Sven Zebel
University of Amsterdam
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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations | 2007
Sjoerd F. Pennekamp; Bertjan Doosje; Sven Zebel; Agneta H. Fischer
Two studies investigated the role of domain relevance in the experience of group-based anger among disadvantaged groups using structural equation models. In the first study, Surinamese people to whom the slavery past was more relevant made stronger attributions of outgroup-blame and experienced more anger. This effect was above and beyond the influence of group identification. In the second study relevance of women’s status position in society predicted outgroup-blame and group-based anger. In both studies domain relevance and anger were predictive of the tendencies to engage in action demanding reparation, as well as of the desire for the outgroup to engage in reparation. The role of domain relevance for intergroup emotions is considered.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations | 2007
Sven Zebel; Sjoerd F. Pennekamp; Martijn van Zomeren; Bertjan Doosje; Gerben A. Van Kleef; M. Vliek; Job van der Schalk
In two studies we examined whether forging a psychological bond with a nation’s colonization past facilitates the experience of positive and negative group-based self-conscious emotions as a function of a positive or negative manipulation of this past. Because people need to belong, we hypothesized that stronger family involvement in a nation’s colonization past (i.e. involved ancestors) evokes stronger a positive self-conscious emotions after positive descriptions of the nation’s colonizing past, and stronger negative self-conscious emotions after negative descriptions. In Study 1, we found support for these hypotheses in a real-life setting in which Dutch people actually found out whether their ancestors were involved in the colonization of Indonesia or not. In Study 2, we manipulated family involvement and valence of the past. Results offered support for the tested hypotheses. Implications of the results are discussed in relation to theories on identity and emotion.
Journal of Risk Research | 2017
J. Magendans; Jan M. Gutteling; Sven Zebel
With governments redistributing more responsibilities unto citizens, individuals have an increasing need for financial resources acting as a buffer against life’s setbacks and unexpected expenditures. The purpose of this study was to examine psychological determinants of saving for a financial buffer, for which a theoretical model was formulated based on the theory of planned behaviour with three new, domain-specific psychological constructs: financial risk tolerance, regulatory focus and perceived saving barriers. Data were collected with an online questionnaire that utilised convenience and snowball sampling to target both students and working individuals (N = 272). Regression analyses offered support for the proposed model, showing that participants’ financial risk tolerance (i.e. an individual’s attitude towards financial risk taking) was significantly associated with their subjective financial knowledge and regulatory focus. Furthermore, perceived financial self-efficacy and financial risk tolerance both predicted participants’ intention to save for a financial buffer. In turn, perceived financial self-efficacy and saving intention predicted self-reported saving behaviour. Importantly, perceived saving barriers mediated the relationship between saving intention and self-reported saving behaviour. In line with the proposed model, results also showed that a specific attitude-based construct (financial risk tolerance) is a considerably better predictor of saving intention than general measures of attitude towards saving. This study is also the first to demonstrate that regulatory focus influences financial risk tolerance. Implications of these findings for stimulating saving behaviour are discussed.
Law and Human Behavior | 2017
Sven Zebel; Wendy Schreurs; Elze Gooitzen Ufkes
Restorative justice policies and programs aimed at facilitating victim–offender mediation (VOM) are part of many criminal justice systems around the world. Given its voluntary nature and potential for positive outcomes, the appropriateness and feasibility of VOM after serious offenses is subject to debate in the literature. In light of this discussion, this study first aimed to unravel the prevalence of serious offenses in cases registered for VOM and examined whether crime seriousness predicts whether mediated contact is reached between victims and offenders. Second, it tested the hypothesis that victims of increasingly serious, harmful crimes are more willing to participate when more time has elapsed since the offense—in contrast to victims of less serious, harmful crimes. We analyzed 199 cases registered for VOM in the Netherlands and coded the perceived wrongfulness, harmfulness, and average duration of incarceration of an offense as 3 distinct indicators of crime seriousness in these cases. The findings revealed that cases registered for VOM (a) are, in terms of the incarceration duration, on average more serious than all offenses in the population, and (b) resulted in mediated contact (or not) independently of the 3 seriousness indicators. In addition, empirical support was found for the hypothesis that victims’ willingness to participate in VOM increased over time after more harmful offenses, whereas it decreased when offenses inflicted less harm. These findings suggest that when VOM programs operate irrespectively of the time elapsed after crime, mediated contact between parties may be as likely after minor and serious offenses.
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management | 2018
Daniëlle E. M. van Dijl; Sven Zebel; Jan M. Gutteling
In times of emergency, people include social networking sites (SNS) in their search for information and support. An online survey with an embedded experiment with two conditions focused on understanding whether and how SNS functions have a positive influence on perceived self-efficacy, risk perception, and reported information sufficiency when integrated into a current emergency alert system like NL-Alert. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition showing the classical format of NL-Alert or the expanded condition with added SNS functions (a newsfeed and marking oneself as safe). Results show that self-efficacy and risk perception did not differ between conditions. Significantly higher degrees of information sufficiency were reported in the expanded condition. Consequences for emergency risk communication are discussed.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008
Colin Wayne Leach; M. van Zomeren; Sven Zebel; M. L. W. Vliek; S.F. Pennekamp; Bertjan Doosje; J.W. Ouwerkerk; Russell Spears
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations | 2009
Sven Zebel; Bertjan Doosje; Russell Spears
International Journal of Conflict and Violence | 2007
Bertjan Doosje; Sven Zebel; Marieke Scheermeijer; Pauline Mathyi
Collective Guilt: International Perspectives | 2004
Sven Zebel; E.J. Doosje; Russell Spears; Nyla R. Branscombe; Bertjan Doosje
International Journal of Conflict and Violence | 2010
Ana Figueiredo; Bertjan Doosje; Joaquim Pires Valentim; Sven Zebel