Month: May 2025

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 ...