Dieter Hermann
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View article: On People’s Worries about Becoming a Victim of Events or Conditions Often Blamed on Those up There
On People’s Worries about Becoming a Victim of Events or Conditions Often Blamed on Those up There Open
The authors study people’s worries about becoming victimized by events and conditions often blamed on “those up there”. Excessive worries are bad for people’s performance because they lead to risk avoidance and lower self-confidence. In tw…
View article: Attitudes toward crime(s) and their relations to gender, age, and personal values
Attitudes toward crime(s) and their relations to gender, age, and personal values Open
People's attitudes toward crimes and how they are related to gender, age, and personal values are studied here based on data from six representative surveys with altogether 14,591 respondents collected in four German cities between 1998 an…
View article: The perceived seriousness of crimes: inter-individual commonalities and differences
The perceived seriousness of crimes: inter-individual commonalities and differences Open
The paper focuses on ratings of the perceived seriousness of crimes and how they can be explained in a testable scaling model (SOCID) that shows commonalities and differences among individuals. The model assumes that crimes are first repre…
View article: Inside and Outside Perspectives on the Relation of People’s Personal Values and Their Acceptance of Legal Norms
Inside and Outside Perspectives on the Relation of People’s Personal Values and Their Acceptance of Legal Norms Open
Based on a representative survey on crime prevention, this paper studies how personal values are related to persons’ acceptance of legal norms (LNA). We here take a closer look at these relations than previous research. Offenses, in partic…
View article: Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms
Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms Open
The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’ and non-delinquents’ general attitudes towards legal norms. We expect that 10 basic personal values form a circular scale common to all individuals, both deli…
View article: Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model?
Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model? Open
The paper compares the theoretical implications of two popular scales for the measurement of personal values, the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) of Schwartz et al. (J Cross-Cult Psychol, 32:519-542, 2001) and the IRVS of Hermann (Wert…