Magdalena Hirsch
Contact
D-10785 Berlin
Research fields
CV
Magdalena Hirsch is guest researcher in the Department of Migration, Integration and Transnationalization. From 2017 to 2020, she was part of the bridging project "Against Above, Against Others: Sources of Democracy Criticism, Immigration Criticism and Right-Wing Populism". Her research interests lie in the areas of right-wing populism, xenophobia, and group processes. In her dissertation, she explores how right-wing populist attitudes are generated by societal threats, such as economic crises, climate change, and COVID-19. In particular, she examines whether authoritarianism and populism are a reaction to the loss of feelings of personal control.
since 1/2021
Research fellow in the research unit Migration, Integration, and Transnationalization
09/2021 - 12/2021
Visiting Scholar at Université de Montréal, CSI Laboratory
06/2017 - 12/2020
Research fellow at the bridging project "Democracy Critique, Immigration Critique and Right-Wing Populism"
09/2014-06/2017
Double research master studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands
- M.Sc. "Social and Health Pychology"
- M.Sc. "Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Multiculturalism"
09/2011 - 06/2014
B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Political Science at Mannheim University, Germany
01/2013 - 06/2013
Erasmus exchange student at Bilgi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
06/2014 - 06/2017
Fellow at the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Selected Publications
Hirsch M. (2022) Becoming authoritarian for the greater good? Authoritarian attitudes in context of the societal crises of COVID-19 and climate change.
Frontiers in Political Science. 4:929991. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.929991
Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., ... & Van Assche, J. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119
Hirsch, M. (2021). Machtlos, hilflos – überzeugt Extreme Einstellungen als Reaktion auf Kontrollverlust. WZB-Mitteilungen, 172, p. 39-41. https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2021/f-24001.pdf
Hirsch, M., Veit, S., & Fritsche, I. (2021). Blaming immigrants to enhance control: Exploring the control-bolstering functions of causal attribution, in-group identification, and hierarchy enhancement. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5:114–131. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.73
Giebler, H., Hirsch, M., Schürmann, B., & Veit, S. (2020). Discontent with what? Linking self-centered and society-centered discontent to populist party support. Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321720932115
Giebler, H., Hirsch, M., Schürmann, B., Stoll, N., & Veit, S. (2019). “Nicht ich, sondern wir! Gruppenbezogene Unzufriedenheit als zentrales Bindeglied zwischen populistischen Einstellungen und Wahlpotenzial für die AfD”. In W. Schroeder & B. Weßels (Eds.), Smarte Spalter: Die AfD zwischen Bewegung und Parlament. Bonn: Dietz, J H: 81-104.
Hirsch, M., Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2018). To accept or not to accept: Level of moral concern impacts on tolerance of Muslim minority practices. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(1), 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12284
Contact
D-10785 Berlin