Dr. Frank Asbrock

Email: asbrock[AT]uni-marburg.de
Phone: ++49-(0)6421-28-23624
Room: 02046

Lecturer

Short biography

since Feb 2011 Lecturer Social Psychology Group
2008 - 2010 Post-doc member of the research training group "Group focused enmity"
Sep 2008 Dr. phil. in Psychology, University of Bielefeld
2008 Lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2005 - 2007 Scholarship of the Research training group „Group focused enmity“
1999 – 2004 Psychology Studies (Diploma) at the University of Bielefeld

Research interests

Ideological attitudes (Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation) and prejudice
Intergroup contact
intergroup conflict and emotions toward groups
Fundamental dimensions of stereotypes and discrimination

Publications

Journal articles

Asbrock, F., Gutenbrunner, L., & Wagner, U. (in press). Unwilling, but not unaffected. Imagined contact effects for authoritarians and social dominators. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Asbrock, F. & Fritsche, I. (2013). Authoritarian reactions to terrorist threat: Who is threatened, the Me or the We? International Journal of Psychology, 48, 35-49. [abstract]

Asbrock, F., Christ, O., Duckitt, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2012). Differential effects of intergroup contact for authoritarians and social dominators: A Dual Process Model perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 477-490. [abstract]

Asbrock, F., Nieuwoudt, C., Duckitt, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2011). Societal stereotypes and the legitimation of intergroup behaviour in Germany and New Zealand. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 11, 154-179 . [ abstract]

Asbrock, F. (2010). Stereotypes of social groups in Germany in terms of warmth and competence. Social Psychology, 41, 76-81. [ abstract]

Asbrock, F., Sibley, C. G., & Duckitt, J. (2010). Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and the dimensions of generalized prejudice: A longitudinal test. European Journal of Personality, 24, 324–340. [abstract]

Asbrock, F., Christ, O., & Wagner, U. (2007). The road to negative behavior – Discriminatory intentions in the German population. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 1, 4-18. [abstract]

Becker, J.C., & Asbrock, F. (2012). What triggers helping versus harming of ambivalent groups? Effects of the relative salience of warmth versus competence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 19-27. [ abstract]

Cohrs, J. C., Asbrock, F., & Sibley, C. G. (2012). Friend or foe, champ or chump? Social conformity and superiority goals activate warmth- versus competence-based social categorization schemas. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 471-478. [abstract]

Cohrs, J. C. & Asbrock, F. (2009). Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and ethnic prejudice against threatening and competitive groups. European Journal of Social Psychology 39, 270 – 289. [abstract]

Durante, F., Fiske, S. T., Kervyn, N., Cuddy, A. J. C., ... Asbrock, F., & Storari, C. C. (in press), Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap. British Journal of Social Psychology. [abstract]

Kauff, M., Asbrock, F., Thörner, S., & Wagner, U. (in press). Side effects of multiculturalism - The interaction effect of a multicultural ideology and authoritarianism on prejudice and diversity beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 305-320. [abstract]

Sibley, C. G., Duckitt, J., Bergh, R., Osborne, D., Perry, R., Asbrock, F., Robertson. A., Armstrong, G., Wilson, M. S., Barlow, F. K. (in press). A dual process model of attitudes towards immigration: Person x residential area effects in a national sample. Political Psychology. [abstract]

Sibley, C. G., Harding, J. F., Perry, R., Asbrock, F., & Duckitt, J. (2010). Personality and prejudice: Extension to the HEXACO personality model. European Journal of Personality, 24, 515-534. [abstract]

Sibley, C. G., Stewart, K., Houkamau, C., Manuela, S., Perry, R., Wootton, L., Harding, J. F., Zhang, Y., Sengupta, N., Robertson, A., Hoverd, W. J., West-Newman, T., & Asbrock, F. (2011). Ethnic group stereotypes in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 40, 25-36. [pdf]

Book chapters

Asbrock, F., Kauff, M., Issmer, C., Christ, O., Pettigrew, T. F. & Wagner, U. (2012). Kontakt hilft – auch wenn die Politik es nicht immer leicht macht. In W. Heitmeyer (Hrsg.), Deutsche Zustände, Folge 10 (S. 199-219). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Asbrock, F., Lemmer, G., Wagner, U., Becker, J. & Koller, J. (2009). Das Gefühl macht den Unterschied – Emotionen gegenüber „Ausländern“ in Ost- und Westdeutschland. In W. Heitmeyer (Hrsg.), Deutsche Zustände, Folge 7 (pp. 152-167). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Asbrock, F., Wagner, U. & Christ, O. (2006). Diskriminierung. Folgen der Feindseligkeit. In W. Heitmeyer (Hrsg.), Deutsche Zustände, Folge 4 (S. 156-175). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Asbrock, F. (2008). Die Systematik diskriminierenden Verhaltens gegenüber unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen. Dissertation, Universität Bielefeld. [abstract]