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Sabine Otten is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans the disciplines of social sciences and psychology, with emphasized subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, communication, and gender studies.

The primary topics of Otten's work include social and intergroup psychology, ethics in clinical research, international student and expatriate challenges, cultural differences and values, gender diversity and inequality, global education and multiculturalism, and racial and ethnic identity research.

Otten has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with frequent appearances in several academic venues:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Human Genetics

Some of Otten's recent papers include:

  • A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change., 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence., 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Polarization in attitudes towards refugees and migrants in the Netherlands, 2021, European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Demographic and prosocial intrapersonal characteristics of biobank participants and refusers: the findings of a survey in the Netherlands, 2020, European Journal of Human Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Reinder Broekstra
  • Judith Aris-Meijer
  • Els Maeckelberghe
  • Ronald P. Stolk
  • Tabea Häßler

Otten's scholarly output reflects diverse interests in social dynamics, psychological processes, and health-related social research, contributing to understanding intergroup relations, social norms, and ethical dimensions in clinical research across multiple cultural and social contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Social Identity Perspective Intergroup Relations, Self-Conception, and Small Groups

    Michael A. Hogg;Dominic Abrams;Sabine Otten;Steve Hinkle

  • Overlap of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Pictorial Measures of Self-Categorization.

    Thomas W. Schubert;Sabine Otten

  • Illegitimacy Moderates the Effects of Power on Approach

    Joris Lammers;Adam D. Galinsky;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • Inclusion: Conceptualization and measurement

    Wiebren S. Jansen;Sabine Otten;Karen I. van der Zee;Lise Jans

  • Positive–Negative Asymmetry in Social Discrimination

    Amélie Mummendey;Sabine Otten

  • About the impact of automaticity in the minimal group paradigm: evidence from affective priming tasks

    Sabine Otten;Dirk Wentura

  • Power increases social distance

    Joris Lammers;Adam D. Galinsky;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • Evidence for implicit evaluative in-group bias: Affect-biased spontaneous trait inference in a minimal group paradigm.

    Sabine Otten;Gordon B. Moskowitz

  • A three-dimensional model of women's empowerment : Implications in the field of microfinance and future directions

    Marloes A. Huis;Nina Hansen;Sabine Otten;Robert Lensink

  • Self-Anchoring and In-Group Favoritism: An Individual Profiles Analysis

    Sabine Otten;Dirk Wentura

  • Intergroup Discrimination in Positive and Negative Outcome Allocations: Impact of Stimulus Valence, Relative Group Status, and Relative Group Size

    Sabine Otten;Amelie Mummendey;Mathias Blanz

  • Looking through the eyes of the powerful

    Joris Lammers;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • What I think you see is what you get: Influence of prejudice on assimilation to negative meta-stereotypes among Dutch Moroccan teenagers

    Elanor Kamans;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Hilbrand Oldenhuis;Sabine Otten

  • Cultural diversity in organizations: Enhancing identification by valuing differences

    Kyra Luijters;Karen I. van der Zee;Sabine Otten

  • The Challenge of Merging: Merger Patterns, Premerger Status, and Merger Support

    Steffen R. Giessner;G. Tendayi Viki;Sabine Otten;Deborah J. Terry

  • An Integrative Model of Social Identification Self-Stereotyping and Self-Anchoring as Two Cognitive Pathways

    Ruth Van Veelen;Sabine Otten;Maria Rosaria Cadinu;Nina Hansen

  • Overlapping Mental Representations of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Unraveling Self-Stereotyping and Self-Anchoring

    Sabine Otten;Kai Epstude

  • A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

    Tabea Hässler;Johannes Ullrich;Michelle Bernardino;Nurit Shnabel

  • Being part of diversity: The effects of an all-inclusive multicultural diversity approach on majority members’ perceived inclusion and support for organizational diversity efforts

    Wiebren S. Jansen;Sabine Otten;Karen I. van der Zee

  • Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Social Discrimination: Valence of Evaluation and Salience of Categorization

    Amélie Mummendey;Sabine Otten;Uwe Berger;Thomas Kessler

  • The social self: Cognitive, interpersonal and intergroup perspectives

    Sabine Otten

  • The positive-negative asymmetry of social discrimination

    A Mummendey;Sabine Otten

Frequent Co-Authors

Amélie Mummendey
Amélie Mummendey Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Karen I. van der Zee
Karen I. van der Zee Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joris Lammers
Joris Lammers University of Cologne
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Martijn van Zomeren
Martijn van Zomeren University of Groningen
Kai Sassenberg
Kai Sassenberg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Stephen C. Wright
Stephen C. Wright Simon Fraser University
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Roberto Baiocco
Roberto Baiocco Sapienza University of Rome

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