Prof. Dr. Birte Siem

Birte Siem Foto: Hardy Welsch

E-Mail: birte.siem

Academic career

  • 2020: Habilitation and Venia Legendi at the University of Hagen
  • Since January 2017: Lecturer at the Department of Social Psychology and the Department of Community Psychology at the University of Hagen
  • January 2016 - December 2016: Lecturer at the Department of Social Psychology and the Department of Health Psychology at the University of Hagen
  • May 2010 - December 2015: Research associate at the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Hagen
  • October 2009 - March 2010: Research associate at the Department of Social Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • February 2008 - September 2009: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, International Graduate College "Conflict and Cooperation Between Social Groups", Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 2008: Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Hagen

Research interests

  • Prosocial behaviour within and between groups (with a particular focus on outgroup helping and intergroup solidarity)
  • Social inequality: Member of the DFG network "Intra- and Intergruppenprozesse im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit": Weitere Informationen
  • Approaching the other: Determinants of positive behavior across group boundaries in benign and malign intergroup contexts
  • Empathy and trust

Teaching

  • Supervision of B.Sc. theses

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

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  • Siem, B., Neymeyer, L., & Rohmann, A. (accepted). Entertainment education as a means to reduce anti-Muslim prejudice – For whom does it work best? An extended replication of Murrar and Brauer (2018). Social Psychology.
  • Radke, H. R. M., Kutlaca, M., Siem, B., Wright, S. C., & Becker, J. C. (2020). Beyond allyship: Motivations for advantaged group members to engage in action for disadvantaged groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320918698
  • Siem, B., & Barth, M. (2019). (Not) thinking about you – Differences in victims’ and perpetrators’ self-focus after interpersonal and intergroup transgressions. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication.
  • Siem, B., & Stürmer, S. (2019). Attribution of egoistic vs. altruistic motives to acts of helping - The role of the helper's status and the act's intended publicity. Social Psychology, 50, 53-66.
  • Aydin, A. L., Ullrich, J., Siem, B., Locke, K. D., & Shnabel, N. (2019). Agentic and communal goals in conflictual intergroup relations. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 144-171.
  • Aydin, A. L., Ullrich, J., Siem, B., Locke, K. D., Shnabel, N. (2018). The effect of social class on agency and communion: Reconciling rank-based and indentity-based persepctives. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication.
  • Barth, M., Siem, B., Aydin, A., & Ullrich, J., & Shnabel, N. (2018). Wie kann Versöhnung gefördert werden? – Das Bedürfnisbasierte Modell der Versöhnung. Inquisitive Mind, 4.
  • Becker, J. C., Ksenofontov, I., Siem, B., & Love, A. (2018). Antecedents and consequences of autonomy- and dependency-oriented help toward refugees. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication.
  • Noor, M., Kteily, N., Siem, B., & Mazziotta, A. (2018). "Terrorist" or "mentally ill": Motivated biases rooted in partisanship shape attributions about violent actors. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication.
  • Mehnert*, L., Siem*, B., Stürmer, S., & Rohmann, A. (2018). The impact of client-counselor similarity on acceptance of counseling services for women living with HIV. AIDS Care, 30,461-465. *shared first authorship.
  • Siem, B., Mazziotta, A., Barbarino, M.-L., & Rohmann, A. (2017). "Zusammengepfercht wie die Tiere" - Der Einfluss medialer Berichterstattung auf die Entmenschlichung von Geflüchteten. The Inquisitive Mind, 2.
  • Stürmer, S., Rohmann, A., Mazziotta, T., Siem, B., & Barbarino, M.-L. (2017). Fear of infection or justification of social exclusion? The symbolic exploitation of the Ebola epidemic. Political Psychology, 38, 499-513.
  • Lotz-Schmitt*, K., Siem*, B., & Stürmer*, S. (2017). Empathy as a motivator of dyadic helping across group boundaries – The dis-inhibiting effect of the recipient’s perceived benevolence. Group Processes & Intergroup Relation, 20, 233-259. *all authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Siem, B., Stürmer, S., & Pittinsky, T. L. (2016). The psychological study of positive behavior across group boundaries: An overview. Journal of Social Issues, 72, 419-431.
  • Siem, B., Lotz-Schmitt, K., & Stürmer, S. (2014). To help or not to help an outgroup member: The role of the target´s individual attributes in resolving potential helpers´ motivational conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 297-312.
  • Stürmer, S., Benbow, A. E. F., Siem, B., Barth, M., Bodansky, A. N., & Lotz-Schmitt, K. (2013). Psychological foundations of xenophilia: The role of major personality traits in predicting favorable attitudes toward cross-cultural contact and exploration. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 832-851.
  • Siem, B., von Oettingen, M., Mummendey, A., & Nadler, A. (2013). When status differences are illegitimate, group’s needs diverge: Testing the needs-based model of reconciliation in contexts of status inequality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 137-148.
  • Siem, B., & Stürmer, S. (2012). Cross-cultural volunteerism: Examining the effects of intercultural (dis)similaritie’s on volunteers motivations to support international students. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 544-557.
  • Siem, B., & Stürmer, S. (2012). Meeting recipient’s needs in dyadic cross-group helping: When the nature of the helper’s motivation matters. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 15, 762-775.
  • Stürmer, S., Snyder, M., Kropp, A., & Siem, B. (2006). Empathy-motivated helping: The moderating role of group membership. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 943-956.

Books

Mehr Informationen

  • Siem, B. (2020). Approaching the other: Determinants of positive behavior across group boundaries in benign and conflictual intergroup contexts. Kumulative Habilitationsschrift, FernUniversität in Hagen. deposit::hagen.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (erscheint in 2019). Sozialpsychologie der Gruppe (erweiterte Neuauflage). München: Ernst Reinhardt.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (2013). Sozialpsychologie der Gruppe. München: Ernst Reinhardt.
  • Siem, B. (2008). Prosoziale Emotionen und interkulturelles Helfen. Dissertation, FernUniversität in Hagen. deposit::hagen.

Edited special issues

Mehr Informationen

  • Siem, B., Stürmer, S., & Pittinsky, T. L. (Eds.). (2016). Proactive behavior across group boundaries: Seeking and maintaining positive interactions with outgroup members [Special issue]. Journal of Social Issues.

Book chapters

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  • Siem, B., & Rohmann, A. (2018). Selbst und Identität. In J. Strohmer (Hrsg.), Psychologie-Wissen für Fachkräfte in Kita, Krippe und Hort (S. 229-245). Bern: Hogrefe.
  • Siem, B. (2018). Freiwilliges Engagement im Kontext von Flucht und Migration. In A. Rohmann & S. Stürmer (Hrsg.), Die Flüchtlingsdebatte in Deutschland - Sozialpsychologische Perspektiven. Beiträge zur Angewandten Psychologie (Band 2, S. 29-52). Frankfurt a M.: Peter Lang.
  • Van Egmond, M. C., Rohmann, A., & Siem, B. (2018). Soziale Ungleichheit und Diversität. In C.-W. Kohlmann, C. Salewski & M. A. Wirtz (Hrsg.), Psychologie in der Gesundheitsförderung (S. 573-585). Bern: Hogrefe Verlag.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (2017). A group-level theory of helping an altruism within and across group-boundaries. In E. van Leeuwen & H. Zagefka (Eds), Intergroup helping (pp. 103-127). Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (2012). Civil society responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis: The role of social representations in shaping collective and individual actions. In K. J. Jonas & T. A. Morton (Eds.), Restoring civil societies: The psychology of intervention and engagement following crisis (pp. 237-249). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (2009). Kollektives Handeln und Gruppensolidarität - Motivationsprozesse und Interventionsstrategien am Beispiel politischer und sozialer Partizipation im Kontext der AIDS-Hilfe-Bewegung. In A. Beelmann & K. J. Jonas (Hrsg.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz. Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven (S. 511-531). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Stürmer, S., & Siem, B. (2007). Krankheitsprävention und -bewältigung als individuelle und kollektive Aufgaben. Politische Partizipation und ehrenamtliches Engagement im Kontext der AIDS-Hilfe-Bewegung. In T. von Lengerke (Hrsg.), Public Health Psychology: Individuum und Bevölkerung zwischen Verhältnissen und Verhalten (S. 216-227). Weinheim: Juventa.

Other

Mehr Informationen

  • Siem, B. (2018). Wie können Organisationen dazu beitragen, dass Ehrenamtler*innen sich langfristig engagieren und nicht demotiviert werden? – Der funktionale Ansatz ehrenamtlichen Engagements. Fachnetzwerk Sozialpsychologie zu Flucht und Integration. Weitere Informationen
  • Mehnert, L. & Siem, B. (2015). Die Rolle des Gesundheitsstatus einer Beraterin bei Beratungsangeboten für Frauen mit HIV. HIV & more, 3, 17.
Sozialpsychologie | 12.08.2021