Daniela Stelzmann

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that effective vaccines constitute a central element of successful pandemic control. Although everyone in Germany has had the opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, some people remain hesitant or refuse to get vaccinated. To address this phenomenon as well as to examine the unvaccinated popula...

Alongside its immediate consequences for physical health, the current Coronavirus pandemic and the associated containment measures have led to multiple psychosocial consequences for the population. While virus containment is the main motive of crisis management, there is, so far, little evidence on how crisis management actors consider findings abo...

The public stigma associated with pedophilia, the sexual attraction to prepubescent children, is tremendous. Previous research indicates that undifferentiated media coverage plays an essential role in perpetuating the public stigma by falsely equating pedophilia and child sexual abuse (CSA) and thus may stop persons suffering from a pedophilic diso...

360°-(3D-)Video-Projekte haben häufig einen anwendungsbezogenen Charakter, der es Nutzer*innen ermöglicht, auf einfache Art und Weise in eine aufgezeichnete, reale Umgebung einzutauchen. Durch die sinkenden Kosten dieser Technologie wird ihr Einsatz auch im universitären Kontext immer attraktiver – sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre. Übe...

People with mental disorders such as schizophrenia do not only suffer from the symptoms of their disorders but also from the stigma attached to it. Although direct intergroup contact is an effective tool to reduce stigmatization, it is rare in real life and costly to be established in interventions, and the success of traditional media campaigns is...

The stigma against persons with pedophilic interests (minor-attracted persons) leads to serious consequences for those affected, adds to the development of a sexual preference disorder (which is a sexual preference for children accompanied by psychological distress and/or risk for direct and indirect sexual behavior against children) and increases...

Due to their high user number, social network sites can be regarded as a public sphere and should be accessible to all democratic citizens. Nevertheless, there are some underrepresented social groups such as people with mild intellectual disabilities. This qualitative study investigates how young people with mild intellectual disabilities in German...

The fierce stigma associated with pedophilia may interfere with attempts to prevent sexual offending. Prior research on the effects of media reports about pedophilia mostly focused on their role in perpetuating stigma in the general population. In order to better understand potential benefits and risks of the media coverage on people with pedophili...

Unter sexuellem Grooming versteht man den Prozess, in dem ein Kind und dessen Umwelt auf den sexuellen Missbrauch durch einen Täter vorbereitet werden. Dieser Prozess beinhaltet den Kontaktaufbau, das gefügig Machen des Kindes sowie die Überzeugung des Kindes, den Kontakt geheim zu halten, um eine Entdeckung der Taten zu verhindern. Dabei kann sexu...

The aim of this report was to look at the impact of public health campaigns to promote help seeking for viewing child sexual abuse images (CSAI). A public health model was adopted based on the premise that many offenders are unknown to law enforcement and that recidivism for viewing CSAI is low. Therefore, enabling people to access support may be a...

Folklore has it that ambient color has the power to relax or arouse the observer and enhance performance when executing cognitive tasks. We picked a number of commercially available colors that allegedly have the power to alter cognitive performance and the emotional state, and exposed subjects to them while solving a battery of cognitive tasks. Th...

Visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) is a common side effect in virtual environments and simulators. Several countermeasures against VIMS exist, but a reliable method to prevent or ease VIMS is unfortunately still missing. In the present study, we tested whether olfactory cues can alleviate VIMS. Sixty-two participants were exposed to a 15-min-l...

Der Farbe Pink werden starke und spezifische Effekte auf die Emotion zugeschrieben (z.B. Schauss, 1979), während andere Studien diese Effekte nicht replizieren konnten (z.B. Gilliam & Unruh, 1988). In den letzten Jahren wurden unter anderem Gefängniszellen in Pink gestrichen, um die Zelleninsassen zu beruhigen. In unserer Studie haben wir die Wirku...