Social Cognition and Social Behavior - the Social Cognition Center Cologne (SoCCCo)
The Social Cognition Center Cologne (SoCCCo) provides a dynamic research environment for the psychological study of human social behavior with a focus on underlying social cognitive processes. The research groups investigate a broad range of topics. Using an experimental social cognitive approach, they seek to better understand a variety of social psychological and social issues. Topics studied in the concentration include, for example:
- Social cognition
- Judgment and decision making
- Stereotypes and discrimination
- attitudes
- Social differences, cooperation and prosociality
- Cross-cultural social psychology
- Political psychology
- Philosophy of Science
Details can be found on the SoCCCo Homepage as well as on the homepages of the individual research groups.
Central groups: A. Gast, A. Glöckner, J. Lammers, C. Unkelbach
Associated groups: C. Stahl, S. Topolinski, B. Träuble
The focus is an integral part of the interdisciplinary Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) at the University of Cologne and represents psychology in the Excellence Cluster ECONtribute of the University of Cologne.
Further connections/overlaps
- Focus on Cognitive Foundations of Adaptive Behavior (e.g., Evaluative conditioning, Judgment and decision making)
- with further applied research (Educational Psychology, Media Psychology, Organizational and Business Psychology