In this article, we propose a comprehensive conception of what personality traits are and what they mean in lay personology. Our conception is a pragmatic one that relies on the ecological concept of affordance and the theory of dual knowledge. It is not ...
Abstract: We tested the assumptions of the elaboration-likelihood model regarding the influence of involvement on information processing in the field of credibility attribution in everyday life situations in two experiments. Experiment 1 showed that ...
The Impact of Social Role Information on Reducing Gender-Stereotypical Judgments: A Methodological Artifact?Abstract: Research on the social role theory has consistently demonstrated that the presentation of men and women in the same social role reduced ...
Die vorliegende Studie untersuchte soziale und affektive Beurteilungen von Menschen mit einer Schizophrenie. Dazu wurden Bewertungen neutraler Gesichter bezüglich der Variablen Vertrauenswürdigkeit, Valenz und Erregung von 19 schizophren erkrankten und 19 ...
This research investigates the social judgment of people with a disability in a professional context. In Study 1, participants without a disability were asked to rate people with a disability on scales measuring competence and warmth. In Study 2 ...
Some people experience a feeling of guilt after transgressing a social norm, while others do not. Perceiving this emotion in others therefore yields important information about their personality. Two experimental studies assessed the effects of the ...
“On-line” versus memory-based judgments: Triggering conditions and empirical methods for differentiationAbstract. In social perception two different judgment processes can be distinguished. On the one hand judgments can be formed “on-line” during the ...
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 ...
Although the categorization of novel social stimuli according to general qualities of gender, age, and race is known to be automatic and primordial, categorizing stimuli into more specific social subgroups (e.g., hippies or businesswomen) is much more ...
It is unclear whether embodied-cognition effects are caused by the activation of cultural-linguistic metaphors, or whether these metaphors stem from preverbal mechanisms that directly affect both language and behavior. Therefore, we conducted a study ...
Abstract. How do social observers perceive and judge individuals who self-enhance (vs. not)? Using a decision-theoretic framework, we distinguish between self-enhancement bias and error, where the former comprises both correct and ...
Abstract. Past research has offered contrasting results regarding the effects of attacks on social judgments. In three experiments, we investigated the effects of counterfactual (“If only…”) and non-counterfactual attacks on the morality ...
Abstract. There is ample evidence for the central role of morality in social judgments. However, research has not examined whether perceived morality of others also drives perceived humanness, nor has it extensively considered its ...
Abstract. The main purpose of the present research was to examine the moderating effect of system-justifying beliefs on the relationship between a target’s hierarchical position in an organizational context and perceived competence. ...