Dr. Roman Linne

Current research interests

Persuasion, (lateral) attitude change, psychological distance, conspiracy theories

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Current Projects (Manuscripts in Press, in Preparation, Submitted, or Under Review)

• Linne, R. (2026). Populism under the radar: Indirect influence from rejected sources [Manuscript in Revision]. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University.
• Linne, R., Bürger, M., Döscher, K., Friedrich, S., & Kauff, M. (2026). Authoritarianism in the Name of Freedom: Introducing a Scale to Capture Libertarian Authoritarianism [Manuscript submitted for Publication]. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University.
• Linne, R., Friedrich, S., & Erb, H.-P. (2026). Average thinkers under tinfoil hats? On the connection between need for cognition and belief in conspiracy theories [Manuscript in preparation]. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University.

Publications

• Friedrich, S., & Linne, R. (2026). Close is clever? The role of spatial distance in expertise attribution. Frontiers in Psychology, 17:1763841. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1763841.
• Pauer, S., Linne, R., & Erb, H. P. (2024). From the Illusion of Choice to Actual Control: Reconsidering the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/na4yw
• Linne, R., Glaser, T. & Bohner, G. (2024). Lateral attitude change: displacement effects as a reaction to blatant social influence. Current Psychology, 43, 20691–20697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05906-9
• Linne, R., Hildebrandt, J., Erb, H. P., & Bohner, G. (2022). Sequential information processing in persuasion. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:902230. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.902230
• Linne, R., Schäfer, M., & Bohner, G. (2022). Ambivalent stereotypes and persuasion: Attitudinal effects of warmth vs. competence ascribed to message sources. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.782480
• Linne, R., Glaser, T., Pum, K., & Bohner, G. (2020). Lateral attitude change: Stalking the elusive displacement effect. Social Cognition, 38(4), 324-353. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.4.324
• Bohner, G., Elleringmann, L., Linne, R., Boege, R., & Glaser, T. (2020). Lateral attitude change: Does acceptance versus rejection of focal change cause generalization versus displacement? Research Report, Bielefeld University. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2941633
• Bohner, G., Boege, R., Glaser, T., Elleringmann, L., & Linne, R. (2021). Protecting versus deleting thoughts affects focal and lateral attitude (Guardar vs. eliminar los pensamientos influye en los cambios actitudinales focales y laterals). International Journal of Social Psychology, 36 (2), 300-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2021.1882228
• Bohner G, Elleringmann L, Boege R, Glaser T, & Linne R. (2020). Priming as a moderator of lateral attitude change. Research Report, Bielefeld University. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2940773
• Boege, R., Linne, R., Glaser, T., & Bohner, G. (2020). Creation of stimulus sets for studying lateral attitude change. Research Report, Bielefeld University. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2940775

Reviewer

For: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, European Journal of Social Psychology, International Journal of Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Selected conference contributions and invited talks

• Linne, R. (2026, May). Sozialpsychologische Perspektiven auf Einstellungen und Haltung [Social psychological perspectives on attitudes and conviction]. Presentation at the Workshop on Conviction in Religious Education, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
• Linne, R. & Erb, H.-P. (2022, September). Average Thinkers under Tinfoils Hats – Conspiracy Mentality as a Quadratic Function of the Need for Cognition. Poster Präsentation at the 52^nd General Meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Hildesheim, Germany.
• Linne, R. (2022, August) Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit [group-focused enmity]. Presentation at the Politische Bildung im Feldjägerregiment 1 [Political education at 1st Feldjäger regiment], Kiel, Germany.
• Linne, R., Glaser, T., & Bohner, G. (2020, January). Lateral Attitude Change…as a mechanism of populist influence. Presentation at the 24-hours of Political Psychology Conference, Hagen, Germany.
• Linne, R., Zawadka, A., & Bohner, G. (2019, September). Lateral attitude change as a reaction to obviously unfair grading. Poster Presentation at the 17th Conference of the Social Psychology section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Cologne, Germany.
• Linne, R., Boege, R., Glaser, T., & Bohner, G. (2018, August). Lateral Attitude Change – processes and moderators. Vortrag at the 2018 Ohio State Symposium on Social Psychology, Columbus, USA.
• Linne, R. (2018, March). Lateral Attitude Change – Hierarchy as a moderator of lateral attitude change: Values and policies. Presentation at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Marburg, Germany.
• Linne, R., Boege, R., Siebler, F., Glaser, T., & Bohner, G. (2017, July. Lateral Attitude Change – implicit attitude change generalizes more strongly to primed as well as similar related objects. Poster Präsentation at the 18^th General Meeting of the EASP, Granada, Spain.
• Linne, R., Boege, R., Bohner, G., & Glaser, T. (2016, July). Lateral Attitude Change. Presentation at the EASP Medium Size Meeting: The Psychology of Attitudes, Cologne, Germany.

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Letzte Änderung: 31. August 2026