A5023370155- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Media Influence and Health
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Risk Perception and Management
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Representations and Identity
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2015-2024
University of Oslo
2015-2024
Centro de Estudos para a Intervencao Social
2011-2019
University of California, Los Angeles
2017-2018
University of Mannheim
2018
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
2018
Utrecht University
2006-2009
University of Würzburg
2001-2007
Dual-process models imply that automatic attitudes should be less flexible than their self-reported counterparts; the relevant empirical record, however, is mixed. To advance debate, authors conducted 4 experiments investigating how readily preferences for one imagined social group over another could induced or reversed. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed preferences, like ones, by both abstract supposition concrete learning. In contrast, 3 newly formed unlike not reversed either Thus, relative...
The authors hypothesized that activated self-stereotypes can influence the strategies of task solution by inducing regulatory foci. More specifically, positive should induce a promotion focus state eagerness, whereas negative stereotypes prevention vigilance. Study 1 showed ascribed stereotype with regard to performance leads better recall for avoidance-related statements approach-related statements. In Studies 2 and 3, both an experimental manipulation group expectation preexisting verbal...
Abstract Three studies examined how food deprivation influences the immediate valence of stimuli as well spontaneous motivational tendencies toward them. We assumed that reactions towards should be tuned to basic needs organism. In Study 1, names a function need state was assessed using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) in quasi‐experimental design. Food led more positive items. 2, these results were replicated Extrinsic Affective Simon Task. 3, pictorial assessed. As hypothesized, approach...
The main purpose of this study was to examine if disgust toward unpalatable foods would be reduced among food-deprived subjects and attenuation occur automatically even under moderate levels food deprivation. Subjects were either satiated or deprived for 15 hours electromyographic activity recorded at the levator muscle region while they watching pictures palatable versus foods, positive disgust-related control pictures. For purposes, subjects' zygomaticus corrugator muscles also recorded....
Drawing on social representations theory, we explore how the public make sense of unfamiliar, taking as example a novel technology: synthetic meat. Data from an online deliberation study and eighteen focus groups in Belgium, Portugal UK indicated that various strategies sense-making afforded different levels critical thinking about Anchoring to genetic modification, metaphors like ‘Frankenfoods’ commonplaces ‘playing God’ closed off debates around potential applications meat, whereas asking...
When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, “moved,” “touched,” “heart-warming,” “nostalgia,” “patriotism,” or “rapture” (although sometimes use each of these terms for other emotions). We call the kama muta (Sanskrit, “moved by love”). Kama evokes adaptive motives to devote and commit CSRs are fundamental social life. It occurs in diverse contexts appears be pervasive across cultures...
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors refer an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta understand experiences often given these labels. Do same evoke emotion across nations languages? They conducted studies in 19 different countries, 5 continents, 15 languages, with a total 3,542 participants. tested construct...
Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs). In contexts, when people suddenly feel close to others, observe others feeling closer each other, this sudden tends an emotion often labeled vernacular English being moved, touched, heart-warming feelings. Recent theory and empirical work indicates emotion; the construct named kama muta. Is for simply expression much...
Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one's feeling as being is a component social-relational emotion we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). hypothesise it caused appraising an intensification communal sharing relations. Here, test this investigating people's moment-to-moment reports while watching...
When do people say that they are moved, and does this experience constitute a unique emotion? We review theory empirical research on being moved across psychology philosophy. examine feeling labels, elicitors, valence, bodily sensations, motivations. find the English lexeme typically (but not always) refers to distinct potent emotion results in social bonding; often includes tears, piloerection, chills, or warm chest; is described as pleasurable, though sometimes mixed emotion. While we...
The popularity of virtual concerts increased as a result the social distancing requirements coronavirus pandemic. We aimed to examine how characteristics and participants influenced their experiences connection kama muta (often labeled “being moved”). hypothesized that concert liveness salience would influence . collected survey responses on variety personal from 307 13 countries across 4 continents. operationalized combination feelings behaviors was measured using short scale ( Zickfeld et...
The emotion commonly labeled in English as being moved or touched is widely experienced but only tacitly defined, and has received little systematic attention. Based on a review of conceptualizations from various disciplines, we hypothesize that events appraised an increase interpersonal closeness, moral acts, when sufficiently intense, elicit positive typically "being moved," characterized by tears, goosebumps, feeling warmth the chest. We predicted this to be true for person participates...
A configuration of infantile attributes including a large head, eyes, with small nose and mouth low on the head comprise visual baby schema or Kindchenschema that English speakers call "cute." In contrast to stimulus gestalt evokes it, evoked emotional response cuteness has been little studied, perhaps because emotion no specific name in English, Norwegian, German. We hypothesize typically kama muta, social-relational other contexts is often labeled as being moved touched, heartwarming,...
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent their cognitions, to psychological discomfort associated tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented on red meat risks consumers. explore exposure effects, attitudes toward and perceived knowledge of were measured before, immediately after, two weeks after exposure. We expected be:...
Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning identify social and non-social factors relate core temperature. This data-driven analysis found complex integration (CSI), defined as number of high-contact roles one engages in, is a critical predictor We further cross-validation approach show...
Abstract Situations involving increased closeness or exceptional kindness are often labeled as moving touching and individuals report bodily symptoms, including tears, goosebumps, warmth in the body. Recently, kama muta framework has been proposed a cross‐cultural conceptualization of these experiences. Prior research on mostly relied subjective reports. Thus, our main goal present project was to examine pattern physiological responses inducing videos compare it patterns for similar, though...