A5035796420- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Community Health and Development
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
University of Washington
2021-2023
Seattle University
2022
University of Missouri
2019-2021
To manage the spread of coronavirus, health entities have urged public to take preventive measures such as social distancing and handwashing. Yet, many appear reluctant these measures. Research is needed understand factors underlying reluctance, with aim developing targeted interventions. We identify associating coronavirus death one factor. 590 participants completed surveys in mid-March 2020, which included attitudes toward behavioral intentions, sociodemographic factors. Associating...
Stay-at-home orders issued to combat the growing number of infections during coronavirus pandemic in 2020 had many psychological consequences for people including elevated stress, anxiety, and difficulty maintaining meaning their lives. The present studies utilized cross-sectional designs were conducted better understand how social media usage related people's subjective isolation (i.e., loneliness, emotional existential isolation) life (MIL) early months within United States. Study 1 found...
Abstract Objective There has been steady progress in reducing cancer mortality the United States; however, this hasn't evenly distributed across regions. This paper assesses trends salience (CMS), that is, agreeing getting is a death sentence, over time States and examines correlates of CMS. Methods Data from three administrations Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), gathered 2008, 2013, 2017, were merged, resulting total sample 10,063 respondents. changes CMS examined as well...
<p xmlns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1">From early 20th century headlines to presidential tweets, immigration is described frequently in terms of waves, floods, and tides. Although usage this inundation metaphor has been widely documented, its potential influence on attitudes not assessed empirically. Building from conceptual theory’s claim that abstract ideas can be grounded simpler, concrete concepts, we hypothesized using the understand contributes support for a U.S.—Mexico border...
Remember the Removal is a program for Cherokee youth and young adults which aims to increase knowledge, culture, language by retracing Trail of Tears. This study evaluated values that were gained how participants learned applied traditional through program. significant because cultural knowledge connection are important developmental aspects Indigenous can also protect them from health risks. To assess growth, total 23 took part in focus groups. Participants comprised two cohorts: first...
In the United States, police are becoming increasingly militarized. Whereas racialized nature of militarization has been documented, relationship between racial prejudice and is less understood. We assessed link against Black Native Americans at individual regional levels. Study 1 (N = 765) recruited a nationally representative sample White found positive association support for militarization. 2 3,129,343) sourced aggregates among from Project Implicit policing data Defense Logistics Agency...
As Native American mascots are discontinued, research is needed to understand the impact on intergroup relations. Such discontinuations may be threatening some and increase prejudice against Americans. In Study 1 ( N = 389), exposure information about a mascot removal increased punitive judgments in hypothetical legal scenario, particularly among those high racial colorblindness residing implicated geographical location. 2 358,644) conceptually replicated extended these findings, using...
White Americans are predicted to soon comprise less than half of the U.S. population. Such demographic changes can affect political attitudes by threatening group status. The present studies built from this literature examine a process in which information about such shifts also health policy attitudes, part increasing death-related thoughts, and that inequalities may turn buffer cognitions. Three experiments ( N = 1,651) adopted causal chain approach test these ideas. In Study 1, exposure...
Objective Prior work suggests perceived COVID-19-related threat and existential isolation (EI) would be associated with greater anxiety depression, worse subjective health well-being, lower hope. However, it was unclear whether such concerns might have additive effects (no interaction, two independent main effects) or interact (one effect modifies the other).Method Two studies collected data via MTurk during COVID-19 pandemic. Study 1 (N = 110) measured COVID19-related threat, EI, 2 2,673)...
Metaphors are frequently used linguistic devices that have the power to clarify ambiguous topics. In turn, a clear and stable self-concept is important psychological functioning. The current article examines potential role of clarity in understanding metaphor usage. Study 1 found negatively predicts 2 experimentally lowering led more usage general, self-reported was implicated as mediating factor. Implications discussed.
In this theoretical article, we analyze from a critical cultural psychological perspective why neoliberalism is ill-suited to handle crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. doing so, describe process whereby motivates individualism, which in turn contributes precarity, inequality, depoliticization, and penality, each of have exacerbated severity We conclude with critique how hegemonic practices field science are implicated neoliberal individualism consider might resist neoliberalism.
In recent years, police have become increasingly militarized. While many written about the racialized nature of militarization, no studies to date empirically examined relationship between racial prejudice and militarization. Extending prior work on demographics we find at Minority Serving Institutions are nearly twice as likely those Predominantly White acquire military equipment (Study 1; N = 4,298). Next, examine link militarization individual- population-levels using survey surveillance...
Abstract Neoliberalism is the political‐economic system that has characterized United States for past half century. Structurally, neoliberalism involved privatization, deregulation, and government divestment from public health systems. Cultural psychologists have begun to outline ways reflected in attitudes, of being, ideologies, such as form heightened individualism, justification inequality, depoliticization, precarity. We argue neoliberal structures psychologies may contribute deleterious...
An apparent phenomenological divide between majority and minoritized groups exists in contemporary America terms of feelings social connection. Drawing on recent findings relating to existential isolation (i.e., the sense that one is alone one's subjective experience), three studies compare these toward in-group out-group. Study 1 assesses whether Black White participants vary their self-reported when referencing own or another racial group. Results reveal Americans feel as though other...
Abstract Objective We used canonical correlation analysis (CCA) to examine the relationship between performance on cognitive neuroscience measures of sustained attention, deterministic reversal learning (DRLT), and visual task-shifting (VTS). evaluated whether DRLT VTS predicted Continuous Performance Test-II (CPT-II). Method Participants were 1011 adults from Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics. The first CCA was conducted four VST variables (set 1) three CPT-II 2). second using eight...