Christoph Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8451-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is the German Constitutional Court Partisan?
The German Constitutional Court has powers that are comparable to those of the US Supreme Court. For both, justices are openly selected by political parties. Nonetheless, public and professional perceptions of them are strikingly different. Justices on the German court are not believed to be guided by the policy preferences of their nominating parties. This paper uses publicly available data to investigate whether this perception is well founded …
Behaviorally efficient remedies
Under common law, the standard remedy for breach of contract is expectation damages. Under continental law, the standard is specific performance. The common law solution is ex post efficient. But is it also ex ante efficient? We use experimental methods to test whether knowing that non-fulfilment will only give a right to damages deters mutually beneficial trade. The design excludes aversion against others willfully breaking their promises, and f…
Out of sight is out of mind? Experimentally testing a gradually materializing public bad
If harm to themselves is postponed, participants become less cautious. • If harm to others is postponed, participants become less cautious. • Participants only respond once their own payoff turns negative. • In a public bad, out of sight is out of mind. Many social ills can be modeled as a public bad. In such scenarios, private benefit is often immediate, while the public damage takes some time to materialize. In this experiment, we investigate t…
Öffentliches Recht als Verhaltensordnung
Behavioral law hat sich von punktuellen Hinterfragungen innerhalb der ökonomischen Analyse zum Fundament einer Annahmenlehre für die gesamte Rechtswissenschaft entwickelt. Damit Theorie und Praxis rechtlicher Steuerung an den Wissensbestand anknüpfen können, muss man empirisches Schrifttum für juristische Zwecke erschließen. Doch auch das Recht selbst ist aus dem Blickwinkel des Denkens und Handelns von Individuen neu zu befragen. Dabei gibt es w…
Kommentar ohne Autor
Große Sprachmodelle (Large Language Models, kurz LLMs) sind seit geraumer Zeit in aller Munde. Für eine Vielzahl juristischer Aufgaben sind sie bereits eingesetzt worden. Doch wie steht es um eine der zentralen Missionen juristischer Professoren? Können Sprachmodelle das Kommentieren übernehmen? Dieser Frage geht der Beitrag nach und stellt den ersten Prototyp eines LLM-generierten Kommentars vor: Den Kommentar ohne Autor zu Art. 8 GG. Dabei wird…
Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption
If it is disclosed to a citizen which public official handles her case, this creates accountability. If the official abuses her authority, the citizen can report this misconduct to higher authority, which can intervene. But transparency also makes it possible for a citizen to pressure an official to decide in her favor. We model this interaction as a sequential game, and define which behavioral effects are required for either effect to dominate. …
Associations between person-environment fit and mental health - results from the population-based Life-Adult-Study
Within occupational settings, mental health of employees can be affected by complex interactions between individuals and their work environment. The aim of this cross-sectional analysis was to investigate the association between person-environment fit and mental health in employees. Data of n = 568 participants from the LIFE adult cohort study was analysed, including socio-demographic characteristics, three dimensions of person-environment fit (P…
What makes cooperation precarious
Although most people are not outright selfish, cooperation frequently fails. Fischbacher and Gächter (2010) explain the well-established decline of contributions in repeated public good games with a genuine imperfection in conditional cooperation. Reanalyzing their data, we offer a more nuanced explanation. Conditional cooperators are nearly perfect, when others cooperate as well. Yet conditional cooperators strongly react to negative experiences…
Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city
Introduction Stigma is an individual and societal process based on attitudes and power and relates to both spatial disparities and social distinction. In this study, we examined differences in desire for social distance toward people with mental illness within a city using social and spatial information. Methods ANOVAs and Scheffé post-hoc tests analyzed varying desires for social distance toward people with mental illness within Leipzig (East Ge…
Anxiety and Food Addiction in Men and Women
Food addiction longitudinally affects anxiety, independent of gender and other sociodemographic variables. In addition, anxiety affects subsequent FA as well, but only in women. Interventions that address FA could reduce anxiety in men and women, while interventions that mitigate anxiety could help prevent FA in women
Different Areas of Chronic Stress and Their Associations with Depression
By focusing on the connections between chronic stress and depression, researchers can help identify the areas that matter most and contribute to the creation of meaningful and efficient interventions. On the basis of our results, measures for the prevention of depression that focus on the reduction of worrying and social isolation are recommended
What Builds Resilience? Sociodemographic and Social Correlates in the Population-Based Life-Adult-Study
Resilience is closely related to mental health and well-being. Identifying risk groups with lower resilience and the variables associated with resilience informs preventive approaches. Previous research on resilience patterns in the general population is heterogeneous, and comprehensive large-scale studies are needed. The aim of our study is to examine sociodemographic and social correlates of resilience in a large population-based sample. We exa…
The Association of Resilience with Mental Health in a Large Population-Based Sample (Life-Adult-Study)
Resilience describes a good adaptation to adversity. Strengthening resilience is a promising approach in the prevention of mental health problems. Yet, research on the association of resilience with mental health symptoms in the general population is scarce. The aim of our study is to examine comprehensively the association of resilience with depressive symptoms, anxiety, and perceived stress in a large population-based sample. We analyzed data o…
Deliberate Ignorance
Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of intellectual thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought, yet individuals and groups often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. When is this a virtue, when is it a vice, and …
People are conditional rule followers
Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more others in their reference group do so as well. The effect is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules when not knowing others’ behavior. Unlike what is observed for conditional cooperation, learning that only few others follow a rule does not reduce rule following
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law
The world has more than 200 states. Many states are federations and hence consist of multiple jurisdictions. Seemingly there is thus ample room for a social science approach to comparative law. In this perspective, each legal order produces a data point. Variance in the solutions adopted by different legal orders is used as evidence that a certain legal design causes greater justice, better political stability, higher welfare, or more equity. The…
Depressive Symptomatology in Early Retirees Associated With Reason for Retirement—Results From the Population-Based Life-Adult-Study
Depressive symptomatology among early retirees depends on reason for retirement: For women, ill-health retirement is linked to higher levels of depressive symptoms. Women who retire early due to ill-health constitute a risk group for depressive symptoms that needs specific attention in the health care and social security system
Loss and grief in elderly people
We evaluated 2,865 elderly people to investigate the prevalence of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), examine predictors and mental health correlates. The conditional prevalence of PGD varied between 0.8% and 5.2% (diagnostic algorithm vs. cut-off). PG-13 scores were related to depressive symptoms, sleep disturbances, reduced life satisfaction, and quality of life. Predictors were female gender, less time since death, more losses, having lost a chil…
The Fragility of a Nudge
Tax morale and fairness in conflict an experiment
Associations Between Anxiety, Body Mass Index, and Sex Hormones in Women
Background. Several studies have shown a positive association between anxiety and obesity, particularly in women. We aimed to study whether sex hormone alterations related to obesity might play a role in this association. Patients and methods. Data for this study were obtained from a population-based cohort study (the LIFE-Adult-Study). A total of 3124 adult women (970 premenopausal and 2154 postmenopausal), were included into analyses. The anxie…
Memory-related subjective cognitive symptoms in the adult population
Memory-related SCS are very common and unspecific in the non-demented adult population aged 40-79 years. Nonetheless, a substantial proportion of this population has concerns related to experienced memory problems and/or seeks help. Already available information on additional features associated with a higher likelihood of developing dementia in people with SCS may help clinicians to decide who should be monitored more closely
Modeling a satisficing judge
Decision-makers often mean to react to the behavior of others, knowing that they only imperfectly observe them. Rational choice theory posits that they should weigh false positive versus false negative choices, and assess possible outcomes and their probabilities, if necessary, attaching subjective values to them. We argue that this recommendation is not only utterly unrealistic but highly error prone. We contrast it with an approach inspired by …
Effects of psychological eating behaviour domains on the association between socio-economic status and BMI
Objective The current study investigates potential pathways from socio-economic status (SES) to BMI in the adult population, considering psychological domains of eating behaviour (restrained eating, uncontrolled eating, emotional eating) as potential mediators stratified for sex. Design Data were derived from the population-based cross-sectional LIFE-Adult-Study. Parallel-mediation models were conducted to obtain the total, direct and indirect ef…
Homo Ignorans
Western history of thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought. Yet people often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. Using examples from a wide range of domains, we demonstrate that deliberate ignorance has important functions. We systematize types of deliberate ignorance, describe their functions, discuss their normative desirability, and conside…
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Tax morale and fairness in conflict an experiment
The Fragility of a Nudge
Age- and gender-specific norms for the German version of the Three-Factor Eating-Questionnaire (TFEQ)
People are conditional rule followers
Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more others in their reference group do so as well. The effect is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules when not knowing others’ behavior. Unlike what is observed for conditional cooperation, learning that only few others follow a rule does not reduce rule following
What makes cooperation precarious
Although most people are not outright selfish, cooperation frequently fails. Fischbacher and Gächter (2010) explain the well-established decline of contributions in repeated public good games with a genuine imperfection in conditional cooperation. Reanalyzing their data, we offer a more nuanced explanation. Conditional cooperators are nearly perfect, when others cooperate as well. Yet conditional cooperators strongly react to negative experiences…
Europäisches Verwaltungsrecht
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Planungssicherheit für Unternehmen durch Verwaltungsakt
Planungssicherheit für Unternehmen durch Verwaltungsakt
Besprechung 8. Hauptgutachten der Monopolkommission. Baden-Baden
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Das Embargo gegen Irak und Kuwait. Entschädigungsansprüche gegen die Europäische Gemeinschaft und gegen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Ein Rechtsgutachten
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 329 - 332
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Das Proprium der Rechtswissenschaft
Was macht Recht zur Wissenschaft? Dieser Frage gehen die Autoren der hier gesammelten Aufsätze nach. Die Juristerei ist eine selbstbewusste Disziplin. Die offensichtliche praktische Bedeutung des Fachs bietet ihr Schutz vor Selbstzweifeln. Der Hunger der Praxis nach Heerscharen gut ausgebildeter Juristen tut ein Übriges. Doch im universitären Wettbewerb der Fächer sind beides eher schwache Argumente. Noch beunruhigender ist, dass viele dogmatisch…
Dictator games
Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarises the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, in multiple regression the meta study is able to assess the effect of single manipulations, controlling for a host of alternative explanatory factors. The resulting rich dataset also provides a testbed for comparing alternati…
Behavioral Law and Economics
This chapter deals with empirical methods as applied in behavioral law and economics. It first reflects on the traditional use of a behavioral perspective in legal psychology and criminal law, as well as how behavioral law and economics differs from traditional law and economics. It also emphasizes the importance of scientific empirical evidence to law and economics. The chapter then discusses empirical methods for behavioral legal analysis by us…
The Life-Adult-Study
The participation rate was 33 %. The assessment programme was accepted well and completely passed by almost all participants. Biomarker analyses have already been performed in all participants. Genotype, transcriptome and metabolome analyses have been conducted in subgroups. The first follow-up examination will commence in 2016
Age- and gender-specific norms for the German version of the Three-Factor Eating-Questionnaire (TFEQ)
Homo Ignorans
Western history of thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought. Yet people often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. Using examples from a wide range of domains, we demonstrate that deliberate ignorance has important functions. We systematize types of deliberate ignorance, describe their functions, discuss their normative desirability, and conside…
Effects of psychological eating behaviour domains on the association between socio-economic status and BMI
Objective The current study investigates potential pathways from socio-economic status (SES) to BMI in the adult population, considering psychological domains of eating behaviour (restrained eating, uncontrolled eating, emotional eating) as potential mediators stratified for sex. Design Data were derived from the population-based cross-sectional LIFE-Adult-Study. Parallel-mediation models were conducted to obtain the total, direct and indirect ef…
Memory-related subjective cognitive symptoms in the adult population
Memory-related SCS are very common and unspecific in the non-demented adult population aged 40-79 years. Nonetheless, a substantial proportion of this population has concerns related to experienced memory problems and/or seeks help. Already available information on additional features associated with a higher likelihood of developing dementia in people with SCS may help clinicians to decide who should be monitored more closely
Modeling a satisficing judge
Decision-makers often mean to react to the behavior of others, knowing that they only imperfectly observe them. Rational choice theory posits that they should weigh false positive versus false negative choices, and assess possible outcomes and their probabilities, if necessary, attaching subjective values to them. We argue that this recommendation is not only utterly unrealistic but highly error prone. We contrast it with an approach inspired by …
Associations Between Anxiety, Body Mass Index, and Sex Hormones in Women
Background. Several studies have shown a positive association between anxiety and obesity, particularly in women. We aimed to study whether sex hormone alterations related to obesity might play a role in this association. Patients and methods. Data for this study were obtained from a population-based cohort study (the LIFE-Adult-Study). A total of 3124 adult women (970 premenopausal and 2154 postmenopausal), were included into analyses. The anxie…
Depressive Symptomatology in Early Retirees Associated With Reason for Retirement—Results From the Population-Based Life-Adult-Study
Depressive symptomatology among early retirees depends on reason for retirement: For women, ill-health retirement is linked to higher levels of depressive symptoms. Women who retire early due to ill-health constitute a risk group for depressive symptoms that needs specific attention in the health care and social security system
Loss and grief in elderly people
We evaluated 2,865 elderly people to investigate the prevalence of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), examine predictors and mental health correlates. The conditional prevalence of PGD varied between 0.8% and 5.2% (diagnostic algorithm vs. cut-off). PG-13 scores were related to depressive symptoms, sleep disturbances, reduced life satisfaction, and quality of life. Predictors were female gender, less time since death, more losses, having lost a chil…
The Fragility of a Nudge
Tax morale and fairness in conflict an experiment
Deliberate Ignorance
Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of intellectual thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought, yet individuals and groups often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. When is this a virtue, when is it a vice, and …
People are conditional rule followers
Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more others in their reference group do so as well. The effect is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules when not knowing others’ behavior. Unlike what is observed for conditional cooperation, learning that only few others follow a rule does not reduce rule following
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law
The world has more than 200 states. Many states are federations and hence consist of multiple jurisdictions. Seemingly there is thus ample room for a social science approach to comparative law. In this perspective, each legal order produces a data point. Variance in the solutions adopted by different legal orders is used as evidence that a certain legal design causes greater justice, better political stability, higher welfare, or more equity. The…
Anxiety and Food Addiction in Men and Women
Food addiction longitudinally affects anxiety, independent of gender and other sociodemographic variables. In addition, anxiety affects subsequent FA as well, but only in women. Interventions that address FA could reduce anxiety in men and women, while interventions that mitigate anxiety could help prevent FA in women
Different Areas of Chronic Stress and Their Associations with Depression
By focusing on the connections between chronic stress and depression, researchers can help identify the areas that matter most and contribute to the creation of meaningful and efficient interventions. On the basis of our results, measures for the prevention of depression that focus on the reduction of worrying and social isolation are recommended
What Builds Resilience? Sociodemographic and Social Correlates in the Population-Based Life-Adult-Study
Resilience is closely related to mental health and well-being. Identifying risk groups with lower resilience and the variables associated with resilience informs preventive approaches. Previous research on resilience patterns in the general population is heterogeneous, and comprehensive large-scale studies are needed. The aim of our study is to examine sociodemographic and social correlates of resilience in a large population-based sample. We exa…
Psychology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 works)