Staff

Dr. Maya Machunsky

Research Associate in the Junior Research Group “Mental Representation of Social Categories: Cognitive Factors of Stereotype Formation and Intergroup Judgment”

Contact

Maya Machunsky
University Mannheim
Department of Psychology
Schloß
68131 Mannheim

e-mail: Maya.machunsky{at}uni-mannheim.de
Fon: +49 (0)621/1811324

Research Interests

• Social projection and ingroup projection as heuristic versus motivational processes
• Evaluative Conditioning
• Empathy Gaps
• The role of variability and complexity in intergroup relations

Academic Career

• Since February 2009 Research associate at the University of Mannheim
• October 2007 - February 2008 Postdoc at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, hosted by Olivier Corneille and Vincent Yzerbyt (funded by the DAAD)
• August 2007 - January 2009 Research associate at the University of Marburg
• December 2005 Dissertation at the University of Jena
• October 2002 - July 2007 Research associate at the University of Jena
• April 2002 - Sept. 2002 Research associate at the Center of Applied Psychology Bochum
• 1995 - 2001 Undergraduate studies at the University of Giessen

Publikationen

Krueger, J. I., & Machunsky, M. (2010). Social projection. In I. Weiner & E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology (4th ed., p. 1639-1640). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.

Bianchi, M., Machunsky, M., Steffens, M.C., & Mummendey, A. (2009). Like Me oder Like Us: Is Ingroup Projection just Social Projection? Experimental Psychology, 56, 198 - 205.

Machunsky, M. & Meiser, T. (2009). Ingroup projection as a means to define the superordinate category efficiently: Response time evidence. Social Cognition, 27, 57 - 75.

Machunsky, M., & Meiser, T. (2009). Mood and cognition in intergroup judgment. In S. Otten, K. Sassenberg & T. Kessler (Eds.), Intergroup relations. The role of motivation and emotion (pp.83-100). New York: Psychology Press.

Machunsky, M., Meiser, T., & Mummendey, A. (2009). On the crucial role of mental ingroup representation for ingroup bias and the ingroup prototypicality-ingroup bias link. Experimental Psychology, 56, 156-164.

Machunsky, M. (2008). Substereotypisierung. In L.-E. Peterson & B. Six (Eds.), Stereotype, Vorurteile und soziale Diskriminierung -- Theorien, Befunde und Interventionen (pp. 45-52). Weinheim: Beltz.

Meiser, T., & Machunsky, M. (2008). The Personal Structure of Personal Need for Structure: A Mixture-Distribution Rasch Analysis. European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Machunsky, M., & Meiser, T. (2006). Personal Need for Structure als differentialpsychologisches Konstrukt in der Sozialpsychologie: Psychometrische Analyse und Validierung einer deutschsprachigen
PNS-Skala. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 87-97.

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