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Otten, Sabine

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Early Life and Educational Background

Sabine Otten was born on May 22, 1960, in Dortmund, Germany. She earned her diploma in psychology at the University of Münster in 1984. At the same university, she finished her PhD in psychology (with distinction, “summa cum laude”) in 1991 with a dissertation on “Determinants of aggressive interactions: The impact of social context, perspectives, and subjective certainty.” In 2001, she finished her “habilitation” at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena based, among others on her thesis “When “I” turns into “we”: How representations of the individual self affect ingroup favoritism.”

Professional Career

Sabine Otten worked and taught at the University of Münster, Germany, between 1984 and 1997. From 1997 to 2002, she was employed at the University of Jena, Germany. Within this period, she also stayed more than a year in the United States as a visiting researcher: first, at the University of Princeton and...

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  • Jansen, W. S., Vos, M. W., Otten, S., Podsiadlowski, A., & van der Zee, K. I. (2016). Colorblind or colorful? How diversity approaches affect cultural majority and minority employees. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46(2), 81–93. doi:10.1111/jasp.12332.

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  • Otten, S., & Wentura, D. (2001). Self-anchoring and in-group favoritism: An individual profiles analysis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37(6), 525–532. doi:10.1006/jesp.2001.1479.

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  • Otten, S., Mummendey, A., & Wenzel, M. (1995). Evaluation of aggressive interactions in interpersonal and intergroup contexts. Aggressive Behavior, 21(3), 205–224. doi:10.1002/1 098-2337(1995)21:3<205::AID-AB2480210304>3.0.CO;2-4.

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  • van Veelen, R., Eisenbeiss, K. K., & Otten, S. (2016a). Newcomers to social categories: Longitudinal predictors and consequences of ingroup identification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(6), 811–825.

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  1. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

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Otten, S. (2016). Otten, Sabine. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_272-1

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