A5019528592- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Media Influence and Politics
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Categorization, perception, and language
University of Auckland
2020-2023
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in psychology religion, yet directionality robustness effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess this based on new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, (2) self-reported depends perceived cultural norms religion (i.e., it considered normal...
This chapter harnesses the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective, integrating both psychology and cultural evolution, to examine digital media’s effects on wellbeing, cooperation, misinformation, politics.
Traditionally, social scientists have studied the psychological origins of political attitudes with survey measures. However, there is growing recognition that incentivised decisions in behavioural economic games provide better or at least complementary measures latent preferences. Much prior research also views politics along a unidimensional left/progressive versus right/conservative spectrum, even though increasing evidence suggests two distinct dimensions views, one correlated on...
Abstract Political conservatives' opposition to COVID-19 restrictions is puzzling given the well-documented links between conservatism and conformity, threat sensitivity, pathogen aversion. We propose a resolution based on Dual Foundations Theory of ideology, which holds that ideology comprises two dimensions, one reflecting trade-offs threat-driven conformity individualism, another empathy-driven cooperation competition. test predictions derived from this theory in UK sample using...
Political conservatives’ opposition to COVID-19 restrictions is puzzling given the well-documented links between conservatism and conformity, threat sensitivity, pathogen aversion. We propose a resolution based on Dual Foundations Theory of ideology, which holds that ideology comprises two dimensions, one reflecting trade-offs threat-driven conformity individualism, another empathy-driven co-operation competition. test predictions derived from this theory in UK sample using individuals’...
A national referendum to legalise recreational cannabis use and supply in New Zealand via the Cannabis Legalisation Control Bill (CLCB) was recently narrowly defeated. Understanding underlying factors for this result can inform legalisation debate other countries.To investigate predictors of voter support opposition CLCB.A representative population panel 1,022 people completed an online survey intended voting on CLCB referendum, which included questions demographics, drug history, medicinal...