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Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors (2023)
Journal Article
Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Jeftić, A., Stöckli, S., Gelpí, R., Acosta-Ortiz, A. M., Travaglino, G. A., Alvarado, R., Lacko, D., Milfont, T. L., Chrona, S., Griffin, S. M., Tamayo-Agudelo, W., Lee, Y., & Vestergren, S. (2023). Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05281-x

Despite the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided the opportunity to investigate factors associated with compliance with public health measures that could inform responses to future pandemics. We analysed crosscountry data (k = 12... Read More about Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors.

Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs (2023)
Journal Article
Rotenberg, K. J., MacDonald‐Taylor, B., & Holland, R. (in press). Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs. Social Development, https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12717

Three studies examined age, gender, and trust belief differences in using the consistency principle to judge the trustworthiness of persons who varied in the consistency between their personal standards and behavior. The participants were 78 adults (... Read More about Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs.

Parent-Youth Relationships and Youth Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role of Parental Alcohol Use (2023)
Journal Article
Yang, C.-Y., Shen, A. C.-T., Hsieh, Y.-P., Huang, C.-Y., Wei, H.-S., Feng, J.-Y., & Hwa, H.-L. (2023). Parent-Youth Relationships and Youth Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role of Parental Alcohol Use. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 23(2), 1421-1433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01177-w

Previous studies have shown that strong parent-youth relationships serve as a protective factor inhibiting early alcohol use onset among youth, while parental alcohol use as a risk factor. However, little is known about the moderating effect of paren... Read More about Parent-Youth Relationships and Youth Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role of Parental Alcohol Use.

Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices (2023)
Journal Article
Pizarro, J. J., Cakal, H., Méndez, L., Zumeta, L. N., Gracia‐Leiva, M., Basabe, N., Navarro‐Carrillo, G., Cazan, A., Keshavarzi, S., López‐López, W., Yahiiaiev, I., Alzugaray‐Ponce, C., Villagrán, L., Moyano‐Díaz, E., Petrović, N., Mathias, A., Techio, E. M., Wlodarczyk, A., Alfaro‐Beracoechea, L., Ibarra, M. L., …Páez, D. (in press). Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12930

Although different social crises may eventually favor undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such antidemocratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research... Read More about Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices.

Empathy Training through Virtual Reality: Moral Enhancement with the Freedom to Fall? (2023)
Journal Article
Zahiu, A., Mihailov, E., Earp, B. D., Francis, K. B., & Savulescu, J. (2023). Empathy Training through Virtual Reality: Moral Enhancement with the Freedom to Fall?. Ethics and Information Technology, 25(4), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09723-9

We propose to expand the conversation around moral enhancement from direct brain-altering methods to include technological means of modifying the environments and media through which agents can achieve moral improvement. Virtual Reality (VR) based en... Read More about Empathy Training through Virtual Reality: Moral Enhancement with the Freedom to Fall?.

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.-H., Rashal, E., Kunchulia, M., & Herzog, M. H. (2023). 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.