Dr. Nicole Hauke-Forman

Since October 2022 in parental leave

Research Interests

Social Cognition

• fundamental dimensions of social judgment: agency & communion
• subdimensions of agency & communion
• actor-observer differences
• threats to the self-concept by gossip

Self-esteem

• determinants of the facets of self-esteem

Vita

• 09-10/19 Research stay at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sopot, Poland
• 12/17 PhD (Dr. phil.); title of the dissertation thesis: „I Want to be Assertive and to Appear Moral”: The Relative Centrality of Agency versus Communion in Self-Concept (summa cum laude)
• Since 08/12 Research assistant at the Chair of Social Psychology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 04/12 Diploma in Psychology
• 2006-2012 Studies of Psychology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Awards

• 2012 Award of the Luise-Prell Foundation for the diploma thesis: “Do we take our own communion for granted? – A possible explanation why there is no influence of communion on self-esteem“

Central Publications

• Hauke-Forman, N., Methner, N. & Bruckmüller, S. (2021). Assertive, but Less Competent and Trustworthy? Perception of Police Officers with Tattoos and Piercings. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-021-09447-w
• Hauke, N., & Abele, A.E. (2020). Communion and self-esteem: No relationship? A closer look at the association of agency and communion with different components of self-esteem. Personality and individual differences, 160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109957
• Abele, A. E., & Hauke, N. (2019). Comparing the facets of the Big Two in global evaluation of self versus other people. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2639
• Hauke, N., & Abele, A.E. (2019). The Impact of Negative Gossip on Target and Receiver. A “Big Two” Analysis. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2019.1702881

• Hauke, N., & Abele, A. E. (2019). Two faces of the self: Actor-self perspective and observer-self perspective are differentially related to agency versus communion. Self and Identity. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1584582
• Abele, A. E., & Hauke, N. (2018). Agency and communion in self-concept and in self-esteem. In A. E. Abele & B. Wojciszke (Eds.), Agency and communion in social psychology (pp. 52-64). New York, NY, US: Routledge.
• Abele, A. E., Hauke, N., Peters, K., Louvet, E., Szymkow, A., & Duan, Y. P. (2016). Facets of the fundamental content dimensions: Agency with competence and assertiveness – communion with warmth and morality. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1810. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01810