Nadira Faber
Short Bio
I am an experimental social psychologist with an interdisciplinary profile. After my studies of psychology at the University of Munich and my PhD in social psychology at the University of Göttingen, from 2012 I held two postdoc positions at the University of Oxford (UK), one in experimental psychology and the second in philosophy (practical ethics). From 2017 onwards, I have been leading my own lab at the Universities of Oxford and Exeter (UK). In mid 2023, I became a Full Professor for Social Psychology and Work & Organisational Psychology at the University of Bremen. I remain an Associated Faculty Member in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Prof. Dr. Nadira Sophie Faber
Cognium building, R.0460
Hochschulring 18
28359 Bremen
Office Hours: By arrangement
nadira.faber (at) uni-bremen.de
Tel.: +49-421-218-68520
Website: http://nadirafaber.com/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I2xDqcQAAAAJ&hl=en
Work Focus
It is central to human psychology that we are individual beings that operate in a social environment. My research centres around the overall question how humans trade off their own interests with the interests of others. When give people moral relevance to others, help them and cooperate with them? And when, in contrast, do people not act in the interest of others and their social group, either intentionally or unintentionally? I approach this overall question in three main research foci. First, I investigate prosociality and cooperation in groups. Here, I am looking at how both how situational and physiological factors shape whether people help other individuals and cooperatively contribute in small groups. Second, I am interested in morality. Here, I am looking at what people regard as morally right or wrong, what determines those views, and how they, in turn, shape behaviour towards other people. And third, I study speciesism, that is how people asses the value and rights of non-human animals. My research is collaborative and strongly interdisciplinary: I am using theory and methods from psychology, behavioural economics, neuroscience, and philosophy. In my teaching at the University of Bremen I focus on social psychology, and I am offering lectures and seminars in both the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. on basic and applied social psychology
Key Publications
McGuire, L., Palmer, S. B., & Faber, N. S. (2023). The development of speciesism: Age-related differences in the moral view of animals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 228-237. doi: 10.1177/19485506221086182
Faber, N. S., & Häusser, J. A. (2022). Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 49-57. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.023
Gross, J.†, Faber, N. S.†, Kappes, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Cowen, P., Browning, M., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., Crockett, M., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). When Helping is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Tradeoff of Social and Risk Preferences. Psychological Science, 32, 1842-1855. doi: 10.1177/09567976211015942 ( † shared first authorship)
Caviola, L., Everett, J. A. C., & Faber, N. S. (2019). The moral standing of animals: Towards a psychology of speciesism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 1011-1029. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000182
Kahane, G., Everett, J. A. C., Earp, B. D., Caviola, L., Faber, N. S., Crockett, M. J., & Savulescu, J. (2018). Beyond sacrificial harm: A two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology. Psychological Review, 125, 131-164. doi: 10.1037/rev0000093
Siehe auch: http://nadirafaber.com/publications/