Education
Venia Legendi (Habilitation), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 2014
Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Sussex, UK, 2008
M. A. Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 2002
Major Areas of Interest
- Threats to central self motives:
- Freedom (psychological reactance, control)
- Consistency (cognitive dissonance)
- Continuity (mortality salience, time perspective)
- Belonging (social exclusion)
- Culture
Representative Sample of Publications
Kim, Y., Dulaney, E. S, Wangchuk, G., Kim, K. & Graupmann, V. (2024). True self or non-self? Self-essentialism and well-being in Tibetan Buddhist monks. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55(6), 659-678.
Graupmann, V., & Pfundmair, M. (2022). When ostracism is mandated: COVID-19, social distancing, and psychological needs. The Journal of Social Psychology, 163(1), 39–51.
Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M. & Graupmann, V. (2021). Basking in detected vice: Outgroup immorality enhances self-view. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(3), 371-387.
Graupmann, V. (2018). Show me what threatens you and I can tell who you are: Perception of threat and the self. Self & Identity, 17 (4), 407-417.
Graupmann, V., Pfundmair, M., Matsoukas, P., & Erber, R. (2016). Rejection via video: The impact of observed group and individual rejection. Social Psychology, 47, 345-350.
Pfundmair, M., Aydin, N., Frey, D., Du. H, Yeung, S., & Graupmann, V. (2015). Exclude me if you can – cultural effects on the outcomes of social exclusion. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46 (4), 579-596.
Silveira, S., Gutyrchik, E., Wetherell, G., Frey, D., Blautzik, J., Meindl, T., Reiser, M., Bao, Y., Poeppel, E., & Graupmann, V. (2015). Ceci n'est pas la mort: Evidence for the recruitment of self-reference from surrealistic art under mortality salience. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45 (3), 255-266.
Graupmann, V., Peres, I., Michaely, T. Meindl, T., Frey, D., Fehse, K., & Gutyrchik, E. (2013). Culture and its neurofunctional correlates when death is in mind. Neuroscience Letters, 548, 239-243.