Research interests
- Perception and assessment of social diversity
- Diversity management and diversity training
- Attitudes and interventions to improve attitudes toward disadvantaged groups
- Media interventions and indirect contact
- Populist attitudes and political trust
Selected publications
Ehrke, F., & Steffens, M. C. (2025). Not so typical after all? Reducing self-typicality improves majority members’ responses to diversity and minorities. Self and Identity, 24(4), 359–393. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2025.2477010
Ehrke, F., Grommisch, G., Busch, E. P., & Kaczmarek, M. C. (2023). Populist attitudes predict compliance-related attitudes and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic via trust in institutions. Social Psychology, 54, 78–94. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000500
Ehrke, F., Ashoee, A., Steffens, M. C., & Louvet, E. (2020). A brief diversity training: Raising awareness of ingroup privilege to improve attitudes towards disadvantaged outgroups. International Journal of Psychology (Special issue on Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education), 55(5), 732–742. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12665
Ehrke, F., Berthold, A., & Steffens, M.C. (2014). How diversity training can change attitudes: Increasing perceived complexity of superordinate groups to improve intergroup relations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 193-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.03.013