Project Details
Projekt
FOR 481: Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations
Subject Area
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Term
from 2002 to 2011
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5469624
Threats to social identity and problematic intergroup relations, which prevail in many societies and which may even be exacerbated by globalisation, immigration, the internationalisation of many domains of life and tremendous demographic transformations, pose a challenge to social science. Therefore, it appears necessary and timely to integrate existing knowledge and to gain new insights into the causal antecedents and the mediating processes of intergroup relations. In the current research unit, the issues of intergroup relations and the problem of intergroup conflict are addressed by a comprehensive scientific analysis of the processes that underlie the cognitive, evaluative and behavioural reactions to members of different groups. In particular, the research unit approaches the investigation of intergroup relations from the perspectives of different disciplines, including cognitive psychology, communication and media science, developmental psychology, educational psychology, personality psychology, and social psychology. The research unit includes the following research grants:
-- Mental representation of social categories: Cognitive factors of stereotype formation and intergroup judgment.
-- Assessment of implicit prejudice by affective priming techniques.
-- Psychological boundaries of tolerance: Preconditions and determinants of explicit rejection and exclusion of outgroups.
-- Social identities and aggressive interactions: The role of group membership in the perception, interpretation, and action selection in social conflicts.
-- Source of interindividual differences in social attitudes, social identity, and discrimination selection and effects of media reports about immigrants.
-- Choice of intergroup comparisons: Antecedents and consequences.
-- Reducing intergroup conflict by intergroup contact: New prospects from an old hypothesis.
-- The impact of social and cultural adaptation of juvenile immigrants from the Soviet Union in Israel and Germany on delinquency and deviant behaviour.
-- Mental representation of social categories: Cognitive factors of stereotype formation and intergroup judgment.
-- Assessment of implicit prejudice by affective priming techniques.
-- Psychological boundaries of tolerance: Preconditions and determinants of explicit rejection and exclusion of outgroups.
-- Social identities and aggressive interactions: The role of group membership in the perception, interpretation, and action selection in social conflicts.
-- Source of interindividual differences in social attitudes, social identity, and discrimination selection and effects of media reports about immigrants.
-- Choice of intergroup comparisons: Antecedents and consequences.
-- Reducing intergroup conflict by intergroup contact: New prospects from an old hypothesis.
-- The impact of social and cultural adaptation of juvenile immigrants from the Soviet Union in Israel and Germany on delinquency and deviant behaviour.
DFG Programme
Research Units
International Connection
Netherlands, United Kingdom
Projects
- Automatische Aktivierung von Stereotypen und stereotypkongruentem Verhalten (Applicants Rothermund, Klaus ; Wentura, Dirk )
- Der Einfluss individueller Bedrohung auf Intoleranz gegenüber abweichenden Fremdgruppen (Applicant Fritsche, Immo )
- Die Erfassung von impliziten Vorurteilen durch das maskierte affektive Priming (Applicant Wentura, Dirk )
- Die Rolle von Persönlichkeit und generalisierten Einstellungen für Vorurteile - Überprüfung eines Mediationsmodells anhand einer Meta-Analyse (Applicant Mitte, Kristin )
- Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations (Applicant Noack, Peter )
- Förderung von Intergruppenbeziehungen bei Kindern. Entwicklung und systematische Evaluation eines multimodalen sozial-kognitiven Trainingsprogramms zur Prävention von Vorurteilen und Diskriminierung. (Applicant Beelmann, Andreas )
- Limits of tolerance - Conditions and determinants of explicit rejection and exclusion of outgroups (Applicant Kessler, Thomas )
- Mental representation of social categories - Cognitive factors of stereotype formation and intergroup judgment - Nachwuchsgruppe (Applicant Meiser, Thorsten )
- Migranten in den Medien - Auftreten und Wirkungen semantischer und stilistischer verzerrter Darstellung (Applicant Ruhrmann, Georg )
- Quellen interindividueller Differenzen in sozialen Einstellungen, sozialer Identität und Diskriminierung (Applicant Riemann, Rainer )
- School-based influmence on adolescent tolerance (Applicant Noack, Peter )
- Social identities and aggressive interactions: The impact of group memberships on perception, interpretation, and behavioural choices in social conflicts (Applicant Otten, Sabine )
- Social situation of immigrants: Media frames and audience frames (Applicant Ruhrmann, Georg )
- Soziale Diskrimierung aufgrund relativ chronischer Kategorisierung: die Rolle der Eigengruppenprojektion (Applicant Steffens, Melanie Caroline )
- Soziale Diskriminierung aufgrund relativ chronischer Kategorisierung: Die Rolle der Eigengruppenprojektion (Applicant Steffens, Melanie Caroline )
- Wirksamkeit von Interventionen zur Verbesserung von Intergruppen-Beziehungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ein Systematisches Forschungsreview und eine Meta-Analyse der kontrollierten Evaluationsforschung (Applicant Beelmann, Andreas )
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Peter Noack, since 12/2011
