@incollection{SchroederWolf, author = {Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Wolf, Ingo}, title = {Psychologische Aspekte nachhaltiger Mobilit{\"a}t}, series = {Psychologie und Nachhaltigkeit}, booktitle = {Psychologie und Nachhaltigkeit}, editor = {Schmitt, Claudia Thea and Bamberg, Eva}, publisher = {Springer Gabler}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-19964-7}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-19965-4_17}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {203 -- 213}, abstract = {Technologische und soziale Innovationen scheinen derzeit viele Perspektiven f{\"u}r eine Transformation des Mobilit{\"a}tssektors hin zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit zu er{\"o}ffnen. Ob und wie sich das menschliche Mobilit{\"a}tsverhalten den neuen M{\"o}glichkeiten anpasst, ist allerdings eine offene Frage, die psychologischer Forschung bedarf. Wir stellen in unserem Beitrag eine neue Theorie der Mobilit{\"a}tseinstellungen vor, die Ans{\"a}tze zur emotionalen Koh{\"a}renz menschlicher Entscheidungen aus der Kognitionswissenschaft mit soziologischen Theorien der Informationsdiffusion in sozialen Netzwerken kombiniert. Daten aus einer aktuellen, groß angelegten empirischen Studie zeigen, dass die emotionale Verankerung des Autos mit Verbrennungsmotor im individuellen Privatbesitz immer noch groß ist. F{\"u}r die erfolgreiche Verbreitung innovativer und nachhaltiger Mobilit{\"a}tskonzepte in der Gesellschaft wird entscheidend sein, ob neben technologischen Entwicklungen auch eine breite Transformation von Einstellungen in der Bev{\"o}lkerung erreicht werden kann.}, subject = {Nachhaltigkeit}, language = {de} } @techreport{GeuderLeidingerLupinetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Geuder, Philipp and Leidinger, Marie-Claire and Lupin, Martin von and D{\"o}rk, Marian and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Emosaic: Visualizing Affective Content of Text at Varying Granularity}, series = {arxiv.org}, journal = {arxiv.org}, publisher = {Cornell University}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2002.10096}, pages = {9}, abstract = {This paper presents Emosaic, a tool for visualizing the emotional tone of text documents, considering multiple dimensions of emotion and varying levels of semantic granularity. Emosaic is grounded in psychological research on the relationship between language, affect, and color perception. We capitalize on an established three-dimensional model of human emotion: valence (good, nice vs. bad, awful), arousal (calm, passive vs. exciting, active) and dominance (weak, controlled vs. strong, in control). Previously, multi-dimensional models of emotion have been used rarely in visualizations of textual data, due to the perceptual challenges involved. Furthermore, until recently most text visualizations remained at a high level, precluding closer engagement with the deep semantic content of the text. Informed by empirical studies, we introduce a color mapping that translates any point in three-dimensional affective space into a unique color. Emosaic uses affective dictionaries of words annotated with the three emotional parameters of the valence-arousal-dominance model to extract emotional meanings from texts and then assigns to them corresponding color parameters of the hue-saturation-brightness color space. This approach of mapping emotion to color is aimed at helping readers to more easily grasp the emotional tone of the text. Several features of Emosaic allow readers to interactively explore the affective content of the text in more detail; e.g., in aggregated form as histograms, in sequential form following the order of text, and in detail embedded into the text display itself. Interaction techniques have been included to allow for filtering and navigating of text and visualizations.}, subject = {Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation}, language = {en} } @techreport{HoeyNagappanRogersetal., author = {Hoey, Jesse and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Dametto, Diego and De Zoysa, Nalin and Iyer, Rahul and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Rishi, Deepak and Sirianni, Antonio D. and Yun, Seonghu and Zhao, Jun and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas}, title = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/4hukx}, pages = {1 -- 36}, abstract = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups (THEMIS.COG) was an interdisciplinary research collaboration of computer scientists and social scientists from the University of Waterloo (Canada), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Dartmouth College (USA). This white paper summarizes the results of our research at the end of the grant term. Funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform's Digging Into Data initiative, the project aimed at theoretical and empirical modeling of identity and sentiments in collaborative groups. Understanding the social forces behind self-organized collaboration is important because technological and social innovations are increasingly generated through informal, distributed processes of collaboration, rather than in formal organizational hierarchies or through market forces. Our work used a data-driven approach to explore the social psychological mechanisms that motivate such collaborations and determine their success or failure. We focused on the example of GitHub, the world's current largest digital platform for open, collaborative software development. In contrast to most, purely inductive contemporary approaches leveraging computational techniques for social science, THEMIS.COG followed a deductive, theory-driven approach. We capitalized on affect control theory, a mathematically formalized theory of symbolic interaction originated by sociologist David R. Heise and further advanced in previous work by some of the THEMIS.COG collaborators, among others. Affect control theory states that people control their social behaviours by intuitively attempting to verify culturally shared feelings about identities, social roles, and behaviour settings. From this principle, implemented in computational simulation models, precise predictions about group dynamics can be derived. It was the goal of THEMIS.COG to adapt and apply this approach to study the GitHub collaboration ecosystem through a symbolic interactionist lens. The project contributed substantially to the novel endeavor of theory development in social science based on large amounts of naturally occurring digital data.}, subject = {Computational social science}, language = {en} } @article{SirianniMorganZoelleretal., author = {Sirianni, Antonio D. and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Complements and Competitors}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/bfmy2}, pages = {1 -- 23}, abstract = {The vast majority of research on the diffusion of innovations focuses on how one particular idea or technology spreads across a network of connected individuals, or a population more generally. Diffusive processes are typically considered either in isolation. We consider innovations themselves as nodes in a larger network, and look at how individual innovations can spread with or against one another in a larger community of potential adopters. Using a large publicly-available data set, custom-designed measurements, and network analysis methods, we present a temporal analysis of a set of technological innovations. Specifically, we examine how coding languages spread across users on GitHub, an online platform for collaborative coding. By looking at which languages co-appear in individual projects, we develop network based measurements of how frequently languages appear together in the same coding projects (functional cohesion), and how similar two languages are in terms of how often they co-appear with other languages in coding projects (functional equivalence). We also assess two types of diffusion, one form where users of one language become users of an additional language (complementary or 'piggybacking' diffusion), and another where users of one language abandon one language for another (competitive or 'cannibalistic' diffusion). Using MR-QAP Regression Techniques, we find strong evidence that functional cohesion positively predicts complementary diffusion. We also find some evidence that functional equivalence predicts competitive diffusion. More broadly, we find support for the idea that the networks of functional relationships between innovations is important for understanding diffusive processes.}, subject = {Soziologie}, language = {en} } @article{HoeySchroeder, author = {Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Disruption of Social Orders in Societal Transitions as Affective Control of Uncertainty}, series = {American behavioral scientist}, volume = {67}, journal = {American behavioral scientist}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {1552-3381}, doi = {10.1177/00027642211066055}, pages = {311 -- 331}, abstract = {Bayesian affect control theory is a model of affect-driven social interaction underconditions of uncertainty. In this paper, we investigate how the operationalization of uncertainty in the model can be related to the disruption of social orders—societal pressures to adapt to ongoing environmental and technological change. First, we study the theoretical tradeoffs between three kinds of uncertainty as groups navigate external problems: validity (the predictability of the environment, including of other agents), coherence (the predictability of interpersonal affective dynamics), and dependence (the predictability of affective meanings). Second, we discuss how these uncertainty tradeoffs are related to contemporary political conflict and polarization in the context of societal transitions. To illustrate the potential of our model to analyze the socio-emotional consequences of uncertainty, we present a simulation of diverging individual affective meanings of occupational identities under uncertainty in a climate change mitigation scenario based on events in Germany. Finally, we sketch a possible research agenda to substantiate the novel, but yet mostly conjectural, ideas put forward in this paper.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfSchroeder, author = {Wolf, Ingo and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning}, series = {Scientific reports}, journal = {Scientific reports}, number = {14}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-024-81605-6}, pages = {1 -- 13}, abstract = {Persuasive appeals frequently prove ineffective or produce unintended outcomes, due to the presence of motivated reasoning. Using the example of electric cars adoption, this research delves into the impact of emotional content, message valence, and the coherence of pre-existing attitudes on biased information evaluation. By conducting a factorial survey (N = 480) and incorporating a computational model of attitude formation, we aim to gain a deeper insight into the cognitive-affective mechanisms driving motivated reasoning. Our experimental findings reveal that motivated reasoning is most pronounced when persuasive appeals employ a combination of emotional and rational elements within a negatively valenced argument. Furthermore, our computational model, which estimates belief and affect adjustments underlying attitude changes, elucidates how message framing influences cognitive-affective processes through emotional coherence. The results provide support for a negative correlation between shifts in coherence in response to new information and the propensity for motivated reasoning. The research contributes to computational models of opinion dynamics and social influence, offering a psychologically realistic framework for exploring the impact of individual reasoning on population-level dynamics, particularly in policy contexts, where it can enhance communication and informed policy discussions.}, subject = {Elektrofahrzeug}, language = {en} } @article{SirianniMorganZoelleretal., author = {Sirianni, Antonio D. and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Complements and competitors}, series = {PNAS nexus}, volume = {3}, journal = {PNAS nexus}, number = {12}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {2752-6542}, doi = {10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae549}, pages = {1 -- 13}, abstract = {Diffusive and contagious processes spread in the context of one another in connected populations. Diffusions may be more likely to pass through portions of a network where compatible diffusions are already present. We examine this by incorporating the concept of "relatedness" from the economic complexity literature into a network co-diffusion model. Building on the "product space" concept used in this work, we consider technologies themselves as nodes in "product networks," where edges define relationships between products. Specifically, coding languages on GitHub, an online platform for collaborative coding, are considered. From rates of language co-occurrence in coding projects, we calculate rates of functional cohesion and functional equivalence for each pair of languages. From rates of how individuals adopt and abandon coding languages over time, we calculate measures of complementary diffusion and substitutive diffusion for each pair of languages relative to one another. Consistent with the principle of relatedness, network regression techniques (MR-QAP) reveal strong evidence that functional cohesion positively predicts complementary diffusion. We also find limited evidence that functional equivalence predicts substitutive (competitive) diffusion. Results support the broader finding that functional dependencies between diffusive processes will dictate how said processes spread relative to one another across a population of potential adopters.}, subject = {Computational social science}, language = {en} } @article{DamettoVieiraSchroederetal., author = {Dametto, Diego and Vieira, Luc and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Blaison, Christophe}, title = {Charlemagne's Legacy}, series = {Social Psychology Quarterly}, volume = {87}, journal = {Social Psychology Quarterly}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, address = {London}, issn = {0190-2725}, doi = {10.1177/01902725231205855}, pages = {479 -- 500}, abstract = {We investigate between- and within-country consensus about affective meanings of social identities along the evaluation, potency, and activity dimensions from the affect control theory research tradition. Ratings for 387 (194 male and 193 female) identities were collected from two samples representative of the French (N = 700) and German (N = 700) populations for age, gender, and region. Guided by two preregistered hypotheses based on previous cross-cultural research, our analysis points to considerable cultural consensus between French and Germans who seem to share a common "Carolingian" affective culture; yet some culture-specific patterns concerning the evaluation dimension and evaluation-potency interactions were found to be statistically significant. We interpret these results in terms of known cross-cultural features such as power distance and conceptions of power.}, subject = {Karlssage}, language = {en} } @article{WijermansScholzPaolilloetal., author = {Wijermans, Nanda and Scholz, Geeske and Paolillo, Rocco and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Chappin, Emile and Craig, Tony and Templeton, Anne}, title = {Models in Social Psychology and Agent-Based Social Simulation}, series = {Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation}, journal = {Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation}, address = {Troms{\o}}, organization = {The Arctic University of Norway}, issn = {2732-5903}, pages = {1 -- 5}, abstract = {Understanding how individual or group behaviour are influenced by the presence of others is something both social psychology and agent-based social simulation are concerned with. However, there is only limited overlap between these two research communities, which becomes clear when terms such as "variable", "prediction", or "model" come into play, and we build on their different meanings. This situation challenges us when working together, since it complicates the uptake of relevant work from each community and thus hampers the potential impact that we could have when joining forces.}, subject = {Sozialpsychologie}, language = {en} } @incollection{Schroeder, author = {Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {David Heise: Expressive Order}, series = {Schl{\"u}sselwerke der Emotionssoziologie}, booktitle = {Schl{\"u}sselwerke der Emotionssoziologie}, editor = {Senge, Konstanze and Sch{\"u}tzeichel, Rainer and Zink, Veronika}, edition = {2. Auflage}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-37869-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-37869-1_29}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {263 -- 272}, abstract = {In der sozialen Interaktion streben Menschen danach, Dinge zu erleben, die sie schon wissen. So fasst David seine Affektsteuerungstheorie (Affect Control Theory) gerne in einem Satz zusammen. Das Bed{\"u}rfnis nach Best{\"a}tigung sozialen Wissens fasst er als Motor der Interpretation und Ausf{\"u}hrung sozialer Handlungen auf.}, subject = {Computersimulation}, language = {de} } @incollection{SchroederPrytula, author = {Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Prytula, Michael}, title = {Language and meaning as basic topics in coaching}, series = {International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching}, booktitle = {International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-81938-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-81938-5_41}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {509 -- 519}, abstract = {Coaching can be understood as a process of creating meaning through linguistic interaction. Meanings are coherent networks of concepts, which are on the one hand socially shared and on the other hand based on the emotional experience of individuals. We present the relevant current state of research in cognitive science and social psychology and explain the significance of this research for coaching practice using the example of a coaching model established on the market ("contextual coaching").}, subject = {Sprache}, language = {en} } @incollection{DamettoMicheliniHigietal., author = {Dametto, Diego and Michelini, Gabriela and Higi, Leonard and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Klaperski, Daniel and Popiolek, Roy and Tauch, Anne and Michel, Antje}, title = {Developing a stakeholder-centric simulation tool to support integrated mobility planning}, series = {Advances in Social Simulation}, booktitle = {Advances in Social Simulation}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-92843-8}, issn = {2213-8692}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8_6}, pages = {65 -- 78}, abstract = {Simulation tools aimed at enhancing cross-sectoral cooperation can support the transition from a traditional transport planning approach based on predictions towards more integrated and participatory urban mobility planning. This shift entails a broader appraisal of urban dynamics and transformations in the policy framework, capitalizing on new developments in urban modelling. In this paper, we argue that participatory social simulation can be used to solve these emerging challenges in mobility planning. We identify the functionalities that such a tool should have when supporting integrated mobility planning. Drawing on a transdisciplinary case study situated in Potsdam, Germany, we address through interviews and workshops stakeholders' needs and expectations and present the requirements of an actionable tool for practitioners. As a result, we present three main challenges for participatory, simulation-based transport planning, including: (1) enhancement of the visioning process by testing stakeholders' ideas under different scenarios and conditions to visualise complex urban relationships; (2) promotion of collective exchange as means to support stakeholder communication; and (3) credibility increase by early stakeholder engagement with model development. We discuss how our participatory modelling approach helps us to better understand the gaps in the knowledge of the planning process and present the coming steps of the project.}, subject = {Mobilit{\"a}t 4.0}, language = {en} } @article{SchauenburgAmbrasatSchroederetal., author = {Schauenburg, Gesche and Ambrasat, Jens and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and von Scheve, Christian and Conrad, Markus}, title = {Emotional connotations of words related to authority and community}, series = {Behavior Research Methods}, volume = {47}, journal = {Behavior Research Methods}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York, NY}, issn = {1554-3528}, doi = {10.3758/s13428-014-0494-7}, pages = {720 -- 735}, abstract = {We present a database of 858 German words from the semantic fields of authority and community, which represent core dimensions of human sociality. The words were selected on the basis of co-occurrence profiles of representative keywords for these semantic fields. All words were rated along five dimensions, each measured by a bipolar semantic-differential scale: Besides the classic dimensions of affective meaning (valence, arousal, and potency), we collected ratings of authority and community with newly developed scales. The results from cluster, correlational, and multiple regression analyses on the rating data suggest a robust negativity bias for authority valuation among German raters recruited via university mailing lists, whereas community ratings appear to be rather unrelated to the well-established affective dimensions. Furthermore, our data involve a strong overall negative correlation—rather than the classical U-shaped distribution—between valence and arousal for socially relevant concepts. Our database provides a valuable resource for research questions at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. It can be downloaded as supplemental materials with this article.}, subject = {Konnotation}, language = {en} } @article{AmbrasatvonScheveConradetal., author = {Ambrasat, Jens and von Scheve, Christian and Conrad, Markus and Schauenburg, Gesche and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Consensus and stratification in the affective meaning of human sociality}, series = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, volume = {111}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, number = {22}, publisher = {NAS}, address = {Washington, DC}, issn = {0027-8424}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1313321111}, pages = {8001 -- 8006}, abstract = {We investigate intrasocietal consensus and variation in affective meanings of concepts related to authority and community, two elementary forms of human sociality. Survey participants (n = 2,849) from different socioeconomic status (SES) groups in German society provided ratings of 909 social concepts along three basic dimensions of affective meaning. Results show widespread consensus on these meanings within society and demonstrate that a meaningful structure of socially shared knowledge emerges from organizing concepts according to their affective similarity. The consensus finding is further qualified by evidence for subtle systematic variation along SES differences. In relation to affectively neutral words, high-status individuals evaluate intimacy-related and socially desirable concepts as less positive and powerful than middle- or low-status individuals, while perceiving antisocial concepts as relatively more threatening. This systematic variation across SES groups suggests that the affective meaning of sociality is to some degree a function of social stratification.}, subject = {Sozialverhalten}, language = {en} } @article{RogersSchroedervonScheve, author = {Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and von Scheve, Christian}, title = {Dissecting the Sociality of Emotion}, series = {Emotion review : an international and interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {6}, journal = {Emotion review : an international and interdisciplinary journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Los Angeles}, issn = {1754-0739}, doi = {10.1177/1754073913503383}, pages = {124 -- 133}, abstract = {In recent years, scholars have come to understand emotions as dynamic and socially constructed—the product of interdependent cultural, relational, situational, and biological influences. While researchers have called for a multilevel theory of emotion construction, any progress toward such a theory must overcome the fragmentation of relevant research across various disciplines and theoretical frameworks. We present affect control theory as a launching point for cross-disciplinary collaboration because of its empirically grounded conceptualization of social mechanisms operating at the interaction, relationship, and cultural levels, and its specification of processes linking social and individual aspects of emotion. After introducing the theory, we illustrate its correspondence with major theories of emotion construction framed at each of four analytical levels: cultural, interactional, individual, and neural.}, subject = {Gef{\"u}hl}, language = {en} } @article{RogersSchroedervonScheve, author = {Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and von Scheve, Christian}, title = {Author Reply}, series = {Emotion Review}, volume = {6}, journal = {Emotion Review}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Thousand Oaks, Calif.}, issn = {1754-0747}, doi = {10.1177/1754073913512007}, pages = {140 -- 141}, abstract = {We are pleased that all the commentators seem to agree that a theory-driven integration across disciplines is a worthwhile endeavor to better understand the social constitution of emotion. In our reply, we first take up the idea of relating affect control theory (ACT) to cultural priming and suggest links to an ACT-inspired constraint satisfaction explanation of priming. Second, we address reservations concerning ACT's capability to account for emotions with nonconceptual content and to explain stability and change in affective meanings. Third, we clarify the relation of affect control theory to psychological constructionism, in particular with regard to conceptualizations of culture and society. Finally, we suggest that computational models are an adequate tool to address multilevel issues in the study of emotion.}, subject = {Affekt}, language = {en} } @article{SchauenburgConradvonScheveetal., author = {Schauenburg, Gesche and Conrad, Markus and von Scheve, Christian and Barber, Horacio A. and Ambrasat, Jens and Aryani, Arash and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Making sense of social interaction : emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials}, series = {Neuropsychologia}, volume = {125}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, publisher = {Amsterdam}, address = {Elsevier}, issn = {1873-3514}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002}, pages = {1 -- 13}, abstract = {We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model of Affect Control Theory (ACT; Heise, 1979, 2007) predicts and quantifies the degree to which social interactions deflect from prevailing social norms and values - based on the affective meanings of involved concepts. We tested whether this model can predict the amplitude of brain waves traditionally associated with semantic processing. To this end, we visually presented sentences describing basic subject-verb-object social interactions and measured event-related potentials for final words of sentences from three different conditions of affective deflection (low, medium, high) as computed by a variant of the ACT model (Schr{\"o}der, 2011). Sentence stimuli were closely controlled across conditions for alternate semantic dimensions such as contextual constraints, cloze probabilities, co-occurrences of subject-object and verb-object relations. Personality characteristics (schizotypy, Big Five) were assessed to account for individual differences, assumed to influence emotion-language interactions in information processing. Affective deflection provoked increased negativity of ERP waves during the P2/N2 and N400 components. Our data suggest that affective incoherence is perceived as conflicting information interfering with early semantic processing and that increased respective processing demands - in particular in the case of medium violations of social norms - linger on until the N400 time window classically associated with the integration of concepts into embedding context. We conclude from these results that affective meanings influence basic stages of meaning making.}, subject = {Interaktion}, language = {en} } @article{AmbrasatvonScheveSchauenburgetal., author = {Ambrasat, Jens and von Scheve, Christian and Schauenburg, Gesche and Conrad, Markus and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Unpacking the Habitus}, series = {Sociological Forum}, volume = {31}, journal = {Sociological Forum}, number = {4}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1573-7861}, doi = {10.1111/socf.12293}, pages = {994 -- 1017}, abstract = {The concept of habitus refers to socially stratified patterns of perception, classification, and thinking that are supposed to bring about specific lifestyles. Until now, research on the links between stratification and lifestyles has accounted for the habitus mainly in conceptual and theoretical terms, and studies directly measuring habitus and its association with stratification and lifestyles are rare. The present study conceptualizes the habitus as an individual-level pattern of meaning making and suggests an operationalization that is commonly used in identity research. Using survey data of 3,438 respondents, the study investigates associations between different lifestyles and patterns of meaning making. Results show, first, that self-related meanings vary systematically across lifestyle categories and mirror respondents' stratification position. Second, the meanings of various social concepts also vary significantly across lifestyle categories and partly reflect descriptive lifestyle characteristics. In sum, the study presents a plausible operationalization of (parts of) the habitus and advances our understanding of its mediating position between stratification and lifestyles.}, subject = {Habitus}, language = {en} } @article{CombsDamettoBlaisonetal., author = {Combs, Aidan and Dametto, Diego and Blaison, Christophe and Leung, Renee and Malhotra, Aarti and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hoey, Jesse and Smith-Lovin, Lynn}, title = {Affective connotations according to LLMs}, series = {Cognition and Emotion}, journal = {Cognition and Emotion}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {0269-9931}, doi = {10.1080/02699931.2025.2568551}, pages = {17}, abstract = {The affective connotations of words are central to meaning and important predictors of many social processes. As such, understanding the degree to which commercially-available generative language models (LLMs) replicate human judgements of affective connotations may help better understand human-model interactions. LLMs may also serve as useful tools for researchers seeking affective meaning estimates. We test the ability of three LLMs - GPT-4o, Mistral Large, and Llama 3.1 - to estimate human affective connotation ratings of words representing social identities, behaviours, modifiers, and settings in three language cultures: English (US), French (France), and German (Germany). We find that LLM ratings of terms correlate strongly with human ratings. However, their ratings tend to be overly extreme and patterns of correlations between meaning dimensions only loosely approximate those of human ratings. Consistent with previous findings of English-language and American biases in LLMs, we find that LLMs tend to perform better on English terms, though this pattern varies somewhat by meaning dimension and the type of term in question. We explore how LLMs might contribute to scholarship on affective connotations - by acting as tools for measurement - and how scholarship on affective connotations might contribute to generative language models - by guiding exploration of model biases.}, subject = {Affektivit{\"a}t}, language = {en} } @article{SzczepanskaPriebeHigietal., author = {Szczepanska, Timo and Priebe, Max and Higi, Leonard and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {PaSyMo: Gamifying Communicative Urban Planning With Participatory Systems Modeling}, series = {Urban Planning}, volume = {11}, journal = {Urban Planning}, publisher = {Cogitatio Press}, address = {Lisbon}, issn = {2183-7635}, doi = {10.17645/up.10778}, pages = {20}, abstract = {Urban planning increasingly requires navigating complex socio-spatial dynamics and uncertainties, particularly when addressing social challenges where stakeholders hold diverse perspectives and knowledge. This article introduces PaSyMo (Participatory Systems Modeling), a gamified communication support system designed to assist urban planners in communicative and deliberative planning. PaSyMo integrates three conceptual pillars that guided its design: stakeholder engagement, participatory agent-based modeling (ABM), and visualization on tangible interfaces. The system combines a simulation environment grounded in geodata and ABM with discursive elements from scenario workshops and role-playing games, bridging digital and non-digital formats. PaSyMo contributes to the growing field of GAM research (Games and Agent-based Modeling; Szczepanska et al., 2022) by providing a framework that explores the integration of gaming mechanics with urban simulation tools, highlighting their potential to support sustainable urban planning. The approach draws from participatory modeling (Sterling et al., 2019; Voinov \& Bousquet, 2010) while leveraging state-of-the-art geospatial simulation and interactive interfaces to facilitate communication and co-production of knowledge among diverse stakeholders. Exploratory findings suggest that combining gaming experience with geospatial data visualization and ABM offers a promising approach to communicate the potential implications and trade-offs of urban planning initiatives. This integration enhances stakeholder engagement, promotes shared understanding, and supports consensus building. By making urban planning processes more interactive, PaSyMo can extend the impact of planning research beyond academic settings. Preliminary insights indicate that PaSyMo can enhance stakeholder understanding, knowledge integration, consensus-building, and proactive planning, especially in contexts of decision-making in complex and uncertain situations; however, these findings need to be substantiated in future studies.}, subject = {Modellierung}, language = {en} } @article{HigiSchroederWeidneretal., author = {Higi, Leonard and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Weidner, Silke and Neuroth, Heike}, title = {Taking stock of urban data governance in German small towns}, series = {Data \& Policy}, volume = {8}, journal = {Data \& Policy}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {2632-3249}, doi = {10.1017/dap.2025.10051}, pages = {22}, abstract = {As data are becoming increasingly important resources for municipal administrations in the context of urban development, formalization of urban data governance (DG) is considered a prerequisite to systematic municipal data practice for the common good. Unlike for larger cities, it is unclear how common such formalized DG is in rural districts and small towns. We therefore mapped the current status quo in small municipalities in Germany as a case exemplifying the broader phenomenon. We systematically searched online for policy documents on DG in all metropolitan regions, all rural districts, and a quota sample of nearly a sixth of all German small towns. We then performed content analysis of the identified documents along predefined categories of urban development. Results show that hardly any small towns dispose of relevant policy documents. Rural districts are somewhat more active in formally defining DG. Identified policy documents tend to address mostly economic activities, social infrastructure, and demography, whereas Housing and Urban design and public space are among the least mentioned categories of urban development.}, subject = {Deutschland}, language = {en} } @misc{HigiSchroederKonnerth, author = {Higi, Leonard and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Konnerth, Johanna}, title = {Datennutzung f{\"u}r nachhaltige Kommunalentwicklung}, series = {Analysen und Konzepte : lebensWerte Kommune}, volume = {2024}, journal = {Analysen und Konzepte : lebensWerte Kommune}, number = {2}, publisher = {Bertelsmann Stiftung}, address = {G{\"u}tersloh}, issn = {2748-7644}, doi = {10.11586/2025014}, pages = {24}, abstract = {Daten k{\"o}nnen Kommunen wesentlich bei der nachhaltigen Kommunalentwicklung unterst{\"u}tzen - ob als Planungsgrundlagen, in Entscheidungsprozessen oder im Rahmen von Beteiligungsformaten. Auch wenn es bereits ein breites Angebot an offenen Daten und an Werkzeugen zur Datenauswertung gibt, sehen sich gerade kleinere Kommunen erheblichen Herausforderungen unter anderem bei Zugang zu und Nutzung von Daten gegen{\"u}ber. Diese Ausgabe gibt einen einordnenden {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber Herausforderungen und stellt vor dem Hintergrund einer kommunalen Daten-Governance mit den Plattformen der Bertelsmann Stiftung sowie dem Projekt MOSIDI dreier brandenburgischer Hochschulen Anwendungen vor, die Kommunen einen einfachen Einstieg in die Datennutzung erm{\"o}glichen sollen. Der Einblick in Fallbeispiele zeigt m{\"o}gliche Einsatzfelder in der Praxis auf und soll dazu anregen, in der eigenen Kommune ins Tun zu kommen und das Potenzial von Daten f{\"u}r eine nachhaltige Kommunalentwicklung zu entdecken.}, subject = {Brandenburg}, language = {de} } @article{SchauenburgAryaniHsuetal., author = {Schauenburg, Gesche and Aryani, Arash and Hsu, Chun-Ting and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Conrad, Markus and von Scheve, Christian and Jacobs, Arthur M.}, title = {Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions}, series = {KZfSS K{\"o}lner Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie}, volume = {76}, journal = {KZfSS K{\"o}lner Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0023-2653}, doi = {10.1007/s11577-024-00961-3}, pages = {603 -- 625}, abstract = {Affect control theory (ACT) is a sociological theory of meaning processing in social interactions. Meaning, according to ACT, derives from cultural institutions and situational affordances, having denotative (declarative) as well as connotative (affective) properties. Mathematical formalizations of ACT allow predictions of affective incongruency (in the terminology of ACT, deflection), which arises from conflicting institutional and situational meanings in a given interaction context. Although ACT is theoretically consistent, its propositions regarding cognitive and affective processing have rarely been tested. The present study fills this gap by investigating the neural processing of affective incongruency in linguistic descriptions of social interactions. Following a neurosociological paradigm, the study draws on neurocognitive evidence on the effects of words' affective content on word processing as well as on a previous electroencephalography study that investigated processing of affective incongruency using event-related brain potentials. We hypothesized that affective incongruency is associated with activation in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a brain area known for conflict processing. To test this hypothesis, we replicated the electroencephalography study using functional magnetic resonance imaging: We visually presented sentences describing social interactions to 23 participants in a silent reading task while measuring differences in the hemodynamic response in two conditions of affective congruency. Results show expected increases in neural activity for affectively incongruent sentences in the left ACC, supporting the assumption that affective language content influences meaning-making at very early semantic processing stages. The results also add to the emerging neuroscientific evidence for ACT's mathematical model of impression formation.}, subject = {Funktionelle Kernspintomografie}, language = {en} } @book{RauenbuschOrtgieseSchroederetal., author = {Rauenbusch, Jens and Ortgiese, Michael and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Mrosek von Glischinski, Matth{\"a}us and Goehde, Jan and Hologa, Salome and Scheil, Maximilian and Veicht, Jan-Simon and Wiemer, Philip}, title = {Mobilit{\"a}t von morgen}, publisher = {FHP Verl.}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-934329-72-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-10363}, publisher = {Verlag der Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {56}, abstract = {Die Studie wurde von Studierenden des Kurses »Die Zukunft der Mobilit{\"a}t« am Institut f{\"u}r angewandte Forschung Urbane Zukunft der Fachhochschule Potsdam entwickelt und durchgef{\"u}hrt. {\"U}ber einen Fragebogen wurden realistische Mobilit{\"a}tsszenarien auf Basis von Expert_innenmeinungen erfasst und ausgewertet. Im Gegensatz zu {\"a}hnlich gelagerten Studien erfolgte eine Beschr{\"a}nkung auf Berlin und Brandenburg. Lokale Probleme, Entwicklungen und L{\"o}sungsm{\"o}glichkeiten standen somit im Zentrum der Untersuchung. {\"U}ber die Auswahl der Teilnehmer_innen konnten praxisnahe und inhaltlich konkrete Antworten auf wichtige Zukunftsfragen unserer Region gewonnen werden.}, subject = {Delphi-Technik}, language = {de} } @article{CunitzOrtmannsSchroederetal., author = {Cunitz, Carla and Ortmanns, Meike and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hantzsche, Michael and Schiewe, Andr{\´e} and Nachtwei, Jens}, title = {Wenn KI mitarbeitet}, series = {Innovative Verwaltung : Das Fachmedium f{\"u}r erfolgreiches Verwaltungsmanagement}, volume = {2026}, journal = {Innovative Verwaltung : Das Fachmedium f{\"u}r erfolgreiches Verwaltungsmanagement}, number = {1-2}, publisher = {Springer Gabler}, address = {Wiesbaden}, issn = {1618-9876}, pages = {34 -- 37}, abstract = {In einem Forschungsprojekt in Berlin und Potsdam wurde untersucht, wie Mitarbeitende K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz (KI) in ihrer t{\"a}glichen Arbeit wahrnehmen und welche Erwartungen sie an smarte Tools haben. Die Studie zeigt, dass 58 Prozent der Besch{\"a}ftigten KI positiv sehen und sich vor allem Entlastung bei Routineaufgaben erhoffen. Besonders beliebt sind KI-Tools wie ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot und Perplexity, die bei Texterstellung, Recherche und Datenanalyse unterst{\"u}tzen. Die Ergebnisse der Studie fließen in ein Kooperationsprojekt zur Gestaltung zukunftsf{\"a}higer Arbeitswelten ein. In Workshops wurden konkrete KI-Nutzungsszenarien f{\"u}r die Verwaltungspraxis erarbeitet, darunter die Durchsuchbarkeit von Dienstvorschriften, KI-basierte Texterstellung und ein intelligenter B{\"u}rgerservice-Chatbot. Die Einf{\"u}hrung von KI erfordert Transparenz, Weiterbildung, konkrete Anwendungsfelder und Partizipation der Mitarbeitenden. Durch positive Erfahrungen mit KI-Anwendungen kann die Akzeptanz f{\"u}r komplexere Technologien gesteigert werden. Die Studie bietet eine Blaupause f{\"u}r andere Kommunen und zeigt, wie KI gezielt und mitarbeitendenorientiert eingesetzt werden kann, um greifbaren Mehrwert f{\"u}r die Verwaltungsarbeit zu schaffen.}, subject = {Arbeit}, language = {de} } @unpublished{DamettoVieiraNoeletal., author = {Dametto, Diego and Vieira, Luc and No{\"e}l, Tania and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Aelenei, Crisitina and Blaison, Christophe}, title = {The affective and linguistic roots of gender stereotypes}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/h945z}, pages = {78}, abstract = {This paper compares the affective meanings attributed to feminine and masculine versions of the same social categories. We collected semantic differential ratings for 192 pairs of masculine and feminine social categories from two representative samples of n = 700 French and n = 700 German participants. We investigated how lexical and grammatical gender influences the affective meaning of social categories on Osgood's dimensions of evaluation, potency, and activity, as well as how differences in affective meaning are related to known gender stereotypes. Our results suggest that gender does produce only small effects. However, they are not randomly distributed and consistent with well-known gender stereotypes. The results enrich social psychological research on gender as well as the cultural debate on the use of gender-fair language in grammatically gendered languages by providing a more nuanced assessment of the affective roots of gender stereotypes conveyed by language.}, subject = {Deutsch}, language = {en} } @article{ObermeierSchroederRoechertetal., author = {Obermeier, Sigrid and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and R{\"o}chert, Tanja and Burdack, Doreen}, title = {Das Qualifizierungsprogramm kommunale Smart-City-Manager}, series = {Transforming cities : urbane Systeme im Wandel : das technisch-wissenschaftliche Fachmagazin}, volume = {10}, journal = {Transforming cities : urbane Systeme im Wandel : das technisch-wissenschaftliche Fachmagazin}, number = {4}, publisher = {Trialog Publishers}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, issn = {2366-7281}, doi = {10.24053/TC-2025-0074}, pages = {38 -- 43}, abstract = {Smart-City-Manager {\"u}bernehmen in Kommunen eine Querschnittsrolle als Generalisten, Innovationstreiber und Br{\"u}ckenbauer, eine entsprechende Ausbildung f{\"u}r kommunale Angestellte fehlte zu Projektbeginn. Der Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung eines Programmes in einer Kooperation aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Entwickelt auf Basis einer Bedarfsanalyse, als Pilotprojekt in drei Staffeln durchgef{\"u}hrt und in einem agilen Prozess wissenschaftlich begleitet und evaluiert, konnte das Schulungskonzept im Anschluss in ein bundesweites Angebot {\"u}berf{\"u}hrt werden.}, subject = {F{\"u}hrungskraft}, language = {de} }