Abstract: Recent work using neuroimaging has shown that brain responses to a movie are similar across viewers. These similar responses emerge because the movie recruits brain systems involved in sensory (e.g., responding to the flickering ...
Summary: In two studies we examined stereotypes about Germans and Turks residing in Germany and whether these stereotypes are activated automatically. In the first study we asked German participants (n = 20) to report their knowledge of stereotypes about ...
Zusammenfassung: Die Prägnanz des Altersstereotyps wurde vielfach belegt, doch scheint unklar, unter welchen Situationsbedingungen der Altersvariablen Gewicht bei der Eindrucksbildung zukommt. Diese Forschungslücke aufgreifend sollte in der die Salienz ...
The Cognition-Behavior Link: Effects of Activated Trait Categories on Social BehaviorSummary: Current models of the social cognition-behavior link assume that activating a trait category induces an expectancy about a target person and a specific behavior ...
Reading Time and Eye Movement Methods to Study the Processing of Social InformationAbstract: In this article, the advantages of reading time methods to investigate the processing of social information are presented. First the theoretical and the ...
Abstract. Research and theoretical developments on the theory of cognitive dissonance are reviewed. After considering the self-consistency, self-affirmation, and aversive consequences revisions, the authors review research that has challenged each of the ...
Zusammenfassung: Nach dem Stichprobenansatz (Fiedler, 2000) entstehen viele Urteilsfehler nicht unbedingt durch kognitive Defizite, sondern durch den Prozess des Sammelns von Informationen. Die daraus resultierende Informationsstichprobe kann aus ...
A Social-Psychological Analysis on How to Reduce the Social Discrimination of MigrantsAbstract: Migration has changed German society. Recently, this is being increasingly discussed also at the political level. Even though an integration of migrants is ...
A Plea for a More Social, More Interdisciplinary, and Better Applicable Social PsychologyAbstract: Psychological social psychology has developed itself into a relatively individualistic discipline and has neglected the more “social” aspects. Themes are ...
Abstract. We investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and its possible connection to autobiographical memory (ABM). Patients and matched controls were evaluated and compared using a video-based ToM test, an autobiographical ...
Cognitive biases and metacognition in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)Abstract. The psychological and cognitive impairments from multiple sclerosis (MS) have been in the focus of both patients and physicians for several ...
Abstract. Research on the neural mechanisms underlying Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) has mostly concentrated on abnormalities in basal ganglia circuits. Recent alternative accounts, however, focused more on ...
Social cognition and suicidality: A reviewAbstract. Psychiatric and neurological disorders are associated with increased suicide risk. A lack of social integration and support as well as interpersonal conflicts and ...
Abstract: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury have been attributed to social-cognitive dysfunctions. However, this relationship is not always clearly demonstrated in empirical research. This ...
A Gap that Needs to be Closed: The Assessment of Social-Cognitive Abilities in German-Speaking Memory ClinicsAbstract: The assessment of social-cognitive abilities can contribute to diagnosing cognitive disorders. ...
Synopsis and Interdisciplinary Commentary on the International INCOG 2.0-Guidelines “Cognitive Communication Disorders After Traumatic Brain Injury”Abstract: Cognitive communication disorders (CCDs) mainly affect ...
Metacognitive and social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Impact on functioning and treatment strategiesThe group of schizophrenias concerns heterogeneous psychopathological syndromes that are often associated with neurocognitive impairment and poor ...
Preoperational Thinking in Patients with Anxiety or Chronic Back Pain: Two Cross-Sectional Studies to Improve the Understanding of the CBASPAbstract.Background: In the treatment of persistent depressive disorder (...
Leadership and stress - an experiment in a virtual companyAbstract. The effects of critical feedback and a negative impression of employees on leadership performance were studied using a virtual company as experimental setting. It was assumed that both ...
How flexible are Internet experts in taking the perspective of laypersons? A Web experimental approach is presented that examines the Internet experts’ perspective taking in planning explanations for laypersons. The Internet was the topic to be ...