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  • Clement, Sarah; Bollinger, Richard (2017): Accelerating Progress. A New Era of Research on Character Development. In: Journal of youth and adolescence 46 (6), S. 1240-1245. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-017-0681-9

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28470439 

    Abstract: Adolescent character development is a high priority for educators, policymakers, and front-line youth workers. To meet this growing demand, and as exemplified in the five articles in this special section, character development scholars are drawing from a range of academic disciplines to push beyond the traditional boundaries of the science of character development. These articles highlight important trends in character research, including the co-development of a subset of character strengths, the articulation of developmental trajectories of character, the use of advanced methodological approaches, and the implications for education. Studies such as these are critically important for establishing the research base that will be used to design the character development programs of tomorrow. Adolescent character development is a high priority for educators, policymakers, and front-line youth workers. To meet this growing demand, and as exemplified in the five articles in this special section, character development scholars are drawing from a range of academic disciplines to push beyond the traditional boundaries of the science of character development. These articles highlight important trends in character research, including the co-development of a subset of character strengths, the articulation of developmental trajectories of character, the use of advanced methodological approaches, and the implications for education. Studies such as these are critically important for establishing the research base that will be used to design the character development programs of tomorrow.

  • Colburn, Timothy; Shute, Gary (2017): Type and Metaphor for Computer Programmers. In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21 (1), S. 71-105. DOI: 10.5840/techne20174662

    Abstract: The duality of computer programs is characterized, on the one hand, by their physical implementations on physical devices, and, on the other, by the conceptual implementations in programmers’ minds of the objects making up the computational processes they conceive. We contend that central to programmers’ conceptual implementations are (i) the concept of type, at both the programming and the design level, and (ii) metaphors created to facilitate these implementations.

  • Costello, Barbara J. (2017) : Social control theory. In: Teasdale, Brent; Bradley-Engen, Mindy S. (Hg.): Preventing crime and violence: Cham: Springer (Advances in prevention science), S. 31-41

    Abstract: Social control theory assumes that crime and delinquency are outcomes of an asocial human nature and that crime provides a way for a selfish, rational actor to obtain desires more quickly and easily than is possible with conventional means. Thus, crime is non-problematic, and what remains to be explained is why most people conform to the laws of society most of the time. Hirschi's answer to this question, in brief, is that our bond to society gives us too much to lose to risk engaging in criminal behavior. This focus on the social forces that promote conformity makes social control theory, as well as Hirschi's later work on self-control theory, very well suited to the study of preventing crime and violence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Côté, Stéphane (2017): Enhancing managerial effectiveness via four core facets of emotional intelligence. Self-awareness, social perception, emotion understanding, and emotion regulation. In: Organizational Dynamics 46 (3), S. 140-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2017.05.007

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2017.05.007 

    Abstract: Emotional intelligence–—a concept proposed by academic researchers about 25 years ago–—is a set of capabilities that managers can leverage to be more effective. Equipped with emotional capabilities, managers can leverage opportunities and address challenges that they encounter on a daily basis. Managers can develop better relationships with their employees, influence them more effectively, and have better performing employees and teams to the extent that they leverage emotional intelligence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Crabtree, Andy; Tolmie, Peter; Knight, Will (2017): Repacking ‘Privacy’ for a Networked World. In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 26 (4), S. 453-488. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y 

    Abstract: In this paper we examine the notion of privacy as promoted in the digital economy and how it has been taken up as a design challenge in the fields of CSCW, HCI and Ubiquitous Computing. Against these prevalent views we present an ethnomethodological study of digital privacy practices in 20 homes in the UK and France, concentrating in particular upon people’s use of passwords, their management of digital content, and the controls they exercise over the extent to which the online world at large can penetrate their everyday lives. In explicating digital privacy practices in the home we find an abiding methodological concern amongst members to manage the potential ‘attack surface’ of the digital on everyday life occasioned by interaction in and with the networked world. We also find, as a feature of this methodological preoccupation, that privacy dissolves into a heterogeneous array of relationship management practices. Accordingly we propose that ‘privacy’ has little utility as a focus for design, and suggest instead that a more productive way forward would be to concentrate on supporting people’s evident interest in managing their relationships in and with the networked world.

  • Creanza, Nicole; Kolodny, Oren; Feldman, Marcus W. (2017): Cultural evolutionary theory. How culture evolves and why it matters. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, S. 7782-7789. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620732114

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28739941 

    Abstract: Human cultural traits-behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other individuals-can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers have developed theoretical models, both verbal and mathematical, to facilitate our understanding of these patterns. Many of the first quantitative models of cultural evolution were modified from existing concepts in theoretical population genetics because cultural evolution has many parallels with, as well as clear differences from, genetic evolution. Furthermore, cultural and genetic evolution can interact with one another and influence both transmission and selection. This interaction requires theoretical treatments of gene-culture coevolution and dual inheritance, in addition to purely cultural evolution. In addition, cultural evolutionary theory is a natural component of studies in demography, human ecology, and many other disciplines. Here, we review the core concepts in cultural evolutionary theory as they pertain to the extension of biology through culture, focusing on cultural evolutionary applications in population genetics, ecology, and demography. For each of these disciplines, we review the theoretical literature and highlight relevant empirical studies. We also discuss the societal implications of the study of cultural evolution and of the interactions of humans with one another and with their environment. zitiert von 13

  • Crispim-Junior, Carlos Fernando (2017): Online Recognition of Daily Activities by Color-Depth Sensing and Knowledge Models. In: SENSORS 17 (7)

    Abstract: Visual activity recognition plays a fundamental role in several research fields as a way to extract semantic meaning of images and videos. Prior work has mostly focused on classification tasks, where a label is given for a video clip. However, real life scenarios require a method to browse a continuous video flow, automatically identify relevant temporal segments and classify them accordingly to target activities. This paper proposes a knowledge-driven event recognition framework to address this problem. The novelty of the method lies in the combination of a constraint-based ontology language for event modeling with robust algorithms to detect, track and re-identify people using color-depth sensing (Kinect® sensor). This combination enables to model and recognize longer and more complex events and to incorporate domain knowledge and 3D information into the same models. Moreover, the ontology-driven approach enables human understanding of system decisions and facilitates knowledge transfer across different scenes. The proposed framework is evaluated with real-world recordings of seniors carrying out unscripted, daily activities at hospital observation rooms and nursing homes. Results demonstrated that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in a variety of activities and datasets, and it is robust to variable and low-frame rate recordings. Further work will investigate how to extend the proposed framework with uncertainty management techniques to handle strong occlusion and ambiguous semantics, and how to exploit it to further support medicine on the timely diagnosis of cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z. (Hg.) (2017): The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK

    Abstract: This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Authored by over forty leading scholars, it offers a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to a vast array of themes that are vital to the study of interpersonal communication. The chapters explore the use of (im)politeness in specific contexts as well as wider developments, and variations across cultures and contexts in understandings of key concepts (such as power, emotion, identity and ideology). Within each chapter, the authors select a topic and offer a critical commentary on the key linguistic concepts associated with it, supporting their assertions with case studies that enable the reader to consider the practicalities of (im)politeness studies. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those concerned with pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication. Its multidisciplinary nature means that it is also relevant to researchers across the social sciences and humanities, particularly those working in sociology, psychology and history.

    Keywords: Youssef, Ramy
  • Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017) : (Im)politeness and Mixed Messages In: Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z. (Hg.): The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness: London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, S. 323-355

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_13 

    Abstract: This chapter maps out the space occupied by phenomena that do not belong to either politeness or impoliteness, but in some sense fit both. It focuses on mixed or mismatching interpersonal messages that are incongruous on at least one level of interpretation or generate a sense of interpretive or evaluative dissonance. They encompass phenomena that typically attract labels such as sarcasm, banter and teasing. The authors discuss the pragmatic background of such mixed messages, especially drawing on approaches to irony, how they figure in classic politeness theories, and, in particular, how they work. This part of the chapter considers their metapragmatics, the constituents of the ‘mix’ of messages, how particular ‘mixes’ become conventionalised, their functions and also how they are perceived.

  • Cushman, Fiery; Kumar, Victor; Railton, Peter (2017): Moral learning. Psychological and philosophical perspectives. In: Cognition 167, S. 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.06.008

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629599 

    Abstract: The past 15years occasioned an extraordinary blossoming of research into the cognitive and affective mechanisms that support moral judgment and behavior. This growth in our understanding of moral mechanisms overshadowed a crucial and complementary question, however: How are they learned? As this special issue of the journal Cognition attests, a new crop of research into moral learning has now firmly taken root. This new literature draws on recent advances in formal methods developed in other domains, such as Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning and other machine learning techniques. Meanwhile, it also demonstrates how learning and deciding in a social domain-and especially in the moral domain-sometimes involves specialized cognitive systems. We review the contributions to this special issue and situate them within the broader contemporary literature. Our review focuses on how we learn moral values and moral rules, how we learn about personal moral character and relationships, and the philosophical implications of these emerging models.

  • Cusk, Rachel (2017): The Age of Rudeness. As the social contract frays, what does it mean to be polite?. In: The New York Times Magazine, 2017. Online verfügbar unter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/magazine/the-age-of-rudeness.html, zuletzt geprüft am 14.06.2018

     

    Abstract: In a world as unmannerly as this one, how is it best to speak? There’s no need to be rude, I say to the man in the packed hall at passport control. There are people everywhere, and his job is to send them into the right queues. I have been watching him shout at them. I have watched the obsessive way he notices them, to pick on them. There’s no need to be rude, I say. His head jerks around. You’re rude, he counters. You’re the one who’s rude. This is an airport, a place of transit. There are all sorts of people here, people of different ages, races and nationalities, people in myriad sets of circumstances. In this customs hall, there are so many different versions of living that it seems possible that no one version could ever be agreed on. Does it follow, then, that nothing that happens here really matters? No, I’m not, I say. You are, he says. You’re being rude.

  • da Cruz e Sousa, Ricardo; Ríos-Touma, Blanca (2017): Stream restoration in Andean cities. Learning from contrasting restoration approaches. In: Urban Ecosystems 28 (1). DOI: 10.1007/s11252-017-0714-x

    Abstract: The Andes region is one of the fastest urbanizing regions of the world. The current rate of environmental degradation of streams in this region create an urgent need for sanitation and restoration programs that restore the ecological quality of streams while providing green and recreational areas. The tectonics of the area and its vulnerability to climate change adds relevance to wise landscape management in urban areas. Recent restoration efforts have been conducted with differing degrees of community involvement. Based on their social and ecological restoration goals, we analyzed the achievements of two projects in Quito, Ecuador. Our analysis revealed systemic challenges as well as opportunities to construct projects that are self-sustainable and more resilient in the Andean context. We found that the collaborative project, designed and executed by the community, had better overall results than the project led by the government, demonstrating that community involvement played a major role on the success of the project. The implications of these findings and the evaluation methods applied could benefit future decisions and the success of stream restoration projects in the region.

    Keywords: Design
  • Dahl, Audun; Chan, Sherina S. I. (2017): Power assertion in everyday mother-infant interactions. In: Infant behavior & development 47, S. 58-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.03.002

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28343117 

    Abstract: Mothers' power assertion was assessed following everyday infant transgressions. Power assertiveness showed limited stability, increased with age, and was higher when infants were harming others and when the physical danger was more severe. Naturalistic research is key to understanding how power assertion influences social development.

  • Dang, Carolyn T.; Umphress, Elizabeth E.; Mitchell, Marie S. (2017): Leader social accounts of subordinates' unethical behavior. Examining observer reactions to leader social accounts with moral disengagement language. In: The Journal of applied psychology 102 (10), S. 1448-1461. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000233

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28493747 

    Abstract: When providing social accounts (Sitkin & Bies, 1993) for the unethical conduct of subordinates, leaders may use language consistent with cognitive strategies described by Bandura (1991, 1999) in his work on moral disengagement. That is, leader's social accounts may reframe or reconstrue subordinates' unethical conduct such that it appears less reprehensible. We predict observers will respond negatively to leaders when they use moral disengagement language within social accounts and, specifically, observers will ostracize these leaders. In addition, we predict that observer moral disengagement propensity moderates this effect, such that the relationship between leaders' use of moral disengagement language within a social account and ostracism is stronger when observer moral disengagement propensity is lower versus higher. Finally, we predict that the reason why observers ostracize the leader is because observers perceive the leader's social account with moral disengagement language as unethical. Thus, perceived leader social account ethicality is predicted to mediate the interaction effect of leader's use of moral disengagement language within social accounts and observer moral disengagement propensity on ostracism. Results from an experiment and field study support our predictions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • Danner, Leno Francisco; Bavaresco, Agemir; Danner, Fernando (2017): The aesthetics of minorities against the correlation of strong institutionalism, scientism and technicality. on the voice-praxis of the minorities as art-literature. In: CLAREIRA-REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA DA REGIAO AMAZONICA (4/1), S. 13-48

    Abstract: In the paper, we defend that the aesthetic voice-praxis allows to social movements, citizen initiatives and political-cultural minorities the self-expression and self-affirmation from themselves and by themselves in terms of lyrical-political I-We, so that to frame and overcome the correlation of strong institutionalism, scientism and technicality which characterizes the constitution, legitimation, evolution and social-political linking of modern institutions, such as science, law, political parties and economy. These modern institutions or social systems are logical-technical, non-political and non-normative structures-subjects, marked and streamlined for a self-referential and self-subsisting dynamics which is eminently endogenous, autonomous and overlap in relation to the spontaneity and informality of the epistemological-political subjects, values and practices proper to civil society, centralizing and monopolizing the constitution, programming and functioning of their fields of research and objects and, from here, framing the own voice-praxis of these civil society's epistemological-political subjects in their nowadays action and relatively to institutions. In this sense, in the correlation of strong institutionalism, scientism and technicality, the institutions become the basis, the arena, the value and the epistemological-political subject par excellence and exclusive of the foundation of themselves and even relating to the social-cultural structuration and evolution, peripherizing the informal and spontaneous epistemological-political subjects of civil society. Against this apolitical and depoliticizing tendency assumed by modern social systems, we argue in favor of an aesthetics of the minorities that enables both their spontaneous and informal, political, politicizing and normative self-affirmation and self-expression, with no scientist and institutionalist mediations, and a political-normative praxis which is alternative and opposed to strong institutionalism and its scientism and technicism, because it is inclusive, participative and direct. Therefore, the social criticism, political-normative praxis and cultural resistance need a non-systemic, non-institutionalist, non-technicist and non-scientificist voice-praxis that can be founded and allowed by aesthetics in its anti-paradigmatic, non- institutionalist and anti-scientificist sense.

  • DeAngelo, Gregory; Ferrell, Perry; McCannon, Bryan C. (2017): Sources of deviant behavior. Contrasting alternative explanations in the laboratory. In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 71, S. 31-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2017.07.003

    Abstract: We explore the driving factors behind deviant behavior by contrasting three theoretical frameworks: stable preference for deviant behavior, impact from social history on pro-social behaviors, and contingent cooperation with social norms. Subjects in our experiment first play a repeated Trust Game to create social histories in the laboratory, before engaging in a Common Resource Game, to measure deviant behavior. The results suggest that social history is an important determinant. Those who experienced deterioration in the evolution of play were more likely to extract large amounts from the common resource. We also document that anticipated social norms in the Trust Game explain extraction in the Common Resource Game, independently from the observed outcomes and the anticipated norms of deviance. This suggests an under-adjustment in behavior to changes in norms. The findings do not support a stable preference for deviant behavior. Thus, our results suggest policy, intended to counteract social history and influence social norms, may be more effective than sanctions in combating deviant behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Debiec, Jacek; Olsson, Andreas (2017): Social Fear Learning. From Animal Models to Human Function. In: Trends in cognitive sciences 21 (7), S. 546-555. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.010

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28545935 

    Abstract: Learning about potential threats is critical for survival. Learned fear responses are acquired either through direct experiences or indirectly through social transmission. Social fear learning (SFL), also known as vicarious fear learning, is a paradigm successfully used for studying the transmission of threat information between individuals. Animal and human studies have begun to elucidate the behavioral, neural and molecular mechanisms of SFL. Recent research suggests that social learning mechanisms underlie a wide range of adaptive and maladaptive phenomena, from supporting flexible avoidance in dynamic environments to intergenerational transmission of trauma and anxiety disorders. This review discusses recent advances in SFL studies and their implications for basic, social and clinical sciences.

  • Debray, Angela (2017) : Gerontologie und Geriatrie: Leitfaden Physiotherapie (Siebte Ausgabe): München: Urban & Fischer, S. 679-694
  • Degens, Nick; Endrass, Birgit; Hofstede, Gert Jan; Beulens, Adrie; André, Elisabeth (2017): ‘What I see is not what you get’. Why culture-specific behaviours for virtual characters should be user-tested across cultures. In: AI & Society 32 (1), S. 37-49. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-014-0567-2

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-014-0567-2 

    Abstract: Abstract Integrating culture into the behavioural models of virtual characters requires knowledge from very different disciplines such as cross-cultural psychology and computer science. If culture-related behavioural differences are simulated with a virtual character system, users might not necessarily understand the intent of the designer. This is, in part, due to the influence of culture on not only users, but also designers. To gain a greater understanding of the instantiation of culture in the behaviour of virtual characters, and on this potential mismatch between designer and user, we have conducted two experiments. In these experiments, we tried to simulate one dimension of culture (Masculinity vs. Femininity) in the behaviour of virtual characters. We created four scenarios in the first experiment and six in the second. In each of these scenarios, the same two characters interact with each other. The verbal and non-verbal behaviour of these characters differs depending on their cultural scripts. In two user perception studies, we investigated how these differences are judged by human participants with different cultural backgrounds. Besides expected differences between participants from Masculine and Feminine countries, we found significant differences in perception between participants from Individualistic and Collectivistic countries. We also found that the user’s interpretation of the character’s motivation had a significant influence on the perception of the scenarios. Based on our findings, we giverecommendations for researchers that aim to design culture-specific behaviours for virtual characters.

  • Deng, Jun; Eyben, Florian; Schuller, Bjorn; Burkhardt, Felix (2017) : Deep neural networks for anger detection from real life speech data In: Recognition, International Workshop on Context Based Affect: 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW): 23-26 Oct. 2017: 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW): San Antonio, TX: 10/23/2017 - 10/26/2017. International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR); Design for Affective Intelligence Workshop (DfAI); International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM); Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Pain, and Distress (MHWPD); International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild (WASA); Demos; International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction; Acii: [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE, S. 1-6

  • Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; Panganiban, Marian; Ploner, Matteo; Werner, Benedikt (2017): On the Malleability of Fairness Ideals. Spillover Effects in Partial and Impartial Allocation Tasks. In: Journal of Economic Psychology, S. 60-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2017.11.001

    Abstract: How malleable are people’s fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people’s allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people’s fairness ideals are sensitive to spillover effects associated with the specific order of allocation tasks. Participants first generate resources in a real-effort task and then distribute them. In the partial allocation task, the participant determines the earnings for herself and another participant. In the impartial allocation task, the participant determines the earnings for two other participants. We also manipulate the participants’ experience, i.e, whether they took part in similar allocation experiments before. We find that participants are more likely to allocate more resources to themselves than what they earned in the real-effort task when they decide partially. Exclusively for inexperienced participants, deciding impartially first dampens selfish behavior when they decide partially.

  • Dettmers, Stephan (2017) : ICF-orientierte Diagnostik sozialer Teilhabe als konzeptionelle Begründung sozialtherapeutischer Interventionen In: Lammel, Ute Antonia; Pauls, Helmut (Hg.): Sozialtherapie: Sozialtherapeutische Interventionen als dritte Säule der Gesundheitsversorgung: Dortmund: verlag modernes lernen, S. 75-90

    Abstract: Mit Bezugnahme auf die "International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health" (ICF) wird gezeigt, wie es gelingen kann, sozialtherapeutische interventionen so auszurichten, dass subjektorientiert unter Verwendung von ICF-Items Verbesserungen bezüglich sozialer Sicherung, sozialer Unterstützung und persönlicher Entwicklung von Patientinnen und Patienten dargestellt und überprüft werden können. Diese Öffnung ermöglicht es, Schnittstellen für Kooperationen mit anderen Professionen zu definieren und gleichzeitig eigene Beiträge abzusichern, die bisher über die Vergütungskriterien im Gesundheitswesen und Rehabilitationsbereich kaum abrechenbar sind. Die sozialtherapeutischen Optionen orientiert an der Klinischen Sozialarbeit werden als konkrete Möglichkeit betrachtet, gleichberechtigt und nicht nur supportiv Beratungs- und Behandlungsbeiträge in einem Person-in-Environment-Paradigma zu entwickeln und die bisherigen Behandlungsgrenzen zu überwinden. Im Einzelnen werden folgende Aspekte behandelt: (1) soziale Teilhabe als Zielausrichtung sozialer Arbeit, (2) biopsychosoziale Implikationen, (3) klassifikatorische Diagnostik, (4) die ICF als Interventionsgrundlage, (5) von der psychosozialen Diagnose zur sozialtherapeutischen Intervention, (6) Fallbeispiel (Anwendung ICF Core Set Schlaganfall).

  • Dettmers, Stephan (2017): Nach dem Schlaganfall: Folgen für die soziale Teilhabe aus der Perspektive von Partnerinnen und Partnern. In: Praxis Klinische Verhaltensmedizin und Rehabilitation 30 (1), S. 45-53
  • Didenko, Veronica V. (2017): REVEALING OF POTENTIAL SLOTS OF THE FRAME TOLERANCE (IN GERMAN, AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURES). In: TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL (414), S. 5-13
  • Ditrich, Lara; Scholl, Annika; Sassenberg, Kai (2017): Time to go!. Leaving the group in response to norm-deviations. In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 73, S. 259-267. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.07.005

    Abstract: Investigated under which conditions group members' reactions to an ingroup deviation consist of escape of confrontation. In Study 1, 126 participants (mean age 22 years) were asked to recall a situation in which another member of their ingroup had deviated from expectations, which had either been accepted or not accepted by other group members. Participants rated deviation severity, identity subversion, confrontation, and leaving. Study 2 investigated the role of identification with the group in the development of escape intentions in response to norm deviations. 499 participants (mean age 24 years) indicated the extent of their social identification with their university. Then, they were presented severe deviations vs. normative behavior shown by a leader and completed another measure of social identification in addition to the variables from Study 1. Results of both studies showed that deviations accepted by a number of ingroup members or exhibited by a leader predicted escape behavior. This effect was mediated by higher identity subversion in Studies 1 and 2 and by lower group identity in Study 2. All deviations were observed to lead to confrontation tendencies, which was also mediated by an increased identity subversion. It is concluded that ingroup members escape situations when a deviation is norm-changing.