DE / EN
Dr. Philipp Kadel, M.Sc.

Dr. Philipp Kadel, M.Sc.

Associate Researcher
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 17
68161 Mannheim
  • Education and academic career 

    02/2019 – present

    University of Mannheim

    Academic staff member and doctoral candidate

    at the Chair of Health Psychology, Prof. Jutta Mata


    09/2016 – 05/2019
    University of Mannheim

    Master's program in Psychology: Work, Economy and Society (M.Sc.)

    Awards

    2021 | Award for the best Master’s thesis by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi)

    2020 | Otto-Selz-Preis for the best Master’s thesis in Psychology (funded by Rationale Altruisten Mannheim e. V.)

    2020 | Award for an outstanding Master’s thesis in the field of social medicine and prevention by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP)


    09/2012 – 07/2016
    University of Mannheim

    Bachelor’s program in Psychology (B.Sc.)

  • Research interests

    Interrelations of human and environmental health

    Pro-environmental health behaviors

    Meat reduction

    Social media and health behaviors

  • Publications and conference contributions

    Publications

    Kadel, P., Herwig, I. E., & Mata, J. (2023). Deliberate ignorance - a barrier for information interventions targeting reduced meat consumption?. Psychology & Health, 1, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2023.2182895

    Mata, J., Kadel, P., Frank, R., & Schüz, B. (2023). Education- and income-related differences in processed meat consumption across Europe: The role of food-related attitudes. Appetite, 182, Article 106417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106417

    Kollmann, J., & Kadel, P. (2023). One Health: A holistic perspective on the health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and our shared environment. European Health Psychologist, 23(1).

    Herwig, I. E., Kadel, P., & Mata, J. (2022). Eine Umfrage zur Unterstützung eines stärker pflanzenbasierten Angebotes in einer Universitäts-Mensa – Ein Praxisbericht. Umweltpsychologie, 2, 63–81. 

    Inauen, J., Contzen, N., Frick, V., Kadel, P., Keller, J., Kollmann, J., Mata, J., & van Valkengoed, A. M. (2021). Environmental issues are health issues: Making a case and setting an agenda for Environmental Health Psychology. European psychologist26(3), 219–229. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000438

    Kadel, P., Schneider, S., & Mata, J. (2020). Soft drink consumption and mental health problems: Longitudinal relations in children and adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 258, Article 113123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113123 (awarded with the CDSS Publication of the Year Award 2020 )

    Kadel, P. (2020). The Global Youth is Making its Voices Heard – Reflections on the UN75 Youth Townhall Meeting. European Health Psychologist, 21(4), 674–675.

    Schneider, S., Mata, J., & Kadel, P. (2020). Relations between sweetened beverage consumption and individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors: a 6-year longitudinal study in German children and adolescents. International Journal of Public Health,65(5), 559–570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01397-0 

    Schneider, S., Bolbos, A., Kadel, P., & Holzwarth, B. (2020). Exposed children, protected parents; Shade in playgrounds as a previously unstudied intervention field of cancer prevention. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 30(1), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2019.1572105

    Conference contributions

    Kadel, P., Herwig, I. E., & Mata, J. (2022, September). Deliberate Ignorance—A Barrier for Information Interventions Targeting Reduced Meat Consumption? Presentation given at the 36th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Bratislava, Slovakia.

    Kadel, P., Herwig, I. E., & Mata, J. (2022, August). Deliberate Ignorance—A Barrier for Information Interventions and a Challenge for Effective Science Communication? Presentation given at the 52nd Conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs). Hildesheim, Germany.

    Kadel, P. (2021, September). Deliberate Ignorance in the Context of Meat
    Consumption. 
    Roundtable Contribution given at the 35th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS). Digital Conference.

    Kadel, P., Herwig, I. E., & Mata, J. (2021, September). Deliberate Ignorance – Eine Barriere für Informationsinterventionen zur Reduktion des Fleischkonsums? Presentation given at the 15th Congress of the Division of Health Psychology of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs). Digital Conference.

    Kadel, P., Schneider, S., Mata, M. (2019, September). Coping with cola? Mental health problems predict soft drink consumption among German children and adolescents. Presentation given at the 33rd Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS). Dubrovnik, Croatia.

    Kadel, P., Schneider, S., Mata, M. (2019, September). Coping with cola? Psychische Auffälligkeiten sagen den Erfrischungsgetränkekonsum von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland vorher. Presentation given at the 14th Congress of the Division of Health Psychology of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs). Greifswald, Germany.

    Kadel, P., Schneider, S., Mata, M. (2019, July). The association of mental health problems and the consumption of soft drinks in children and adolescents. Presentation given at the 8th Workshop for Doctoral Students in Experimental Psychology (A-Dok). Mannheim, Germany.

    Schneider, S., Bolbos, A., Kadel, P., & Holzwarth, B. (2019, March). Exposed children – protected parents: Shading of playgrounds as an intervention field of skin cancer and dermatological prevention. Talk given at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung e.V. (ADF). Munich, Germany.

    Kadel, P., Arenth, N., Erdmann, L., Fröhlich, S., Grünewald, J., Wolf, S., Salwender, M., Schüsslbauer, A., Tröndle, E., & Stahlberg, D. (2018, September). Lach dich mutig: Humortraining als Intervention bei Präsentationsangst. Poster presented at the 51st Conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs). Frankfurt, Germany. 

  • Courses

    HWS 2022 | Kognitive Grundlagen der Klinischen Psychologie: Adipositas; M.Sc. Psychologie, Universität Mannheim

    FSS 2022 | Research Project Seminar: Theory and Application of Health Psychology Research, M.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2022 | Special Issues in Educational Psychology: Evaluation and Assessment; B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2021 | Research Project Seminar: Theory and Application of Health Psychology Research, M.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2021 | Special Issues in Biological Psychology: Health Behaviors and Underlying Biological Mechanisms, B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    HWS 2020 | Special Issues in Clinical Psychology: Disorders of Eating Behavior, B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2020 | Research Project Seminar: Theory and Application of Health Psychology Research, M.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2020 | Special Issues in Biological Psychology: Health Behaviors and Underlying Biological Mechanisms, B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    HWS 2019| Special Issues in Clinical Psychology: Disorders of Eating Behavior, B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim

    FSS 2019 | Special Issues in Biological Psychology: Health Behaviors and Underlying Biological Mechanisms, B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim (awarded with the Lehrpreis for the best seminar by the departmental student committee for Psychology at the University of Mannheim)