Curriculum Vitae SusanneBruckmüller – 1
Curriculum Vitae
Jun.-Prof.Dr.Susanne Bruckmüller
University of Koblenz-Landau, Department of Psychology, Fortstr. 7, 76829 Landau, Germany
phone:+49 6341 280 31 203, email:
Higher Education
August 2011Dr. phil. (summa cum laude)in Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Dissertation: Implicit Normativity in Intergroup Comparisons: The Cultural Reproduction of Status Inequalities via the Comparative Framing of Differences
2005 – 2007M.A.inPsychology (Social), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Thesis: Gender Stereotypes and the Glass Cliff: Reduced Importance of Male Attributes Results in More Frequent Selection of Female Leaders in Times of Crisis
2001 – 2008 Diploma(German M.Sc. equivalent)inPsychology(General), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Thesis: Gender, self-concept and coping: The role of agency and communion for gender differences in coping behaviour
Academic Positions
since 10/2103Junior Professor, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
04/2012 – 09/2013Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK
Full-time research position
06/2008 – 03/2012 Research Associate (“wissenschaftlicheMitarbeiterin“), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Research and teachingposition(full-time from September 2010)
09/2007 – 05/2008Postgraduate Research Assistant (“wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft“), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Part-time (50%) research position
Selected Other Professional Activities
2009 Three-weeks stay as guest researcher at Sopot Social Cognition Lab (Prof.Dr.BogdanWojciszke), Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Sopot, Poland; funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2008 Participation in the Summer School of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Cardiff, UK; partially funded by EAPS
MainResearch Interests
My main research interests revolve around issues of identity, communication and power in intergroup contexts. A major research focus has been on understanding how culturally shared habits of communication are intertwined with the construction of privileged and stigmatized identities and the cultural reproduction of social inequality.
I am also interested in the role of such processes in applied contexts such as gender inequality in the workplace and attitudes towards immigrants.
Grants
2014 ESCON2 Short Visit Grant to visit Prof. Vera Hoorens, University of Leuven, Belgium (€ 1800)
2013 Richard Benjamin Trust Research Grant to investigate“How the ‘glass ceiling’ and other metaphors shape our understanding of, and reactions to, workplace gender inequality” (£ 8688)
2012 EASP Postdoctoral Travel Grantto attend the Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (€ 800)
2011Travel grant by the University of Erlangen Internationalisation Fund to enhance collaboration with Dr. Peter Hegarty, University of Surrey, UK(€ 500)
2011Conference participation travel grant by theGerman Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to attend the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Stockholm, Sweden (€ 740)
2010Conference participation travel grant by the University of Erlangen President’s Fund for Equal Opportunitiesto participate in the General Meeting of the German Psychological Society inBremen, Germany(approx. € 500)
Awards and Fellowships
2013 JoachimMatthes & Walter Toman Prize of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg for an outstanding dissertation in the social sciences in 2011-12
2004 - 2007Fellow of theGerman National Academic Foundation (“Studienstiftung des deutschenVolkes”)1
2006First-Year Fellowship of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas;
(full stipend and coverage of tuition and fees for the academic year 2006-2007)
2005Study-Abroad Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation1
(full stipend and coverage of tuition and fees at the University of Kansas for the academic year 2005-2006)
NOTE:1The Studienstiftung (German National Academic Foundation) is the oldest and most prestigious institution granting scholarships to university students in Germany. Scholarships are awarded after a multi-stage selection process and are based on grades, letters of recommendation, personality and character, and interviews with staff and affiliates of the foundation –
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M. K., Rink, F., & Haslam, A. (in press). Beyond the glass ceiling: Exploring and explaining the glass cliff in order to inform organizational policy. Social Issues and Policy Review.
Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Singled out as “the effect to be explained”: Implications for collective self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 108-120.
Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A.E. (2013). The Density of the “Big Two“: How are agency and communion structurally represented? Social Psychology, 39, 237-249.
Hegarty, P. J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Asymmetric explanations of group differences: Experimental evidence of Foucault’s disciplinary power. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 176-186.
Uchronski, M., Abele, A.E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013).The situational malleability of the communal self-concept: How perspective-taking affects self-descriptions. Self and Identity, 12, 236-256.
West, K., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Nice and easy does it: How perceptual fluency moderates the effectiveness of imagined contact. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 254-262.
Adams, G., Bruckmüller, S., & Decker, S. (2012). Self and agency in context: Ecologies of abundance and scarcity. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 1, 141–153.
Bruckmüller, S., Hegarty, P., & Abele, A.E. (2012).Framing gender differences: Linguistic normativity affects perceptions of power and gender stereotypes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 210-218.
Abele, A.E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2011).The bigger one of the "Big Two"?Preferential processing of communal information.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 935-948.
Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A.E. (2010). Comparison focus in intergroup comparisons: Who we compare to whom influences who we see as powerful and agentic. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1424-1435.
Bruckmüller, S., & Branscombe, N.R. (2010). When and why does the glass cliff in leader selec-tion occur? The role of gender stereotypes.British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 433-451.
Chapters and Encyclopaedia Entries
Abele, A.E., & Bruckmüller, S. (in press).Sozialpsycholgie [Social Psychology]. In: G. Endruweit, G. Trommsdorff, & N. Burzan (Eds.), Wörterbuch der Soziologie [Dictionary of Sociology]. Stuttgart: UTB.
Abele, A.E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). The ‘Big Two’ of agency and communion in language and communication. In: J. Laszlo, J. Forgas, & O. Vincze (Eds.).Social Cognition and Communication. Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology(pp. 173-184), London: Psychology Press.
Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M.K., Haslam, S.A., & Peters, K. (2013). Ceilings, cliffs and labyrinths: Exploring metaphors for workplace gender discrimination. In: M.K. Ryan & N.R. Branscombe (Eds.), Handbook of Gender and Psychology(pp. 450-464). London: Sage.
Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M.K., Rink, F., & Haslam, S.A. (in press). The glass cliff: examining why women occupy leadership positions in precarious circumstances. In: Kumra, S., Simpson, R., & Burke, R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organisations(Chapter 14). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Other Publications
Hegarty, P. J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Teaching & learning guide for: Asymmetric explanations of group differences: Experimental evidence of Foucault’s disciplinary power. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7,701-705.
Bruckmüller, S., & Branscombe, N.R. (2011).How women end up on the ‘glass cliff’. Harvard Business Review, 2011, January-February.
Presentations and Conference Proceedings
Conference Presentations
Bruckmüller, S. (2013).The "effecttobeexplained" andobligationstoassimilate: The framingofgroupdifferencesaffectsacculturationexpectations. The 15th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, SchlossOppurg, Germany
Bruckmüller, S. (2013).Cognitive and emotional consequences of being “the effect to be explained”: How asymmetric framing of group differences reinforces status inequalities. EASP Medium Size MeetingIntergroup conflict: The cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of communication.Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Bruckmüller, S. (2013).Framing gender in the workplace: Implications of making women "the effect to be explained".International Training NetworkLanguage, Cognition and Gender – Final Conference. Bern, Switzerland.
Bruckmüller, S. (2013). Singled out: How being "the effect to be explained" affects collective self-esteem. Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2013, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Bruckmüller, S. (2012).Singled out: How the comparative framing of intergroup differences affects collective self-esteem. General Meeting of the German Psychological Society.September 2012, Bielefeld, Germany.
Abele, A. E., & Bruckmüller, S. (2012; co-presented).The 'Big Two' of agency and communion in language and communication.EASP-expert meeting social cognition and communication.July 2012, Pecs, Hungary.
Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A. (2010).Comparison focus in intergroup comparisons: Who we compare to whom influences who we see as powerful and agentic.General Meeting of the German Psychological Society.Bremen, Germany.
Bruckmüller, S., Scherb, U., & Abele, A. (2010).The density of the “Big Two”: How densely are agency and communion clustered in memory?European Social Cognition Network 2 Expert Meeting: The “Big Two” Content Dimensions in Social Cognition and Behaviour.Neuendettelsau, Germany.
Bruckmüller, S. (2009).Comparison focus in intergroup comparisons: Who we compare to whom influences who we see as powerful and agentic.European Social Cognition Network 2 Transfer of Knowledge Conference. Warsaw, Poland.
Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A. (2009).The processing of agentic and communal trait information: The role of self- and other-perspective.Meeting of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society.Walferdange, Luxemburg.
Bruckmüller, S., Adams, G., & Decker, S. (2008). The cultural grounding of agency: Worlds of Abundance and Scarcity. General Meeting of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Bremen, Germany.
Posters
Bruckmüller, S., Abele, A.E., & Hegarty, P. (2011). Framing gender differences: Comparison focus and the reproduction of gendered power.General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Stockholm, Sweden.
Bruckmüller, S., & Abele, A.E. (2010). Comparison focus in intergroup comparisons: Who we compare to whom influences who we see as powerful and agentic.Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Bruckmüller, S., & Branscombe, N.R. (2008).When and why does the glass cliff in leader selection occur? Role of gender stereotypes.Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Invited and DepartmentalTalks
2013University of Exeter, UK
University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
2011 University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
University of Cologne, Germany
2010 University of Bamberg, Germany
University of Exeter, UK
2009 Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Sopot, Poland
Oxford University, UK
2007University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
2007 - 2012 Multiple presentations, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Teachingand Mentoring
Undergraduate Courses
The Psychology of Gender (3rd year seminar)
University of Exeter; 29 students
Introduction to Social Psychology (1st year lecture)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; approx. 120 students (co-taught with MirjamUchronski)
Classic Studies in Social Psychology(1st year seminar)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; 25-30 students
Mentoring and supervision ofpeersteaching parallel seminar sessions from 2010/11
Field Research Methods(1st or 2nd year practicalseminar)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; 8-10 students
Experimental Research Methods(1st or 2nd year practical seminar)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 8-14 students
Graduate Courses
Context and Framing Effects in Communication(M.Sc. seminar)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; 8 students
DissertationSupervision
University of Koblenz-Landau
Jenifer Podleck, Sophia Eid (both B.Sc., in progress)
University of Exeter
Tian Sang (M.Sc)
Philippa Burnham (B.Sc., 2013), Amy Mathias (B.Sc., 2013), Kathryn Scott (B.A., 2013)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Mara Kaçmaz (Diploma, Ulrike Scherb (Diploma, 2010)
Christian Klemm (B.Sc., 2010)
Supervision of Postdoctoral Researchers
Participation in the Mentoring Program of the“FachgruppeSozialpsychologie” (Social Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society), since 2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Alexandra Newbold (University of Exeter, since 2013)
Impact and Public Engagement
2012/13 Contribution to the implementation of an ESRC Follow On Grant to Dr. Kim Peters and Prof. Michelle Ryan for "Increasing Women's Motivation to Embark on and Succeed in the Surgical Career"
Creation of multimedia resources and organisation of workshops at medical conferences (e.g. Royal College of Surgeons; Medical Women's Federation)
2011 Harvard Business Review IdeaCast on “The Glass Cliff Phenomenon” (available at
2009 Participation in the “Long Night of Science” (“Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften”), a university-wide public engagement event at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; members of the public are invited to learn about recent scientific developments and their practical applications through demonstrations, hands-on experiences and active participation.
Administrative and Leadership Experience
2014Member of the Commission for Internationalisation of the Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
2012-2013Post doctoral representative, Psychology Athena SWAN working group, University of Exeter
2012-2013Co-convener of SEORG (Social, Environmental and Organisational Research Group) lab meetings, University of Exeter
2008-2012Lab space and research assistance manager, Social Psychology Group, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2008-2011University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Psychology Graduate Students’ Regular Table – Co-founder and main organizer
2010European Social Cognition Network 2 Expert Meeting: The ”Big Two” Content Dimensions in Social Cognition and Behaviour,Neuendettelsau, Germany, October 2010 – Head of local organising committee
Professional Affiliations and Service
Memberships
European Association of Social Psychology
German Psychological Society (incl. Social Psychology Subdivision)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Ad hoc reviewer for
British Journal of Social PsychologyEuropean Journal of Social Psychology
Gender, Work & OrganizationGroup Processes and Intergroup Relations
Journal of Management StudiesPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychology of Women QuarterlySocial Psychology
Poster submissions for the 8th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Memphis, 2007)
References
Prof. Dr. Andrea E. AbeleProf.Dr.Nyla R. Branscombe
LehrstuhlfürSozialpsychologieDepartment of Psychology
Universität Erlangen-NürnbergUniversity of Kansas
Bismarckstr. 61415 Jayhawk Blvd
91054 Erlangen, GermanyLawrence, KS, 66044, USA
Phone: + 49 (0) 9131 852 2307Phone: +1 785 864 9832
Email: ail:
Dr. Peter HegartyProf. Dr. Michelle K. Ryan
Department of PsychologyCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of SurreyUniversity of Exeter
AD BuildingWashington Singer Laboratories
Guildford, GU2 7XH, UKExeter, EX4 4QG, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 6898Phone: +44 (0) 1392 725120
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