A5020503652- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Historical and Linguistic Studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Community Health and Development
Wayne State University
2022-2025
University of Groningen
2014-2023
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2023
Maqsut Narikbayev University
2022
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2018-2020
University of Maryland, College Park
2019-2020
Duke University
2009-2010
Abstract Background The effective implementation of government policies and measures for controlling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires compliance from public. This study aimed to examine cross-sectional longitudinal associations trust in regarding COVID-19 control with adoption recommended health behaviours prosocial behaviours, potential determinants during pandemic. Methods analysed data PsyCorona Survey, an international project on that included 23 733 participants...
Even though the motivation to feel worthy, be respected, and matter others has been identified for centuries by scholars, antecedents, consequences, conditions of its activation have not systematically analyzed or integrated. The purpose this article is offer such an integration. We feature a motivational construct, quest significance, defined as need social worth. This typically fulfilled sense measuring up values one shares with significant others. Our significance-quest theory (SQT)...
Americans are the world's best armed citizens and public polling suggests protection/self-defense is their main reason for gun ownership. However, there virtually no psychological research on The present article develops first process model of defensive ownership-specifically, a two-component that considers both antecedents consequences owning protection/self-defense. We demonstrate different levels threat construal-the specific perceived assault diffuse dangerous world-independently predict...
Previous studies suggested that public trust in government is vital for implementations of social policies rely on public's behavioural responses. This study examined associations regarding COVID-19 control with recommended health behaviours and prosocial behaviours. Data from an international survey representative samples (N=23,733) 23 countries were analysed. Specification curve analysis showed higher was significantly associated adoption all reasonable specifications multilevel linear...
Cross-societal differences in cooperation and trust among strangers the provision of public goods may be key to understanding how societies are managing COVID-19 pandemic. We report a survey conducted across 41 between March May 2020 ( N = 34,526), test pre-registered hypotheses about cross-societal relate prosocial responses (e.g., social distancing), stringency policies, support for behavioral regulations mandatory quarantine). further tested whether variation institutions ecologies...
One of the oldest scientific theories human aggression is frustration-aggression hypothesis, advanced in 1939. Although this theory has received considerable empirical support and alive well today, its underlying mechanisms have not been adequately explored. In article, we examine major findings concepts from extant psychological research on hostile offer an integrative conception: a primordial means for establishing one's sense significance mattering, thus addressing fundamental...
The COVID-19 pandemic presents threats, such as severe disease and economic hardship, to people of different ages. These threats can also be experienced asymmetrically across age groups, which could lead generational differences in behavioral responses reduce the spread disease. We report a survey conducted 56 societies (N = 58,641), tested pre-registered hypotheses about how relates (a) perceived personal costs during pandemic, (b) prosocial (e.g., social distancing), (c) support for...
In the research reported here, we investigated how suspicious nonverbal cues from other people can trigger feelings of physical coldness. There exist implicit standards for much behavioral mimicry is appropriate in various types social interactions, and individuals may react negatively when interaction partners violate these standards. One such reaction be Participants three studies either were or not mimicked by an experimenter contexts. Study 1, participants who interacted with affiliative...
If people’s goals and evaluative standards were aligned, then individuals with mastery-based should, theoretically, primarily rely on temporal comparison information (i.e., how they performed relative to before). In contrast, performance-based should social others). However, across three studies, we explored a misalignment phenomenon call “the overpowering effect of information” (TOESCI). We found that, irrespective individuals’ specific achievement goal (performance-based vs....
When thwarted goals increase endorsement of violence, it may not always reflect antisocial tendencies or some breakdown self-regulation per se; such responses can also an active process self-regulation, whose purpose is to comply with the norms one's social environment.In present experiments (total N ϭ 2,145), causal link between and violent means (guns war) was found be contingent on perceptions that violence normatively valued.Experiments 1-3 establish primarily among U.S. adults a lower...
Before vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became available, a set of infection-prevention behaviors constituted the primary means to mitigate virus spread. Our study aimed identify important predictors this behaviors. Whereas social and health psychological theories suggest limited predictors, machine-learning analyses can correlates from larger pool candidate predictors. We used random forests rank 115 behavior in 56,072 participants across 28 countries, administered March May...
Abstract The coronavirus pandemic posed a major challenge to mental health. Existing evidence shows that COVID-19 is related poor emotional well-being, particularly among women. However, most work on the subject uses single-country samples, limiting ability generalize disparity or explain it as function of societal variables. present study investigates expression positive and negative emotions during gender across 24 countries ( N = 49,637). Strong differences emerged countries, with women...
Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in great loss of life worldwide and shook global economy, required individuals' willingness ability to behave prosocially. To contribute understanding predictors prosociality, we used multilevel models test three previously established pathways prosocial behavior, call “broaden build”, compensation, incapacity pathways. We also tested whether these paths are mediated by general well-being, moderated collective disempowerment, i.e.,...
One way to cope with crises is by attributing their ultimate causes malevolent conspiracies. As are rarely simple, and may involve an interplay between multiple, co-occurring threats, we suggest that conspiracy thinking mainly occurs among individuals who experience conditions of threat complexity – such as socioeconomic vulnerability paired a sense helplessness in society, also sufficiently paranoid infer conspiracy. In the present study, focused on financial strain disempowerment, two...
Between 2016 and 2017, Americans suffered 3 of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history by a lone gunman: Orlando nightclub shooting, Las Vegas strip Texas church shooting. We studied American gun owners wakes these tragedies, theorizing that byproduct salience is to increase guns as means individual empowerment significance. hypothesized this would be especially relevant context thwarted goals, because such individuals may seeking compensatory interact more effectively with their...
This article addresses two questions: (a) why do Americans believe that they need guns to defend themselves and their families (b) has the number of who share this belief increased dramatically in recent decades? To address first question, we describe a model defensive gun ownership assumes Americans’ perceived for self-defense is not only determined by lifetime risk being assaulted (PLRA), but also some diffuse dangerous world (BDW). In attempting identify feared high BDW owners, review...
Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a shift toward more traditional division labor–one where women took greater responsibility for household tasks and childcare than men. We tested whether this regressive was acutely perceived experienced by in countries with gender equality. Cross-cultural longitudinal survey data men ( N = 10,238) collected weekly during first few months pandemic. Multilevel modelling analyses, based on seven waves collection, indicated that broadly but not...
Effective self-regulation could involve not only managing internal resources for goal pursuit but also the often-fleeting interpersonal that can support attainment. In five studies, we test whether people who are effective self-regulators tend to position themselves in social environments best afford self-regulatory success. Results indicated individual differences effectiveness predict stronger preferences spend time with, collaborate and be informed by others were (a) high self-control or...
Mass public shootings are typically followed by a spike in gun sales as well calls for stricter control laws. What remains unclear is whether the motivated increased threat perceptions or concerns about control, mainly driven non-owners purchasing guns owners adding to their collection. Two surveys of and non-owners, conducted immediately before after Orlando shooting, allowed us assess its impact on gun-purchasing intentions. Although there was minor neither group reported any intentions an...
We examined age group differences in hedonic adaptation trajectories of positive and negative affect (PA/NA) at different arousal levels during the severe societal restrictions that governments implemented to contain first wave COVID-19 pandemic (March June 2020). Data from 10,509 participants 33 countries 12 weekly assessments were used (67% women, aged 18 85 +, on average 318 per country (