Emotions
Dr. Malek Bajbouj
Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Benjamin Franklin Campus
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Hindenburgdamm 30, 12220 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Depression
- Sleep
- Emotions
- Refugees
- Migration
- Trauma
Dr. Michael Eid
Professor of Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Methods and Evaluation
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Measuring change
- Multi-method diagnosis
- Item response theory
Dr. Dina Emundts
Professor of Philosphy
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy
Habelschwerdter 30, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mind (in part also theory of feelings, especially gratitude and conscience)
Dr. Gunter Gebauer
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy
Anthropology, Philosophy of Language, Social Philosophy
Thielallee 43, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Soccer
- Culture-specific differences in soccer
- Role of the referee
- Sociology of sport
- Soccer fans
- Olympia
- Historical anthropology
- Linguistic theory
- Philosophy of language
- Social philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Anthropology of language
- Theories of practice
- Philosophy of movement
- Languages of emotion
Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Professor of German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
German Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Culture of emotions
- Satire, irony, comedy
- German-Jewish contemporary literature
- Modern poetry
- Theater of the Enlightenment
- Neurocognitive poetics
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Collaborative Research Centre 1171: Affective Societies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (social and political structures, religious diversity, gender relations)
- Vietnamese culture in Berlin
- Cultural aspects of emotions
- Socialization, education, and child development in cultural comparison
- Emotions and migration
- Gender relations (especially transgender cultural studies)
Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
Language, Emotion and Movement
- Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages
Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training
- Early acquisition of foreign languages
- Mixed-age learning settings
- English instruction tailored to specific individual needs
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Thomas Stodulka
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Politcal and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9 - 11, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- “Street children”
- Emotions
- Affects
- Stigmatization
- Childhood
- Youth
- Indonesia
- Culture and mental illness
- Social inequality
- Ethnography
Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
- University History
- Media History and New Media
- Gender Studies
- Global Literature
- Spanish Literature
- French Literature
Dr. Christian von Scheve
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Group Sociology of Emotions
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Emotions
- Social inequality
- Identity
- Economic sociology
- Values and standards
Dr. Peter Walschburger
Professor of Biopsychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Institute of Biopsychology
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology: humans as natural and cultural beings (social by nature)
- Management of individual action goals (desire for autonomy) in groups
- Familiar vs. foreign: problems of integration within and between groups (xenophobia)
- Dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of power, performance, and social motivation (craving for recognition)
- Human-environment relationships; people and media; new media
- Stress and overload: conditions, symptoms, stress regulation
- Disasters; threatening and extreme situations; trauma
- Dismay effects
- Physical-psychological interactions; mind-body relationship; nature and culture
- Moods and seasonal rhythms: conditions, hormonal and psychosocial aspects (biopsychology, biometeorology)
- Weather, climate, geographical regions, and psyche: Mediterranean vs. northern regions
- Sports psychological problems
- Adventurousness, risk-taking behavior
- Sex and gender: bio-psycho-social aspects of complementarity between men and women
- Emotional aspects of development and lifespan: children and parents, teens, adults, seniors
- Methodical, scientific, and epistemological problems in the human sciences