Professorship for Social and Organisational Psychology of Social Work

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

At the chair of “Social and Organizational Psychology of Social Work” we deal with the overarching question of how people’s memberships in social groups and their social identities (based on, for instance, ethnicity or socioeconomic status) affect their experiences and behaviors. We are interested in negative phenomena (e.g., prejudice, exclusion) and approaches to reduce them as well as in positive phenomena (e.g., helping behavior across group boundaries) and approaches to promote them in different settings of social work (e.g., in the context of counselling) and beyond (e.g., in the context of school).

Main research areas

Research

At the chair of “Social and Organizational Psychology of Social Work” we deal with the overarching question of how people’s memberships in social groups and their social identities (based on, for instance, ethnicity or socioeconomic status) affect their experiences and behaviors. We are interested in negative phenomena (e.g., prejudice, exclusion) and approaches to reduce them as well as in positive phenomena (e.g., helping behavior across group boundaries) and approaches to promote them in different settings of social work (e.g., in the context of counselling) and beyond (e.g., in the context of school).

We conduct both basic research in the laboratory and applied research. Our research can be grouped around the following topics:

  • Intergroup prosocial behavior: This research examines the determinants of giving and receiving or seeking help across group boundaries in professional settings (e.g. social services) and non-professional settings (e.g. everyday life, volunteering). The focus is, among other things, on the role of empathy (on the part of helpers) and trust (on the part of helpers and helpees).
     
  • Approaches to reducing negative intergroup processes: This research examines the effectiveness of different intervention approaches to reduce negative intergroup processes. The focus is on approaches to reduce prejudice (especially entertainment education approaches) and to overcome psychological barriers between members of privileged and disadvantaged social groups.
     
  • Social context and intergroup processes: This research examines the extent to which stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination are affected by the social context which individuals are embedded in. The focus here is, among other things, on the question of whether the ethnic composition of school classes has an impact on teachers’ discriminating behavior (see project "Kontext-basierte Diskriminierung im Schulkontext: Der Einfluss der ethnischen Zusammensetzung von Schulklassen auf die Verwendung von disziplinierenden Maßnahmen durch Lehrkräfte").
  1. 2023
  2. Digitale Vortagsreihe: Social Pedagogy in Diverse Societies

    Karber, A. (Organiser), Alberth, L. (Organiser), Sandermann, P. (Organiser), Equit, C. (Organiser) & Siem, B. (Organiser)

    14.11.202330.01.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  3. University of California, Riverside

    Essien, I. (Visiting researcher)

    01.10.202331.03.2024

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  4. 2022
  5. Context-based discrimination in school

    Essien, I. (Speaker)

    15.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Context-based discrimination in school discipline

    Essien, I. (Speaker)

    02.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Space-focused stereotypes of ethnically diverse places

    Essien, I. (Speaker)

    07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. MIND.set: Ein Forschungstool zur onlinebasierten Erfassung sozialer Kognition

    Essien, I. (Speaker)

    09.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Regional differences in social dominance orientation

    Essien, I. (Speaker)

    10.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 2021
  11. Psychology of Places - 2021

    Essien, I. (Organiser), Calanchini, J. (Organiser) & Rohmann, A. (Organiser)

    04.11.202105.11.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Activities

  1. art thinking doing art: Artistic Practices in Educational Contexts from 1900 to Today
  2. Leuphana University Lüneburg and the sustainability challenge: a review and a preview
  3. Not terminated: In a Plessnerian perspective ‘cyborgized’ men still remain ‘human’ beings
  4. Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at University of Amsterdam - UVA 2018
  5. 5th International Conference on Applied Physics, Simulation and Computing - APSAC 2021
  6. Writing Workshop der DGPs-Fachgruppe Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
  7. Chained to blockchain: Attachment’s swirling forces and dis/organizing consequentiality
  8. 2021 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications
  9. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Putting the Worker Front and Center
  10. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Putting the Worker Front and Center
  11. 80. Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. - VHB 2018
  12. Conference - 2022 the 5th World Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies
  13. Social conflicts and employee strain in ethnically diverse blue and pink collar teams.
  14. Course/Conference - European Winter Academy 2021 - Organizing Museums in Digital Cultures.
  15. The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis
  16. How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.
  17. Conference on Building effective markets – the role of an integrated legal system - 2013

Publications

  1. What do we know about cooperative sustainable electrification in the global South?
  2. Die Mutter-Verantwortlichkeit für Menschenrechtsverletzungen ihrer Auslandstöchter
  3. Widersprüchliches Verhalten als opt-out aus dem Europäischen Verbraucherschutzrecht?
  4. Long-term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest
  5. Die Maschine auf der Couch. Oder: Was ist schon 'künstlich' an Künstlicher Intelligenz?
  6. Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity
  7. Aspekte sozialer Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext der beruflichen Bildung Benachteiligter
  8. Natur zwischen Schutz, Nutzung und nachhaltiger Gestaltung – feministische Ansichten
  9. Sufficiency and Subsistence – On two important concepts for Sustainable Development
  10. Effective therapies or effective mechanisms in treatment guidelines for depression?
  11. Das kognitive Anforderungsniveau von Aufgaben analysieren und modifizieren können
  12. Rezension zu Säcker, Die Einordnung der Verbandsklage in das System des Privatrechts
  13. Gesetz über Unterlassungsklagen bei Verbraucherrechts- und anderen Verstößen (UKlaG)
  14. Gesetz über Unterlassungsklagen bei Verbraucherrechts- und anderen Verstößen (UKlaG)
  15. Mountain roads and non-native species modify elevational patterns of plant diversity
  16. Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Studying Entrepreneurship in Professional Services
  17. Biodiversitätsschutz durch Ausschreibungen und eine ergebnisorientierte Honorierung
  18. The untapped potential of Games for Health in times of crises. A critical reflection
  19. Eltern in der Schule der Migrationsgesellschaft. Eine rassismuskritische Perspektive
  20. Sammelrezension zum Thema „Fallbasiertes Lernen in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung
  21. Economie considerations regarding the mandatory insolvency petition under german law
  22. Mimicking and anticipating others’ actions is linked to social information processing
  23. A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network
  24. sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots
  25. How health message framing and targets affect distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic
  26. Sex differences in stretch-induced hypertrophy, maximal strength and flexibility gains
  27. Experteninterviews zur europäischen Reform der steuerlichen Gewinnermittlung (Teil II)
  28. Adapting livestock management to spatio-temporal heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands