The 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) took place from 10 to 15 September 2022 at the University of Hildesheim. Researchers and psychologists from various domains exchanged ideas on crucial topics such as inequality at work, new technologies in psychological assessment, and societal polarization and radicalization.

Dr. Eleni Georganta, Dr. Martin Fladerer, Leidy Cubillos-Pinilla, Regina Dutz, Mira Kaut, Clarissa Zwarg, and Jakub Cichor represented the Chair of Research and Science Management with symposia, presentations, and posters on their important research. Former Peus team alumni Dr. Maxim Egorov (Manres AG) also supported our team by contributing important practitioner insights, thereby emphasizing the importance of the conference’s theme “View on|of Science”. The elaborate conference dinner at the Kulturcampus Domäne Marienburg provided the perfect conclusion to an exciting and insightful conference.

Our team contributed the following work:

Cichor, J. E., Hubner, S., Benz, T., Emmerling, F., & Peus, C. (2022, September). Robots as Leaders – Humble Servants or Arbiters of Doom? Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Cubillos-Pinilla. L & Emmerling, F. (2022, September). Rules are made to be broken! An eye-tracking and EEG study that evaluates neural correlates of individuals responses towards rules. Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany. 

Dutz, R., Pircher Verdorfer, A., Rehbock, S., & Peus, C. (2022, September). Destructive Leadership in Academia: Gender Biases in Evaluations of Leader Behaviors and Attributed Motives. Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Fladerer, M. P., Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Zwarg C. (2022, September). Ethically-oriented Leadership in Organizations: Current Research and Future Developments. Symposium presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Georganta, E. & Ulfert, A. (2022, September). Should Robots be like us? Exploring Trust in Human-Robot Teams. Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Hehnen, M., Fladerer, M. P., & Frey, D. (2022, September). Eine Exploration der Veränderung der sozialen Identifikation auf drei politischen Ebenen in den ersten Monaten der Covid-19 Pandemie [An exploration of the change in social identification at three political levels in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic]. Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Kaut, M., Le Houcq-Corbi, Z., & Soutschek, A. (2022, September). Improving Self-control in Nicotine Addiction by Entrainment of Brain Oscillations in the Temporo-Parietal Junction. Poster presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Kunde, H., & Emmerling, F. (2022, September). Paired associate learning induces (explicit & implicit) intergroup bias effects. Poster presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Zwarg, C., Fladerer M. P., Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Peus, C. (2022, September). Newcomers’ moral awareness: Understanding the roots of moral and prosocial development in the occupational context. Paper presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Germany.