Frank Asbrock

Technische Universität Chemnitz; Zentrum für kriminologische Forschung Sachsen · Psychology

Studien zeigen, dass trotz langfristig rückläufiger Kriminalitätsbelastung die Wahrnehmung vorherrscht, die Kriminalität nehme stetig zu. In einer umfassenden, deutschlandweit repräsentativen Längsschnittbefragung über bislang drei Messzeitpunkten in 18 Monaten wurde erstmals die Entwicklung der Kriminalitätswahrnehmung und Kriminalitätsfurcht unte...

In dem Vortrag werden ausgehenden von der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik 2022 statistische Daten zur Jugendkriminalität und Jugendgewalt eingeordnet und interpretiert. Dabei wird auf den aktuellen Forschungsstand zur Entwicklung der Jugendgewalt in Deutschland sowie in Sachsen-Anhalt eingegangen. Abschließend werden aktuelle Daten zur Wahrnehmung...

Wirtschaftskriminalität (z. B. Korruption oder Steuerhinterziehung) machte 2022 nur 1.3 % aller polizeilich registrierten Straftaten aus, verursachte aber circa 34 % der Schadenssumme. Dies macht einen großen gesellschaftlichen Einfluss dieser Kriminalitätsform deutlich. Einstellungen zur Wirtschaftskriminalität können Einblicke geben, ob diese For...

Embodied Digital Technologies (EDTs) are increasingly populating private and public spaces. How EDTs are perceived in Hybrid Societies requires prior consideration. However, findings on social perception of EDTs remain inconclusive. We investigated social perception and trustworthiness of robots and telepresence systems (TPS) and aimed at identifyi...

Das Buch dokumentiert eine umfassende Evaluation des Hauses des Jugendrechts Leipzig. In der Einrichtung arbeiten Jugendhilfe im Strafverfahren, Polizei und Jugendstaatsanwaltschaft unter einem Dach zusammen, um die behördenübergreifende Kooperation zu optimieren und so einen effektiveren Umgang mit Jugendkriminalität zu erreichen. Die Evaluation u...

In a series of three studies (total N = 956), we examined how political graffiti, which serves as a representation of prevailing social norms, influences the evaluation of social cohesion and neighborhood inhabitants depending on the individuals political orientation. In line with our hypothesis, results of Study 1 ( N = 199) indicated that individ...

Die Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen und langfristigen Entwicklungen der (Gewalt-)Kriminalität in Deutschland und in Sachsen. Weiterhin wird auf Kriminalitätswahrnehmung und Kriminalitätsfurcht und deren Zusammenhänge zur erfassten Kriminalität eingegangen.

Affective attitudes and stereotypes of older toward younger adults influence intergenerational contact experiences and are shaped by them. To capture contemporary stereotypes about young men and women, in Study 1 (N = 112), we collected stereotypes in older adults’ own words. In Study 2 (N = 225), we collected ratings on these stereotypes and showe...

In dem Inputvortrag wird ein Überblick der Entwicklung von Gewalt sowie zur Sicherheits- und Kriminalitätswahrnehmung in Sozialräumen gegeben. Dabei wird ein Schwerpunkt auf die psychologischen Aspekte der Gewalteskalation sowie der Sicherheitswahrnehmung eingegangen.

We present a marker-less AR/DR system that can replace the arm of the user with a virtual bionic prosthesis in real time including finger tracking. For this, we use a mixed reality HMD that provides the user with a stereo image based on video-see-through (VST). We apply chroma-keying to remove the user’s arm from each captured image and input recon...

Sex is defined as a multidimensional construct based on anatomical and physiological traits, with males and females typically classified based on masculine or feminine phenotypes at birth. Individuals with statistically atypical combinations of traits are referred to as intersex or sex diverse. Gender identity, which may or may not align with birth...

The Subordinate Male Target Hypothesis (SMTH) proposes that racism is a gendered form of discrimination based on an ethnicity-by-gender interaction: compared to female ethnic minority members, male ethnic minority members are more likely to be direct targets of racist discrimination. This study examined whether the SMTH, which originally refers to...

Bionic devices for reestablishing or augmenting users' capabilities (e.g., bionic prostheses or exoskeletons) are becoming increasingly common. While prior research examined how such devices affect others’ perceptions of their users, little is known about how these devices affect users’ self-image and -perception, and the corresponding theory is sc...

In recent years, anti‐immigration movements have emerged and aim to gain the attention and support of the public. In two studies (Study 1, N = 775, student sample; Study 2, N = 500, non student sample) we investigated the role of positive and negative intergroup contact to predict support for anti‐immigration movements from native Germans in a cont...

Social perception of Embodied Digital Technologies (EDTs) governs their successful adoption. However, prior findings on processes governing the social perception of EDTs and corresponding attributions are inconclusive. With the present study, we investigate social perception and trustworthiness of robots and Telepresence Systems (TPS). 293 Particip...

In diesem Bericht werden Analysen der ersten Welle des Panels zur Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität und Straftäter:innen (PaWaKS) des Zentrums für kriminologische Forschung Sachsen (ZKFS) zum Vertrauen in Polizei, Justiz und Verwaltung präsentiert. Die Analyse basiert auf einer deutschlandweit repräsentativen Stichprobe mit 5000 Personen. Der Bericht is...

This contribution of the journal Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. (GIO) presents a study on the social perception of Embodied Digital Technologies (EDTs) and provides initial insights into social perception processes concerning technicality and anthropomorphism of robots and users of prostheses. EDTs such as bionic technologies and robots are bec...

The perception of diversity as boon or bane for societies and organizations rests on ideological as well as group-based foundations. In the present study, we aimed at better understanding the development of individual diversity beliefs. We propose a genesis model of individual pro-diversity beliefs. Theoretically derived predictors were used to cre...

Robots are increasingly populating social settings. Social robots should elicit positive associations to be accepted and integrated into daily lives. Even though social perception is multi-dimensional, available scales do not adequately picture this complexity in the perception of robots. To develop a new scale, we aggregated data on social percept...

Wenn von Straftäter:innen die Rede ist, haben die meisten Menschen schnell ein intuitives Bild vor Augen. Darüber wie diese Person möglicherweise aussieht, wie alt sie sein könnte oder welche Charaktereigenschaften sie aufweist. Solche Stereotype können einen Einfluss darauf nehmen, welches Verhalten wir von diesen Personen erwarten, wie bspw. in s...

Positive Kontakterfahrungen haben sich in der Forschung als einer der besten Prädiktoren für positive Einstellungen gegenüber Fremdgruppen herausgestellt. Auch Interventionen zur Verbesserung von Intergruppenbeziehungen auf Basis der Kontakthypothese zeigen Erfolge. Die Einstellungen gegenüber Polizei, Justiz und Straftäter:innen sollten demnach vo...

The poster shows a study that examined the influence of Covid-19 restriction on bike sharing systems.

Zum dritten Mal fand die Tagung „24 hours of Political Psychology“ des Political Psychology Network Germany statt: Sie wurde pandemiebedingt im Onlineformat an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz organisiert.[1] Am 10. und 11.03.2022 trafen sich rund 400 Teilnehmer*innen unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen und Zeitzonen, um sich über aktuelle Forsc...

Dieses Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über die Forschung zu psychologischen Prozessen im Zusammenhang mit gesellschaftlicher Integration. Wir stellen zunächst die kognitiven und motivationalen Grundlagen von Stereotypen, Vorurteilen und Diskriminierung dar und gehen dann auf Modelle zur Erklärung von Intergruppenkonflikten ein, bevor wir uns Intergru...

IntroductionSelf-stigma arising from public stigma is a heavy burden for people suffering from mental health problems. Both public stigma and self-stigma encompass the same three elements: stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. Public stigma has already been successfully explored by the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) and the Behaviors from Inte...

Interindividual differences in personality, ideological orientations (authoritarianism, social dominance orientation), empathy and disgust sensitivity explain a substantial proportion of the variance in prejudice, a major driver of intergroup conflict. In this chapter, we present research findings on these relationships and point out the limits of...

Public perceptions of Artificial intelligence (AI) are mostly positive, but recent research indicates growing skepticism and differentiated attitudes towards different AI applications. Moreover, research showed that more conservative people are more skeptical. Extending previous research, we tested the role of authoritarianism, a broad ideological...

New bionic technologies and robots are becoming increasingly common in workspaces and private spheres. It is thus crucial to understand concerns regarding their use in social and legal terms and the qualities they should possess to be accepted as ‘co-workers’. Previous research in these areas used the Stereotype Content Model to investigate, for ex...

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) plays a prominent role in social perception research when comparing the evaluation of different targets on warmth and competence dimensions. However, there is scarce information on the SCM’s measurement properties. Thus, in this article, we provide a comprehensive test of the SCM’s structural validity (i.e., relia...

New bionic technologies and robots are becoming increasingly common in work spaces and private spheres. It is thus crucial to understand concerns regarding their use in social and legal terms and the qualities they should possess to be accepted as ‘co-workers’. Previous research in these areas used the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) to investigate,...

One of the most prominent social-psychological models describing the content of stereotypes about social groups is the Stereotype Content Model. The model assumes that social groups can be clustered along the dimensions of warmth (How well-intentioned is a group?) and competence (How capable is a group to implement its intentions?). We used this mo...

In einer Gruppendiskussion mit syrischen Frauen, die nicht länger als fünf Jahre in Deutschland lebten, wurde untersucht, wie sich Vorstellungen über eine demokratische Ordnung entwickeln und wo die Befragten Handlungsspielräume für ihre Integration in Deutschland sehen. In der im Rahmen des IFRiS-Projekts Demokratischer Zusammenhalt in Sachsen (De...

The stereotype content model (SCM) plays a prominent role in social perception research when comparing the evaluation of different groups on warmth and competence dimensions. We examined the structural validity of SCM measures from publications based on data from English speaking participants. Re-analyzing 78 datasets from 43 published studies usin...

The stereotype content model (SCM), which defines warmth and competence as fundamental dimensions of social perception, plays a prominent role in contemporary research. Recently, researchers suggested that the SCM scales currently utilised in English contexts might perform less well than previously assumed (Friehs et al., 2021). This was particular...

In this study, we investigated the conditions for successful collaboration in culturally diverse teams from a Positive Organizational Scholarship perspec- tive. As a result of globalization, organizations increasingly rely on cultur- ally diverse teams. Based on 19 semi-structured interviews with international managers of a large German car manufac...

Current theory and evidence suggest that status attainment is based on two distinct pathways: dominance and prestige. We hypothesize that this translates into two dimensions of preferences for group-based hierarchies: preferences for dominance-based hierarchies (PREF-D), characterized by differences in dominant behavior between social groups, and p...

Modern societies and organisations are becoming increasingly diverse, leading many to argue that diversity should be valued because it can benefit teams, organisations and societies more widely. Considerable attention in both organisational and social psychological research has been devoted to so-called pro-diversity beliefs (i.e. the idea that div...

Die Wahrnehmung von Menschen mit Behinderung ist vorwiegend negativ: Eine Behinderung wird als Defizit und als Abweichung von Normen wahrgenommen. Diese Wahrnehmung drückt sich in Stereotypen über Menschen mit Behinderung aus, die kulturell geteilt oder individuell sein können. Menschen haben aufgrund ihrer eigenen Erfahrungen, der indirekten Lerne...

Objective: Experiences of ethnic discrimination may constitute major stressors for ethnic minority groups. This study examined the associations between different forms of ethnic discrimination and levels of perceived stress in Russian immigrants living in Germany, taking into account potential moderating (in-group identification) and mediating (co...

Muslimische Symbole werden häufig als eine von außen herangetragene Bedrohung kultureller Werte in Deutschland wahrgenommen. Was geschieht aber, wenn Mitglieder der eigenen Gruppe diese Symbole verwenden? In der vorliegenden Studie sind wir der Frage nachgegangen, wie deutsche Frauen wahrgenommen werden, die das Kopftuch Al-Amira, tragen. Nach dem...

[Aus der Einleitung] Die Ereignisse um den 26./27. August 2018 in Chemnitz werden lange im kollektiven Gedächtnis von Deutschland und noch länger im kollektiven Gedächtnis der Stadt Chemnitz bleiben. Im Umfeld eines Stadtfestes wurde am 26. August 2018 ein junger Mann erstochen, die mutmaßliche Täter waren Geflüchtete. Diese Tat zog massive Ausschr...

This study investigates the conditions for successful collaboration in cultural diverse teams from a Positive Organizational Scholarship perspective. As a result of globalization, organizations increasingly rely on cultural diverse teams. We seek to analyze how these teams work together and which factors promote collaboration. Our analysis is based...

Im August/September 2018 kam es in der Stadt Chemnitz nach einem Tötungsdelikt zu massiven Protesten und Ausschreitungen rechter und rechtspopulistischer Gruppierungen. Chemnitz geriet quasi über Nacht in den Fokus der nationalen und internationalen Medienaufmerksamkeit. Von rechten AkteurInnen organisierte Aufmärsche zogen bis zu 6000 TeilnehmerIn...

Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) are often faced with prejudices about the premenstrual phase. The aim of this study was to investigate whether providing information (psychoeducation) could improve study participants' perception of a PMDD-patient and whether experimentally-induced prejudices about PMDD resulted in stigmatiza-tion....

Stereotypes of refugee subgroups are still understudied. We contribute to this body of research by investigating differences in stereotype content, meaning warmth and competence ratings, of refugee subgroups in Germany (N = 264). Most extant Stereotype Content Model research is based on observed warmth and competence means values. We applied latent...

According to the Stereotype Content Model that construes attributions of warmth and competence as the core dimensions of stereotypes, people with physical disabilities are generally perceived as warm-but-incompetent, i.e., are faced with paternalistic stereotypes. We argue that the increasing proliferation of bionic technologies (e.g., bionic arm a...

The current studies integrate different frameworks on the positive and negative consequences of ethnic diversity for intergroup relations. Using a nationally stratified sample of Dutch majority members (N = 680) from 50 cities in the Netherlands, Study 1 demonstrated that objective diversity was indirectly related to prejudice and to generalized, i...

Definition: A person’s social category is salient when he or she is perceived, or perceives himself or herself, as a group member rather than as a unique individual. Category salience implies that the impression of and the behavior towards the person shift from the interpersonal level to the intergroup level.

Positive neighborhood norms, such as strong local networks, are critical to people’s satisfaction with, perceived disadvantage of, and intentions to stay in their neighborhood. At the same time, local ethnic diversity is said to be detrimental for these community outcomes. Integrating both frameworks, we tested whether the negative consequences of...

Buchbesprechung zu: Lantermann, E.-D.(2016). Die radikalisierte Gesellschaft. Von der Logik des Fanatismus. München: Blessing.

In this study we analyzed the opinions of citizens of the German-speaking minority in Belgium on the linguistic conflict between the Walloons and the Flemish, as well as their attitudes towards these linguistic communities. We were especially interested in the effects of identification with the local community and disidentification with Belgium. We...

Based on two cross-sectional probability samples (Study 1: N = 1,382, Study 2: N = 1,587), we studied the interplay between positive and negative intergroup contact, different types of intergroup emotions (i.e., episodic intergroup emotions encountered during contact and more general chronic intergroup emotions), and outgroup behavior in the contex...

Significance Stereotypes reflect a society’s inequality and conflict, providing a diagnostic map of intergroup relations. This stereotype map’s fundamental dimensions depict each group’s warmth (friendly, sincere) and competence (capable, skilled). Some societies cluster groups as high on both (positive “us”) vs. low on both (negative “them”). Othe...

In two studies we tested the relationship between non-immigrant individuals’ perceptions of deviant behavior carried out by Muslims and foreigners and discriminatory intentions towards these outgroups. Based on a longitudinal and a representative cross-sectional sample, we showed that two different types of perceived deviant behavior (Study 1: Musl...

Research indicates that authoritarians tend to avoid intergroup contact. This study tested the hypothesis that living in a neighbourhood with a higher proportion of Asian peoples increases the likelihood of contact with them for the majority (New Zealand Europeans), and that this effect should increase intergroup contact for authoritarians. Multi-l...

Objective: This study investigates the relationship between different forms of perceived ethnic discrimination, stress, and depressive and somatoform symptoms in Turkish immigrants and their descendents. Moreover, it was tested whether ethnic identification buffers the effect of discrimination on stress. Methods: Variables were assessed via online...

Ethnic diversity poses a threat to authoritarians, as it indicates non-conformism to group norms and threat to group conformity. According to authoritarian dynamic theory threats elicit authoritarian reactions in people with authoritarian predispositions. In the present paper we tested a mediation model derived from authoritarian dynamic theory in...

According to expectancy-value theory, the gender stereotypes of significant others such as parents, peers, or teachers affect students’ competence beliefs, values, and achievement-related behavior. Stereotypically, gender beliefs about reading favor girls. The aim of this study was to investigate whether teachers’ gender stereotypes in relation to...

The term foreigners is often used in prejudice research to analyze prejudice toward immigrants, but it is not specified which groups respondents have in mind. In the present study, we analyzed the content of the term foreigner and its impact on prejudice toward foreigners in a German national probability sample (N = 1,763). Results indicated that m...

Science and politics are complicatedly related. Here, we will analyse the relationship of social sciences and politics. We will confine ourselves to those cases where science is used to help politics to realise its goals. Adopting from Popper (1935) and Campbell (1969), we will describe a normative model of evidence based policies: PETER - a model...

This research took a person × situation approach to predicting prejudice by looking at how social worldviews interact with real-world environmental factors to predict how people respond to immigrants within their local area. Taking a Dual Process Motivational approach, we hypothesized that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local community wo...

According to a dual process model perspective, intergroup contact should be particularly effective for people high in right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), but not for those high in social dominance orientation (SDO), because of different underlying motivational goals. In the present studies, we tested the hypothesis that imagined contact, that is, th...

Endorsement of authoritarian attitudes has been observed to increase under conditions of terrorist threat. However, it is not clear whether this effect is a genuine response to perceptions of personal or collective threat. We investigated this question in two experiments using German samples. In the first experiment (N = 144), both general and spec...

We studied the influence of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) on the relationship between a multicultural ideology and attitudes about ethnic diversity and immigrants. We hypothesized that a multicultural ideology poses a threat to authoritarian individuals, which leads to a decrease in positive diversity beliefs and an increase in prejudice toward...

The effect of the intergroup climate on acculturation preferences among host-majority and immigrant group members has been long acknowledged in the acculturation literature. Only recently, however, research has started to directly examine the effect of the intergroup climate on acculturation preferences. In the present research, we aimed to contrib...

Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model (SCM) argues that ambivalence-perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both...

Evaluations of individuals and social groups refer to two basic dimensions of social judgment: warmth and competence. Although previous research has explored the antecedents and consequences of these evaluations, there is a lack of understanding of the conditions under which warmth and competence information is used for social categorization in the...

According to the behavior from intergroup affect and stereotypes (BIAS) map, groups stereotyped as cold and competent receive active harm and passive facilitation, whereas groups stereotyped as warm and incompetent receive active facilitation and passive harm. Extending previous research, we conducted four studies to examine what determines helping...

Stereotypes have a legitimizing function. Results from Germany (N = 71) and New Zealand (N = 103) indicated that the perceived permissibility of acting toward groups with active or passive harm versus facilitation depends upon consensually shared stereotypes of the target group. Our findings were generally consistent with predictions derived from t...

Intergroup contact is among the most effective ways to improve intergroup attitudes. Research examining whether the effects of contact are contingent on individual differences is limited, however. The authors test a dual process model perspective of individual differences in contact and prejudice. Their model predicts that intergroup contact should...