Psychology in research and teaching

In the Faculty of Management and Technology, the psychology professorships at the two institutes for (1) Management & Organisation (IMO) and (2) Performance Management (IPM) pursue psychological research on business-related, entrepreneurial and organisational topics (focus on Psychology in Management). This research analyses the success of a responsible, sustainable transformation of work, organisations and society. The focus can be placed in the specialist group "Work, Organisational & Business Psychology" (AOW) of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), the corresponding application subject of AOW psychology and the basic subjects of social psychology and general psychology.

Institute for Management and Organisation (IMO)

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Deller, Chair of Business Psychology, in particular Differential Psychology and Aptitude Diagnostics
• Prof. Dr. Michael Frese, Chair of Psychology, especially Innovation Research and Entrepreneurship
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Genschow, Chair of Cognitive, Social and Economic Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik, Chair of Human Resources, especially Human Resource Development
• Prof. Dr. Monika Imschloss, Chair of Marketing
• Prof. Dr. David Loschelder, Chair of Economic and Social Psychology and Experimental Methods
• Prof. Dr. Laura Venz, Chair of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Institute for Performance Management (IPM)

• Prof. Dr. Sabine Remdisch, Chair of Personnel and Organisational Psychology

In the Faculty of Education, the professorships at the Institute of Psychology (IfP) conduct research with references to the basic disciplines (e.g. developmental psychology and differential psychology). Furthermore, in the field of educational psychology, socially relevant processes of change and transformation are researched on an individual and social level, especially in educational contexts. In addition, the professorship at the Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (IFSP) focuses on the significance of belonging to social groups or social identities for human experience and behaviour with reference to basic social psychological research in various areas of application (e.g. social work, educational contexts) (focus on Psychology in Society).

Institute for Psychology (IFP)

• Prof. Dr. Manuel Bohn, Chair of Developmental Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Freund, Chair of Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics
• Prof. Dr. Poldi Kuhl, Chair of Educational Psychology

Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (IFSP)

• Prof. Dr. Birte Siem, Professorship for Social and Organisational Psychology of Social Work

At the Faculty of Sustainability, the professorships conduct research based on central psychological theories and methods and develop them further in a practice-oriented manner, especially in the area of climate and sustainability. This includes how sustainability thinking and action develops over the lifespan, including in institutional and informal learning processes, how risks are understood and communicated by different individuals, how sustainable health promotion can be implemented, and what characteristics distinguish multidimensional negotiations for scarce resources.

Institute for Sustainability Education and Psychology (ISEP)

• Prof. Dr. Astrid Kause, Chair of Sustainability Science and Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Lehr, Chair of Health Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Maria von Salisch, Chair of Developmental Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Roman Trötschel, Chair of Social and Political Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wallot, Chair of Methodology and Evaluation Research

The application-oriented and basic research foci at the various faculties flow into five degree programmes with psychology teaching and are reflected in the teaching curricula. In teaching, psychology is offered in the Bachelor's programmes Psychology, Psychology and Society and Business Psychology and also in the Master's programmes International Joint Master of Research in Work and Organizational Psychology and Psychology and Sustainability.