Professorship for Social and Organisational Psychology of Social Work

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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).

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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").

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Activities

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

Publications

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