Research Training Group 2070 Understanding Social Relationships

Andreas Mojzisch

Institute for Psychology
University of Hildesheim


Research Interests


  • Group decisions and Group judgements
  • Work and Health
  • Social Identity and Stress
  • Social Neuroscience



Education and Employment

2011 -Professor, University of Hildesheim
2009Habilitation, University of Göttingen
2004 - 2011Research Assistant, Department for Economic and Socialpsychology, University of Göttingen
2003 - 2004Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and Financial Psychology, TU Dresden
2007Dr. phil., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2000Dipl. Pych., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich



Selected publications


Frisch, J., Häusser, J., van Dick, R., Mojzisch, A. (2014). Making support work: The interplay between social support and social identity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 55, 154-161.

Mojzisch, A., Kerschreiter, R., Faulmüller, N., Vogelgesang, F., Schulz-Hardt, S. (2014). The consistency principle in interpersonal communication: Consequences of preference confirmation and disconfirmation in collective decision-making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 106, 961-977.

Kaiser, S., Simon, J., Kalis, A., Schweizer, TS., Tobler, PN., Mojzisch, A. (2013). The cognitive and neural basis of option generation and subsequent choice. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 13, 814-829.

Leder, J., Häusser, J., Mojzisch, A.(2013). Stress and strategic decision-making in the beauty contest game. Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, 1503-1511.

Häusser, J.A., Kattenstroth, M., van Dick, R., Mojzisch, A. (2012). We are not stressed: Social identity in groups buffers neuroendocrine stress reactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48, 973-977.

Mojzisch, A., Schulz-Hardt, S. (2011). Process gains in group decision-making: A conceptual analysis, preliminary data, and tools for practitioners. Journal of Managerial Psychology 26, 235-246.

Mojzisch, A., Schulz-Hardt, S. (2010). Knowing others' preferences degrades the quality of group decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 98, 794-808.

Mojzisch, A., Krug, K. (2008). Cells, circuits, and choices: Social influence on perceptual decision-making. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 8, 498-508.

Mojzisch, A., Schulz-Hardt, S., Kerschreiter, R., Brodbeck, F.C., Frey, D. (2008). Social validation in group decision making: Differential effects on the decisional impact of preference-consistent and preference-inconsistent information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44, 1477-1490.

Mojzisch, A., Schilbach, L., Helmert, J.R., Pannasch, S., Velichkovsky, B.M., Vogeley, K. (2006). The effects of self-involvement on attention, arousal, and facial expression during social interaction with virtual others: A psychophysiological study. Social Neuroscience 1, 184-195.