TY - INPR A1 - Petroczi, Andrea A1 - Backhouse, Susan H. A1 - Barkoukis, Vassilis A1 - Brand, Ralf A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie A1 - Lazuras, Larnbros A1 - Lucidi, Fabio T1 - A call for policy guidance on psychometric testing in doping control in sport T2 - International journal of drug policy N2 - One of the fundamental challenges in anti-doping is identifying athletes who use, or are at risk of using, prohibited performance enhancing substances. The growing trend to employ a forensic approach to doping control aims to integrate information from social sciences (e.g., psychology of doping) into organised intelligence to protect clean sport. Beyond the foreseeable consequences of a positive identification as a doping user, this task is further complicated by the discrepancy between what constitutes a doping offence in the World Anti-Doping Code and operationalized in doping research. Whilst psychology plays an important role in developing our understanding of doping behaviour in order to inform intervention and prevention, its contribution to the array of doping diagnostic tools is still in its infancy. In both research and forensic settings, we must acknowledge that (1) socially desirable responding confounds self-reported psychometric test results and (2) that the cognitive complexity surrounding test performance means that the response-time based measures and the lie detector tests for revealing concealed life-events (e.g., doping use) are prone to produce false or non-interpretable outcomes in field settings. Differences in social-cognitive characteristics of doping behaviour that are tested at group level (doping users vs. non-users) cannot be extrapolated to individuals; nor these psychometric measures used for individual diagnostics. In this paper, we present a position statement calling for policy guidance on appropriate use of psychometric assessments in the pursuit of clean sport. We argue that, to date, both self-reported and response-time based psychometric tests for doping have been designed, tested and validated to explore how athletes feel and think about doping in order to develop a better understanding of doping behaviour, not to establish evidence for doping. A false 'positive' psychological profile for doping affects not only the individual 'clean' athlete but also their entourage, their organisation and sport itself. The proposed policy guidance aims to protect the global athletic community against social, ethical and legal consequences from potential misuse of psychological tests, including erroneous or incompetent applications as forensic diagnostic tools in both practice and research. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Prohibited performance enhancement KW - Athlete KW - Drug KW - Anti-doping KW - Attitude Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.04.022 SN - 0955-3959 SN - 1873-4758 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 1130 EP - 1139 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Scholderer, Joachim T1 - Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods in Europe : structure and changeability T1 - Verbrauchereinstellungen zu gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmitteln in Europa : Struktur und Veränderlichkeit N2 - Genetically modified foods have been at the center of debate in European consumer policy in the last two decades. Although the quasi-moratorium has been lifted in May 2004 and the road to the market is in principle reopened, strategies for product introduction are lacking. The aim of the research is to assess potential barriers in the area of consumer acceptance and suggest ways in which they can be overcome. After a short history of the genetically modified foods debate in Europe, the existing literature is reviewed. Although previous research converges in its central results, issues that are more fundamental have remained unresolved. Based on classical approaches in attitude research and modern theories of social cognition, a general model of the structure, function and dynamics of whole systems of attitudes is developed. The predictions of the model are empirically tested based on an attitude survey (N = 2000) and two attitude change experiments (N = 1400 and N = 750). All three studies were conducted in parallel in four EU member states. The results show that consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods are embedded into a structured system of general socio-political attitudes. The system operates as a schema through which consumers form global evaluations of the technology. Specific risk and benefit judgments are mere epiphenomena of this process. Risk-benefit trade-offs, as often presupposed in the literature, do not appear to enter the process. The attitudes have a value-expressive function; their purpose is not just a temporary reduction of complexity. These properties render the system utterly resistant to communicative interventions. At the same time, it exerts stong anchoring effects on the processing of new information. Communication of benefit arguments can trigger boomerang effects and backfire on the credibility of the communicator when the arguments contrast with preexisting attitudes held by the consumer. Only direct sensory experience with high-quality products can partially bypass the system and lead to the formation of alternative attitude structures. Therefore, the recommended market introduction strategy for genetically modified foods is the simultaneous and coordinated launch of many high-quality products. Point of sale promotions should be the central instrument. Information campaigns, on the other hand, are not likely to have an effect on the product and technology acceptance of European consumers. N2 - Gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel haben sich im Lauf der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte zu einem Symbol verbraucherpolitischer Auseinandersetzungen in Europa entwickelt. Mit der Aufhebung des Quasi-Moratoriums im Mai 2004 ist der Weg zum Markt zwar prinzipiell freigeschaltet, Strategien der Produkteinführung fehlen jedoch. Ziel der Arbeit ist, potenzielle Hindernisse im Bereich der Verbraucherakzeptanz auszuloten und Wege aufzuzeigen, wie Vorurteile gegenüber diesen Produkten abgebaut werden könnten. Nach einem historischen Abriss der Gentechnikdebatte in Europa wird zunächst die existierende Literatur zur Verbraucherakzeptanz diskutiert. Obwohl die bisherige Forschung in ihren Ergebnissen konvergiert, sind grundsätzlichere Fragen weitgehend ungelöst geblieben. Auf der Grundlage klassischer Ansätze der Einstellungsforschung und moderner Theorien sozialer Kognition wird daher ein allgemeines Modell der Struktur, Funktion und Dynamik ganzer Einstellungssysteme entworfen. Die Vorhersagen des Modells werden anhand einer Einstellungsbefragung (N = 2000) und zweier Einstellungsänderungsexperimente (N = 1400 und N = 750) empirisch überprüft. Alle drei Studien wurden parallel in vier EU-Mitgliedsstaaten durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Verbrauchereinstellungen zu gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmitteln in ein strukturiertes System allgemeiner soziopolitischer Einstellungen eingebettet sind. Das System fungiert als Schema, anhand dessen eine globale Bewertung der Gentechnik vorgenommen wird. Spezifische Nutzen- und Risikourteile sind lediglich Epiphänomene dieses Prozesses. Nutzen-Risiko-Abwägungen, wie sie in der Literatur oft unterstellt werden, finden dabei offenbar nicht statt. Die Einstellungen haben eine wertexpressive Funktion, dienen also nicht nur der vordergründigen Reduktion von Komplexität. Diese Eigenschaften machen das System ausgesprochen resistent gegenüber Versuchen der kommunikativen Beeinflussung. Gleichzeitig übt es eine starke Ankerwirkung auf die Verarbeitung neuer Informationen aus. Kommunikation von Nutzenargumenten zu gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmitteln kann zu Bumerangeffekten auf die Glaubwürdigkeit eines Kommunikators führen, wenn die Argumente den Voreinstellungen der Verbraucher widersprechen. Lediglich direkte sensorische Erfahrung mit qualitativ hochwertigen Produkten kann zu einer teilweisen Entkoppelung des Systems und damit zum Aufbau alternativer Einstellungsstrukturen führen. Als optimale Markteinführungsstrategie für gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel wird daher die gleichzeitige und koordinierte Einführung vieler hochwertiger Einzelprodukte empfohlen. Zentrales Instrument sollten Aktionen am Point of Sale sein. Vorbereitende Informationskampagnen werden dagegen voraussichtlich keine Wirkungen auf die Produkt- and Technikakzeptanz europäischer Verbraucher haben. KW - Verbraucherforschung KW - Einstellungsänderung KW - Einstellungsforschung KW - Einstellung KW - Politische Einstellung KW - Novel Food KW - Consumer research KW - Attitude KW - Attitude change KW - Novel food Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6245 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brand, Ralf A1 - Melzer, Marcus A1 - Hagemann, Norbert T1 - Towards an implicit association test (IAT) for measuring doping attitudes in sports. Data-based recommendations developed from two recently published tests JF - Psychology of sport and exercise : PSE ; an official journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology N2 - Objectives: Today, the doping attitudes of athletes can either be measured by asking athletes directly or with the help of indirect attitude measurement procedures as for example the implicit association test (IAT). Using indirect measures may be helpful for example when psychological effects of doping prevention programs shall be evaluated. In the present study we have analyzed and compared measurement properties of two recently published IATs. Design: The IATs "doping substance vs. tea blend" and "doping substance vs. legal nutritional supplement" were presented to two randomly assigned independent samples of 102 athletes (44 male, 58 female; mean age 23.6 years) from different sports. Both IATs were complemented by a control IAT "word vs. non-word". Methods: In order to test central measurement properties of both IATs, distributions of measured values, correlations with the control IAT, reliability analyses, and analyses of error rates were performed. Results: Results pointed to a rather negative doping attitude in most athletes. Especially the fact that in the "doping vs. supplement" IAT error rates (12%) and adaptational learning effects across test blocks were substantial (eta(2) = .22), indicating that participants had difficulties correctly assigning the word stimuli to the respective category, we see slight advantages for the "doping vs. tea" IAT (e.g. satisfactory internal scale consistency Cronbach's-alpha = .78 among athletes reporting to be regularly involved in competitions). Conclusion: The less satisfactory measurement properties of the "doping vs. supplement" IAT can possibly be explained by the fact that the boundaries between (legal) supplements and (illegal) doping substances have been shifted from time to time so that athletes were not sure whether substances were legal or not. KW - Doping KW - Attitude KW - Implicit association test (IAT) Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.01.002 SN - 1469-0292 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 250 EP - 256 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -