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The article "Comment la satisfaction au travail évolue-t-elle? by Gudela Grote, published on the platform "La Vie économique", has been elected as most read article in 2025 and honored with a Linkedin post on December 14, 2025. Read article here:

Gudela Grote takes part at the pannel discussion "The Future of Work & Equality Moonshot: From Disruption to Design" and talks about cultivating uncertainty-as-enabling mindsets in individual, organisational, and policy decision-making. It takes place on January 22, 2026, from 14:15-15:00h at the World Woman House in Davos.

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Quality Work in a Digital Age, funded by the Australian Research Council, will bring together experts from the social and technical sciences to learn how to create quality work for the future. ETH is with Gudela Grote part of this.

On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP), in collaboration with NCCR Automation and the Debate Club Zürich, hosted a student-led publicdebate on autonomous vehicles at ETH Zurich.

The debate followed a British Parliament–style format and centered on the question: “Should autonomous vehicles be widely adopted?” The event brought together students to critically examine the societal and ethical implications of autonomous vehicles. 

The article "The same, but different: career orientation profiles in France,Germany, Italy and Switzerland" by Julian Pfrombeck and Gudela Grote has been published in the journal Career Development International.

A new study by Ruri Takizawa, Stefanie Marx-Fleck, Alina Gerlach and Gudela Grote shows that if uncertainty is seen as an opportunity, the willingness to vote for right-wing populist parties such as AfD decreases. 

The new paper “The Role of Uncertainty Mindsets in Shaping Diversity Attitudes and Their Downstream Effects on Commitment to Societal Change and Right-Wing Populist Voting” by Ruri Takizawa, Stefanie Marx-Fleck, Alina Gerlach, and Gudela Grote is now available OnlineFirst as an Open Access publication in Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin.

The article "Navigating uncertainty across the lifespan in contemporary work and careers: introduction to the special issue" by Sara Zaniboni, Julian Pfrombeck and Gudela Grote has been published in the Journal  Work, Aging and Retirement.

Gudela Grote antended a panel discussion organized by the Future Center KI NRW in collaboration with the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) around the question: "How can companies and researchers use and shape artificial intelligence in a responsible and practical way?". The event took place on October 29, 2026, in Dortmund, Germany. 

Kim Helmersen's chapter “Social Resilience of the Vernacular Cosmopolitan Heritage of Melaka” has been published in the book Resilience as Heritage in
Asia,  edited by Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Professor Emeritus,
Harvard University) and Rita Padawangi (Associate Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences).

The article "‘Please explain your response’: A guide to uncovering cognitive
processes from open-text box data using pragmatic and reflexive content analysis” has been published by Elaine Strittmatter and her colleagues at University College London in the journal "Judgment and Decision Making". 

Ruri Takizawa has co-edited and co-authored a new French volume, Breaking Down Barriers: Social-Psychological Perspectives on Leadership and Diversity. This book explores the psychological processes that shape minority leadership, combining cutting-edge scientific research withreal-world experiences and perspectives. Published by Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles and supported by the SNF, the book is now available in print and will soon be freely accessible in Open Access.

In the article “Technology should be a Source of
Empowerment, not Anxiety”, Sihui talks about how automation and robotics shape
construction workers’ identity and well-being. Through her BuildWork project,
she promotes mindful tech development and integration that supports rather than
disrupts the meaning of work.

The article “Raising
Awareness of the Glass Cliff: Reducing Sexism Through an Information-Based
Approach” by Ruri Takizawa and colleagues from the University of Geneva has
been published in Social Psycholog and is available via the ETH Library: