Juliane Degner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1663095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliane Degner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Degner |
| SIGNATURE | DEGNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6634-8099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What it means to be “mixed”: Social identity typology in persons with multiple racial–ethnic group memberships
Taken together, our results highlight the critical role of social feedback in shaping and navigating social identities, while emphasizing the heterogeneity within the mixed-race population and underscoring the need for more nuanced theoretical and empirical attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
From partisans to individuals: Lowering an opinion's diagnosticity via counterstereotypes can reduce categorization based on that opinion
Research has shown that individuals often infer political categories like Republican, Democrat, conservative, or liberal from behavioral cues. In polarized contexts, where political outgroups are evaluated very negatively, these political categorizations may lead to negative outcomes and exacerbate polarization. The current research investigated whether political categorization can be reduced via counterstereotypical exemplars. Across three exper…
Who Uses the All-Time Mirror on Zoom? Is Self-Referent Gaze Behavior During Virtual Interactions Diagnostic of Trait or State Personality Characteristics
Online interactions have become an essential but understudied aspect of our social lives. The current research investigates self-view in video-based interactions, a key difference from face-to-face interactions. Using computer vision techniques for automated gaze analysis, we assessed the relative frequency with which individuals in online interactions gaze at themselves and investigated its links to personality characteristics. We hypothesized t…
Testing the multicomponent ingroup identification model in diverse stigmatized groups: Model fit, group differences, and predictors of social identification
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1
Revisiting Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Questions, Challenges, and Intradisciplinary Connections
Spontaneous trait inference (STI) refers to the process by which individuals form impressions of another person's traits based solely on observing or reading about their behavior, even in the absence of any deliberate intention to judge that person. Over four decades of extensive and innovative research have documented the robustness of STI effects and yielded a comprehensive understanding of its process characteristics. This review revisits this…
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities
In this article, we discuss how social identity theory (SIT) and self‐categorization theory (SCT) may apply to mechanisms of social identification and self‐categorization among individuals with multiple identities within a single social domain. We focus on individuals with mixed racial–ethnic backgrounds, which provide unique flexibility for their racial–ethnic identities. In line with SCT, we suggest that their racial–ethnic self‐categorization …
Gender stereotypes about psychological science: Female, male, or both
Spontaneous Trait Inferences From Behavior: A Systematic Meta-Analysis
Research suggests that people spontaneously infer traits from behavioral information, thus forming impressions of actors’ personalities. Such spontaneous trait inferences (STI) have been examined in a wide range of studies in the last four decades. Here, we provide the first systematic meta-analysis of this vast literature. We included data from k = 86 publications, with overall N = 13,630 participants. The average STI effect was moderate to larg…
The relation between contact experiences and dual identity among German residents with a Turkish or Kurdish identity
We present secondary analyses of data collected with German residents with Turkish and Kurdish ancestry ( n = 414), who represent the largest migrant groups in Germany. The majority of our sample of mostly second‐generation migrants exhibited integrated identity profiles, with high levels of both ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) and national (German) identification. National and ethnic identification were unrelated, and both were predicted by the freq…
Shooter biases and stereotypes among police and civilians
The present research assesses potential correlates of discriminatory police behavior, comparing police and civilian participants in a first person shooter task (FPST) as well as on various self-report measures of intergroup contact, intergroup attitudes, and ideological beliefs in three preregistered studies. Study 1 (N = 330), using a FPST with a short response window (630 ms), did not observe shooter biases in reaction times, error rates and si…
When the punk wishes you a great day, he still appears friendly: Stereotypes do not reliably guide spontaneous trait inferences from behavior
Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect
People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other-'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other-race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in lower visual expertise. The present research investigates contact theories of the ORE, using self-report…
Thoroughly thought through? Experimenting with Registered Reports
Moderators of intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive test of predictions from system justification theory
We examined hypotheses proposed by System Justification Theory (SJT; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004) regarding intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups, using large samples of online participants (total N = 715,721), spanning 8 intergroup domains and 14 nations. Using a meta-analytic approach, we tested these hypotheses at the individual level (as SJT is generally articulated), as well as at the social group level. Consistent with SJT, individu…
Spontaneous state inferences
97), we provide evidence that people represent states and traits as functionally different: Participants judged the likelihood of behavioral repetition higher when the same behavior was related to a trait-inference than a state-inference. The observation of multiple simultaneous spontaneous inferences in the current research suggests that further theory building regarding the underlying mechanisms and processes of spontaneous impression formation…
Emotion misattribution from complex scene pictures: Evidence for affective processing beyond valence
The present experiments employed an emotion misattribution procedure to investigate if, and to what extent, emotional pictures are automatically processed on an emotion-specific level. We employed emotional pictures from the International Affective Picture System (Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2008) depicting joy-, anger-, fear-, and sadness-related contents as prime stimuli in the four-category emotion misattribution procedure (Rohr, Degner, & Went…
Group evaluations as self‐group distancing: Ingroup typicality moderates evaluative intergroup bias in stigmatized groups
Outgroup favoritism among members of stigmatized groups can be seen as a form of self‐group distancing. We examined how intergroup evaluations in stigmatized groups vary as a function of ingroup typicality. In Studies 1 and 2, Black participants ( N = 125,915; N = 766) more strongly preferred light‐skinned or White relative to dark‐skinned or Black individuals the lighter their own skin tone. In Study 3, overweight participants ( N = 147,540) mor…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Visualizing Gendered Representations of Male and Female Teachers Using a Reverse Correlation Paradigm
Stereotypically, men are expected to outperform women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and women to outperform men in language. We conceptually replicated this association using reverse correlation tasks. Without available gender information, participants generated male images of physics teachers and female images of language teachers (Studies 1 and 3). Personal endorsement of respective ability stereotypes inc…
Investigating the other-race effect in working memory
People have difficulties in remembering other-race faces; this so-called other-race effect (ORE) has been frequently observed in long-term recognition memory (LTM). Several theories argue that the ORE in LTM is caused by differences in earlier processing stages, such as encoding of ingroup and outgroup faces. We test this hypothesis by exploring whether the ORE can already be observed in visual working memory (VWM)-an intermediate system located …
Masked emotional priming: A double dissociation between direct and indirect effects reveals non-conscious processing of emotional information beyond valence
Effects of diversity versus segregation on automatic approach and avoidance behavior towards own and other ethnic groups
We present the results of a study in which we measured automatic intergroup behavior and evaluations in ethnic majority and minority group members. We focus our attention on the level of segregation and diversity of immediate life contexts as indicators of outgroup exposure. Specifically, Dutch ethnic minority and majority students enrolled at ethnically segregated and diverse schools completed a measure of automatic approach and avoidance behavi…
The apple does not fall far from the tree, or does it? A meta-analysis of parent-child similarity in intergroup attitudes
The apple does not fall far from the tree, or does it? A meta-analysis of parent-child similarity in intergroup attitudes
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Automatic prejudice in childhood and early adolescence
Four cross-sectional studies are presented that investigated the automatic activation of prejudice in children and adolescents (aged 9 years to 15 years). Therefore, 4 different versions of the affective priming task were used, with pictures of ingroup and outgroup members being presented as prejudice-related prime stimuli. In all 4 studies, a pattern occurred that suggests a linear developmental increase of automatic prejudice with significant e…
Moderators of intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive test of predictions from system justification theory
We examined hypotheses proposed by System Justification Theory (SJT; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004) regarding intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups, using large samples of online participants (total N = 715,721), spanning 8 intergroup domains and 14 nations. Using a meta-analytic approach, we tested these hypotheses at the individual level (as SJT is generally articulated), as well as at the social group level. Consistent with SJT, individu…
Origins of intergroup bias: Developmental and social cognitive research on intergroup attitudes
Prejudice and stereotyping are central to research and theorizing in social psychology. Yet, all too often this work tacitly assumes that these phenomena spring into existence fully formed in adults. This special issue originates from the need to integrate adult social psychological approaches with developmental inquiry into the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of prejudice and stereotyping. The diverse set of nine papers in this special issu…
The extrinsic affective Simon task as an instrument for indirect assessment of prejudice
We report one study that explored the applicability of the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST) as an indirect measure of prejudice. The EAST detected known differences in reactions revealing that a Turkish outgroup was spontaneously evaluated more negatively than the German ingroup. More importantly, EAST effects were meaningfully correlated with measures of explicit prejudice expression. This relation, however, was moderated by participants' m…
Visualizing Gendered Representations of Male and Female Teachers Using a Reverse Correlation Paradigm
Stereotypically, men are expected to outperform women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and women to outperform men in language. We conceptually replicated this association using reverse correlation tasks. Without available gender information, participants generated male images of physics teachers and female images of language teachers (Studies 1 and 3). Personal endorsement of respective ability stereotypes inc…
Investigating the other-race effect in working memory
People have difficulties in remembering other-race faces; this so-called other-race effect (ORE) has been frequently observed in long-term recognition memory (LTM). Several theories argue that the ORE in LTM is caused by differences in earlier processing stages, such as encoding of ingroup and outgroup faces. We test this hypothesis by exploring whether the ORE can already be observed in visual working memory (VWM)-an intermediate system located …
Effects of diversity versus segregation on automatic approach and avoidance behavior towards own and other ethnic groups
We present the results of a study in which we measured automatic intergroup behavior and evaluations in ethnic majority and minority group members. We focus our attention on the level of segregation and diversity of immediate life contexts as indicators of outgroup exposure. Specifically, Dutch ethnic minority and majority students enrolled at ethnically segregated and diverse schools completed a measure of automatic approach and avoidance behavi…
Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect
People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other-'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other-race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in lower visual expertise. The present research investigates contact theories of the ORE, using self-report…
Spontaneous state inferences
97), we provide evidence that people represent states and traits as functionally different: Participants judged the likelihood of behavioral repetition higher when the same behavior was related to a trait-inference than a state-inference. The observation of multiple simultaneous spontaneous inferences in the current research suggests that further theory building regarding the underlying mechanisms and processes of spontaneous impression formation…
Group evaluations as self‐group distancing: Ingroup typicality moderates evaluative intergroup bias in stigmatized groups
Outgroup favoritism among members of stigmatized groups can be seen as a form of self‐group distancing. We examined how intergroup evaluations in stigmatized groups vary as a function of ingroup typicality. In Studies 1 and 2, Black participants ( N = 125,915; N = 766) more strongly preferred light‐skinned or White relative to dark‐skinned or Black individuals the lighter their own skin tone. In Study 3, overweight participants ( N = 147,540) mor…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1
Revisiting Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Questions, Challenges, and Intradisciplinary Connections
Spontaneous trait inference (STI) refers to the process by which individuals form impressions of another person's traits based solely on observing or reading about their behavior, even in the absence of any deliberate intention to judge that person. Over four decades of extensive and innovative research have documented the robustness of STI effects and yielded a comprehensive understanding of its process characteristics. This review revisits this…
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities
In this article, we discuss how social identity theory (SIT) and self‐categorization theory (SCT) may apply to mechanisms of social identification and self‐categorization among individuals with multiple identities within a single social domain. We focus on individuals with mixed racial–ethnic backgrounds, which provide unique flexibility for their racial–ethnic identities. In line with SCT, we suggest that their racial–ethnic self‐categorization …
Gender stereotypes about psychological science: Female, male, or both
The extrinsic affective Simon task as an instrument for indirect assessment of prejudice
We report one study that explored the applicability of the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST) as an indirect measure of prejudice. The EAST detected known differences in reactions revealing that a Turkish outgroup was spontaneously evaluated more negatively than the German ingroup. More importantly, EAST effects were meaningfully correlated with measures of explicit prejudice expression. This relation, however, was moderated by participants' m…
Origins of intergroup bias: Developmental and social cognitive research on intergroup attitudes
Prejudice and stereotyping are central to research and theorizing in social psychology. Yet, all too often this work tacitly assumes that these phenomena spring into existence fully formed in adults. This special issue originates from the need to integrate adult social psychological approaches with developmental inquiry into the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of prejudice and stereotyping. The diverse set of nine papers in this special issu…
Automatic prejudice in childhood and early adolescence
Four cross-sectional studies are presented that investigated the automatic activation of prejudice in children and adolescents (aged 9 years to 15 years). Therefore, 4 different versions of the affective priming task were used, with pictures of ingroup and outgroup members being presented as prejudice-related prime stimuli. In all 4 studies, a pattern occurred that suggests a linear developmental increase of automatic prejudice with significant e…
Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time
The apple does not fall far from the tree, or does it? A meta-analysis of parent-child similarity in intergroup attitudes
Effects of diversity versus segregation on automatic approach and avoidance behavior towards own and other ethnic groups
We present the results of a study in which we measured automatic intergroup behavior and evaluations in ethnic majority and minority group members. We focus our attention on the level of segregation and diversity of immediate life contexts as indicators of outgroup exposure. Specifically, Dutch ethnic minority and majority students enrolled at ethnically segregated and diverse schools completed a measure of automatic approach and avoidance behavi…
Masked emotional priming: A double dissociation between direct and indirect effects reveals non-conscious processing of emotional information beyond valence
Investigating the other-race effect in working memory
People have difficulties in remembering other-race faces; this so-called other-race effect (ORE) has been frequently observed in long-term recognition memory (LTM). Several theories argue that the ORE in LTM is caused by differences in earlier processing stages, such as encoding of ingroup and outgroup faces. We test this hypothesis by exploring whether the ORE can already be observed in visual working memory (VWM)-an intermediate system located …
Visualizing Gendered Representations of Male and Female Teachers Using a Reverse Correlation Paradigm
Stereotypically, men are expected to outperform women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and women to outperform men in language. We conceptually replicated this association using reverse correlation tasks. Without available gender information, participants generated male images of physics teachers and female images of language teachers (Studies 1 and 3). Personal endorsement of respective ability stereotypes inc…
Emotion misattribution from complex scene pictures: Evidence for affective processing beyond valence
The present experiments employed an emotion misattribution procedure to investigate if, and to what extent, emotional pictures are automatically processed on an emotion-specific level. We employed emotional pictures from the International Affective Picture System (Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2008) depicting joy-, anger-, fear-, and sadness-related contents as prime stimuli in the four-category emotion misattribution procedure (Rohr, Degner, & Went…
Group evaluations as self‐group distancing: Ingroup typicality moderates evaluative intergroup bias in stigmatized groups
Outgroup favoritism among members of stigmatized groups can be seen as a form of self‐group distancing. We examined how intergroup evaluations in stigmatized groups vary as a function of ingroup typicality. In Studies 1 and 2, Black participants ( N = 125,915; N = 766) more strongly preferred light‐skinned or White relative to dark‐skinned or Black individuals the lighter their own skin tone. In Study 3, overweight participants ( N = 147,540) mor…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Thoroughly thought through? Experimenting with Registered Reports
Moderators of intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive test of predictions from system justification theory
We examined hypotheses proposed by System Justification Theory (SJT; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004) regarding intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups, using large samples of online participants (total N = 715,721), spanning 8 intergroup domains and 14 nations. Using a meta-analytic approach, we tested these hypotheses at the individual level (as SJT is generally articulated), as well as at the social group level. Consistent with SJT, individu…
Spontaneous state inferences
97), we provide evidence that people represent states and traits as functionally different: Participants judged the likelihood of behavioral repetition higher when the same behavior was related to a trait-inference than a state-inference. The observation of multiple simultaneous spontaneous inferences in the current research suggests that further theory building regarding the underlying mechanisms and processes of spontaneous impression formation…
Shooter biases and stereotypes among police and civilians
The present research assesses potential correlates of discriminatory police behavior, comparing police and civilian participants in a first person shooter task (FPST) as well as on various self-report measures of intergroup contact, intergroup attitudes, and ideological beliefs in three preregistered studies. Study 1 (N = 330), using a FPST with a short response window (630 ms), did not observe shooter biases in reaction times, error rates and si…
When the punk wishes you a great day, he still appears friendly: Stereotypes do not reliably guide spontaneous trait inferences from behavior
Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect
People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other-'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other-race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in lower visual expertise. The present research investigates contact theories of the ORE, using self-report…
Spontaneous Trait Inferences From Behavior: A Systematic Meta-Analysis
Research suggests that people spontaneously infer traits from behavioral information, thus forming impressions of actors’ personalities. Such spontaneous trait inferences (STI) have been examined in a wide range of studies in the last four decades. Here, we provide the first systematic meta-analysis of this vast literature. We included data from k = 86 publications, with overall N = 13,630 participants. The average STI effect was moderate to larg…
The relation between contact experiences and dual identity among German residents with a Turkish or Kurdish identity
We present secondary analyses of data collected with German residents with Turkish and Kurdish ancestry ( n = 414), who represent the largest migrant groups in Germany. The majority of our sample of mostly second‐generation migrants exhibited integrated identity profiles, with high levels of both ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) and national (German) identification. National and ethnic identification were unrelated, and both were predicted by the freq…
Who Uses the All-Time Mirror on Zoom? Is Self-Referent Gaze Behavior During Virtual Interactions Diagnostic of Trait or State Personality Characteristics
Online interactions have become an essential but understudied aspect of our social lives. The current research investigates self-view in video-based interactions, a key difference from face-to-face interactions. Using computer vision techniques for automated gaze analysis, we assessed the relative frequency with which individuals in online interactions gaze at themselves and investigated its links to personality characteristics. We hypothesized t…
Testing the multicomponent ingroup identification model in diverse stigmatized groups: Model fit, group differences, and predictors of social identification
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1
Revisiting Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Questions, Challenges, and Intradisciplinary Connections
Spontaneous trait inference (STI) refers to the process by which individuals form impressions of another person's traits based solely on observing or reading about their behavior, even in the absence of any deliberate intention to judge that person. Over four decades of extensive and innovative research have documented the robustness of STI effects and yielded a comprehensive understanding of its process characteristics. This review revisits this…
Psychology (22 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 works) · Ingroups and outgroups (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (5 works)