Prof. Dr. Lea Boecker

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C6.220
Fon +49.4131.677-2452, lea.boecker@leuphana.de
Junior Professor, Junior professorship of Psychology, in particular Social Transformation

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Vita

Lea Boecker is a Junior Professor of Psychology, in particular Societal Transformation at the Institute for Management and Organization. She studied psychology at the University of Würzburg and earned her Ph.D. at the Social Cognition Center Cologne. Her research focuses on the interactions between social cognition (e.g., social comparisons), social emotions (e.g., schadenfreude and envy), and motivation, as well as their diverse impacts on societal transformation processes. A particular emphasis of her work is the application of these insights to socially relevant areas such as health behavior, sustainability, sports, and politics.

Additional research fields include the study of emotional facial expressions, prosocial behavior, status (dominance and prestige), social norms, and inequality. In her research, she combines self-report measures with psychophysiological assessments such as electromyography (EMG) and emotion recognition using artificial intelligence.

Academic career and education

  • Since 07/2024: Junior Professor of “Psychology, in particular the Transformation of Society,” Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
  • 09/2018 – 07/2024: Assistant Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Department of Social, Economic Psychology & Methods, Germany
  • 01/2014 – 07/2018: Research Associate and PhD Student at the University of Cologne, Social Cognition Center Cologne (SoCCCo), Germany
  • 03/2013 – 12/2013: Research Associate at the University of Würzburg, Department of Biological, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Germany
  • 10/2007 – 03/2013: Diploma Studies in Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany

Projects

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. How the timing of texting triggers romantic interest after the first date: A curvilinear U-shaped effect and its underlying mechanisms
    Lars Teichmann (Author) , Hannes Petrowsky (Author) , Lea Boecker (Author) , Meikel Neumann (Author) , David D. Loschelder (Author) , 01.02.2026 , in: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 43, 2 , p. 570-593 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Effects of psychological distance on mental abstraction: A registered report of four tests of construal level theory
    Sofia Calderon (Author) , Erik Mac Giolla (Author) , Birte Siem (Author) , Karl Ask (Author) , Susanne Jana Adler (Author) , Jens Agerström (Author) , Burcu Akpınar (Author) , Nihan Albayrak (Author) , Francesca Romana Alparone (Author) , Shahrazad Amin (Author) , Antonio Aquino (Author) , Melissa Bachet (Author) , Baisile Baisile (Author) , Karin M. Bausenhart (Author) , Magali Beylat (Author) , Olga Bialobrzeska (Author) , Eliana C. Bloomfield (Author) , Lea Boecker (Author) , Matteo Bonora (Author) , Shannon T. Brady (Author) , Jared G. Branch (Author) , Nicole E. Brandy (Author) , Kelley T. Bui (Author) , Mariela Bustos-Ortega (Author) , Amparo Caballero (Author) , Andi Cai (Author) , Katarzyna Cantarero (Author) , Stephanie A. Cárdenas (Author) , Pilar Carrera (Author) , Jung-Tzu Chang (Author) , Hsuan-Fu Chao (Author) , Andrew G. Christy (Author) , Jennifer A. Cook (Author) , Junhua Dang (Author) , Scott Danielson (Author) , William e. Davis (Author) , Cara de Boer (Author) , Elise de Groot (Author) , Jaye L. Derrick (Author) , Sarah Dittmar (Author) , Tim Döring (Author) , Céline Douilliez (Author) , Martin Egger (Author) , Yannik Andrea Escher (Author) , Thomas Rhys Evans (Author) , Sofia Fabiani (Author) , Gilad Feldman (Author) , Nicole Fernandez (Author) , Julia Fischer (Author) , Magdalena Formanowicz (Author) , Malte Friese (Author) , Paul T. Fuglestad (Author) , Aurore Gaboriaud (Author) , Jessica Gale (Author) , Richard Gamrát (Author) , Oliver Genschow (Author) , Omid Ghasemi (Author) , Mauro Giacomantonio (Author) , Karolin Gieseler (Author) , Hedy Greijdanus (Author) , Siobhán Mary Griffin (Author) , Doğa Gül (Author) , Gul Gunaydin (Author) , Simona Haasova (Author) , Georgios Halkias (Author) , Christopher E. Hawk (Author) , Anna Helfers (Author) , Cindy L. Hernandez (Author) , Yanine D. Hess (Author) , Petr J. Horgos (Author) , Yehor Hrymchak (Author) , Markus Huff (Author) , Ezgi Ildırım (Author) , Biljana Jokić (Author) , Yoann Julliard (Author) , Pavol Kačmár (Author) , Barbara Kaup (Author) , Hyunji Kim (Author) , Kyungmi Kim (Author) , Alan Kingstone (Author) , Kenan Koç (Author) , Lina Koppel (Author) , Anita Körner (Author) , Bibiána Kováčová Holevová (Author) , Paul Danielle Labor (Author) , Bronwyn D. Laforet (Author) , Fanny Lalot (Author) , Leonie Lamm (Author) , Sean M. Laurent (Author) , Sean T. H. Lee (Author) , Yi-Chen Lee (Author) , Edward P. Lemay, Jr. (Author) , Zhicheng Lin (Author) , Yun-Kai Lin (Author) , Jia-Xin Long (Author) , David D. Loschelder (Author) , Katerina Makri (Author) , Harry Manley (Author) , Nicolò Maugeri (Author) , Randy J. McCarthy (Author) , Cillian McHugh (Author) , Katatzyna Miazek (Author) , Marina Milyavskaya (Author) , Coby Morvinski (Author) , Michaela Muchová (Author) , Sümeyye Muftareviç (Author) , Dominique Muller (Author) , Gideon Nave (Author) , Ben R. Newell (Author) , Cécile Nurra (Author) , Marc Oullet (Author) , Asil Ali Özdoğru (Author) , Mia Pagnani (Author) , Daniele Paolini (Author) , Frank Papenmeier (Author) , Hannes Petrowsky (Author) , Stefan Pfattheicher (Author) , Jean C. Picado (Author) , Ryan M. Pickering (Author) , Danka Purić (Author) , Alain Quiamzade (Author) , Jonathan E. Ramsay (Author) , Tristan Nicholas Renaud (Author) , Mónica Romero-Sánchez (Author) , Robert M. Ross (Author) , Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez (Author) , Julio Santiago (Author) , Marko Sarstedt (Author) , Luke Scally (Author) , Michele Scandola (Author) , Judith P. M. Schachtner (Author) , Simon Schindler (Author) , Andreas Segerberg (Author) , Emre Selcuk (Author) , Verónica Sevillano (Author) , Edith Shalev (Author) , Xiaoyi Shao (Author) , Steven D. Shaw (Author) , Keyi Shi (Author) , Birte Siem (Author) , Pablo Solana (Author) , Meikel Neumann (Author) , Gaye Solmazer (Author) , Fatih Sonmez (Author) , Samantha K. Stanley (Author) , Janina Steinmetz (Author) , Adam W. Stivers (Author) , Aleksandra Szymkow (Author) , Maude Tagand (Author) , Yan Zhen Tan (Author) , Hilal Terzi (Author) , Miaomiao Tian (Author) , Gustav Tinghög (Author) , Ulrich S. Tran (Author) , David F. Urschler (Author) , Daniel R. VanHorn (Author) , Daniel Västfjäll (Author) , Bruno Verschuere (Author) , Amelie Verschueren (Author) , Anna Laura Vlad (Author) , Martin Voracek (Author) , Xiaotian Wang (Author) , Deming Wang (Author) , Lara Warmelink (Author) , Adam Kah Jjin Wee (Author) , Aaron Lee Wichman (Author) , Sera Wiechert (Author) , Karl-Andrew Woltin (Author) , Hoo Keat Wong (Author) , Jiawen Xu (Author) , Zai-Fu Yao (Author) , Siu Kit Yeung (Author) , Kumar Yogeeswaran (Author) , Iris Žeželj (Author) , Qing Zhang (Author) , Rene Ziegler (Author) , Timothy J. Luke (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 9, 2 , 29 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. The power and peril of first offers in negotiations: A conceptual, meta-analytic, and experimental synthesis
    Hannes Petrowsky (Author) , Lea Boecker (Author) , Yannik Andrea Escher (Author) , Marie-Lena Frech (Author) , Malte Friese (Author) , Adam D. Galinsky (Author) , Brian Gunia (Author) , Alice J. Lee (Author) , Michael Schaerer (Author) , Martin Schweinsberg (Author) , Meikel Neumann (Author) , Roderick Swaab (Author) , Eve Sarah Troll (Author) , Marcel Weber (Author) , David D. Loschelder (Author) , 01.11.2025 , in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 191 , 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Concession patterns in dyadic negotiations: Empirically contrasting sunk cost, loss aversion, and rationality predictions
    Yannik Andrea Escher (Author) , Hannes Petrowsky (Author) , Lea Boecker (Author) , Peter L. Stöckli (Author) , David D. Loschelder (Author) , 22.08.2025 , in: Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 18, 3 , p. 165–203 , 39 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. The interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. presidential election 2020
    Lea Boecker (Author) , Hannes Petrowsky (Author) , David D. Loschelder (Author) , Jens Lange (Author) , 01.12.2024 , in: Cognition and Emotion, 38, 8 , p. 1210-1228 , 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. A threefold meta-analysis of economic first-offer effects in negotiations
    Hannes Petrowsky (Speaker) , Yannik Andrea Escher (Speaker) , Lea Boecker (Coauthor) , Marie-Lena Frech (Coauthor) , Malte Friese (Coauthor) , Brian Gunia (Coauthor) , Alice J. Lee (Coauthor) , Michael Schaerer (Coauthor) , Martin Schweinsberg (Coauthor) , Meikel Neumann (Coauthor) , Roderick I. Swaab (Coauthor) , Eve Sarah Troll (Coauthor) , Marcel Weber (Coauthor) , David D. Loschelder (Coauthor)

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Press / Media

  1. Die These: Brexit - Schadenfreude ist okay
    1 Media contribution

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  2. Donald Trump hat Corona - eine Psychologin erklärt die Schadenfreude darüber
    1 Media contribution

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  3. Warum Schadenfreude gut für uns ist
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  4. Schadenfreude in der Psychologie
    1 Media contribution

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  5. Schadenfreude ist besser als ihr Ruf
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