Susanne Bruckmüller
- SPN Mentor
I am currently Chair of Social Psychology at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany.
My main research interests revolve around issues of identity, communication, and power in intergroup contexts. A major research focus is on understanding how culturally shared habits of communication are intertwined with the construction of privileged and stigmatized identities and the cultural reproduction of social inequality. I am also interested in the role of such processes in applied contexts, such as gender inequality in the workplace and immigration and integration.
Other important research interests include basic social-cognitive processes - in particular, the fundamental dimensions of agency/competence and communion/warmth and their role in person perception as well as in language and communication - processing fluency and its role in intergroup contexts, and the role of gender stereotypes for leadership preferences under different circumstances.
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Gender Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Abele, A. E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2011). The bigger one of the "Big Two"? Preferential processing of communal information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 935-948.
- Adams, G., Bruckmüller, S., & Decker, S. (2012). Self and agency in context: Ecologies of abundance and scarcity. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 1, 141-153.
- Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Singled out as “the effect to be explained”: Implications for collective self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 237-249.
- Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A. E. (2013). The Density of the “Big Two“: How are agency and communion structurally represented? Social Psychology, 39, 237-249.
- Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A. E. (2010). Comparison focus in intergroup comparisons: Who we compare to whom influences who we see as powerful and agentic. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1424-1435.
- Bruckmüller, S., & Branscombe, N. R. (2010). The glass cliff: When and why women are selected as leaders in crisis contexts. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 433-451.
- Bruckmüller, S., Hegarty, P., & Abele, A. E. (2012). Framing gender differences: Linguistic normativity affects perceptions of power and gender stereotypes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 210-218.
- Hegarty, P. J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Asymmetric explanations of group differences: Experimental evidence of Foucault’s disciplinary power. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 176-186.
- Uchronski, M., Abele, A. E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Empathic perspective taking and the situational malleability of the communal self-concept. Self and Identity, 12, 236-256.
- Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M. K., Rink, F., & Haslam, A. (2014). Beyond the glass ceiling: Exploring and explaining the glass cliff in order to inform organizational policy. Social Issues and Policy Review, 8, 202-232. .
- West, K., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Nice and easy does it: How perceptual fluency moderates the effectiveness of imagined contact. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 254-262.
Other Publications:
- Abele, A. E., & Bruckmüller, S. (in press). Sozialpsycholgie [Social Psychology]. In G. Endruweit, G. Trommsdorff, & N. Burzan (Eds.), Wörterbuch der Soziologie [Dictionary of Sociology]. Stuttgart: UTB.
- Abele, A. E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). The "Big Two" of agency and communion in language and communication. In J. Laszlo, J. Forgas, & O. Vincze (Eds.), Social cognition and communication. Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology (pp. 173-184). London: Psychology Press.
- Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M. K., Haslam, S. A., & Peters, K. (2013). Ceilings, cliffs and labyrinths: Exploring metaphors for workplace gender discrimination. In M. K. Ryan & N. R. Branscombe (Eds.), Handbook of Gender and Psychology (pp. 450-464). London: Sage.
- Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M. K., Rink, F., & Haslam, S. A. (in press). The glass cliff: examining why women occupy leadership positions in precarious circumstances. In S. Kumra, R. Simpson, & R. Burke (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organisations (Chapter 14). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hegarty, P. J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Teaching & learning guide for: Asymmetric explanations of group differences: Experimental evidence of Foucault’s disciplinary power. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 701-705.
Courses Taught:
- Classic Studies in Social Psychology
- Experimental Research Methods
- Field Research Methods
- Framing Effects in Communication
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Gender
Susanne Bruckmüller
Institute for Psychology
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Nägelsbachstr. 49b
91052 Erlangen
Germany
- Phone: +49 9131 85-64050