Constanze Schreiner

• Dr.
• PostDoc Position at University of Wuerzburg

Humanoid robots (i.e., robots with a human-like body) are projected to be mass marketed in the future in several fields of application. Today, however, user evaluations of humanoid robots are often based on mediated depictions rather than actual observations or interactions with a robot, which holds true not least for scientific user studies. Peopl...

Listening to, reading, or watching a story is often a highly emotional experience. The current experiment was designed to gain insight into the role of emotions as part of the persuasive influence of stories. Our focus was on emotions that correspond to a storyline (event-congruent emotions). A short movie was presented that depicts the struggles o...

Several studies have shown that narratives can influence readers’ beliefs about themselves. In the present study, our goal was to investigate whether stories portraying a strong protagonist can positively influence recipients’ beliefs of being in control of events in their own lives (self-related control beliefs). Experiment 1 showed that narrative...

(1) Background. Social networking sites such as Facebook provide individuals with opportunities to express and gather information relevant to their self-concept. Previous theoretical work yielded contrasting assumptions about a potential link between individuals’ Internet use and their self-concept clarity, that is, individuals’ perception of a cle...

Stories are a powerful means to change people’s attitudes and beliefs. The aim of the current work was to shed light on the role of argument strength (argument quality) in narrative persuasion. The present study examined the influence of strong versus weak arguments on attitudes in a low or high narrative context. Moreover, baseline attitudes, inte...

Nie war Selbstdarstellung so einfach wie heute, zu Zeiten des Web 2.0. Die NutzerInnen gestalten die Inhalte aktiv mit und haben Raum für die Darstellung ihrer eigenen Person sowie für kleinere oder größere Identitätsexperimente. Auf sozialen Netzwerkseiten erhalten wir andauerndes und unmittelbares Feedback auf die Präsentation unseres Selbst. Ent...

Transportation describes the degree to which individuals get absorbed in the fictional world of a story. Although conceived as a psychological state evoked by the processed narrative, it has also been associated with trait-like characteristics. An experimentally enhanced latent state-trait (LST) model was used to assess the degree to which transpor...

Digitale Medien sind, so selbstverstandlich wie nie zuvor, Teil unseres Alltags. Damit verbunden sind Befurchtungen, dass vor allem die intensive Computer- und Internetnutzung negative Konsequenzen aufweist. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Uberblick zum Forschungsstand uber die Auswirkungen der Nutzung von Computer und Internet. Neun populare My...

Internet und Smartphone sind heutzutage fester Bestandteil in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens. Diese Omnipräsenz legt nahe, neue Medien auch für die Übermittlung therapeutischer Interventionen und präventiver Maßnahmen bei psychischen Erkrankungen wie Depressionen oder Angststörungen zu nutzen. So könnte eine breite Masse an Menschen, die Hilfe bei...