Projects per year
Personal profile
Curriculum
Lea Boecker is a Junior Professor of Psychology, with a focus on 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 examines how social comparisons, social emotions such as envy and schadenfreude, and group membership shape motivation, behavior, and social interactions. A particular focus is on these processes in sport and health contexts—for example, emotional responses to success and failure, motivation and goal pursuit, group processes in sport, as well as health.
Additional research interests include status and social hierarchies (dominance and prestige), social norms, prosocial behavior, and emotional facial expressions. Methodologically, she combines self-report and experimental approaches with psychophysiological measures such as electromyography (EMG), experience sampling, and automated facial expression analysis
Keywords
- Business psychology
- Psychology
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
-
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where Lea Boecker is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Research collaborations from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
Projects
- 1 Active
-
More: Motiviert und resilient in der Arbeitswelt durch Berufsbildung (Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe)
Boecker, L. (Project manager, academic), Hantke, H. (Project manager, academic), Helfberend, F. (Project staff), Hufnagl, J. (Project manager, academic), Janzen-Lympius, A. (Project staff), Kößler, F. (Project manager, academic) & Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany
01.06.26 → 31.05.29
Project: Research
-
A kick to desire: National teams’ performance during the UEFA EURO 2024 affected the frequency with which Europeans experienced sexual events
Weber, M., Friese, M., Escher, Y. A., Petrowsky, H., Boecker, L., Diel, K., Muniak, P., Oomen, D., Neumann, M., Strauch, A., Genschow, O. & Loschelder, D. D., 04.06.2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Psychological and Personality Science. 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
-
Effects of psychological distance on mental abstraction: A registered report of four tests of construal level theory
Authorcollaboration of "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction", Calderon, S., Giolla, E. M., Ask, K., Adler, S. J., Agerström, J., Akpınar, B., Boecker, L., Escher, Y. A., Genschow, O., Loschelder, D. D., Petrowsky, H. M., Siem, B. & Soliman, M., 01.04.2026, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 9, 2, 29 p., 25152459251401177.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
Emotional Dynamics of Social Comparisons: Nonlinear Relationships Between Comparison Extremity and Social Emotions, and Their Motivational Functioning
Diel, K., Boecker, L., Lange, J., Hofmann, W. & Crusius, J., 07.2026, In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 52, 7, p. 2116-2132 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
How the timing of texting triggers romantic interest after the first date: A curvilinear U-shaped effect and its underlying mechanisms
Teichmann, L., Petrowsky, H. M., Boecker, L., Soliman, M. & Loschelder, D. D., 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
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Longitudinal event-sampling dataset of football fans across five countries during the 2024 European championship
Petrowsky, H. M., Escher, Y. A., Boecker, L., Diel, K., Muniak, P., Neumann, M., Oomen, D., Schwarz, L., Strauch, A., Weber, M., Friese, M., Genschow, O. & Loschelder, D. D., 12.2026, In: Scientific data. 13, 1, 15 p., 935.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
- 1 Conference Presentations
-
A threefold meta-analysis of economic first-offer effects in negotiations
Petrowsky, H. (Speaker), Escher, Y. (Speaker), Boecker, L. (Coauthor), Frech, M.-L. (Coauthor), Friese, M. (Coauthor), Gunia, B. (Coauthor), Lee, A. J. (Coauthor), Schaerer, M. (Coauthor), Schweinsberg, M. (Coauthor), Soliman, M. (Coauthor), Swaab, R. I. (Coauthor), Troll, E. S. (Coauthor), Weber, M. (Coauthor) & Loschelder, D. (Coauthor)
11.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Press/Media
-
-
Donald Trump hat Corona - eine Psychologin erklärt die Schadenfreude darüber
03.10.20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
-
-
-