Biography
Peter Schmidt is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science and the Centre of International Development and Environment (ZEU) at the University of Giessen. His research interests are the foundations and applications of structural equation models, methods for cross-cultural analysis, analysis of panel data, and empirically testing wide versions of rational choice theory like the reasoned action approach and value research. Substantive work is dealing mainly with Attitudes toward migration and refugees, authoritarianism and prejudice and environmental behaviour.
Recent publications
• Pokropek, A., Zoltak T., Davidov, E. Meuleman, B., Schmidt, P. (2025) Challenges in Multilevel Modeling : Cross-Group Measurement Invariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Sociological Methods and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241251379459.
• Meuleman, B.; Abts, K., Schmidt, P., Pettigrew, T., & Davidov, E. (2020). Economic Conditions, group relative deprivation and ethnic threat perceptions: a cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(3), 593 – 611.
• Bamberg, S.,Schmidt,P., Diehl, Y.,Hamilton, K., Aizen, I.(2025) The theory of reasoned goal pursuit: An empirical test in the domain of avoiding single-use plastic packaging, Journal of environmental psychology. https:// doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102698.
