Summary: The evaluative component of attitudes is of importance in many fields of social psychological research. In order to provide standardized norms of different aspects of the evaluative component of attitude objects for future studies in these fields,...
Summary: Two studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that stronger degrees of ambivalence attenuate the attitude-behavior correspondence. We also tested the hypothesis that the weaker attitude-behavior correspondence at higher levels of ambivalence ...
Summary: The present study examined the hypothesis that the degree to which stereotypic judgments of female and male subcategories tend to show polarization is dependent on the strength of ambivalent attitudes people hold toward women and men. Subjects ...
Need for Structure and Fear of Invalidity: Psychometric Analysis of German Scales for the Measurement of “Personal Need for Structure”, “Personal Fear of Invalidity” and “Need for Closure”Summary: The present research deals with German short versions of ...
In accordance with dual-process theories of attitude change, we predict that attitude judgments about unfamiliar objects are affected by the evaluative inconsistency of relevant attributes. Drawing upon self-efficacy theory, we further predict that ...
Previous research suggests that avoiding the expression of emotion may be associated with impaired mental health, although empirical evidence is inconsistent. In this investigation, ambivalence over the expression of emotion is understood as an approach-...
Zusammenfassung. Ambivalenz gegenüber Einstellungsobjekten resultiert aus simultan positiven und negativen Bewertungstendenzen (z. B. Thompson, Zanna & Griffin, 1995). Demnach entstehen ambivalente Einstellung zu unvertrauten Objekten, wenn relevante ...
What is your occupation? Evaluative approach and word norms for terms of occupation in GermanAbstract. Terms of occupation are often used in psychological research to refer to stimulus persons. The first comprehensive study for the German language is ...
Psychological ambivalence in parent-child relations: On the development and the psychometric evaluation of a questionnaire for direct assessmentAbstract. Besides the intergenerational solidarity paradigm, the concept of psychological ambivalence has ...
Abstract. To examine the psychological mechanisms involved in value framing effects, the present study extends previous research on competitive frames and tests the mediating role of ambivalence in value framing effects. The current ...
We examined how members of a low status group react to a social identity threat. We propose that expressing an ambivalent evaluation toward the ingroup may represent a way to manage such a threatening situation. For this study, 131 undergraduates’ ...
Abstract. Governments worldwide still, to some extent, rely on behavioral recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We examine the role of ambivalence toward both the specific recommendations (micro-ambivalence) and the pandemic as ...
Abstract:Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life around the world. To fight the pandemic, preventive measures were implemented. Despite being accepted by a majority of citizens in Germany, these measures elicited fierce protest ...