a Future Vision: Collective reactions and affective- motivational processes.  Invited talk at the Social Psychology Department, University of Leipzig.

Stollberg, J. (2024, November). Der Klimawandel als Bedrohung – gemeinsames Handeln oder soziale Spaltung? Guest lecture at the Ringvorlesung Klima:Wandel:Bildung, Natur-und Lebenswissenschafltiche Fakultät & School of Education, Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg.

Tulis-Oswald, M. & Stollberg, J. (2024 November). Folge 19 „Der Klimawandel als Bedrohung – gemeinsames Handeln oder soziale Spaltung? Podcast zur Ringvorlesung Klima:Wandel:Bildung.  https://klimawandelbildung.soe-sbg.at/programm-wise-24-25/

 

Conference talks (peer-reviewed):

Stollberg, J. (2026, April). Future thinking and acting: Individual and collective perspectives. Symposium at the ÖGP General Meeting, Salzburg, Austria.

Stollberg, J., & Jonas, E. (2025, June). Narrating the future: How telling the story about our future motivates pro-environmental engagement through affective processes. Talk at the International Conference of Environmental Psychology (ICEP), Vilnius, Lithuania.      

Stollberg, J., Bogdan, D., Daxenberger, H., & Jonas, E. (2024, September). Climate Change as an Intergroup Conflict: Empowering the Young and Accepting the Europeans promote Reconciliation. Talk at the DGPS/ÖGP General Meeting, Wien, Austria.

Möller, J., Stollberg, J., Jutzi, C., Gleibs, I., & Jonas, E. (2024, June). Dealing With the Uncontrollability of Academic Life: Identification With Academic and Non-academic Ingroups Restores Approach-Related Affect. Poster at the EASP Small Group Meeting on Social Identity, Kent, Great-Britain.

Stollberg, J., Klackl, J., & Jonas, E. (2023, September). Let me feel agentic, again! On the affective component of agency in the face of threat. Talk at the FGSP General Meeting, Graz, Austria.

Stollberg, J., Ditrich, L., & Klackl, J. (2023, July). To protest or not to protest – that is the question. A nuanced view on how affect shapes collective responses to global crises, co-organized symposium at the EASP General Meeting, Kraków, Poland. 

Stollberg, J., Reiss, S., & Jonas, E. (2023, July).  Being moved by global crisis: The benefits and downsides of threat salience for collective engagement. Talk at the EASP General Meeting, Kraków, Poland.  

Stollberg, J. & Jonas, E. (2023, July). When neoliberals become activists: Global crises motivate solidarity, but not support of system change. Talk at the ISJR, Biennial Meeting, München, Germany.

Stollberg, J., Klackl, J., & Jonas, E. (2023, June).  

Let’s do something for our planet, or we will do something else: On the affective benefits of palliative ingroup identification in the face of climate change threat. Talk at the EASP Small Group Meeting, Kloster Nimbschen, Germany.

Stollberg, J., Reiss, S., & Jonas, E. (2023, June). When the Future looms bright, not dark: Being moved by future visions increases collective action. Talk at the International Conference of Environmental Psychology (ICEP), Aarhus, Denmark.

Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2019, September). Promoting change or engaging in the status quo? Threat to control increases the attractiveness

of collective change projects. Talk at the Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Symposium on „Threat and social reactions”. Köln, Germany.

Stollberg, J., Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2018, June). Engaging in social change or preserving the status quo? Talk at the EASP Small Group Meeting „Reducing intergroup conflict: Collective action vs. solidarity“. Castle Eyba, Germany