Publications
Handbook Peace Psychology
Knab, N. (in-principle acceptance). Tell a story – make it real. Exploring the impact of visionary and victim narrative interventions on sustainable action. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Glöckner, A., Diller, S., Froehlich, L., Kinskofer, F., Knab, N., Köbis, N., Lermer, E., Oeberst, A., Siem, B., Ventura, A., Watermann, L., Yarza Navarro-Schär, V.G., & Rudert, S. C. (accepted).
Künstliche Intelligenz als soziotechnisches System. Eine sozialpsychologische Analyse. (Artificial Intelligence as socio-technical systems: A socio-psychological analysis) Psychologische Rundschau.
Knab, N. (2026). Friedenspsychologie: Wie mentale Gesundheit und demokratische Resilienz zusammenhängen (Peace Psychology: On the relationship of mental health and democratic resilience). Nervenheilkunde, 45, 22–23. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8329
Knab. N. (2025) Friedenspsychologie – individuelle Wahrnehmung, soziale Dynamiken und globale Herausforderungen. Tagungsband Internationale Gesellschaft für Tiefenpsychologie, p. 115-139.
Knab, N., & Bajbouj, M. (2025) Minds Without Borders: Integrating Social Psychology into Global Health Diplomacy. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1667125
Wolf, T., Pauen, H., Steffens, M.C., & Knab, N. (2025). We are all the same and (not) judged the same? Examining attribution tendencies of liberals in the context of norm violations by refugees. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70093
Knab, N., Steffens, M.C., Halabi, S., Friehs, M.T., Nadler, A., & Hameiri, B. (2025). A wolf in sheep's clothing? The interplay of norms and threat in hierarchy-maintaining action tendencies towards disadvantaged groups. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12849
Cohrs, C., Knab, N. & Sommer, G. (2024). Psychologie für den Frieden – Einführung und Überblick in das open-Access Handbuch für Friedenspsychologie. https://doi.org/10.17192/es2022.0018
Wolf, T. , Knab, N., & Steffens, M. C. (2024). Exploring solidarity-based attitudes and behaviors regarding disadvantaged groups: The role of justice sensitivity and social identification. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000758
Bytzek, E., Dupont, J., Steffens, M.C., Knab, N., & Schneider, F. (2024). Do Election Pledges Matter? The Effects of Broken and Kept Election Pledges on Citizens’ Trust in Government. German Political Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-024-00567-6
Landmann, H., Winter, K., Froehlich, L., Klocke, U., Hechler, S., Niesta-Kayser, D., Knab, N., Hess, F., Bender, R., Maser, J., Wagner, U., & Hellmann, J. (2024). Transfer between Science and Practice: Findings from Expert Network on Forced Migration and Integration. German Journal on Forced Migration and Asylum. doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2024-1-187
Hebel-Sela, S. , Knab, N. & Hameiri, B. (2023) Paradoxical Thinking Interventions in Intergroup Conflicts: A Promising Method to Affect Cognitions and Behavior Among People with Strongly Held Attitudes in Halperin, Hameiri, Littmann (Eds.). Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Where We Are and Where We Go from Here. 10.4324/9781003288251-10
Knab, N. (2023). Kann Friedenspsychologie Frieden bringen? (Can Peace Psychology foster peace?). Friedensforum: Journal of Peace Movement. 3/2023, 40-41.
Knab, N., & Steffens, M. C. (2022). "Why do you think Christmas will never ever be celebrated again?" A paradoxical thinking intervention's potential to affect conflict-related concerns, willingness to compromise and openness towards refugees. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2833
Bareket, O., Shnabel, N., Kende, A., Knab, N., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2021). Need some help, honey? Dependency-oriented helping relations between women and men in the domestic sphere. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(5), 1175–1203. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000292
Knab, N. & Steffens, M. C. (2018). One World in diversity – a social-psychological intervention to foster international collective action intention. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6, 8-26.https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i1.601
Maltese, S., Baumert, A., Knab, N., & Schmitt, M. (2013). Learning to interpret one's own outcome as unjustified amplifies altruistic compensation: a training study. Frontiers in Psychology. 4:951. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00951
Upcoming
Knab, N. (in revision). The effect of an interdependence mindset on empowering forms of help towards illegal immigrants
Knöchelmann, L., Köhler, L., Becker, B., Demel, R., Knab, N., Schwander, H., & Specht, J. (under review). Challenging the Winner-Loser Gap: Rethinking Electoral Defeat and Political Disaffection.
Knab, N., Hechler, S., Vegetti, F. & Bajbouj, M. (in prep). The Dual Role of Affective Polarization in Times of Uncertainty.
Wolf., T., Steffens, M., Köhler, L., & Knab, N. (in prep). Connecting Justice Sensitivity, Social identity and Intergroup emotions to predict various forms of solidarity: an integrative approach.
Knab, N., Büssow, A., Steffens, M.C. (in prep). Hate No More? Assessing an Adaptive AI-Assisted Intervention Approach to Address Online Hostility Against Muslim Refugees
Knab, N. (in prep). Navigating Polarization: A Focus Group Study on Activists’ Work in Migration and Climate Protection.
Knab, N. & Casas, A. (in prep). Evidence-based psychological interventions to transform intergroup conflict in Cohrs, Knab & Sommer (Eds). Handbook Peace Psychology.
Winter, K. & Knab, N. (in prep). Does gender-fair language increase cognitive flexibility (and reduce gender stereotypes)?
Simhon, R., Knab, N., Nyul, B., & Shnabel, N. (in prep). Patriarchy in disguise: Pro-prostitution attitudes and the acceptance of sexual violence towards women.