Social Psychology

Welcome to the website of the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Hamburg!

Social psychology is concerned with the fundamental influence of other people on our thoughts, feelings, and actions and how we as individuals understand the thoughts, feelings, and actions of other people.

At the Department of Social Psychology at the Universität Hamburg, we primarily investigate basic mechanisms of person perception and intergroup attitudes: How do we form initial impressions? How are social groups and categories represented in memory? What are the functions of automatic processes in the formation of prejudices, stereotypes, and discriminatory behavior? What are the consequences of social categories and their evaluations on basal (e.g., attention and memory) and social information processing (e.g., social identification, self-esteem)?

You can learn more about the individual research projects of our research area under the heading Research.

Aktuelle Meldungen

6 April 2020|SocialPsy

SCC-Project - Social Contact during the Corona Pandemic

We are part of the international research collaboration investigating consequences of the Corona Pandemic on approach and avoidance behaviors. Further information can be found here.

3 April 2020|SocialPsy

Studentische Hilfskräfte gesucht

Im Arbeitsbereich Sozialpsychologie werden studentische Hilfskräfte gesucht.
Hier finden Sie die Ausschreibung.

14 October 2019|SocialPsy

Kolloquium der Sozialpsychologie 11.11.2019

Rational impression formation: Making sense of other people's encounters Dr. Susanne Quadflieg University of Bristo

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SCC

The SCC-Project is an international research cooperation with the aim to better understand changes in social approach-avoidance behavior during the corona pandemic. The research project investigates changes over time as a function of macro-level changes in the development of the corona pandemic (e.g., growth rates of total people infected, mortality rate, social distancing policies. etc.). Furthermore, the projects looks at correlations between behavior and a variety of individual subjective measures (e.g., social distancing behavior, need for social contact, fear of becoming infected with the coronavirus, etc.).

For participation please follow this link.