TY - JOUR A1 - Blanz, Mathias A1 - Piontkowski, Ursula A1 - Rohmann, Anette A1 - Schmermund, Anke A1 - Florack, Arnd T1 - Social categorization on the basis of multiple group-memberships: The case of male superiors and female subordinates JF - International Review of Social Psychology N2 - The present article addresses the question under which circumstances two social group-memberships are combined as a basis for social categorization. Following the functional approach to social category salience by Oakes (1987), the salience of combined categories was expected to depend on the degree of perceived fit of the two group- memberships to a shared pool of stereotypic dimensions (a so-called pattern of multiple fit). In a crossed categorization design, stimulus persons were characterized by gender (male vs. female) and authority position (superior vs. subordinate) and we studied the influence of multiple fit on the preference of particular category combinations (conjunctive categories: male superiors and female subordinates) over alternative category combinations (non-conjunctive categories: female superiors and male subordinates). In the present study, the degree of multiple fit was manipulated (low vs. high) and participants subsequently categorized members of conjunctive categories more strongly than those of non-conjunctive categories only when multiple fit was high, but not when a low level of multiple fit was given. In sum, results supported the notion that the use of multiple group- memberships as a categorization unit is less a matter of automaticity, but a function of the specific pattern of perceived category fit. Y1 - 2005 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 25 EP - 54 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Piontkowski, Ursula A1 - Blanz, Mathias A1 - Rohmann, Anette A1 - Schmermund, Anke A1 - Florack, Arnd ED - Columbus, Frank H. T1 - The impact of multiple fit on implicit associations between categories: The implicit-association test as a research instrument in the study of social categorization JF - Advances in psychology research Y1 - 2001 VL - 6 SP - 103 EP - 128 PB - Nova Science CY - Huntington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanz, Mathias A1 - Piontkowski, Ursula A1 - Florack, Arnd A1 - Rohmann, Anette ED - Columbus, Frank H. T1 - When people belong to more than one group: A fit-based approach to multiple categorization JF - Advances in psychology research Y1 - 2001 VL - 4 SP - 279 EP - 314 PB - Nova Science CY - Huntington ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Blanz, Mathias A1 - Florack, Arnd ED - Piontkowski, Ursula T1 - Kommunikation BT - Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-17-021992-2 PB - Kohlhammer CY - Stuttgart ER -