Prof. Klaus Rothermund, Ph.D. (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) will give a talk on An Episodic Retrieval Account of Habit Acquisition and Change: https://soccco.uni-koeln.de/cologne-talks

Prof. Klaus Rothermund is an eminent cognitive psychologist who combines cognitive, social, and developmental perspectives with a broad range of methods in a unique way. His talk will be interesting both from a cognitive, from a social cognition and from behavior change perspective. More information about Prof. Rothermund can be found here: http://www.allgpsy2.uni-jena.de/staff.php?surname=rothermund  – It promises to be an exciting talk! 
 
The talk will take place on Monday, January 9, 2023, at 2 pm in the conference room (Tagungsraum) on the ground floor of the Seminar Building (Building 106) on the main campus. There will be a small reception after the talk.

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Anja Bodenschatz (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt) - "How Technology-Aided Whistleblowing Systems may Foster Social Consensus"

Sören Harrs (University of Cologne) - "Meritocratic Ideology and the Welfare State"

Matthias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) - “The Gravity of Violence – A Quantitative Model of Trade and Conflict”

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Melisa Kurtis (Köln) - ElicitingRisk Preferences for Optimal Insurance Design: A Laboratory Experiment

Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School) - tba

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Guest lecture by Jochen Gebauer (Universities of Mannheim & Copenhagen) titled “Why do the Big Two Self-Concept Dimensions of Agency and Communion Predict Behaviour?” (see below for a short abstract)

The guest lecture is part of a talk series of the UoC Psychology Dpt. and takes place

• on Wednesday, January 25^th, 2023 at 14:00
• in the lecture hall H112 in the IBW building
  (Herbert-Lewin-Str. 2, 50931 Köln, 1^st upper floor)

You are cordially invited to attend!

Why do the Big Two Self-Concept Dimensions of Agency and Communion Predict Behaviour?
Jochen Gebauer (Universities of Mannheim & Copenhagen)

 Agency (competence, dominance, drive) and communion (warmth, morality, agreeableness) fundamentally organize people's self-concept. But do those Big Two self-concept dimensions predict behavior and, if so, why? Gordon Allport and David Bakan provided the classic model that responds to those questions. My colleagues and I have worked on a complementary model over the last 10 years. I will introduce this complementary model and provide support from cross-cultural survey data and from lab experiments. My aim is to show that the two models (classic and complementary), in concert with each other, are very well suited to predict the behavioral consequences of agency and communion in self-perception, including behavioral consequences of utmost social relevance.

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