Amélie Mummendey

Amélie Mummendey, some publications also Schmidt- Mummendey, ( born June 19, 1944 in Bonn am Rhein ) is a German social psychologist. She is since 2007 Vice Rector for Graduate Academy of the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena.

Life

Amélie Mummendey studied psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Bonn and received his PhD in 1970 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. She qualified in 1974 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where she held until 1996 was professor of social psychology at the Department of Psychology in 1980. Since 1997 she has held the Chair of Social Psychology at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena. In 2007, Amélie Mummendey the Jena Graduate Academy, which she became the first Vice-Rector of the Friedrich -Schiller- University of Jena since then forwards.

Research

Her research focuses on social psychological issues of social identity, relationships and behavior between social groups. In particular, they are interested in the determinants of negative treatment of outgroups such as social discrimination, Eigengruppenfavorisierung and outgroup devaluation, as well as positive forms of tolerance between groups. Recent empirical research, experimental as well as field research dealing with what is called the positive-negative asymmetry of social discrimination, and the testing of models for predicting the preference of coping strategies of threatened or negative identity. Currently interested Mummendey particular determinants and conditions for discrimination versus tolerance between social groups, conflict and cooperation, constructive versus destructive forms of dealing with radical change, as well as questions of the relationship between threat and social identity, limits of tolerance and social exclusion of outgroups. Mummendeys research contributions have been published in numerous national and international journal articles and book chapters.

The ingroup projection model

Together with Michael Wenzel developed Amélie Mummendey the ingroup projection model. This model states that members of a group with members of another group (eg, German and Italian ) always compare the framework of a common parent group (eg Europeans ). The members of each group "project" each properties and characteristics of their own group to the ( idea of ​​the ) parent group. Mummendey and colleagues were able to show that German with the group " Europeans " rather stereotypically " German " characteristics combine as Italians, which tend to project the characteristics of their group to the parent group. The members of both groups thus see their own group as typical of Europe, as they correspond to the European characteristic of most. According to ingroup projection model, this leads to social discrimination against groups that are perceived as less typical within the parent group. Meanwhile, there are motivational and cognitive explanations for the process of ingroup projection. In current research is examined, among other things, how to prevent or reduce the process of ingroup projection and thus the tolerance can be promoted between groups.

Honorable Memberships

• Member of the Scientific Council in 1997 to 2002.
• Member of the Science Advisory Board of the European Science Foundation (ESF ) 1999-2005
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2001
• Chairwoman of the Einstein Foundation Berlin since 2009

Awards

Writings

• Terms of aggressive behavior. Huber, Bern 1975.
• Social Psychology of Aggression: From Individual Behavior to Social Interaction. Springer, 1984, ISBN 0-387-12443-8,
• Social attitudes. Juventa, 1986, ISBN 3-7799-0304-0.
• Identity and difference. Huber, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-456-82810-1.

Papers

• With S. Otten: Positive -negative asymmetry in social discrimination. In: W. Stroebe, M. Hewstone ( Eds.): European Review of Social Psychology. 9 Wiley, Chichester, 1998, pp. 107-143.
• With M. Wenzel: Social discrimination and tolerance in intergroup relations: Reactions to intergroup difference. In: Personality and Social Psychology Review. 3, 1999, pp. 158-174.
• With T. Kessler: Sequential or parallel processes? A longitudinal field study Concerning determinants of identity management strategies. In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82, 2002, pp. 75-88.
• With M. Wenzel, S. Waldzus: The ingroup as pars pro toto: Projection from the ingroup ontological the inclusive category as a precursor to social discrimination. In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 29, 2003, pp. 461-471.
• With S. Waldzus: Inclusion in a superordinate category, ingroup prototypicality, and attitudes towards outgroups. In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 40, 2004, pp. 466-477 ..
• With S. Waldzus: National differences and European Plurality: Discrimination or tolerance in between European countries. In: RK Herrmann, T. cracks, MB Brewer ( Eds.): Transnational Identities. Becoming European in the EU. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2004, pp. 59-72.
• With Wenzel, Waldzus: Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model. In: European Review of Social Psychology. 18, 2007, pp. 331-372.
• With T. Kessler: acceptance or rejection of otherness: the relationship between immigrants and locals from a social psychological perspective. In ' Cold F. (ed.): Migration and Integration ( Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology ). Special Issue 48; VS, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 513-528.