TY - CHAP A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Wolf, Ingo ED - Schmitt, Claudia Thea ED - Bamberg, Eva T1 - Psychologische Aspekte nachhaltiger Mobilität BT - Struktur und Dynamik von Einstellungen zu Mobilitätsinnovationen T2 - Psychologie und Nachhaltigkeit N2 - Technologische und soziale Innovationen scheinen derzeit viele Perspektiven für eine Transformation des Mobilitätssektors hin zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit zu eröffnen. Ob und wie sich das menschliche Mobilitätsverhalten den neuen Möglichkeiten anpasst, ist allerdings eine offene Frage, die psychologischer Forschung bedarf. Wir stellen in unserem Beitrag eine neue Theorie der Mobilitätseinstellungen vor, die Ansätze zur emotionalen Kohärenz 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. Für die erfolgreiche Verbreitung innovativer und nachhaltiger Mobilitätskonzepte in der Gesellschaft wird entscheidend sein, ob neben technologischen Entwicklungen auch eine breite Transformation von Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung erreicht werden kann. KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Mobilität KW - Entscheidungsprozess Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-658-19964-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19965-4_17 SP - 203 EP - 213 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Geuder, Philipp A1 - Leidinger, Marie-Claire A1 - Lupin, Martin von A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Emosaic: Visualizing Affective Content of Text at Varying Granularity T2 - arxiv.org N2 - 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. KW - Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation KW - Digital KW - Visualisierung KW - Text KW - Emotion KW - Farbe KW - Farbzuweisung KW - Farbübersetzung Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2002.10096 PB - Cornell University ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hoey, Jesse A1 - Nagappan, Meiyappan A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - De Zoysa, Nalin A1 - Iyer, Rahul A1 - Morgan, Jonathan H. A1 - Rishi, Deepak A1 - Sirianni, Antonio D. A1 - Yun, Seonghu A1 - Zhao, Jun A1 - Zöller, Nikolas T1 - Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups N2 - 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. KW - Computational social science KW - GitHub KW - Gruppendynamik KW - Sozialpsychologie Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4hukx SP - 1 EP - 36 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sirianni, Antonio D. A1 - Morgan, Jonathan H. A1 - Zöller, Nikolas A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Complements and Competitors BT - The Co-functionality and Co-diffusion of Languages on a Collaborative Coding Platform N2 - 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. KW - Soziologie KW - Kommunikation Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/bfmy2 SP - 1 EP - 23 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoey, Jesse A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Disruption of Social Orders in Societal Transitions as Affective Control of Uncertainty JF - American behavioral scientist N2 - 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. T2 - Störung sozialer Ordnungen in gesellschaftlichen Übergängen als affektive Kontrolle von Ungewissheit Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211066055 SN - 1552-3381 VL - 67 IS - 2 SP - 311 EP - 331 PB - Sage Publ. CY - Thousand Oaks ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Ingo A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning JF - Scientific reports N2 - 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. KW - Elektrofahrzeug KW - Meinungsbildung Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81605-6 SN - 2045-2322 IS - 14 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sirianni, Antonio D. A1 - Morgan, Jonathan H. A1 - Zöller, Nikolas A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Complements and competitors BT - Examining technological co-diffusion and relatedness on a collaborative coding platform JF - PNAS nexus N2 - 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. KW - Computational social science KW - Innovation KW - Netzwerk Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae549 SN - 2752-6542 VL - 3 IS - 12 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Vieira, Luc A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Blaison, Christophe T1 - Charlemagne’s Legacy BT - A Consensus Analysis of Affective Meanings in French and German Culture JF - Social Psychology Quarterly N2 - 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. KW - Karlssage KW - Semasiologie Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725231205855 SN - 0190-2725 SN - 1939-8999 VL - 87 SP - 479 EP - 500 PB - Sage Publications CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wijermans, Nanda A1 - Scholz, Geeske A1 - Paolillo, Rocco A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Chappin, Emile A1 - Craig, Tony A1 - Templeton, Anne T1 - Models in Social Psychology and Agent-Based Social Simulation BT - An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Similarities and Differences JF - Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation N2 - 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. KW - Sozialpsychologie Y1 - 2022 UR - https://rofasss.org/2022/10/04/models-in-spabss/ SN - 2732-5903 SP - 1 EP - 5 CY - Tromsø ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schröder, Tobias ED - Senge, Konstanze ED - Schützeichel, Rainer ED - Zink, Veronika T1 - David Heise: Expressive Order BT - Confirming Sentiments in Social Action T2 - Schlüsselwerke der Emotionssoziologie N2 - 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 Bedürfnis nach Bestätigung sozialen Wissens fasst er als Motor der Interpretation und Ausführung sozialer Handlungen auf. KW - Computersimulation KW - Handlungsregulation KW - Identität KW - Kybernetik KW - Symbolischer Interaktionismus KW - Computational Social Science KW - Affect Control Theory KW - Affektsteuerungstheorie Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-658-37869-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37869-1_29 SP - 263 EP - 272 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ET - 2. Auflage ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Prytula, Michael T1 - Language and meaning as basic topics in coaching T2 - International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching N2 - 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”). KW - Sprache KW - Bedeutung KW - Konnotation KW - Kohärenz KW - Identität KW - Coaching Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-81938-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81938-5_41 SP - 509 EP - 519 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Michelini, Gabriela A1 - Higi, Leonard A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Klaperski, Daniel A1 - Popiolek, Roy A1 - Tauch, Anne A1 - Michel, Antje T1 - Developing a stakeholder-centric simulation tool to support integrated mobility planning T2 - Advances in Social Simulation N2 - 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. KW - Mobilität 4.0 KW - Computersimulation KW - Transportplanung Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-92843-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8_6 SN - 2213-8692 SP - 65 EP - 78 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Conrad, Markus T1 - Emotional connotations of words related to authority and community JF - Behavior Research Methods N2 - 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. KW - Emotion KW - Konnotation KW - Gemeinschaft KW - Bewertung KW - Gefühl Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0494-7 SN - 1554-3528 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 720 EP - 735 PB - Springer CY - New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Consensus and stratification in the affective meaning of human sociality JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America N2 - 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. KW - Sozialverhalten KW - Interaktion KW - Cluster-Analyse KW - Emotion KW - Meinung Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1313321111 SN - 0027-8424 VL - 111 IS - 22 SP - 8001 EP - 8006 PB - NAS CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - von Scheve, Christian T1 - Dissecting the Sociality of Emotion BT - A Multilevel Approach JF - Emotion review : an international and interdisciplinary journal N2 - 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. KW - Gefühl KW - Affekt KW - Kontrolle KW - Sozialität Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073913503383 SN - 1754-0739 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 124 EP - 133 PB - Sage CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - von Scheve, Christian T1 - Author Reply BT - Affect control theory and the sociality of emotion JF - Emotion Review N2 - 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. KW - Affekt KW - Kontrolle KW - Sozialität KW - Gefühl Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073913512007 SN - 1754-0747 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 140 EP - 141 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Barber, Horacio A. A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - Aryani, Arash A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Making sense of social interaction : emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials JF - Neuropsychologia N2 - 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 (Schröder, 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. KW - Affect Control Theory KW - Interaktion KW - Affektive Entwicklung Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002 SN - 1873-3514 VL - 125 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Amsterdam CY - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Unpacking the Habitus BT - Meaning Making Across Lifestyles JF - Sociological Forum N2 - 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. KW - Habitus KW - Studie KW - Lebensstil KW - Soziale Schichtung Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12293 SN - 1573-7861 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 994 EP - 1017 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Combs, Aidan A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Blaison, Christophe A1 - Leung, Renee A1 - Malhotra, Aarti A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Hoey, Jesse A1 - Smith-Lovin, Lynn T1 - Affective connotations according to LLMs BT - Implications for meaning measurement and cultural bias JF - Cognition and Emotion N2 - 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. KW - Affektivität KW - Bias KW - Großes Sprachmodell KW - Konnotation Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2568551 SN - 0269-9931 SN - 1464-0600 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Szczepanska, Timo A1 - Priebe, Max A1 - Higi, Leonard A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - PaSyMo: Gamifying Communicative Urban Planning With Participatory Systems Modeling JF - Urban Planning N2 - 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. KW - Modellierung KW - Simulation KW - Spiel KW - Stadtgestaltung KW - Stadtplanung Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17645/up.10778 SN - 2183-7635 VL - 11 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lisbon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Higi, Leonard A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Weidner, Silke A1 - Neuroth, Heike T1 - Taking stock of urban data governance in German small towns JF - Data & Policy N2 - 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. KW - Deutschland KW - Gemeindeverwaltung KW - Kleinstadt KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Stadtplanung Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.10051 SN - 2632-3249 VL - 8 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Higi, Leonard A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Konnerth, Johanna T1 - Datennutzung für nachhaltige Kommunalentwicklung T2 - Analysen und Konzepte : lebensWerte Kommune N2 - Daten können Kommunen wesentlich bei der nachhaltigen Kommunalentwicklung unterstützen – 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 gegenüber. Diese Ausgabe gibt einen einordnenden Überblick über 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 ermöglichen sollen. Der Einblick in Fallbeispiele zeigt mögliche Einsatzfelder in der Praxis auf und soll dazu anregen, in der eigenen Kommune ins Tun zu kommen und das Potenzial von Daten für eine nachhaltige Kommunalentwicklung zu entdecken. KW - Brandenburg KW - Gemeindeentwicklung KW - Open Data Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.11586/2025014 SN - 2748-7644 SN - 2512-9473 VL - 2024 IS - 2 PB - Bertelsmann Stiftung CY - Gütersloh ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Aryani, Arash A1 - Hsu, Chun-Ting A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Jacobs, Arthur M. T1 - Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions JF - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie N2 - 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. N2 - Die Theorie der Affektsteuerung (Affect Control Theory) ist eine soziologische Theorie zur Verarbeitung von Bedeutung in der sozialen Interaktion. Bedeutung speist sich darin sowohl aus institutionalisierten als auch aus situativen Gegebenheiten und umfasst denotative (deklarative) wie konnotative (affektive) Dimensionen. Die mathematische Formalisierung der Theorie erlaubt Vorhersagen der affektiven Kongruenz oder Stimmigkeit („affective deflection“) einer Interaktionssituation, die sich aus dem Zusammenspiel institutionalisierter und situativer Bedeutungen ergibt. Obgleich theoretisch konsistent, sind die Thesen der Theorie zum Zusammenspiel kognitiver und affektiver Bestandteile von Bedeutung nur selten empirisch überprüft worden. Die vorliegende Studie schließt diese Lücke, indem sie die neuronale Verarbeitung affektiver Inkongruenz in der sprachlichen Darstellung sozialer Interaktionen untersucht. Einem neurosoziologischen Paradigma folgend, stützt sich die Studie auf neurokognitive Befunde zur Rolle der affektiven Konnotation von Wörtern in der visuellen Wortverarbeitung sowie eigene Befunde zur neurophysiologischen Verarbeitung affektiver Inkongruenz mittels ereigniskorrelierter Hirnpotenziale. Wir testen die Hypothese, dass die affektive Inkongruenz sozialer Interaktion mit der Aktivierung des anterioren cingulären Cortex (ACC) korreliert, einem Hirnareal, das an der Verarbeitung konfligierender Informationen beteiligt ist. Dazu replizieren wir ein bestehendes Experimentaldesign unter Nutzung funktioneller Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT): Im Rahmen einer Leseaufgabe präsentieren wir 23 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern visuell Sätze, die soziale Interaktionen beschreiben, und messen Unterschiede in der hämodynamischen Reaktion unter zwei Bedingungen affektiver Inkongruenz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen die erwartete Zunahme der neuronalen Aktivität im linken ACC in der Bedingung hoher affektiver Inkongruenz. Dies stützt die Annahme, dass die affektive Konnotation von Begriffen die Genese von Bedeutung in sozialen Interaktionen bereits in frühen semantischen Verarbeitungsstufen bedingt. Die Befunde können zudem als neurowissenschaftliche Evidenz für die mathematische Formalisierung der Theorie der Affektsteuerung gelten. T2 - Konflikterkennung in der Sprachverarbeitung: ein Test der Theorie der Affektsteuerung zur Prognose neuronaler Korrelate affektiver Inkongruenz in der sozialen Interaktion KW - Funktionelle Kernspintomografie KW - Sprachverarbeitung KW - Symbolischer Interaktionismus Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-024-00961-3 SN - 0023-2653 VL - 76 IS - 3 SP - 603 EP - 625 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rauenbusch, Jens A1 - Ortgiese, Michael A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Mrosek von Glischinski, Matthäus A1 - Goehde, Jan A1 - Hologa, Salome A1 - Scheil, Maximilian A1 - Veicht, Jan-Simon A1 - Wiemer, Philip T1 - Mobilität von morgen BT - Ein Zukunftsbild für Berlin und Brandenburg N2 - Die Studie wurde von Studierenden des Kurses »Die Zukunft der Mobilität« am Institut für angewandte Forschung Urbane Zukunft der Fachhochschule Potsdam entwickelt und durchgeführt. Über einen Fragebogen wurden realistische Mobilitätsszenarien auf Basis von Expert_innenmeinungen erfasst und ausgewertet. Im Gegensatz zu ähnlich gelagerten Studien erfolgte eine Beschränkung auf Berlin und Brandenburg. Lokale Probleme, Entwicklungen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten standen somit im Zentrum der Untersuchung. Über die Auswahl der Teilnehmer_innen konnten praxisnahe und inhaltlich konkrete Antworten auf wichtige Zukunftsfragen unserer Region gewonnen werden. KW - Delphi-Technik KW - Regionale Mobilität KW - Volkswirtschaft KW - Verkehrsinfrastruktur KW - Befragung KW - Verstädterung KW - Ländlicher Raum KW - Stadt KW - Demographie KW - Wohnumfeld KW - Urbane Zukunft Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-10363 SN - 978-3-934329-72-0 PB - FHP Verl. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cunitz, Carla A1 - Ortmanns, Meike A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Hantzsche, Michael A1 - Schiewe, André A1 - Nachtwei, Jens T1 - Wenn KI mitarbeitet JF - Innovative Verwaltung : Das Fachmedium für erfolgreiches Verwaltungsmanagement N2 - In einem Forschungsprojekt in Berlin und Potsdam wurde untersucht, wie Mitarbeitende Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in ihrer täglichen Arbeit wahrnehmen und welche Erwartungen sie an smarte Tools haben. Die Studie zeigt, dass 58 Prozent der Beschäftigten 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 unterstützen. Die Ergebnisse der Studie fließen in ein Kooperationsprojekt zur Gestaltung zukunftsfähiger Arbeitswelten ein. In Workshops wurden konkrete KI-Nutzungsszenarien für die Verwaltungspraxis erarbeitet, darunter die Durchsuchbarkeit von Dienstvorschriften, KI-basierte Texterstellung und ein intelligenter Bürgerservice-Chatbot. Die Einführung von KI erfordert Transparenz, Weiterbildung, konkrete Anwendungsfelder und Partizipation der Mitarbeitenden. Durch positive Erfahrungen mit KI-Anwendungen kann die Akzeptanz für komplexere Technologien gesteigert werden. Die Studie bietet eine Blaupause für andere Kommunen und zeigt, wie KI gezielt und mitarbeitendenorientiert eingesetzt werden kann, um greifbaren Mehrwert für die Verwaltungsarbeit zu schaffen. KW - Arbeit KW - Generative KI KW - Künstliche Intelligenz Y1 - 2026 UR - https://www.springerprofessional.de/wenn-ki-mitarbeitet/52027876?searchResult=1.wenn%20ki%20mitarbeitet SN - 1618-9876 VL - 2026 IS - 1-2 SP - 34 EP - 37 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - INPR A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Vieira, Luc A1 - Noël, Tania A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Aelenei, Crisitina A1 - Blaison, Christophe T1 - The affective and linguistic roots of gender stereotypes BT - Does grammatical gender influence the affective meanings attached to social categories in French and German? N2 - 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. KW - Deutsch KW - Französisch KW - Geschlechtergerechte Sprache KW - Geschlechterstereotyp KW - Maskulinum Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h945z ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Obermeier, Sigrid A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Röchert, Tanja A1 - Burdack, Doreen T1 - Das Qualifizierungsprogramm kommunale Smart-City-Manager JF - Transforming cities : urbane Systeme im Wandel : das technisch-wissenschaftliche Fachmagazin N2 - Smart-City-Manager übernehmen in Kommunen eine Querschnittsrolle als Generalisten, Innovationstreiber und Brückenbauer, eine entsprechende Ausbildung für 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 durchgeführt und in einem agilen Prozess wissenschaftlich begleitet und evaluiert, konnte das Schulungskonzept im Anschluss in ein bundesweites Angebot überführt werden. KW - Führungskraft KW - Gemeindeverwaltung KW - Qualifizierungsprozess KW - Smart City Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.24053/TC-2025-0074 SN - 2366-7281 SN - 2366-3723 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 38 EP - 43 PB - Trialog Publishers CY - München ER -