DR IRIS SCHNEIDER
I am currently the interim Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Cologne (on leave from TU Dresden University of Technology). My group studies the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence and conflict on (social) decision-making and information processing. We are particularly interested in social behavior and trust, examining how social behavior can cause ambivalence, and how expressing ambivalence influences trust behavior.
I was recently awarded a DFG grant for my research on The Effect of Expressed Attitudinal Ambivalence on Perceived Trustworthiness and Trust. This 3-year project explores how people perceive ambivalence on controversial political issues and its impact on interpersonal trust.
Beyond trust and social behavior, we also examine organizational processes, such as leader-employee relationships and well-being. Finally, we are interested in understanding under what conditions ambivalence leads to positive outcomes like creativity and reduced bias.
Check out this podcast or this article for an introduction to ambivalence, and its benefits. You can also check out some of my blog posts about our research on the blog page. If you are a researcher interested in ambivalence, you might want to join the Ambivalence Research Collective, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars.
I am a first generation student, and passionate about mentoring as a way to support early career researchers, for instance, through the First Generation Promotion Mentoring Program at the University of Cologne. I have also created a living document where I collect tips and conderations for students who wish to pursue a Phd (mostly based on Germany). My scientific work is available here, and my full academic CV is here. More information can also be found on my Google Scholar and Open Science Framework pages.
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Email me at iris.schneider@wiso.uni-koeln.de if you want to talk!
