Gundula Hübner

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | MLU · Institut für Psychologie

Landscape change through global warming and renewable energy transition is a central aspect of the ‘great transformation’. The aim of the project ‚Active citizen experts in climate protection and energy transition‘ was to develop a transferable approach in the practice of a concrete participation project in a region in Germany, which qualifies and...

One of the most relevant acceptance factors of local wind turbines (WTs) are noise emissions. To better understand why some residents experience stress effects from wind turbines a field study with strongly annoyed residents (SAR) was conducted. A convenience sample of residents (N = 148) in the proximity of a wind farm in Germany were interviewed...

To foster the green energy transition, local acceptance of wind energy is highly relevant. Since simple solutions like setback distances do not reflect the issue complexity, we incorporated acceptance factors from social science and interdisciplinary research in an Integrated Acceptance Model (IAM). To capture impact differences of the acceptance f...

In order to advance the expansion of onshore wind energy, wind turbines (WTs) must be erected in often complex terrain. The orography and the associated meteorological conditions, as well as the complex propagation of sound and ground motion waves can lead to increased annoyance of residents. Here a joint investigation of residential noise reports,...

Mit dem beschleunigten Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien werden zunehmend mehr Kommunen mit konkreten Projekten konfrontiert. Obwohl eine Mehrheit den weiteren Ausbau und die Energiewende begrüßt, kommt es zu Konflikten in der konkreten räumlichen Umsetzung. Anhand von fünf übergeordneten Akzeptanzfaktoren werden mögliche Ansatzpunkte zur Konfliktlö...

Background: Older adults sometimes shy away from using modern digital communication devices due to lacking experience and fear of failure. Within the present project, SmartCards were developed as analogous means to operate tablet computers for older adults with little previous computer experience. We investigated whether the SmartCards-Tablet-Syst...

Larger wind turbines are developed to harvest greater amounts of wind energy. This development increases the dilemma between ensuring aviation safety through obstruction lights and reducing citizen annoyance and possible stress effects caused by obstruction lights. In this study, a unique Danish sample is contrasted with a combined German-Swiss sam...

To understand the impact of personal communication on environmental behavior, the present study compared the role of the mass media and personal communications in three countries: Japan, China and Germany. It is pointed out that information from the mass media is non-specific to individuals. Compared to the information from mass media, the target o...

Ziel dieses Projektes ist es, diese Erfahrungen und das Wissen von ExpertInnen zusammen zu bringen, um ein möglichst präzises Bild vom Leben mit erneuerbaren Energien zu zeich-nen und Empfehlungen abzuleiten, wie die vorhandene Akzeptanz eines naturverträglichen Ausbaus der erneuerbaren Energien unterstützt und weiter gefördert werden kann. Im Rah-...

Wind energy is a pillar of the energy transition to a low carbon economy. In Germany like in other industrialized countries, local opposition against wind turbines seems to increase. The present chapter provides empirical evidence for a numerical overestimation of local opponents in overseas and European countries. Mostly, citizen participation is...

Die Broschüre enthält Ergebnisse von Untersuchungen vor Ort und einer darauf aufbauenden interdisziplinären Analyse von akzeptanzfördernden Faktoren für den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien im Zusammenhang mit der Natur- und Umweltverträglichkeit. Zum ersten Mal wurden Natur- und Anwohnerschutz als Einflussfaktoren auf die lokale Akzeptanz miteinander...

Experts predict continuing deployment of wind turbines in the United States, which will create more interactions between turbines and surrounding communities. Policymakers can benefit from analyses of existing wind projects that enable them to better understand likely effects on residents around proposed projects. Our analysis of a randomly drawn,...

Background. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the “persuasion game” in changing environmental attitudes and behaviors in different cultural contexts. Personal communication has been identified as a key facilitator of environmental behaviors, but environmental communication in our daily lives is infrequent. Intervention. This study tes...

As wind turbines and the number of wind projects scale throughout the world, a growing number of individuals might be affected by these structures. For some people, wind turbine sounds and their effects on the landscape can be annoying and could even prompt stress reactions. This comparative study analyzed a combined sample of survey respondents fr...

With results from a nationwide survey sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, factors that affect outdoor audibility and noise annoyance of wind turbines were evaluated. Wind turbine and summer daytime median background sound levels were estimated for 1043 respondents. Wind turbine sound level was the most robust predictor of audibility yet onl...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Ältere Menschen mit Tumorerkrankungen sind heterogen in Bezug auf biologisches Alter, körperliche und kognitive Funktionalität sowie Anzahl und Schwere von Komorbiditäten. Daher wird empfohlen, vor der Planung einer onkologischen Therapie ein umfassendes geriatrisches Assessment durchzuführen, um individuelle Risikofakto...

Im vorliegenden Kapitel wird die anwendungsorientierte Teildisziplin der Umweltpsychologie vorgestellt. Dazu werden Gegenstandsbereich sowie grundlegende Methoden und Ansätze skizziert und ihr umfangreiches Themenspektrum anhand von drei Blickwinkeln systematisiert: (1) naturwissenschaftlich-technisch geprägte Ansätze, die analysieren, inwiefern Um...

To better understand causes and effects of wind turbine (WT) noise, this study combined the methodology of stress psychology with noise measurement to an integrated approach. In this longitudinal study, residents of a wind farm in Lower Saxony were interviewed on two occasions (2012, 2014) and given the opportunity to use audio equipment to record...

In 2016, we undertook a nationally representative wind power perceptions survey of individuals living within 8 km of over 600 projects in the United States, generating 1705 telephone, web, and mail responses. We sought information on a variety of topics, including procedural fairness and its relationship to project attitude, the foci of the present...

The RAVE research project Acceptance of Offshore Wind Energy Use surveyed residents, tourists and local experts in two regions with offshore wind farms at three points in time: prior to the erection of offshore wind farms (2009) and afterwards, during turbine operation (2011, 2012). To determine whether or not any changes in attitude to wind energy...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led a survey of 1,729 individuals located within 8 km of utility scale wind turbines in the United States. The survey included respondents around both large and small wind projects throughout the country. The survey focused on social acceptance, procedural and distributional justice, landscape and sound percept...

Background Lacrimal probing and syringing for connatal dacryostenosis can be performed under local (LA) and general anesthesia (GA). In cases of invasive medical procedures, pain and anxiety can be distressing for children and their parents. Materials and methods Using questionnaires (n = 65), parents were asked to evaluate their own stress and tha...

Im RAVE-Forschungsprojekt „Akzeptanz der Offshore-Windenergienutzung“ wurden Anwohner, Touristen und lokale Experten in zwei Regionen mit Offshore-Windparks zu drei Zeitpunkten befragt: vor der Errichtung von Offshore-Windparks (2009) und danach, während des Anlagenbetriebs (2011, 2012). Um festzustellen, ob eventuell veränderte Einstellungen zur W...

The full set of information on the study "Flexibility concepts for the German power supply in 2050. Ensuring stability in the age of renewable energies" can be found on http://www.acatech.de/de/aktuelles-presse/dossiers/dossier-stromversorgung-2050.html and the main document with the study in English is available on http://www.acatech.de/de/publika...

The aim of this interdisciplinary research project was to analyse the impact of wind turbine noise emission on residents and, if necessary, to develop recommendations for action. As a model the wind farm Wilstedt in Lower Saxon, Germany, was used. Physical emission and immission 'measurements were associated with residente surveys. In addition, the...

Explicit attitude measures seem to be rather poor predictors of organ donation behaviour. This study examined whether implicit attitude measures acted as better predictors. Special attention was paid to the moderating role played by attitude strength in predicting deliberate donation be-haviour. In this study (N = 78), explicit and implicit measure...

Positive attitudes toward organ donation often do not translate into behavior. The present study analyzes gender as a moderator of the attitude–behavior relationship. Due to helping behavior stereotypes, we expected women to show higher donation attitudes but a weaker attitude–behavior link than men. In Germany, 60 women and 61 men participated in...

A dominant resistance factor against wind power projects seems to be their visual impact on the landscape. In addition stress effects from aircraft obstruction markings are an emerging topic related to acceptance. As the height of wind turbines increases, so does the number of mandatory obstruction markings. Recently, obstruction markings have caus...

Mit einer jährlichen Wachstumsrate von 10,6 % stieg der Anteil an erneuerbaren Energien in Elektrizität und Wärmeerzeugung von 5,2 % im Jahre 2000 auf 13,3 % im Jahre 2010. EE (erneuerbare Energietechnologien) in privaten Haushalten gehören damit zu einer Industrie, die sich derzeit vom Nischen- zum Massenmarkt entwickelt. Um die Nutzung von EE und...

Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung ist der Einsatz neuer Technologien für das altersgerechte Lebens- und Wohnumfeld von hoher gesellschaftlicher Relevanz. Besonders in Sachsen-Anhalt sind deutliche Veränderungen in der Altersstruktur zu erwarten. Folglich werden sich Versorgungs- und Integrationsdefizite ergeben, die neue Konzepte...

In this paper, we contrast the value-belief-norm (VBN) model and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) for the first time regarding their ability to explain conservation behavior. The participants represent a convenience sample of 468 university students. Using survey data and adopting previously established compound measures, structural equation an...

Within a traditional planned-behavior framework, the conditions remain ambiguous under which moral norms add to the overall intention to act. In this paper, we aim to provide insights into the circumstances that foster the impact of moral norms. Based on a minimal effort strategy, we predict that moral information is considered more strongly and, t...

Zusammenfassung. Ausgehend von der Theorie uberlegten Handelns wird ein Erweitertes Modell der Organspende (EMO) abgleitet, in welchem ethische Uberzeugungen sowie Misstrauen in arztliches Handeln als zusatzliche Determinanten des Organspendeverhaltens angenommen werden. Zur Modellvalidierung wurde eine Fragebogenerhebung mit Studierenden (N = 512)...

A select group of managers in the private and public sector working in the new and old German federal states were administered the German version of the Pressure Management Indicator (PMI; Williams, Kirkcaldy, & Cooper, 1999). Twenty-four scale scores were assessed encompassing diverse aspects of occupational stress, individual differences (type A,...

Bei der Lösung von Natur- und Umweltproblemen kommt menschlichem Verhalten eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Dennoch sind psychologische Wirkmechanismen im Kontext naturverträglichen Verhahens zu wenig bekannt. In diesem Beitrag wird naturverträgliches Verhalten aus psychologischer Perspektive betrachtet. Berücksichtigt werden sowohl Determinaten individuell...