Dr. Janin Rössel

• Language and Social Cognition
  • E.g., gender-inclusive language
  • E.g., effects of language (such as dialects or accents) on social perceptions
• Self-Compassion & Impostorism

Please schedule an appointment with me for further information: jaroesse{at}mail.uni-mannheim.de

• Formanowicz, M., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Roessel, J., Suitner, C., Witkowska, M., & Maass, A. (2021).  “Make it happen!” Verbs as markers of agency increase message effectiveness. Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000435
• Birney, M. E.*, Roessel, J.*, Hansen, K., & Rakić, T. (2020). Prologue: Language challenges in the 21st century. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(4), 428–437.https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20933315 [*shared first authorship]
• Roessel, J., Birney, M. E., Rakić, T., & Hansen, K. (Eds.). (2020). Language challenges in the 21st century [Special Issue]. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(4).
• Roessel, J., Schoel, C., & Stahlberg, D. (2020). Modern notions of accent-ism: Findings, conceptualizations, and implications for interventions and research on nonnative accents. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(1), 87–111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X19884619
• Roessel, J., Schoel, C., Zimmermann, R., & Stahlberg, D. (2019). Shedding new light on the evaluation of accented speakers: Basic mechanisms behind nonnative listeners' evaluations of nonnative accented job candidates. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38(1), 3–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X17747904
• Roessel, J., Schoel, C., & Stahlberg, D. (2018). What's in an accent? General spontaneous biases against nonnative accents – An investigation with conceptual and auditory IATs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(4), 535–550. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2339
• Formanowicz, M., Roessel, J., Suitner, C., & Maass, A. (2017). Verbs as linguistic markers of agency – The social side of grammar. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(5), 566–579. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2231
• Schoel, C., Roessel, J., Jacobsen, A., & Stahlberg, D. (2014). Communication of stereotypes in the classroom: Biased language use of German and Turkish adolescents. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44(4),266–277. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12213
• Waubert de Puiseau, B., & Roessel, J. (2013). Exploring sexual harassment and related attitudes in Beninese high schools: A field study. Psychology, Crime and Law, 19(8), 707–726. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2013.793336
• Roessel, J. (2013). Helfe wer kann – oder will?! [Helping behavior]. In Sozialpsychologie Mannheim (Ed.), Ich, du, wir und die anderen – Spannendes aus der Sozialpsychologie (pp. 104–122). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
• Schoel, C.*, Roessel, J.*, Eck, J., Janssen, J., Petrovic, B., Rothe, A., Rudert, S. C., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Attitudes Towards Languages (AToL) scale: A global instrument. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32(1),21–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X12457922 [*shared first authorship]
• Schoel, C., Eck, J., Roessel, J., & Stahlberg, D. (2012). Spracheinstellungen aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive I: Deutsch und Fremdsprachen [Language attitudes from a social psychological perspective: German and foreign languages]. In L. Eichinger, A. Plewnia, C. Schoel, & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Sprache und Einstellungen. Spracheinstellungen aus sprachwissenschaftlicher und sozialpsychologischer Perspektive (pp. 136–204). Tübingen: Narr.
• Project Team Language Attitudes (Eichinger, L. M., Gärtig, A.-K., Plewnia, A., Roessel, J., Rothe, A., Rudert, S., Schoel, C., Stahlberg, D., Stickel, G.) (2009). Aktuelle Spracheinstellungen in Deutschland – Erste Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Repräsentativumfrage [Current attitudes towards languages in Germany – First findings of a representative survey]. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache.

• Roessel, J., & Merkel, E. (2023, July). Rethinking gender and language – Recent developments and novel insights into gender inclusive language beyond the binary. Talk at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland.
• Roessel, J., & Metzger, L. (2023, July). Seeing and hearing gender – Effects of diverse inclusive gender forms on perceptions of organizations and podcasts. Talk at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland.
• Roessel, J. & Uhrig, D. (2021, February). Sound matters! The interplay of accents and pitch variability in humanness perceptions. Poster presented at the Social Cognition Preconference of the 22th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Virtual Conference. 
• Roessel, J., Klein, L., & Stahlberg, D. (2019, September). Bringing self-compassion to impostors – Correlational findings and an intervention study. Talk at the 17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section (FGSP), Cologne, Germany. 
• Roessel, J. & Uhrig, D. (2019, June). Less human? The role of accents and pitch variability for humanness perceptions. Talk at the EASP Meeting: Language Challenges in the 21st Century, Warsaw, Poland.
• Hansen, K., Roessel, J., Birney, M., Rakić, T., & Skrodzka, M. (2019, June). EASP Meeting: Language Challenges in the 21st Century, Warsaw, Poland. https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/-672.html
• Roessel, J., & Stahlberg, D. (2019, February). Not just a matter of self-esteem – Impostors lack self-compassion: An investigation among German and U.S. students. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland, OR, USA.