Daniela Renger

• Dr
• PostDoc Position at Kiel University

We live in an age of rights in which individual rights and freedoms are highly prioritized, often overshadowing duties and responsibilities. This makes it increasingly challenging to discern the balance between one’s own rights and the protection of the fundamental rights of all individuals. Moghaddam and colleagues (2024) introduced a model illust...

Women's underrepresentation in philosophy requires a comprehensive investigation of the factors that contribute to it. This paper examines the presence of gender stereotypes regarding philosophers and the consequences of a perceived misfit in three studies. A pre‐study (N = 49) confirmed that students tend to think about males when asked to name ph...

People differ in their understanding of the (civic) rights they are endowed with in modern societies. Whereas a perception of having more rights than others has been linked to over-individualistic attitudes and negative interpersonal behavior, a perception of having the same rights as others (i.e., self-respect) can be assumed to facilitate a balan...

Past research has shown that the socioeconomic status (e.g., income or education) is associated with people’s self-evaluation, such as global self-esteem. In the present research, we argue that socioeconomic status also affects people’s belief of possessing the same rights as others (i.e., self-respect). In a cross-sectional study (N = 298) and a l...

Individuals with physical and mental disabilities can be stigmatized and perceived in terms of their disabilities in the public domain. This is less pervasive in the private domain, because of the presence of individuating information. We argue that disabilities decrease individuals' everyday opportunities to receive basic equality‐based respect ex...

The present research investigated the relationship between self-respect (i.e., a person’s belief of possessing the same rights as others) and depressive symptoms. Based on earlier longitudinal findings that self-respect fosters assertiveness and that assertiveness negatively predicts depressive symptoms, we tested these relationships in Western and...

Global kompetent zu handeln bedeutet unter anderem, soziale Verantwortung zu übernehmen und Anerkennungserfahrungen für Menschen zu ermöglichen. Im folgenden Kapitel beleuchten wir aus einer (sozial)psychologischen, soziologischen und philosophischen Perspektive, zu welchen Herausforderungen die weltweit zunehmende sozioökonomische Ungleichheit füh...

Warum regen sich manche Deutsche auf, wenn Kleiderkammern nur für Geflüchtete geöffnet werden, oder Wohnungen für Geflüchtete bereitgestellt werden? Wie fühlen sich Geflüchtete, wenn sie im Gegensatz zu Einheimischen nicht an einer Essensausgabe teilnehmen dürfen? Sonderbehandlung kann zu wahrgenommener Ungerechtigkeit und Ärger führen. Doch wann w...

The teaching profession faces a general shortage of teachers in most countries, but a lack of male teachers is particularly prevalent. Past research has demonstrated that students' career choices depend in part on a job's assumed gender fit, i.e. whether a profession is perceived as appropriate for one's own gender. This process may be particularly...

Participation in society is instrumental for democracy and of special importance for minority members. Despite broad research in the context of adults' participation, the earlier formative years and the participation of students in school activities have been neglected so far. The present research examined antecedents and consequences of Latin Amer...

Recent research shows that self‐respect (defined as seeing yourself as a person with equal rights) predicts assertive but not aggressive responses to injustice in interpersonal contexts. The present research focuses on the antecedents of self‐respect and its consequences for collective action tendencies among members of disadvantaged groups. Across...

Objective: The present research systematically investigates the role of recognition experiences at work as a protective factor for burnout. Method: In two cross-sectional studies (N = 328 and N = 220) with employees we measured via online questionnaires three forms of recognition (achievement-based social esteem, equality-based respect and need-...

In this research, we tested equality-based respect from ingroup members as a social antecedent of positive assertiveness (i.e., voicing one’s opinions) and group performance. A pretest with employees at the workplace supported that the variables of interest were indeed correlated. The main experimental study then confirmed that participants who had...

In the present research self-respect is defined as a person’s ability to see the self as someone who has the same basic rights and dignity as others. Self-respect fills a gap in previous theorizing on the self because unlike other self-concepts it can be linked to assertiveness and claim making. Self-respect was empirically distinguished from self-...

Global identity reflects social identification with the world and the largest, most inclusive human ingroup and is generally associated with behavior that serves the world and all humans, such as transnational cooperation or proenvironmental engagement. While the outcomes of being globally identified are well-established, the antecedents of global...

Etwa eine Million Geflüchtete kamen im Jahr 2015 nach Deutschland. Vielen soll eine langfristige Bleibeperspektive ermöglicht werden. In unserem Beitrag möchten wir herausstellen, wie wichtig dabei die Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Identität von Geflüchteten und Mitgliedern der Aufnahmegesellschaft ist. Zudem geben wir ein mögliches Werkzeug an die...

Inspired by philosophical reasoning about the connection between equality and freedom, we examined whether experiences of (equality-based) respect increase perceived autonomy. This link was tested with generalized experiences of respect and autonomy people make in their daily lives (Study 1) and with more specific experiences of employees at the wo...

Past research has demonstrated that equality-based respect is an important antecedent of positive social interaction and group-serving behavior. In the present research we tested whether intragroup equality-based respect affects perceptions of being treated as a human as well as self-dehumanization. In Experiment 1, we found that high respect recei...

Two laboratory experiments tested the hypothesis that (equality-based) respect from outgroup members facilitates recategorization of the original ingroup and outgroup as a common group. In Experiment 1, we varied respect from outgroup members (low vs. medium vs. high) and measured recipients' willingness to recategorize. As predicted, high respect...

The article examines the role of dual identification with both the ethnocultural ingroup and the society of residence in the politicization of migrants. The researchers employed a longitudinal and comparative research design with members of the two largest, but sociologically very different, migrant groups in Germany as research participants (i.e....

The study presented in this article examined the role of social recognition as an equal in group members' motivation to serve their ingroup as well as actual group-serving behavior. We predicted and found that social recognition as opposed to non-recognition as an equal, communicated by fellow group members, increased participants' group-serving mo...