Dr. Silvana Weber

Responsibilities

Since November 2023, Silvana Weber has been a research associate, trainer, and consultant at the LMU Center for Leadership and People Management. She studied Psychology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and UC Berkeley. After research stays at UNSW Sydney and the University of Linz, she completed her dissertation in 2016 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, titled "The Interplay of Cultural Identity and Stereotype Threat: An Integrative Research Approach." In addition to her work at the Center for Leadership and People Management, she is working on her habilitation on the topic of "Social Identity and Media" at the University of Würzburg, where she has been teaching and conducting research since 2017. She also works as a freelance systemic consultant and trainer.

Training & Consulting

• Systemic counseling (in training at GST Munich) for individuals, couples, and organizations
• Talks and workshops (e.g., on gender stereotypes in the media, self-presentation on social media, science communication)
• Teaching assignments (University of Würzburg & University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• Science communication and transfer (e.g., Co-editor of the In-Mind Magazine, "What Does Envy Do to Us?" on Terra Xplore)

Research Areas

• Social identity
• Gender and diversity
• Stereotypes
• Social comparisons
• Health and well-being
• New media

Selected Publications

Appel, M., Hutmacher, F., Mengelkamp, C., Stein, J.-P., & Weber, S. (Eds.) (2023). Digital ist besser?! Psychologie der Online und Mobilkommunikation. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66608-1

Weber, S., Messingschlager, T., & Stein, J.-P. (2022). This is an Insta-vention! Exploring cognitive countermeasures to reduce negative consequences of social comparisons on Instagram. Media Psychology, 25(3), 411-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1968440

Appel, M., & Weber, S. (2021). Do mass mediated stereotypes harm members of negatively stereotyped groups? A meta-analytical review on media-generated stereotype threat and stereotype lift. Communication Research, 48(2), 151-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650217715543

Weber, S., Lorenz, C., & Hemmings, N. (2019). Improving stress and positive mental health at work via an app-based intervention: A large-scale multi-centre randomised control trial. Frontiers in Psychology – Health Psychology, 10, Article 2745. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02745