Dr. Susanne Veit

Ethnic Diversity, Social Trust and Civic Engagement
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Mitarbeiter/innen: Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Dr. Susanne Veit, Anna Ute Dunkel
Laufzeit: 2008-2012
Förderung: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend

Ethnic Diversity and Cooperation. Causality, Linking Mechanisms, and Context (Dissertationsprojekt, FU Berlin)
Betreuer: Bettina Hannover (FU Berlin), Ruud Koopmans (WZB)
Dauer: 2010 - 2014

21.11.2018:  "Faul und schlechter gebildet – oder zu traditionell und konservativ? Über den Einfluss von Stereotypen auf die Diskriminierung von Bewerberinnen mit Migrationshintergrund” (2. Fachgespräch "Brandenburger Bündnis für Gute Arbeit" & WZB Promotionskolleg "Gute Arbeit",  Potsdam, Germany)

26.10.2018:  "Signals of 'otherness' and the (non) impact of adding infromation in resumes" (GEMM-Final Conference, Paris, France)

28.09.2018:  "The populism formula: Inducing a sense of crisis, idealizing ‘the people’, and blaming out-groups” (4th Turkish-German Frontiers of Social Sciences Symposium 2018/Humboldt Stiftung, Potsdam, Germany)

20.09.2018:  "Not agentic enough or too conservative? Applying the ABC model of stereotype content to explain ethnic hierarchies in hiring discrimination” (DGPS, Frankfurt, Germany)

06.07.2018:  "Populist attitudes, economic crisis, and anti-immigrant sentiments: an experiment on the control-restoring function of out-group blaming” (ISPP, San Antonio, USA)

13.06.2018:  "Embedding populist attitudes: bridging the gap between views of life, views on society and populist attitudes (Workshop: Populist Attitudes in Comparative Perspective, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bamberg, Germany), together with Magdalena Hirsch

05.11.2017: “Immigrant group size and ethnic discrimination in hiring: Experimental evidence from a large-scale correspondence test in Germany” (SPS SGP SSP conference, Lausanne, Switzerland)

08.07.2017:  “What Makes Claire the Better Candidate Than Onika? A Correspondence Test on Labor Market Discrimination” (EASP, Granada, Spain)

22.03.2017: "Ethnic Discrimination on the German Labor Market?
Empirical Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment" (Tagung "Savoir Vivre! New Challenges for Work and Family Life in
Germany and France", Berlin, Deutschland)

26.11.2016: "On ethnic hierarchies, racial and religious discrimination: A large-scale correspondence test on labor market discrimination" (Konferenz: Integrating Immigrants and Refugees in the European Workplace: Challenges, Threats, and Solutions, Regensburg, Deutschland)

22.09.2016: "Pro-refugee Attitudes: An experiment on conditional solidarity, economic threat and symbolic threat" (50ter Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, Deutschland)

16.07.2016: “Equally qualified - but differently treated? Regional variation in the discrimination of immigrant job applicants” (ISPP, Warschau, Polen)

11.07.2016: “Companions in misfortune or competitors: Fears of economic hardship and attitudes towards refugees” (6th Annual Tajfel Seminar, Universität Warschau, Polen)

08.07.2016: “Parent Involvement in Multiethnic Schools” (Conference on Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education, Universität Potsdam)

13.04.2016: „Ethnische Diskriminierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt“ (Fachrunde „Das anonymisierte Bewerbungsverfahren“, Verwaltungsakademie der Senatsverwaltung, Berlin) gemeinsam mit Ruta Yemane

02.11.2015: "Das Experiment der verlorenen Briefe: Solidarität in Neukölln" (Fokus Neukölln - Disskussionsreihe "Wissenschaft kontrovers" von Wissenschaft im Dialog in Kooperation mit dem WZB, der Bürgerstiftung Neukölln und dem Neukoellner.net).

06.10.2015. "Begegnungsprojekte: Potenzial und Grenzen der Kontakthypothese". (Vortrag und Kommentar auf der Fachtagung "Wie integriert sich die Mehrheitsgesellschaft? Neue Perspektiven für ein Zusammenleben in Vielfalt", Tagung in Kooperation der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, des Anne Frank Zentrums und der Akademie des Jüdischen Museums, Berlin).

07.09.2015: "Viele Grüße vom Finder, lag auf der Straße". (Blitzdings-Vortrag auf der Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie der DGPs an der Universität Potsdam).

19.06.2015: "Das Experiment der verlorenen Briefe: Solidarität in Neukölln" (Fokus Neukölln, Workshop am WZB in Kooperation mit der Bürgerstiftung Neukölln).

12.09.2014: "Über die ethischen Herausforderungen in der experimentellen Feldforschung – ein Praxisbericht" (Tagung zur "Forschungsethik in der qualitativen und quantitativen Sozialforschung", LMU München).

28.08.2014: "Experiments on the causality in the relationship between ethnic diversity and cooperation" (11th IMISCOE annual conference "Immigration, Social Cohesion and Social Innovation", Madrid, Spain).

05.07.2014: "Ethnic Diversity and Collective Action: An Experiment on Parental Coordination in Ethnically Diverse Schools." (37th ISPP, Rome, Italy).

06.07.2014: "Ethnic Labor Market Discrimination: Racial Appearance, Cultural Distance, and Regional Variation." (37th ISPP, Rome, Italy).

08.07.2013: "NOT ALL NEIGHBOURS ARE FRIENDS: Diversity, Interethnic Contact & Social Trust among Natives and Immigrants." (36th ISPP, Herzliya, Israel).

24.05.2013: "Thinking about Ethnic Diversity. Survey Experiments on the Causal Role of the Perception of Ethnic Diversity on Perceived Cooperativeness." (International Conference on "Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital. Mechanisms, Conditions and Causality." WZB, Berlin)

02.12.2012: "Helping Strangers: A Lost Letter Experiment on Cooperation in Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods" (SPSSI-EASP Small Group Conference on Proactive Behavior Across Group Boundaries, Port Jefferson, New York, USA)

13.07.2011: "National difference in reactions to cultural diversity: An experiment on residents' trust in neighbours" (16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden)

11.07.2011: "How does school-level ethnic diversity affect social cohesion and engagement among parents in elementary schools?" (34th  ISPP "Cooperation and Human Societies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Political Psychology", Istanbul, Turkey)

17.06.2011: "Lost Letters - A Field Experiment on the Interplay between Neighbourhoods Ethnic Diversity, Senders Ethnic or Religious Affiliation and Residents Cooperation" (24th Annual Conference of the Peace Psychology Association, Marburg, Germany)

07.09.2010: “Cooperation in the Shadow of Ethnic Diversity and Otherness“ (IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP 2010 Conference, Köln)

13.07.2010: "Effects of ethnic diversity on trust in neighbours – evidence from a large-scale survey experiment" (XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

16.06.2010: "Dual identity – way out or wrong track? A comparison of two theoretical models on the basis of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (23rd Annual Conference of the German Peace Psychology Association, Bielefeld)

14.04.2010: “Priming of Ethnic Diversity and Trust in Neighbors. Does Intergroup Contact Moderate Priming Effects?” (Paper für die Inaugural CResPP Conference on Tearing Down the Walls. Rethinking the Political in Political Psychology, Queens University Belfast)