Summary: Currently, BSE ist discussed in the public with varying commotion as a socially relevant risk. Only sporadically has BSE been studied in social science risk research. From the perspective of the psychometric paradigm and other approaches to risk ...

Summary: The present experiment investigated the influence of approach and avoidance motor actions on evaluations of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP - German Liberal Democratic Party). Participants were required to either flex their arms (arm flexor ...

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 ...

Summary: So far, the examination of prejudice towards ethnic minorities revealed only small correlations between implicit attitude-measures and explicit social judgments. The present article argues that this lack of correspondence is determined partly by ...

Summary: Three questionnaire-based studies examined self-relevant personality traits as correlates of aggressive driving behavior and driving violations based on theoretical assumptions proposed by . The first study ...