Nadira Faber

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/