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Professor Dr

Amélie Mummendey

Year of election: 2001
Section: Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
City: Jena
Country: Germany

Research

Amélie Mummendey’s research focuses on the social psychology of social identity, intergroup relations, and intergroup behaviour. In particular, she is interested in determinants of negative types like social discrimination, ingroup favouritism and outgroup devaluation, as well as positive ones like intergroup tolerance and appreciation of outgroups.

Recent empirical research, experimental as well as field studies have dealt with what we call the positive-negative-asymmetry in social discrimination on the one hand and testing models to predict the preference of strategies to cope with threatened or negative social identities. The positive-negative-asymmetry means the rather robust phenomenon showing that ingroup favouritism by differential allocation of burdens follows rules different from those which are followed by favouritism in the area of positive resource allocation. The question is, how these valence effects can theoretically be explained. As to the prediction of strategies to cope with threatened identities, up to now mixed models based on relative deprivation theory and social identity theory look rather promising.

More recently, Mummendey’s research addresses determinants and conditions for discrimination versus tolerance between social groups. Conflict and cooperation, constructive versus destructive coping with radical change, in particular with threats of social identity, boundaries of tolerance, rejection and exclusion of outgroups.

Career

  • 2008-2011 Vice-Rector of the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, Germany
  • 2007-2011 Director of the Graduate-Academy of FSU Jena, Germany
  • 1997-2011 Chair of the Department of Social Psychology, University Jena, Germany
  • 1980-1996 Professor of Social Psychology, University Münster, Germany
  • 1975-1980 Associate Professor, University Münster, Germany
  • 1974 Habilitation, University Münster, Germany
  • 1972-1975 Assistant Professor, University Münster, Germany
  • 1970 Ph.D., University Mainz, Germany
  • 1968-1972 Assistant Professor, University Mainz, Germany
  • 1968 First degree in Psychology, University Bonn, Germany

Projects

  • 2000-2009 Head of the International Graduate College „Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups: Dynamics of Change in Intergroup Relations” University of Jena, University of Kent  at Canterbury, Great Britain, and Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgien. (DFG, GRK 622/1, 622/2. GRK 622/3 )
  • 2000-2002 „Differenz und Pluralität, Diskriminierung und Toleranz in Beziehungen zwischen Gruppen [Differentiation and pluralism, discrimination and tolerance in intergroup relations]“ DFG 1998-2000, Mu 551/18-1, together with Dr. Michael Wenzel) DFG Mu 551/18- 2, together with Dr. Thorsten Meiser
  • 1991-1996 Head of the interdisciplinary graduate programme “Kognitive und soziale Repräsentation von Problemen und Konflikten, ihre Genese, Prädikation und Bewältigung [Cognitive and social representation of problems and conflicts: Genesis, prediction and coping]” at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DFG 1991-1993 Mu 551/12-1 bis 12-7)

Functions

  • Member of The Senate, Leibniz Association
  • since 2009 head of the Foundation Council of Einstein Foundation Berlin
  • 2005-2008 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • 1999-2005 Member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS), European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • 1997-2002 Member of Wissenschaftsrat (National Science Council), appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1996-2001 Member of the grant committee for graduate colleges of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 1993/1998 Member of the Review Committee Psychology, nominated by VSNU and KNAW, Netherlands

Honours and Memberships

  • 2016 Martin Irle‐Preis
  • 2011 Jean Paul Codol Award, European Association of Social Psychology
  • since 2009 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
  • 2005 Thueringian Research Prize, together with Thomas Kessler, Thorsten Meiser & Kai Sassenberg, awarded by the Thueringian Minister of Science
  • since 2001 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 2001 German Psychology Prize awarded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Christoph-Dornier-Stiftung, Berufsverband deutscher Psychologen und Psychologinnen
  • 1993 Henri-Tajfel Award (awarded by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology)

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