Dr. Annette Malapally

Forschungsinteressen

• Soziale Kognition und Kommunikation im Kontext von Ungleichheit zwischen sozialen Gruppen
• Disadvantage und Privilege Framing sozialer Ungleichheit und deren Effekt auf Kognitionen und Verhaltensintentionen
• Wahl und Verbreitung verschiedener Framings von Ungleichheit in den sozialen Medien (z.B. auf Twitter)

Vita

Ausbildung

Forschung und Lehre

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Publikationen (peer-reviewed)

• Malapally, A., Wildgans, K., de Lemus, S., & Bruckmüller, S. (2026). Recalling ingroup privilege as outgroup disadvantage: Evidence for a privilege-reframing bias and tests of a potential mediator. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104867
• Malapally, A., Methner, N., Braun, M., Wittenborn, S., & Bruckmüller, S. (2025). Framing inequality as advantage vs. disadvantage: A systematic review of effects and a Two-Step Model to explain them. Personality and Social Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683251333458
• Malapally, A. & Bruckmüller, S. (2024). Talking about privilege: Framing inequality as advantage is more likely for inequality in positive than in negative outcomes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241265779
• Malapally, A., Blombach, A., Heinrich, P., Schnepf, J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2024). Unequal tweets: Black disadvantage is (re)tweeted more but discussed less than White privilege. Political Communication, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2257624

Preprints

• Bruckmüller, S., Malapally, A., & Methner, N. (2025). Strategic, yet inadvertent – and potentially counterproductive: How laypeople frame inequality to signal (il)legitimacy. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e7t3s_v1

Vorträge

• Malapally, A., de Lemus, S., Bruckmüller, S. (2025). Inequality is not about us: Ingroup privilege framing is recalled worse than outgroup disadvantage framing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Prague, Czechia.

• Malapally, A. & Bruckmüller, S. (2024). Talking about privilege: Framing inequality as advantage is more likely for inequality in positive rather than negative outcomes. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Tallinn, Estonia.
• Malapally, A. & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). Subtle defenses against privilege threat: Do high identifiers strategically use help to repair their group’s image without giving up their privilege? Paper presented at the conference of the Social Psychology Section (FGSP) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Graz, Austria.
• Malapally, A., Blombach, A., Heinrich, P., Schnepf, J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). Unequal tweets – tweets about disadvantage are more common and generate more responses than tweets about privilege (with some systematic exceptions). Paper presented at the General Meeting of the European Association for Social Psychology, Kraków, Poland.
• Malapally, A. & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). When do we understand inequality in terms of disadvantage and when in terms of privilege? And why does that matter? Symposium organized at the General Meeting of the European Association for Social Psychology, Kraków, Poland.
• Malapally, A. & Bruckmüller, S. (2022). Unequal tweets? Tweets about Black disadvantage are more common, and more likely to be passed on, than tweets about White privilege. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Hong Kong (online)