Stefan Pfattheicher, Diploma in Social Sciences in 2009, academic studies at Mannheim University and Newcastle University.

Lecturer at the Department of Social Psychology since October 2009.

• Altruistic / moralistic punishment
• Self-regulatory processes
• Subtle social cues / effects of perceived anonymity
• Compassion and antisocial tendencies
• Vegetarianism

Papers

• Keller, J. & Pfattheicher, S. (2011). Vigilant self-regulation, cues of being watched and cooperativeness. European Journal of Personality, 25, 363-372.

Current manuscripts

• Keller J. & Pfattheicher, S., The Compassion-Hostility-Paradox: Vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation builds a basis for misanthropic attitudes and sympathetic compassion.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J., Vigilant self-regulation and costly punishment in public goods situations.

Talks and Posters

• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2010). The Compassion-Misanthropy-Paradox. Talk held at the International Conference on What Makes Humans Human, Ulm, Germany.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2010). A Subtle Cue of Being Watched Influences Moralistic Punishment as a Function of Collectivistic Tendencies. Poster presented at the International Conference on What Makes Humans Human, Ulm, Germany.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2010). The paradoxical positive relation between sympathetic compassion and misanthropic tendencies: The role of vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation. Talk presented at the Conference on Motivation, Self-Regulation and Gender, Gdansk, Poland.
• Pfattheicher, S. (2010) Decision making in social dilemmas: Vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation as a crucial factor. Talk presented at the PhD Workshop SoDoc2010, Bremen, Germany.
• Pfattheicher, S. (2010) Altruistic Punishment and self-regulation. Talk presented at the Junior Researcher Conference on Judgment & Decision Making, Basel, Switzerland.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2010). Die paradoxe Beziehung zwischen affektiver Empathie und feindseligem Zynismus: Vigilante Selbstregulation als Grundlage prosozialer und misanthropischer Tendenzen [The paradoxical positive relation between affective empathy and cynical hostility: Vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation as a basal factor for prosocial and misanthropic tendencies]. Talk presented at the congress of the German Psychological Society, Bremen, Germany.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2011). The paradoxical positive relation between sympathetic compassion and misanthropic tendencies: The role of prevention-focused self-regulation. Poster presented at The 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Antonio, USA.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2011). The role of vigilant self-regulation in social dilemma situations. Talk presented at the 13th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, Jena, Germany.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2011). Regulatory focus and altruistic punishment: The role of vigilant self-regulation in social dilemma situations. Talk presented at the 14th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2011). Regulatory focus and altruistic punishment: The role of vigilant self-regulation in social dilemma situations, Poster presented at the Small Group Meeting on the Application of Self-regulation Approaches to Social Psychological Phenomena, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Pfattheicher, S., Keller, J. & Landhäußer, A. (2011).The paradoxical positive relation between sympathetic compassion and misanthropic tendencies: The role of prevention-focused self-regulation. Talk presented at the 16th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Pfattheicher, S. & Keller, J. (2011). Prosoziales Verhalten unter subtiler sozialer Präsenz: Die Rolle vigilanter, prevention-orientierter Selbstregulation [Prosocial behavior under subtle social presence: The role of vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation]. Talk presented at the congress of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychology Association DGPs, Hamburg, Germany.

Chairs

• Symposium on compassion and its relation to pro- and antisocial tendencies (together with Johannes Keller), 2011, 16th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.