The Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (CSCP) is dedicated to the basic and applied study of social psychological and cultural psychological themes. It focuses on interaction, thinking and feeling as intrinsically social psychological and cultural psychological phenomena and as they are all influenced by context variables.
The center has two major research groups: Social Cognition and Acculturation and Culture Collaborative. It is also responsible for teaching Social Psychology and Cultural Psychology to bachelor and master students in psychology.
Social Cognition
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Acculturation and Culture Collaborative
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Social cognition is viewed as a process through which information about relationships and interactions between individuals and groups results in a variety of inferences and judgments about self and others. The concrete topics of interest of the SC research group are: biases in social cognition, self-enhancement and self-superiority beliefs, and inferences from verbal communication. |
People derive their sense of self and of the world from the social and cultural worlds they share with others. The Acculturation and Culture Collaborative examines how specific social and cultural worlds afford and constitute such psychological processes as identity, emotion, and motivation. A special emphasis in our research lies on the interpersonal and intrapersonal consequences of immigration and multiculturalism. |
