• Mannheim as a Center of European Social Psychology and a Breeding…

    The University of Mannheim was a special place during the rise of social psychology in Germany after WW2. Building on an older [Read more]

  • Intergroup Research at the University of Jena

    Between 1997 and the end of the first decade of the 21 century, the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Jena w[Read more]

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Mannheim as a Center of European Social Psychology and a Breeding Ground for Social Cognition

Mannheim Palace
by Fritz Strack, Norbert Schwarz and Dieter Frey

The University of Mannheim was a special place during the rise of social psychology in Germany after WW2. Building on an older College of Commerce (Handelshochschule), the university was founded with an emphasis on economics and social sciences in 1967 and social psychology was embedded in a structural context that differed from other German …

Intergroup Research at the University of Jena

University of Jena
by Kai Sassenberg and Sabine Otten

Between 1997 and the end of the first decade of the 21 century, the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Jena was one of the centers of Intergroup Research in Europe – if not world-wide. It all started when Amélie Mummendey moved together with a small group of postdocs and PhD students from the University of Münster to the …

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