Thomas Schubert
schubert[AT]igroup.org

About me

postdoc at the Social Psychology Department, Utrecht University, member of the Communication, Social Cognition & Language Research Group, Feodor-Lynen-Fellow of the Humboldt-Foundation

Research interests

• perceptual symbols, embodiment, and bodily feedback of power and ingroup-outgroup relations
• role of social identity for automaticity in social behavior
• graphical representations of the relation between self and a group
• psychology of virtual reality and sense of presence

Recent publications:

• Giessner, S. R., & Schubert, T. W. (2007). High in the hierarchy: How vertical location and judgments of leaders' power are interrelated. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 104, 30-44.
• Schubert, T. (2004). The power in your hand: Gender differences in bodily feedback from making a fist. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 757-769.
• Schubert, T. (2005). Your Highness: Vertical positions as perceptual symbols of power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 1-21.
• Schubert, T. W. (in press). A new conceptualization of spatial presence: Once again, with feeling Communication Theory.
• Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Giessner, S. R. (in press). Control over the association of power and size. Social Cognition.
• Schubert, T., Waldzus, S., & Seibt, B. (in press). The embodiment of power and communalism in space and bodily contact. In G. R. Semin & E. R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied Grounding: Social, Cognitive, Affective, And Neuroscientific Approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press.

For more details on publications, see my curriculum vitae. If you are interested in any of the manuscripts, please mail me.