Credit: Thomas Raffler
Dr. Anna Bruk
Academic staff member
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology
A 5, 6
Building A – Room A 438
68159 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology
A 5, 6
Building A – Room A 438
68159 Mannheim
Academic background
Since 08/ 2023 Post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology 2019 Doctorate in psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim Since 10/ 2013 Research and teaching assistant, Chair of Microsociology and Social Psychology, University of Mannheim 08/ 2012 – 07/ 2013 Student assistant, Chair of Social Psychology, University of Mannheim 08/ 2011 – 01/ 2013 Student assistant, Chair of Business-to-Business Marketing, Sales & Pricing, University of Mannheim 09/ 2010 – 07/ 2013 M.Sc. in Management, University of Mannheim 10/ 2006 – 08/ 2010 B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Research interests and topics for theses
- Evaluations of showing vulnerability
- Self–other differences in perception and decision making
- Construal level
- Self-compassion
- Effects of meditation
- Intertemporal choice
Publications and conference contributions
Publications:
- Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self-other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(2), 192–205.
- Gebauer, J. E., Nehrlich, A. D., Stahlberg, D., Sedikides, C., Hackenschmidt, A., Schick, D., Stegmaier, C. A., Windfelder, C. C., Bruk, A., & Mander, J. (2018). Mind-body practices and the self: Yoga and meditation do not create no-self, but boost self-enhancement. Psychological Science, 29(8), 1207–1220.
Conference contributions:
- Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2021, May). Vulnerable and fine with it: Self-compassion but not self-esteem or neuroticism attenuates self–other differences in the evaluation of showing vulnerability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, virtual convention.
- Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2021, February). Hold your own hand when feeling vulnerable: Evaluations of showing vulnerability as a function of self-compassion. Poster presented at Self and Identity, preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, virtual convention.
- Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2020, December). May we be kind to ourselves: The role of self-compassion in judgments of showing vulnerability. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making annual meeting, virtual convention.
- Scholl, S. G., Bruk, A., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2020, December). Advisors discount the future less than actors do. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making annual meeting, virtual convention.
- Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018, September). What construal level’s got to do with it: Why and how of self-other differences in showing vulnerability. Poster presented at the 51st Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Bruk, A. & Scholl, S. G. (2016, March). The perks of being friends with oneself: Self-compassion reduces self-other differences when evaluating showing vulnerability. Talk at the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Bruk, A. & Scholl, S. G. (2016, January). When I am weak, then I am strong: Self-other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California, USA.
- Bruk, A. & Scholl, S. G. (2015, September). There are two sides to every story: Self-other differences in showing vulnerability. Talk at the 15th conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society (FGSP), Potsdam, Germany.
- Bruk, A. & Scholl, S. G. (2015, August). What makes me feel weak makes you look strong: Self-other differences when evaluating showing vulnerability. Talk at the ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference in Bensheim, Germany.