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Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support (2023)
Journal Article
Crist, J. D., Noor, M., Schlegel, R. J., Salter, P. S., Rivera, G. N., Perez, M. J., & Coger, C. (2023). Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), Article e12896. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12896

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that Black and Latinx communities experienced a disproportionate burden of illness. The goal of this study is to investigate laypeople’s attribution of these disparities. We... Read More about Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support.

Applying Discursive Methodologies to Understanding Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms (2023)
Book Chapter
Goodman, S., Locke, A., Finlay, W. (., & Lobban, R. (2023). Applying Discursive Methodologies to Understanding Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms. In The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132721-33

This chapter advocates taking a discursive and rhetorical psychology approach to the serious problem of online hate speech. The chapter begins by illustrating the prevalence and severity of online hate. It will be shown that, despite being a serious... Read More about Applying Discursive Methodologies to Understanding Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms.

Specific Gestalt principles cannot explain (un)crowding (2023)
Journal Article
Choung, O., Rashal, E., Kunchulia, M., & Herzog, M. H. (in press). Specific Gestalt principles cannot explain (un)crowding. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, Article 1154957. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1154957

The standard physiological model has serious problems accounting for many aspects of vision, particularly when stimulus configurations become slightly more complex than the ones classically used, e.g., configurations of Gabors rather than only one or... Read More about Specific Gestalt principles cannot explain (un)crowding.

Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups (2023)
Journal Article
Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B., & Francis, K. B. (2023). Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups. Appetite, 190, Article 107024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107024

A largescale shift towards plant-based diets is considered a critical requirement for tackling ethical, environmental, and global health issues associated with animal food production and consumption. Although previous research has identified psycholo... Read More about Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups.

The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction (2023)
Journal Article
Stiff, C., & Cutts, M. (2024). The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction. Current Psychology, 43(11), 9838-9853. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05060-8

Instagram is a hugely popular social media website; however, research has suggested that continued use of the site may lead to increased body dissatisfaction and lower body esteem. Materials intended to reduce these effects are available, but these o... Read More about The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction.

Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency” (2023)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2024). Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency”. Timing and Time Perception, 12(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10082

This article discusses material in a 1909 monograph, The Inaccuracy of Movement with Special Reference to Constant Errors, by H. L. Hollingworth, which is mostly concerned with demonstrating and accounting for what we would now call Vierordt’s Law, f... Read More about Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency”.

The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach (2023)
Journal Article
Francis, K. B., & Beaman, C. P. (2023). The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach. Synthese, 202(2), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04236-w

Two methods have been used in the investigation of the stakes-sensitivity of knowledge as it occurs in ordinary language: (a) asking participants about the truth or acceptability of knowledge ascriptions and (b) asking participants how much evidence... Read More about The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach.

The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action (2023)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., & Acar, Y. G. (2023). The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 90(2), 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2023.a901705

Historically, social psychologists have conceptualized the crowd and its members as mindless and irrational. More recent research has emphasized the crowd as an agentic space that offers both emergence and endurance of psychological transformations,... Read More about The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action.