Amélie Mummendey

Amélie Mummendey (2009)

Amélie Dorothea Mummendey , some publications also under Schmidt-Mummendey (born June 19, 1944 in Bonn ; † December 17, 2018 in Jena ), was a German social psychologist .

Life

Amélie Mummendey studied psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and received her doctorate in 1970 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . She completed her habilitation in 1974 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where she was professor of social psychology in the psychology department from 1980 to 1996 . From 1997 to 2011 she held the chair for social psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . In 2007 Amélie Mummendey founded the Jena Graduate Academy, which she headed as the first Vice Rector of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena until 2011.

research

Her research dealt with social psychological issues of social identity , relationships and behavior between social groups . She was particularly interested in the determinants of negative treatment of outgroups such as social discrimination , ingroup preference and outgroup devaluation, as well as positive forms such as tolerance between groups. Recent empirical research, experimental as well as field research , has dealt with what is known as the positive-negative asymmetry of social discrimination and examining models for predicting the preference of coping strategies for threatened or negative identity . Most recently, Mummendey was particularly interested in the determinants and conditions for discrimination versus tolerance between social groups, conflict and cooperation, constructive versus destructive forms of coping with radical change, as well as questions relating to the connection between threat and social identity , the limits of tolerance and the social exclusion of outgroups. Mummendey's research findings have been published in numerous national and international journal articles and book chapters.

The ingroup projection model

Together with Michael Wenzel , Amélie Mummendey developed the ingroup projection model . This model states that members of one group with members of another group (e.g. Germans and Italians) always compare themselves with one another in the frame of reference of a common superordinate group (e.g. Europeans). The members of the individual groups "project" properties and characteristics of their own group onto the (idea of ​​the) superordinate group. Mummendey and colleagues were able to show that Germans tend to associate the group “Europeans” with stereotypical “German” characteristics than Italians, who tend to project the characteristics of their group onto the higher-level group. The members of both groups thus regard their own group as more typical for Europe, since it corresponds most closely to European characteristics. According to the ingroup projection model, this leads to social discrimination against groups that are perceived as less typical within the superordinate group. There are now motivational and cognitive explanations for the process of ingroup projection. Current research examines, among other things, how to prevent or reduce the process of ingroup projection and thus promote tolerance between groups.

Memberships

• Member of the Science Council from 1997 to 2002.
• Member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt (since 1998)
• Member of the Science Advisory Board of the European Science Foundation (EWS) from 1999 to 2005
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2001
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2009
• Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Einstein Foundation Berlin since 2009
• Member of the University Council of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2009
• Member of the University Council of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster since 2013
• Member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association since 2013

honors and awards

• 1993 Henri-Tajfel Award presented by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)
• 2001 German Psychology Prize
• 2005 Thuringian Research Prize (together with Thomas Kessler , Thorsten Meiser and Kai Sassenberg )
• 2011 Jean-Paul-Codol Award 2011 presented by the European Association of Social Psychology
• 2015 Federal Cross of Merit
• 2016 Martin Irle Prize of the German Society for Psychology

Fonts

• Hans-Dieter Schmidt , Christiane Schmerl, Astrid Krameyer, Angelika Wagner, Deiter Steinbach, Amélie Schmidt-Mummendey: Misogyny: Social-psychological aspects of misogyny . Juventa, Munich, 1973, ISBN 978-3-7799-0518-9
• Conditions of aggressive behavior. Huber, Bern 1975.
• Social Psychology of Aggression: From Individual Behavior to Social Interaction. Springer, 1984, ISBN 0-387-12443-8 .
• Social attitudes. Juventa, 1986, ISBN 3-7799-0304-0 .
• Identity and diversity. Huber, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-456-82810-1 .

Essays

• with S. Otten: Positive-negative asymmetry in social discrimination. In: W. Stroebe, M. Hewstone (Eds.): European Review of Social Psychology. 9. Wiley, Chichester 1998, pp. 107-143.
• with M. Wenzel: Social discrimination and tolerance in intergroup relations: Reactions to intergroup difference. In: Personality and Social Psychology Review. 3, 1999, pp. 158-174.
• with T. Kessler: Sequential or parallel processes? A longitudinal field study concerning determinants of identity management strategies. In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82, 2002, pp. 75-88.
• with M. Wenzel, S. Waldzus: The ingroup as pars pro toto: Projection from the ingroup onto the inclusive category as a precursor to social discrimination. In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 29, 2003, pp. 461-471.
• with S. Waldzus: Inclusion in a superordinate category, ingroup prototypicality, and attitudes towards outgroups. In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 40, 2004, pp. 466-477.
• with S. Waldzus: National differences and European plurality: Discrimination or tolerance between European countries. In: RK Herrmann, T. Risse, MB Brewer (Ed.): Transnational Identities. Becoming European in the EU. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2004, pp. 59-72.
• with Wenzel, Waldzus: Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model. In: European Review of Social Psychology. 18, 2007, pp. 331-372.
• with T. Kessler: Acceptance or rejection of otherness: The relationship between immigrants and locals from a social-psychological perspective. In 'F. Kalter (Ed.): Migration and Integration (Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology). Special issue 48; VS, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 513-528.

Web links

• Literature by and about Amélie Mummendey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Amélie Mummendey in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Website of the Graduate Academy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Amélie Mummendey in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Simon: Foreword . In: Sabine Otten, Kai Sassenberg, Thomas Kessler (eds.): Intergroup Relations: The Role of Motivation and Emotion (A Festschrift for Amélie Mummendey) . Hove 2009, p. IX .
2. ↑ Professor Dr. Amélie Dorothea Mummendey: Company Obituaries. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ M. Wenzel, A, Mummendey, S. Waldzus: Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model. In: European Review of Social Psychology. 18/2007, pp. 331-372.
4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Amélie Mummendey (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
5. ↑ Thuringian Research Prize 2005 in the “Basic Research” category. Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science and Digital Society, archived from the original on September 15, 2012 ; accessed on December 21, 2018 . 
6. ^ Jean-Paul Codol Medal. European Association of Social Psychology, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Media information 99/2015. Thuringian State Chancellery , archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on December 21, 2018 .