Multi-region investigation of 'man' as default in attitudes
Recent Publication
A new, wide-ranging study, in which the Department of Psychological Methodology at KL was also involved, has investigated whether opinions about groups of people are often unconsciously thought of men as the “standard”. It turned out that for dark-skinned people and politicians, opinions about the group were indeed more closely related to opinions about the men in these groups. Surprisingly, the opposite was true for white people: here, the reference to white women was stronger. For other groups, however, there was no clear “male standard”.
Phills, C. E., Miller, J. K., Buchanan, E. M., Williams, A., Meyers, C., Brown, E. R., Zickfeld, J., Volsa, S., Stieger, S., Oberzaucher, E., Mlakic, V., Vasilev, M., Dalgar, İ., Çoksan, S., Söylemez, S., Solak, Ç., Özdoğru, A. A., Çoktok, B., Kung, C.-C., ... Kekecs, Z. (2025). Multi-region investigation of 'man' as default in attitudes. PLoS ONE, 20(6), e0323938. Article e0323938. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323938
Dr.in Selina Volsa MSc
Programmer
Department of Psychological Methodology
Univ.-Prof. PD Mag. Dr. Stefan Stieger
Head of
Department of Psychological Methodology
Vinka Mlakic
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PhD),
Department Psychologie und Psychodynamik, Fachbereich Psychologische Methodenlehre