Beate Seibt
Biographic Data
| ID | 130133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beate Seibt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beate |
| FAMILY NAME | Seibt |
| SIGNATURE | SEIBT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0148-0961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond commodification: A taxonomy of relational model degradation and the limits of the UDHR framework
This article extends Alan Page Fiske's Relational Models Theory beyond its traditional focus on functional coordination to analyze contemporary social crises through the lens of relational breakdown. It proposes a taxonomy distinguishing genuine relational coordination from degraded forms—where relationships maintain surface legitimacy while lacking mutuality—through asocial relationships treating others as purely instrumental means, to null rela…
Moved to Norway, Then Moved by Norway: How Moments of Kama Muta Is Related With Immigrants’ Acculturation
In this paper, we investigated the relation between a positive social emotion, kama muta, and immigrants’ acculturation to Norway. Kama muta is evoked by a sudden intensification of a communal sharing relationship. Since communal sharing relationships are characterized by feeling one with others and orienting one’s actions to something they have in common, we predicted that feeling kama muta about Norway or Norwegians would enhance immigrants’ mo…
Moving political opponents closer: How kama muta can contribute to reducing the partisan divide in the US
Dislike of political opponents has increased over the past years in the US. This paper presents a preregistered study investigating the effect of kama muta (being moved by sudden closeness) on increasing warmth, social closeness, and trust toward political opponents through including them in a common American identity. Eight hundred forty-one U.S. Americans watched either a moving or a neutral video about the US or a different theme in a full-fac…
Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or that something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? They conducted studi…
Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal
Ethnographies, histories, and popular culture from many regions around the world suggest that marked moments of love, affection, solidarity, or identification everywhere evoke the same emotion. Based on these observations, we developed the kama muta model, in which we conceptualize what people in English often label being moved as a culturally implemented social-relational emotion responding to and regulating communal sharing relations. We hypoth…
The Best-Loved Story of All Time: Overcoming All Obstacles to Be Reunited, Evoking Kama Muta
Article The Best-Loved Story of All Time: Overcoming All Obstacles to Be Reunited, Evoking Kama Muta was published on April 1, 2017 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 1, issue 1)
Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved
We discovered that events of positive tears, rather than negative tears, were associated with self-reported being moved or touched, with goosebumps, with feelings of chest warmth, and with the appraisals of increased closeness and moral acts. These appraisals mediated the difference in being moved between positive and negative events. We further found that appraisal patterns for personally experienced events were similar to the patterns for obser…
The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It
When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, "moved," "touched," "heart-warming," "nostalgia," "patriotism," or "rapture" (although sometimes people use each of these terms for other emotions). We call the emotion kama muta (Sanskrit, "moved by love"). Kama muta evokes adaptive motives to devote and commit to the CSRs that are fundamental to soci…
‘Would you eat cultured meat?’: Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom
Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat
Drawing on social representations theory, we explore how the public make sense of the unfamiliar, taking as the example a novel technology: synthetic meat. Data from an online deliberation study and eighteen focus groups in Belgium, Portugal and the UK indicated that the various strategies of sense-making afforded different levels of critical thinking about synthetic meat. Anchoring to genetic modification, metaphors like ‘Frankenfoods’ and commo…
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposure effects, attitudes toward red meat…
Approach/Avoidance Orientations Affect Self-construal and Identification with In-group
Approach and avoidance are two basic motivational orientations. Their activation influences cognitive and perceptive processes: Previous work suggests that an approach orientation instigates a focus on larger units as compared to avoidance. Study 1 confirms this assumption using a paradigm that more directly taps a person's tendency to represent objects as belonging to small or large units than prior studies. It was further predicted that the sel…
Processes underlying congruent and incongruent facial reactions to emotional facial expressions
The present electromyographic study is a first step toward shedding light on the involvement of affective processes in congruent and incongruent facial reactions to facial expressions. Further, empathy was investigated as a potential mediator underlying the modulation of facial reactions to emotional faces in a competitive, a cooperative, and a neutral setting. Results revealed less congruent reactions to happy expressions and even incongruent re…
When hunger finds no fault with moldy corn: Food deprivation reduces food-related disgust
The main purpose of this study was to examine if disgust toward unpalatable foods would be reduced among food-deprived subjects and if this attenuation would occur automatically even under moderate levels of food deprivation. Subjects were either satiated or food deprived for 15 hours and electromyographic activity was recorded at the levator muscle region while they were watching pictures of palatable versus unpalatable foods, and pictures of po…
Prepared to eat: How immediate affective and motivational responses to food cues are influenced by food deprivation
Three studies examined how food deprivation influences the immediate valence of food stimuli as well as spontaneous motivational tendencies toward them. We assumed that immediate reactions towards food stimuli should be tuned to the basic needs of the organism. In Study 1, the immediate valence of food names as a function of need state was assessed using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) in a quasi‐experimental design. Food deprivation led to a …
Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach–avoidance motions
Based on the conceptualization of approach as a decrease in distance and avoidance as an increase in distance, we predicted that stimuli with positive valence facilitate behavior for either approaching the stimulus (object as reference point) or for bringing the stimulus closer (self as reference point) and that stimuli with negative valence facilitate behavior for withdrawing from the stimulus or for pushing the stimulus away. In Study 1, we fou…
Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes
The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions (M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyograf…
When “Just Say No” is not enough: Affirmation versus negation training and the reduction of automatic stereotype activation
Easier done than undone: Asymmetry in the malleability of implicit preferences
Dual-process models imply that automatic attitudes should be less flexible than their self-reported counterparts; the relevant empirical record, however, is mixed. To advance the debate, the authors conducted 4 experiments investigating how readily automatic preferences for one imagined social group over another could be induced or reversed. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that automatic preferences, like self-reported ones, could be readily induced…
Stereotype Threat and Performance: How Self-Stereotypes Influence Processing by Inducing Regulatory Foci
The authors hypothesized that activated self-stereotypes can influence the strategies of task solution by inducing regulatory foci. More specifically, positive self-stereotypes should induce a promotion focus state of eagerness, whereas negative stereotypes should induce a prevention focus state of vigilance. Study 1 showed that a negative ascribed stereotype with regard to task performance leads to better recall for avoidance-related statements …
Attitudes towards people with Aids and avoidance behavior: Automatic and reflective bases of behavior
The structure of prejudice: Associative strength as a determinant of stereotype endorsement
Previous research obtained inconsistent findings as to whether implicit and explicit measures of prejudice are related. According to our view, some of these inconsistencies are due to whether implicit measures assess exclusively the strength of association between the social category and the evaluation or the activation of the social category in addition. Derived from recent theorizing we suggest that it is especially associative strength between…
Easier done than undone: Asymmetry in the malleability of implicit preferences
Dual-process models imply that automatic attitudes should be less flexible than their self-reported counterparts; the relevant empirical record, however, is mixed. To advance the debate, the authors conducted 4 experiments investigating how readily automatic preferences for one imagined social group over another could be induced or reversed. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that automatic preferences, like self-reported ones, could be readily induced…
When “Just Say No” is not enough: Affirmation versus negation training and the reduction of automatic stereotype activation
Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach–avoidance motions
Based on the conceptualization of approach as a decrease in distance and avoidance as an increase in distance, we predicted that stimuli with positive valence facilitate behavior for either approaching the stimulus (object as reference point) or for bringing the stimulus closer (self as reference point) and that stimuli with negative valence facilitate behavior for withdrawing from the stimulus or for pushing the stimulus away. In Study 1, we fou…
Stereotype Threat and Performance: How Self-Stereotypes Influence Processing by Inducing Regulatory Foci
The authors hypothesized that activated self-stereotypes can influence the strategies of task solution by inducing regulatory foci. More specifically, positive self-stereotypes should induce a promotion focus state of eagerness, whereas negative stereotypes should induce a prevention focus state of vigilance. Study 1 showed that a negative ascribed stereotype with regard to task performance leads to better recall for avoidance-related statements …
Prepared to eat: How immediate affective and motivational responses to food cues are influenced by food deprivation
Three studies examined how food deprivation influences the immediate valence of food stimuli as well as spontaneous motivational tendencies toward them. We assumed that immediate reactions towards food stimuli should be tuned to the basic needs of the organism. In Study 1, the immediate valence of food names as a function of need state was assessed using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) in a quasi‐experimental design. Food deprivation led to a …
Attitudes towards people with Aids and avoidance behavior: Automatic and reflective bases of behavior
The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It
When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, "moved," "touched," "heart-warming," "nostalgia," "patriotism," or "rapture" (although sometimes people use each of these terms for other emotions). We call the emotion kama muta (Sanskrit, "moved by love"). Kama muta evokes adaptive motives to devote and commit to the CSRs that are fundamental to soci…
Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes
The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions (M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyograf…
The structure of prejudice: Associative strength as a determinant of stereotype endorsement
Previous research obtained inconsistent findings as to whether implicit and explicit measures of prejudice are related. According to our view, some of these inconsistencies are due to whether implicit measures assess exclusively the strength of association between the social category and the evaluation or the activation of the social category in addition. Derived from recent theorizing we suggest that it is especially associative strength between…
Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal
Ethnographies, histories, and popular culture from many regions around the world suggest that marked moments of love, affection, solidarity, or identification everywhere evoke the same emotion. Based on these observations, we developed the kama muta model, in which we conceptualize what people in English often label being moved as a culturally implemented social-relational emotion responding to and regulating communal sharing relations. We hypoth…
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposure effects, attitudes toward red meat…
Moving political opponents closer: How kama muta can contribute to reducing the partisan divide in the US
Dislike of political opponents has increased over the past years in the US. This paper presents a preregistered study investigating the effect of kama muta (being moved by sudden closeness) on increasing warmth, social closeness, and trust toward political opponents through including them in a common American identity. Eight hundred forty-one U.S. Americans watched either a moving or a neutral video about the US or a different theme in a full-fac…
The structure of prejudice: Associative strength as a determinant of stereotype endorsement
Previous research obtained inconsistent findings as to whether implicit and explicit measures of prejudice are related. According to our view, some of these inconsistencies are due to whether implicit measures assess exclusively the strength of association between the social category and the evaluation or the activation of the social category in addition. Derived from recent theorizing we suggest that it is especially associative strength between…
Attitudes towards people with Aids and avoidance behavior: Automatic and reflective bases of behavior
Stereotype Threat and Performance: How Self-Stereotypes Influence Processing by Inducing Regulatory Foci
The authors hypothesized that activated self-stereotypes can influence the strategies of task solution by inducing regulatory foci. More specifically, positive self-stereotypes should induce a promotion focus state of eagerness, whereas negative stereotypes should induce a prevention focus state of vigilance. Study 1 showed that a negative ascribed stereotype with regard to task performance leads to better recall for avoidance-related statements …
When “Just Say No” is not enough: Affirmation versus negation training and the reduction of automatic stereotype activation
Easier done than undone: Asymmetry in the malleability of implicit preferences
Dual-process models imply that automatic attitudes should be less flexible than their self-reported counterparts; the relevant empirical record, however, is mixed. To advance the debate, the authors conducted 4 experiments investigating how readily automatic preferences for one imagined social group over another could be induced or reversed. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that automatic preferences, like self-reported ones, could be readily induced…
Prepared to eat: How immediate affective and motivational responses to food cues are influenced by food deprivation
Three studies examined how food deprivation influences the immediate valence of food stimuli as well as spontaneous motivational tendencies toward them. We assumed that immediate reactions towards food stimuli should be tuned to the basic needs of the organism. In Study 1, the immediate valence of food names as a function of need state was assessed using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) in a quasi‐experimental design. Food deprivation led to a …
Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach–avoidance motions
Based on the conceptualization of approach as a decrease in distance and avoidance as an increase in distance, we predicted that stimuli with positive valence facilitate behavior for either approaching the stimulus (object as reference point) or for bringing the stimulus closer (self as reference point) and that stimuli with negative valence facilitate behavior for withdrawing from the stimulus or for pushing the stimulus away. In Study 1, we fou…
Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes
The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions (M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyograf…
When hunger finds no fault with moldy corn: Food deprivation reduces food-related disgust
The main purpose of this study was to examine if disgust toward unpalatable foods would be reduced among food-deprived subjects and if this attenuation would occur automatically even under moderate levels of food deprivation. Subjects were either satiated or food deprived for 15 hours and electromyographic activity was recorded at the levator muscle region while they were watching pictures of palatable versus unpalatable foods, and pictures of po…
Approach/Avoidance Orientations Affect Self-construal and Identification with In-group
Approach and avoidance are two basic motivational orientations. Their activation influences cognitive and perceptive processes: Previous work suggests that an approach orientation instigates a focus on larger units as compared to avoidance. Study 1 confirms this assumption using a paradigm that more directly taps a person's tendency to represent objects as belonging to small or large units than prior studies. It was further predicted that the sel…
Processes underlying congruent and incongruent facial reactions to emotional facial expressions
The present electromyographic study is a first step toward shedding light on the involvement of affective processes in congruent and incongruent facial reactions to facial expressions. Further, empathy was investigated as a potential mediator underlying the modulation of facial reactions to emotional faces in a competitive, a cooperative, and a neutral setting. Results revealed less congruent reactions to happy expressions and even incongruent re…
‘Would you eat cultured meat?’: Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom
Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat
Drawing on social representations theory, we explore how the public make sense of the unfamiliar, taking as the example a novel technology: synthetic meat. Data from an online deliberation study and eighteen focus groups in Belgium, Portugal and the UK indicated that the various strategies of sense-making afforded different levels of critical thinking about synthetic meat. Anchoring to genetic modification, metaphors like ‘Frankenfoods’ and commo…
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposure effects, attitudes toward red meat…
The Best-Loved Story of All Time: Overcoming All Obstacles to Be Reunited, Evoking Kama Muta
Article The Best-Loved Story of All Time: Overcoming All Obstacles to Be Reunited, Evoking Kama Muta was published on April 1, 2017 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 1, issue 1)
Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved
We discovered that events of positive tears, rather than negative tears, were associated with self-reported being moved or touched, with goosebumps, with feelings of chest warmth, and with the appraisals of increased closeness and moral acts. These appraisals mediated the difference in being moved between positive and negative events. We further found that appraisal patterns for personally experienced events were similar to the patterns for obser…
The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It
When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, "moved," "touched," "heart-warming," "nostalgia," "patriotism," or "rapture" (although sometimes people use each of these terms for other emotions). We call the emotion kama muta (Sanskrit, "moved by love"). Kama muta evokes adaptive motives to devote and commit to the CSRs that are fundamental to soci…
Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or that something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? They conducted studi…
Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal
Ethnographies, histories, and popular culture from many regions around the world suggest that marked moments of love, affection, solidarity, or identification everywhere evoke the same emotion. Based on these observations, we developed the kama muta model, in which we conceptualize what people in English often label being moved as a culturally implemented social-relational emotion responding to and regulating communal sharing relations. We hypoth…
Moved to Norway, Then Moved by Norway: How Moments of Kama Muta Is Related With Immigrants’ Acculturation
In this paper, we investigated the relation between a positive social emotion, kama muta, and immigrants’ acculturation to Norway. Kama muta is evoked by a sudden intensification of a communal sharing relationship. Since communal sharing relationships are characterized by feeling one with others and orienting one’s actions to something they have in common, we predicted that feeling kama muta about Norway or Norwegians would enhance immigrants’ mo…
Moving political opponents closer: How kama muta can contribute to reducing the partisan divide in the US
Dislike of political opponents has increased over the past years in the US. This paper presents a preregistered study investigating the effect of kama muta (being moved by sudden closeness) on increasing warmth, social closeness, and trust toward political opponents through including them in a common American identity. Eight hundred forty-one U.S. Americans watched either a moving or a neutral video about the US or a different theme in a full-fac…
Beyond commodification: A taxonomy of relational model degradation and the limits of the UDHR framework
This article extends Alan Page Fiske's Relational Models Theory beyond its traditional focus on functional coordination to analyze contemporary social crises through the lens of relational breakdown. It proposes a taxonomy distinguishing genuine relational coordination from degraded forms—where relationships maintain surface legitimacy while lacking mutuality—through asocial relationships treating others as purely instrumental means, to null rela…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Feeling (5 works)