I graduated with a Diploma (equivalent to a Master degree) from the University of Jena, Germany, in 2006. Afterwards, I worked in Biological and Clinical Psychology before I became a fellow of the International Graduate College 'Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups'. I received my PhD (summa cum laude, supervisors Melanie C. Steffens and Vivian L. Vignoles) in 2010 from the University of Jena, Germany. During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. After my PhD I was a researcher and lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Dresden, Germany (2010-2014) and at the University of Würzburg, Germany (2016-2019; mentor: Roland Deutsch). From 2014 to 2016, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Cognition Lab (PI: Jeff Sherman) at the University of California Davis, CA, USA. In summer 2019, I joined the Psychology department at UL.
Research Interests
I am a social psychologist with a strong interest in social identity. I often use a social cognitive approach to explain aspects of intergroup relations. Most of my research focuses on two key contemporary social issues, economic inequality and people' social mobility. Economic inequality is increasing in many countries and it goes along with negative consequences for individuals and the society as a whole. With international collaborators, I investigate how inequality among social groups may contribute to increased discrimination and worsened intergroup relations. Migration is another key contemporary issue. Every year thousands of people leave their country of origin. Migration is just one example of people's social mobility. Changing or losing job, becoming a parent, changing from high school to University are other examples of changing group membership. These changes confront people with new social identities. My international colleagues and I suggest that the successful integration of new identities into the self-concept depends on whether the new in-group shares norms and values with previous in-groups. If norms and values of a new in-group contradict those of previous in-groups, integration will fail. I am also interested in person perception, self-esteem, prejudice and discrimination, attitudes and attitude change.
Professional Activities
Award
2021 - Research Grant: "Brexit at the border: Intergroup Relations on the Shared Island"
2020 - EASP Seedcorn Grant: "Brexit at the border: How an UK-Ireland border affects intergroup relations in Northern Ireland"
2016 - Runner Up Speaker Award (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
2014 - Networking Grant: "Intra- and Intergroup Processes in the Context of Economic Inequality
2012 - Karl and Charlotte Bühler Award for Excellent Teaching in Psychology (University of Dresden, Germany)
2011 - Karl and Charlotte Bühler Award for Excellent Teaching in Psychology (University of Dresden, Germany)
2007 - PhD Scholarship
Association
Member, German Association of Psychology (DGPs, Section Social Psychology)
Member, European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
Shelly, C., Muldoon, O. T., & Roth, J. (2023) Brexit: Threat or opportunity? Nationalist identification is related to the perceived likelihood of a United Ireland..
Peace And Conflict: Journal Of Peace Psychology
Loughnane J;Roth J;van Tilburg W; (2023) A cognitive balance approach to understanding intergroup attitudes in post-Brexit Northern Ireland..
British Journal Of Social Psychology
Paul J Maher, Jenny Roth, Siobhán Griffin, Aoife Marie Foran, Sarah Jay, Cillian McHugh, Megan Ryan, Daragh Bradshaw, Michael Quayle, Orla T Muldoon (2022) Pandemic threat and group cohesion: national identification in the wake of COVID-19 is associated with authoritarianism.
Social Psychology
Lizarazo Pereira, D. M., Schubert, T. W., Roth, J. (2022) Moved by Social Justice: The Role of Kama Muta in Collective Action Toward Racial Equality.
Frontiers in psychology
Martiny-Huenger, T.; Roth, J. (2022) Effects of self-instructed stimulus-affect plans on indirectly measured and self-reported evaluative responses.
Acta Psychologica
McHugh, C.;Griffin, S.M.;McGrath, M.J.;Rhee, J.J.;Maher, P.J.;McCashin, D.;Roth, J.; (2022) Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID-19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand.
Political Psychology
Loughnane, J;Roth, J;Rauner, M;Strack, F (2021) From Student to Employee: Group Compatibility Predicts Group Identification and Intergroup Attitudes.
ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research :131-143
Foran, AM;Roth, J;Jay, S;Griffin, SM;Maher, PJ;McHugh, C;Bradshaw, D;Ryan, M;Quayle, M;Muldoon, OT (2021) Solidarity Matters: Prototypicality and Minority and Majority Adherence to National COVID-19 Health Advice.
LONDON : UBIQUITY PRESS LTD International Review Of Social Psychology
Roth, J., Mazziotta, A., & Barth, M. (2019) The two-dimensions-five-components structure of in-group identification is invariant across various identification patterns in different social groups.
Self And Identity :668-684
Hutchings, R. J., Calanchini, J., Huang, L. M., Rees, H. R., Rivers, A. M., Roth, J., & Sherman, J. W. (2019) Retrieval cues fail to influence contextualized evaluations.
Cognition & Emotion :86-104
Roth, J., Steffens, M.C., & Vignoles, V.L. (2018) Group Membership, Group Change, and Intergroup Attitudes: A Recategorization Model Based on Cognitive Consistency Principles..
Frontiers in psychology :1-14
Roth, J., Huber, M., Jünger, A., & Liu, J. H. (2017) It's about valence: Historical continuity or historical discontinuity as a threat to social identity.
Journal Of Social And Political Psychology :320-341
Roth, J. & Mazziotta, A. (2015) Adaptation and Validation of a German Multidimensional and Multicomponent Measure of Social Identification.
Social Psychology :277-290
Martiny, S. E., Gleibs, I. H., Parks-Stamm, E. J., Martiny-Huenger, T., Froehlich, L., Harter, A.-L., & Roth, J. (2015) Dealing with negative stereotypes in sports: The role of cognitive anxiety when multiple identities are activated in sensorimotor tasks. .
Journal Of Sport & Exercise Psychology :379-392
Roth, J. & Steffens, M. C. (2014) When I becomes We: Associative self-anchoring drives implicit intergroup bias in minimal groups. .
Social Psychology :253-264
Martiny, S. E.*, Roth, J.*, Jelenec, P., Steffens, M.C., & Croizet, J.-C. (2012) When a new group identity does harm on the spot: Stereotype threat in newly created groups.
European Journal Of Social Psychology :65-71
Roth, J., Steffens, M. C., Morina, N., & Stangier, U. (2012) Changed for the Worse: Subjective Change in Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem in Individuals with Current, Past, and No Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Psychotherapy And Psychosomatics :64-66
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Steffens, M. C., & Roth, J. (2017) Diversity-Kompetenz in Bezug auf Gender: Sozialpsychologisches Wissen ueber Geschlechterstereotype und Geschlechterrollen [Diversity Competence with Respect to Gender: Social Psychological Knowledge about Gender Stereotypes and Gender Roles].
Wiesbaden : Springer Handbuch Diversity-Kompetenz :273-283
Roth, J. (2016) Reproduktion von sozialer Ungleichheit durch Stereotype [Reproduction of Social Inequality through Stereotypes].
Barleben : Leipziger Universitätsverlag Armut. Gender-Perspektiven ihrer Bewaeltigung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart :69-98
Roth, J. & Steffens, M.C. (2014) Stereotype und Vorurteile [Stereotypes and Prejudice].
Köln : LSVD Homosexualitaet in der Familie. Ein Handbuch fuer familienbezogenes Fachpersonal :25-32
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Roth, J. (2018) (Wie) kann ich vermeiden, dass ich gefluechtete Menschen stereotypisiere oder sie vorurteilsbehaftet einschaetze? ? [(How) can I avoid stereotyping and prejudice towards refugees?].
