Abstract. This study tested the effect of voter’s political orientation on the importance they placed on agency, competence, morality, and sociability as qualities required for being President of the French Republic. It furthermore assessed the ...
Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed ...
As people grow older they develop a sense of a dual age identity, referring to their age group and generation (Weiss & Lang, 2009). Two studies (N1 = 37, 60–85 years and N2 = 104, 65–88 years of age) compared and contrasted older adults’ cognitive ...
IAL-K: Development of a Short Form of the Interpersonal Adjective ListAbstract. The interpersonal circumplex (IC) is an established model for the description and assessment of interpersonal variables. The short form of the Interpersonal Adjective List (...
What Helps, What Works? Efficacy and Therapeutic Effects in Dance Movement TherapyAbstract. What works in dance movement therapy (DMT)? Does DMT affect the targeted health aspects? If so, how does it work? Which active ...
Children's Well-Being as a Parental Construct. The Agency of Children and Parents During the PandemicAbstract. The article concerns the perspective of parents on their children's well-being because of the impact of ...
“I Can't Do What She Says” – Participation From the Child's Point of View. A Reconstructive Analysis in Child DaycareAbstract: This reconstructive analysis explored how children experience and describe agency as a ...
Social Inequalities and Social Differences in Daycare Centers From the Children's PerspectiveAbstract: In daycare, besides the generational order, many other social differences are inequally structured. How do ...
Snow Queen Elsa Goes/Won't Go to Kindergarten. Children's Negotiations of Belonging in Formal Educational ContextsAbstract: Against the background of long-term child-centered ethnographic research, this article ...
Abstract. Based on meta-analyses, intervention studies, and investigations outside of the creativity literature, this paper makes seven evidence-informed propositions about the relationships between creativity and school functioning. First,...
Abstract. Despite the conceptual proximity between the basic needs and agency and communion and their similar function for psychological functioning, studies investigating their interplay are scarce. This study aims to investigate ...
Synchronization has recently received attention as a form of interpersonal interaction that may affect the affiliative relationships of those engaged in it. While there is evidence to suggest that synchronized movements lead to increased affiliative ...
Three studies explored the relationship between power and the perception of others in terms of agency and communion. In Study 1, participants taking a manager perspective were more interested in the agency of their future employee than those asked to take ...
Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits ...
Conceptual representations of warmth have been shown to be related to people’s perceptions of ambient temperature. Based on this premise, we hypothesized that merely thinking about personality traits related to communion (but not agency) influences ...
Previous theories concerning the “Big Two” dimensions have focused on people’s perceptions and judgments of various social targets. The research presented in this article extends current theorizing by shedding light on how the targets of these judgments ...
The double perspective model (DPM) assumes that every social interaction involves two perspectives – that of the agent (a person who performs an action) and that of the recipient (a person toward whom the action is directed). Agency and communion ...
A great deal of recent work has found that two fundamental dimensions underlie social judgment. The most common labels used to denote these dimensions are agency versus communion, and competence versus warmth. The present work aimed to disentangle agency ...
Abstract. The importance of various trait dimensions explaining positive global self-esteem has been the subject of numerous studies. While some have provided support for the importance of agency, others have highlighted the importance of ...
Abstract. Whereas leadership is generally perceived as a masculine enterprise, heroism research suggests that people view heroes as similarly masculine, but having more feminine traits. We predicted that heroes will be evaluated higher than leaders in ...