Publications
Handbook Peace Psychology
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Knab, N. (2023). Kann Friedenspsychologie Frieden bringen? (Can Peace Psychology foster peace?). Friedensforum: Journal of Peace Movement. 3/2023, 40-41.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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​Knab, N. (in revision). The effect of an interdependence mindset on empowering forms of help towards illegal immigrants
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Knab, N. (in revision). Tell a story – make it real. Exploring the impact of visionary and victim narrative interventions on sustainable action ​
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Knab, N. (in revision). Friedenspsychologie. Wie mentale Gesundheit und demokratische Resilienz zusammenhängen. Nervenheilkunde.
Upcoming
​​Knab, N., Hechler, S., & Bajbouj, M. (in prep). The Dual Role of Affective Polarization in Times of Uncertainty.
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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.
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Knöchelmann, L., Köhler, L., Becker, B., Demel, R., Knab, N., Schwander, H., & Specht, J. (in prep). Challenging the Winner-Loser Gap: Rethinking Electoral Defeat and Political Disaffection.
Knab, N., Büssow, A., Steffens, M.C. (in prep). Hate No More? Assessing an Adaptive 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., Hameiri, B., Hasan-Aslih, S., Shuman, E., & Halperin, E. (in prep). Effects of a paradoxical intervention on collective action intention of disadvantaged groups.
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Knab, N. & Casas, A. (in prep). Evidence-based psychological interventions to transform intergroup conflict in Cohrs, Knab & Sommer (Eds). Handbook Peace Psychology.
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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. ​​