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Project 11: Stereotypes against Muslims in the face of expectation violations – attitude change or persistence?

Prof. Dr. Sarah Teige-Mocigemba & Prof. Dr. Philipp Süssenbach

PhD Students: Zhara Khosrowtaj, Lea Nahon

The aim of this project is the investigation of expectation violations in the context of stereotypes and prejudices against minorities, especially Muslims. Stereotypes against Muslims comprise aggressive and violent behavior of Muslim men, lack of integration, incompetence, backwardness, and oppression of Muslim women. Exemplary questions investigated in Project 11 are: How do such stereotypes influence individual judgments concerning guilt and responsibility in the context of a crime? Does the ethnical background of a perpetrator in the context of sexual aggression affect guilt attributions? In how far do expectation-violating information have an impact on individual attitudes and how can we validly assess attitude change and maintenance?

Publications

Süssenbach, P., Gollwitzer, M., Mieth, L., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2016). Trustworthy tricksters: Violating a negative social expectation affects source memory and person perception when fear of exploitation is high. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:2037. 

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