Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. ...more >>

(c) Furthermore, Sibylle Petersen successfully defended her dissertation. Starting with September, she will be working in Dallas at the Southern Methodist University in the Stress, Anxiety & Chronic Disease Research Program on her project on self-concept and symptom perception.

(d) Swantje Möller also successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Disorientation and Reorientation in the Novels of Ian McEwan" on 16.07.2008 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne.

(e) The phenomenon of respect between leaders and subordinates continues to constitute a central focus of our research. We are very pleased about the fact that the results of our studies in this area have now been largely analysed and that

we had the opportunity to present and discuss these with critical specialist audiences on a number conferences, colloquiums and seminars. Here, we would like to once more thank the Stiftung Wertevolle Zukunft for the generous financial support of this research. Additionally, the first scale on "respectful leadership" and "respect for the leader" have been published ...more >>

(g) We were also active in research concerning respect in schools. In this area we are investigating how respect arises in the relationship between teachers and pupils and, on a practical level, how teachers can act in order to gain their pupils’ respect. Furthermore, in a new study we are researching the effects of respect towards learners on their academic achievement. We are grateful for the financial support we receive for this project from the Deutsche Stiftungstrust.

2. Selected conference papers of the RespectResearchGroup
(a) At the 9. Konferenz der Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, USA we presented two studies which show that the positive effects of respectful leadership on the voluntary openness of subordinates are mediated through processes of identification ...more >>

(b) In a contribution to the 13. European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology we presented two studies which show the importance of encouraging the experience of self-determintation in subordinates for subordinates’ satisfaction, strong identification with leaders, and openness towards the influence of leaders ...more >>