People generally enjoy acts of self-expression, going out of their way to share their preferences and opinions even absent a decision. However, people are nevertheless not always forthcoming with how they truly feel, fearing that their views will be judged negatively by others or that they will be seen as unprofessional. In other cases, they may simply lack a preference altogether. Is failing to state how one feels, in terms of one’s preferences and opinions, either because one is concealing them or because one lacks them, a good move socially or one with (possibly hidden) costs? How do we perceive such individuals? Across two chapters, I investigate how preferences and opinions (or lack thereof) link to humanity. Chapter 1 examines percept...
Heitland K, Bohner G. Reducing prejudice via cognitive dissonance: Individual differences in prefere...
Ambiguity aversion appears to have subtle psychological causes. Curley, Yates, and Abrams found that...
People are social beings. Moreover, a person\u27s human identity is socially bestowed, sustained and...
We tested whether individuals can exert control over the expression of attitudinal ambivalence and i...
20 pagesSome decision situations are so objectionable or repugnant that people refuse to make a choi...
Much recent scholarship in the social sciences has recognised the importance of grasping the signifi...
We demonstrate that a difference exists between objectively having and psychologically perceiving mu...
What determines sensory preferences? Although this research question has been intensively addressed ...
Dehumanisation is an elusive concept. While the term itself indicates that its meaning relates to a ...
We review a programme of research on the attribution of humanness to people, and the ways in which l...
Ambivalence reflects the coexistence of positive and negative evaluations of an attitude object, and...
Ambiguity aversion appears to have subtle psychological causes. Curley, yates, and abrams found that...
Social science scholars mainly regard dehumanization as a phenomenon of conflict and war. Concurrent...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
Heitland K, Bohner G. Reducing prejudice via cognitive dissonance: Individual differences in prefere...
Ambiguity aversion appears to have subtle psychological causes. Curley, Yates, and Abrams found that...
People are social beings. Moreover, a person\u27s human identity is socially bestowed, sustained and...
We tested whether individuals can exert control over the expression of attitudinal ambivalence and i...
20 pagesSome decision situations are so objectionable or repugnant that people refuse to make a choi...
Much recent scholarship in the social sciences has recognised the importance of grasping the signifi...
We demonstrate that a difference exists between objectively having and psychologically perceiving mu...
What determines sensory preferences? Although this research question has been intensively addressed ...
Dehumanisation is an elusive concept. While the term itself indicates that its meaning relates to a ...
We review a programme of research on the attribution of humanness to people, and the ways in which l...
Ambivalence reflects the coexistence of positive and negative evaluations of an attitude object, and...
Ambiguity aversion appears to have subtle psychological causes. Curley, yates, and abrams found that...
Social science scholars mainly regard dehumanization as a phenomenon of conflict and war. Concurrent...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
Heitland K, Bohner G. Reducing prejudice via cognitive dissonance: Individual differences in prefere...
Ambiguity aversion appears to have subtle psychological causes. Curley, Yates, and Abrams found that...
People are social beings. Moreover, a person\u27s human identity is socially bestowed, sustained and...