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Consumption study Unilever rheingold

Between "living well" and "surviving" - how crises show up in the shopping cart

Crises shape everyday life - and the shopping cart. A recent in-depth psychological study conducted by the rheingold Institute in Cologne on behalf of Unilever shows how consumer behavior changes in uncertain times - shopping in the area of conflict between "survival" and "a better life".

rheingold Institute nominated for the German Market Research Innovation Award 2025

The rheingold Institute has been nominated as a finalist for the German Market Research Innovation Award 2025 with the rheingold Avatar Suite. The award recognizes outstanding, forward-looking research tools that open up new avenues in market research.

"I make the world the way I like it" - rheingold study on opinion formation in the digital age

A joint study by the rheingold Institute and the University of Mainz got to the bottom of how users deal with the new media diversity. The research has now been awarded first place for the best journal article in communication science 2024.
rheingold election study 2025

rheingold Election Study 2025 - "What really moves Germany"

No rescue in sight - helplessness and an explosive mood dominate the election campaign. The mood of many voters ahead of the upcoming federal election is characterized by strong feelings of loss, worry and disappointment with politics.
Commitment and volunteering

Between self-reference and a sense of community: ASB study reveals motives for engagement

In order to promote volunteering, it is important to know the psychological levers. Six central motives for volunteering show how the aspirations of potential volunteers can be specifically addressed.
GenZ 2024 VCI Study

Study on "GenZ 2024" - young people under the cloak of invisibility

Young people repeatedly complain that their world is breaking down into irreconcilable bubbles. The VCI study shows that they are very afraid of making themselves vulnerable in front of everyone on social networks.
Kitchentown and rheingold cooperate on food product development

Cooperation with KitchenTown - development of innovative food products

The innovation service provider KitchenTown and the rheingold Institute are cooperating. Food manufacturers benefit from the strategic partnership through psychological analysis expertise combined with development and implementation power.

The rheingold Congress as pure poetry

Dominic Macri is a performance artist, slam poet, actress and psychologist. The German-speaking team champion in poetry slam used her poetic recording to touchingly summarize the rheingold congress on stage.

Strategy development with sweet spot - depth psychology meets agile implementation 

With its "Fluid Strategy", the joint venture between the rheingold Institute, the digital agency Gerhard and Alexander Kiock offers flexible, data-driven strategies that are based on unconscious behavioral patterns and can be implemented as quickly as possible.
Burial in the forest for nature lovers

Balance between grief and financial effort 

How should the farewell to loved ones be organized? How much money should be spent on this? How are decisions made about how and where a burial should take place? Answers to these questions can be found in the "Last Path" study, which FriedWald conducted with the rheingold Institute in summer 2024.
rheingold Congress 2024

That was the rheingold Congress 2024

The rheingold Congress 2024 in Cologne was all about the "New Logic of Life". Here are photos and videos from our event.

rheingold Congress: Insights into the balancing act of consumers

The rheingold Congress 2024 is characterized by major social upheavals and the influences of AI. planung&analyse spoke to Judith Barbolini, member of the management board of the rheingold Institute, about the consumer of the future.

Fear of social decline promotes right-wing populist attitudes

The fifth edition of the study series "How we really live" 2024 has now been published on behalf of Philip Morris Germany. The results show that individual fear of social decline in particular plays a central role in the emergence of populist attitudes.

Theo Koll interviews Stephan Grünewald on the state of society

Grünewald also explains the loss of trust in politics with the "bickering" within the government. From a psychological point of view, bickering is different from arguing. Disagreement is always about a change of perspective. Disagreement opens up perspectives and seeks a productive solution in the form of a compromise

Nestlé Study 2024 - Eating between sacrifice and indulgence

The relationship with food has become much more tense, people's expectations of themselves have risen and, at the same time, satisfaction has fallen. These are the findings of the Nestlé study "So is(s)t Deutschland 2024".

Mental intelligence versus artificial intelligence

Mental intelligence is not essentially related to AI, says Stephan Grünewald in an article for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. It lacks the transience, the infatuation, the inner contradictions of the soul.
Organic carrots

Why the biopipe was no longer allowed to be evangelical

Consumers are ambivalent, wanting to drive SUVs and save the planet at the same time. Brand managers also have to deal with this ambivalence. Stephan Grünewald puts forward these and other theses in the Brand eins podcast "Sustainable Brand Stories.

On the rheingold couch - how a depth psychological interview works

Sebastian Scheffel from RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland turned the pages at the rheingold Institute and let himself be interviewed about his confidence. Here is his report: