Annette Malapally, M.Sc.

Research interests

• Social cognition and communication in contexts of inequality between social groups
• Disadvantage and privilege framing of social inequality and their effect on cognitions and behavioral intentions
• Choice and distribution of different framings of inequality on social media (e.g., on Twitter)

CV

Education

2018 –  2020               M. Sc. in Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (M.Sc.)

2014 – 2018                B.Sc. in Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Research and teaching experience

Since 09/2022            Research and teaching associate Social Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

09 – 10/2024               Research stay, Psychology of Social Problems, Universidad de Granada 

04/2021 – 08/2022   Research and teaching assistant, Social Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

10/2018 – 03/2021    Research assistant, Fraunhofer IIS, Nürnberg

05/2016 – 06/2017    Student research assistant, Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Grants, awards, and scholarships

2022                              Tamar Murachver Top Student Paper Award, International Conference on Language and Social Psychology 17

2022                              Grant by Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg (~1200€) for the project “Privilege framing of inequality – effects on memory of

                                        inequality information and help towards disadvantaged groups“

since 10/2021             Ph.D. scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

2017                              Travel grants from Promos (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) and Ilse & Dr. Alexander Mayer foundation for an

                                       exchange semester at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

Publications (peer-reviewed) 

• Malapally, A., Methner, N., Braun, M., Wittenborn, S., & Bruckmüller, S. (2025). Framing Inequality as Advantage versus Disadvantage: A Systematic Review of Effects and a Two-Step Model to Explain Them. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 0(0). 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, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241265779

• Malapally, A., Blombach, A., Heinrich, P., Schnepf, J., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege. Political Communication, 41(1), 107–128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2257624

Conference talks 

Malapally & 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? Conference of the Social Psychology Section (FGSP) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Graz, Austria. 

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)