Prof. Asbrock heads the Chair of Social Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology and, since 2021, the ZKFS. In his research, he deals with conflicts between groups, in particular with the connections between categorical perception and discrimination. He also investigates threat and security perceptions and their links to ideological attitudes.
He studied psychology in Bielefeld and then completed his doctorate at the Graduiertenkolleg Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit in Bielefeld. He then worked at the Chair of Social Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, at the Psychology Department of the University of Auckland and in the Social Psychology working group at Philipps University Marburg. In 2015, he was appointed Junior Professor of Social Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology. He has been Professor of Social Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology since 2019.
Current publications:
Steinmetz, K, Wagner, D., Asbrock, F., Meißelbach, R., & Melcher, R. (2025). A project for the “Silent Center”? The European Capital of Culture 2025 in Chemnitz. In T. Laux & U. Bohmann (eds.), Cultural Capital Chemnitz 2025: Socio-spatial explorations (S. 199-226). Transcript. [Full text access]
Buhl, S., Osborne, D., Sibley, C. G., & Asbrock, F. (2025). Rebels with (out) a cause: The influence of gender inequality on the relationship between egalitarianism and system justification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/czb6u
Weber, K., & Asbrock, F. (2025). Radicalization. In: Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1735-1
Wagner, D., Führer, J. L., & Asbrock, F. (Eds.). (2024). From Fear of Crime to Hostility: Dynamics of Crime Perception in a Political Context. Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748948445
Steinmetz, K., & Asbrock, F. (2024). Ideological attitudes: Social dominance orientation and authoritarianism. In T. Rothmund & E. Walther (Eds.), Psychology of right-wing radicalization: Theories, perspectives, prevention (pp. 169-179). Kohlhammer.
