Anton J M Dijker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton J M Dijker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dijker |
| SIGNATURE | DIJKER A J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3320-1151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Seeing overweight adults as babies: Physical cues and implications for stigmatization
Human babies not only are reliable triggers of tender feelings and protective tendencies, they also happen to be exceptionally fat compared to the newborns of most other species. These two facts are used to formulate a hypothesis predicting that overweight males, due to their great physical resemblance to babies, not only are perceived as cute, but also are associated with negatively evaluated traits (e.g., immaturity, lack of willpower) that are…
Explaining Not-in-My-Backyard Responses to Different Social Groups: The Role of Group Characteristics and Emotions
To examine why people are reluctant to engage in intergroup contact, the present study asked members of a nationwide online panel ( N = 555) to imagine that they would get individuals of a particular social group as next-door neighbors. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of five different social groups hypothesized to differ in emotion-arousing potential: elderly people, people with mild or severe intellectual disability, economic refugees…
Reciprocity and Need in Posthumous Organ Donation: The Mediating Role of Moral Emotions
The effects of need and reciprocity on prosocial behavior have been primarily studied in separate research domains. A distinction between helping those in need and reciprocity is also made in current discussions on how to motivate posthumous organ donation, contrasting the help of needing patients with an equal contribution to a common pool of organs and effective measures against free riding. The authors examined the interactive effects of need …
The Influence of Group Size and Stigma Severity on Social Acceptance: The Case of People with Intellectual Disability Moving into Neighbourhoods
Dutch adults from a nationwide Internet panel ( N = 426) were asked to imagine that their next‐door neighbours would move out and that people with intellectual disability would move in. Severity of disability and group size were varied to manipulate intergroup threat. These two factors independently influenced social acceptance and a variety of emotional and behavioural measures. In particular, it was found that a large group with severe disabili…
People with intellectual disability as neighbours: Towards understanding the mundane aspects of social integration
Although people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are increasingly expected to relocate from traditional institutional care to ‘regular’ neighbourhood housing facilities and socially integrate in these neighbourhoods, little is known about how they are perceived and appreciated as neighbours. This paper reports on interviews carried out with 30 neighbours without ID who were neighbours of small‐scale care facilities for people with ID. Intervie…
How to turn a hawk into a dove and vice versa: Interactions between emotions and goals in a give-some dilemma game
Limitations of Semantic Priming Procedures for Automatic Goal Activation
According to the auto-motive model, behavioral goals can be automatically activated by situational cues and may subsequently guide behavior without individual awarness. Semantic priming has become a popular paradigm for investigating effects of automatic goal activation. Nevertheless, a critical assumption of the model, i.e., that goals can be activated by semantic primes related to situational features associated with the goal, is often assumed …
The influence of perceived suffering and vulnerability on the experience of pity
Pity is viewed as a function of two classes of perceived stimulus features and their interaction: the extent to which a person (when still healthy and nonsuffering) is perceived as vulnerable to physical harm, and the perceived intensity of his or her current suffering. Consistent with this view, Experiment 1 (N = 141) showed that participants' pity reactions to photographs of persons expressing pain were influenced by age‐related, sex‐related, a…
Ingroup and outgroup stereotypes and selective processing
The main concern of the two studies presented here is to investigate whether the different nature of ingroup and outgroup stereotypes is reflected in different selective processing of ingroup and outgroup information. It was predicted that when processing ingroup information people will preferentially encode stereotype-inconsistent information as compared to stereotype-consistent information, whereas the reverse pattern will hold when people proc…
Stereotyping and attitudinal effects under time pressure
This paper reports an experiment in which the influence of time pressure, the social category of the target person, and emotional responses on impression formation and recognition memory was studied. It was hypothesized that under time pressure, subjects using their stereotype would process information about an outgroup target more easily than information about an ingroup target, would judge these targets more differentially, and would base their…
Emotional reactions to ethnic minorities
The present study investigated the role of emotion in the area of intergroup relations. Results showed three ways in which emotions are relevant when Dutch autochthonous people are confronted with members of the three major ethnic minorities in The Netherlands: Surinamers and immigrant workers from Turkey and Morocco. First, four categories of emotions could be identified which appeared to be strongly associated with ethnic attitude‐positive mood…
Emotional reactions to ethnic minorities
The present study investigated the role of emotion in the area of intergroup relations. Results showed three ways in which emotions are relevant when Dutch autochthonous people are confronted with members of the three major ethnic minorities in The Netherlands: Surinamers and immigrant workers from Turkey and Morocco. First, four categories of emotions could be identified which appeared to be strongly associated with ethnic attitude‐positive mood…
How to turn a hawk into a dove and vice versa: Interactions between emotions and goals in a give-some dilemma game
The influence of perceived suffering and vulnerability on the experience of pity
Pity is viewed as a function of two classes of perceived stimulus features and their interaction: the extent to which a person (when still healthy and nonsuffering) is perceived as vulnerable to physical harm, and the perceived intensity of his or her current suffering. Consistent with this view, Experiment 1 (N = 141) showed that participants' pity reactions to photographs of persons expressing pain were influenced by age‐related, sex‐related, a…
People with intellectual disability as neighbours: Towards understanding the mundane aspects of social integration
Although people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are increasingly expected to relocate from traditional institutional care to ‘regular’ neighbourhood housing facilities and socially integrate in these neighbourhoods, little is known about how they are perceived and appreciated as neighbours. This paper reports on interviews carried out with 30 neighbours without ID who were neighbours of small‐scale care facilities for people with ID. Intervie…
The Influence of Group Size and Stigma Severity on Social Acceptance: The Case of People with Intellectual Disability Moving into Neighbourhoods
Dutch adults from a nationwide Internet panel ( N = 426) were asked to imagine that their next‐door neighbours would move out and that people with intellectual disability would move in. Severity of disability and group size were varied to manipulate intergroup threat. These two factors independently influenced social acceptance and a variety of emotional and behavioural measures. In particular, it was found that a large group with severe disabili…
Emotional reactions to ethnic minorities
The present study investigated the role of emotion in the area of intergroup relations. Results showed three ways in which emotions are relevant when Dutch autochthonous people are confronted with members of the three major ethnic minorities in The Netherlands: Surinamers and immigrant workers from Turkey and Morocco. First, four categories of emotions could be identified which appeared to be strongly associated with ethnic attitude‐positive mood…
Stereotyping and attitudinal effects under time pressure
This paper reports an experiment in which the influence of time pressure, the social category of the target person, and emotional responses on impression formation and recognition memory was studied. It was hypothesized that under time pressure, subjects using their stereotype would process information about an outgroup target more easily than information about an ingroup target, would judge these targets more differentially, and would base their…
Ingroup and outgroup stereotypes and selective processing
The main concern of the two studies presented here is to investigate whether the different nature of ingroup and outgroup stereotypes is reflected in different selective processing of ingroup and outgroup information. It was predicted that when processing ingroup information people will preferentially encode stereotype-inconsistent information as compared to stereotype-consistent information, whereas the reverse pattern will hold when people proc…
The influence of perceived suffering and vulnerability on the experience of pity
Pity is viewed as a function of two classes of perceived stimulus features and their interaction: the extent to which a person (when still healthy and nonsuffering) is perceived as vulnerable to physical harm, and the perceived intensity of his or her current suffering. Consistent with this view, Experiment 1 (N = 141) showed that participants' pity reactions to photographs of persons expressing pain were influenced by age‐related, sex‐related, a…
Limitations of Semantic Priming Procedures for Automatic Goal Activation
According to the auto-motive model, behavioral goals can be automatically activated by situational cues and may subsequently guide behavior without individual awarness. Semantic priming has become a popular paradigm for investigating effects of automatic goal activation. Nevertheless, a critical assumption of the model, i.e., that goals can be activated by semantic primes related to situational features associated with the goal, is often assumed …
How to turn a hawk into a dove and vice versa: Interactions between emotions and goals in a give-some dilemma game
People with intellectual disability as neighbours: Towards understanding the mundane aspects of social integration
Although people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are increasingly expected to relocate from traditional institutional care to ‘regular’ neighbourhood housing facilities and socially integrate in these neighbourhoods, little is known about how they are perceived and appreciated as neighbours. This paper reports on interviews carried out with 30 neighbours without ID who were neighbours of small‐scale care facilities for people with ID. Intervie…
Explaining Not-in-My-Backyard Responses to Different Social Groups: The Role of Group Characteristics and Emotions
To examine why people are reluctant to engage in intergroup contact, the present study asked members of a nationwide online panel ( N = 555) to imagine that they would get individuals of a particular social group as next-door neighbors. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of five different social groups hypothesized to differ in emotion-arousing potential: elderly people, people with mild or severe intellectual disability, economic refugees…
Reciprocity and Need in Posthumous Organ Donation: The Mediating Role of Moral Emotions
The effects of need and reciprocity on prosocial behavior have been primarily studied in separate research domains. A distinction between helping those in need and reciprocity is also made in current discussions on how to motivate posthumous organ donation, contrasting the help of needing patients with an equal contribution to a common pool of organs and effective measures against free riding. The authors examined the interactive effects of need …
The Influence of Group Size and Stigma Severity on Social Acceptance: The Case of People with Intellectual Disability Moving into Neighbourhoods
Dutch adults from a nationwide Internet panel ( N = 426) were asked to imagine that their next‐door neighbours would move out and that people with intellectual disability would move in. Severity of disability and group size were varied to manipulate intergroup threat. These two factors independently influenced social acceptance and a variety of emotional and behavioural measures. In particular, it was found that a large group with severe disabili…
Seeing overweight adults as babies: Physical cues and implications for stigmatization
Human babies not only are reliable triggers of tender feelings and protective tendencies, they also happen to be exceptionally fat compared to the newborns of most other species. These two facts are used to formulate a hypothesis predicting that overweight males, due to their great physical resemblance to babies, not only are perceived as cute, but also are associated with negatively evaluated traits (e.g., immaturity, lack of willpower) that are…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Social group (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)