Publications

On this page you will find selected publications by the members of the Department of Consumer Research.

2026

• Aureli, V., Grant, F., Aguilar-Martínez, A., Brons, A., Fardet, A., Chang, B., Vespa, F., Kirschner, J., Kopczynska, E., Böröcz, L., Jacobsen, M., Ghukasyan, S., Manios, Y., Gwozdz, W., Antal, E., & Rossi, L. (2026). Dietary assessment and dietary guidelines across 11 European Union countries: A review from the PLAN’EAT project. Frontiers in Nutrition, Volume 12-2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2025.1699036 
• Nielsen, K. S., Dablander, F., Debnath, R., Emogor, C., Ghai, S., Gwozdz, W., Hahnel, U. J. J., Hofmann, W., & Bauer, J. M. (2026). Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals. Global Environmental Change, 96, 103107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103107

2025

• Joanes, T., Gwozdz, W., & Geiger, S. M. (2025). Konsum über unsere Grenzen. In C. Cohrs, N. Knab, & G. Sommer (Eds.), Handbuch Friedenspsychologie (Chap. 2). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. https://doi.org/10.17192/es2022.0039
• Janssen, M. & Gwozdz, W. (2025). Sustainable food consumption: behavioural drivers and barriers. In: L.A. Reisch & C. Sunstein (Ed.). The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the sustainable development goals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (pp. 237-259).
• Thye, T. (2025). Social identity and pro-environmental behavior—A scoping review. Environmental Research Letters, 20(10), 103006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae06ba
• Klink, U., Intemann, T., Bogl, L.H., Lissner, L., Gwozdz, W., De Henauw, S., Molnár, D., Mazur, A., Moreno, L.A., Pala, V., Russo, P., Tornaritis, M., Veidebaum, T., Williams, G., Hebestreit, A., Schüz, B. on behalf of the I.Family consortium (2025). Consumer attitudes towards dietary behaviors: a mediator between socioeconomic status and diet quality in European adults. Eur J Nutr 64, 127 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03645-6
• Joanes, T., Geiger, S. M. & Gwozdz, W. (2025). Think twice - An intervention strategy to reduce personal clothing consumption. Environment and Behavior, 00(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165251315563

2024

• Samus, A., Dickinson, K. J., Freeman, C., & van Heezik, Y. (2024). How to increase nature connectedness? Effectiveness and mechanisms of a gratitude journal intervention. People and Nature, 6(6), 2399-2417.
• Krumm, L. (2024). The relationship between pro-environmental behavior, subjective well-being, and environmental impact: a meta-analysis. Environemental Research Letters, 19(9). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6888
• Nielsen, K.S., Bauer, J.M., Debnah, R., Emogor, C.A., Geiger, S.M., Ghai, S., Gwozdz, W. & Hahnel, U. (2024). Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four socioeconomically diverse countries. Nature Climate Change (forthcoming).
• Wowra, P.B., Joanes, T., Geiger, S.M. & W. Gwozdz (2024). Situations matter for meat consumption: A diary study of the within- and between-person associations. ErnährungsUmschau (forthcoming).
• Foraita, R., Witte, J., Börnhorst, C., Gwozdz, W. , Pala, V., Lissner, L., Lauria, F., Reisch, L. A., Molnár, D., De Henauw, S., Moreno, L., Veidebaum, T., Tornaritis, M., Pigeot, I., & Didelez, V. (2024). A longitudinal causal graph analysis investigating modifiable risk factors and obesity in a European cohort of children and adolescents. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 6822.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56721-y
• Kuhl, L., Keller, V., Weder, S., Alexa, U., Fischer, M., Keller, M., Michalsen, A., Längler, A., Sputtek, A. & Gwozdz, W. (2024). The Environmental Impacts of Omnivorous, Vegetarian, and Vegan Children and Adolescents in Germany: Results of the VeChi Diet and VeChi Youth Studies. Proceedings, 91(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023091430
• Joanes T., Gwozdz, W.: Verhaltensinterventionen im Wandel: Status Quo und zukünftige Möglichkeiten. ErnährungsUmschau 2024; 71(2): M78–89.e1–4. DOI: 10.4455/eu.2024.005

2023

• Krumm, L. (2023). The importance of well-being for environmental behavior change. In G. Reese, A. K. Römpke, A. Bernd, C. Dolderer, & A. W. Mues (Eds.). The puzzle of transformation: Impulses from environmental psychological research (pp. 15–20). Bundesamt für Naturschutz. doi: 10.19217/skr658 
• Wowra, P., Joanes, T., & Gwozdz, W. (2023). In Which Situations Do We Eat? A Diary Study on Eating Situations and Situational Stability. Nutrients, 15(18), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15183967
• Nielsen, K. S., Joanes, T., Webb, D., Gupta, S. & Gwozdz, W. (2023). Exploring the psychological characteristics of style and fashion clothing orientations. Journal of Consumer Marketing, (ahead of print) https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-04-2022-5344
• Suarez, A. & Gwozdz, W. (2023). On the relation between monocultures and ecosystem services in the Global South: A review. Biological Conversation, 278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109870
• SAPEA (2023). Towards sustainable food consumption: Evidence review report (Version 1.0). Zenodo. (Working group member: Gwozdz, W.) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8031939

2022

• Rasche, A., Gwozdz, W., Lund Larsen, M., & Moon, J. (2022). Which firms leave multi‐stakeholder initiatives? An analysis of delisting from the United Nations Global Compact. Regulation & Governance, 309, 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12322
• Spangenberger, P., Geiger, S. M., & Freytag, S.-C. (2022). Becoming nature: effects of embodying a tree in immersive virtual reality on nature relatedness. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05184-0

• Nielsen, K. S., Brick, C., Hofmann, W., Joanes, T., Lange, F. & Gwozdz, W. (2022). The motivation-impact gap in pro-environmental clothing consumption. Nature Sustainability, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00888-7

2021

• Geiger, S. M., Freudenstein, J.-P., Jorck, G. von, Gerold, S., & Schrader, U. (2021). Time wealth: Measurement, drivers and consequences. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2, 100015. doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100015
• Schaupp, J., & Geiger, S. M. (2021). Mindfulness as a path to fostering time affluence and well-being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12298
• Frick, V; Gossen, M; Santarius, T, & Geiger, S. M. (2021). When your shop says #lessismore. A field and laboratory intervention on online communication for clothing sufficiency. Journal of Environmental Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101595
• Bamberg, S.; Fischer, D. & Geiger, S. M. (2021). Editorial: The Role of the Individual in the Great Transformation Toward Sustainability. Frontiers in Psychology: Environmental Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710897
• Sohn, J., Nielsen, K. S., Birkved, M., Joanes, T., & Gwozdz, W. (2021).The environmental impacts of clothing: Evidence from United States and three European countries. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 2153-2164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.05.013

2020

• Nielsen, K. S., Stern, P. C., Dietz, T., Gilligan, J. M., van Vuuren, D. P., Figueroa, M. J., Folke, C., Gwozdz, W., Ivanova, D., Reisch, L. A., Vandenbergh, M.P., Wolske, K.S. & Wood, R. (2020). Improving climate change mitigation analysis: A framework for examining feasibility. One Earth, 3 (3), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.007
• Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L. A., & Thøgersen, J. (2020). Behaviour Change for Sustainable Consumption. Journal of Consumer Policy, 43(2), 249–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-020-09455-z
• W. Gwozdz, et al., The effect of smileys as motivational incentives on children's fruit and vegetable choice, consumption and waste: A field experiment in schools in five European countries. Food Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101852
• Joanes, T., Gwozdz, W., & Klöckner, C. A. (2020). Reducing personal clothing consumption: A cross-cultural validation of the comprehensive action determination model. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 71, 101396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101396
• Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L., Eiben, G., Hunsberger, M., Konstabel, K., Kovacs, E., Luszczki, E., Mazur, A., Mendl, E., Saamel, M., & Wolters, M. (2020). The effect of smileys as motivational incentives on children’s fruit and vegetable choice, consumption and waste: A field experiment in schools in five European countries. Food Policy, 96, 101852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101852

2019

• Gwozdz, W., & Reisch, L. A. (2019). Instruments for Assessing the Role of Commercials on Children’s Food Choices. In K. Bammann, L. Lissner, I. Pigeot, & W. Ahrens (Eds.), Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents (pp. 209-230). Springer. Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health Vol. 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98857-3_10
• Thumann, B. F. B., Börnhorst, C., Michels, N., Veidebaum, T., Solea, A., Reisch, L. A., Moreno, L. A., Lauria, F., Kaprio, J., Hunsberger, M., Felső, R., Gwozdz, W., De Henauw, S., Ahrens, W., On behalf of the IDEFICS consortium, & I.Family Consortium (2019). Cross‐sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Psychosocial Well‐being and Sleep in European Children and Adolescents. Journal of Sleep Research, 28(2), [e12783]. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12783
• Nie, P., Rammohan, A., Gwozdz, W., & Sousa-Poza, A. (2019). Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(10):1815. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1815/htm
• Gwozdz, W., Nie, P., Sousa‐Poza, A., DeHenauw, S., Felső, R., Hebestreit, A., Iguacel, I., Lissner, L., Lauria, F., Page, A., Reisch, L. A., Tornaritis, M., Veidebaum, T., Williams, G., & Foraita, R. (2019). Peer Effects on Weight Status, Dietary Behaviour and Physical Activity among Adolescents in Europe: Findings from the I.Family Study. Kyklos, 72(2), 270–296. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12197
• Nielsen, K. S., Gwozdz, W., & Ridder, D. de (2019). Unraveling the Relatioship Between Trait Self-Control and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Four Self-Control Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 706. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00706
• Gupta, S., Gwozdz, W., & Gentry, J. (2019). The Role of Style Versus Fashion Orientation on Sustainable Apparel Consumption. Journal of Macromarketing, 39(2), 188–207. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146719835283
• Reisch, L. A., & Gwozdz, W. (2019). Healthy Diet as a Global Sustainable Development Issue. In C. Fenton-Glynn (Ed.), Children's Rights and Sustainable Development (pp. 361–384). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108140348.016
• Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L. A., Eiben, G., Hunsberger, M., Konstabel, K., Kovács, E., Luszczki, E., Mazur, A., Mendl, E., Saamel, M., & Wolters, M. (2019). The Effect of Smileys as Motivational Incentives on Children’s Food Choices: A Field Experiment in European Schools. Copenhagen Business School, CBS.