We are happy to present PD Dr. Anja Achtziger, Prof Dr. Gerald Echterhoff, JProf. Dr. Friederike Eyssel and Prof. Dr. Johannes Keller as teachers for Sodoc 2011.
Anja Achtzigers research interests include the following three topics: (1) selfregulation and motivation, (2) social neuroscience (EEG research, stereotyping) and (3) neuroeconomics (EEG research, decision making).
Also see: Anja Achtziger
Gerald Echterhoff's research interests include interpersonal communication, shared reality, social cognition, social influence, and memory biases (e.g., from action observation). In a signature field of investigation, he and his lab group study how communication shapes speakers’ cognition and how people create shared reality in communication.
Also see: Gerald Echterhoff
Friederike Eyssel's research focuses on the field of social cognition. Her main research interests include stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, sexual violence, gender prejudice, interventions to reduce negative intergroup attitudes, dehumanization of social groups and determinants and consequences of anthropomorphism.
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Johannes Keller's current research focuses on the following four topics: (1) the role of self-regulatory mechanisms in social cognition and social interaction, (2) stereotype threat, (3) psychological essentialism (lay people's belief that individuals' behavior and their traits are the expression of some kind of an underlying "nature") and (4) the flow model of intrinsic motivation.
Also see: Johannes Keller
