Summary: A study with 128 subjects showed that the need for belongingness activated by a threat to the personal self is satisfied by social groups, as Brewer assumes, but not by categories. Moreover, a positive correlation between need satisfaction and ...
Consistent with balance theory, it was predicted that a balance is reached when the self and the ingroup are perceived in a similar way, leading participants to more rapid judgments and fewer errors judging the self and the ingroup. The goal of this study ...
Zusammenfassung: Das Selbst wird einerseits als Ergebnis und andererseits als Ausgangspunkt von Informationsverarbeitungsprozessen dargestellt. Zwischen dem Selbst als Produkt von Informationsverarbeitung und dem Selbst als erlebens- und ...
Zusammenfassung: Überforderung durch komplexe Problemsituationen kann einen multimodalen Zustand innerer Kapitulation auslösen. Dieser Zustand beschränkt sich nicht nur auf den Verlust an Situationskontrolle, er umfasst auch Merkmale wie Reduzierung des ...
Action Competence and Self: Individual Differences in Coping With Inner CapitulationSummary: The study deals with the issue of coping with states of “inner capitulation” which may occur when an individual's resources are overtaxed by a complex problem ...
Abstract: Self-maintenance therapy (SMT) is a (neuro)psychologically-based rehabilitation method for people with dementia, especially those with Alzheimer's disease. The concept of SET was first described in this journal (Romero & Eder, 1992). The overall ...
Two studies based on a signal detection model of recognition memory are presented. Both studies investigated detection and response bias in the recognition of personality-trait words with respect to their relation to the self. Study 1 employed a yes-no ...
Abstract. Both geropsychology and cultural psychology have been new branches of psychology that have established their distinctive roles over the last two decades. In this article, I chart out three major ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit legt eine neurophysiologisch fundierte Systematik der Komponenten des Konstruktes mentaler Repräsentationen wichtiger Anderer und des eigenen Selbst vor. Hierbei werden auf zwei Ebenen je drei Forschungsfelder ...
Hindsight bias refers to the tendency to overestimate in hindsight what one has known in foresight. Recently, two experiments extended the research to include samples from different cultures (Choi & Nisbett, 2000; Heine & Lehman, 1996). Asking their ...
Zusammenfassung. Wir brauchen Menschenbilder. Besonders die Wissenschaften, die sich mit dem eigentlichen Humanum beschäftigen. Was den Menschen in seiner Besonderheit ausmacht, dieses Wissen trägt er in sich. Unser Bewusstsein verfügt die Kapazität, zu ...
Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit Theorien und Diagnostik im Bereich Gesundheits- und Freizeitsport. Dabei wird auf Selbstkonzept, aktuelles Befinden, und Motivation eingegangen. Ein besonderes Anliegen in den letzten zehn Jahren ...
This study examines how intergroup context effects on national and European self-identification are in part dependent upon the perceived category relations between relevant self-categories (Rutland & Cinnirella, 2000). Based upon the findings of a first ...
Abstract. The self has become a prominent field of research in psychology but despite its eminent first-person character, it is typically studied from a third-person perspective. Such a third-person approach is well suited to enquire into ...
This paper examines feelings and emotions in relation to entertainment experiences. Feelings reflect an appraisal of everyday events or media products that shape our experience of pleasure and interest which are complementary. Pleasure can result from the ...
Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) ...
Psychological approaches often conceptualize “free will” as self-determined decision-making. However, the functional mechanisms potentially underlying volitional freedom or its limitations have barely been elaborated. Starting from a functional definition ...