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2014
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(2014): Empirically informed ethics. Morality between facts and norms. Cham: Springer (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy)
Abstract: This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ethical thinking. It involves contributions of scholars both from philosophy, theology and empirical sciences with firm standings in their own disciplines, but an inclination to step across borders?in particular the one between the world of facts and the world of norms. Human morality is complex, and probably even messy?and this clean distinction becomes blurred whenever one looks more closely at the various components that enable and influence our moral actions and ethical orientations. In that way, morality may indeed be located between facts and norms?and an empirically informed ethics that is less concerned with analytical purity but immerses into this moral complexity may be an important step to make the contributions of ethics to this world more valuable and relevant. zitiert von: 8
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(2014): The Standard of the Reasonable Person: An Objective, Intuitive Account That Treats People as Persons. In: Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 21 (1), S. 21-25. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2014.0000
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(2014): Grenzgänge der Arbeitsforschung. Eine Festschrift für Theo Wehner. Lengerich: Pabst
Abstract: ach einleitenden allgemeinen Anmerkungen zur tätigkeitspsychologischen Orientierung in T. Wehners Studien zur Humanisierung der Arbeitswelt wird zunächst auf einige psychologische Einsichten zu Anerkennung und Wertschätzung eingegangen. Dann wird erörtert, wie es mit der erlebten Anerkennung bzw. Wertschätzung bei den 65 Gesprächspartnerinnen in ihrem Pflegeberuf beschaffen ist, die in einer eigenen Studie interviewt worden waren. Dabei wird zwischen mehreren Ebenen der Vermittlung von Anerkennung und Wertschätzung unterschieden (gesellschaftliche Ebene, Ebene der Pflegeeinrichtungen oder Organisationen, in denen beruflich Pflegende tätig sind, unmittelbar-interaktionelle Ebene). Die Befunde dieser Studie werden in einen Diskussionszusammenhang mit Wehners Ergebnissen über das Erleben frei-gemeinnütziger Arbeit gestellt. Dabei wird unter anderem deutlich, dass in der Erwerbsarbeit ein bedeutsames Potenzial für Selbstachtung und Selbstwertschätzung liegt, auch unter widrigsten Bedingungen: Wer beruflich tätig ist, kann dort die erlebten Defizite im Rahmen anderer Tätigkeitsformen, etwa frei-gemeinnützigen, kompensieren, so die Befragten in Wehners Forschungsbefunden, oder auch, wie in den eigenen Befunden, in verschiedenen Situationen innerhalb des Betriebs, in dem die Tätigkeit ausgeübt wird. Unter bestimmten Umständen besteht sogar die Chance kollektiv organisierter Verbesserungen der Arbeitsbedingungen. Ein Teil der Frauen kann nach der Zeit der Kindererziehung in anderen unbezahlten Sorgetätigkeiten Sinn und Anerkennung finden. Wer sich dagegen von Berufsarbeit unfreiwillig und nicht selbst bestimmt ausgeschlossen sieht, hat eine geringere Chance, überhaupt in die Lage zu kommen, die eigenen Tätigkeiten für andere in ihrer Bedeutung für die Gemeinschaft sichtbar zu machen und damit Anerkennung oder den Mangel daran zu erleben.
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(2014): Medical professionalism. An experimental look at physicians’ Facebook profiles. In: Medical Education Online 19 (1). DOI: 10.3402/meo.v19.23149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/meo.v19.23149 Abstract: BACKGROUND: Use of social networking services (SNS) is on the rise. While many users sign in for personal purposes, it is not uncommon for professionals to connect over SNSs with clients, students, and patients. METHODS: The present study used an experimental approach to examine how medical doctors' SNS profiles impacted potential patients' impressions of professionalism. Participants (N=250 students) were randomly assigned to view one of six Facebook profiles. Profiles were populated with 1) solely professional material, 2) personal material that was strictly healthy, or 3) personal material that included unhealthy behavior. Profiles portrayed a male or female physician resulting in a total of six experimental conditions. Medical professionalism was measured with the First Impressions of Medical Professionalism (FIMP) scale, specifically developed for this study. RESULTS: There was a large and statistically significant main effect for profile type, F(2, 250)=54.77, p<0.001, ηp(2)=0.31. Post hoc tests indicated that personal profiles that contained healthy behavior were rated as most professional followed by profiles with strictly professional content. Personal unhealthy profiles were rated as least professional. Additionally, female profiles consistently received higher professionalism ratings across all three profile types [F(1, 250)=5.04, p=0.026, ηp(2)=0.02]. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that a physician's SNS profile affects a patient's perception of that physician's medical professionalism. A personal, healthy profile may augment a patient's perception of that physician's character virtues if the profile content upholds the decorum of the medical field.
Keywords: Art des Kommunikationsmediums, Daten, Datenschutz, decorum, doppelter Treffer, Experte-Laie, Information, Kommunikation, Medien, Medienwirksamkeit, Medizin, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Professionalität, angemessene Selbstdarstellung, Rolle (Beruf), Social Network, Social Network Einfluss, Soziale Angemessenheit, soziale Medien, Sozialpsychologie, Wahrnehmung angemessener Selbstdarstellung, Facebook -
(2014): Tracking managerial conflict adaptivity. Introducing a dynamic measure of adaptive conflict management in organizations. In: Journal of Organizational Behavior 35 (7), S. 945-968. DOI: 10.1002/job.1935
Abstract: Since Darwin, adaptation to change has been associated with survival and fit. Yet, despite this, leaders and managers often get stuck in dominating approaches to conflict, and few scholars have examined the role of adaptation in managing conflicts effectively over time and across changing situations. The goal of this paper is threefold. First, we develop a new measure for assessing conflict adaptivity of managers [the Managerial Conflict Adaptivity Assessment (MCAA)], based on a situated model of conflict in social relations. We define conflict adaptivity as the capacity to respond to different conflict situations in accordance with the demands specified by the situation. The measure consists of 15 distinct work-conflict scenarios and provides five behavioral response options, which represent five primary strategies employed in conflict. Individuals who tend to respond to the conflicts in a manner consistent with the situations provided are considered to be more adaptive. Second, we test and find that managerial conflict adaptivity is related to higher levels of satisfaction with conflict processes at work as well as higher levels of well-being at work. Third, we test the MCAA's construct validity and provide evidence that the MCAA is positively related to behavioral flexibility and self-efficacy.
Keywords: adaptation, adaptivity, Anpassung, BEHAVIOR, complexity, CONSEQUENCES, CONSTRUCT-VALIDITY, economics, Leadership, MCAA (Management Conflict Adaptivity Assessment) AP Skala (Adaptive Performance) - Anpassungsfähigkeit als Kriterium sozial angemessenen Handelns, model, NEGOTIATION, POWER, SELF-EFFICACY -
(2014): Improving manual skills in persons with disabilities (PWD) through a multimodal assistance system. In: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 9 (4), S. 335-343. DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2013.799238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/17483107.2013.799238 Abstract: UNLABELLED In this research work, we present a Multimodal Guidance System (MGS) whose aim is to provide dynamic assistance to persons with disabilities (PWD) while performing manual activities such as drawing, coloring in and foam-cutting tasks. The MGS provides robotic assistance in the execution of 2D tasks through haptic and sound interactions. Haptic technology provides the virtual path of 2D shapes through the point-based approach, while sound technology provides audio feedback inputs related to the hand's velocity while sketching and filling or cutting operations. By combining this Multimodal System with the haptic assistance, we have created a new approach with possible applications to such diverse fields as physical rehabilitation, scientific investigation of sensorimotor learning and assessment of hand movements in PWD. The MGS has been tested by people with specific disorders affecting coordination, such as Down syndrome and developmental disabilities, under the supervision of their teachers and care assistants inside their learning environment. A Graphic User Interface has been designed for teachers and care assistants in order to provide training during the test sessions. Our results provide conclusive evidence that the effect of using the MGS increases the accuracy in the tasks operations. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION The Multimodal Guidance System (MGS) is an interface that offers haptic and sound feedback while performing manual tasks. Several studies demonstrated that the haptic guidance systems can help people in recovering cognitive function at different levels of complexity and impairment. The applications supported by our device could also have an important role in supporting physical therapist and cognitive psychologist in helping patients to recover motor and visuo-spatial abilities.
Keywords: Adolescent, Adult, Assistenz, Developmental Disabilities/physiopathology/psychology/rehabilitation, Entwicklungspsychologie, Equipment Design, Feedback, Sensory/physiology, Female, Humans, Male, Motor Skills Disorders/physiopathology/psychology/rehabilitation, Psychomotor Performance/physiology, Robotics, Self-Help Devices, User-Computer Interface, Young Adult -
(2014): The effect of respect on interdependent work. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pittsburgh
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(2014): One Justice or Two?. A Model of Reconciliation of Normative Justice Theories and Empirical Research on Organizational Justice. In: Journal of Business Ethics 124 (3), S. 435-451. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1881-1
Abstract: Management scholars and social scientists investigate dynamics of subjective fairness perceptions in the workplace under the umbrella term "organizational justice." Philosophers and ethicists, on the other hand, think of justice as a normative requirement in societal relationships with conflicting interests. Both ways of looking at justice have neither remained fully separated nor been clearly integrated. It seems that much could be gained and learned by more closely integrating the ethical and the empirical fields of justice. On the other hand, it may simply not be possible to bridge the divide between the subjective empirical and the normative prescriptive justice as both fields pose different questions and rely on different assumptions and methods. In this paper, we propose a "reconciliation" model, as a third way of considering justice in the workplace, taking into account normative and psychological issues pertaining to justice. Through applying a reconciliation model, we provide a new way of looking at the interconnections between justice philosophy and organizational justice that could advance future research in both fields. Our model also implies that justice researchers can and should be concerned with the moral implications of their own subject of research.
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Dahms, Harry F. (2014): Mediations of social life in the 21st century. First edition. Bingle, UK: Emerald Group Publishing (Current Perspectives in Social Theory)
Keywords: Anerkennung, Critical Theory of Technology, Emerald eBook Collection, Honneth und aktuelle Kritische Theorie, Im (wissenschaftlichen) Diskurs, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Philosophy, recognition and subjectivity, Reflexionen über MTR, Research, Sammelband, social action, Social Change, social sciences, Sociology, Soziale Angemessenheit, Übersicht -
(2014): Developmental relations between sympathy, moral emotion attributions, moral reasoning, and social justice values from childhood to early adolescence. In: Journal of Adolescence 37 (7), S. 1201-1214
Abstract: Investigated the association of sympathy, moral emotion attributions (MEA), moral reasoning, and social justice values (SJV) from middle childhood to early adolescence. 1,273 Swiss children (and their primary caregivers) were interviewed at age 6 (T1), 1,118 were assessed at age 9 (T2), and 1,038 were examined at age 12 (T3). A computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) was conducted, items from the German Youth Survey (DJI), the Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI), and the matrices subscale of the Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFT-1) were completed, and children's responses to two stories involving themes of moral transgression (happy-victimizer paradigm) were analyzed. Results showed that sympathy at age 6 and 9 promoted the development of MEA and moral reasoning at ages 9 and 12 (although the reverse was not true). Surprisingly, MEA was not associated with social justice values. However, the moral reasoning of 6- and 9-year olds was associated with social justice values at 12 years of age. These findings confirm the important role of sympathy in the development of MEA and moral reasoning, and provide evidence for the increasing integration of these components of morality during childhood.
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(2014): OCCASIONAL POLITENESS AND GENTLEMEN'S LAUGHTER IN 18th C ENGLAND. In: The Historical Journal 57 (04), S. 921-945. DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X14000302
Abstract: This article considers the intersection between polite manners and company in eighteenth-century England. Through the laughter of gentlemen, it makes a case for a concept of occasional politeness, which is intended to emphasize that polite comportment was only necessary on certain occasions. In particular, it was the level of familiarity shared by a company that determined what was considered appropriate. There was unease with laughter in polite sociability, yet contemporaries understood that polite prudence could be waived when men met together in friendly homosocial encounters. In these circumstances, there existed a tacit acceptance of looser manners that might be called 'intimate bawdiness', which had its origins in a renaissance humanist train of thought that valorized wit as the centrepiece of male sociability. This argument tempers the importance of politeness by stressing the social contexts for which it was - and was not - a guiding principle. Ultimately, it suggests that the category of company might be one way of rethinking eighteenth-century sociability in a more pluralistic fashion, which allows for contradictory practices to co-exist. As such, it moves towards breaking down the binary oppositions of polite and impolite, elite and popular, and theory and practice that have been imposed on the period.
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(2014): Self-praise in microblogging. In: Journal of Pragmatics 61, S. 91-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.11.021
Abstract: Self-praise is a speech act that involves uttering a positive statement about oneself, and can thus be seen as a face-enhancing act directed at the speaker. At the same time, it is non-supportive to the hearer, and the assumption in the literature has been so far that self-praise is an interactionally delicate activity. The present study investigates the pragmatic strategies of self-praise performance in microblogging posts by ballet students. This group of users is seen as a community of practice engaged in the construction of a 'hero' identity, i.e. an image of a professional dancer who possesses necessary physical and sociolinguistic competence. Appropriateness of self-praise is contingent on the community of practice; self-praise centred around ballet-related attributes appears to be the norm in this community. Four attenuation strategies emerged in the data: self-praise plus disclaimer, self-praise plus shift of focus, self-praise plus self-denigration, and self-praise plus reference to hard work. Finally, self-enhancement on Twitter may be performed indirectly, by framing the speech act of self-praise as a third party complaint.
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de Waal, Frans Bernardus Maria (2014): Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill
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(2014) : Respektvolle Führung In: Felfe, J.: Trends der psychologischen Führungsforschung: Neue Konzepte, Methoden und Erkenntnisse: Göttingen: Hogrefe, S. 89-101
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(2014): Mehr als ein Kuschelfaktor. Die Sehnsucht nach Respekt. In: Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell 21 (4)
Abstract: Erörtert wird, wie Respekt am Arbeitsplatz die Zufriedenheit der Mitarbeiter erhöht. Es wird zwischen horizontalem und vertikalem Respekt unterschieden. Mitarbeiter sind am zufriedensten, wenn sie sich durch ihre Führungskraft horizontal respektiert fühlen und gleichzeitig vertikalen Respekt für ihre Führungskraft empfinden. Unterschiedliche Formen mangelnden Respekts am Arbeitsplatz werden aufgezeigt. Forschungsergebnisse, die belegen, dass erlebter Respekt die Selbstsicherheit, das Wohlbefinden und die Arbeitszufriedenheit steigert, werden skizziert. Anhand von Fallbeispielen werden diese Ergebnisse untermauert. Daraus resultierende Folgerungen für die Arbeitsplatzgestaltung und für die Aufnahme von Respekt als Wert in die Unternehmensstrategie werden dargestellt.
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(2014) : Creating a World for Socio-Cultural Agents In: Bosse, Tibor; Broekens, Joost; Dias, João; van der Zwaan, Janneke (Hg.): Emotion Modeling: Towards Pragmatic Computational Models of Affective Processes: Cham: Springer International Publishing, Imprint, Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), S. 27-43
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(2014): Die Anderen als sozialer Kontext. Zur Bedeutung strategischer Interaktion. In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 66 (S1), S. 47-66. DOI: 10.1007/s11577-014-0258-5
Abstract: Strategisches Handeln bedeutet, dass die Ergebnisse einer Handlung von "Ego" von den Handlungen der "Alteri" abhängig sind. Solche Situationen sind zahlreich im Alltagsleben, in Wirtschaft und Politik. Pioniere wie Erving Goffman oder Raymond Boudon haben die Bedeutung strategischen Handelns für die soziologische Analyse frühzeitig erkannt. Die Handlungsmöglichkeiten anderer Personen bilden den strategischen Kontext einer Person. Zwischen Kontext und Handlung besteht eine Wechselwirkung, deren Dynamik mit spieltheoretischen Modellen analysiert werden kann. Anhand der drei Beispiele Verantwortungsdiffusion, Wettbewerb und relative Deprivation, sozialer Tausch und Vertrauensproblem wird strategisches Handeln erläutert und aufgezeigt, dass strategischer Kontext die Ressourcen und die Wahrnehmung von Chancen beeinflusst, die in Analysen strategischen Handelns eben nicht als exogen angenommen werden können. Analysen des strategischen Kontexts bewegen sich sowohl auf der Mikro- als auch auf der Makroebene. Allerdings sind die strikten Rationalitätsanforderungen der Modelle nicht immer erfüllt. Oft sind evolutionäre Erklärungen angemessener, die auf weniger restriktiven Annahmen adaptiven Verhaltens basieren. (Autorenreferat) zitiert von 7
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(2014) : Tools for programming human robot interaction: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC): 2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC): Melbourne, Australia: IEEE, S. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883046 Abstract: Whilst robots are increasingly being used in scenarios that involve human-robot interaction, it is still difficult to program them to interact with humans. This is because current programming tools either require programmers to work at low abstraction levels or they lack features needed to implement particular aspects of human-robot interaction. Our goal is to create an API that is both capable of programming a wide range of human-robot interaction scenarios and is easy to use by the various users of human-robot interaction programming tools. We have taken a first step toward this API by developing an exemplar, high level API for programming social interaction and evaluating it with the Cognitive Dimensions framework. We plan to explore other aspects of human-robot interaction, including navigation and manipulation and exploring how they should be integrated with our existing primitives for programming social interaction.
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(2014) : A human-centric API for programming socially interactive robots: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC): 2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC): Melbourne, Australia: IEEE, S. 121-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883033 Abstract: Whilst robots are increasingly being deployed as social agents, it is still difficult to program them to interact socially. This is because current programming tools either require programmers to work at a low level or lack features needed to create certain aspects of social interaction. High level, domain specific tools with features designed specifically to meet the requirements of social interaction have the potential to ease the creation of social applications. We present a domain specific application programming interface (API) that is designed to meet the requirements of social interaction. The Cognitive Dimensions Framework was used as a design tool during the design process and the API was validated by implementing an exemplar application. The evaluation of the API showed that programmers with no robotics knowledge were positively impressed by the notation and that its organization, domain specific interfaces and object oriented nature positively affected several Cognitive Dimensions.
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(2014): Don't do it again! Directed forgetting of habits. In: Psychological science 25 (6), S. 1242-1248. DOI: 10.1177/0956797614526063
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714574 Abstract: Most daily routines are determined by habits. However, the experienced ease and automaticity of habit formation and execution come at a cost when habits that are no longer appropriate must be overcome. So far, proactive and reactive control strategies that prevent inappropriate habit execution either by preparation or "on the fly" have been identified. Here, we present evidence for a third, retroactive control strategy. In two experiments using the list method of directed forgetting, the accessibility of newly learned and practiced stimulus-response rules was significantly reduced when participants were cued to forget the rules rather than to remember them. The results thus show that directed forgetting, so far observed and investigated only for episodic memory traces, can also be applied to habits. The findings further emphasize the adaptive value of forgetting and can be taken as evidence of a retroactive strategy of habit control. zitiert von 12
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(2014): Perspective-taking in dialogue as self-organization under social constraints. In: New Ideas in Psychology 32, S. 131-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2013.03.004
Abstract: We present a dynamical systems account of how simple social information influences perspective-taking. Our account is motivated by the notion that perspective-taking may obey common dynamic principles with perceptuomotor coupling. We turn to the prominent HKB dynamical model of motor coordination, drawing from basic principles of self-organization to describe how conversational perspective-taking unfolds in a low-dimensional attractor landscape. We begin by simulating experimental data taken from a simple instruction-following task, in which participants have different expectations about their interaction partner. By treating belief states as different values of a control parameter, we show that data generated by a basic dynamical process fits overall egocentric and other-centric response distributions, the time required for participants to enact a response on a trial-by-trial basis, and the action dynamics exhibited in individual trials. We end by discussing the theoretical significance of dynamics in dialog, arguing that high-level coordination such as perspective-taking may obey similar dynamics as perceptuomotor coordination, pointing to common principles of adaptivity and flexibility during dialog
Keywords: adaptivity, ADDRESSEES, Communication, Conversation, dynamic systems theory, Dynamical systems, EYE-MOVEMENTS, HKB dynamical model of motor coordination, INTERPERSONAL COORDINATION, JOINT ACTION, Kognitionswissenschaft/Social Sciences/Humanities, Language, LANGUAGE USE, NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, PERCEPTION, PERSPECTIVE-TAKING, social information, Spatial cognition, SPEAKERS, TRANSITIONS, Volltreffer -
Durkheim, Émile; König, René (Hg.) (2014): Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode. 8. Aufl.. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft)
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(2014): Diversity-Trainings. Einstellungen zwischen Gruppen sozialpsychologisch fundiert verbessern. In: Aktuelle Trends in der Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung
Abstract: Grundlagen des Diversity-Konzepts und des Diversity-Managements in Unternehmen werden erlautert und Erfahrungen mit Diversity-Trainings werden reflektiert. Im Rahmen einer Definition werden unterschiedliche Dimensionen und Typen von Diversity beschrieben und theoretische Modelle erlautert. Nach einer Darstellung der Grunde und Ziele von Diversity-Management werden Massnahmen zum Umgang mit Stereotypen und Vorurteilen am Arbeitsplatz beschrieben, von denen die wichtigste in Diversity-Trainings besteht. Neben grundlegenden Aspekte der Trainingsgestaltung und moglichen Fehlern bei der Durchfuhrung wird ein Uberblick uber die Trainingspraxis gegeben und ein Diversity-Training vorgestellt, welches theoriegeleitet entwickelt wurde, um soziale (vor allem sexistische) Einstellungen zu verbessern. Anhand von Evaluationsergebnissen wird verdeutlicht, dass die Erhohung wahrgenommener Vielfalt innerhalb von Gruppen einen wesentlichen Faktor fur die Verbesserung von Gruppenbeziehungen darstellt.
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Ensminger, Jean Evelyn (2014): Experimenting with social norms. Fairness and punishment in cross-cultural perspective. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation
Abstract: Questions about the origins of human cooperation have long puzzled and divided scientists. Social norms that foster fair-minded behavior, altruism and collective action undergird the foundations of large-scale human societies, but we know little about how these norms develop or spread, or why the intensity and breadth of human cooperation varies among different populations. What is the connection between social norms that encourage fair dealing and economic growth? How are these social norms related to the emergence of centralized institutions? Informed by a pioneering set of cross-cultural data, Experimenting-with Social Norms advances our understanding of the evolution of human cooperation and the expansion of complex societies. Innovative and ambitious, the book synthesizes an unprecedented analysis of social behavior from an immense range of human societies. The fifteen case studies analyzed in this volume, which include field experiments in Africa, South America, New Guinea, Siberia and the United States, are available for free download on the foundation's website. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2014) : “It Don’t Matter If You’re Black or White”? In: Jamshidi, Mo: Advance Trends in Soft Computing: Proceedings of WCSC 2013, December 16-18, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 8239: Cham: Springer (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing), S. 422-431
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_42 Abstract: Previous work shows that other people are evaluated more positively when they are perceived as part of the evaluator's ingroup. This phenomenon - ingroup bias - has been robustly documented in social psychological intergroup research. To test this effect to the domain of social robots, we conducted an experiment with 61 Caucasian (White) American participants who rated either a robot that resembled the participants' Caucasian ingroup or a social outgroup on mind perception (i.e., the attribution of agency and experience). First, we predicted that the ingroup robot would be evaluated more positively than the outgroup robot. Moreover, we assessed the Caucasian Americans' endorsement of anti-Black prejudice. Thus, second, we hypothesized interaction effects of robot type and level of prejudice on mind perception, meaning that effects of ingroup bias should be particularly pronounced under high (vs. low) levels of self-reported Anti- Black prejudice. Interestingly, we did not obtain main effects for robot type on mind perception. Contrary to our hypothesis, participants even seemed to attribute more agency and experience to the outgroup robot relative to the ingroup robot. As expected, no main effects for levels of prejudice^I ^Ron mind perception emerged. Importantly, however, we obtained the predicted interaction effects on the central dependent measures. Obviously, the interplay of design choices and user attitudes may bias anthropomorphic inferences about robot companions, posing a psychological barrier to human-robot companionship and pleasant human-robot interaction.