Ursula Christmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 113795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Christmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Christmann |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTMANN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Domestic Drama,” “Love Killing,” or “Murder”
We conducted two framing experiments to test how downplaying femicide frames affect readers' reactions. Results of Study 1 (Germany, N = 158) indicate that emotional reactions were increased when a femicide was labeled as "murder" compared to "domestic drama." This effect was strongest among individuals with high hostile sexism. Study 2 (U.S., N = 207), revealed that male compared to female readers perceived a male perpetrator more as a loving pe…
Housing Policy Reframed? How Conceptual Framing Affects Support for Social Housing Policies in Germany
Housing policy is a growing problem in many countries. Three online experiments were conducted to test framing effects in the context of housing policies in Germany. In experiment 1 (N = 303), urban growth was either described as 'rural exodus' or 'influx' of the rural population into urban areas. Experiment 2 (N = 300) focused on framing effects in the current expropriation debate in Germany. A reacquisition policy of private housing was either …
“It's a war! It's a battle! It's a fight!”
At the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world employed militaristic metaphors to draw attention to the dangers of the virus. But, do militaristic metaphors truly affect individuals' perceived threat of the COVID‐19 virus and increase their support for corresponding restrictive policies? This study assessed the effects of fictitious newspaper articles that described COVID‐19 policies using similarly negatively valenced me…
Do metaphors make opinions
Introduction: A frame makes specific information about a topic more salient. Metaphors can be used as frames to influence people’s opinions on controversial political topics as well as on health-related topics. This study aims to determine the influence of metaphorical frames on the opinion towards surrogacy and examines whether specific aspects of surrogacy are more prone to the influence than others. Method: 236 participants were assigned to on…
Non-conventional figurative language as aesthetics of everyday communication
This study focuses on the emotional aesthetic appreciation of figurative language, a dimension which has often been neglected in experimental psycholinguistics. Our goal was to demonstrate that non-conventional figurative utterances are evaluated as more aesthetically pleasing although they are cognitively more demanding than conventional rhetorical figures. This hypothesis was tested for three main types of figurative language (metaphors, irony …
Psychologie des Lesens
Voice Modulations in German Ironic Speech
Previous research has shown that in different languages ironic speech is acoustically modulated compared to literal speech, and these modulations are assumed to aid the listener in the comprehension process by acting as cues that mark utterances as ironic. The present study was conducted to identify paraverbal features of German ‘ironic criticism’ that may possibly act as irony cues by comparing acoustic measures of ironic and literal speech. For…
Kognitionspsychologie der Textverarbeitung und Konsequenzen für die Bedeutungskonstitution literarischer Texte
Text- und Gesprächslinguistik / Linguistics of Text and Conversation, Part 1
The Efficacy of Communicative Fairness and Rhetorical Aesthetics in Contributions to Argumentation
This paper deals with the effects of aesthetic quality and argumentational integrity or fairness on the persuasiveness of contributions to argumentation. Contemporary discussions of aesthetics and morality distinguish three possible relationships: (a) superiority of aesthetics in making contributions persuasive, (b) integrity as a necessary precondition for the efficacy of aesthetics, and (c) a compensatory relationship between aesthetics and int…
Components of the Evaluation of Integrity Violations in Argumentative Discussions
The effects of six components relevant in the evaluation of integrity violations were tested within a completely crossed six-factor design. The following components were included in the analysis: severity of an argumentative rule violation (high vs. low), degree of subjective awareness in committing a rule violation (intentional, by negligence, unknowingly), presence versus absence of excuses and corrections, frequent versus infrequent rule viola…
Textoptimierung unter Verständlichkeitsperspektive
First, the construct of comprehensibility is explicated as a theoretical framework for techniques leading to optimally comprehensible texts. The explication accentuates the problem of pedagogical prescription inherent in the objective of an 'Optimum of Comprehensibility'; consequences for possibilities of optimal textual organization are discussed (objective: medium comprehensibility, competent reader). Concrete text features and organizational a…
Voice Modulations in German Ironic Speech
Previous research has shown that in different languages ironic speech is acoustically modulated compared to literal speech, and these modulations are assumed to aid the listener in the comprehension process by acting as cues that mark utterances as ironic. The present study was conducted to identify paraverbal features of German ‘ironic criticism’ that may possibly act as irony cues by comparing acoustic measures of ironic and literal speech. For…
Components of the Evaluation of Integrity Violations in Argumentative Discussions
The effects of six components relevant in the evaluation of integrity violations were tested within a completely crossed six-factor design. The following components were included in the analysis: severity of an argumentative rule violation (high vs. low), degree of subjective awareness in committing a rule violation (intentional, by negligence, unknowingly), presence versus absence of excuses and corrections, frequent versus infrequent rule viola…
Housing Policy Reframed? How Conceptual Framing Affects Support for Social Housing Policies in Germany
Housing policy is a growing problem in many countries. Three online experiments were conducted to test framing effects in the context of housing policies in Germany. In experiment 1 (N = 303), urban growth was either described as 'rural exodus' or 'influx' of the rural population into urban areas. Experiment 2 (N = 300) focused on framing effects in the current expropriation debate in Germany. A reacquisition policy of private housing was either …
The Efficacy of Communicative Fairness and Rhetorical Aesthetics in Contributions to Argumentation
This paper deals with the effects of aesthetic quality and argumentational integrity or fairness on the persuasiveness of contributions to argumentation. Contemporary discussions of aesthetics and morality distinguish three possible relationships: (a) superiority of aesthetics in making contributions persuasive, (b) integrity as a necessary precondition for the efficacy of aesthetics, and (c) a compensatory relationship between aesthetics and int…
Domestic Drama,” “Love Killing,” or “Murder”
We conducted two framing experiments to test how downplaying femicide frames affect readers' reactions. Results of Study 1 (Germany, N = 158) indicate that emotional reactions were increased when a femicide was labeled as "murder" compared to "domestic drama." This effect was strongest among individuals with high hostile sexism. Study 2 (U.S., N = 207), revealed that male compared to female readers perceived a male perpetrator more as a loving pe…
Textoptimierung unter Verständlichkeitsperspektive
First, the construct of comprehensibility is explicated as a theoretical framework for techniques leading to optimally comprehensible texts. The explication accentuates the problem of pedagogical prescription inherent in the objective of an 'Optimum of Comprehensibility'; consequences for possibilities of optimal textual organization are discussed (objective: medium comprehensibility, competent reader). Concrete text features and organizational a…
Text- und Gesprächslinguistik / Linguistics of Text and Conversation, Part 1
The Efficacy of Communicative Fairness and Rhetorical Aesthetics in Contributions to Argumentation
This paper deals with the effects of aesthetic quality and argumentational integrity or fairness on the persuasiveness of contributions to argumentation. Contemporary discussions of aesthetics and morality distinguish three possible relationships: (a) superiority of aesthetics in making contributions persuasive, (b) integrity as a necessary precondition for the efficacy of aesthetics, and (c) a compensatory relationship between aesthetics and int…
Components of the Evaluation of Integrity Violations in Argumentative Discussions
The effects of six components relevant in the evaluation of integrity violations were tested within a completely crossed six-factor design. The following components were included in the analysis: severity of an argumentative rule violation (high vs. low), degree of subjective awareness in committing a rule violation (intentional, by negligence, unknowingly), presence versus absence of excuses and corrections, frequent versus infrequent rule viola…
Kognitionspsychologie der Textverarbeitung und Konsequenzen für die Bedeutungskonstitution literarischer Texte
Voice Modulations in German Ironic Speech
Previous research has shown that in different languages ironic speech is acoustically modulated compared to literal speech, and these modulations are assumed to aid the listener in the comprehension process by acting as cues that mark utterances as ironic. The present study was conducted to identify paraverbal features of German ‘ironic criticism’ that may possibly act as irony cues by comparing acoustic measures of ironic and literal speech. For…
Psychologie des Lesens
Non-conventional figurative language as aesthetics of everyday communication
This study focuses on the emotional aesthetic appreciation of figurative language, a dimension which has often been neglected in experimental psycholinguistics. Our goal was to demonstrate that non-conventional figurative utterances are evaluated as more aesthetically pleasing although they are cognitively more demanding than conventional rhetorical figures. This hypothesis was tested for three main types of figurative language (metaphors, irony …
“It's a war! It's a battle! It's a fight!”
At the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world employed militaristic metaphors to draw attention to the dangers of the virus. But, do militaristic metaphors truly affect individuals' perceived threat of the COVID‐19 virus and increase their support for corresponding restrictive policies? This study assessed the effects of fictitious newspaper articles that described COVID‐19 policies using similarly negatively valenced me…
Do metaphors make opinions
Introduction: A frame makes specific information about a topic more salient. Metaphors can be used as frames to influence people’s opinions on controversial political topics as well as on health-related topics. This study aims to determine the influence of metaphorical frames on the opinion towards surrogacy and examines whether specific aspects of surrogacy are more prone to the influence than others. Method: 236 participants were assigned to on…
Domestic Drama,” “Love Killing,” or “Murder”
We conducted two framing experiments to test how downplaying femicide frames affect readers' reactions. Results of Study 1 (Germany, N = 158) indicate that emotional reactions were increased when a femicide was labeled as "murder" compared to "domestic drama." This effect was strongest among individuals with high hostile sexism. Study 2 (U.S., N = 207), revealed that male compared to female readers perceived a male perpetrator more as a loving pe…
Housing Policy Reframed? How Conceptual Framing Affects Support for Social Housing Policies in Germany
Housing policy is a growing problem in many countries. Three online experiments were conducted to test framing effects in the context of housing policies in Germany. In experiment 1 (N = 303), urban growth was either described as 'rural exodus' or 'influx' of the rural population into urban areas. Experiment 2 (N = 300) focused on framing effects in the current expropriation debate in Germany. A reacquisition policy of private housing was either …
Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Law (4 works)