Katja Ehrenberg- Prof. Dr.
- University Teacher at Hochschule Fresenius
Katja Ehrenberg
- Prof. Dr.
- University Teacher at Hochschule Fresenius
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Introduction
Katja Ehrenberg (formerly Mierke) currently works at Psychology School, Fresenius University of Applied Science, Cologne, Germany. Her research interests focus on social psychology and its applications in all kinds social systems where it may facilitate processes of individual and collective growth (e.g. flow, self-efficacy, creativity; team-building, communication and conflict management; stress, coping; cultural diversity; context effects on identity, self-concept and impression formation).
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March 2007 - present
Position
- Professor (Full)
Description
- teaching Social Psychology, Management of Group Processes, Methods of Professional Counselling and History and Methods of Psychology in B.Sc. and M.Sc. classes, in-house consulting, supervising student research, on-going development of our study programs
October 1998 - November 2002
Position
- Scientific Assistant
Description
- Scientific assistant in a DFG financed research project on social categorization and stereotyping
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Publications (36)
Dating-Apps werben damit, Beziehungen zu erleichtern. Gleichzeitig werden zunehmend dysfunktionale Aspekte diskutiert, die erheblichen Leidensdruck bis hin zu „Dating-Burnout“ verursachen können. Wir fassen erste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zum Burnout-Syndrom im Dating-Kontext zusammen und zeigen therapeutische Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten auf.
Klare Ziele, klare Grenzen
Dieses Sachbuch zeigt, wie Stress im Job auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen entsteht und reduziert werden kann. Wissenschaftlich fundiert, mit vielen praktischen Beispielen und konkreten Tipps greifen die Autorinnen kritische Situationen der digitalen Arbeitswelt auf. Erfahren Sie, wie persönliche Zielorientierung und klare Ent...
Digitalized communication has provoked significant changes in human interaction culture, affecting private as well as work-related settings. Often, emojis or emoticons are used to enrich and disambiguate written messages. The aim of the present experiment was to investigate prevalence and motives of using emojis or emoticons in job-related written...
Subjective time progression has been shown to serve as a heuristic cue for evaluating stimuli, tasks and events.
The subjective feeling that “time flies” is a characteristic feature of flow experience. In four experiments, we
investigated whether and how subjective time progression, as operationalized by announcing either shorter or
longer time int...
Numerous studies demonstrate the impact of presenteeism on employees‘ health as well as on companies’ profitability, but largely focus on prevalence and correlates of going to work despite of sickness. The aim of the present study was thus to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess motives for presenteeism in German speaking regions in order...
Globalisierung - Digitalisierung - New Work - Industrie 4.0 - unsere Arbeitswelt unterliegt einem ständigen Wandel: höher - schneller - weiter lautet vielfach die Devise, das Innovationstempo steigt, höchste Einsatzbereitschaft und beständige Flexibilität werden vorausgesetzt und ein enormer Leistungsdruck liegt auf jedem einzelnen Mitarbeiter. Inf...
Übersicht Online-Dating ist mittlerweile zum Massenphänomen geworden, was angesichts veränderter Lebensformen, zunehmender Technologisierung und verknappter Zeitressourcen nicht verwundert. Empirische Forschungsarbeiten zu Online-Dating werden seit 1995 in stetig wachsender Zahl veröffentlicht. Der vorliegende Beitrag fasst den aktuellen Forschungs...
Die Autoren geben in diesem essential unter Rückgriff auf evolutions- und wirtschaftspsychologische Modelle einen Überblick über Befunde der Karriereforschung, Facetten sozialer Fertigkeit und deren Bedeutung für Networking und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit. Sie fassen Erkenntnisse sozialpsychologischer Studien zur Relevanz persönlicher Ziele und zur akt...
Zusammenfassung Befunde aus der positiven Psychologie zeigen förderliche Effekte positiver Emotionen auf Flow und kreative Leistung. Hier wurde an einer Stichprobe von N = 143 untersucht, ob positive Emotionen auch in einer the-matischen Gruppenarbeit zu Flowerleben und einer besseren Ideengenerierung führen. In der Experimen-talbedingung wurde dur...
Building upon prior findings on benefits of autonomy in task performance, we examined effects of free vs. strictly prescribed task order within an otherwise restricted test setting in two experiments, assessing flow, self-efficacy, performance, and challenge-seeking (Experiment 1) as well as self-handicapping behavior (Experiment 2) in a subsequent...
Temporarily enhanced accessibility of particular aspects of one's identity (e.g., via priming or social comparison) is known to affect contents of the "working self", as well as subsequent self-descriptions. Building on findings of state-dependent retrieval and embodiment, it is demonstrated that similar effects emerge from being in one location or...
Was wirklich zählt: Bedeutsamkeit der Aufgaben, Feedback durch die Vorgesetzten und kollegiales Teamklima als Determinanten der Ausbildungszufriedenheit im Gastgewerbe.
(What counts in the end: Task meaningfulness, supervisor feedback, and team climate as core determinants of apprenticeship satisfaction in the hotel and restaurant industry.)
International research shows that political skill may often function as a resource in coping with work-related stress, and can reduce perceived stress. With regard to an increasing prevalence of burn-out and other psychological diseases, the aim of the present study was to assess if these results can be transferred to German University alumni (N =...
To determine whether perceived physical attractiveness has an impact on the appraisal of presentations, a file containing a charts presentation by one out of two fictional female presenters (attractive vs. unattractive), was introduced to a sample of N = 181 participants. Participants were instructed to imagine visiting a job fair and to watch the...
Participants (N = 78) were told that a company wished to optimize their recruiting strategy in one of two attractive fields in order to get the best candidates for attractive student jobs. Social astuteness and interpersonal influence as relevant facets of political skill were assessed, before participants learned more about the jobs that were said...
Participants (N = 140) saw a print advertisement of a private bank vs. a detergent producer that referred to the sponsoring activities either in the art vs. in the environmental sector. Afterwards, they were asked to provide image profiles, overall likeability, and uniqueness ratings. Environmental sponsoring led to higher ratings in social and eco...
The present research aimed to examine the effects of explicit cultural values on employer attractiveness. In Exp.1, male and female partici-pants saw a recruitment brochure promoting either a predominantly feminine or a predominantly masculine corporate culture (Cameron & Freeman, 1991; Hofstede, 1980). Adjective ratings indicate that company image...
Wechselseitige Hilfe bei der Bewältigung von Arbeitsaufgaben stellt eine
elementare Säule von Kollegialität und Teamarbeit dar. Dass man Hilfe benötigt,
kann man dabei auf sehr unterschiedliche Art kommunizieren. Wird eine
Bitte um Unterstützung übermäßig ausführlich begründet, sollte dies einigen
Befunden zufolge die Hilfsbereitschaft fördern, and...
Ein Ziel der Umstellung des deutschen Hochschulwesens auf Bachelor- und
Masterstudiengänge war die Verkürzung der durchschnittlichen Studiendauer,
womit Zeit- und Leistungsdruck zugenommen haben. Wie gehen die Studierenden
mit den veränderten Rahmenbedingungen des Studiums um? Im Rahmen der
vorliegenden Studie wurden studiumsbezogene Erlebens- und...
Vor dem Hintergrund des Allgemeinen Gleichbehandlungsgesetzes hat Diskriminierung von Stellenbewerbern an Aktualität und Brisanz gewonnen. Zahlreiche Studien zeigen, dass Alter, Geschlecht oder ethnische Abstammung automatisch verarbeitet werden und menschliches Urteilen beeinflussen. Im Rahmen eines Experimentes wurden einer Laien- und einer Exper...
In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, wie vor dem Hintergrund eines als
kooperativ bzw. autoritär beschriebenen allgemeinen Führungsstils ein konkretes
kooperativ bzw. autoritär gestaltetes kritisches Feedback wahrgenommen
und bewertet wird. Erwartungsgemäß wurde die Führungskraft in der konsistenten
kooperativ - kooperativ -Bedingung am pos...
Participants perceived a discussion between members of two social categories in a name-matching paradigm. Discussions either exhibited inter-category fit, defined as a covariation of category membership and the category members' attitude positions, or not. Orthogonally, there was cognitive load at encoding, load at retrieval, or no concurrent load....
The impact of social expectancies on person memory is investigated in two experiments using a source-recognition paradigm. Multinomial model analyses disentangled effects on item-memory, source-memory, and heuristic reconstructive guessing processes. Cognitive load and retention interval were manipulated. In two pilot studies and Experiment 1, part...
Based on the “Who said what?” paradigm, a new method is proposed for investigating social categorization and non-evaluative stereotype application in crossed categorization. The method is applied in 5 studies that manipulated relative context relevance of crossed age and gender categories. Social categorization is characterized by 2 indices: Relati...
This research asked why people falsely remember stereotype-consistent information when cognitive resources are depleted. A task adapted from Jacoby's (1991) process dissociation procedure assessed participants' ability to distinguish between distractor items and behaviors performed by a stereotyped target. A multinomial analysis revealed that when...
The present research investigates the influence of individual differences in the strength of stereotypic associations on category-based and individuating impression formation. In Experiments 1a and 1b, a target’s category membership affected the ascription of stereotypical traits only when perceivers had strong stereotypic associations (measured wi...
Proposes a new method for measuring social categorization of and stereotype application to multiple category membership. The modified "Who said what?" paradigm is employed: subjects perceive a discussion of two speakers from different categories, then are presented with a recognition test in which they assign statements to respective speakers. The...
According to the probability misjudgment account of paranormal belief (Blackmore & Troscianko, 1985), believers in the paranormal tend to wrongly attribute remarkable coincidences to paranormal causes rather than chance. Previous studies have shown that belief in the paranormal is indeed positively related to error rates in probabilistic reasoning....
Conducted 2 studies investigating the effects of relative group size on the perception of minority members as individuals. In both studies, a modified version of the 'Who said what?' paradigm is employed. In Study 1 (n = 169), relative group size of gender categories was varied, whereas relative group size of age categories was varied in Study 2 (n...
Zusammenfassung: Zahlreiche Paradigmen in verschiedenen Bereichen der kognitiven Sozialpsychologie erfordern Beschreibungen von Verhaltensweisen als Stimulusmaterial. Unseres Wissens liegt im deutschsprachigen Raum keine Normierung vor, auf die bei der Materialerstellung für entsprechende Untersuchungen zurückgegriffen werden könnte. Es wurden 165...
The present research investigates the effects of media richness, i.e. of paraverbal and nonverbal cues, as well as of physical attractiveness information on impression formation in a fictive online dating setting. Male subjects were presented with identical information about a young woman who presented herself either in a short video-clip, per audi...
