Papers by Steven Stroessner
Caring or Competent? Apparent Prioritization of Childcare Over Work Affects Evaluations and Stereotyping of Fathers
Sex Roles, Jul 10, 2023
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2005
Three experiments investigated the effects of positive mood on perceptions of variability within ... more Three experiments investigated the effects of positive mood on perceptions of variability within and between groups. Participants formed impressions of two different and highly variable groups under a neutral or positive mood. When participants expected to learn about both groups, positive mood increased perceived intergroup similarity but did not affect perceived intragroup variability. In contrast, when participants expected to learn about only one group, judgments of intergroup and intragroup similarity were both affected by mood. Mood and the intergroup context influenced the nature and degree of information processing and resultant judgments of variability in social groups.
The multi-value basis of procedural justice
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 1, 2011
Three experiments demonstrate that multiple values can account for the relation between respectfu... more Three experiments demonstrate that multiple values can account for the relation between respectful treatment and judgments of procedural fairness. The Group Value Theory of procedural justice (Lind & Tyler, 1988) asserts that respectful treatment is viewed as fair because it communicates positive information about one's standing within one's group. We propose that other values introduced in other contexts, including a
Social cognition and the study of stereotyping
... Social cognition: Impact on social psychology. Hamilton, David Lewis; Stroessner, Steven J.;D... more ... Social cognition: Impact on social psychology. Hamilton, David Lewis; Stroessner, Steven J.;Driscoll, Denise M. Devine, Patricia G. (Ed); Hamilton, David Lewis (Ed); Ostrom, Thomas M. (Ed), (1994). Social cognition: Impact on social psychology, (pp. 291-321). ...
The Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS)
Accurately measuring perceptions of robots has become increasingly important as technological pro... more Accurately measuring perceptions of robots has become increasingly important as technological progress permits more frequent and extensive interaction between people and robots. Across four studies, we develop and validate a scale to measure social perception of robots. Drawing from the Godspeed Scale and from the psychological literature on social perception, we develop an 18-item scale (The Robotic Social Attribute Scale; RoSAS) to measure people's judgments of the social attributes of robots. Factor analyses reveal three underlying scale dimensions-warmth, competence, and discomfort. We then validate the RoSAS and show that the discomfort dimension does not reflect a concern with unfamiliarity. Using images of robots that systematically vary in their machineness and gender-typicality, we show that the application of these social attributes to robots varies based on their appearance.
Effects of Belief in Free Will or Determinism on Attitudes toward Punishment and Locus of Control
Journal of Social Psychology, Dec 1, 1990
Belief in free will or determinism is related to attitudes toward punishment and to locus of cont... more Belief in free will or determinism is related to attitudes toward punishment and to locus of control. The relationships remain ambiguous, however, perhaps because the belief has been viewed historically as a unidimensional construct. The responses of 507 American undergraduates to a free will-determinism questionnaire established the existence of two types of deterministic belief—psychosocial and religious-philosophical—and a separate, independent belief in libertarianism. Beliefs about punishment were multidimensional, consisting of attitudes toward punitiveness and rehabilitation. Respondents with higher scores on psychosocial or religious-philosophical determinism or libertarianism were more punitive than those with lower scores. High scores on either type of determinism were associated with more external locus of control scores. Respondents who rated the free will-determinism items for themselves and those who rated them for people in general differed on a number of dependent measures.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001
How do people respond to information that counters a stereotype? Do they approach it or avoid it?... more How do people respond to information that counters a stereotype? Do they approach it or avoid it? Four experiments showed that attention to stereotype-consistent vs.-inconsistent information depends on people's implicit theories about human traits. Those holding an entity theory (the belief that traits are fixed) consistently displayed greater attention to (Experiments 1 and 4) and recognition of (Experiments 2 and 3) consistent information, whereas those holding an incremental (dynamic) theory tended to display greater attention to (Experiment 1) and recognition of (Experiment 3) inconsistent information. This was true whether implicit theories were measured as chronic structures (Experiments 1, 2, and 4) or were experimentally manipulated (Experiment 3). Thus, different a priori assumptions about human traits and behavior lead to processing that supports versus limits stereotype maintenance. Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit (James, 1890/ 1983, p. 416). We often encounter people acting in ways that are contrary to what we stereotypically expect of them (e.g., a woman who plays. baseball, a trucker who quotes Byron). On the surface, stereotypeinconsistent information appears to pose a direct challenge to the veracity of our stereotypes. However, we know both from everyday experience and from social cognition research (e.g., L.
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Papers by Steven Stroessner