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Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries (2022)
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Friehs, M.-T., Kotzur, P., Kraus, C., Schemmerling, M., Herzig, J., Stanciu, A., Dilly, S., Hellert, L., Hübner, D., Rückwardt, A., Ulizcay, V., Christ, O., Brambilla, M., De keersmaecker, J., Durante, F., Gale, J., Grigoryev, D., Igou, E., Javakhishvili, N., Kienmoser, D., …Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 21277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25228-9

It is crucial to understand why people comply with measures to contain viruses and their effects during pandemics. We provide evidence from 35 countries (Ntotal = 12,553) from 6 continents during the COVID-19 pandemic (between 2021 and 2022) obtained... Read More about Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries.

Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups: Longitudinal associations between masculine honour and legitimizing attitudes towards the Camorra (2022)
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Travaglino, G., Friehs, M., Kotzur, P., & Abrams, D. (2023). Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups: Longitudinal associations between masculine honour and legitimizing attitudes towards the Camorra. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(4), 612-622. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2926

The embeddedness of criminal groups within communities accrues from their ability to establish legitimacy, particularly among young people. A prototypical example are mafia claims to political authority in Italy. Intracultural Appropriation Theory pr... Read More about Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups: Longitudinal associations between masculine honour and legitimizing attitudes towards the Camorra.

Editorial: Group-Focused Enmity – conceptual, longitudinal, and cross-national perspectives based on pre-registered studies (2022)
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Friehs, M.-T., Kotzur, P., Ramos, A., & Wagner, U. (2022). Editorial: Group-Focused Enmity – conceptual, longitudinal, and cross-national perspectives based on pre-registered studies. International journal of conflict and violence, 16, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-5361

Group-Focused Enmity describes the idea that different outgroup-specific prejudices can be aggregated to a larger syndrome of inequality-based derogation of others. This focus section brings together three studies on Group-Focused Enmity that had bee... Read More about Editorial: Group-Focused Enmity – conceptual, longitudinal, and cross-national perspectives based on pre-registered studies.

Unobserved heterogeneity between individuals in Group-Focused Enmity (2022)
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Friehs, M.-T., Masselmann, J., Trautner, M., Kotzur, P., & Schmidt, P. (2022). Unobserved heterogeneity between individuals in Group-Focused Enmity. International journal of conflict and violence, 16, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-5266

Group-focused enmity (GFE) and related research have mostly focused on variable-centred analyses such as structural equation modelling and factor analysis, implicitly assuming that the results apply uniformly to all participants in the sample. Person... Read More about Unobserved heterogeneity between individuals in Group-Focused Enmity.

Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale (2022)
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Kotzur, P., Friehs, M., Schmidt, P., Wagner, U., Pötzschke, S., & Weiß, B. (2022). Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(4), 1305-1331. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12538

Many researchers subscribe to the three-component conceptualization of attitudes, the idea that attitudes have cognitive, affective, and behavioural (intentional) components. Yet, these components are rarely considered simultaneously in scales, espec... Read More about Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale.

How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions (2022)
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Kotzur, P., Stricker, J., Fricke, R., McPhetres, J., & Meyer, B. (2022). How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions. PLoS ONE, 17(3), Article e0266166. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266166

The successful integration of asylum seekers into the labor market is among the most pressing issues of refugee-receiving countries. We construe co-workers’ willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers as a crucial factor for integration and invest... Read More about How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions.

Examining the structural validity of stereotype content scales – a preregistered re-analysis of published data and discussion of possible future directions (2022)
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Friehs, M.-T., Kotzur, P., Böttcher, J., Zöller, A.-K., Lüttmer, T., Wagner, U., Asbrock, F., & van Zalk, M. (2022). Examining the structural validity of stereotype content scales – a preregistered re-analysis of published data and discussion of possible future directions. International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.613

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) plays a prominent role in social perception research when comparing the evaluation of different targets on warmth and competence dimensions. However, there is scarce information on the SCM’s measurement properties.... Read More about Examining the structural validity of stereotype content scales – a preregistered re-analysis of published data and discussion of possible future directions.