Sven Waldzus
My current research areas focus on intergroup relations, social identity, self-categorization and prototypicality, relational models and their embodiment.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Brito, R., Waldzus, S., Sekerdej, M., & Schubert, T. W. (2011). The contexts and structures of relating to others: How memberships in different types of groups shape the construction of interpersonal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28, 3, 406 - 432.
- Kessler, T., Neumann, J., Mummendey, A., Bertholt, A., Schubert, T. W., & Waldzus, S. (2010). How do we assign punishment? The impact of minimal and maximal standards on the evaluation of deviants. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(9), 1213-1224.
- Rosa, M. & Waldzus, S. (2012). Efficiency and defense motivated ingroup projection: Sources of protoypicality in intergroup relations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 669-681
- Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Giessner, S. (2009). Control over the association of power and size. Social Cognition, 27, 1-19.
- Waldzus, S., & Mummendey, A. (2004). Inclusion in a superordinate category, in-group prototypicality, and attitudes towards out-groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 466-477.
- Waldzus, S., Mummendey, A., & Wenzel, M. (2005). When "different" means "worse": In-group prototypicality in changing intergroup contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 76-83.
- Waldzus, S., Mummendey, A., Wenzel, M., & Boetcher, F. (2004). Of bikers, teachers and Germans: Groups' diverging views about their prototypicality. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 385-400.
- Waldzus, S., Mummendey, A., Wenzel, M., & Weber, U. (2003). Towards tolerance: Representations of superordinate categories and perceived ingroup prototypicality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 31-47.
- Weber, U., Mummendey, A., & Waldzus, S. (2002). Perceived legitimacy of intergroup status differences: Its prediction by relative ingroup prototypicality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 449-470.
- Wenzel, M., Mummendey, A., & Waldzus, S. (2007). Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 331-372.
- Wenzel, M., Mummendey, A., Weber, U., & Waldzus, S. (2003). The ingroup as Pars pro Toto: Projection from the ingroup onto the inclusive category as a precursor to social discrimination. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 461-473.
Other Publications:
- Mummendey, A., & Waldzus, S. (2004). National differences and European plurality: Discrimination or tolerance between European countries. In R. Herrmann, T. Risse, & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Transnational identities: Becoming European in the EU (pp. 59-72). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S. & Seibt, B. (2011). More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience. In: T.W. Schubert & A. Maass (Eds.) Spatial dimensions of social thought, 153 - 185. . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Seibt, B. (2008). The embodiment of power and communalism in space and bodily contact. In G. R. Semin & E. R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches (pp. 160-183). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Waldzus, S. (2010). Complexity of superordinate self-categories and ingroup projection. In R. J. Crisp (Ed.), The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity (pp. 224-254). Wiley-Blackwell: Malden.
- Waldzus, S. (2009). The ingroup projection model. In S. Otten, T. Kessler & K. Sassenberg (Eds.), Intergroup relations: The role of motivation and emotion (pp. 41-60). London, UK: Psychology Press.
- Waldzus, S., & Schubert, T. W. (2000). Group norm and category norm in anonymous situations: Two sources of social influence. In T. Postmes, R. Spears, M. Lea, & S. Reicher (Eds.), SIDE issues centre stage: Recent developments in studies of de-individuation in groups (pp. 31-45). Amsterdam: KNAW.
Courses Taught:
- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
- Research Seminar
- Social Identity and Intergroup Relations
- Social Psychology
Sven Waldzus
Centre for Social Research and Intervention
ISCTE, Lisbon University Institute
Av. Forcas Armadas
1649-026 Lisbon
Portugal
- Phone: +351 21 790 30 01
- Fax: +351 21790 30 02