Fritz Strack

Attractiveness of the underling: An automatic power → sex association and its consequences for sexual harassment and aggression.

One characteristic of men who sexually harass is that they are not aware that their actions are inappropriate or a misuse of their power (L. F. Fitzgerald, 1993a). We investigated the existence and automaticity of a mental association between the concepts of power and sex, and its consequences for sexual harassment tendencies. Using a subliminal priming paradigm, Experiment 1 demonstrated an automatic link between power and sex, and only for men high in the likelihood to sexually harass or aggress. In Experiment 2, male participants were unobtrusively primed with either power-related or neutral stimuli. For men likely to sexually aggress, but not other participants, attraction ratings of a female confederate were significantly higher in the power priming than the neutral priming condition.

Influence of overt head movements on memory for valenced words : A case of conceptual-motor compatibility

The present article reports 3 studies that demonstrate the influence of overt behavior on recognition and elucidates the theoretical basis for such an influence. In 2 experiments it was found that participants who were induced to nod while incidentally encoding positive and negative adjectives were more likely to recognize positive adjectives, whereas participants who were induced to shake their heads were more likely to recognize negative words. In a third experiment, with a double-task procedure, it was shown that when encoding was accompanied by head movements that were compatible with words, participants were better at performing the secondary task than when words and head movements were incompatible. These findings suggest that performing incompatible motoric and conceptual tasks concurrently requires more cognitive capacity. Where this capacity is allocated and when it is withdrawn depends on the characteristics of the task. Implications of this mechanism for different phenomena in social psychology (e.g., facial feedback and masking of emotional displays) are discussed.

Social cognition: the basis of human interaction

F. Strack, J. Foerster, Social Cognition: An Introduction. G.V. Bodenhausen, K. Hugenberg, Attention, Perception and Social Cognition. P.M. Niedenthal, L. Mondillon, D.A. Effron, L.W. Barsalou, Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally. P. Winkielman, J.W. Schooler, Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition. D. Hilton, Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence. K. Fiedler, H. Plessner, From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems. N. Schwarz, Mental Construal in Social Judgment. T. Mussweiler, Social Comparison. H. Bless, J. Keller, E.R. Igou, Metacognition. F. Strack, R. Deutsch, Intuition. K.C. Klauer, Spontaneous Evaluations. R. Neumann, Emotion. J. Foerster, M. Denzler, A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information Processing Sequence. G.R. Semin, Language and Social Cognition. B. Hannover, U. Kuhnen, Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction.

“Social Cognition”: Sozialpsychologie innerhalb des paradigmas der Informationsverarbeitung

“Social Cognition” ist ein Schlagwort, das in der Sozialpsychologie in den letzten Jahren eine grose Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Die Charakterisierung von “Social Cognition” als “Sozialpsychologie innerhalb des Paradigmas der Informationsverarbeitung” beinhaltet bereits einige Annahmen, die erlauterungsbedurftig sind. Es ist zu klaren, was unter dem Begriff “Paradigma” verstanden werden soll und was mit “Informationsverarbeitung” gemeint ist.

Fehlerquellen bei der Befragung

Um die unterschiedlichen Fehlerquellen bei der Befragung theoretisch einordnen zu konnen, ist es nutzlich, sich zunachst einmal die Befragung im Rahmen eines allgemeinen psychologischen Grundmodells vor Augen zu fuhren.

Datenerhebung in den Sozialwissenschaften: Beobachtung vs. Befragung

Fur die empirischen Wissenschaften, deren Selbstverstandnis sich durch die Anerkennung der Realitat als Prufungsinstanz fur die Geltung einer Theorie konstituiert, spielt die Beobachtung eine zentrale Rolle. Die Beobachtung (und die damit verbundene Beschreibung und Messung) vermittelt zwischen Theorie und Realitat und ist somit ein Kernstuck empirischer Forschung (vgl. Konig, 1967).

Denken, Urteilen, Kommunizieren: Umfrageverhalten in der Perspektive der Social Cognition Forschung

Ausgangspunkt von Untersuchungen, die Prinzipien der Social Cognition Forschung auf die Umfragesituation anwenden, ist das Verstandnis der Befragungssituation. Befragung wird hier weniger als Messung bestimmter Merkmale des Befragten verstanden, sondern primar als eine spezielle Interaktion, in der ein Fragesteller auf bestimmte Art und Weise von einem Befragten Information uber einen interessierenden Sachverhalt bekommen mochte.