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Vivanco Carlevari A, Oosterwijk S, van Kleef GA. Why do people engage with the suffering of strangers? Exploring epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective motives. Cogn Emot 2024:1-21. [PMID: 39101590 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2385691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Revised: 07/18/2024] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/06/2024]
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Reading violent stories or watching a war documentary are examples in which people voluntarily engage with the suffering of others whom they do not know. Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigated why people make these decisions, while also mapping the characteristics of strangers' suffering to gain a rich understanding. In Study 1 (N = 247), participants described situations of suffering and their reasons to engage with it. Using qualitative thematic analysis, we developed a typology of the stranger (who), the situation (what), the source (how), and the reason(s) for engaging with the situation (why). We categorised the motives into four overarching themes - epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective - reflecting diversity in the perceived functionality of engaging with a stranger's suffering. Next, we tested the robustness of the identified motives in a quantitative study. In Study 2, participants (N = 250) recalled a situation in which they engaged with the suffering of a stranger and indicated their endorsement with a variety of possible motives. Largely mirroring Study 1, Study 2 participants engaged to acquire knowledge, for personal and social utility, and to feel positive and negative emotions. We discuss implications for understanding the exploration of human suffering as a motivated phenomenon.
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- Anastassia Vivanco Carlevari
- Social Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Social Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Social Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Eigenauer J. Mindware: Critical Thinking in Everyday Life. J Intell 2024; 12:17. [PMID: 38392173 PMCID: PMC10890145 DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence12020017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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Humans make many decisions in everyday life, some of which require careful use of evidence. Because emotional and heuristic mental processes dominate human cognition, it is common to suggest that there is little hope that critical thinking tools will be widely used. However, the concept of "mindware" gives hope to the idea that critical thinking skills may be more widely deployed than they currently are. This article reflects on some impediments to critical thinking, assesses some future challenges to critical thinking being more widely used, and suggests that "mindware" modules can be used widely both in and out of educational settings to significantly enhance critical thinking in everyday life.
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- John Eigenauer
- Department of Philosophy, Taft College, Taft, CA 93268, USA
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Brady WJ, Crockett MJ. Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity. PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2024; 19:62-64. [PMID: 37522321 DOI: 10.1177/17456916231187395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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- Department of Psychology and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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Elbæk CT, Mitkidis P, Aarøe L, Otterbring T. Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality across 67 countries. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5453. [PMID: 37673884 PMCID: PMC10482940 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023] Open
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Individuals can experience a lack of economic resources compared to others, which we refer to as subjective experiences of economic scarcity. While such experiences have been shown to shift cognitive focus, attention, and decision-making, their association with human morality remains debated. We conduct a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between subjective experiences of economic scarcity, as indexed by low subjective socioeconomic status at the individual level, and income inequality at the national level, and various self-reported measures linked to morality. In a pre-registered study, we analyze data from a large, cross-national survey (N = 50,396 across 67 countries) allowing us to address limitations related to cross-cultural generalizability and measurement validity in prior research. Our findings demonstrate that low subjective socioeconomic status at the individual level, and income inequality at the national level, are associated with higher levels of moral identity, higher morality-as-cooperation, a larger moral circle, and increased prosocial intentions. These results appear robust to several advanced control analyses. Finally, exploratory analyses indicate that observed income inequality at the national level is not a statistically significant moderator of the associations between subjective socioeconomic status and the included measures of morality. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for understanding human morality under experiences of resource scarcity.
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- Christian T Elbæk
- Department of Management, Aarhus University, 8210, Aarhus V, Denmark.
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- Department of Management, Aarhus University, 8210, Aarhus V, Denmark
- Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, 27701, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Management, University of Agder, 4630, Kristiansand, Norway
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Banker S, Park J, Chan EY. The moral foundations of cryptocurrency: evidence from Twitter and survey research. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1128575. [PMID: 37621936 PMCID: PMC10445040 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
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Despite its relatively brief history, cryptocurrency has already had a profound impact on the economy, with some predicting that it will eventually replace traditional fiat currencies. Historically, it had dark associations with illegal activities in the early days, although perceptions and associations likely have, in recent years, changed for the better. Thus, understanding how people perceive the morality of cryptocurrency currently forms the motivation of the current research. We, in particular, examine associations dependent on political ideology. Across both a large-scale analysis of Twitter posts (N = 959,393) and controlled survey research (N = 487), we find that cryptocurrency is currently best understood as being more strongly linked to conservative vs. liberal moral foundations. Cryptocurrency-related posts were more likely to express conservative moral foundations (Authority, Purity, and Loyalty) rather than liberal moral foundations (Fairness and Care), and individual endorsement of these conservative moral foundations was associated with increased interest in crypto investment.
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- Sachin Banker
- The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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Choi B, Kweon Y. Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 2023; 114:102914. [PMID: 37597927 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/21/2023]
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This study analyzes how a novel psychological factor-collective narcissism-affects giving behavior to national and international charities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that collective narcissists tended to keep more resources for themselves or national charities while giving less to international charities. In line with the group threat theory, this tendency is more pronounced in countries with a high share of foreign population. Our findings suggest that the shared experience of the global COVID-19 public health crisis did not blur the boundaries between ingroups and outgroups for collective narcissists. These results imply that mitigating outgroup hostility associated with collective narcissism is critical to strengthening cross-national solidarity during unprecedented crises. However, more contact with foreign nationals might not reduce the negative impact of collective narcissism.
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- ByeongHwa Choi
- Department of International Trade, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Azevedo F, Pavlović T, Rêgo GG, Ay FC, Gjoneska B, Etienne TW, Ross RM, Schönegger P, Riaño-Moreno JC, Cichocka A, Capraro V, Cian L, Longoni C, Chan HF, Van Bavel JJ, Sjåstad H, Nezlek JB, Alfano M, Gelfand MJ, Birtel MD, Cislak A, Lockwood PL, Abts K, Agadullina E, Aruta JJB, Besharati SN, Bor A, Choma BL, Crabtree CD, Cunningham WA, De K, Ejaz W, Elbaek CT, Findor A, Flichtentrei D, Franc R, Gruber J, Gualda E, Horiuchi Y, Huynh TLD, Ibanez A, Imran MA, Israelashvili J, Jasko K, Kantorowicz J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko E, Krouwel A, Laakasuo M, Lamm C, Leygue C, Lin MJ, Mansoor MS, Marie A, Mayiwar L, Mazepus H, McHugh C, Minda JP, Mitkidis P, Olsson A, Otterbring T, Packer DJ, Perry A, Petersen MB, Puthillam A, Rothmund T, Santamaría-García H, Schmid PC, Stoyanov D, Tewari S, Todosijević B, Tsakiris M, Tung HH, Umbres RG, Vanags E, Vlasceanu M, Vonasch A, Yucel M, Zhang Y, Abad M, Adler E, Akrawi N, Mdarhri HA, Amara H, Amodio DM, Antazo BG, Apps M, Ba MH, Barbosa S, Bastian B, Berg A, Bernal-Zárate MP, Bernstein M, Białek M, Bilancini E, Bogatyreva N, Boncinelli L, Booth JE, Borau S, Buchel O, Cameron CD, Carvalho CF, Celadin T, Cerami C, Chalise HN, Cheng X, Cockcroft K, Conway J, Córdoba-Delgado MA, Crespi C, Crouzevialle M, Cutler J, Cypryańska M, Dabrowska J, Daniels MA, Davis VH, Dayley PN, Delouvée S, Denkovski O, Dezecache G, Dhaliwal NA, Diato AB, Di Paolo R, Drosinou M, Dulleck U, Ekmanis J, Ertan AS, Farhana HH, Farkhari F, Farmer H, Fenwick A, Fidanovski K, Flew T, Fraser S, Frempong RB, Fugelsang JA, Gale J, Garcia-Navarro EB, Garladinne P, Ghajjou O, Gkinopoulos T, Gray K, Griffin SM, Gronfeldt B, Gümren M, Gurung RL, Halperin E, Harris E, Herzon V, Hruška M, Huang G, Hudecek MFC, Isler O, Jangard S, Jorgensen FJ, Kachanoff F, Kahn J, Dangol AK, Keudel O, Koppel L, Koverola M, Kubin E, Kunnari A, Kutiyski Y, Laguna OM, Leota J, Lermer E, Levy J, Levy N, Li C, Long EU, Maglić M, McCashin D, Metcalf AL, Mikloušić I, El Mimouni S, Miura A, Molina-Paredes J, Monroy-Fonseca C, Morales-Marente E, Moreau D, Muda R, Myer A, Nash K, Nesh-Nash T, Nitschke JP, Nurse MS, Ohtsubo Y, de Mello VO, O'Madagain C, Onderco M, Palacios-Galvez MS, Palomöki J, Pan Y, Papp Z, Pärnamets P, Paruzel-Czachura M, Pavlović Z, Payán-Gómez C, Perander S, Pitman MM, Prasad R, Pyrkosz-Pacyna J, Rathje S, Raza A, Rhee K, Robertson CE, Rodríguez-Pascual I, Saikkonen T, Salvador-Ginez O, Santi GC, Santiago-Tovar N, Savage D, Scheffer JA, Schultner DT, Schutte EM, Scott A, Sharma M, Sharma P, Skali A, Stadelmann D, Stafford CA, Stanojević D, Stefaniak A, Sternisko A, Stoica A, Stoyanova KK, Strickland B, Sundvall J, Thomas JP, Tinghög G, Torgler B, Traast IJ, Tucciarelli R, Tyrala M, Ungson ND, Uysal MS, Van Lange PAM, van Prooijen JW, van Rooy D, Västfjäll D, Verkoeijen P, Vieira JB, von Sikorski C, Walker AC, Watermeyer J, Wetter E, Whillans A, White K, Habib R, Willardt R, Wohl MJA, Wójcik AD, Wu K, Yamada Y, Yilmaz O, Yogeeswaran K, Ziemer CT, Zwaan RA, Boggio PS, Sampaio WM. Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Sci Data 2023; 10:272. [PMID: 37169799 PMCID: PMC10173241 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive messaging and collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public health behaviour, we present a dataset comprising of 51,404 individuals from 69 countries. This dataset was collected for the International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19 project (ICSMP COVID-19). This social science survey invited participants around the world to complete a series of moral and psychological measures and public health attitudes about COVID-19 during an early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (between April and June 2020). The survey included seven broad categories of questions: COVID-19 beliefs and compliance behaviours; identity and social attitudes; ideology; health and well-being; moral beliefs and motivation; personality traits; and demographic variables. We report both raw and cleaned data, along with all survey materials, data visualisations, and psychometric evaluations of key variables.
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- Flavio Azevedo
- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
- Institute of Communication Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
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- Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
- Telenor Research, Oslo, Norway
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- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
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- Kieskompas - Election Compass, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Political Science & Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
- School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
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- Medicine Faculty, Cooperative University of Colombia, Villavicencio, Colombia
- Department of Bioethics, El Bosque University, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Economics, Middlesex University London, London, England
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- Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
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- SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Psychological Sciences, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- School of Human Sciences, Institute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich, London, England
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- Center for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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- National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Mass Communication, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- ESEIS/COIDESO [ESEIS, Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center; COIDESO, COIDESO, Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development], University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Faculty of Social Work, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), California, US; & Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands
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- Department of Political Science, Vrije University (VU) Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- School of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
- Institute of Retail Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Communication Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England
- Center for the Politics of Feelings, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, England
- Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Political Science, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, PR China
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute for Research and Development-Kurdistan, Middle East, Iraq
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Impact For Development, North Africa, Rabat, Morocco
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- Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Jose Rizal University, Mandaluyong, Philippines
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- Center for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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- School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
- Moral Psychology and Decision Sciences Research Incubator, University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychological and Social Sciences, Penn State Abington, Abington, PA, USA
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England
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- Toulouse Business School, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Social Policy Institute of the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovakia
- The Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
- Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICoN) Center, Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Research Unit, Neurological Institute Foundation Casimiro Mondino, Pavia, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, France
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- Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Research Unit, Neurological Institute Foundation Casimiro Mondino, Pavia, Italy
- Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- Center for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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- UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Psychology Department, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Psychology: Cognition, Behavior, and Communication (LP3C), Rennes 2 University, Rennes, France
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Psychology, Clermont Auvergne University, CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Cavite State University-General Trias City Campus, Cavite, Philippines
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- CESifo, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of International Trade, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Institute of Communication Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- School of Human Sciences, Institute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich, London, England
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- Hult International Business School Dubai, Dubai, UAE
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- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- ESEIS/COIDESO [ESEIS, Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center; COIDESO, COIDESO, Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development], University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India
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- Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, England
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Economics, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- LMU Center for Leadership and People Management, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Augsburg University for Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany
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- Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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- ESEIS/COIDESO [ESEIS, Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center; COIDESO, COIDESO, Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development], University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Psychology, The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Department of Social Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- ESEIS/COIDESO [ESEIS, Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center; COIDESO, COIDESO, Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development], University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
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- Center for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Complutense University in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- ESEIS/COIDESO [ESEIS, Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center; COIDESO, COIDESO, Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development], University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- IUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICoN) Center, Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Global Economics and Management, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania
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- Research Institute at Medical University of Plovdiv), Division of Translational Neuroscience, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
- Department of Cognitive Science, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- CREMA - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, England
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, England
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- Institute for Emerging Market Studies, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, USA
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- Psychology Department, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
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- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
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- Health Communication Research Unit, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil
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Carlson SC, Dietsch AM, Slagle KM, Bruskotter JT. Effect of semantics in the study of tolerance for wolves. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2023; 37:e14003. [PMID: 36098633 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 07/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As conservation scholars increasingly recognize the critical role of human thought and behavior in determining the persistence of biodiversity across the globe, a growing line of inquiry regarding the validity and comparability of previous applications of core psychological concepts has emerged. Specifically, inconsistent measurement and use of terms, such as attitudes and acceptance, reveal important questions about previous approaches. Given that these concepts differ by definition, yet have been used interchangeably, we explored what drives differences in people's responses when each concept is operationalized in the context of a contested wildlife species, the gray wolf (Canis lupus). To do so, we used data from a 2014 survey of U.S. residents (n = 1287) to test how measures of six concepts (i.e., acceptance, attitudes, benefits, risks, [prior] behavior, and behavioral intentions) often employed in the conservation social sciences were related with a broad set of possible explanatory variables. Despite moderate to strong correlations between all concepts measured (| Pearson's r | = 0.39-0.65, p < 0.001), results revealed considerable variation in their respective relationships with identical explanatory variables. Specifically, although wildlife value orientation (i.e., domination or mutualism) operated fairly consistently across cognitive and behavioral concepts, the relationship between the six concepts and other factors, such as social trust, identification with various interest groups (i.e., hunter, farmer, or rancher, environmentalist, and animal rights advocate), and political ideology (i.e., liberal vs. conservative), varied considerably. Our findings underscore that differences exist in these measures, which could have serious implications for conservationists integrating social science findings in their decision-making processes if they are unaware of the theoretical underpinnings of and distinctions between core psychological concepts.
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- Shelby C Carlson
- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Rhoads SA, Vekaria KM, O'Connell K, Elizabeth HS, Rand DG, Kozak Williams MN, Marsh AA. Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1807. [PMID: 37002205 PMCID: PMC10066349 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37283-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2023] Open
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Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that consistently distinguish individuals who engage in such acts have not been identified. We assess six groups of real-world extraordinary altruists who had performed costly or risky and normatively rare (<0.00005% per capita) altruistic acts: heroic rescues, non-directed and directed kidney donations, liver donations, marrow or hematopoietic stem cell donations, and humanitarian aid work. Here, we show that the features that best distinguish altruists from controls are traits and decision-making patterns indicating unusually high valuation of others' outcomes: high Honesty-Humility, reduced Social Discounting, and reduced Personal Distress. Two independent samples of adults who were asked what traits would characterize altruists failed to predict this pattern. These findings suggest that theories regarding self-focused motivations for altruism (e.g., self-enhancing reciprocity, reputation enhancement) alone are insufficient explanations for acts of real-world self-sacrifice.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Hoenig LC, Pliskin R, De Dreu CKW. Political ideology and moral dilemmas in public good provision. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2519. [PMID: 36781991 PMCID: PMC9925786 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29512-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Individuals often face dilemmas in which non-cooperation serves their self-interest and cooperation favors society at large. Cooperation is often considered the moral choice because it creates equality and fairness among citizens. Accordingly, individuals whose political ideology attaches greater value to equality than to agency and self-reliance should not only cooperate on more rather than less efficient public goods, but also more on public goods from which individuals benefit equally rather than unequally. We examine this possibility by comparing ideologically left-leaning and right-leaning individuals' cooperation on multiple public goods that varied in efficiency and (in)equality in returns. We find that left-leaning individuals cooperate more than right-leaning ones, but only on public goods that benefit everyone equally, and not more on public goods that generate inequalities. Left-leaning individuals also trust and expect others to cooperate more on equal- versus unequal-returns public goods, while self-identified right-leaning individuals do not differentiate between these. Interestingly, ideology does not predict which public good is deemed more morally appropriate to cooperate on. Results combined specify when and why self-identified leftists can(not) be expected to cooperate more than rightists and reveal how moral decision-making depends on structural elements of the public good provision problems that citizens face.
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- Laura C Hoenig
- Department of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Tuen YJ, Bulley A, Palombo DJ, O'Connor BB. Social value at a distance: Higher identification with all of humanity is associated with reduced social discounting. Cognition 2023; 230:105283. [PMID: 36209687 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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How much we value the welfare of others has critical implications for the collective good. Yet, it is unclear what leads people to make more or less equal decisions about the welfare of those from whom they are socially distant. The current research sought to explore the psychological mechanisms that might underlie welfare judgements across social distance. Here, a social discounting paradigm was used to measure the tendency for the value of a reward to be discounted as the social distance of its recipient increased. Across two cohorts (one discovery, one replication), we found that a more expansive identity with all of humanity was associated with reduced social discounting. Additionally, we investigated the specificity of this association by examining whether this relationship extended to delay discounting, the tendency for the value of a reward to be discounted as the temporal distance to its receipt increases. Our findings suggest that the observed association with identity was unique to social discounting, thus underscoring a distinction in value-based decision-making processes across distances in time and across social networks. As data were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we also considered how stress associated with this global threat might influence welfare judgements across social distances. We found that, even after controlling for COVID-19 related stress, correlations between identity and social discounting held. Together, these findings elucidate the psychological processes that are associated with a more equal distribution of generosity.
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- Young Ji Tuen
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- The University of Sydney, School of Psychology and Brain and Mind Centre, 94 Mallett Street Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Albany (SUNY), Social Science 399, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, United States of America.
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Gordon-Hecker T, Kogut T. Think of What Really Matters: Structured Analysis of Personal Criteria can Save Lives. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/19485506221141987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Helping decisions are susceptible to many biases—partly due to the helpers’ spontaneous emotional reactions to the appeal diverting their attention from the need to maximize the impact of their help. Attempts to overcome these biases by prompting deliberative thinking—namely, by asking participants to think deeply—have often been unsuccessful. Here, we propose a way of directing people’s attention to the most important aspects of their decisions, by asking them to rate the extent to which such attributes should be considered. In two experiments involving real-world crises, participants who underwent such structured analysis of their personal criteria were more likely to make decisions that maximized the number of lives saved. Moreover, their decisions were more in line with their personal values. We conclude that this method is a simple, efficient way of improving the quality of helping decisions in life-and-death situations.
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- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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Uysal MS, Acar YG, Sabucedo JM, Cakal H. ‘To participate or not participate, that’s the question’: The role of moral obligation and different risk perceptions on collective action. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.5964/jspp.7207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The current research investigates whether moral obligation and perceived close vs. distant risks of high vs. moderate risk collective actions are associated with willingness to participate in collective action in the case of Turkey. Two studies were conducted: one with re-placed university students after the July 15, 2016 coup d'état attempt (high-risk context; N₁ = 258) and one with climate strikes (moderate risk context; N₂ = 162). The findings showed that moral obligation predicts collective action in both studies, however, the strength of this relationship is contingent on the level of subjective likelihood of protest risk in the high-risk collective action (Study 1), but not in the moderate-risk collective action (Study 2). Study 2 extended the findings of Study 1 by showing that higher perceived climate crisis risks (e.g., extinction of many species, destroying the vast majority of vital resources; distant risk), but not risks of protest (e.g., being arrested, blacklisted; close risk) predicts higher willingness to participate in collective action. We discussed the role of moral obligation and different risk perceptions (e.g., distant, close, moderate, high) on climate movements and collective action of marginalized groups in repressive political contexts.
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DePaula N. Political ideology and information technology in government online communication. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2022.101747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Association of compassion and empathy with prosocial health behaviors and attitudes in a pandemic. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0271829. [PMID: 35867687 PMCID: PMC9307157 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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This investigation examined how dispositional compassion and empathy were associated with prosocial behaviors and attitudes in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Every two weeks from March 22 to June 15, 2020, we fielded a survey to a new cohort of adults in the U.S. Compassion related to whether one stayed home to protect others, more hours spent staying home and distancing from others, and more frequent mask wearing in public, in the past two weeks. Compassion also related to greater perceived ability to help others who were negatively affected. Empathy related to more endorsement of understanding others’ fear of COVID-19, and less endorsement of the view that others were overreacting to COVID-19. There was an interaction between empathy and political ideology, suggesting that empathy may matter for understanding others’ fear among those with more conservative-leaning beliefs. Empathy also related to greater understanding that sheltering-in-place helps prevent the spread of COVID-19. Findings suggest that messaging and interventions to increase compassion and empathy may promote public health behaviors during a pandemic regardless of political orientation. Targeting empathy may be one way to reach individuals with more conservative political beliefs, and it is important to use an evidence-based approach accounting for political party differences in motivated reasoning.
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Kirkland K, Crimston CR, Jetten J, Rudnev M, Acevedo-Triana C, Amiot CE, Ausmees L, Baguma P, Barry O, Becker M, Bilewicz M, Boonyasiriwat W, Castelain T, Costantini G, Dimdins G, Espinosa A, Finchilescu G, Fischer R, Friese M, Gastardo-Conaco MC, Gómez Á, González R, Goto N, Halama P, Jiga-Boy GM, Kuppens P, Loughnan S, Markovik M, Mastor KA, McLatchie N, Novak LM, Onyekachi BN, Peker M, Rizwan M, Schaller M, Suh EM, Talaifar S, Tong EMW, Torres A, Turner RN, Van Lange PAM, Vauclair CM, Vinogradov A, Wang Z, Yeung VWL, Bastian B. Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/19485506221101767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found low generalized trust, greater perceptions of a breakdown in the social fabric of society, and greater perceived economic inequality were associated with smaller moral circles. Generalized trust also helped explain the effects of perceived inequality on lower levels of moral inclusiveness. Other inequality indicators (i.e., Gini coefficients) were, however, unrelated to moral expansiveness. These findings suggest that societal factors, especially those associated with generalized trust, may influence the size of our moral circles.
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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Pavlović T, Azevedo F, De K, Riaño-Moreno JC, Maglić M, Gkinopoulos T, Donnelly-Kehoe PA, Payán-Gómez C, Huang G, Kantorowicz J, Birtel MD, Schönegger P, Capraro V, Santamaría-García H, Yucel M, Ibanez A, Rathje S, Wetter E, Stanojević D, van Prooijen JW, Hesse E, Elbaek CT, Franc R, Pavlović Z, Mitkidis P, Cichocka A, Gelfand M, Alfano M, Ross RM, Sjåstad H, Nezlek JB, Cislak A, Lockwood P, Abts K, Agadullina E, Amodio DM, Apps MAJ, Aruta JJB, Besharati S, Bor A, Choma B, Cunningham W, Ejaz W, Farmer H, Findor A, Gjoneska B, Gualda E, Huynh TLD, Imran MA, Israelashvili J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko E, Krouwel A, Kutiyski Y, Laakasuo M, Lamm C, Levy J, Leygue C, Lin MJ, Mansoor MS, Marie A, Mayiwar L, Mazepus H, McHugh C, Olsson A, Otterbring T, Packer D, Palomäki J, Perry A, Petersen MB, Puthillam A, Rothmund T, Schmid PC, Stadelmann D, Stoica A, Stoyanov D, Stoyanova K, Tewari S, Todosijević B, Torgler B, Tsakiris M, Tung HH, Umbreș RG, Vanags E, Vlasceanu M, Vonasch AJ, Zhang Y, Abad M, Adler E, Mdarhri HA, Antazo B, Ay FC, Ba MEH, Barbosa S, Bastian B, Berg A, Białek M, Bilancini E, Bogatyreva N, Boncinelli L, Booth JE, Borau S, Buchel O, de Carvalho CF, Celadin T, Cerami C, Chalise HN, Cheng X, Cian L, Cockcroft K, Conway J, Córdoba-Delgado MA, Crespi C, Crouzevialle M, Cutler J, Cypryańska M, Dabrowska J, Davis VH, Minda JP, Dayley PN, Delouvée S, Denkovski O, Dezecache G, Dhaliwal NA, Diato A, Di Paolo R, Dulleck U, Ekmanis J, Etienne TW, Farhana HH, Farkhari F, Fidanovski K, Flew T, Fraser S, Frempong RB, Fugelsang J, Gale J, García-Navarro EB, Garladinne P, Gray K, Griffin SM, Gronfeldt B, Gruber J, Halperin E, Herzon V, Hruška M, Hudecek MFC, Isler O, Jangard S, Jørgensen F, Keudel O, Koppel L, Koverola M, Kunnari A, Leota J, Lermer E, Li C, Longoni C, McCashin D, Mikloušić I, Molina-Paredes J, Monroy-Fonseca C, Morales-Marente E, Moreau D, Muda R, Myer A, Nash K, Nitschke JP, Nurse MS, de Mello VO, Palacios-Galvez MS, Pan Y, Papp Z, Pärnamets P, Paruzel-Czachura M, Perander S, Pitman M, Raza A, Rêgo GG, Robertson C, Rodríguez-Pascual I, Saikkonen T, Salvador-Ginez O, Sampaio WM, Santi GC, Schultner D, Schutte E, Scott A, Skali A, Stefaniak A, Sternisko A, Strickland B, Thomas JP, Tinghög G, Traast IJ, Tucciarelli R, Tyrala M, Ungson ND, Uysal MS, Van Rooy D, Västfjäll D, Vieira JB, von Sikorski C, Walker AC, Watermeyer J, Willardt R, Wohl MJA, Wójcik AD, Wu K, Yamada Y, Yilmaz O, Yogeeswaran K, Ziemer CT, Zwaan RA, Boggio PS, Whillans A, Van Lange PAM, Prasad R, Onderco M, O'Madagain C, Nesh-Nash T, Laguna OM, Kubin E, Gümren M, Fenwick A, Ertan AS, Bernstein MJ, Amara H, Van Bavel JJ. Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS NEXUS 2022; 1:pgac093. [PMID: 35990802 PMCID: PMC9381137 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multinational data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social and Moral Psychology of COVID-19 (N = 51,404) to test the predictive efficacy of constructs from social, moral, cognitive, and personality psychology, as well as socio-demographic factors, in the attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic. The results point to several valuable insights. Internalized moral identity provided the most consistent predictive contribution-individuals perceiving moral traits as central to their self-concept reported higher adherence to preventive measures. Similar results were found for morality as cooperation, symbolized moral identity, self-control, open-mindedness, and collective narcissism, while the inverse relationship was evident for the endorsement of conspiracy theories. However, we also found a non-neglible variability in the explained variance and predictive contributions with respect to macro-level factors such as the pandemic stage or cultural region. Overall, the results underscore the importance of morality-related and contextual factors in understanding adherence to public health recommendations during the pandemic.
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- Department of Psychology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Finance and Quantitative Methods, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Cooperative University of Colombia, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia and Department of bioethics, El Bosque University, Bogotá D.C. Colombia
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- Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
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- Direccion Academica Sede la Paz,Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede de La Paz, Cesar, Colombia
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- Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Economics, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands
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- Department of Philosophy, School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Economics, Middlesex University London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Peñalolén, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), University of San Andrés and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Departamento de Matemática y Ciencias, Universidad de San Andres, Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
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- Institute of Psychology, Center for Climate Action and Social Transformations, SWPS, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre for Human Brain Health,School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for Sociological Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology, Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Centre for Human Brain Health,School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Mass Communication, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
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- Department of Psychology, University of Greenwich, London, UK
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- Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
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- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Decision Analytics and Risk, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, BRAC Institute of Educational and Development, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
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- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
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- School of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Chair of Development Economics,University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Sociology, National School for Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Division of Translational Neuroscience, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- School of Economics and Finance and Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
- Centre for the Politics of Feelings, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Political Science, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
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- Psychology Department, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Department of Psychology, Jose Rizal University, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Economics, Telenor Research, Fornebu, Norway
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- School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Laboratory for Psychology of Social Inequality, Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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- Department of Marketing, TBS Education, Toulouse, France
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- The Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Social Policy Institute, Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IUSS Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University School for Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy
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- Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Marketing, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre,Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse Cedex 6, France
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- School of Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Psychology, Center for Climate Action and Social Transformations, SWPS, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Trade and Market Institutions, Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Teacher Education Department, Cavite State University, General Trias, Cavite, Philippines
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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- Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Kieskompas (Election Compass), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Department of Political Science & Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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- National Institute for the Intellectually Disabled and Autistic (NIIDA), Society for the Welfare of the Intellectually Disabled (SWID Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- Department of Communication and Media Use, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Business and Media Psychology, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences, Ansbach, Germany
- Center for Leadership and People Management, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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- Department of Marketing, Boston University, Questrom School of Business, Boston, MA, USA
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- COIDESO-Research Center of Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
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- Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science,Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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- COIDESO-Research Center of Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department for Political Behavior, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
- Facultad de Psicología,Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paul, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- COIDESO-Research Center of Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- School of Psychology, Environmental Psychology Department, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paul, Brazil
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- Department of Humanities and Life Sciences, University School for Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Global Economics and Management, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- PLS, ENS-Ulm, Department d’Etudes Cognitives, Paris, France
- Africa Business School and The School of Collective Intelligence, UM6P, Rabat, Morocco
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- Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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- Social Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, USA
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- Department of Social Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Design, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Kadir Has University, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
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- School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Communication and Media Use, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paul, Brazil
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- Faculty of Negotiations, Organizations and Markets, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Vidyasagar College For Women, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
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- Department of Economics, Koc University, Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Hult International Business School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of International Trade, Bogazici University, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychological and Social Sciences, Penn State University Abington College, Abington, PA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Koc University, Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Vani P, Alzahawi S, Dannals JE, Halevy N. Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN 2022:1461672221099710. [PMID: 35751172 DOI: 10.1177/01461672221099710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
How does the self-relevance of a social movement shape individuals' engagement with it? We examined the decision-making processes that underlie support for Black Lives Matter (BLM) among Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White Americans. We find significant between-group differences in levels of support for BLM, both in terms of past behavior (Study 1) and in terms of future intentions to support the movement (Study 2). These differences notwithstanding, thinking about how one's decisions impact others - which we label impact mindset - explains support for BLM across racial groups, cross-sectionally as well as longitudinally (over 8 months later). Our findings underscore the equivalence of the impact mindset construct across racial groups and its predictive power in the context of BLM. We conclude that, although the struggle for racial justice has different meanings for different racial groups, the same mindset underlies both in-group advocacy and allyship in the context of BLM.
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Affiliation(s)
- Preeti Vani
- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA
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Tarry H, Vézina V, Bailey J, Lopes L. Political orientation, moral foundations, and COVID-19 social distancing. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0267136. [PMID: 35749535 PMCID: PMC9232135 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have advocated numerous social distancing measures, and compliance with these has likely saved millions of lives globally. In an online sample drawn from the U.S. and Canada (N = 209), participants completed measures of political orientation, moral foundations, and COVID-19 social distancing attitudes and behaviours. A more left-wing political orientation, and greater endorsement of the individualizing moral foundations were significantly related to more positive social distancing attitudes, and greater self-reported compliance with relevant restrictions. A more right-wing political orientation, and greater endorsement of the binding and economic liberty foundations were associated with less positive attitudes and reduced compliance. In a series of mediation analyses, the relationships between political orientation and various social distancing measures were significantly mediated by variations in participants' moral foundations, particularly their endorsement of economic liberty and the individualizing foundations. Further data indicated that the perceived persuasiveness of messages based on each moral foundation advocating for continued social distancing was significantly related to both participants' moral values and their political orientation. Findings are discussed in terms of understanding politicized differences around social distancing as partly reflecting differential valuation of the moral foundations, and in creating effective public health messaging regarding compliance.
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- Hammond Tarry
- Department of Psychology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Political Science, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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- Student Research Assistant, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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- Student Research Assistant, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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McHugh C, Griffin SM, McGrath MJ, Rhee JJ, Maher PJ, McCashin D, Roth J. Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID-19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 44:POPS12838. [PMID: 35941919 PMCID: PMC9349772 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Reducing the spread of infectious viruses (e.g., COVID-19) can depend on societal compliance with effective mitigations. Identifying factors that influence adherence can inform public policy. In many cases, public health messaging has become highly moralized, focusing on the need to act for the greater good. In such contexts, a person's moral identity may influence behavior and serve to increase compliance through different mechanisms: if a person sees compliance as the right thing to do (internalization) and/or if a person perceives compliance as something others will notice as the right thing to do (symbolization). We argue that in societies that are more politically polarized, people's political ideology may interact with their moral identity to predict compliance. We hypothesized that where polarization is high (e.g., USA), moral identity should positively predict compliance for liberals to a greater extent than for conservatives. However, this effect would not occur where polarization is low (e.g., New Zealand). Moral identity, political ideology, and support for three different COVID-19 mitigation measures were assessed in both nations (N = 1,980). Results show that while moral identity can influence compliance, the political context of the nation must also be taken into account.
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Salehi M, Zimon G, Ghaderi AR, Hasan ZA. The Relationship between Prevention and Panic from COVID-19, Ethical Principles, Life Expectancy, Anxiety, Depression and Stress. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:5841. [PMID: 35627379 PMCID: PMC9142045 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19105841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Revised: 05/01/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The present study aims to assess the relationship between prevention and panic from COVID-19, ethical principles, life expectancy, anxiety, depression, and stress in auditors and financial managers of small- and medium-sized Iraqi firms. In other words, this paper seeks to answer the question of whether different types of prevention and panic from COVID-19 can enhance the ethical principles, life expectancy, anxiety, depression, and stress, or not. The study method is practical in its objective and descriptive survey procedure. The study's statistical population includes 185 employed auditors in audit firms, and 215 financial managers of small- and medium-sized Iraqi firms were selected as a sample of the study using the Cochran Sampling Method. In this paper, PLS tests are used to assess the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable. The results indicate no significant relationship between prevention from COVID-19 and ethical principles and life expectancy. However, the association between prevention from COVID-19 and anxiety, depression, and stress, and between panic from COVID-19 and ethical principles, life expectancy, anxiety, depression, and stress is positive and significant. The higher the panic from COVID-19, the more ethical principles, life expectancy, anxiety, depression, and stress. Since no study has been carried out so far on the effect of prevention and panic from COVID-19, ethical principles, life expectancy, depression, and stress in Iraqi firms, the present study results can provide valuable information and contribute to the development of science and knowledge.
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- Mahdi Salehi
- Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 9177948974, Iran
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- Department of Finance, Banking, and Accountancy, Faculty of Management, Rzeszow University of Technology, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 9177948974, Iran;
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- Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Imamreza International University of Mashhad, Mashhad 9137913316, Iran;
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Clinician views on optimism and empathy in primary care consultations. BJGP Open 2022; 6:BJGPO.2021.0221. [PMID: 35379688 PMCID: PMC9680746 DOI: 10.3399/bjgpo.2021.0221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Practitioner expressions of optimism and empathy may improve treatment engagement, adherence, and patient satisfaction but are not delivered consistently amid the challenges of everyday clinical practice. Aim To explore primary care practitioner (PCP) views about optimistic and empathic communication in consultations; and to identify behavioural, attitudinal, and/or contextual issues likely to encourage or deter PCPs from practising such communication. Design & setting Qualitative interview study with 20 PCPs (GPs, practice nurses, and primary care physiotherapists). Method Semi-structured telephone interviews with 20 PCPs. Data were analysed thematically. Results A conceptual mismatch between optimism and patient expectations became apparent; when asked how PCPs communicate about the likely effects of a treatment, answers were focussed around managing patient expectations. When prompted, it became clear PCPs were open to communicating optimistically with patients, but emphasised the need for realism. Concerns arose that patients may not be receptive to optimistic messages, especially when holding negative expectations. PCPs felt that expressing empathy is fundamental to all clinical consultations, noting that it can be challenging. Some PCPs worried that increasing expressions of empathy might increase their risk of clinician burnout and felt guilty about (appropriately) communicating empathy while maintaining some emotional distance. Conclusion PCPs agreed expressing realistic optimism during consultations could aid communication and would constitute a novel change to practice. PCPs strive for clinical empathy but can struggle to manage emotional self-protection. Specific training to help PCPs express realistic optimism and empathy, and better utilise efficient non-verbal skills could help these issues.
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Wu JST, Hauert C, Kremen C, Zhao J. A Framework on Polarization, Cognitive Inflexibility, and Rigid Cognitive Specialization. Front Psychol 2022; 13:776891. [PMID: 35401343 PMCID: PMC8987571 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.776891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Polarization is pervasive in the current sociopolitical discourse. Polarization tends to increase cognitive inflexibility where people become less capable of updating their beliefs upon new information or switching between different ways of thinking. Cognitive inflexibility can in turn increase polarization. We propose that this positive feedback loop between polarization and cognitive inflexibility is a form of threat response that has benefited humans throughout their evolutionary history. This feedback loop, which can be driven by conflict mindset, group conformity, and simplification of information, facilitates the formation of strong bonds within a group that are able to eliminate threats and increase individual fitness. Although cognitive inflexibility is conventionally seen as maladaptive, here we argue that cognitive inflexibility may be an adaptation under polarization. That is, in a highly polarized society most people only interact with members of their own social group, without having to confront perspectives from another group or interacting with out-group members. In this context, cognitive inflexibility creates rigid cognitive specialization, a set of cognitive traits that allow people to operate efficiently within their social circles but not outside of it. Although rigid cognitive specialization benefits individuals in the short term, it may lead to more polarization over the long run, and thus produce more conflict between groups. We call on future research to examine the link between cognitive inflexibility and rigid cognitive specialization.
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- James Shyan-Tau Wu
- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- *Correspondence: James Shyan-Tau Wu,
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- Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Latombe G, Lenzner B, Schertler A, Dullinger S, Glaser M, Jarić I, Pauchard A, Wilson JRU, Essl F. What is valued in conservation? A framework to compare ethical perspectives. NEOBIOTA 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.72.79070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Perspectives in conservation are based on a variety of value systems. Such differences in how people value nature and its components lead to different evaluations of the morality of conservation goals and approaches, and often underlie disagreements in the formulation and implementation of environmental management policies. Specifically, whether a conservation action (e.g. killing feral cats to reduce predation on bird species threatened with extinction) is viewed as appropriate or not can vary among people with different value systems. Here, we present a conceptual, mathematical framework intended as a tool to systematically explore and clarify core value statements in conservation approaches. Its purpose is to highlight how fundamental differences between these value systems can lead to different prioritizations of available management options and offer a common ground for discourse. The proposed equations decompose the question underlying many controversies around management decisions in conservation: what or who is valued, how, and to what extent? We compare how management decisions would likely be viewed under three idealised value systems: ecocentric conservation, which aims to preserve biodiversity; new conservation, which considers that biodiversity can only be preserved if it benefits humans; and sentientist conservation, which aims at minimising suffering for sentient beings. We illustrate the utility of the framework by applying it to case studies involving invasive alien species, rewilding, and trophy hunting. By making value systems and their consequences in practice explicit, the framework facilitates debates on contested conservation issues, and complements philosophical discursive approaches about moral reasoning. We believe dissecting the core value statements on which conservation decisions are based will provide an additional tool to understand and address conservation conflicts.
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Trust in scientific information mediates associations between conservatism and coronavirus responses in the U.S., but few other nations. Sci Rep 2022; 12:3724. [PMID: 35260605 PMCID: PMC8904544 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07508-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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U.S.-based research suggests conservatism is linked with less concern about contracting coronavirus and less preventative behaviors to avoid infection. Here, we investigate whether these tendencies are partly attributable to distrust in scientific information, and evaluate whether they generalize outside the U.S., using public data and recruited representative samples across three studies (Ntotal = 34,710). In Studies 1 and 2, we examine these relationships in the U.S., yielding converging evidence for a sequential indirect effect of conservatism on compliance through scientific (dis)trust and infection concern. In Study 3, we compare these relationships across 19 distinct countries. Although the relationships between trust in scientific information about the coronavirus, concern about coronavirus infection, and compliance are consistent cross-nationally, the relationships between conservatism and trust in scientific information are not. These relationships are strongest in North America. Consequently, the indirect effects observed in Studies 1–2 only replicate in North America (the U.S. and Canada) and in Indonesia. Study 3 also found parallel direct and indirect effects on support for lockdown restrictions. These associations suggest not only that relationships between conservatism and compliance are not universal, but localized to particular countries where conservatism is more strongly related to trust in scientific information about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Martínez E, Winter C. Protecting Sentient Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Lay Intuitions on Standing, Personhood, and General Legal Protection. Front Robot AI 2021; 8:788355. [PMID: 34901172 PMCID: PMC8660862 DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.788355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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To what extent, if any, should the law protect sentient artificial intelligence (that is, AI that can feel pleasure or pain)? Here we surveyed United States adults (n = 1,061) on their views regarding granting 1) general legal protection, 2) legal personhood, and 3) standing to bring forth a lawsuit, with respect to sentient AI and eight other groups: humans in the jurisdiction, humans outside the jurisdiction, corporations, unions, non-human animals, the environment, humans living in the near future, and humans living in the far future. Roughly one-third of participants endorsed granting personhood and standing to sentient AI (assuming its existence) in at least some cases, the lowest of any group surveyed on, and rated the desired level of protection for sentient AI as lower than all groups other than corporations. We further investigated and observed political differences in responses; liberals were more likely to endorse legal protection and personhood for sentient AI than conservatives. Taken together, these results suggest that laypeople are not by-and-large in favor of granting legal protection to AI, and that the ordinary conception of legal status, similar to codified legal doctrine, is not based on a mere capacity to feel pleasure and pain. At the same time, the observed political differences suggest that previous literature regarding political differences in empathy and moral circle expansion apply to artificially intelligent systems and extend partially, though not entirely, to legal consideration, as well.
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- Eric Martínez
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.,Legal Priorities Project, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Legal Priorities Project, Cambridge, MA, United States.,Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico.,Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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When the going gets tough, the tough are let go? The effects of political ideology on leader tenure in organisations. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1108/ijoa-07-2021-2871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Purpose
Drawing on moral foundations theory (MFT), this paper aims to examine the relationship between community-level political ideology, organisational performance and leader tenure by proposing and testing an “ideology-authority hypothesis” wherein political ideology moderates the relationship between organisational performance decline and leader tenure in organisations.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors used archival data pertaining to the performance of teams from the National Basketball Association (NBA), the tenure of the head coaches and the voting record of the communities in which the teams are located. The authors used hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) to test the relationships among these variables at multiple levels.
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The results provided empirical support for the “ideology-authority hypothesis”. Specifically, the magnitude of team winning percentage decrease from the previous season is positively associated with the tenure of the head coach in teams located in more conservative communities but not in teams located in more liberal communities.
Originality/value
This study examines leadership stability and change by highlighting the moral foundation of authority/subversion. The findings also illustrate the importance of a community-level variable – the general political climate of the community in which an organisation is embedded – in organisational decision-making.
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Sánchez Díez S, Zlobina A. How much could your heart embrace? What about your behavior? The Socio‐moral Radar as a behavioral expression of moral regard. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jts5.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Sara Sánchez Díez
- Departamento de Antropología Social y Psicología Social Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Antropología Social y Psicología Social Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid Spain
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Fischer B, Palmer C, Kasperbauer TJ. Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide. PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES 2021; 180:1105-1123. [PMID: 34690370 PMCID: PMC8522861 DOI: 10.1007/s11098-021-01743-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A hybrid theory is any moral theory according to which different classes of individuals ought to be treated according to different principles. We argue that some hybrid theories are able to meet standards of psychological plausibility, by which we mean that it's feasible for ordinary human beings to understand and act in accord with them. Insofar as psychological plausibility is a theoretical virtue, then, such hybrid theories deserve more serious consideration. To make the case for this view, we explain what psychological plausibility is and why we might value it, why the human/animal divide appears to be an entrenched feature of human psychology, and why Robert Nozick's hybrid theory doesn't go far enough. Finally, we make the case that a more promising psychologically plausible hybrid theory, with respect to humans and animals, will be (at least) at tribrid theory-that is, positing three domains rather than two.
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Cutler J, Nitschke JP, Lamm C, Lockwood PL. Older adults across the globe exhibit increased prosocial behavior but also greater in-group preferences. NATURE AGING 2021; 1:880-888. [PMID: 37118329 PMCID: PMC10154238 DOI: 10.1038/s43587-021-00118-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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Population aging is a global phenomenon with substantial implications across society1,2. Prosocial behaviors-actions that benefit others-promote mental and physical health across the lifespan3,4 and can save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined whether age predicts prosociality in a preregistered global study (46,576 people aged 18-99 across 67 countries) using two acutely relevant measures: distancing during COVID-19 and willingness to donate to hypothetical charities. Age positively predicted prosociality on both measures, with increased distancing and donations among older adults. However, older adults were more in-group focused than younger adults in choosing who to help, making larger donations to national over international charities and reporting increased in-group preferences. In-group preferences helped explain greater national over international donations. Results were robust to several control analyses and internal replication. Our findings have vital implications for predicting the social and economic impacts of aging populations, increasing compliance with public health measures and encouraging charitable donations.
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- Jo Cutler
- Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Ruisch BC, Moore C, Granados Samayoa J, Boggs S, Ladanyi J, Fazio R. Examining the Left-Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 42:795-816. [PMID: 34226775 PMCID: PMC8242330 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The COVID-19 disease pandemic is one of the most pressing global health issues of our time. Nevertheless, responses to the pandemic exhibit a stark ideological divide, with political conservatives (versus liberals/progressives) expressing less concern about the virus and less behavioral compliance with efforts to combat it. Drawing from decades of research on the psychological underpinnings of ideology, in four studies (total N = 4441) we examine the factors that contribute to the ideological gap in pandemic response-across domains including personality (e.g., empathic concern), attitudes (e.g., trust in science), information (e.g., COVID-19 knowledge), vulnerability (e.g., preexisting medical conditions), demographics (e.g., education, income) and environment (e.g., local COVID-19 infection rates). This work provides insight into the most proximal drivers of this ideological divide and also helps fill a long-standing theoretical and empirical gap regarding how these various ideological differences shape responses to complex real-world sociopolitical events. Among our key findings are the central role of attitude- and belief-related factors (e.g., trust in science and trust in Trump)-and the relatively weaker influence of several domain-general personality factors (empathic concern, disgust sensitivity, conspiratorial ideation). We conclude by considering possible explanations for these findings and their broader implications for our understanding of political ideology.
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Cárdenas D, Orazani N, Stevens M, Cruwys T, Platow M, Zekulin M, Reynolds KJ. United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID-19 Pandemic. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 42:845-861. [PMID: 34548715 PMCID: PMC8447036 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Most health models emphasize individual factors in predicting health behavior. However, in the context of COVID-19 where the immediate response to stopping the spread of the virus requires collective efforts and change, other sociopolitical factors need to be considered. Prior research points to health behaviors being impacted by neighborhood and national social relations, social identification, confidence in government and political orientation. This research, though, is generally piecemeal (or specific), tends to be cross-sectional, and is usually not oriented to pandemics. These issues are addressed in the current research. A two-wave study with a representative sample of Australians (N Wave 1 = 3028) gathered during COVID-19 examined sociopolitical factors at the local and national level as predictors of health behaviors one month later. Four models were tested. These encapsulated geographic levels (local or national) and two health behaviors (hand hygiene or physical distance). In the three of the four models, social identification was a significant predictor of health behavior, while controlling for sociodemographic and individual-level measures. There were more mixed results for social relations and confidence in government. There is evidence that to better promote health behaviors sociopolitical factors need to be more prominent in public policy and health behavior models.
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Cameron CD, Conway P, Scheffer JA. Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment. Curr Opin Psychol 2021; 44:188-195. [PMID: 34695643 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In this review, we examine relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior, and moral judgment. We focus on recent evidence for these relationships, with a focus on motivated empathy regulation as an important process that shapes empathic and moral outcomes. In particular, we highlight tradeoffs in contexts that involve competing victims with different needs, such as in large-scale suffering situations and sacrificial moral dilemmas, as well as on effects on punishment and recursive effects of morality on empathy. Our aim is to integrate motivation frameworks in empathy regulation and social cognition with prosocial and moral judgments.
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Seven (weak and strong) helping effects systematically tested in separate evaluation, joint evaluation and forced choice. JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING 2021. [DOI: 10.1017/s1930297500008378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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AbstractIn ten studies (N = 9187), I systematically investigated the direction and size of seven helping effects (the identifiable-victim effect, proportion dominance effect, ingroup effect, existence effect, innocence effect, age effect and gender effect). All effects were tested in three decision modes (separate evaluation, joint evaluation and forced choice), and in their weak form (equal efficiency), or strong form (unequal efficiency). Participants read about one, or two, medical help projects and rated the attractiveness of and allocated resources to the project/projects, or choose which project to implement. The results show that the included help-situation attributes vary in their: (1) Evaluability – e.g., rescue proportion is the easiest to evaluate in separate evaluation. (2) Justifiability – e.g., people prefer to save fewer lives now rather than more lives in the future, but not fewer identified lives rather than more statistical lives. (3) Prominence – e.g., people express a preference to help females, but only when forced to choose.
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McManus RM, Mason JE, Young L. Re-examining the role of family relationships in structuring perceived helping obligations, and their impact on moral evaluation. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kemmelmeier M, Jami WA. Mask Wearing as Cultural Behavior: An Investigation Across 45 U.S. States During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Front Psychol 2021; 12:648692. [PMID: 34366970 PMCID: PMC8333278 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Although masks (face coverings) are a prime tool in fighting airborne pathogens, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States the use of masks encountered resistance based on existing patterns of cultural division. We argue that mask wearing must be understood basis on existing cultural frames assessed at both the individual level and the state level. We relied on prominent frameworks in cultural psychology: individualism-collectivism as well as independent and interdependent self-construals, the tightness-looseness framework, U.S. honor cultures, and political orientation as predictors. Using multilevel modeling, in a sample of 633 respondents from 45 U.S. states we investigated mask-wearing behavior, masks' perceived utility, implications for well-being, and the social meaning attributed to masks. Conservatism was linked to lower mask wearing, and consistently unfavorable perceptions of mask wearing. Collective interdependence predicted favorable perceptions of masks, as did state-level differences in collectivism; both constructs were linked with viewing mask wearing to be normative. Independent self-construal predicted a greater intent to wear masks, even though masks were also evaluated less favorably. Mediation analyses revealed that a single mediator, the perceived utility of mask wearing, was implicated in translating the effects of different cultural predictors into behavior. Additional findings highlighted that in tightener (vs. looser) states masks wearing was conceived of as a civic duty, whereas in U.S. honor states mask were seen as spoiling one's public image. Our discussion focuses on the cultural and political context of mask wearing, argues that different communities in the U.S. respond to its symbolic and social meaning, and suggest strategies to increase mask wearing among those who are otherwise reluctant to do so.
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- Markus Kemmelmeier
- Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Ph.D. Program, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
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We used experience sampling to examine perceptions of empathy in the everyday lives of a group of 246 U.S. adults who were quota sampled to represent the population on key demographics. Participants reported an average of about nine opportunities to empathize per day; these experiences were positively associated with prosocial behavior, a relationship not found with trait measures. Although much of the literature focuses on the distress of strangers, in everyday life, people mostly empathize with very close others, and they empathize with positive emotions 3 times as frequently as with negative emotions. Although trait empathy was negatively associated only with well-being, empathy in daily life was generally associated with increased well-being. Theoretically distinct components of empathy-emotion sharing, perspective taking, and compassion-typically co-occur in everyday empathy experiences. Finally, empathy in everyday life was higher for women and the religious but not significantly lower for conservatives and the wealthy.
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Fraser Valley
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.,Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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Fowler Z, Law KF, Gaesser B. Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy. Psychol Sci 2021; 32:766-779. [PMID: 33909983 DOI: 10.1177/0956797620979965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Empathy has long been considered central to living a moral life. However, mounting evidence has shown that people's empathy is often biased toward (i.e., felt more strongly for) others that they are close or similar to, igniting a debate over whether empathy is inherently morally flawed and should be abandoned in efforts to strive toward greater equity. This debate has focused on whether empathy limits the scope of our morality, but little consideration has been given to whether our moral beliefs may be limiting our empathy. Across two studies conducted on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (N = 604), we investigated moral judgments of biased and equitable feelings of empathy. We observed a moral preference for empathy toward socially close over distant others. However, feeling equal empathy for all people is seen as the most morally and socially valuable approach. These findings provide new theoretical insight into the relationship between empathy and morality, and they have implications for navigating toward a more egalitarian future.
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- Zoë Fowler
- Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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- Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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- Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Rottman J, Crimston CR, Syropoulos S. Tree-Huggers Versus Human-Lovers: Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization Predict Valuing Nature Over Outgroups. Cogn Sci 2021; 45:e12967. [PMID: 33873235 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previous examinations of the scope of moral concern have focused on aggregate attributions of moral worth. However, because trade-offs exist in valuing different kinds of entities, tabulating total amounts of moral expansiveness may conceal significant individual differences in the relative proportions of moral valuation ascribed to various entities. We hypothesized that some individuals ("tree-huggers") would ascribe greater moral worth to animals and ecosystems than to humans from marginalized or stigmatized groups, while others ("human-lovers") would ascribe greater moral worth to outgroup members than to the natural world. Additionally, because moral valuation is often treated as being zero-sum, we hypothesized that there would be no difference in aggregate levels of moral concern between tree-huggers and human-lovers. Finally, because attributions of mental capacities substantially contribute to moral valuation, we predicted that tree-huggers and human-lovers would show different patterns of mind attribution for animals versus humans. Three studies (N = 985) yielded evidence in support of our hypotheses. First, over one-third of participants valued nature over outgroups. Second, extending moral value to animals and nature was not indicative of more expansive moral concern overall; instead, tree-huggers and human-lovers were identical in their aggregate ascriptions of moral worth. Third, tree-huggers had relatively amplified tendencies to attribute mental capacities to animals and relatively reduced tendencies to attribute mental capacities to outgroup members-thus having elevated rates of both anthropomorphism and dehumanization. These findings necessitate a reconceptualization of both the extension of moral worth and the attribution of minds.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Heuristic thinking and altruism toward machines in people impacted by COVID-19. iScience 2021; 24:102228. [PMID: 33644708 PMCID: PMC7901281 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Autonomous machines are poised to become pervasive, but most treat machines differently: we are willing to violate social norms and less likely to display altruism toward machines. Here, we report an unexpected effect that those impacted by COVID-19—as measured by a post-traumatic stress disorder scale—show a sharp reduction in this difference. Participants engaged in the dictator game with humans and machines and, consistent with prior research on disasters, those impacted by COVID-19 displayed more altruism to other humans. Unexpectedly, participants impacted by COVID-19 displayed equal altruism toward human and machine partners. A mediation analysis suggests that altruism toward machines was explained by an increase in heuristic thinking—reinforcing prior theory that heuristic thinking encourages people to treat machines like people—and faith in technology—perhaps reflecting long-term consequences on how we act with machines. These findings give insight, but also raise concerns, for the design of technology. Participants engaged in a dictator experiment with humans and computers We measured impact of COVID-19 using a PTSD scale COVID-19 led to increased heuristic thinking, faith in, and altruism with computers These findings raise opportunities and concerns for the design of future technology
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Strupp-Levitsky M, Noorbaloochi S, Shipley A, Jost JT. Moral "foundations" as the product of motivated social cognition: Empathy and other psychological underpinnings of ideological divergence in "individualizing" and "binding" concerns. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0241144. [PMID: 33170885 PMCID: PMC7654778 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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According to moral foundations theory, there are five distinct sources of moral intuition on which political liberals and conservatives differ. The present research program seeks to contextualize this taxonomy within the broader research literature on political ideology as motivated social cognition, including the observation that conservative judgments often serve system-justifying functions. In two studies, a combination of regression and path modeling techniques were used to explore the motivational underpinnings of ideological differences in moral intuitions. Consistent with our integrative model, the "binding" foundations (in-group loyalty, respect for authority, and purity) were associated with epistemic and existential needs to reduce uncertainty and threat and system justification tendencies, whereas the so-called "individualizing" foundations (fairness and avoidance of harm) were generally unrelated to epistemic and existential motives and were instead linked to empathic motivation. Taken as a whole, these results are consistent with the position taken by Hatemi, Crabtree, and Smith that moral "foundations" are themselves the product of motivated social cognition.
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- Michael Strupp-Levitsky
- Department of Psychology, Long Island University-Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States of America
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- AGS Law, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Departments of Psychology, Politics, and Data Science, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Chan EY. Moral foundations underlying behavioral compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2020; 171:110463. [PMID: 33106715 PMCID: PMC7577686 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, government and public health officials have advocated three behaviors to help “flatten the curve” of the disease—staying-at-home, wearing face masks, and social distancing. But, some people, especially those younger in age, have flouted restrictions, harming themselves and the community. We explore the moral foundations underlying people's compliance with the three behaviors. Our study with 1033 Americans revealed that caring and fairness concerns predict complying with all behaviors, while sanctity concerns only predict compliance with wearing face masks and social distancing. A deeper investigation revealed age differences in loyalty and sanctity concerns for staying-at-home and social distancing, and in sanctity concerns only for wearing face masks. The findings document the innate intuitions that guide one's decision to comply with such behaviors. They also provide governments and policy officials with implications on possible message frames to use in communicating the importance of the three behaviors in order to protect one's and the public's health from COVID-19 and other flu-like illnesses in the future.
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- Eugene Y Chan
- Division of Consumer Science, Purdue University, United States of America
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Workman CI, Yoder KJ, Decety J. The Dark Side of Morality - Neural Mechanisms Underpinning Moral Convictions and Support for Violence. AJOB Neurosci 2020; 11:269-284. [PMID: 33196349 PMCID: PMC7939028 DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1811798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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People are motivated by shared social values that, when held with moral conviction, can serve as compelling mandates capable of facilitating support for ideological violence. The current study examined this dark side of morality by identifying specific cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with beliefs about the appropriateness of sociopolitical violence, and determining the extent to which the engagement of these mechanisms was predicted by moral convictions. Participants reported their moral convictions about a variety of sociopolitical issues prior to undergoing functional MRI scanning. During scanning, they were asked to evaluate the appropriateness of violent protests that were ostensibly congruent or incongruent with their views about sociopolitical issues. Complementary univariate and multivariate analytical strategies comparing neural responses to congruent and incongruent violence identified neural mechanisms implicated in processing salience and in the encoding of subjective value. As predicted, neuro-hemodynamic response was modulated parametrically by individuals' beliefs about the appropriateness of congruent relative to incongruent sociopolitical violence in ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and by moral conviction in ventral striatum. Overall moral conviction was predicted by neural response to congruent relative to incongruent violence in amygdala. Together, these findings indicate that moral conviction about sociopolitical issues serves to increase their subjective value, overriding natural aversion to interpersonal harm.
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- Clifford I. Workman
- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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Hannikainen IR, Hudson NW, Chopik WJ, Briley DA, Derringer J. Moral migration: Desires to become more empathic predict changes in moral foundations. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Vila‐Henninger LA. A theory of “popular political legitimation”: A dual‐process model approach to legitimation and political socialization. JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Jost JT, Halperin E, Laurin K. Editorial overview: Five observations about tradition and progress in the scientific study of political ideologies. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2020; 34:iii-vii. [PMID: 33083502 PMCID: PMC7561321 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pliskin R, Ruhrman A, Halperin E. Proposing a multi-dimensional, context-sensitive approach to the study of ideological (a)symmetry in emotion. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stern C. Ideological differences in attitude and belief similarity: distinguishing perception and reality. EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2020.1798059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Chadly Stern
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Van Bavel JJ, Reinero DA, Harris E, Robertson CE, Pärnamets P. Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2020.1722599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Jay J. Van Bavel
- Department of Psychology, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY
- Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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There is a gap between morality as experienced and morality as studied. In our personal and professional lives, moral judgments are embedded within a specific context. We know the who, what, where, and when and often can infer the why; we know the broader context of actions; and we may have a specific relationship with the actors. However, scholarly theorizing is often built on inferences from participants’ responses to decontextualized, impoverished stimuli. In our quest for uncovering general psychological truths, moral psychologists have examined evaluations of poorly guarded trolleys, strangers with odd sexual proclivities, and endorsement of abstract principles. The four articles included in this section demonstrate the power of contextualizing morality. In the current article, I place these papers within a broader framework for how scholars can contextualize morality research. I then argue why contextualizing morality matters: not only do contextualized questions better reflect the nuances of reality but also contextualized judgments might be key for improving predictions of moral behavior and understanding moral change.
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- Chelsea Schein
- Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
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