Sören Michallek

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Sören Michallek Photo: Hardy Welsch

Academic career

Teaching responsibilities

  • Course “Psychology and Cultural Diversity“ (Module 1 in the Bachelor's degree program in Psychology)
  • Thesis supervision (B.Sc./M.Sc.)

Academic career

  • Since February 2024: Doctoral researcher, chair of social psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
  • February 2022 – August 2022: Research internship, GOAL-Lab, Universiteit Utrecht
  • September 2021 – September 2023: M.Sc. Social and Health Psychology (Research), Universiteit Utrecht
  • April 2021 – July 2021: Research internship, Clinical institute for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, University Hospital Düsseldorf
  • June 2019 – June 2020 & February 2021 – March 2021: Research assistant in the DFG-funded project “Kinderschutzkarrieren“, German Youth Institute
  • October 2017 – September 2021: B.Sc. Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Research interests

  • Masculinity threat and its consequences
  • Social identity
  • Manosphere
  • Social psychology of social media

Links

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Conference Presentations

mehr Infos

Michallek, S., Lorenz, L., & Froehlich, L. (2026, July). Masculinity threat, precarious manhood beliefs, and men’s rape myth acceptance [Symposium presentation]. General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Strasbourg, France.

Michallek, S., Schröter, H., & Stürmer, S. (2025, September). Assessment analytics: Determinants of students’ willingness to donate their digital e-exam data for quality improvements [Conference poster]. DGPs Social Psychology Section Conference, Bochum, Germany.

Michallek, S., & Froehlich, L. (2025, August). Does masculinity threat influence men’s rape myth acceptance? [Conference presentation]. Nordic Gender Conference on Men in Communal Roles, Tromsø, Norway.

Social Psychology | 16.07.2026