A5079844988- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Media Influence and Health
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Global Economic and Social Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2013-2025
Northwestern University
2010-2012
University of Maryland, College Park
2008-2010
The purpose of this research is to test whether descriptive norms, or cognitions about typical beliefs, values, and behaviors one's group, can explain cultural influence in the domains blame attribution harm perception. In Study 1, using participants from United States South Korea, authors find that individuals with lower (vs. higher) collectivistic norms ascribed more after intentional acts less acts. second study, American Korean participants, perceived right violations duty violations....
Scholars have long been concerned with understanding the psychological mechanisms by which cultural (i.e., shared) knowledge emerges. This article proposes a novel mechanism that allows for formation of memories, even when intragroup communication is absent. Specifically, research examines whether stimulus more psychologically and behaviorally prominent it assumed to be experienced similar versus less others. Findings across 3 studies suggest stimuli such as time pressure (Study 1), words...
The idea that group contexts can intensify emotions is centuries old. Yet, evidence speaks to how, or if, become more intense in groups remains elusive. Here we examine the novel possibility attention--the experience of simultaneous coattention with one's members--increases emotional intensity relative attending alone, coattending strangers, nonsimultaneously members. In Study 1, scary advertisements felt scarier under attention. 2, attention intensified feelings sadness negative images, and...
Across disciplines, social learning research has been unified by the principle that people learn new behaviors to extent they identify with actor modeling them. We propose this conceptualization may overlook power of interpersonal situation in which modeled behavior is observed. Specifically, we predict contexts characterized shared in-group attention are particularly conducive learning. In two studies, participants were shown same written exchange either paragraph or chat form across...
The study of observational learning, or learning from others, is a cornerstone the behavioral sciences, because it grounds continuity, diversity, and innovation inherent to humanity’s cultural repertoire within social capacities individual humans. In contrast, collective with has been underappreciated in terms its importance human cognition, cohesion, culture. We offer theory wherein cognitive capacity attention indicates represents common knowledge across group members, yielding mutually...
How does the cultural construct of collectivism impact social interactions? Two accounts offer diverging predictions. The collectivism-as-values account proposes that people in collectivistic cultures prioritize their ingroup relationships; accordingly, this predicts will have more harmonious interactions than individualistic cultures. socioecological holds high relational mobility, which requires to invest relationships, whereas feature fixed relationships do not require positive...
Considerable research has demonstrated that fair procedures help improve reactions to decisions, a phenomenon known as the process effect. However, in present research, authors identify when and why objectively (i.e., receiving voice) may not always justice perceptions. Findings from 2 studies (Ns = 108 277) yield support for proposed identity violation effect, which posits an outcome violates central aspect of one's self personal and/or social identity), do procedural distributive Further,...
The current research explores how awareness of shared attention influences attitude formation. We theorized that sharing the experience an object with fellow group members would increase elaborative processing, which in turn intensify effects participant mood on Four experiments found observing same as similar others produced more positive ratings among those a mood, but negative mood. Participant had stronger influence evaluations when purportedly been viewed by than (a) was being...
Anecdotal evidence abounds that conflicts between two individuals can spread across networks to involve a multitude of others. We advance cultural transmission model intergroup conflict where contagion is seen as consequence universal human traits (ingroup preference, outgroup hostility; i.e. parochial altruism) which give their strongest expression in particular contexts. Qualitative interviews conducted the Middle East, USA and Canada suggest altruism processes vary groups are most likely...
Under the collective threat of war, 2022 Russian invasion would be expected to unify Ukrainians across distinct ethnic, linguistic, geographic and generational identities. Here, we show this using survey data collected in Belarus Ukraine before after full-fledged by Russia. Using our collection waves from spring summer 2022, observed attitudinal changes rarely documented such an event. Our include both invaded country, Ukraine, as 'treatment' a non-invaded Belarus, 'control'. We find that,...
In democracies where multitudes yield political influence, so does broadcast media that reaches those multitudes. However, may not be powerful simply because it a certain audience, but each of the recipients is aware fact. That is, watching can evoke state shared attention, or perception simultaneous coattention with others. Whereas past research has investigated effects attention few socially close others (i.e., friends, acquaintances, minimal ingroup members), we examine impact multitude...
Contemporary research on human sociality is heavily influenced by the social identity approach, positioning categorization as primary mechanism governing life. Building distinction between agency and in individual self (“I” vs. “Me”), we emphasize analogous importance of distinguishing collective from (“We” “Us”). While anchored unique characteristics group members, involves adoption a shared subjectivity that directed toward some object our attention, desire, emotion, belief, or action....
What is at the origin of a descriptive norm’s power to influence people? The standard explanation posits that perceived widespread frequency given behavior signals groupwide attitudinal agreement with behavior, which in turn further encourages behavior. Alternatively, I argue psychological behind norms lies social nature attentional mode typical encountered. introduce reader recent research on shared attention and its cognitive, attitudinal, affective, behavioral consequences. Then, use...