Miriam Katharina Zehnter

University of Exeter | UoE · Department of Psychology

We analyzed 1415 newspaper obituaries of female and male leaders published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 1974 to 2016, covering a time-span of 42 years, to investigate change in descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes. The obituaries' content was condensed to four categories: agency, competence, and communion were used to invest...

In this study, we analyze the free verbal associations to the stimuli women quotas and men quotas of 327 medical students. Women and men quotas are characterized by the same modus operandi (i.e., preferential treatment based on sex/gender). However, women quotas help a low-status group, whereas men quotas help a high-status group. In line with a su...

The belief that the target of sexism has shifted from women to men is gaining popularity. Yet despite its potential theoretical and practical importance, the belief that men are now the primary target of sexism has not been systematically defined nor has it been reliably measured. In this paper, we define the belief in sexism shift (BSS) and introd...

The belief that men are the new victims of sexism and anti-male bias is gaining traction globally. The concept of reverse sexism, called the belief in sexism shift, is a new and particularly insidious form of contemporary anti-female sexism that combines the prejudice of hostile sexism with the subtlety of modern sexism. Facilitating the cross-cult...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein Modell relevanter Lehrkompetenzen und Einstellungen aus Sicht von Lehrenden der Medizinischen Universität Wien vorgestellt. Lehrende wurden gefragt, welche Kompetenzen und Einstellungen sie für gute Lehre als wichtig erachten. Ihre Aussagen wurden inhaltsanalytisch zu drei Kompetenz- und zwei Einstellungskategorien...

Patients with cerebellar stroke are impaired in motor skill acquisition and cognitive/executive performance. The aim was to test whether skill acquisition in cerebellar patients is influenced by executive demands such as the intermittent exercise of a conflicting motor task. Patients with cerebellar stroke and healthy controls were tested in two se...