Werner Greve
Biographic Data
| ID | 904141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Werner Greve |
| GIVEN NAMES | Werner |
| FAMILY NAME | Greve |
| SIGNATURE | GREVE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hildesheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7290-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding “Society” is More Than Summing up the Folks I Know: Individual Development of a Concept of Generalized Other Minds
The ability to consider other people's perspectives is an important competence in societies. The competence to extend this perspective to unknown individuals or even to abstracted, generalized people has been neglected in developmental research. For the latter aspect, we propose the term Concept of Generalized Other Minds (CoGOM). Two developmental models are conceivable: (a) a sequential model in which a CoGOM develops additively from increasing…
Refining the self-congruency hypothesis of state authenticity: A self-threat model
The self-congruency hypothesis predicts that experienced authenticity (i.e., state authenticity) depends on behaving in alignment with one's self. While this idea is linked to extensive research on the effects of self-confirming and self-threatening information, empirical findings on the self-congruency hypothesis have been mixed. To address this inconsistency in the literature, we argue that the self-congruency hypothesis holds only when a numbe…
An emotional advantage of multilingualism
The goal of the current paper is to investigate effects of multilingualism regarding emotional competence (EC). We argue that there might be two paths of influence that connect multilingualism and EC. First, we assume that multilingualism represents a linguistically and culturally heterogeneous context that may stimulate the development of EC. Second, cognitions, such as executive control or divergent thinking, might be an important condition for…
The benefits of cultural confrontation: Does the experience of cultural heterogeneity predict individual differences in accommodative regulation
Intercultural interactions and encounters offer valuable opportunities not only for cultural exchange and mutual stimulation but also for individual development. The central assumption of the current research is that cultural heterogeneity is a supporting condition for the development of flexibility in goal adjustment (FGA). We used measures for linguistic heterogeneity (i.e., number of languages, language switching, degree of multilingualism), c…
Extending the scope of the ‘cognitive advantage’ hypothesis: Multilingual individuals show higher flexibility of goal adjustment
The cognitive advantage (CA) hypothesis claims that multilingualism promotes the development of several basic cognitive capacities. A large number of empirical findings support this hypothesis, but recently there have also been numerous contradictory findings and methodological objections. The present paper extends the investigation of possible cognitive advantages from basic cognitive (executive) functions to broader cognitive competencies such …
The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping…
Accommodative self‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood
OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the role of self-esteem stabilization processes in response to restrictive developmental conditions in early adulthood. It did so by investigating accommodative adjustments among incarcerated young adults. It was argued that an adjustment of how an individual desires to be to how they actually perceive themselves (i.e., accommodative adjustment) can help to maintain a more stable self-esteem and buffers negat…
Extending the cognitive advantage hypothesis: A conceptual replication study of the relationship between multilingualism and flexible goal adjustment
Research suggests that heterogeneous life experiences (e.g. multilingualism) might facilitate the development of mental flexibility. The current paper presents the conceptual replication of a study originally presented by Greve and colleagues [Greve, W., Koch, M., Rasche, V., and Kersten, K. (2021). Extending the Scope of the ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Hypothesis: Multilingual Individuals Show Higher Flexibility of Goal Adjustment. Journal of Multilin…
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development
This paper argues that the project of a lifespan perspective in developmental psychology has not yet been systematically pursued. Overall, the number of age-specific papers far outweighs the number of lifespan approaches, and even approaches that focus on the lifespan as a whole are often restricted to adulthood. Further, there is a lack of approaches that examine cross-lifespan relationships. However, the lifespan perspective has brought with it…
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs
Economic inequality has been consistently rising in recent decades in many Western countries including Germany. This is a pressing issue as greater economic inequality within a society has detrimental consequences for well-being, social stability, productivity, and even life expectancy. However, little is known about how individuals of different ages experience and respond to social inequality across adulthood. Because status differences are perc…
Entwicklungspsychologie: Eine Einführung in die Erklärung menschlicher Entwicklung
Einstellungen zu Inklusion in der Schule – ein Schlüssel zum Gelingen einer tiefgreifenden Reform
Leseprobe ----- Zusammenfassung Die Umsetzung von Inklusion in der Schule hängt entscheidend vom Handeln der Akteure – Lehrende, Eltern und Kinder – ab, das wiederum von den Einstellungen der Beteiligten beeinflusst wird. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Einstellungen und Handeln, zwischen Einstellungen und konkreten Erfahrungen, aber auch zwischen den Einstellungen der verschiedenen Akteure im Schulalltag werden die Realisierung der Inklusion in de…
Fear of Crime in Old Age: A Sample Case of Resilience
The adaptive role of cautious behavior in advanced age and accommodation is discussed within a developmental regulation framework
Human Development, Successful: Psychological Conceptions
Developmental Conditions of Adaptive Self-Stabilization in Adolescence: An Exploratory Study
In a cross-sectional study with 541 German students (mean age: 12.61 yrs) and (for a subsample of N = 350) one of their parents, developmental conditions for a particular resource of self-regulation (“Flexibility of Goal Adjustment”; Brandtstädter & Renner, 1990) are investigated. Theoretical arguments and empirical results from related fields suggested in particular two sets of variables as possible predictors of adolescents' adaptive competenci…
True lies: Self-stabilization without self-deception
Resilience: A Conceptual Bridge Between Coping and Development
Traditionally resilience is viewed as an important way of coping: Through resilience, an individual recovers from or avoids negative outcomes from burdensome conditions. In this paper, we argue that individual stability under significant adverse conditions (i.e., resilience) results, to a large degree, from coping processes (e.g., assimilation and accommodation) influenced by personal and situational conditions. Moreover, we propose that resilien…
The Nestor effect: Extending evolutionary developmental psychology to a lifespan perspective
Personal and Subpersonal Regulation of Human Development: Beyond Complementary Categories
Coping with life change and loss Intentional self-regulation Layers of explanation Life span development If, in a given field of scientific research, several theoretical approaches use dif-ferent concepts and terms but, at the same time, claim to explain similar or even identical phenomena, then there is a call for the application of Occam’s razor (‘Do not multiply entities beyond necessity!’). In this respect, the attempt by Boerner and Jopp (th…
Intentional Self-Development—Genetically Framed: Reconciliation of Evolutionary and Action-Theoretical Perspectives on Human Development
Is human ontogenesis a product of evolution or a result of individual decisions and actions? In the present paper we aim at solving this apparent conflict between a behavioral genetics approach and an action-theoretical perspective to human development. After a discussion of the idea of active and intentional self-development and the role of genes in development we argue for adequate conceptualizations of development, evolution, and self-determin…
Assessing the Structure of Self-concept: Evidence for Self-defensive Processes by Using a Sentence Priming Task
It was assumed that the definition of traits that are central to the individual self-concept is adapted to individual competencies (self-concept immunization), i.e., skills that individuals believe themselves to be good at are conceived as diagnostic whereas skills that individuals do not possess are considered as less diagnostic. The mental representation of traits was investigated by semantic priming. Targets were self-relevant traits whereas t…
Masked affective priming by name letters: Evidence for a correspondence of explicit and implicit self-esteem
Imprisonment of Juveniles and Adolescents: Deficits and Demands for Developmental Research
It is argued that the investigation of the consequences of imprisonment of juveniles and adolescents requires a developmental point of view because youth incarceration is legitimated only as a developmental intervention. However, before reflecting on the developmental impact of youth incarceration, it is necessary to consider who is sentenced to this punishment because juveniles sentenced to prison represent a highly selective subgroup of their a…
Self-Efficacy and Externality in Adolescence: Theoretical Conceptions and Measurement in New Zealand and German Secondary School Students
It is argued that the development of self-efficacy represents a central aspect of development in adolescence for 3 reasons. First, self-efficacy is an important predictor for actual efficacy and, thus, is a major component of the individual's ability to act suc-cessfully. Second, self-efficacy is a major action-guiding aspect of the self-concept. Third, both aspects can be combined in an action model of personality, which provides the framework f…
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: Foresight, Not fright
The seemingly paradoxical result that despite their much lower objective risk of criminal victimization older persons show significantly higher fear of crime than younger ones has become a commonplace within criminology in the last two decades. It is argued that this so-called ‘victimization-fear-paradox’ can be resolved by theoretically and empirically differentiating cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of fear. Additionally, gerontolog…
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: Foresight, Not fright
The seemingly paradoxical result that despite their much lower objective risk of criminal victimization older persons show significantly higher fear of crime than younger ones has become a commonplace within criminology in the last two decades. It is argued that this so-called ‘victimization-fear-paradox’ can be resolved by theoretically and empirically differentiating cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of fear. Additionally, gerontolog…
Masked affective priming by name letters: Evidence for a correspondence of explicit and implicit self-esteem
Fear of Crime in Old Age: A Sample Case of Resilience
The adaptive role of cautious behavior in advanced age and accommodation is discussed within a developmental regulation framework
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development
This paper argues that the project of a lifespan perspective in developmental psychology has not yet been systematically pursued. Overall, the number of age-specific papers far outweighs the number of lifespan approaches, and even approaches that focus on the lifespan as a whole are often restricted to adulthood. Further, there is a lack of approaches that examine cross-lifespan relationships. However, the lifespan perspective has brought with it…
Self-Efficacy and Externality in Adolescence: Theoretical Conceptions and Measurement in New Zealand and German Secondary School Students
It is argued that the development of self-efficacy represents a central aspect of development in adolescence for 3 reasons. First, self-efficacy is an important predictor for actual efficacy and, thus, is a major component of the individual's ability to act suc-cessfully. Second, self-efficacy is a major action-guiding aspect of the self-concept. Third, both aspects can be combined in an action model of personality, which provides the framework f…
Extending the scope of the ‘cognitive advantage’ hypothesis: Multilingual individuals show higher flexibility of goal adjustment
The cognitive advantage (CA) hypothesis claims that multilingualism promotes the development of several basic cognitive capacities. A large number of empirical findings support this hypothesis, but recently there have also been numerous contradictory findings and methodological objections. The present paper extends the investigation of possible cognitive advantages from basic cognitive (executive) functions to broader cognitive competencies such …
Extending the cognitive advantage hypothesis: A conceptual replication study of the relationship between multilingualism and flexible goal adjustment
Research suggests that heterogeneous life experiences (e.g. multilingualism) might facilitate the development of mental flexibility. The current paper presents the conceptual replication of a study originally presented by Greve and colleagues [Greve, W., Koch, M., Rasche, V., and Kersten, K. (2021). Extending the Scope of the ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Hypothesis: Multilingual Individuals Show Higher Flexibility of Goal Adjustment. Journal of Multilin…
Entwicklungspsychologie: Eine Einführung in die Erklärung menschlicher Entwicklung
The Aging Self: Stabilizing and Protective Processes
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: Foresight, Not fright
The seemingly paradoxical result that despite their much lower objective risk of criminal victimization older persons show significantly higher fear of crime than younger ones has become a commonplace within criminology in the last two decades. It is argued that this so-called ‘victimization-fear-paradox’ can be resolved by theoretically and empirically differentiating cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of fear. Additionally, gerontolog…
Imprisonment of Juveniles and Adolescents: Deficits and Demands for Developmental Research
It is argued that the investigation of the consequences of imprisonment of juveniles and adolescents requires a developmental point of view because youth incarceration is legitimated only as a developmental intervention. However, before reflecting on the developmental impact of youth incarceration, it is necessary to consider who is sentenced to this punishment because juveniles sentenced to prison represent a highly selective subgroup of their a…
Self-Efficacy and Externality in Adolescence: Theoretical Conceptions and Measurement in New Zealand and German Secondary School Students
It is argued that the development of self-efficacy represents a central aspect of development in adolescence for 3 reasons. First, self-efficacy is an important predictor for actual efficacy and, thus, is a major component of the individual's ability to act suc-cessfully. Second, self-efficacy is a major action-guiding aspect of the self-concept. Third, both aspects can be combined in an action model of personality, which provides the framework f…
Assessing the Structure of Self-concept: Evidence for Self-defensive Processes by Using a Sentence Priming Task
It was assumed that the definition of traits that are central to the individual self-concept is adapted to individual competencies (self-concept immunization), i.e., skills that individuals believe themselves to be good at are conceived as diagnostic whereas skills that individuals do not possess are considered as less diagnostic. The mental representation of traits was investigated by semantic priming. Targets were self-relevant traits whereas t…
Masked affective priming by name letters: Evidence for a correspondence of explicit and implicit self-esteem
Personal and Subpersonal Regulation of Human Development: Beyond Complementary Categories
Coping with life change and loss Intentional self-regulation Layers of explanation Life span development If, in a given field of scientific research, several theoretical approaches use dif-ferent concepts and terms but, at the same time, claim to explain similar or even identical phenomena, then there is a call for the application of Occam’s razor (‘Do not multiply entities beyond necessity!’). In this respect, the attempt by Boerner and Jopp (th…
Intentional Self-Development—Genetically Framed: Reconciliation of Evolutionary and Action-Theoretical Perspectives on Human Development
Is human ontogenesis a product of evolution or a result of individual decisions and actions? In the present paper we aim at solving this apparent conflict between a behavioral genetics approach and an action-theoretical perspective to human development. After a discussion of the idea of active and intentional self-development and the role of genes in development we argue for adequate conceptualizations of development, evolution, and self-determin…
Resilience: A Conceptual Bridge Between Coping and Development
Traditionally resilience is viewed as an important way of coping: Through resilience, an individual recovers from or avoids negative outcomes from burdensome conditions. In this paper, we argue that individual stability under significant adverse conditions (i.e., resilience) results, to a large degree, from coping processes (e.g., assimilation and accommodation) influenced by personal and situational conditions. Moreover, we propose that resilien…
The Nestor effect: Extending evolutionary developmental psychology to a lifespan perspective
True lies: Self-stabilization without self-deception
Developmental Conditions of Adaptive Self-Stabilization in Adolescence: An Exploratory Study
In a cross-sectional study with 541 German students (mean age: 12.61 yrs) and (for a subsample of N = 350) one of their parents, developmental conditions for a particular resource of self-regulation (“Flexibility of Goal Adjustment”; Brandtstädter & Renner, 1990) are investigated. Theoretical arguments and empirical results from related fields suggested in particular two sets of variables as possible predictors of adolescents' adaptive competenci…
Human Development, Successful: Psychological Conceptions
Fear of Crime in Old Age: A Sample Case of Resilience
The adaptive role of cautious behavior in advanced age and accommodation is discussed within a developmental regulation framework
Einstellungen zu Inklusion in der Schule – ein Schlüssel zum Gelingen einer tiefgreifenden Reform
Leseprobe ----- Zusammenfassung Die Umsetzung von Inklusion in der Schule hängt entscheidend vom Handeln der Akteure – Lehrende, Eltern und Kinder – ab, das wiederum von den Einstellungen der Beteiligten beeinflusst wird. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Einstellungen und Handeln, zwischen Einstellungen und konkreten Erfahrungen, aber auch zwischen den Einstellungen der verschiedenen Akteure im Schulalltag werden die Realisierung der Inklusion in de…
Entwicklungspsychologie: Eine Einführung in die Erklärung menschlicher Entwicklung
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs
Economic inequality has been consistently rising in recent decades in many Western countries including Germany. This is a pressing issue as greater economic inequality within a society has detrimental consequences for well-being, social stability, productivity, and even life expectancy. However, little is known about how individuals of different ages experience and respond to social inequality across adulthood. Because status differences are perc…
The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping…
Accommodative self‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood
OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the role of self-esteem stabilization processes in response to restrictive developmental conditions in early adulthood. It did so by investigating accommodative adjustments among incarcerated young adults. It was argued that an adjustment of how an individual desires to be to how they actually perceive themselves (i.e., accommodative adjustment) can help to maintain a more stable self-esteem and buffers negat…
Extending the cognitive advantage hypothesis: A conceptual replication study of the relationship between multilingualism and flexible goal adjustment
Research suggests that heterogeneous life experiences (e.g. multilingualism) might facilitate the development of mental flexibility. The current paper presents the conceptual replication of a study originally presented by Greve and colleagues [Greve, W., Koch, M., Rasche, V., and Kersten, K. (2021). Extending the Scope of the ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Hypothesis: Multilingual Individuals Show Higher Flexibility of Goal Adjustment. Journal of Multilin…
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development
This paper argues that the project of a lifespan perspective in developmental psychology has not yet been systematically pursued. Overall, the number of age-specific papers far outweighs the number of lifespan approaches, and even approaches that focus on the lifespan as a whole are often restricted to adulthood. Further, there is a lack of approaches that examine cross-lifespan relationships. However, the lifespan perspective has brought with it…
An emotional advantage of multilingualism
The goal of the current paper is to investigate effects of multilingualism regarding emotional competence (EC). We argue that there might be two paths of influence that connect multilingualism and EC. First, we assume that multilingualism represents a linguistically and culturally heterogeneous context that may stimulate the development of EC. Second, cognitions, such as executive control or divergent thinking, might be an important condition for…
The benefits of cultural confrontation: Does the experience of cultural heterogeneity predict individual differences in accommodative regulation
Intercultural interactions and encounters offer valuable opportunities not only for cultural exchange and mutual stimulation but also for individual development. The central assumption of the current research is that cultural heterogeneity is a supporting condition for the development of flexibility in goal adjustment (FGA). We used measures for linguistic heterogeneity (i.e., number of languages, language switching, degree of multilingualism), c…
Extending the scope of the ‘cognitive advantage’ hypothesis: Multilingual individuals show higher flexibility of goal adjustment
The cognitive advantage (CA) hypothesis claims that multilingualism promotes the development of several basic cognitive capacities. A large number of empirical findings support this hypothesis, but recently there have also been numerous contradictory findings and methodological objections. The present paper extends the investigation of possible cognitive advantages from basic cognitive (executive) functions to broader cognitive competencies such …
Refining the self-congruency hypothesis of state authenticity: A self-threat model
The self-congruency hypothesis predicts that experienced authenticity (i.e., state authenticity) depends on behaving in alignment with one's self. While this idea is linked to extensive research on the effects of self-confirming and self-threatening information, empirical findings on the self-congruency hypothesis have been mixed. To address this inconsistency in the literature, we argue that the self-congruency hypothesis holds only when a numbe…
Psychology (23 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Accommodation (4 works)