Year: 2025

We are delighted that Sara Bergmann has been accepted into the Graduate Center of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). The program promotes excellent young scientists who are working on innovative issues relating to digital transformation. Sara Bergmann's research focus...

In a study, Dr. Kyra Göbel and Prof. Dr. Cornelia Niessen investigated how regularly sorting and deleting files affects concentration, mental effort and work performance - especially in connection with the ability to control distracting thoughts. A combination of laboratory research and an experienc...

Last week, part of our chair team attended the EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) congress in Prague. Julia Schmidbauer, Sara Bergmann and Lukas Retzer presented a total of three research papers from our department: Julia Schmidbauer: “Staying in a stressful j...

This study examines how (more) introverted leaders respond to the social demands of their leadership role. Based on research findings on anticipated negative affect, we examined whether introverted leaders show less role-congruent (extraverted and leader-like) behavior during the workday due to anti...

The conference year is in full swing and part of the chair will be attending the EAWOP conference in Prague from May 21-24, 2025. The chair will be represented there with two self-organized symposia: Julia Schmidbauer has organized a symposium with the topic “Designing Decent Work in the Blue ...

At this year's SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) annual conference in Denver in April, the team from the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology appeared in large numbers! The chair presented a total of three (!) research papers: Dr. Kyra Göbel on “Smartphone re...

In recent decades, globalization has increased social inequalities - especially for employees in blue-collar professions such as truck drivers - while at the same time there is an acute shortage of skilled workers. Yet it is precisely this occupational group that plays a central role in the function...

The “FORSocialRobots” research project, which deals with social skills for robots, successfully completed its first interim assessment by the Bavarian Research Foundation on February 25, 2025. Prof. Dr. Cornelia Niessen and Lukas Retzer presented the first results of their sub-project, which deals w...