@misc{Krahe1992, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Personality and social psychology : towards a synthesis}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-38306}, year = {1992}, abstract = {Content: 1 Persons and Situations: Cornerstones of Modern Personality Psychology 2 The Issue of Consistency in Personality:Sixty Years of Controversy 3 In Defence of Traits: New (and Revived) Perspectives 4 Modern Interactionism: An Alternative Framework for Personality Research 5 Implementing the Interactionist Programme:Three Exemplary Areas of Research 6 Improving Personality Measurement:The Nomothetic Road to the Study of Consistency 7 Personality Psychology is about Individuals:Rediscovering the Idiographic Legacy 8 The Role of the Situation in Personality Research 9 Personality Psychology in the Nineties: An Outlook}, language = {en} } @misc{WardNewlonKraheetal.1992, author = {Ward, Colleen and Newlon, Betty and Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Myambo, Kathleen and Payne, Monica and Tastaban, Yildiz and Yuksel, Sahika and Ghadially, Rehana and Kumar, Usha and Lee, Hing-chu B and Cheung, Fanny M. and Upadhyaya, Shirpati and Patnoe, Jerry and Kirby, Carol and Gomez, Antonio Vasquez and Parra, Elena and Colosio, Laura}, title = {The attitudes toward rape victims scale : psychometric data from 14 countries}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34495}, year = {1992}, abstract = {Content: Synopsis The Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale: Psychometric Data from 14 Countries Scale Construction and Validation - Study One: Preliminary Analyses - Study Two: Test-Retest Reliability - Study Three: Construct Validity Cross-cultural Extensions - United States - United Kingdom - Germany - New Zealand - Canada - West Indies - Israel - Turkey - India - Hong Kong - Malaysia - Zimbabwe - Mexico - Metric Equivalence Discussion}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1989, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Faking personality profiles on a standard personality inventory}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34486}, year = {1989}, abstract = {A study is reported which investigates the fakeability of personality profiles as measured by a standard personality inventory, the Freiburger Pers{\"o}nlichkeitsinventar (FPI). Unlike previous studies investigating laypersons' ability to fake a global good or bad impression, the present study examined individuals' ability to fake a specific personality profile. Four groups of subjects were instructed to fake their FPI scores so as to present themselves as high vs low scorers on the "social orientation" dimension or high vs low scorers on the "achievement orientation" dimension. The results clearly demonstrate that subjects are successful in manipulating their scores on the critical dimensions according to instruction. Moreover, they also fake related scales in a way that corroborates the intended image of a person with a high (or low) achievement (or social) orientation. The overall pattern of results reveals that subjects were able to distort their responses in a way that reflects their intuitive understanding of the dimensional structure of the FPI. The implications of the present findings for the use of personality inventories as valid diagnostic instruments are discussed.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1986, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Similar perceptions, similar reactions : an idiographic approach to cross-situational coherence}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34435}, year = {1986}, abstract = {The study provides a test of the interactionist concept of behavioral coherence across situations. Following an approach suggested by D. Magnusson and B. Ekehammer (1978, Journal of Research in Personality, 12, 41-48), individual correlations between self-reported behavior patterns and perceived similarity ratings across anxiety-provoking situations are obtained as measures of coherence. Unlike the Magnusson and Ekehammar study, the present measures of situation cognition and behavior are based on an idiographic sampling of anxiety-provoking situations. As a step toward concept-based measurement of situation cognition, further measures of perceived situational similarity are derived from the script, prototype, and social episodes models in social psychology and correlated with cross-situational similarity of behavioral profiles. It is demonstrated, in comparison with the findings of Magnusson and Ekehammar, that correlations between similarity ratings and behavior patterns increase substantially as a result of an idiographic sampling of situations. Moreover, it is shown that "script," "prototype," and "social episode" measures can be utilized to investigate the covariation between situation cognition and behavior, thus contributing to the clarification of the principles of cognitive representation of situational experience.}, language = {en} } @misc{SixKrahe1984, author = {Six, Bernd and Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Implicit psychologists' estimates of attitude-behaviour consistencies}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34427}, year = {1984}, abstract = {To investigate the relationship between implicit psychological hypotheses and explicit empirical findings, summaries of twenty published studies on attitude-behaviour consistency were presented to a sample of forty-eight psychology undergraduates. Subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of agreement between attitudes and behaviour obtained by each study. Correlations between subjects' covariation judgements and empirically obtained attitude-behaviour consistencies were minimal and nonsignificant. Results are discussed in the light of more recent research on attitudebehaviour relationship.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1992, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Personality and language}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34073}, year = {1992}, abstract = {Content Introduction Towards a framework for personality and language Personality and language Personal pronouns Adjectives as disposilional markers Cognitive properties of trait terms Everyday language and personality Speech end personality Conclusions and directions References}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1991, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Police officers' definitions of rape : a prototype study}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33922}, year = {1991}, abstract = {The study investigates police officers' definitions of different rape situations. On the basis of the concept of 'cognitive prototypes' a methodology is developed which elicits consensual feature lists describing six rape situations: the typical, i.e. most common rape, the credible, dubious, and false rape complaints as weil as the rape experiences that are particularly hard vs. relatively easy for the victim to cope with. Qualitative analysis of the data allows the identification of the characteristic features defining the prototype of each rape situation, as weil as comparisons between the situations in terms of their common and distinctive features. It is shown that police officers, while sharing some of the widely held stereotypes about rape, generally perceive rape as a serious crime with long-term negative consequences for the victim. The quantitative analysis of prototype similarity between the six situations corroborates this conclusion by demonstrating a high similarity between the prototypes of the typical and the credible rape situation: In addition, subjects' general attitude towards rape victims is measured to compare the prototypes provided by respondents holding a positive vs. negative attitude towards rape victims. Findings for the two groups, however, reveal more similarities than differences in their descriptions of rape prototypes. The paper concludes with a discussion of the feasibility of the prototype approach presented in this study as a strategy for investigating implicit or common-sense theories of rape.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1991, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Social psychological issues in the study of rape}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33903}, year = {1991}, abstract = {The chapter presents a social psychological approach to the study of rape and sexual assault. Two issues are at the core of this approach: identifying the critical variables that affect attributions of responsibility to victims of rape. and exploring people's subjective definitions of rape, which may differ markedly from legal definitions. Following a review of the American evidence, a series of studies conductcd in two European countries is presented to address these issues.}, language = {en} } @misc{EckesKraheSix1989, author = {Eckes, Thomas and Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Six, Bernd}, title = {Predicting behavior in natural settings : four field studies}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33862}, year = {1989}, abstract = {Content Basic Concepts and Applied Perspectives in Attitude-Behavior Research Searching for Medium-Range Models of Behavior Prediction Putting the Models to Test General Discussion References}, language = {en} } @misc{KraheSemin1989, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Semin, G{\"u}n R.}, title = {In search of explanations : a rejoinder to Borkenau}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33859}, year = {1989}, abstract = {The main points raised by Borkenau against our challenge of the 'intuitive psychometrics' view of personality judgements are discussed, in particular his example of the link between school grades and intelligence. It is argued that the semantic similarity interpretation advanced in our paper is more adequate and more parsimonious than explanations in terms of psychometric reasoning.}, language = {en} } @misc{KraheSemin1988, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Semin, G{\"u}n R.}, title = {Explaining perceived cross-situational consistency : intuitive psychometrics or semantic mediation?}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33847}, year = {1988}, abstract = {Recent studies at the interface of social cognition and personality theory have stressed lay persons' ability to 'function as intuitive psychometricians' (Epstein and Teraspulsky, 1986). This research argues that lay persons not only show a substantial degree of accuracy in estimating cross-situational generality of behaviour, but also take into account principles of aggregation over time. In contrast, it is argued here that lay persons' perceptions of the degree of relatedness of different behaviours are mediated largely by the decontextualized semantic relationships between behavioural descriptions. This argument finds support in two experimental studies which demonstrate that the main source for subjects' judgments of 'cross-situational consistency' can be found in an abstracted knowledge base which is represented and mediated through language. The implications of the findings are drawn out for personality research. in particular with reference to domain and item selection in questionnaires for research.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1988, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Victim and observer characteristics as determinants of responsibility attributions to victims of rape}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33833}, year = {1988}, abstract = {Two field studies were conducted lo investigate the influence of observer and victim characteristics on attributions of victim and assailant responsibility in a rape case. In the first study, male and female subjects completed a measure of rape myth acceptance and were presented with a rape account after which they were asked to attribute responsibility to victim and assailant. In the second study, a new sample was asked to attribute responsibility to victim and assailant on the basis of one of two rape accounts in which victim's pre-rape behavior was manipulated. Results showed that both rape myth acceptance and victims' pre-rape behavior in influenced the degree of responsibility attributed to victims and assailants. No significant effects of subject gender were found. A more complex conceptualization is suggested of the link between observer and victim characteristics in social reactions to and evaluations of rape victims.}, language = {en} } @misc{KraheSemin1987, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Semin, G{\"u}n R.}, title = {Lay conceptions of personality : eliciting tiers of a scientific conception of personality}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33827}, year = {1987}, abstract = {Two studies are reported which examine the availability of scientific propositions of personality in lay conceptions of personality. It is argued from a social constructivist perspective that models of personality must derive from and refer to lay conceptions of persons. Eysenck's trait-type model of introversion-extroversion, containing specific propositions about phenotypic and genotypic differences between extraverts and introverts, was utilized as the scientific model of personality and its availability in lay conceptions of personality was examined in two studies. In the first study, subjects were presented with a genotypic characterization of either an introvert or an extravert target person and asked to infer corresponding phenotypic differences. In the second study, the inference process was reversed with subjects being asked to infer genotypic characteristics of introverts versus extraverts on the basis of phenotypic target person descriptions of the two types. Results from both studies show a high degree of accuracy in subjects' inferences, suggesting that laypersons have well-formed conceptions about personality containing 'higher-order' psychogenetic propositions corresponding to Eysenck's trait-type model. The implications of the findings for theory construction are discussed.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krahe1990, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Situation cognition and coherence in personality : an individual-centered approach}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33554}, year = {1990}, abstract = {This volume reexamines the long-standing controversy about consistency in personality from a social psychological perspective. Barabara Krah{\´e} reconsiders the concept of consistency in terms of the systematic coherence of situation cognition and behaviour across situations. In the first part of the volume she undertakes an examination of recent social psychological models of situation cognition for their ability to clarify the principles underlying the perception of situational similarities. She then advances an individual-centred methedology in which nomothetic hypotheses about cross-situational coherence are tested on the basis of idiogrphic measurement of situation cognition and behaviour. In the second part of the volume, a series of empirical studies is reported which apply the individual-centred framework to the analysis of cross-situational coherence in the domain of anxiety-provoking situations. These studies are distinctive in that they extend over several months and use free-response data; they are based on idiographic sampling; and they employ explicit theoretical models to capture the central features of situation perception. The results demonstrate the benefits of integrating idiographic and nomothetic research strategies and exploiting the advantages of both perspectives.}, language = {en} }