Research Training Group 2070 Understanding Social Relationships

Thomas Schultze-Gerlach

Economic and Social Psychology
Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology


Research Interests


  • Decision making processes in groups
  • Calculation of losses
  • Psychological saturation in the context of work



Education and Employment

2010PhD in Psychology at the University of Göttingen: The depletion of non valid advice: Why bad advice is being considered excessively
2007-Research Assistant at the Department for Economic and Social Psychology of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
2007Diploma in Psychology at the University of Göttingen
2002Diploma in business administration at the University of Cooperative Education in Berlin


Selected honours and awards

2012Georg-Elias-Award for doing the best teaching in the master's degree program in psychology
2005-2007Stipendiary of the German National Merit Foundation



Selected publications


Häusser, J., Schulz-Hardt, S., Schultze, T., Tomaschek, A., & Mojzisch, A. (in press). Experimental evidence for the effects of task repetitiveness on mental strain and objective work performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Mojzisch, A., Krumm, S., & Schultze, T. (in press). Do high working memory groups perform better? A conceptual approach linking individual differences in working memory capacity to group performance. Journal of Personnel Psychology.

Schilbach, L., Eickhoff, S., Schultze, T., Mojzisch, A., & Vogeley, K. (2013). To You I Am Listening: Perceived competence of advisors influences judgement and decision-making via recruitment of the amygdala. Social Neuroscience8,189-202.

Schultze, T., Pfeiffer, F. & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2012). Biased information processing in the escalation paradigm: Information search and information evaluation as potential mediators of escalating commitment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 16-32.

Schultze, T., Mojzisch, A. & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2012). Why groups perform better than individuals at quantitative judgment tasks: Group-to-individual transfer as an alternative to differential weighting. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.12.006.

Schultze, T., Mojzisch, A., & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2013). Groups weight outside information less than individuals because they should: Response to Minson and Mueller (2012). Psychological Science 25, 1371-1372.