Prof. Dr. Friederike Funk

Academic Education and Positions

• 2004-2010: Diploma in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2010-2012: M.A. in Psychology, Princeton University
• 2012-2015: PhD in Psychology, Princeton University
• 2015-2019: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Cologne
• 2019-2023: Assistant Professor of Practice in Psychology, NYU Shanghai
• 04/2023 - : Associate Professor of Social Psychology with a focus on Legal Psychology, LMU Munich

Research Interests

• Psychology and Law
• Restorative Justice
• Social Cognition
• Criminal Stereotypes
• Effects of culture and gender

Selected Publications

• Kugler, M. B., Funk, F., Braun, J., Gollwitzer, M., Kay, A., & Darley, J. M. (2013). Differences in punitiveness across three cultures: A test of American Exceptionalism in justice attitudes. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 103(4), 1071-1113. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jclc103&i=1112
• Funk, F. & Todorov, A. (2013). Criminal stereotypes in the courtroom: Facial tattoos affect guilt and punishment differently. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19(4), 466-478. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034736
• Funk, F., McGeer, V., & Gollwitzer, M. (2014). Get the message: Punishment is satisfying if the transgressor responds to its communicative intent. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(8), 986-997. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214533130
• Olivola, C.Y., Funk, F., & Todorov, A. (2014). Social attributions from faces bias human choices. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(11), 566-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.007
• McGeer, V. & Funk, F. (2017). Are 'optimistic' theories of criminal justice psychologically feasible? The probative case of civic republicanism. Criminal Law & Philosophy, 11(3), 523-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-015-9381-2
• Funk, F., Walker, M., & Todorov, A. (2017). Modeling perceptions of criminality and remorse from faces using a data-driven computational approach. Cognition and Emotion, 31(7), 1431-1443. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1227305
• Martinez, J.E., Funk, F., & Todorov, A. (2020). Quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgment. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1428-1444. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01323-0; [OSF]
• Funk, F.* & Mischkowski, D.* (2022). Examining consequentialist punishment motives in one-shot social dilemmas. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 230(2), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000459 [*shared first authorship]; [OSF]
• Erle, T.M. & Funk, F. (2022). Visuospatial and affective perspective-taking: Similarities and differences. Social Psychology, 53(5), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000504; [OSF]
• Hechler, S., Funk, F., & Kessler, T. (2023). Not revenge, but change is sweet: Experimental evidence of how offender change and punishment play independent roles in victims’ sense of justice. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12613; [OSF]
• Funk, F.* & McGeer, V.* (forthcoming). Moral communication. In B. F. Malle & P. Robbins (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology. Cambridge University Press. [*shared first authorship]

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