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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology |
| Keywords | Kultur, Selbst, Identität, Befragung, Motivation |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Los Angeles |
| Institution | University of Southern California |
| Institute | Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Fritz Strack | Institut für Psychologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2009 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Oyserman is internationally known for her research on self, culture, and motivation, which she conducts within a situated cognition framework. Using experimental and field-based methods, she explores how culture and identity shape, and are shaped by, individuals' contexts, with a particular emphasis on identity-based motivation and its cognitive and behavioral consequences. Her work shows how cultural mindsets and identities can be usefully engaged to improve important life outcomes, including academic performance and mental and physical health. In Germany, she will collaborate with her host in exploring the role of deliberative and impulsive processes in identity-based motivation. |