Dr. Sven Kachel

Professional activities

10/2024 - derzeit Substitution of the Associate Professorship of Social Psychology (University of Kassel, Germany)

09/2021 - derzeit PostDoc scholar of the Kone Foundation and affiliated researcher at the Department of Languages (University of Helsinki, Finland) in the project “Gender, society, and language use: Evidence from Mexico and Spain” (PI: Pekka Posio)

09/2021 - 09/2024 PostDoc positions at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; formerly: University of Koblenz-Landau), amongst others, parental leave substitute for the Junior Professorship of Social Psychology (09/2022-01/2023), research associate in the DFG-funded project “Discrimination of job applicants on the basis of their sexual orientation: an experimental research approach” (02/2023-09/2024)

06/2019 - 08/2021 PI (own position) in the DFG-funded project “Vocal stereotypes toward women and men diverging in sexual orientations: A combination of production-related and perceptive approaches” (KA 5005/1-1) at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

04/2018 - 11/2019 Group therapist at the Addiction Rehabilitation Clinic Weinböhla, Germany

04/2013 - 2019/05 Research assistant at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and in the DFG Research Unit “Person Perception” (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)

11/2012 - 03/2013 Research associate at the Department of Social Cognition and Cognitive Psychology (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)

01/2007 - 09/2009 Research internship and student assistant in the DFG-funded project “Brain activation during automatic and controlled stimulus processing before and after psychotherapeutic treatment on specific phobia” at the Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Academic career

05/2018 - derzeit Group therapy training with cognitive behavioral focus (IVT Dresden, Germany)

09/2016 - derzeit Psychotherapy training with cognitive behavioral focus (IVT Dresden, Germany)

11/2012 - 07/2017 PhD in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. PhD thesis: “Social markers of sexual orientiation and gender in speech and appearance: A combination of producer- and perceiver-centered approaches” (grade: summa cum laude)

10/2008 - 02/2013 Bachelor of Arts in Communication (major) and Speech Sciences/Phonetics (minor), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; B.A. thesis: “Mediale Konstruktion von Homosexualität” [Medial construction of homosexuality] (grade: 1,3)

10/2005 - 07/2012 Diploma in Psychology (equivalent to M.Sc.; minor in German Linguistics), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Diploma thesis: “Geschlechterrolle oder sexuelle Identität? Eine phonetisch-psychologische Untersuchung weiblicher Sprechweisen” [Gender role or sexual identity? A phonetic-psychological analysis of female speech] (grade: 1,0)

Publications (with peer review)

Carcelén Guerrero, A., Uclés, G., Posio, P., & Kachel, S. (accepted for publication). CoLaGe: Corpus for the Study of Language and Gender in two varieties of spoken Spanish. Corpora

Büttner, C. M., Rudert, S. C., & Kachel, S.(2024). Ostracism experiences of sexual minorities: Integrating target perspective and perception by others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241240675

Kachel, S., Bloch, T., Bosson, J. K., Lorenz, L. L., & Steffens, M. C. (2024). Gaining masculine power through guns? The impact of masculinity threat on attitudes toward guns. Frontiers in Psychology. 15:1296261. doi. org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1296261

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2024). Speakers' vocal expression of sexual orientation depends on experimenter gender. Speech Communication, 156, 103023. doi. org/10.1016/j.specom.2023.103023

*Posio, P., Kachel, S., & Uclés Ramada, G. (2024). Morphosyntactic stereotypes of speakers with different genders and sexual orientations: An experimental investigation. Linguistics, online first. doi. org/10.1515/ling-2022-0143

*Landmann, H., *Kachel, S., Kommerscheidt, L., Lange, F., Richter, I. (2023). Assessing diversity dimensions in environmental psychology: Challenges and recommendations. Umweltpsychologie, 27(1), 8–33.

Gruber, R., Häfner, M. & Kachel, S. (2023). Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection. British Journal of Social Psychology, Online First. doi. org/10.1111/bjso.12700

Kachel, S., Nussbaum, C., & Pöhlmann, M. (2023). Queer events, relationships, and sports: Does topic influence speakers' acoustic expression of sexual orientation? INTERSPEECH 2023, 4269 4273. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2087

Niedlich, C., Kachel, S., & Steffens, M. C. (2022). Sexual orientation information and hiring: Can individualizing information lead to negative stereotyping of sexual minority group members? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(5), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12859

Kachel, S., Steffens, M. C., Preuß, S., & Simpson, A. P. (2020). Gender (conformity) matters: Cross-dimensional and cross-modal associations in sexual orientation perception. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(1), 40-66. doi. org/10.1177/0261927X19883902

Preuß, S., Ottenstein, C., Steffens, M. C., & Kachel, S. (2020). Using scenarios for measuring the affective and behavioral components of attitudes toward lesbians and gay men: Validation of the SABA-scale. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(5), 1645-1669.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01653-7

Kachel, S., Radtke, A., Skuk, V. G., Zäske, R., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2018). Investigating the common set of acoustic parameters in sexual orientation groups: A voice averaging approach. PLoS ONE, 13(12): e0208686. doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208686

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2018). "Do I sound straight?": Acoustic correlates of actual and perceived sexual orientation and masculinity/femininity in men's speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(7), 1560-1578. doi. org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0125

Kachel, S., Simpson, A. P., & Steffens, M. C. (2017). Acoustic correlates of sexual orientation and gender-role self-concept in women's speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6), 4793-2809. doi. org/10.1121/1.4988684

Kachel, S., Steffens, M. C., & Niedlich, C. (2016). Traditional masculinity and femininity: Validation of a new scale assessing gender roles. Frontiers in Personality and Social Psychology, 7:956. doi. org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00956

*Shared first authorship

Book chapter

Gruber, R., & Kachel, S. (2023). Dressing through crisis: Examining clothing's symbolic protection from the psychological consequences of existential threats using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic. In I. Henzler, H. Hues, S. Sonnleitner & U. Wilkens (Eds.), Extended Views. Social and economic perspectives on the Covid 19 pandemic. Böhlau.

Steffens, M. C., Niedlich, C., Kachel, S., & Methner, N. (2016). Impression formation of applicants differing in sexual orientation: An attempt to integrate theoretical models and a review of the empirical evidence. F. Earley (Ed.), Sexual orientation: Perceptions, discrimination and acceptance (pp. 51-80). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

• Social psychology of gender and sexuality
• Expression and perception of social identities by means of (non-)verbal signals

A more detailed description can be found under the research tab of the department