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24. April 2020

Sommersemester 2020

Thesis Supervision in the

Department of Social Psychology

24. April 2020

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You find an overview of potential projects that each of

us offer as potential thesis topics on the next slides

(slides 3-12). Contact the respective team member if

you are interested in one of these topics – we are

looking forward to work with you!

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24. April 2020

Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick

Research interests:

• Inter- and Intragroup processes

• Applications of social identity theory in organizational fields such as stress,

diversity, leadership, mergers, teamwork.....

Current projects: Identity Leadership across the globe. Room for 2-3 MSc

projects for students who have excellent method skills

3Vorstellung der Abteilung Sozialpsychologie und möglicher Abschlussarbeitsthemen

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Office:PEG, 5.029

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24. April 2020

Dr. Alina S. Hernandez Bark

Current projects:

• Leadership in virtual settings

• Social norms of parents (e.g. smoking father, smoking mother)

• Effects of parental leave / part-time work for the evaluation of parents

→ Resources for the supervision of up to 2-3 Master theses and 1-2 Bachelor

theses



Office:By arrangementPEG, 5.032


24. April 2020

Dr. Nina M. Junker

Current projects (for Master theses):

• “The dynamic interplay of boundary management preferences (i.e, how do I

want to manage the borders between work and nonwork?) and

consequences of boundary enactment (i.e., letting work enter a nonwork

role)”

• This topic can, for instance, go into the direction of befriending with

colleagues, ruminating about work while at home, or boundary

management tactics (i.e., how do we create boundaries between work

and home?)

• “The importance of meta-thinking/consciousness in the process of work-life

enrichment (i.e., transferring knowledge from one role to another)

• “Can you see how much we identify? Observing shared identity in teams

and their relation with team performance” (team project, available for 1

more Master thesis, start in the upcoming winter term the earliest)

• “When and why do supervisors endorse and support work-life friendly

policies?”





24. April 2020

Dr. Stephan Braun

Current projects:

• Identity Leadership Inventory on the followership level

• Age stereotypes and leadership

• Unwilling leadership

• Game psychology – an understudied field of psychology



Office:Thursday 10-12 amPEG, 5.111


24. April 2020

M. Sc. Aljoscha Dreisörner

Current projects:

• Self-compassion in organizations: Small intervention study, online

experiment or diary study (as soon as possible)

• Other topics related to mindfulness or self-compassion (anytime)





24. April 2020

M. A. Luise Erfurth

Research interests:

• Social identity issues linked to:

• Archaeology

• Natural disasters

• Individual vs. Community Resilience

• Cultural Psychology

Current projects:

• Corona study - with a historical twist to it!

• Social Identity as a resilience factor among the East Frisian population in

Krummhörn, Germany

• Community vs. individual Resilience linked to i.a. disasters

• Resilience factors and the archaeological record





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Ihuoma Faith Obioma

Research interests:

• Gender stereotypes and discrimination in the workplace

• Inclusion and diversity in the workplace (focus: immigrants and minority

groups)

• Biculturalism and acculturation strategies of migrants

Current projects:

• Men and Women’s stereotypic characterizations in sub-Saharan African

countries

• The effect of gender stereotypes on organizational tasks in the German

and English banking sectors: Uncovering implicit bias

• Stereotype content of Germans and Africans in Germany

Thesis work will involve obtaining unique sample by student and will have to

be written in English.





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Eva Bracht

Current projects:

• Exploring how individuals transform into (self-)leaders

• Measurement and impact of self-leadership-culture

Resources for the supervision of two Bachelor/Master thesis projects amongst

my research interests



Office:By arrangement


24. April 2020

M. Sc. Manpreet Blessin

Research interests:

• Positive psychology

• Resilience theory

• Cultural psychology

Current project:

• „Resilience factors in diachronic and intercultural perspectives - What

makes people resistant?”



Office:By arrangementPEG


24. April 2020

M. Sc. Sophie Walter

Research interests:



• Interdisciplinary projects

Current project:






24. April 2020

More information on our team and their research topics including those members, who

are currently not available as thesis supervisors

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24. April 2020

Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick

• Studies in Marburg, 1989-1994• Lecturer and Assistant Professor 1995-2002 in Marburg• Senior Lecturer and Professor at Aston University in Birmingham (2003-

2006)

Research interests:

• Inter- and Intragroup processes

• Applications of social identity theory in organizational fields such as stress,

diversity, leadership, mergers, teamwork.....

Current projects: Identity Leadership across the globe. Room for 2-3 MSc

projects for students who have excellent method skills



Office:PEG, 5.029


24. April 2020

Dr. Alina S. Hernandez Bark

• 2005-2010 Psychology studies at University of Bielefeld (with honours)• Since 2010 Goethe University Frankfurt

o 2014 PhD (summa cum laude)o since 2014 Assistant Professoro since 2018 deputy head of social psych. dept. (shared with Dr. Nina

Junker)

Research interests:

• Gender & Diversity

• Leadership

• Digital Change / Work 4.0

• Ingroup & Intergroup behavior

Current theses topics:

• Leadership in virtual settings

• Social norms of parents (e.g. smoking father, smoking mother)

• Effects of parental leave / part-time work for the evaluation of parents

→ Resources for the supervision of up to 2-3 Master theses and 1-2 Bachelor

theses





24. April 2020

Dr. Nina M. Junker

• Studies at University of Mannheim (2004-2009), PhD at Goethe University 2015

• Assistant Professor at Goethe University since 2016• Various positions in corporate health management before joining GU

Research interests:

• Work-Family Enrichment: When and how does WFE cross over to others?

When do individuals benefit from being parents and employees?

• Interventions to change stereotypes against parents at the workplace

• Shared social identity

• The importance of norms in predicting burnout and work engagement

Current projects:

• boundary management preferences and boundary enactment

• meta-thinking/consciousness in the process of work-life enrichment

• observing shared identity in teams and their relation with team performance

• When and why do supervisors endorse and support work-life friendly

policies?





24. April 2020

Dr. Anna Lisa Aydin

• Studies at Goethe University 2004-2009• Psychotherapeutic training (TfP)• Research Associate at Goethe University

and University of Zurich since 2012• PhD at Goethe University 2018

Research interests:

• intergroup relations,

e.g. interactions between members of different social classes or

interactions between majority- and minority groups

• Identity-threat, meta-stereotypes

Current projects:

• Empathy in conflictual situations

Currently on maternity leave



Office:PEG, 5.030


24. April 2020

Dr. Stephan Braun

• Studies at University of Frankfurt 2004-2010, PhD at Goethe University 2018

• Employee in the dean’s office since 2010• Research Associate since 2010

Research interests:

• Leadership

• Implicit leadership and followership theories

• Influences of age and gender on leadership and followership

• Game psychology

Current projects:

• Identity Leadership Inventory on the followership level

• Age stereotypes and leadership

• Unwilling leadership

• Game psychology – an understudied field of psychology



Office:Thursday 10-12 amPEG, 5.111


24. April 2020

Dr. Antonia Kaluza

• Studies in Frankfurt and Jena (2009-2014)• PhD candidate in Social Psychology since 2015

Research interests:

• Leadership & well-being

• Health-oriented leadership

• Organizational health climate

• Stress mindset

Current projects:

• Stress mindset at the workplace and with pain patients

Currently no further supervision capacities





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Aljoscha Dreisörner

• Master’s from Mannheim University (management)• PhD candidate in social psychology since 2016• Loves writing and talking about ideas

Research interests:

• How can we make the world a little bit better with tiny shifts in our thinking

or habits of behavior?

• Topics: Self-compassion, mindfulness and meditation, physical touch

(hugging)

Current projects:

• Self-compassion in organizations: Small intervention study, online

experiment or diary study (as soon as possible)

• Other topics related to mindfulness or self-compassion (anytime)

-> Thesis work will require obtaining a unique sample by the student





24. April 2020

M. A. Luise Erfurth

• M.A. Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg

• B.A. (Hons) Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK• PhD candidate in Social Psychology since 2018

Research interests:

• Social identity issues linked to:

• Archaeology

• Natural disasters

• Individual vs. Community Resilience

• Cultural Psychology

Current projects:

• Corona study - with a historical twist to it!

• Social Identity as a resilience factor among the East Frisian population in

Krummhörn, Germany

• Community vs. individual Resilience linked to i.a. disasters

• Resilience factors and the archaeological record





24. April 2020

Svenja Frenzel, M.Sc.

• Psychology studies at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2012-2015) and Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2016-2018)

• Research Assistant at University Mainz (2018-2019)• Research Assistant at Goethe University since 2019

Research interests:

• Social identity, team-identity (in organizations)

• Social cure (and social curse): Positive and negative aspects of social

identity

• Social Identity and chronic diseases (e.g. prevention of Diabetes mellitus

type 2, self-management of individuals with type 1 Diabetes)

Current projects:

• Social identity as stress buffer: group-level vs. individual-level effects

• Resilience factors and daily challenges

• Association between social identification, group norms and diabetes-

management

• Social Identity and threat perception during the corona-outbreak

Currently no resources for supervision!22Vorstellung der Abteilung Sozialpsychologie und möglicher Abschlussarbeitsthemen




24. April 2020

M. Sc. Ihuoma Faith Obioma

• Master’s in Management from De Montfort University U.K. (with honors)• PhD candidate in Social Psychology since 2019

Research interests:

• Gender stereotypes and discrimination in the workplace

• Inclusion and diversity in the workplace (focus: immigrants and minority groups)

• Biculturalism and acculturation strategies of migrants

Current projects:

• Men and Women’s stereotypic characterizations in sub-Saharan African

countries

• The effect of gender stereotypes on organizational tasks in the German

and English banking sectors: Uncovering implicit bias

• Stereotype content of Germans and Africans in Germany

Thesis work will involve obtaining unique sample by student and will have to

be written in English.





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Dorian Hartlaub

• B.Sc. at Goethe University & Universidad Complutense de Madrid, M.Sc. Psychology at Goethe University in Frankfurt

• PhD candidate in social psychology (since 2017)• Works as a recruiter, trainer & coach for Provadis GmbH

Research interests:

• Mindfulness, Mindfulness-based Interventions

• Leadership

• Well-being

Currently not available as supervisor!





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Eva Bracht

• Studies in Bonn and Munich 2008-2015• PhD candidate in social psychology (since 2016)• Worked as HR-trainee and consultant for organizational development

(2015-2017)

Research interests:

• Leadership and culture in organizations

• Self-leadership-culture

• Digital Leadership

• Transformational leadership & Organizational transformation

Current projects:

• Exploring how individuals transform into (self)-leaders

• Measurement and impact of self-leadership-culture





24. April 2020

M. Sc. Manpreet Blessin

• Studies at Technical University Darmstadt (2013-2018)• PhD candidate in Social Psychology since 2018• Works in the German resilience center (DRZ) in Mainz since 2018

Research interests:



• Cultural psychology

Current project:







24. April 2020

M. Sc. Sophie Walter

• Studies at Technical University Darmstadt (2013-2018)• PhD candidate in Social Psychology since 2018• Works in the German resilience center (DRZ) in Mainz since 2018

Research interests:



• Interdisciplinary projects

Current project:






24. April 2020

M. A. Stefanie Marx

• B.Sc. Finance, HSF Bonn, M.A. Wirtschaftspsychologie, Leadership & Management, SRH Riedlingen

• PhD candidate in social psychology (since 2017)• Equities & Fixed Income Structuring, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen,

Helaba Frankfurt

Research interests:

• Decision-making in organizations

• Antecedents (e.g. organizational culture or leadership)

• Consequences for the organization as well as for the employees

• Countermeasures






24. April 2020

M. Sc. J. Niklas Becker

• Studies in Cologne and Frankfurt 2010-2016• PhD candidate in social psychology (since 2016)• Lecturer in Cologne since 2013• HR Consultant

Research interests:

• Leadership

• Organizational Culture

• Assessment Center





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