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Professorin für Sozialpsychologie (im Ruhestand)

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Stahlberg

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Stahlberg
  • Akademischer und beruflicher Werdegang

    seit 2022 | Ruhestand
    2006–2007| Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Mannheim)
    2000–2004 |Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Mannheim)
    1998-2000| Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Mannheim)
    1996-2022 | Professor for Social Psychology at the University of Mannheim
    1995-1996| Professor for Social Psychology at the University of Giessen
    1994| Habilitation: University of Kiel
    1989-1995 |“Wissenschaft­liche Assistentin” at the Institute of Psychology, University of Kiel
    1988-1989| Lecturer at the New School for Social Research, New York (USA)
    1988 | Doctorate: Dr. rer. nat., University of Kiel
    1981-1988 | Research assistant at the Institute of Psychology, University of Kiel
    1981|Diploma: Psychology, University of Kiel

  • Forschung

    Geschlechtsstereotypen und Führung

    • Effekte einer maskulinen und femininen Erscheinung
    • Failure-as-an Asset Effekte
    • Backlash-Effekte bei kompetenten Frauen und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen (z.B. die Rolle von Humor)

     


    Sprache und Personenwahrnehmung

    • Effekte von Akzenten und Dialekten auf die Wahrnehmung von Kompetenz und Wärme

     


    Selbstkontrolle und Risikowahrnehmung (Effekte von Ego-Depletion)

     


    Effekte von positiven Illusionen vs. Effekte von Self-Compassion

    • Gesundheit (z.B. Schlafqualität)
    • Hilfe­verhalten und soziales Engagement
    • Erleben von aktuellen und ehemaligen Partnerschaften
  • Publikationen

    • Salwender, M., Schoel, C., Bless, H., & Stahlberg, D. (2022). The Politics Hurdle: Joint Effect of Organizational Culture and Gender on Lack of Fit Experiences.  Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1177/19485506221075898
    • Biermann, M., Schulze, A., Unterseher, F., Atanasova, K., Watermann, P., Krause-Utz, A., Stahlberg, D., Bohus, M., & Lis, S. (2021). Trustworthiness appraisals of faces wearing a surgical mask during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany: An experimental study. PloS one, 16(5), e0251393.
    • Dyllick, T. H., Dickhäuser, O., & Stahlberg, D. (2021). Personal metaphors as motivational resources: boosting anticipated incentives and feelings of vitality through a personal motto-goal. Frontiers in psychology12, 1214.
    • Butz, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2020). The relations­hip between self-compassion and sleep quality: An overview of a seven-year German research program. Behavioral Sciences10(3), 64.
    • 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 Psychology39(1), 87–111.
    • 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 Psychology38(1), 3–32.
    • 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 quiet the ego, but instead boost self-enhancement. Psychological Science, 29(8), 1299-1308.
    • 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 Psychology48(4), 535–550.
    • Butz, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2018). Can self-compassion improve sleep quality via reduced rumination? Self and Identity, 17(6), 666–686.
    • Lis, S., Schaedler, A., Liebke, L., Hauschild, S., Thome, J., Schmahl, C., Stahlberg, D., Kleindienst, M., & Bohus, M. (2018). Borderline personality disorder features and sensitivity to injustice. Journal of personality disorders32(2), 192–206.
    • 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, 535–550. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2339
    • Roessel, J., Schoel, C., & Stahlberg, D. (2017). 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. Manuscript accepted for publication.
    • Lis, S., Schaedler, A., Liebke, L., Hauschild, S., Thome, J., Schmahl, C., Stahlberg, D., Kleindienst, N., & Bohus, M. (2017). Borderline personality disorder features and sensitivity to injustice. Journal of Personality Disorders, Volume 31, 1–15: The Guilford Press.
    • Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., Knab, M., & Stahlberg, D. (2016). The bicultural phenomenon: The interplay of group prototypicality and cultural identity switching. Social Psychology, 47, 233–243. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000276
    • Thielmann, I., Erdfelder, E., & Stahlberg, D. (2015). Now you see it, now you don't. Explaining inconsistent evidence on gender stereotyping of newborns. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45(6), 669–677. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2132.
    • Schoel, C., Stahlberg, D., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Psychological insecurity and leadership styles. In P. J. Carroll, R. M. Arkin, & A. Wichmann (Eds.), The handbook of personal security. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
    • Reinhard, M. A., Schindler, S., Stahlberg, D., & Seibert, A. (2014). The advantage of fitting the ingroup: Ingroup prototypicality and attributed occupational success. International Journal of Psychological Studies6(3).
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Schindler, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2014). The risk of male success and failure: How performance outcomes along with a high-status identity effect gender identification, risk behavior, and self-esteem. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 17, 200–220. doi:10.1177/1368430213507319
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Schindler, S., Raabe, V., Stahlberg, D., & Messner, M. (2014). Less is sometimes more: How Repetition of an antismoking advertisement affects attitudes toward smoking and source credibility. Social Influence, 9, 116–132. doi:10.1080/15534510.2013.790839
    • Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., Stahlberg, D., & Len, A. (2014). Quid pro quo: The effect of individuals' exchange orientation on prosocial behavior and the moderating role of mortality salience. Social Influence9, 242–254. doi: 10.1080/15534510.2013.815132
    • 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. doi:10.1111/jasp.12213
    • Schoel, C., Zimmer, K., & Stahlberg, D. (2014). The Spatial Power Motivation Scale – A semi-implicit measure of situational power motivation. Journal of Personality Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2014.914524
    • Szücs, A., Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., & Stahlberg, D. (2014). When being a bad friend doesn't hurt: The buffering function of gender typically against self-esteem threatening feedback. Swiss Journal of Social Psychology, 73, 97–103. doi:10.1024/1421-0185/a000128
    • Pohl, R. F., Erdfelder, E., Hilbig, B. E., Liebke, L., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Effort reduction after self-control depletion: The role of cognitive resources in use of simple heuristics. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 267–276. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2012.758101
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Scharmach, M., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Too exhausted to see the truth: Ego depletion and the ability to detect deception. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 618–630doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2012.02113.x
    • Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Tit for tat in the face of death: The effect of mortality salience on reciprocal behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 87–92. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.06.002.
    • 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, 21–45. doi:10.1177/0261927X12457922
    • Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., & Stahlberg, D. (2012). Mortality salience increases personal relevance of the norm of reciprocity. Psychological Reports, 111, 565–574. doi:10.2466/20.02.21.PR0.111.5.565–574
    • Schoel, C., Eck, J., Roessel, J., & Stahlberg, D. (2012). Spracheinstellungen aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive I: Deutsch und Fremdsprachen. In L. Eichinger, A. Plewnia, C. Schoel & D. Stahlberg (Hrsg.), Sprache und Einstellungen. Spracheinstellungen aus sprach­wissenschaft­licher und sozialpsychologischer Perspektive (S. 136–204). Tübingen: Narr.
    • Schoel, C., & Stahlberg, D. (2012). Spracheinstellungen aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive II: Dialekte. In L. Eichinger, A. Plewnia, C. Schoel, & D. Stahlberg (Hrsg.), Sprache und Einstellungen. Spracheinstellungen aus sprach­wissenschaft­licher und sozialpsychologischer Perspektive (S. 205–225). Tübingen: Narr.
    • Greifeneder, R., Müller, P., Stahlberg, D., van den Bos, K., & Bless, H. (2011). Beyond procedure’s content: The role of accessibility experiences and personal uncertainty in procedural justice judgments. Experimental Psychology, 58, 341–352. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000101
    • Greifeneder, R., Müller, P., Stahlberg, D., van den Bos, K., & Bless, H. (2011), Guiding trustful behavior: The role of accessible content and accessibility experiences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 498–514. doi: 10.1002/bdm.705
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Schindler, S., Messner, M., Stahlberg, D., & Mucha, N. (2011). „I don't know anything about soccer“: How personal weaknesses and strengths guide inferences about women’s qualification in sex-typed jobs. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 70, 149–154. doi:10.1024/1421-0185/a000050
    • Schindler, S., Reinhard, M.-A., & Stahlberg, D. (2011). Repetition of educational AIDS advertising affects attitudes. Psychological Reports, 108, 693–698. doi:10.2466/01.13.PR0.108.3.693–698
    • Schoel, C., Bluemke, M., Mueller, P., & Stahlberg, D. (2011). When autocratic leaders become an option – Uncertainty and self-esteem predict implicit leadership preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101 , 521–540. doi: 10.1037/a0023393
    • Unger, A., & Stahlberg, D. (2011). Ego-depletion and risk-behavior: Too exhausted to take a risk. Social Psychology, 42, 28–38. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000040
    • Müller, P. A., Greifeneder, R., Stahlberg, D., van den Bos, K., & Bless, H. (2010). Shaping cooperation behavior: The role of accessibility experiences and uncertainty. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 178–187. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.632
    • Janssen, J., Schoel, C., & Stahlberg, D. (2010). Unsicherheit und Vertrauen: Eine sozialpsychologische Perspektive. In A. Kehnel (Ed.), Wirtschaft und Kultur im Gespräch: Kredit und Vertrauen (Band 2, S. 211–224). Frankfurt a. M.: Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch.
    • Eichinger, L. M., Gärtig, A.-K., Plewnia, A., Roessel, J., Rothe, A., Rudert, S., Schoel, C., Stahlberg, D., & Stickel, G. (2009). Aktuelle Spracheinstellungen in DeutschlandErste Ergebnisse einer bundes­weiten Repräsentativumfrage. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Universität Mannheim
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Stahlberg, D., & Messner, M. (2009). When failing feels good – Relative prototypicality for a high-status group can co­unteract ego-threat following individual failure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 788–795.  doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.001
    • Stahlberg, D., Dickenberger, D., & Szillis, U. (2009). Geschlechterdiskriminierung. In A. Beelmann & K. J. Jonas (Hrsg.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz. Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungs­perspektiven (S. 193–213). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Stahlberg, D., & Messner, M. (2008). Failure as an asset for high-status persons – Relative group performance and attributed occupational success. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 501–518.  doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2007.07.006
    • Schöl, C., Stahlberg, D., & Maass, A. (2008). Sprachverzerrungen im Inter­gruppen­kontext. In L.-E. Petersen & B. Six (Hrsg.), Stereotype, Vorurteile und soziale Diskriminierung (S. 62–70). Weinheim, Basel: Beltz.
    • Müller, P. A., & Stahlberg, D. (2007). The role of surprise in hindsight bias: A metacognitive model of reduced and reversed hindsight bias. Social Cognition, 25, 1–24.  doi: 10.1521/soco.2007.25.1.165 
    • Stahlberg, D., Braun, F., Irmen, L., & Sczesny, S. (2007). Representation of the sexes in language. In A. W. Kruglanski & J. P. Forgas (Series Eds.)K. Fiedler (Vol. Ed.), Frontiers of Social Psychology: Vol. Social communication (pp. 163–187). New York: Psychology Press.
    • Szillis, U., & Stahlberg, D. (2007). The face-ism effect in the internet: Differences in facial prominence of women and men. International Journal of Internet Science, 2 (1), 3–11.
    • Greitemeyer, T., Fischer, P., Nürnberg, C., Frey, D., & Stahlberg, D. (2006). Psychologische Erfolgsfaktoren bei Unternehmens­zusammenschlüssen: Der Zusammenhang von aktueller Übernahmeposition, Identifikation mit der Organisation, erlebter Kontrolle und subjektivem Wohlbefinden der Mitarbeiter/innen. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisations­psychologie, 1, 9–16.  doi: 10.1026/0932-4089.50.1.9
    • Petersen, L.-E., Stahlberg, D., & Frey, D. (2006). Das Selbstwertgefühl. In H. W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikations­psychologie (S. 40–48). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
    • Reinhard, M.-A., Stahlberg, D., & Petersen, L.-E. (2006). Selbstwahrnehmungs­theorie. In H. W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikations­psychologie (S. 27–32). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
    • Sczesny, S., Spreemann, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2006). Masculine = competent? Physical appearance and sex as sources of gender-stereotypic attributions. Swiss Journal of Psychology 65, 15–23. doi: 10.1024/1421-0185.65.1.15
    • Braun, F., Sczesny, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2005). Cognitive effects of masculine generics in German: An overview of empirical findings. Communications, 30, 1–21.  doi: 10.1515/comm.2005.30.1.1
    • Kühnen, U., Sczesny, S., von Rennenkampff, A., & Stahlberg, D. (2005). Assets and drawbacks of a feminine or masculine appearance: How gender-stereotypes guide the perception of leadership. In Ö. Odag & A. Pershai (Eds.), Negotiating space for gender studies. Frameworks and applications (pp. 119–134). Frankfurt, Main: Lang.
    • Thau, S., Bennett, R. J., Stahlberg, D., & Werner, J. M. (2004). Why should I be generous when I have valued and accessible alternatives? Alternative exchange partners and OCB. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, 607–626.  doi: 10.1002/job.260
    • Pohl, R., Schwarz, S., Sczesny, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2003). Hindsight bias in gustatory judgments. Experimental Psychology, 50, 107–115.  doi: 10.1026//1618-3169.50.2.107
    • Schwarz, S., & Stahlberg, D. (2003). Strength of hindsight bias as a consequence of meta-cognitions. Memory, 11, 395–410.  doi: 10.1080/09658210244000496