A5064935591- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Religion, Society, and Development
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Radiation Effects in Electronics
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Global trade and economics
- Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
- War, Ethics, and Justification
Peace Research Institute Oslo
2023-2024
Uppsala University
2020-2023
How does war shape human altruism? Some find warfare increases generosity within groups only. Others maintain that war's prosocial effects extend to outgroup members as well. To make sense of these disparate findings, we offer a theoretical framework highlights the role threat sensitivity in altruism. Refugees from Syria and Iraq (N = 1521) completed welfare tradeoff task perceptions scale where other's group identity, gender age were experimentally varied. We found individuals belonging...
How does psychology vary across human societies? The fundamental social motives framework adopts an evolutionary approach to capture the broad range of goals within a taxonomy ancestrally recurring threats and opportunities. These motives-self-protection, disease avoidance, affiliation, status, mate acquisition, retention, kin care-are high in fitness relevance everyday salience, yet understudied cross-culturally. Here, we gathered data on these 42 countries (N = 15,915) two cross-sectional...
Credence goods, such as repair and healthcare services, are characterized by profound information asymmetries between less-informed customers better-informed expert sellers. These open the door for fraudulent behavior on seller side. In a preregistered natural field experiment, we vary in one dimension seller’s perception of whether service is an ordinary or credence good second customer member minority majority. This allows us to measure size induced goods markup address question it...
Intergroup interaction can be hindered by legacies of conflict and group biases. Many studies have looked at intergroup attitudes pro-sociality in the wake conflict, but few explicitly studied how affiliation another person affects willingness to interact economically, especially when interactions concern contested issues. In this study, I investigate effect on engage economic with others among individuals exposed violent using a sample refugees from conflicts Syria Iraq. Based theory...
The Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) was one the most grueling urban warfare campaigns in recent memory. fighting quickly concentrated West Mosul, where civilians prevented by Islamic State from leaving their homes experienced airstrikes and indiscriminate shelling government forces. Utilizing as-if-randomness severe damage or destruction people’s homes, this paper examines impact war exposure on endorsement moral foundations among a large diverse sample residents ( N = 1027). Home increased...
The experiences of war and trauma have been shown to many implications for the behaviour attitudes individuals, including economic social preferences. It has argued that this may in part be result a process called Post Traumatic Growth (PTG), where individuals exposed traumatic events experience growth number domains, thereby shifting However, few studies actually tested supposition with field data. I argue populations experienced such as armed conflict, who PTG will display reduced tendency...