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View article: Context-based discrimination in school discipline
Context-based discrimination in school discipline Open
Numerous studies have documented racialized disparities in school disciplinary practices, with students from stigmatized racialized groups facing harsher punishment than their non-stigmatized peers. These disparities are often attributed t…
View article: The racialized classroom: The influence of classroom composition on teachers’ decisions to use disciplinary measures
The racialized classroom: The influence of classroom composition on teachers’ decisions to use disciplinary measures Open
Does racialized classroom composition affect how teachers deal with disruptive behavior? In two pre-registered experiments with preservice and in-service teachers in Germany (total N = 787), we examined whether participants respond to disr…
View article: Context-based discrimination in school discipline
Context-based discrimination in school discipline Open
Numerous studies have documented racialized disparities in school disciplinary practices, with students from stigmatized racialized groups facing harsher and more frequent punishment than their non-stigmatized peers. These disparities are …
View article: Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid Open
To investigate the specific events and processes that contribute to volunteering in refugee aid, we conducted a qualitative study with volunteers in Germany (N = 220). Participants described in their own words critical incidents that motiv…
View article: Social Support in Online Peer Groups for Celiac Disease
Social Support in Online Peer Groups for Celiac Disease Open
Background: While there is considerable evidence for the positive effects of onsite peer support on health outcomes, few studies have addressed the impact of online peer support. Aims: This study differentiates between emotional (ES) and i…
View article: Can cross-group contact predict advantaged group member’s willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based actions? Yes, if the contact is politicized
Can cross-group contact predict advantaged group member’s willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based actions? Yes, if the contact is politicized Open
Positive cross-group contact with disadvantaged group members can reduce prejudice, and, under certain conditions, increase solidarity-based action intentions among advantaged group members. In the present work, we distinguish between posi…
View article: The role of self-evaluation in predicting attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories: A direct and a conceptual replication of Cichocka et al. (2016)
The role of self-evaluation in predicting attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories: A direct and a conceptual replication of Cichocka et al. (2016) Open
We examined the role of people’s self-evaluation in predicting their attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories by replicating and extending the findings of a study by Cichocka et al. (2016, Study 3) in two preregi…
View article: Entertainment Education as a Means to Reduce Anti-Muslim Prejudice – For Whom Does It Work Best?
Entertainment Education as a Means to Reduce Anti-Muslim Prejudice – For Whom Does It Work Best? Open
The present research aimed to replicate and extend findings by Murrar and Brauer (2018) , who demonstrated that an entertainment education intervention (a music video) effectively reduced US residents’ anti-Muslim prejudice. Using a German…
View article: Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups
Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups Open
White Americans who participate in the Black Lives Matter movement, men who attended the Women’s March, and people from the Global North who work to reduce poverty in the Global South—advantaged group members (sometimes referred to as alli…
View article: Approaching the Other: Determinants of Positive Behavior across Group Boundaries in Benign and Conflictual Intergroup Contexts
Approaching the Other: Determinants of Positive Behavior across Group Boundaries in Benign and Conflictual Intergroup Contexts Open
This habilitation thesis comprises a compilation of publications that address central determinants of positive behavior across group boundaries, and that, taken together, significantly contribute to our knowledge about the processes that f…
View article: Agentic and communal interaction goals in conflictual intergroup relations
Agentic and communal interaction goals in conflictual intergroup relations Open
Members of conflicting groups experience threats to different identity dimensions, resulting in the need to restore the aspect of identity that was threatened. Do these needs translate into specific goals in social interactions? In the pre…
View article: The Effect of Social Class on Agency and Communion: Reconciling Identity-Based and Rank-Based Perspectives
The Effect of Social Class on Agency and Communion: Reconciling Identity-Based and Rank-Based Perspectives Open
How does social class affect people’s goals in social interactions? A rank-based perspective suggests actors from higher social classes (compared to lower social classes) have more agentic and less communal goals when interacting with same…
View article: The effect of social class on agency and communion: Reconciling rank-based and identity-based perspectives
The effect of social class on agency and communion: Reconciling rank-based and identity-based perspectives Open
How does social class affect people’s goals in social interactions? A rank-based perspective suggests actorsfrom higher social classes (compared to lower social classes) have more agentic and less communal goals when interacting with same-…
View article: 'Terrorist' or 'Mentally Ill': Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions about Violent Actors
'Terrorist' or 'Mentally Ill': Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions about Violent Actors Open
We investigated whether motivated reasoning rooted in partisanship affects the attributions individuals make about violent attackers’ underlying motives and group memberships. Study 1 demonstrated that on the day of the Brexit referendum p…
View article: Ingroup Favoritism in the Cross-national context
Ingroup Favoritism in the Cross-national context Open
With the present research we aim to subject competing hypotheses derived from the Social Identity Approach and the Theory of Bounded Generalized Reciprocity to empirical testing. Specifically, we investigate ingroup favoritism in cooperati…