Summary: Displays of lifestyle and aesthetic preference are considered important social indicators in complex, modern society. Such indicators are thought to influence first impressions of other persons and also to affect these persons' appeal as ...
Summary: Until recently the stereotype researchers have usually measured knowledge of stereotypes but not the endorsement of these stereotypes. Moreover, most investigations have focused on either encoding or retrieval effects of stereotypical ...
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 ...
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 ...
Self-Stigmatization and Social Inclusion in Alcohol DependenceAbstract.Objective: Among mentally ill people, persons with alcohol dependence are an especially stigmatized group. Self-stigmatizing because of own ...
Implicit attitudes of elementary school students towards people with migrant backgroundAbstract. Adults and young people without a migrant background attribute lower competencies and performances to persons with a ...
The construction of professional images of healthcare assistants and registered nursesAbstract. Background: In the field of nursing in Switzerland, educations have experienced a fundamental reorganization with the implementation of the new law on ...
Abstract. Legally irrelevant information like facial features is used to form judgments about rape cases. Using a reverse-correlation technique, it is possible to visualize criminal stereotypes and test whether these representations influence judgments. ...
Abstract. Given a relationship between political shaping of society, the prevalence of mental illnesses and the organization of mental health care, the question of a possible political participation by social psychiatry arises. An unprejudiced and ...
Typical pothead? Stereotypes and peoples perceptions<span class="fett">Aims:</span> Is there a cannabis-user stereotype that influences teachers expectations about pupils performance in school? </p><p> <span class="fett">Method:</span> In a cross-...
Zusammenfassung. Es wird eine deutschsprachige Skala zur Erfassung der Motivation zu vorurteilsfreiem Verhalten (MVV-16) gegenüber diskriminierten Gruppen vorgestellt, die sich konzeptuell an die Skala Motivation to Control Prejudiced Reactions von Dunton ...
Effects of the generic use of the masculine pronoun and alternative forms of speech on the cognitive visibility of womenAbstract.Feminist linguistics have postulated that a masculine pronoun that is used in a generic sense (”he“ to indicate a male or ...
Abstract. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the psychometric properties of an Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) that was adapted to measure implicit attitudes towards homosexuality. In a first experiment, the ...
Zusammenfassung. Untersuchungsgegenstand dieser Studie war der Einfluss von Traurigkeit als State versus Depressivität als Trait auf das Fernsehverhalten. Den theoretischen Hintergrund bildete dabei das interaktive Kompensations- und Verstärkungsmodell ...
Individual or group, exemplar or category: A two-factor model of reaction time differences in the Implicit Association Test (IAT)Abstract. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is supposed to measure associations between concepts by way of classifying ...
Zusammenfassung. Wir gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit Diskriminierung älterer Arbeitskräfte in deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen aus dem Bereich der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie thematisiert wird. Nach einer systematischen Literaturrecherche in ...
Gender stereotypes and leadership between 1974 and 2010. An analysis of obituaries of deceased female and male managersFemales are still underrepresented in leadership positions. This fact might be explained by a conflict of roles due to prevalent ...
Three studies examined whether animality is a component of low-SES stereotypes. In Study 1a–c, the content of “white trash” (USA), “chav” (UK), and “bogan” (Australia) stereotypes was found to be highly consistent, and in every culture it correlated ...
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, ...