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Introduction
I worked as a postdoc at the University of Lausanne and the University of Bern in Switzerland. My research interests and focuses were on age and gender stereotyping and the consequences of stereotyping in personnel selection procedures. Moreover, I worked on women’s and men’s stress reactions and their self-presentation styles in personal selection procedures.
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Helsana
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The use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn in recruitment is ubiquitous. This practice may hold risks for older job seekers. Not having grown up using the internet and having learned how to use social media only in middle adulthood may render them less versed in online self-presentation than younger job seekers. Results of this research sh...
This meta-analysis integrated 16 nationally representative U.S. public opinion polls on gender stereotypes (N = 30,093 adults), extending from 1946 to 2018, a span of seven decades that brought considerable change in gender relations, especially in women's roles. In polls inquiring about communion (e.g., affectionate, emotional), agency (e.g., ambi...
Men are presented with higher facial prominence than women in the media, a phenomenon that is called face-ism. In naturalistic settings, face-ism effects could be driven by gender biases of photographers and/or by gender differences in self-presentation. The present research is the first to investigate whether women and men themselves create this d...
This research examined the impact of facial age appearance on hiring, and impressions of fitness as the underlying mechanism. In two experimental hiring simulations, one with lay persons and one with Human Resource professionals, participants evaluated a chronologically older or younger candidate (as indicated by date of birth and age label) with e...
Masculinity ideology is defined as a blend of cultural beliefs, types of behavior, and roles generally associated with men and boys. Previous studies have showed mixed effects of adherence to masculine ideology on men’s subjective well-being, indicating negative but also positive relationships. The present study focuses on agency, that is the core...
Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heißt, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Ziel...
Building on theories of impression formation based on faces, this research investigates the impact of job candidates’ facial age appearance on hiring as well as the underlying mechanism. In an experiment, participants decided whether to hire a fictitious candidate aged 50 years, 30 years or without age information. The candidate’s age was signaled...
p>Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heisst, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Zi...
Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heisst, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Ziel...
