Profile
Biography
● 2025-present: Research Associate in Psychology, University of York
● 2024: visiting scholar, University of Zurich
● 2021-present: PhD candidate in Social and Environmental Psychology, Ruhr University
Bochum
● 2021: Research assistant in Social and Environmental Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
● 2018-2021: Teaching assistant in Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
● 2017-2021: MSc Psychology with focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
● 2013-2017: BSc Psychology with focus on Counselling and Intervention, Ruhr University
Bochum
Research
Overview
Research interests:
- Intergroup relations
- Social categorization, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination
- Social identity
- Intersectionality, multiple identities and categorization
- Gender roles, sexism
- LGBTQ+, queer studies
- Mental health
- Open and collaborative science
Projects
- The many faces of prejudice: the “What”, the “Why”, and the “How” of inferences we make from
membership in social groups (project lead: Dr. Lusine Grigoryan)
In this project, we conduct cross-cultural survey experiments to study variation in what kinds of
conclusions people across the globe draw about others based on their social group memberships,
and what kinds of biases they exhibit as a result. Specifically, we are examining how people see
some group memberships as more informative of someone’s social status, and others as more
informative of their beliefs and values, and how this differentiation is linked to different kinds of
biases – preference for members of one’s own ingroup, or for high-status individuals.
Grants
- 2024: Small Group Meeting support from EASP, for an upcoming Small Group Meeting on
Intersectionality and multiple social categorization beyond the US
- 2024: Short Term Scientific Mission Travel Grant from European Cooperation in Science and
Technology, for a research stay at the Social Psychology Lab, University of Zurich, and to
present research at G-Versity Conference, Bern, Switzerland
- 2020: Teaching award “Best student support” from Ruhr University Bochum student council
of Psychology
Collaborators
- Dr. Lusine Grigoryan
- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann
- Prof. Dr. Hans Alves
Publications
Selected publications
- Weißflog, M.I., Grigoryan, L. (2024). Gender Categorization and Stereotypes Beyond the Binary. Sex
Roles 90, 19–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01437-y
- Grigoryan, L., Ponizovskiy, V., Weißflog, M. I., Osin, E., & Lickel, B. (2024). Guilt, shame, and antiwar
action in an authoritarian country at war. Political Psychology, 00, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12985
- Weißflog, M. I., Grigoryan, L., & Hofmann, W. (2023). The interplay of gender and class in social
judgment across different cultural levels of (gender) inequality. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/sqdu5
- Roy, E., Jaeger, B., Evans, A. M., …, Weißflog, M. I., … Lai, C. K., & Axt, J. R. (2024). A contest study to
reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000414
Full publications list
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Weissflog
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=YuB0cQIAAAAJ&hl=en
