Sociologist Lindenberg (ICS / RUG) publishes with Diederik Stapel in the leading journal "Science" about effects of disorder on discrimination

Sociologist Siegwart Lindenberg (ICS / RUG) publishes with Diederik Stapel in the leading journal "Science" about effects of disorder on discrimination.

Reference: Lindenberg, S.M. & Stapel, D.A. (2011). Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination. Science 332, 251-253 (2011); DOI: 10.1126/science.1201068

Rubbish on the streets makes people think in stereotypes and can even lead to discrimination. This is because in an untidy environment people have a greater need for structure, state the behavioural scientists Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University and Siegwart Lindenberg of the University of Groningen, both members of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER). The professors demonstrated this in a series of experiments, the results of which were published on 8 April in the scientific journal Science.

Read the article in Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6026/251.full.pdf

Listen here to a radio interview for Dutch Radio 1.

Read the article (in Dutch) in De Volkskrant of April 8, 2011.

Read the article (in Dutch) in NRC of April 8, 2011.

Web page University of Groningen.