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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations Open

Kelly Kirkland, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Niels J. Van Doesum, César Andrés Acevedo-Triana, Catherine E. Amiot , et al. · 2022

People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice – known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how th…

A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping Open

Porntida Tanjitpiyanond, Jolanda Jetten, Kim Peters, Ashwini Ashokkumar, Oumar Barry , et al. · 2022

There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incomp…

Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance Open

Matthew J. Hornsey, Samuel Pearson, Jemima Kang, Kai Sassenberg, Jolanda Jetten , et al. · 2022

While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current artic…

Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries Open

Kelly Kirkland, Charlie R. Crimston, Jolanda Jetten, Maksim Rudnev, César Andrés Acevedo-Triana , et al. · 2022

What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however…

Moral expansiveness around the world: The role of societal factors across 36 countries Open

Kelly Kirkland, Charlie R. Crimston, Jolanda Jetten, Maksim Rudnev, César Andrés Acevedo-Triana , et al. · 2022

What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles’. There has, however…

Estimated probabilities of positive, vs. negative, events show separable correlations with COVID-19 preventive behaviours Open

Robert W. Booth, Müjde Peker, Burak Baran Yavuz, Ayça Aksu · 2022

Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations Open

Egon Dejonckheere, Joshua J. Rhee, Peter K. Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker , et al. · 2022

Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups Open

Maksim Rudnev, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Samira Aminihajibashi, Maja Becker, Michał Bilewicz , et al. · 2020

Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalism Scale had been designed to assess moral vitalism in a brief survey form. Previous studies established the r…

Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries Open

Mark J. Brandt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears, Luca Andrighetto, Frédérique Autin , et al. · 2020

The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,…

Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries (Dataset) Open

Mark J. Brandt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears, Luca Andrighetto, Frédérique Autin , et al. · 2020

The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries (N = 12,7…

Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism Open

Brock Bastian, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Steve Loughnan, Paul G. Bain, Ashwini Ashokkumar , et al. · 2019

Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading to the emergence of strategies designed to help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed to explain and predict the devastating effects of pa…

Supplemental Materials Bastian, Vauclair, et al., (2019) Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb. 2019-1576 from Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism Open

Brock Bastian, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Steve Loughnan, Paul G. Bain, Ashwini Ashokkumar , et al. · 2019

This file provides additional discussion of other variables in Study 1 and additional analyses for Study 1, Study 2 and 3. This includes additional statistical tables and figures.

Supplementary material from "Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism" Open

Brock Bastian, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Steve Loughnan, Paul G. Bain, Ashwini Ashokkumar , et al. · 2019

Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading to the emergence of strategies designed to help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed to explain and predict the devastating effects of pa…

Individual differences in collectivism predict city identification and city evaluation in Australian, French, and Turkish cities Open

Mark Rubin, Constantina Badea, Jenna Condie, Yara Mahfud, Tessa Morrison , et al. · 2017

Muhafazakarlık, kaygı ve tehdit edici uyarıcılara karşı dikkat yanlılığı Open

Müjde Peker, Robert W. Booth, Uğurcan Dikçe · 2017

Muhafazakarlık, kaygı ve tehdide karşı hassasiyetin Türkiye örnekleminde incelenmesi için iki çalışma yapılmıştır. Çoğunlukla A.B.D.’de yapılmış çalışmalar, muhafazakarlığın tehditten korkmanın (özellikle ölüm korkusunun) yanısıra tehdit e…

Collective Narcissism Predicts Hypersensitivity to In–group Insult and Direct and Indirect Retaliatory Intergroup Hostility Open

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Müjde Peker, Rita Guerra, Tomasz Baran · 2016

Results of five studies (N = 1596) linked collective narcissism—a belief in in–group exaggerated greatness contingent on external validation—to direct and indirect, retaliatory hostility in response to situations that collective narcissist…

State anxiety impairs attentional control when other sources of control are minimal Open

Robert W. Booth, Müjde Peker · 2016

Research suggests anxiety impairs attentional control; however, this effect has been unreliable. We argue that anxiety's impairment of attentional control is subtle, and can be obscured by other non-emotional sources of control. We demonst…

Turkish adaptation of the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire: Reliability and validity in non-clinical samples Open

Robert W. Booth, Müjde Peker, Pinar Oztop · 2016

The rapid, objective measurement of spider fear is important for clinicians, and for researchers studying fear. To facilitate this, we adapted the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ) into Turkish. The FSQ is quick to complete and easy to u…

Looking good or doing good? Motivations for organisational citizenship behaviour in Turkish versus South Korean collectivists Open

Merve Alabak, Müjde Peker, Robert W. Booth · 2015

The purpose of this article is to explore potential motivations to perform organisational citizenship behaviour ( OCB ) in collectivistic Turkish and South Korean societies. Although collectivism has been proposed as a predictor of OCB , p…

Perceived self-society moral discrepancies predict depression but not anxiety Open

Müjde Peker, Nurdan Gündoğdu, Robert W. Booth · 2015

Discrepancies between one's own beliefs, standards and practices and the standards expected by others are associated with increased vulnerability to depression and anxiety. Perhaps the most important personal standard is morality, one's st…

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