Johannes Lang
Primary research areas
Johannes Lang studies the psychology of political violence and the relationship between psychological science and war.
Current research
War has returned to Europe, but how we understand the psychology of war has changed over the last twenty years. Lang’s current research examines the role of psychology in the wars of the twenty-first century, and how those wars in turn affected psychological science itself.
Projects
Lang leads a project titled “Wars, pandemics, and the human mind” (2022-2024), funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. The project explores how psychological theories of trauma and resilience have evolved over the last twenty years, and how this has affected the way western societies understand and try to manage the psychological impact of war and catastrophe.
The project builds on Lang’s previous project, “The New Psychology of War” (2017-2022), which explored the collaboration between psychological science and the United States military after the attacks on September 11, 2001, and during the wars that followed. Drawing on interviews with some of the key researchers and policymakers involved, Lang and his colleagues analyze how the new science of resilience that emerged after 9/11 has challenged basic psychological assumptions about war and trauma—assumptions that have dominated since the Vietnam War. This project was funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Research and activites
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Book Chapter2023Johannes Lang & Robin May Schott
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Book Chapter2022The science of resilience and the militarization of positive psychologyJohannes Lang
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Book Chapter2021Thomas Brudholm & Johannes Lang
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseBogkapitel2020The Positive Psychology of WarJohannes Lang
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Journal Article2020Johannes Lang
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Book2019Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang
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Book Chapter2018Pride and the Psychology of GenocideJohannes Lang
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Book2018Philosophical and Theoretical ExplorationsThomas Brudholm & Johannes Lang
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Book Chapter2018Emotions and Mass AtrocityJohannes Lang & Thomas Brudholm
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Literature Review2017Johannes Lang
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Book Chapter2017Hannah Arendt and the Social-scientific Concept of DehumanizationJohannes Lang
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Journal Article2014Hannah Arendt's overlooked challenge to social-psychological explanations of mass atrocityJohannes Lang
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Journal Article2010intersubjective dimensions of violence in the Nazi concentration and death campsJohannes Lang
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DIIS Policy Brief2020Military responses to COVID-19Adam Moe Fejerskov & Johannes Lang
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DIIS Policy Brief2018Four reasons whyJohannes Lang, Robin May Schott & Rens van Munster
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DIIS Policy Brief2018States disagree on definition of lethal autonomous weaponsJohannes Lang, Rens van Munster & Robin May Schott
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DIIS Policy Brief2017The UN discusses lethal autonomous weaponsJohannes Lang & Robin May Schott