Born in 1961 in East Berlin and raised in East Germany, Angela Kindervater was denied admission to East German Universities due to my critical political attitude. She was able to leave the GDR for political and personal reasons in 1989, before the fall of the wall between East and West. She subsequently enrolled at the University of Hamburg and registered for a combination of courses in educational science, psychology and sociology--a course of study that seemed suitable to answer questions such as "What is needed for individual development?" and "What are the opportunities and what are the dangers of today's times?" It is not surprising, therefore, that she ended up working in the field of authoritarianism research and related subjects such as anti-Semitism research. Her first and most important contact with political science and the ISPP is related to her time as a student of Gerda Lederer. This led to Angela becoming a member of the ISPP in 1994.

She was awarded an MA in educational science from the University of Hamburg in 1995 and thereafter worked in several international research projects. Since 1998, she has been a member of the editorial staff of the German Journal for Political Psychology. Since 2001, she has been a member of the Junior Scholars Committee of the ISPP. Currently Angela is working on her dissertation for the PhD on the subject of "The Relation between Stereotypes and Prejudice--the Role of Authoritarian Dispositions", scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2006.

As a member of the ISPP Angela would like to support an organization which aims to build bridges between people of different continents and different perspectives on social research.