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The interplay of modern myths about sexual aggression and moral foundations in the blaming of rape victims
No full textMilesi P, Süssenbach P, Bohner G, Megias JL. The interplay of modern myths about sexual aggression and moral foundations in the blaming of rape victims. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2020;50(1):111-123.Moral Foundations Theory proposes five intuition-based moral concerns: Care and Fairness ("individualizing foundations") as well as Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity ("binding foundations"). In studies carried out in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the authors examined how these concerns are associated with the acceptance of modern myths about sexual aggression (AMMSA), and how both jointly predict rape victim blaming. Overall, victim blaming was positively predicted by Authority and Sanctity, and negatively predicted by Care and Fairness. Although victim blaming was best predicted by AMMSA, moral concerns also contributed to its prediction, partly independently, partly mediated through AMMSA, and in the case of Sanctity in interaction with AMMSA. Discussion highlights how integrating moral foundations in the investigation of victim blaming and AMMSA across different cultural contexts may deepen our understanding of why, in each cultural context, victim blaming and related beliefs are resistant to change
Using social norms to reduce men's rape proclivity: Perceived rape myth acceptance of out-groups may be more influential than that of in-groups.
Full text linkFeedback about a reference group's rape myth acceptance (RMA) has been shown to affect men's rape proclivity (Bohner, Siebler, & Schmelcher, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 286–297, 2006). In two experiments with male university students (total N=294), this research was extended by varying the in-group vs out-group status of the reference group. Results showed that feedback about other men's RMA influenced self-reported RMA (Experiment 1) and rape proclivity (Experiments 1 and 2). Overall, participants' rape proclivity was affected by feedback about both in-groups' RMA and out-groups' RMA. The strongest reduction of rape proclivity was produced by low-RMA feedback about an out-group that participants expected to be high in RMA (Experiment 2). Implications for theory and intervention are discussed
The interplay of modern myths about sexual aggression and moral foundations in the blaming of rape victims
No full textBohner G. The interplay of modern myths about sexual aggression and moral foundations in the blaming of rape victims. European Journal of Social Psychology. Wiley Publishers.; 2020.We provide the complete, labeled SPSS dataset of the paper
Milesi, P., Süssenbach, P., Bohner, G., & Megías, J. L. (2020). The interplay of modern myths about sexual aggression and moral foundations in the blaming of rape victims. *European Journal of Social Psychology, 50*(1), 111-123
Experience and innovation
No full textBohner G. Experience and innovation. Social Psychology. 2008;39(1):1-1
Third year, fifth decade
No full textBohner G. Third year, fifth decade. Social Psychology. 2010;41(1):1-2
G(r)o(w)ing international
No full textBohner G. G(r)o(w)ing international. Social Psychology. 2009;40(1):1-2
Increasing submission rate, promising impact figures, open access option
No full textBohner G. Increasing submission rate, promising impact figures, open access option. Social Psychology. 2009;40(3):105
The role of mood and message ambiguity in the interplay of heuristic and systematic processing
Full text linkBohner G, Chaiken S, Hunyadi P. The role of mood and message ambiguity in the interplay of heuristic and systematic processing. European Journal of Social Psychology. 1994;24(1):207-221.The mechanisms by which mood states influence attitude judgments in persuasion settings are delineated in terms of current dual-process theorizing. With an emphasis on mechanisms that may operate when the evaluative implications of message content are ambiguous. In a preliminary test of hypotheses concerning such circumstances, college-aged subjects were put into a happy or sad mood and then read a message containing unambiguous strong, unambiguous weak, or ambiguous arguments, which was attributed to a highly credible source (heuristic cue) When message content was ambiguous, sad (as compared to happy) subjects' attitudes were more influenced by heuristic processing, and their message-related thoughts were biased by the heuristic cue. These and other results are discussed within a dual-processing framework, and compared to other social cognition theorizing on the impact of affect on social judgment
Paradigms, processes, parsimony, and predictive power: Arguments for a generic dual-process model
No full textBohner G, Siebler F. Paradigms, processes, parsimony, and predictive power: Arguments for a generic dual-process model. Psychological Inquiry. 1999;10(2):113-118
Affect and persuasion: mood effects on the processing of message content and context cues and on subsequent behaviour
Full text linkBohner G, Crow K, Erb H-P, Schwarz N. Affect and persuasion: mood effects on the processing of message content and context cues and on subsequent behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology. 1992;22(6):511-530.Two experiments are reported examining the impact of recipients' mood on the processing of simple, everyday persuasive communications and on subsequent behaviour. Consistent with the general assumption that affective states may inform an individual about the state of its current environment, it was found that positive (as compared to neutral or negative) mood reduced subjects' motivation to systematically process both content information and contextual cues. Specifically, Experiment I demonstrated that, in a field setting, the behaviour of subjects who had been put in a good mood was less likely to reflect differences in message content than the behaviour of neutral mood subjects. Experiment 2 replicated and extended these findings, showing that good mood subjects' behaviour was uninfluenced by content as well as context information, whereas bad mood subjects did make use of both types of information. Subject's cognitive responses and evaluations paralleled the behavioural data. The results are discussed in terms of their compatibility with contemporary models of persuasion, and their implications for future research on mood and persuasion and on the interplay of affect and cognition in general are considered
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