• Toward a social psychology of intercultural communication: Processes, barriers, interventions
    supported by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) under the Research Networks Programme in Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF),
    fellow principal investigators: Olivier Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Karen Douglas & Robbie Sutton (both University of Kent).
  • Processes and Effects of Audience Tuning: Shared Reality with Ingroup- and Outgroup Members
    supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2007-2009, volume approx. € 77.500; Collaborators: Prof. E. Tory Higgins, Prof. John M. Levine . Research associate: TBA
    This research in the news: Shankar Vedantam's column in the Washington Post
  • ’It happened as I said’: Effects of Retellings on Eyewitnesses’ Event Memory
    German-British collaborative research grant under the bilateral agreement between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), (DFG EC 317/3), Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Amina Memon Professor Dr. Amina Memon (University of Aberdeen), volume approx. € 190.000. Research associates: Dipl.-Psych. René Kopietz , Dipl.-Psych. Jens Hellmann , Dipl.-Psych. Sarah Niemeier (associated employee).
    Press coverage on this German-British collaboration in the Times Higher Education
  • Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Minds, and Culture
    supported by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) in the Research Networks Programme in Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF), co-principal investigator: Prof. Gün R. Semin (University of Utrecht).
    Current report
  • Audience-tuning effects on Memory: Memory Processes and Socially Shared Reality
    supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2005-2007, volume approx. € 65.000. Research associate: Dipl.-Psych. René Kopietz , Collaborators: Prof. E. Tory Higgins , Prof. John M. Levine , Dipl.-Psych. Stephan Groll
  • Transatlantic relations from a social psychological perspective: Explicit and implicit forms of intergroup perceptions of Americans and Germans
    supported by a grant from the Foundation for German-American Academic Relations in collaboration with Dr. Frank Siebler
  • Memory and motivated self perception: When do people use ease of retrieval and other cues in self-inferences?
    In collaboration with Prof. Rasyid Bo Sanitioso (Université Paris V, René Descartes)
  • The construction of attitudes towards nations versus groups: Influences of priming with person vs. non-person exemplars
    in collaboration with Prof. Gerd Bohner and Dr. Frank Siebler (University of Tromsø).
  • The impact of stress on eyewitness memory in the postevent misinformation paradigm
    in collaboration with Prof. Oliver Wolf (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
  • Shared Memories, Shared Beliefs: The Formation and Use of Joint Representations in Social Interaction, chair and organizer (with Gün R. Semin, Amina Memon & Anna E. Clark) of a Small Group Meeting funded by the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), to be held in September 2007 in Rapallo, Italy
  • Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Minds and Culture, chair and organizer (with Gün R. Semin) of an Expert Meeting funded by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) as part of the Research Networking Programmes of the European Science Foundation (ESF), to be held in September 2007 in Rapallo, Italy
  • Workshops on Project and time management: Planning and psychological strategies for study success
  • Shared Reality in Cognition and Communication, chair and organizer of the 2nd Meeting of a Transatlantic Research Group (with E. Tory Higgins, John M. Levine, Gün R. Semin, Curtis Hardin, Stacey Sinclair, William Hirst), Columbia University, New York City, December 2004, supported by the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in Germany
  • Shared Reality in Communication: Current Projects and Perspectives for Future Research, chair and organizer of the 1st Meeting of a Transatlantic Research Group (with E. Tory Higgins and John M. Levine), Columbia University, New York City, December 2004, supported by the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in Germany
  • Contexts and Cultures of Memory, chair and organizer of an interdisciplinary symposium (with Martin Saar), January 2000, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, supported by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • Selecting the “Stuff” of Research: Theory of Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities [Der Stoff, an dem wir hängen: Faszination und Selektion von Material in the Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften] , chair and organizer of an interdisciplinary workshop (with Michael Eggers), July 1998, Cologne, Germany