Research interests | Publications | Academic distinctions

Research interests

Information ecologies • Valence asymmetries • Stereotypes • Truth & trust effects • Leadership

Publications

• Woitzel, J., Weitzel, A. I., Ingendahl, M., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2025). What drives perceived diversity? The overweighting of richness in diversity perceptions [Manuscript under review]. Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum.
   
• Weitzel, A. I., & Unkelbach, C. (2025). An experience-sampling study on the frequency and diversity of positive and negative affective states [Manuscript under review]. Department of Psychology, University of Cologne.
   
• Ecker, Y., Weitzel, A. I., & Lammers, J. (in press). Bias towards progress-oriented leaders: People prefer progress- over maintenance-oriented leaders even when a maintenance orientation is required. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
   
• Schulte, A., Weitzel, A. I., Alves, H., Lammers, J. (2025). Understanding the devaluation of female leaders — A cognitive-ecological perspective. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506251324071 
   

Academic distinctions

• Junior Start-Up Grant Large Language Modelling of Human Semantic Similarity Ratings, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2025
   
• Junior Start-Up Grant Sorites Paradox in Perceptual Categorization (together with André Vaz and André Mata), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2023
   
• Visitor Program Grant for a 10-week Research Stay at André Mata's lab (University of Lisbon, Portugal), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
   
• Junior Start-Up Grant Ironic Consequences of the Information Ecology of Goals for Perceptions of Maintenance (together with Yael Ecker (PI) and Christian Unkelbach), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
   
• Junior Start-Up Grant Incentivizing Truth Judgements Leads to Increased Devaluation of Incongruent Advisors (together with Felix Speckmann (Co-PI) and Christian Unkelbach), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2021
   
• Graduate Scholarship, awarded by the German National Academic Foundation, 2017-2020
   
• Undergraduate Scholarship, awarded by the German National Academic Foundation, 2015-2017