Markus Germar
Dr. phil. Markus Germar
Contact:
Telephone: +49 5121 883 10932email contact form
Room: W3-011 - Gebäude W (Tilsiter Straße) - Hauptcampus
Consultation time: nach Absprache
Homepage: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fr/fb1/institute/psychologie/mitglieder/wissenschaftliches-personal/markus-germar/ Homepage
Fields of work:
- Institut für Psychologie [Wiss. Angestellter]
Research Interests
- Social influence, social conformity
- Social neuroscience
- Cognitive modeling
- Moral psychology
- Group decision-making
- Evolutionary and comparative psychology
Academic Career
2015 - | Postdoc, University of Hildesheim |
2015 | PhD (Dissertation: "How Does Social Influence Affect Perceptual Decision-Making?"), University of Hildesheim |
2011 - 2015 | PhD student, University of Hildesheim |
2011 | Master of Science in Psychology; University of Göttingen |
2009 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology; University of Luxembourg |
Publications
Huber, C., Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (in press). Authenticity Occurs More Often Than Inauthenticity in Everyday Life: Evidence from Retrospective Reports. Social Psychology.
Mojzisch, A., Elster, C., & Germar, M. (2021). People perceive themselves to adhere more strictly to COVID-19 guidelines than others. Psychology, Health & Medicine
. doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2021.1906435
Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2020). Basal Testosterone Renders Individuals More Receptive to Minority Positions. Social Psychological and Personality Science
, 9(4), 194855062094511. doi.org/10.1177/1948550620945116
Germar, M., & Mojzisch, A. (2019). Learning of social norms can lead to a persistent perceptual bias: A diffusion model approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
, 84, 103801. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.012
Leder, J., Häusser, J. A., Krumm, S., Germar, M., Schlemmer, A., Kaiser, S., Kalis, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2018). The Cognitive Underpinnings of Option Generation in Everyday Life Decision-Making: A Latent Variable Analysis. Cognitive Science
, 42(8), 2562–2591. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12678
Germar, M., Sultan, A., Kaminski, J., & Mojzisch, A. (2018). Dogs (Canis familiaris) stick to what they have learned rather than conform to their conspecifics' behavior. PLoS ONE
, 13(3), e0194808. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194808
Imhoff, R., Lange, J., & Germar, M. (2018). Identification and location tasks rely on different mental processes: A diffusion model account of validity effects in spatial cueing paradigms with emotional stimuli. Cognition and Emotion
, 1–14. doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1443433
Hofheinz, C., Germar, M., Schultze, T., Michalak, J., & Mojzisch, A. (2017). Are Depressed People More or Less Susceptible to Informational Social Influence? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 193
(9), 17. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-017-9848-7
Germar, M., Albrecht, T., Voss, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2016). Social conformity is due to biased stimulus processing: Electrophysiological and diffusion analyses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11
(9), 1449–1459. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw050
Germar, M., Schlemmer, A., Krug, K., Voss, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2014). Social Influence and Perceptual Decision Making: A Diffusion Model Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(2), 217–231. doi:10.1177/0146167213508985
Research Grants
Social influence and perceptual decision-making. DFG-funded research project (Markus Germar & Andreas Mojzsich, 228.433 €, 2019 – 2022).
Can social influence lead to a persistent perceptual bias? Seed-Fund from the University of Hildesheim (Markus Germar, 4847 €, 2018)
How do groups solve moral dilemmas? Seed-Fund from the University of Hildesheim (Markus Germar & Andreas Mojzsich, 5000€, 2015)
Scholarships and Awards
2015 | Award for best teaching in psychology at the University of Hildesheim |
2012 - 2014 | Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
2010 - 2011 | Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten
Haben Sie Interesse an einer Bachelor- bzw. Masterarbeit in der Sozialpsychologie? Dann sind Sie bei uns genau richtig! Im Rahmen Ihrer Bachelor- bzw. Masterarbeit können Sie sich in unsere Forschung einbringen und dabei viel über sozialpsychologische Fragestellungen lernen. Hier finden Sie dazu alle Informationen: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/psychologie/arbeitsgruppen/sozial-organisations-und-wirtschaftspsychologie/themen-fuer-abschlussarbeiten/