Factors of Individual Threat, Efficacy and Cost Appraisal in the Context of Environmental StressorsAbstract. In the area of environmental stressors factors of individual threat, efficacy and response-costs appraisal are investigated. This examination ...
Abstract. Research has shown that feelings of threat elicit a prevention focus and feelings of challenge elicit a promotion focus. The present research tested the reverse causal relationship. We predicted that, when people are faced with a demanding task, ...
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 ...
Leaking: Frequency and correlates of announcements and threats of homicidal violence reported by Berlin schools between 1996 and 2007Abstract. Threats and announcements of homicidal violence at ...
Neural correlates of the processing of threat-relevant stimuli in phobics and healthy subjectsAbstract. The increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, resulted in numerous new findings, which extended the ...
Intercultural Differences in the Experience of and Behavior After Social ExclusionAbstract. Social exclusion – being kept apart from others – has severe psychological and physiological consequences. The degree to which people are threatened by social ...
Working conditions, personality characteristics, and the consumption of alcohol: A survey carried out in two metal-working companiesAbstract. The objectives of the present study were to examine the links between work pressure and the consumption of ...
Abstract. Leaders working part time struggle with a lack of respect and acceptance from their subordinates and their management colleagues. Leadership as a part-time role does not match the traditional expectation of leaders being ...
Reading times were collected to assess the probability and time course of inferences predictive of danger as a function of anxiety. Participants high or low in trait anxiety read (a) context sentences suggesting threat-related or nonthreat outcomes of ...
Anxiety disorders are characterized by biased implicit threat associations, which can be measured by indirect reaction time tasks. These tasks might provide a useful tool in the assessment of individual diagnoses and therapeutic changes. However, ...
Abstract. A field study was carried out in an optometry clinic, aimed at assessing the role of perceived control and aversiveness of non-contact tonometry in intraocular pressure (IOP) reactivity to psychosocial stressors, and analyzing the covariation ...
Negative attitudes toward immigrants are widespread in Western societies, and research has repeatedly attempted to explain such attitudes with the presence of cultural diversity arising from a high number of immigrants. Highlighting how political ...
Abstract. We investigated whether threat words presented in attended (foveal) and in unattended (parafoveal) locations of the visual field are attention grabbing. Neutral (nonemotional) words were presented at fixation as probes in a lexical decision ...
Abstract. Models of attention and emotion have assigned a special status to the processing of threatening information: Facilitated attentional capture by threat and its prioritized processing would allow for swift and adequate action to potentially ...
Abstract. Studies on attentional bias have overwhelmingly focused on the priority of different stimuli and have rarely manipulated the state of the observer. Recently, the threat of unpredictable shock has been ...
Abstract. A world divided into East versus West: The so-called Ukraine crisis has once more summoned outdated patterns of political thinking. Simultaneously, media discourses have flared up debating diplomatic and military solutions as ...
We examined how members of a low status group react to a social identity threat. We propose that expressing an ambivalent evaluation toward the ingroup may represent a way to manage such a threatening situation. For this study, 131 undergraduates’ ...
Two studies demonstrate that, in order to cope with social identity threat, strongly but not weakly group-identified individuals make attributions of relatively poor group performance to low group effort rather than ability. However, this only takes place ...
Previous research suggests that positive stimuli are often approached as well as recognized faster than negative stimuli. We argue that this effect does not hold if negative stimuli are associated with threat. Based on fear module theory (Öhman & Mineka, ...