Since 2005, Guenter Bierbrauer has been a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, with a focus on legal psychology and conflict management. Studying with Lee Ross, he earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at Stanford University. He taught at several German universities with a focus on social psychology, legal psychology, and intercultural psychology. Professor Bierbrauer is also a co-founder of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück and was scientific coordinator of a collaborative project on peace and conflict studies in Lower Saxony.

Primary Interests:

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Causal Attribution
Culture and Ethnicity
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Law and Public Policy
Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Causal Attribution
Culture and Ethnicity
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations

Law and Public Policy
Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Books:

Bierbrauer et al. (Eds.). (1995). Verfahrensgerechtigkeit (Procedural justice). Koeln: Verlag Otto Schmidt.
Bierbrauer, G. (2005). Sozialpsychologie, 2nd edition (Introduction to social psychology). Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

Journal Articles:

Bierbrauer, G. (1979). Why did he do it? Attribution of obedience and the phenom-enon of dispositional bias. European Journal of Social Psychology, 9, 67-84.
Bierbrauer, G., & Klinger, E. W. (2005). The influence of conflict context characteristics on conflict regulation preferences of immigrants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, 340-354.
Bierbrauer, G., & Klinger, E. W. (2002). Political ideology, perceived threat, and justice towards immigrants. Social Justice Research, 15, 41-52.
Brockner, J., Ackerman, G., Greenberg, J., Gelfand, M. J., Leung, K., & Bierbrauer, G. (2001). Culture and procedural justice: The influence of power distance on reactions of voice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 300-315.
Leung, K., Bond, M. H., Reimel de Carrasquel, S., Yamaguchi, S., Bierbrauer, G., & Singelis, T. (2002). Social axioms: The search for universal dimensions of general beliefs about how the world functions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 286-302.
Ross, L., Bierbrauer, G., & Hoffmann, S. (1976). The role of attribution processes in conformity and dissent. Revisiting the Asch situation. American Psychologist, 31, 148-157.

Other Publications:

Bierbrauer, G. (2009). Interkulturelles Verhandeln. (Negotiation across cultures). In F. Haft & K. v. Schlieffen (Eds.), Handbuch Mediation (pp. 433-453) München: C. H. Beck Verlag.
Klinger, E. W., & Bierbrauer, G. (2001). Acculturation and conflict regulation of Turkish immigrants in Germany: A social influence perspective. In W. Wosinska, R. B. Cialdini, D. W. Barret & J. Reykowski (Eds.), The practice of social influence in multiple cultures (pp. 189-205). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Guenter Bierbrauer
Faculty of Law
University of Lucerne
Hirschengraben 31
6000 Lucerne
Switzerland

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