From 1979 to 2013, Ernst-Dieter Lantermann was a professor of Social and Individual Psychology at the University of Kassel. Visiting professorships led him also to Leipzig, Mannheim, Bern, Zurich and to the Potsdam Institute for the Research of the Climate Impact. Lantermann is the author and editor of numerous articles and professional publications, and for several years now he is researching, together with the sociologist Heinz Bude, about the background and consequences of social exclusion and the emotional culture of distrust in Germany.