This paper focuses on the question whether perceiving oneself as a victim of ethnically motivated conflicts or offenses is particularly a problem of ethnic minorities. It is further discussed how this is connected to the generally perceived risk that ...
Social Prestige of Occupations from the Perspective of High School StudentsAbstract: The development of concepts of social inequity and the understanding of occupational prestige is a significant aspect of children's and adolescents' economic ...
A Name Says More than a Thousand Words: The Social Perception of First NamesAbstract. This study presents word norms for 30 male and 30 female German first names (modern, old-fashioned, and timeless) with respect to the perception of age, attractiveness ...
This article investigates how our cognitions are influenced by various values of liberal ideology. Two pre-tests were used to identify two ordinary and daily objects (advertising and coaching) as vectors of liberal ideology. We used these objects to prime ...
Neuropsychological group therapy for children with visuo-spatial and visuo-constructional disturbances - structure and efficacyAbstract. Disturbances of visuo-spatial and visuo-constructional functioning are among the most frequent sequeale following ...
Abstract. According to (a) the beauty ideal of a full head of hair and (b) the physical attractiveness stereotype (PAS; “what is beautiful is good”), bald men should appear less attractive than nonbald men, not only physically but also ...
Abstract. The accurate decoding of facial emotion expressions lies at the center of many research traditions in psychology. Much of this research, while paying lip service to the importance of context in emotion ...
This article reviews some of the central ideas in Heider’s (1958) book, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations: common-sense psychology, personal causality, causal attribution, and the social perception of mental states. Relying on Heider’s own words ...
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 ...
In two experimental studies (conducted in Britain and Italy), participants read about a politician answering to leadership- versus morality-related allegations using either downward counterfactuals (“things could have been worse, if ...”) or upward ...
The present article concerns the relationship of the Big Two with generalized negative worldviews (i.e., negative beliefs about human nature and pessimistic expectations of interpersonal relationships). Morality/communion and competence/agency – in the ...
On a between-subjects (Experiment 1A) and within-subjects (Experiment 1B) basis, participants indicated a belief that attractive and unattractive targets engage in less actual helping behavior than moderately attractive targets. In Experiment 2, ...
The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) posits two fundamental dimensions of intergroup perception, warmth and competence, predicted by socio-structural dimensions of competition and status, respectively. However, the SCM has been challenged on claiming ...
Abstract. Differences in word connotations can have far-reaching consequences. We investigated the content, and emotional and behavioral consequences of the social perception of fled people as a function of their label (“refugees” vs. “...
Abstract. We provide ratings for a representative set of 2,000 German first names with regard to perceived sex, foreign origin (yes/no), and familiarity. In two studies participants (N = 736 and N = 237) estimated intelligence, education, ...
Abstract. Agency and communion comprise the big two of social perception, with agency in general denoting goal orientation and communion orientation toward others. Both dimensions can be coded and detected in ...
Abstract. We replicated and extended research on implicit simplicity: the tendency for personality judgments of acquaintances to be of lower dimensionality than those made for self or well-known others. ...