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We seek to explore the factors associated with frequency of sexual behavior and number of sexual partners. Previous studies have suggested multiple factors associated with a decrease in sexual activity within the last decade across a broad range of age groups (Beutel et al., 2018; Burghardt et al., 2020). We seek to assess whether and how these factors are associated with sexual activity in a cross-sectional study. The factors previously discussed were internet and digital media use (Beutel et al., 2018; Twenge, 2020), financial insecurity (Twenge, 2020), or whether masturbation and consumption of pornography were substituting partnered sexual activity (Beutel et al., 2018). We will test associations between these factors.

The study explores whether and how referrals increase discrimination in hiring.

We want to test whether the smaller conditioning effect for female US compared to male US involves more neutral or more positive CS ratings.

We study the effect of gender stereotypes on informal hiring based on social networks. (direct replication)

In unguided judgments traits of women are not processed. Therefore they will not be remembered.

This research studies context effects of spontaneous trait impressions form faces.

We will test whether different contexts reduce spontaneous trait impressions from faces.

We compare impression formation for different combinations of high and low agentic and communal traits for men and women.

We study the effect of gender stereotypes on informal hiring based on social networks.

Rating women should increase the accessibility of their traits and subsequently create a conditioning effect the same size as that for male targets.

We analyze effects of social categories on trait impressions from faces. Comparing different rating dimensions and testing which show more or less stereotypical judgments.

This research studies context effects on spontaneous trait impressions form faces.

In this study, we will test whether referred candidates are preferred if a better (unreferred) candidate is present.

We well test associations of moral thinking, ethical academic decision-making, and career success

We test effects of gender stereotypes on informal recruiting: We analyze the likelihood to be invited to a job interview based on different recommendations.

We compare spontaneous trait impressions from faces comparing faces with different combinations of high and low agentic and communal facial features.

We study the effect of gender stereotypes on informal hiring based on social networks. (direct replication)

The study explores whether and how referrals increase discrimination in hiring.

We study the effect of gender stereotypes on informal hiring based on social networks. (direct replication)

We study the effect of gender stereotypes on informal hiring based on social networks. We will test for ingroup bias within a student sample.

The study determines how burden and patterns of somatic symptom reporting developed over almost four decades in the general German population. Additionally, we studied how socio-demographic factors affected the degree of somatic symptoms. Population-based samples representative for West Germany between 18 and 60 years of age were analyzed comparing three cross-sectional samples of 1975 (N = 1601), 1994 (N = 1416), and 2013 (N = 1290) by conducting a three-way analysis of variance (sex, age, survey). The prevalence rates for somatic symptoms in men and women were lower in the more recent surveys; this affected women most strongly. Exhaustion and musculoskeletal complaints remained leading symptoms (affecting 25%, resp. 11% of the men and 30%, resp. 19% of the women). There was a slight increase in women’s prevalence of exhaustion from 1994 (15%) to 2013 (19%). As determined by stepwise multiple regression, somatic symptoms were consistently associated with female sex and higher age. In the 2013 survey, education became an additional negative predictor of somatic symptom load, while the impact of age and sex on somatic symptoms reporting decreased. Somatic symptoms remain a major burden in the general population. Findings are interpreted with regard to improved living and health care conditions, different cohort experiences, and more public health information.

Der Kurzbeitrag thematisiert den gegenwärtigen Wandel des Archiv-Verständnisses. Was bedeuten Programmvermögen als öffentliches Gut, Digitalisierung von Kulturgütern, offener Zugang zu digitalen Archiven, Verantwortung von Programmarchiven in der Wissensgesellschaft? Welche Rolle können im Zuge der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung künftig öffentlich-rechtliche Programmarchive in der Wissensgesellschaft übernehmen? Ausgehend von theoretischen Konzeptionen werden Überlegungen zu einem Programmarchiv der Zukunft angestellt, das sich dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet fühlt und einen Mehrwert für alle darstellt.

The evaluative priming paradigm aims to uncover the processes underlying evaluations. For this purpose, this paradigm presents a sequence of two or more stimuli varying on the valence dimension to which participants must provide a response. The “standard” evaluative priming effect is a relative facilitation of the required responses in congruent trials compared to incongruent trials. The following thesis argues that this evaluative priming effect depends on prime-target similarity, with higher similarity between prime and target leading to larger priming effects. Part one of this thesis presents a meta-analysis of existing data, which tests evidence for the impact of similarity on evaluative priming effects. This reanalysis is based on the assumption that positive information is overall more similar to other positive information than negative information is to other negative information. Thus, this analysis compares effects of positive and negative prime-target pairs. The results confirm that (similar) positive prime-target pairs elicit stronger priming effects than (dissimilar) negative prime-target pairs. This analysis involves a broad sample of stimuli and designs which supports the generalizability of this finding. However, the results are also in line with alternative interpretations attributing the valence asymmetries to other effects caused by valence (e.g., general inhibition). The following four experiments manipulate similarity either by selecting prime-target pairs based on pre-ratings or by presenting identical and non-identical prime-target pairs. All four experiments show that similar prime-target pairs create larger priming effects than dissimilar prime-target pairs. These findings have implications for our understanding of the evaluative priming paradigm, the use of evaluative priming as a measure of attitudes, and the conceptualization of the evaluative system. These implications will be discussed.