• Since 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID)
• 2023 – 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2023 Guest Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway
• 2023 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2019 – 2023 PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2022 Guest Researcher at the University of Queensland, Australia
• 2018 M.Sc. in Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
• 2015 B.Sc. in Psychology, Heidelberg University

Conspiracy Beliefs

• DFG-Project: "Understanding and fighting the impact of conspiracy mentality"

Social Identity and Social Cure

• Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Häusser, J. A., Erkens, V. A. & van Dick, R. (2023). How team identification relates to lower burnout – Emotional and instrumental support as two different social cure mechanisms. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62 (2), 673-691. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12588
• Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Avanzi, L., Bolatov, A., Haslam, S. A., Häusser, J. A., Kark, R., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S., Samekin, A., Schury, V. A., Steffens, N. K., Sultanova, L., Van Dijk, D., Van Zyl, L. E. & Van Dick, R. (2022). A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61 (1), 55-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12470
• *Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Avanzi, L., Erkens, V. A., Haslam, S. A., Haslam, C., Häusser, J. A., Knorr, D., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S. D., Schuh, S. C., Steffens, N. K., van Zyl, L. E. & van Dick, R. (2022). Perceptions of the targets and sources of COVID-19 threat are structured by group memberships and Responses are influenced by identification with humankind. Psychologica Belgica, 62 (1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.1043 *shared first authorship

Political Leadership

• Frenzel, S. B., Haslam, S. A., Junker, N. M., Bolatov, A., Erkens, V. A., Häusser, J. A., Kark, R., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S., Samekin, A., Schuh, S., Steffens, N. K., Sultanova, L., Van Dijk, D., Van Zyl, L. E. & van Dick, R. (2022). How national leaders keep us safe: A longitudinal, four-nation study exploring the role of identity leadership as a predictor of adherence to COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions. BMJ Open, 12:e054980. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054980

Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Diseases

• Frenzel, S. B., Kaluza, A. J., Junker, N. M. & van Dick, R. (2022). Sweet as sugar – how shared social identities help patients in coping with diabetes mellitus. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (17), 10508. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710508

In press

• Bibic, K., Frenzel, S. B., Kerschreiter, R. Wilson-Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Haslam, S. A., Monzani, L., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., ... van Dick, R. (in press). The value of leaders we trust and leaders who make us stronger: Exploring the distinct contributions of different components of identity leadership to group member outcomes. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
• Frenzel, S. B., Pummerer, L., Utz, S., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice. Scientifc Reports.
• Heimrich, J., Junker, N. M., van Dick, R., Mojzisch, A., Knoll, M., Frenzel, S. B., & Häusser, J. A (in press). How Extraversion and Need‐to‐Belong Relate to the Emergence and Maintenance of Identification With a New Group. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55 (7), 533-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70006 

2025

• Till, F. J., Heimrich, J., Frenzel, S. B., van Dick, R., Mojzisch, A., Junker, N. M., & Häusser, J. A. (2025).Social identification in times of crisis: How need to belong, perspective taking, and cognitive closure relate to changes in social identification. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13077

2024

• Doré, A., Grammes, J., Egri, E., Priesterroth, L., Frenzel, S. B., Spörkel, O. & Kubiak, T. (2024). Identification with characters of a national narrative health communication campaign targeting type 2 diabetes. Health Communication, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2378256

2023

• Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Häusser, J. A., Erkens, V. A. & van Dick, R. (2023). How team identification relates to lower burnout – Emotional and instrumental support as two different social cure mechanisms. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62 (2), 673-691. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12588

2022

• Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Avanzi, L., Bolatov, A., Haslam, S. A., Häusser, J. A., Kark, R., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S., Samekin, A., Schury, V. A., Steffens, N. K., Sultanova, L., Van Dijk, D., Van Zyl, L. E. & Van Dick, R. (2022). A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61 (1), 55-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12470
• Frenzel, S. B., Haslam, S. A., Junker, N. M., Bolatov, A., Erkens, V. A., Häusser, J. A., Kark, R., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S., Samekin, A., Schuh, S., Steffens, N. K., Sultanova, L., Van Dijk, D., Van Zyl, L. E. & van Dick, R. (2022). How national leaders keep us safe: A longitudinal, four-nation study exploring the role of identity leadership as a predictor of adherence to COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions. BMJ Open, 12:e054980. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054980
• *Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Avanzi, L., Erkens, V. A., Haslam, S. A., Haslam, C., Häusser, J. A., Knorr, D., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S. D., Schuh, S. C., Steffens, N. K., van Zyl, L. E. & van Dick, R. (2022). Perceptions of the targets and sources of COVID-19 threat are structured by group memberships and Responses are influenced by identification with humankind. Psychologica Belgica, 62 (1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.1043 *shared first authorship
• Frenzel, S. B., Kaluza, A. J., Junker, N. M. & van Dick, R. (2022). Sweet as sugar – how shared social identities help patients in coping with diabetes mellitus. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (17), 10508. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710508