Staff

PD Dr. Kai Sassenberg

Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Groningen

Mailing address

Kai Sassenberg
Dept. of Social & Organizational Psychology
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
The Netherlands
e-mail: k.sassenberg at rug.nl
Fon: +31 50 363 6427
Fax: +31 50 363 4581
http://sassenberg.socialpsychology.org/

Research interests

• Motivational antecedents of social discrimination
• Self-regulation and leadership
• Antecedents of creativity
• Social psychology and the Internet

Key Publications

• Hansen, N., & Sassenberg, K. (2006). Does social identification harm or serve as a buffer? The impact of social identification on anger after experiencing social discrimination. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 983-996.
• Jonas, K.J. & Sassenberg, K. (2006). Knowing what to do: Response behavior activation from social category primes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 709-721.
• Sassenberg, K., Jonas, K.J., Shah, J.Y., & Brazy, P.C. (2007). Why some groups just feel better: The regulatory fit of group power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 249-267.
• Sassenberg, K., & Moskowitz, G.B. (2005). Don't stereotype, think diffent! Overcoming automatic stereotype activation by mindset priming. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 506-514.
• Sassenberg, K., Moskowitz, G.B., Jacoby, J., & Hansen, N. (in press). The carry-over effect of competition: The impact of competition on prejudice towards uninvolved outgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Complete list of publications

Academic Career

• 2007 – Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen
• 2002 – 2007 Head of the junior research group "Motivational and cognitive antecedents of social discrimination", University of Jena
• 2002 Visiting Researcher at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA, USA)
• 2000-2001 Post-Doc, University of Jena
• 1999 PhD University of Göttingen
• 1996 Diplom (Psychology) University of Mannheim

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