Christine Gockel


Fonction: Senior Lecturer and Researcher
Bureau: C-1.114
Téléphone: ++41 26 300 74 86
Courriel: christine.gockel

Education

 2007

Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology
Michigan State University, USA
Minor: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

2002 Diplom in Psychology
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

 

Professional Experience

 Since 03/2011

 

Senior Lecturer and Researcher
Personnel and Organizational Psychology
University of Fribourg, Switzerland

 10/2007-03/2011

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Economic, Organizational, and Social Psychology
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

 08/2003-09/2007 Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University, USA

 

Research Interests

  • Shared leadership
  • Transactive memory systems
  • Humor in teams
  • Group decision-making
  • Team performance

 

Teaching

  • Team Development
  • Leadership
  • Human Resource Management
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology

 

 

Journal Articles

  • Kolb, P., Gockel, C., & Werth, L. (in press). The effects of temperature on service employees' customer orientation: An experimental approach. Ergonomics.
  • Steidle, A., Gockel, C., & Werth, L. (in press). Growth or security? Regulatory focus determines work priorities. Management Research Review.
  • Gockel, C. & Werth, L. (2010). Measuring and modeling shared leadership. Traditional approaches and new ideas. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 9, 172-180.
  • Gockel, C., Kerr, N.L., Seok, D.-H., & Harris, D.W. (2008). Indispensability and group identification as sources of task motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1316-1321.
  • Horowitz, I. A., Kerr, N. L., Park, E. S., & Gockel, C. (2006). Chaos in the courtroom reconsidered: Emotional bias and juror nullification. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 163-181.

 

Professional Activities

Co-Editor of special issue about Time and Change in Teams for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (EJWOP) with Robert Roe, Franziska Tschan, and Bertolt Meyer (to appear 2012)

Ad-hoc reviewer for Communication Theory, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Human Communication Research, Small Group Research, Social Psychology, Swiss Journal of Psychology

Organized EAWOP Small Group Meeting about Time and Change in Teams with Bertolt Meyer, Franziska Tschan, and Robert Roe at Chemnitz University of Technology, 2011

 

Professional Affiliations

European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Swiss Psychological Society (SGP)
Département de Psychologie  -   R. Faucigny 2   -   1700 Fribourg   -   Tel +41 26 / 300 7620   -   Fax +41 26 / 300 9712   -   psychologie [at] unifr.ch   -    Swiss University