Teaching

Master i psykologi Studieretning laering - hjerne, atferd, omgivelser (Learning - brain, behavior, environment)

Research Interests

Stereotypes and Prejudice, Social Judgment, Attitude-Behaviour-Relationship

Reactions to Deviant Behaviour, Fear of Crime

Gender Representations in Language together with Pascal Gygax

Marie Curie Initial Training Network: Language, Cognition & Gender together with Dawn Behne and Kjellrun T. Englund

Recent Publications

Garnham, A., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Gygax, P., & Oakhill, J. (in press). Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: When beauticians, musicians and mechanics remain men. Discourse Processes.[online resource]

Ruggieri, S., Bendixen, M., Gabriel, U., & Alsaker, F. (in press). Cyberball: The impact of virtual social exclusion on early adolescents' well-being. Swiss Journal of Psychology.

Sarrasin, O., Gabriel, U., & Gygax, P. (in press). Sexism and attitudes toward gender neutral language: The case of English, French and German. Swiss Journal of Psychology.preprint

Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Lévy, A., Pool, E., Grivel, M., & Pedrazzini, E. (in press). The masculine form and its competing interpretations in French: When linking grammatically masculine role names to female referents is difficult. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.[online resource]

Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., Lévy, A., Sarrasin, O., Sato, S. (2012). "Kan en jente blir en mann?" Brannmann kanskje? On the inference of gender in reading comprehension. Psykologisk Tidsskrift, 15, 8-13. (non-refereed)

Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2011). Gender representation in language: More than meets the eye. Mishra, R.M. & Srinivasan, N. (Eds). Language & Cognition: State of the Art (pp. 72-92). München: LINCOM.

Gabriel, U. (2009). Emotions and legal judgments: Normative issues vs. empirical findings. In M. E. Oswald, S. Bieneck & J. Hupfeld (Eds.) Social Psychology of Punishment of Crime (pp. 157-172). Chichester: Wiley.

Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Oakhill, J. & Garnham, A. (2009). Some grammatical rules are more difficult than others: The case of the generic interpretation of the masculine. Special Issue, European Journal of Psychology of Education, 24(2), 235-246.

Gabriel, U. (2008). Language policies and in-group favouritism: The malleability of the interpretation of generically intended masculine forms. Social Psychology, 39(2), 103-107. [online resource]

Gabriel, U. & Gygax, P. (2008). Can language amendments change gender representation? The case of Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49(5), 451-457. [online resource]

Gygax, P. & Gabriel, U. (2008). Can a group of musicians be composed of women? Generic interpretation of Franch masculine role names in absence and presence of feminine forms. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 67(3), 143-151. [online resource]

Soellner, R. & Gabriel, U. (2008). Typisch Kiffer? Stereotype und Personenwahrnehmung. [Typical pothead? Stereotypes and person perception]. SUCHT. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis, 54(1), 32-37.

Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Oakhill, J. & Garnham, A. (2008). Generically intended, but specifically interpreted: When beauticians, musicians and mechanics are all men. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(3), 464-485.[online resource]

Gabriel U., Gygax, P., Sarrasin, O., Garnham, A. & Oakhill, J. (2008). Au-pairs are rarely male: Norms on the gender perception of role names across English, French and German. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1), 206-212. [online resource]

Gabriel, U. & Greve, W. (2008). Strafbedürfnisse und Strafeinstellungen [Attitudes towards punishment]. In M. Steller & R. Volbert (Hrsg.) Handbuch der Psychologie , Band 6: Handbuch der Rechtspsychologie (S. 467-476). Göttingen: Hogrefe. [online resource]

Gabriel, U., Banse, R. & Hug, F. (2007). The prediction of helping behaviour by implicit attitudes and the motivation to control prejudiced reactions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(2), 363-382. [online resource]

Gabriel, U., Gassmann, S. & Locher, R. (2007) Geschlechtsunterschiede bei der moralischen Beurteilung häuslicher Gewalt. [Gender Differences in the Moral Judgment of Domestic Violence]. Trauma und Gewalt. Forschung und Praxisfelder, 1(2), 42-52. [pdf]

Gabriel, U. & Oswald, M.E. (2007). Punishment, Psychology of. In D. S. Clark (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives (pp. 1252-1254). Thousand Oaks: Sage. [online resource]

Biography

Since 2007	Full Professor for Social Psychology at the NTNU Trondheim (Norway)
2006 - 2007	Associate Professor for Social Psychology at the NTNU Trondheim (Norway)
2005	Habilitation, Venia docendi in Psychology
1998 - 2006	Professional research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Social Psychology & Psychology of Law (Prof. Dr. Margit E. Oswald) at the University of Berne (Switzerland)
1998	Doctorate: 'Furcht und Strafe' [Fear and Punishment]
1995 - 1998	Research assistant at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony in Hanover (Germany) with Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeiffer in the research project 'Viktimisierung und Systemvertrauen: Geschäftsleute in Konfrontation mit allgemeiner Kriminalität, Korruption und Schutzgelderpressung' [Victimization and System Trust: Businessmen Confronted with General Crime, Corruption and Extortion of Protection Money]
1993 - 1995	Research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Methodology and Diagnostics at the University of Bonn (Germany) with Prof. Dr. Georg Rudinger in the research project 'Interdisziplinäre Langzeit-Studie des Erwachsenenalters (ILSE)' [Long-Term Inter-Discipline Study of Adulthood]
1986 - 1993	Studies of Psychology at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany)