• Social influence, social conformity
• Social neuroscience
• Cognitive modeling
• Moral psychology
• Group decision-making
• Evolutionary and comparative psychology

Germar, M. (in press). The neurocognitive underpinnings of social influence. In R. Prislin (Ed.), The research handbook on social influence. NY: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Theisen, M., & Germar, M. (2024). Uncertain Facts or Uncertain Values? Testing the Distinction Between Empirical and Normative Uncertainty in Moral Judgments. Cognitive Science, 48(3), e13422. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13422

Duderstadt, V. H., Mojzisch, A., & Germar, M. (2024). Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis. British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12714

Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2024). Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(1), 57–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187403

Germar, M., Albrecht, T., & Mojzisch, A.  (2023). Social norm learning alters feature-based visual attention: Evidence from steady state visual evoked potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xhp0001156

Germar, M., Duderstadt, V. H., & Mojzisch, A. (2023). Social norms shape visual appearance: Taking a closer look at the link between social norm learning and perceptual decision-making. Cognition, 241, 105611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105611

Duderstadt, V. H., Mojzisch, A., & Germar, M. (2022). Social norm learning from non-human agents can induce a persistent perceptual bias: A diffusion model approach. Acta Psychologica, 229, 103691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103691

Huber, C., Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2022). Authenticity Occurs More Often Than Inauthenticity in Everyday Life. Social Psychology, 53(2), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000475

Mojzisch, A., Elster, C., & Germar, M. (2022). People perceive themselves to adhere more strictly to COVID-19 guidelines than others. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 27(2), 325–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2021.1906435

Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2021). Basal Testosterone Renders Individuals More Receptive to Minority Positions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(6), 955–963. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620945116

Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2019). Learning of social norms can lead to a persistent perceptual bias: A diffusion model approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.012

Imhoff, R., Lange, J., & Germar, M. (2019). Identification and location tasks rely on different mental processes: A diffusion model account of validity effects in spatial cueing paradigms with emotional stimuli. Cognition & Emotion, 33(2), 231–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1443433

Germar, M., Sultan, A., Kaminski, J., & Mojzisch, A. (2018). Dogs (Canis familiaris) stick to what they have learned rather than conform to their conspecifics' behavior. PloS One, 13(3), e0194808. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194808

Leder, J., Häusser, J. A., Krumm, S., Germar, M., Schlemmer, A., Kaiser, S., Kalis, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2018). The Cognitive Underpinnings of Option Generation in Everyday Life Decision-Making: A Latent Variable Analysis. Cognitive Science, 42(8), 2562–2591. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12678

Hofheinz, C., Germar, M., Schultze, T., Michalak, J., & Mojzisch, A. (2017). Are Depressed People More or Less Susceptible to Informational Social Influence? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41(5), 699–711. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-017-9848-7

Germar, M., Albrecht, T., Voss, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2016). Social conformity is due to biased stimulus processing: Electrophysiological and diffusion analyses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(9), 1449–1459. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw050

Germar, M., Schlemmer, A., Krug, K., Voss, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2014). Social influence and perceptual decision making: A diffusion model analysis. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(2), 217–231. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213508985

Social influence and perceptual decision-making. DFG-funded research project (Markus Germar & Andreas Mojzsich, 228.433 €, 2019 – 2022).

Can social influence lead to a persistent perceptual bias? Seed-Fund from the University of Hildesheim (Markus Germar, 4847 €, 2018)

How do groups solve moral dilemmas? Seed-Fund from the University of Hildesheim (Markus Germar & Andreas Mojzsich, 5000€, 2015)

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