Elisabeth Wehling

Elisabeth Wehling, born in Hamburg in 1981, studied sociology, journalism and linguistics in Hamburg, Rome and Berkeley. She received a doctorate in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on political values, language and cognition. At the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, she led research projects on ideology, language and unconscious opinion formation. Wehling has published numerous scholarly works and co-authored the books “Auf leisen Sohlen ins Gehirn” (2008) and “The Little Blue Book” (2012) with George Lakoff.