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JProf. Dr. Friederike Eyssel

Friederike Eyssel

CITEC Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology
Bielefeld University
Universitätsstraße 21–23
33615 Bielefeld
Germany

Room: Q1-149
Phone: +49 (0)521 106-12044
Fax: ++49 (0)521 106-6560
Email: feyssel'at'cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
Office hours: on appointment (via Email)

From September 01, 2011 till August 31, 2012, JProf. Dr. Friederike Eyssel heads the Department of Social Psychology at University of Cologne while Prof. Dr. Thomas Mussweiler is on sabbatical.

Research Interests

Anthropomorphism
Social Robotics
Social Cognition
Virtual Agents
Gender stereotypes and (ambivalent) sexism
Infrahumanization
Sexual violence
Measurement of implicit and explicit attitudes

Link Publication List

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Eyssel, F. & Ribas, X. (accepted). How to be good (or bad): On the fakeability of dehumanization and prejudice against outgroups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (2012). Schematic influences of rape myth acceptance on visual information processing: An eye-tracking approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 660-668. *Second and third author contributed equally to this manuscript

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (in press). Social categorization of social robots: Anthropomorphism as a function of robot group membership. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (in press). Schematic influences of rape myth acceptance on visual information processing: An eye-tracking approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. *Second and third author contributed equally to the publication.

Köpke, S., Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (in press). "She deserved it" - Effects of sexism norms, type of violence and victim's pre-assault behavior on blame attributions toward female victims and approval of aggressor's behavior. Violence against Women.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2011). Effects of rape myth acceptance on perpetrator blame: The role of perceived entitlement to judge. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26, 1579-1605.

Eyssel, F. & Hegel, F. (in press). (S)he's got the look: Gender-stereotyping of social robots. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Eyssel, F. (2009). Rape stereotypes and myths and their psycho-legal consequences. Sex Roles, 61, 589-591.

Eyssel, F., Bohner, G., Süssenbach, P.& Schreiber, P. (2009). Neuentwicklung und Validierung eines szenariobasierten Verfahrens zur Erfassung der Neigung zu sexueller Aggression. Diagnostica, 55, 117-127.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2007). The rating of sexist humor under time pressure as an indicator of spontaneous sexist attitudes. Sex Roles, 57, 651-660.

Eyssel, F., Bohner, G. & Siebler, F. (2006). Perceived rape myth acceptance of others predicts rape proclivity: Social norm or judgmental anchoring? Swiss Journal of Psychology, 65, 93-99.

Bohner, G., Jarvis, C. I., Eyssel, F., & Siebler, F. (2005). The causal impact of rape myth acceptance on men's rape proclivity: Comparing sexually coercive and noncoercive men. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 819-828.

Book chapters

Bohner, G., Eyssel, F., Pina, A., Siebler, F., & Viki, G. T. (2009). Rape myth acceptance: Affective, behavioural, and cognitive effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator. In M. Horvath & J. Brown (Eds.), Rape: Challenging contemporary thinking. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2008). Modern Rape Myths: The Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) Scale. In T. G. Morrison & M.A.Morrison, The psychology of modern prejudice (pp. 261-276). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Kreft, M., Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (im Druck). 'Am Ender der Angst' - Psychologische Evaluation eines Theaterprojekts zum Thema Sexuelle Aggression im Jugendalter. Sammelband Praxisforschung Öffentliche Jugendhilfe (Sozialhilfe) Karlsruhe.

Articles in conference proceedings

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D. & Bobinger, S., de Ruiter, L. & Hegel, F. (2012). 'If you sound like me, you must be more human': On the interplay of robot and user features on human-robot acceptance and anthropomorphism. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 125-126.

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (2011). My robot is more human than yours: Effects of group membership on anthropomorphic judgments of the social robot Flobi. Proceedings of the Workshop Cognitive Neuroscience and Robotics. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011).

Kuchenbrandt, D., Eyssel, F., Bobinger, S. & Neufeld, M. (2011). Minimal group - maximal effect? Evaluation and anthropomorphization of the humanoid robot NAO. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, (ICSR 2011), 104-113 (awarded for Best Paper ICSR 2011).

Salem, M., Eyssel, F., Rohlfing, K., Kopp, K. & Joublin, F. (2011). Effects of humanlike conversational behavior on perception of psychological anthropomophism: A case study with a humanoid robot. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, (ICSR 2011), 31-41.

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (2011). Manipulating anthropomorphic inferences about NAO: The role of situational and dispositional aspects of effectance motivation. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2011), 467-472.

Kuchenbrandt, D., Eyssel, F. & Bobinger, S. (2011). Effects of anticipation of human-machine interaction and predictability of robot behavior on anthropomorphism and acceptance). Tagungsband der GfA Frührjahrskonferenz 2011, 185-188.

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D., & Bobinger, S. (2011). Effects of Anticipated Human-Robot Interaction and Predictability of Robot Behavior on Perceptions of Anthropomorphism. Proceedings of the 6th HRI International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), 61-67.

Eyssel, F., Hegel, F., Horstmann, G. & Wagner, C. (2010). Anthropomorphic inferences from emotional nonverbal cues: A case study. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2010), 681-686.

Hegel, F., Eyssel, F. & Wrede, B. (2010). The Social Robot Flobi: Key Concepts of Industrial Design. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2010), 120-125.

Bergmann, K., Kopp, S. & Eyssel, F. (2010). Individualized gesturing outperforms average gesture production in virtual humans. In J. Allbeck et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (LNAI 6356, pp. 104-117). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.

Scientific Presentations

2012

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2012, March). Cooperation makes it happen: Imagined intergroup cooperation enhances the positive effects of imagined contact. 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mannheim, Germany.

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D. & Bobinger, S., de Ruiter, L. & Hegel, F. (2012). 'If you sound like me, you must be more human': On the interplay of robot and user features on human-robot acceptance and anthropomorphism. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Late Breaking Report, Boston, MA, USA, March 2012.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2012, January). Imagining intergroup cooperation enhances the positive effects of imagined contact on intergroup bias. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (2012, January). Social categorization 2.0: Effects of robot group membership on anthropomorphic inferences. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.

2011

Eyssel, F., Bergmann, K. & Kopp, S. (2011, Januar). Human-like or not human-like?: A virtual agent's gesturing behavior increases perceived interaction quality and anthropomorphism. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Eyssel, F. (2011, Februar). (Measuring) Anthropomorphism: A social psychological perspective. Eingeladener Vortrag, Workshop on Benchmarking of Cognitive Systems (BCogs), Bielefeld University.

Bobinger, S. & Eyssel, F. (2011, März). Kompetent und nett? Wie Gruppenzugehörigkeit die Bewertung von virtuellen Agenten beeinflusst. 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Halle (Saale).

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D. & Bobinger, S. (2011, März). Menschenähnliche Roboter?: Wie Interaktionserwartungen und Roboterverhalten unsere Urteile über soziale Roboter beeinflussen. 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Halle (Saale).

Kuchenbrandt, D., Eyssel, F. & Bobinger, S. (2011, März).Effekte der Antizipierung von Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion und der Vorhersagbarkeit eines Roboters auf Anthropomorphisierung und Akzeptanz. 57. Frühjahrskongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, Chemnitz.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2011, März).Imaginierter Kontakt und Self-Disclosure: Unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf Vorurteile, Vertrauen und Empathie. 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Halle (Saale).

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D. & Bobinger, S. (2011, März). Effects of anticipated human-robot interaction and predictability of robot behavior on perceptions of anthropomorphism. 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Lausanne.

Eyssel, F., Süssenbach, P. & Bohner, G. (2011, Juli). In the eye of the beholder: Effects of rape myth acceptance on information search strategies. 16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm.

Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (2011, Juli). Acceptance of sexual aggression myths in a representative sample of German residents.16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm.

Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D. & Bobinger, S. (2011, Juli). Expecting to meet a robot: Effectance motivation and its impact on anthropomorphic judgements. 12th European Conference of Psychology, Istanbul.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2011, Mai). I like them more if they are not belonging to my group: The role of categorization in imagined intergroup contact. 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, USA.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2011). Don’t think... feel! The effects of affective versus cognitive focus during imagined intergroup contact. Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2011). When imagined contact leads to intergroup trust and empathy: The role of self-disclosure in imagined intergroup contact. 12th European Conference of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kuchenbrandt, D. & Eyssel, F. (2011). Imagining optimal intergroup contact: Facilitating factors of imagined contact, 3. Postdoc Workshop Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland.

Eyssel, F. & Ribas, X. (2011, Juli). How to be good (or bad): On the fakeability of infrahumanization and explicit prejudice toward Sinti & Roma. Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kuchenbrandt, D., Eyssel, F. & Bobinger, S. (2011, September). Rendezvous mit einem Roboter: Auswirkungen auf subjektives Stresserleben in der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion und wahrgenommene Menschenähnlichkeit.13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Hamburg.

Eyssel, F., Kopp, S. , Bergmann, K. Dickel, N. & Bobinger, S. (2011, September). Typisch menschlich 2.0 !? Effekte von sozialem Kommunikationsverhalten bei virtuellen Agenten. Symposium “Sozialpsychologische Aspekte der Interaktion mit Robotern und virtuellen Charakteren” (Leitung: Friederike Eyssel & Nicole Krämer),13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Hamburg.

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (2011, August). Manipulating anthropomorphic inferences about NAO: The role of situational and dispositional aspects of effectance motivation. 20th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2011).

Salem, M., Eyssel, F., Rohlfing, K., Kopp, K., & Joublin, F. (2011, November). Effects of humanlike conversational behavior on perception of psychological anthropomorphism: A case study with a humanoid robot. 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Kuchenbrandt, D., Eyssel, F. , Bobinger, S. & Neufeld, M. (2011, November). Minimal group – maximal effect? Evaluation and anthropomorphization of the humanoid robot NAO. 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Eyssel, F. & Kuchenbrandt, D. (2011, September). My robot is more human than yours: Effects of group membership on anthropomorphic judgments of the social robot Flobi. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), San Francisco.

2010

Eyssel, F., Horstmann. G., Wagner, C. & Hegel, F. (2010, Februar). Humanizing nonhumans: The role of mimicry in human-robot interaction. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Eyssel, F., Horstmann, G. & Hegel, F. (2010, März). Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion mit Gefühl - Emotionsdisplay und Anthropomorphisierung bei sozialen Robotern. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Saarbrücken.

Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (2010, März). Einstellungsstärke moderiert den Einfluss von Vergewaltigungsmythenakzeptanz auf Urteile und Verhalten. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Saarbrücken.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (Mai, 2010). Rape myth acceptance as a cognitive schema: Effects on blame judgements. 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA, USA.

Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (2010, Juli). “Well, so she drank....:” Schematic influences of rape myth acceptance on information seeking and attentional processes. XIX. International Society for Research on Aggression World Meeting, Storrs, CT, USA.

Eyssel, F. (2010, September). Neuentwicklung und Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Skala zur Internalen und Externalen Kontrolle von Sexistischem Verhalten. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bremen.

Eyssel, F., Hegel, F., Horstmann, G. & Wagner, C. (2010, September).Anthropomorphic inferences from emotional nonverbal cues: A case study.19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Viareggio, Italy.

Hegel, F., Eyssel, F. & Wrede, B. (2010, September). The Social Robot Flobi: Key Concepts of Industrial Design. 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Viareggio, Italy.

Bergmann, K., Kopp, S. & Eyssel, F. (2010, September). Individualized gesturing outperforms average gesture Production in IVAs.10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Eyssel, F., Süssenbach, P. & Bohner, G. (2010, November). Vergewaltigungsmythenakzeptanz und selektive Informationssuche. Vortrag im Symposium: „Mythen über sexuelle Aggression und sexuelle Belästigung: Motive, Funktionen und Konsequenzen“ (Leitung: F. Eyssel & A. Berger). 15th Workshop on „Aggression“, Bonn.

2009

Eyssel, F. (2009, Februar). The role of psychological closeness in anthropomorphism. 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL, USA.

Eyssel, F. & Hegel, F. (2009, März). Gender-Schemata bei sozialen Robotern. Poster , 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Jena.

Köpke, S., Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2009, März). „Sie hat es verdient“ – Die Rolle von Sexismus-Normen bei der Beurteilung männlicher Gewalt gegen Frauen. 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Jena.

Eyssel, F. (2009, März). Formen der (De-)Humanisierung. 2. Post-Doc Workshop der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Göttingen.

Eyssel, F. & Cislak A. (2009, August). The role of psychological closeness in predicting humanization. ESCON 2: Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Warsaw, Poland.

Bohner, G., Eyssel, F. & Süssenbach, P. (2009, September). Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Functions of Rape Myths: Theoretical Analysis and Implications for Change. International Workshop on Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Assault, Potsdam.

Eyssel, F. (2009, September). Humanisierungs‐ und Dehumanisierungsprozesse: Die Rolle psychologischer Nähe. 12.Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Luxembourg.

2008

Eyssel, F. & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2008, März). To be or not to be... disabled. Primingeffekte auf Einschätzungen von Wärme und Kompetenz. In P. Khader, K. Jost, H. Lachnit & F. Rösler (Hrsg.) Beiträge zur 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich: Pabst Science.

Eyssel, F., Cislak, A., Denson, T. & Albarello, F. (2008, Juni). /Infrahumanization: The role of psychological closeness. European Association of Experimental Social Psychology Small Group Meeting on "Dehumanization", Kasimierz Dolny, Poland.

Eyssel, F. et al. (2008, Juni). Social Judgeability enhances effects of rape myth acceptance in judgments of rape cases. 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Bohner, G. & Eyssel, F. (2008, Juli). Effects of irrelevant information on judgments of guilt in a rape case: The moderating role of rape myths and hostile sexism. Vortrag, XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin.

Eyssel, F. & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2008, Juli). To be or not to be … disabled: Priming effects perceptions of warmth and competence. XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2008, September). Rape myth acceptance as a cognitive schema: Effects on judgments of blame in rape cases. 10th Transfer of Knowledge Conference of the European Social Cognition Network, Volterra, Italy.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner. G. (2008, November). Rape myth acceptance: A cognitive schema? XIII. Workshop on "Aggression", Potsdam.

2007

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2007, September). Nicht lustig? Beurteilung sexistischer Witze mit und ohne Zeitdruck. 11. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Freiburg.

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2007, November). Not funny? Evaluating sexist jokes with and without time pressure. 9th Conference on Social and Community Psychology, Trondheim.

2006

Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2006). Impliziter Ambivalenter Sexismus: Erste Ergebnisse zur Entwicklung eines reaktionszeitbasierten Forschungsinstruments. In H. Hecht, S. Berti, G. Meinhardt, & M. Gamer (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schreiber, P. M., Süssenbach, P., Eyssel, F. & Bohner, G. (2006, September). Szenarienbasierte Erfassung von Vergewaltigungsneigung. 45. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Nürnberg.

2005

Eyssel, F. (2005, Mai). Measuring implicit ambivalent sexism. So-Doc-Meeting der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Mannheim.

Eyssel, F., Bohner, G., & Siebler, F. (2005, August). Effects of perceived rape myth acceptance of others on self-reported rape proclivity. British Psychological Society 52nd Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Eyssel, F., Bohner, G., & Siebler, F. (2005, September). Zum Einfluss von Normen und Ankerwerten auf die Vergewaltigungsneigung. 10. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Jena.

2001

Kany, W., Eyssel, F., & Töpfer, S. (2001, September). Entwicklungspsychologie in Heidelberg. Zur Geschichte eines Faches am Psychologischen Institut der Universität Heidelberg von 1926 – 2001 (in Auswahl). 15. Tagung für Entwicklungspsychologie, Potsdam.

Research Projects

Rape myth acceptance as a cognitive schema: Effects on direction and amount of information processing. (DFG BO 1248/6-1)

Perceived attitudes of others and men's willingness to commit sexual violence: normative influence and anchoring effects. (DFG BO: 1248/4-3)

Interdisziplinäres Graduiertenkolleg "Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit", Sprecher: Andreas Zick (Bielefeld), Ulrich Wagner (Marburg). DFG (GRK 884/3)

Dissertation

Eyssel, F. (2006). Beleuchtung unterschiedlicher Facetten von sexueller Gewalt:Über die Funktion von Vergewaltigungsmythenakzeptanz, die Erfassung von Vergewaltigungsneigung und die Messung von sexistischem Verhalten. Dissertation. Universität Bielefeld.