European Academy of Sociology - Fellows

Prof. Dr. Siegwart M. Lindenberg

Siegwart Lindenberg, Ph.D. (Harvard), is Professor of Cognitive Sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests lie in the development, test and application of theories of “social rationality” that deal with the influence of the social environment on social behavior via its influence on cognitive and motivational processes (goal-framing), especially on the satisfaction of need-related goals and on processes of self-regulation.