Ralf Rummer

Biographic Data

ID128048
NAMERalf Rummer
GIVEN NAMESRalf
FAMILY NAMERummer
SIGNATURERUMMER R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kassel
ORCID0000-0002-2568-0925
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Do experiences influence gender representations elicited by the gender star form?

    Open AccessAnita Körner, Peter Hofmann et al.ARTICLEApplied Psycholinguistics2026

    Readers associate the generic masculine (e.g., in German, die Zuschauer , for a gender-mixed group) more with men, whereas they associate the German gender star form (e.g., die Zuschauer*innen ) more with women. However, the stability or malleability of these gender biases is unclear. In the present study ( N = 272 ), we examined whether increasing the salience of the gender star form’s inclusiveness (by anaphoric references to an equal number of…

  • Common ground improves learning with conversational agents

    Open AccessAnita Körner, Antonia Tolzin et al.ARTICLEBehaviour and Information…2026

    Although conversational agents are successfully applied in teaching, it is largely unclear which communication principles should be employed to optimise learning. We examine the influence of common ground (i.e. shared knowledge on which to build during conversation) on learning. In an in-class experiment, students studied with one of two pedagogical conversational agents. The control version provided information without emphasising grounding, whe…

  • Higher instead of lower accessibility of fiction texts increases epistemic vigilance during reading

    Lena Wimmer, Anita Körner et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2024

  • Valence sound symbolism across language families: A comparison between Japanese and German

    Open AccessAnita Körner, Ralf RummerARTICLELanguage and Cognition2023

    Vowels are associated with valence, so that words containing /i/ (as in English meet ) compared with /o/ (as in French rose ) are typically judged to match positively valenced persons and objects. As yet, valence sound symbolism has been mainly observed for Indo-European languages. The present research extends this to a comparison of Japanese-speaking and German-speaking participants. Participants invented pseudo-words as names for faces with dif…

  • Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form

    Open AccessSarah Glim, Anita Körner et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2023

  • What is preferred in the in–out effect: Articulation locations or articulation movement direction

    Anita Körner, Ralf RummerARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    Words whose consonant articulation locations move inward (from the front to the back of the mouth) are preferred over words with the opposite consonant articulation location direction, a phenomenon termed the in-out effect. Recently, an alternative explanation for the in-out effect has been proposed based on position-weighted consonant preferences instead of articulation location movement preferences. However, this explanation has only been teste…

  • Gender Representations Elicited by the Gender Star Form

    Open AccessAnita Körner, Bleen Abraham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2022

    In many languages, masculine language forms are not only used to designate the male gender but also to operate in a generic fashion. This dual function has been found to lead to male biased representations when people encounter the generic masculine. In German, the now predominant substitute is the gender star form (e.g., Athlet*innen). In two experiments, we examined gender representations elicited when reading the gender star form (vs. generic …

  • Mood is linked to vowel type: The role of articulatory movements

    Ralf Rummer, Judith Schweppe et al.ARTICLEEmotion2014

    This study investigates the relation between vowel identity and emotional state. In Experiment 1, (pseudo)words were invented and articulated in a positive or negative mood condition. Subjects in a positive mood produced more words containing /i:/, a vowel involving the same muscle that is used in smiling--the zygomaticus major muscle (ZMM). Subjects in a negative mood produced more words containing /o:/, involving an antagonist of the ZMM--the o…

  • Der Einfluss von Expertise auf den Prozess der schulischen Leistungsbeurteilung

    Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt, Ralf RummerARTICLEZeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychol…2005Cited by: 3References: 1

    In zwei Experimenten wurde geprüft, ob unterschiedliche Ziele bei der Verarbeitung von Schülermerkmalen das Gedächtnis für diese Merkmale und die pädagogische Leistungsbeurteilung beeinflussen. In Experiment 1 erhielten Lehrer (Experten) Fallbeschreibungen von Schülern unter der Instruktion, sich entweder einen Eindruck über die Persönlichkeit des Schülers zu bilden oder die weitere Entwicklung des Schülers zu prognostizieren. Anschließend waren …