Dr. Sonja Utz

Wolfgang Steinel, Lukas Koning and I received the award for the BEST EMPIRICAL CONFERENCE PAPER at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for conflict Management (IACM) in Boston, Massachusetts. The paper is also conditionally accepted by OBHDP.

Thursay, October 22, I will give the keynote at the conference "Online communication. Decoding the digital revolution - trends and tools in corporate communication", here in Amsterdam. This conference is organized by the Quadriga University of Applied Sciences (Berlin), and it deals with the use of social media for corporate communication, reputation management, PR and viral marketing. Speakers from companies such as SAP, Philips, Microsoft or NGOs as Amnesty International will present case on how they use social media. I'm looking forward to this interesting conference!

It's been/is a busy month. The semester has started again, I gave a presentation at the conference of the German social psychologists and another one at the conference of the German media psychologists . Next week, I will give an invited presentation on the impact of the internet on social relationships. This has been organized by LaRed, a professional networking organization.

The Erasmus Research Institute of Management and Globalpark organize a symposium on "Online research: Insights into methods and their application in practice" in Rotterdam. I will present the results of two online experiments in my talk "The reparation of trust after negative feedback - the results of two online experiments among eBay users".

I've been invited to give a talk at the conference of the psychology division of the Cusanuswerk. The topic is "Encounters in Cyberspace - social life with and within the Internet"

The speeddating experiment which students from my course interpersonal communication are conducting has started. Look at www.hetspeeddatingexperiment.nl

Here you can find some information about my research, my publications and my background. Enjoy :)