Barbara C N Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 2818716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara C N Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara C N |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER B C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1812-8531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring Laypeople’s Moral Considerations Towards Social Robots
Students’ evaluations of native and non-native teachers in higher education
Student evaluations of teachers (SETs) are often used to evaluate teachers’ performance in higher education. However, several factors unrelated to performance can lead to biased SETs. The present experimental research was designed to examine whether native or non-native teachers could be evaluated differently by students in higher education. In two studies, students were presented with short vignettes of either a native or non-native teacher. Sub…
Can you count on a calculator? The role of agency and affect in judgments of robots as moral agents
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, and might soon take on roles involving making morally relevant decisions. In a pre-registered experiment (n = 184), we investigated which factors modulate the extent to which we trust a robot to make a moral choice. Specifically, the effects of anthropomorphic appearance and anthropomorphic agency and affect attributions were assessed. Participants were presented with moral dilemmas in which the in…
Do We Take a Robot's Needs into Account? The Effect of Humanization on Prosocial Considerations Toward Other Human Beings and Robots
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, yet the extent to which we are prosocial toward these nonliving objects is unclear. While previous research shows that we tend to take care of robots in high-risk, high-consequence situations, this has not been investigated in more day-to-day, low-consequence situations. Thus, we utilized an experimental paradigm (the Social Mindfulness “SoMi” paradigm) that involved a trade-off between participant…
I, Robot
Social robots become increasingly human-like in appearance and behaviour. However, a large body of research shows that these robots tend to elicit negative feelings of eeriness, danger, and threat. In the present study, we explored whether and how human-like appearance and mind-attribution contribute to these negative feelings and clarified possible underlying mechanisms. Participants were presented with pictures of mechanical, humanoid, and andr…
Self-Persuasion Increases Healthy Eating Intention Depending on Cultural Background
Unhealthy eating behavior has become a global health risk and thus needs to be influenced. Previous research has found that self-persuasion is more effective than direct persuasion in changing attitudes and behavioral intentions, but the influence of the cultural backgrounds of those being persuaded remains unclear. We conducted two studies to investigate the effectiveness of self-persuasion and direct persuasion techniques in promoting healthy e…
The influence of culture and close others on the effectiveness of (self)-persuasion
Although self-persuasion was shown to be more effective than direct persuasion in changing attitudes and intentions, its effectiveness in different cultures remains unclear. Furthermore, research suggests that Eastern individuals tend to incorporate close others in the self to a larger extent than Western individuals. Combining both lines of research, the current studies examined whether thinking of a close other would influence the effectiveness…
Pre-service teachers’ academic judgments of overweight students
Overweight children in schools can become victims of stereotyping and discrimination from both peers and teachers. Research on stereotypical expectations and impression and judgment formation has suggested that teachers might rely on their negative stereotypical expectations when judging students. In the present study, we experimentally investigated whether pre-service academic subject teachers’ judgments about students were biased through stereo…
Creativity
Helping Made Easy
Previous work has shown that self-generating arguments is more persuasive than reading arguments provided by others, particularly if self-generation feels easy. The present study replicates and extends these findings by providing evidence for fluency effects on behavioral intention in the realm of helping. In two studies, participants were instructed to either self-generate or read two versus ten arguments about why it is good to help. Subsequent…
Opening the Door to Creativity
Given the great importance of creativity in society, and in health psychology in particular, investigating how creativity can be enhanced is a valuable area of research. Interventions that enable individuals to become more creative vary in their focus from increasing divergent thinking to task reactivation during sleep. This article introduces psychosynthesis psychology as an additional theoretical and therapeutic approach for enhancing creativit…
Smoking-related warning messages formulated as questions positively influence short-term smoking behaviour
Research demonstrated that by reformulating smoking warnings into questions, defensive responses in smokers are reduced and smoking-related risk perception increases. We explored whether these positive outcomes can be generalised to actual behaviour. Participants saw either a movie presenting subheadings with smoking-related questions or statements. Afterwards, the time was measured until participants lit their first cigarette. Smokers who were p…
Pre-service teachers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward obesity influence their judgments of students
Warning labels formulated as questions positively influence smoking-related risk perception
Research on warning labels printed on cigarette packages has shown that fear inducing health warnings might provoke defensive responses. This study investigated whether reformulating statements into questions could avoid defensive reactions. Smokers were presented with either warning labels formulated as questions, textual warning labels, graphic warning labels, or no warning labels. Participants' smoking-related risk perception was higher after …
Prosocial Consequences of Imitation
Research has shown that helping behavior can be primed easily. However, helping decreases significantly in the presence of inhibition cues, signaling high costs for the executor. On the other hand, multiple studies demonstrated that helping behavior increases after being mimicked. The present study investigated whether imitation still increases helping when more substantial costs are involved. Helping behavior was operationalized as the willingne…
Bullying victimization and later anxiety and depression among pre‐adolescents in Switzerland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression at age 11 in a large and ethnically heterogeneous sample from Zurich, Switzerland. Design/methodology/approach The authors present new analyses from the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youth (z‐proso) on the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression a…
La fusion de la chair et du métal
Cet article se propose de problématiser des expériences relativement récentes visant à greffer, dans un dessein avant tout non thérapeutique, des implants informatiques au sein du corps humain. Si ces pratiques sont en général présentées à travers leurs bénéfices communicationnels, nous les examinerons sous l'angle du contrôle et les éclairerons à la lumière de la science-fiction, important pourvoyeur d'avenirs sur le marché des idées et cadre my…
Warning labels formulated as questions positively influence smoking-related risk perception
Research on warning labels printed on cigarette packages has shown that fear inducing health warnings might provoke defensive responses. This study investigated whether reformulating statements into questions could avoid defensive reactions. Smokers were presented with either warning labels formulated as questions, textual warning labels, graphic warning labels, or no warning labels. Participants' smoking-related risk perception was higher after …
Smoking-related warning messages formulated as questions positively influence short-term smoking behaviour
Research demonstrated that by reformulating smoking warnings into questions, defensive responses in smokers are reduced and smoking-related risk perception increases. We explored whether these positive outcomes can be generalised to actual behaviour. Participants saw either a movie presenting subheadings with smoking-related questions or statements. Afterwards, the time was measured until participants lit their first cigarette. Smokers who were p…
Pre-service teachers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward obesity influence their judgments of students
Helping Made Easy
Previous work has shown that self-generating arguments is more persuasive than reading arguments provided by others, particularly if self-generation feels easy. The present study replicates and extends these findings by providing evidence for fluency effects on behavioral intention in the realm of helping. In two studies, participants were instructed to either self-generate or read two versus ten arguments about why it is good to help. Subsequent…
Bullying victimization and later anxiety and depression among pre‐adolescents in Switzerland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression at age 11 in a large and ethnically heterogeneous sample from Zurich, Switzerland. Design/methodology/approach The authors present new analyses from the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youth (z‐proso) on the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression a…
La fusion de la chair et du métal
Cet article se propose de problématiser des expériences relativement récentes visant à greffer, dans un dessein avant tout non thérapeutique, des implants informatiques au sein du corps humain. Si ces pratiques sont en général présentées à travers leurs bénéfices communicationnels, nous les examinerons sous l'angle du contrôle et les éclairerons à la lumière de la science-fiction, important pourvoyeur d'avenirs sur le marché des idées et cadre my…
The influence of culture and close others on the effectiveness of (self)-persuasion
Although self-persuasion was shown to be more effective than direct persuasion in changing attitudes and intentions, its effectiveness in different cultures remains unclear. Furthermore, research suggests that Eastern individuals tend to incorporate close others in the self to a larger extent than Western individuals. Combining both lines of research, the current studies examined whether thinking of a close other would influence the effectiveness…
Pre-service teachers’ academic judgments of overweight students
Overweight children in schools can become victims of stereotyping and discrimination from both peers and teachers. Research on stereotypical expectations and impression and judgment formation has suggested that teachers might rely on their negative stereotypical expectations when judging students. In the present study, we experimentally investigated whether pre-service academic subject teachers’ judgments about students were biased through stereo…
Creativity
Opening the Door to Creativity
Given the great importance of creativity in society, and in health psychology in particular, investigating how creativity can be enhanced is a valuable area of research. Interventions that enable individuals to become more creative vary in their focus from increasing divergent thinking to task reactivation during sleep. This article introduces psychosynthesis psychology as an additional theoretical and therapeutic approach for enhancing creativit…
Bullying victimization and later anxiety and depression among pre‐adolescents in Switzerland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression at age 11 in a large and ethnically heterogeneous sample from Zurich, Switzerland. Design/methodology/approach The authors present new analyses from the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youth (z‐proso) on the relationship between bullying victimization at age 8 and anxiety and depression a…
La fusion de la chair et du métal
Cet article se propose de problématiser des expériences relativement récentes visant à greffer, dans un dessein avant tout non thérapeutique, des implants informatiques au sein du corps humain. Si ces pratiques sont en général présentées à travers leurs bénéfices communicationnels, nous les examinerons sous l'angle du contrôle et les éclairerons à la lumière de la science-fiction, important pourvoyeur d'avenirs sur le marché des idées et cadre my…
Prosocial Consequences of Imitation
Research has shown that helping behavior can be primed easily. However, helping decreases significantly in the presence of inhibition cues, signaling high costs for the executor. On the other hand, multiple studies demonstrated that helping behavior increases after being mimicked. The present study investigated whether imitation still increases helping when more substantial costs are involved. Helping behavior was operationalized as the willingne…
Warning labels formulated as questions positively influence smoking-related risk perception
Research on warning labels printed on cigarette packages has shown that fear inducing health warnings might provoke defensive responses. This study investigated whether reformulating statements into questions could avoid defensive reactions. Smokers were presented with either warning labels formulated as questions, textual warning labels, graphic warning labels, or no warning labels. Participants' smoking-related risk perception was higher after …
Pre-service teachers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward obesity influence their judgments of students
Opening the Door to Creativity
Given the great importance of creativity in society, and in health psychology in particular, investigating how creativity can be enhanced is a valuable area of research. Interventions that enable individuals to become more creative vary in their focus from increasing divergent thinking to task reactivation during sleep. This article introduces psychosynthesis psychology as an additional theoretical and therapeutic approach for enhancing creativit…
Smoking-related warning messages formulated as questions positively influence short-term smoking behaviour
Research demonstrated that by reformulating smoking warnings into questions, defensive responses in smokers are reduced and smoking-related risk perception increases. We explored whether these positive outcomes can be generalised to actual behaviour. Participants saw either a movie presenting subheadings with smoking-related questions or statements. Afterwards, the time was measured until participants lit their first cigarette. Smokers who were p…
Pre-service teachers’ academic judgments of overweight students
Overweight children in schools can become victims of stereotyping and discrimination from both peers and teachers. Research on stereotypical expectations and impression and judgment formation has suggested that teachers might rely on their negative stereotypical expectations when judging students. In the present study, we experimentally investigated whether pre-service academic subject teachers’ judgments about students were biased through stereo…
Creativity
Helping Made Easy
Previous work has shown that self-generating arguments is more persuasive than reading arguments provided by others, particularly if self-generation feels easy. The present study replicates and extends these findings by providing evidence for fluency effects on behavioral intention in the realm of helping. In two studies, participants were instructed to either self-generate or read two versus ten arguments about why it is good to help. Subsequent…
Self-Persuasion Increases Healthy Eating Intention Depending on Cultural Background
Unhealthy eating behavior has become a global health risk and thus needs to be influenced. Previous research has found that self-persuasion is more effective than direct persuasion in changing attitudes and behavioral intentions, but the influence of the cultural backgrounds of those being persuaded remains unclear. We conducted two studies to investigate the effectiveness of self-persuasion and direct persuasion techniques in promoting healthy e…
The influence of culture and close others on the effectiveness of (self)-persuasion
Although self-persuasion was shown to be more effective than direct persuasion in changing attitudes and intentions, its effectiveness in different cultures remains unclear. Furthermore, research suggests that Eastern individuals tend to incorporate close others in the self to a larger extent than Western individuals. Combining both lines of research, the current studies examined whether thinking of a close other would influence the effectiveness…
Do We Take a Robot's Needs into Account? The Effect of Humanization on Prosocial Considerations Toward Other Human Beings and Robots
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, yet the extent to which we are prosocial toward these nonliving objects is unclear. While previous research shows that we tend to take care of robots in high-risk, high-consequence situations, this has not been investigated in more day-to-day, low-consequence situations. Thus, we utilized an experimental paradigm (the Social Mindfulness “SoMi” paradigm) that involved a trade-off between participant…
I, Robot
Social robots become increasingly human-like in appearance and behaviour. However, a large body of research shows that these robots tend to elicit negative feelings of eeriness, danger, and threat. In the present study, we explored whether and how human-like appearance and mind-attribution contribute to these negative feelings and clarified possible underlying mechanisms. Participants were presented with pictures of mechanical, humanoid, and andr…
Can you count on a calculator? The role of agency and affect in judgments of robots as moral agents
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, and might soon take on roles involving making morally relevant decisions. In a pre-registered experiment (n = 184), we investigated which factors modulate the extent to which we trust a robot to make a moral choice. Specifically, the effects of anthropomorphic appearance and anthropomorphic agency and affect attributions were assessed. Participants were presented with moral dilemmas in which the in…
Students’ evaluations of native and non-native teachers in higher education
Student evaluations of teachers (SETs) are often used to evaluate teachers’ performance in higher education. However, several factors unrelated to performance can lead to biased SETs. The present experimental research was designed to examine whether native or non-native teachers could be evaluated differently by students in higher education. In two studies, students were presented with short vignettes of either a native or non-native teacher. Sub…
Exploring Laypeople’s Moral Considerations Towards Social Robots
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Attribution (4 works) · Perception (4 works)