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Dr Patrick Kotzur's Outputs (23)

Honor Values as Identity Content: Evidence From a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study (2024)
Journal Article
Travaglino, G. A., Friehs, M., Kotzur, P. F., & Abrams, D. (2024). Honor Values as Identity Content: Evidence From a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55(3), 278-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241230959

Reputation refers to the set of judgments a community makes about its members. In cultures of honor, reputation constitutes one of the most pressing concerns of individuals. Reputational concerns are intimately intertwined with people’s social identi... Read More about Honor Values as Identity Content: Evidence From a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study.

Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Scharbert, J., Humberg, S., Kroencke, L., Reiter, T., Sakel, S., ter Horst, J., Utesch, K., Gosling, S. D., Harari, G., Matz, S. C., Schoedel, R., Stachl, C., Aguilar, N. M. A., Amante, D., Aquino, S. D., Bastias, F., Bornamanesh, A., Bracegirdle, C., Campos, L. A. M., Chauvin, B., …Back, M. D. (2024). Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 1202. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44693-6

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has had devastating effects on the Ukrainian population and the global economy, environment, and political order. However, little is known about the psychological states surrounding the outbreak o... Read More about Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries (2023)
Journal Article
Schemmerling, M., Friehs, M., Kotzur, P. F., Bastias, F., De Keersmaecker, J., Macedo, F. G., …Boehnke, K. (2023). Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 4(1), 350-362. https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000067

Cross-cultural comparisons are often based on a single itemset that is used in several cultures and languages being translated semantically correct. In contrast, a new, emic, approach measures the same construct with individually created items for ea... Read More about Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries.

A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes (2023)
Journal Article
Kauff, M., Kotzur, P., Van Assche, J., Schäfer, S., van Zalk, M., & Wagner, U. (online). A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(6), 1172-1190. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2966

Positive intergroup contact has not only been shown to be positively associated with favourable attitudes towards members of the contacted group but also with attitudes towards members of secondary outgroups (secondary transfer effect, STE). Only a f... Read More about A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes.

Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries (2022)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Unobserved heterogeneity between individuals in Group-Focused Enmity (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Editorial: Group-Focused Enmity – conceptual, longitudinal, and cross-national perspectives based on pre-registered studies (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale (2022)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination in Europe (2021)
Book Chapter
Wagner, U., Kotzur, P., & Friehs, M. (2021). Anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination in Europe. In C. Tileaga, M. Augoustinos, & K. Durrheim (Eds.), Routledge handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274558

Europe is a continent of immigration, emigration and internal migration. In this chapter, we review recent literature that demonstrates that immigrants to Europe face prejudice, discrimination, and violence. Levels of prejudice, discrimination and vi... Read More about Anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination in Europe.

Adolescent development of interethnic attitudes following a social intervention to increase intergroup contact: The moderating role of affective forecasting (2021)
Journal Article
van Zalk, M., Kotzur, P., Schmid, K., Al Ramiah, A., & Hewstone, M. (2021). Adolescent development of interethnic attitudes following a social intervention to increase intergroup contact: The moderating role of affective forecasting. Developmental Psychology, 57(6), 1000-1017. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001194

This longitudinal, quasi-experimental field study investigated affective forecasting as a moderator of positive intergroup contact effects among adolescents. We also examined a novel mediating mechanism that underlies this effect, namely accuracy of... Read More about Adolescent development of interethnic attitudes following a social intervention to increase intergroup contact: The moderating role of affective forecasting.

‘Society thinks they are cold and/or incompetent, but I do not’: Stereotype content ratings depend on instructions and the social group's location in the stereotype content space (2020)
Journal Article
Kotzur, P., Veit, S., Namyslo, A., Holthausen, M., Wagner, U., & Yemane, R. (2020). ‘Society thinks they are cold and/or incompetent, but I do not’: Stereotype content ratings depend on instructions and the social group's location in the stereotype content space. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(4), 1018-1042. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12375

How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020)
Journal Article
Kauff, M., Beneda, M., Paolini, S., Bilewicz, M., Kotzur, P., O'Donnell, A., Stevenson, C., Wagner, U., & Christ, O. (2021). How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking. Journal of Social Issues, 77(1), 38-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12398

Compared to the impressive amount of research on consequences of intergroup contact, relatively little work has been devoted to predictors of intergroup contact. Although opportunities for intergroup contact are constantly growing in modern diverse s... Read More about How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking.

Social evaluation at a distance – facets of stereotype content about student groups in higher distance education (2020)
Journal Article
Bick, N., Froehlich, L., Friehs, M.-T., Kotzur, P., & Landmann, H. (2022). Social evaluation at a distance – facets of stereotype content about student groups in higher distance education. International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.686

In the academic domain, belonging to a negatively stereotyped group can impair performance and peer relationships. In higher distance education, stereotypes may be particularly influential as face-to-face contact is limited and non-traditional studen... Read More about Social evaluation at a distance – facets of stereotype content about student groups in higher distance education.

Meeting a nice asylum seeker: Intergroup contact changes stereotype content perceptions and associated emotional prejudices, and encourages solidarity‐based collective action intentions (2019)
Journal Article
Kotzur, P., Schäfer, S., & Wagner, U. (2019). Meeting a nice asylum seeker: Intergroup contact changes stereotype content perceptions and associated emotional prejudices, and encourages solidarity‐based collective action intentions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(3), 668-690. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12304