Abstract: Childfree adults do not have or want children and voluntarily opt out of parenthood. Although this group is large (more than one-fifth of some adult populations), its members are often subjected to negative stereotypes about ...
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 ...
Yzerbyt, Rogier and Fiske (1998) argued that perceivers confronted with a group high in entitativity (i.e., a group perceived as an entity, a tight-knit group) more readily call upon an underlying essence to explain people's behavior than perceivers ...
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 ...
In the present study, we investigated the subtle effect of instructing participants to make fair judgments by avoiding the influence of stereotypes on their judgments. Previous studies have shown that instructing participants to disregard a stereotype may ...
A great deal of research has been dedicated to the difficulties women face in business management domains because they lack the required “masculinity” in terms of masculine skills and traits. Previous work has shown that when males are judged, failures in ...
In face perception, besides physiognomic changes, accessories like eyeglasses can influence facial appearance. According to a stereotype, people who wear glasses are more intelligent, but less attractive. In a series of four experiments, we showed how ...
We suggest that temporal stability in the frequency of stereotype-consistent behavior can be used to estimate whether this behavior reflects internal stable dispositions (i.e., stereotype-consistent traits) shared within the group rather than other ...
Research has found that raters are able to match dogs with their owners at above-chance rates, even with controls for size or hairiness (Roy & Christenfeld, 2004). This suggests that dogs, to some extent, resemble their owners. We conducted three studies (...
Abstract. This research concerns the influence of dominant/dominated asymmetries in the perceptual structure of social categories in computer-mediated communication (CMC). We explore the connection between the cognitive effects described by the social ...
Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed ...
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 ...
Abstract. We surveyed 377 undergraduates, half in the spring (i.e., before COVID-19) and half in the fall (i.e., during COVID-19) term of 2020 on explicit attitudes toward and intention to work with older adults (OAs). We asked open-ended questions about ...
Abstract. Little is known about how people perceive the affective well-being of older and younger adults. In four studies, we compare other- and self-reported trait affect from participants who varied in adult age and familiarity. Our prediction that ...
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 ...