TY  - CONF
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Petrović, Marija B.
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Žeželj, Iris Lav
PY  - 2024
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6479
AB  - Although it lacks a solid evidence base, people use traditional, complementary, and alternative
medicine (TCAM), and they do so in three distinct ways: 1) for preventive purposes, 2)
complementarily to prescribed therapy, and 3) as an alternative to it. While preventive use of
TCAM is of least concern, these treatments can sometimes have detrimental interactions with
conventional when used as complementary, and especially as an alternative to treatment. Using
TCAM instead of conventional treatments can delay efficient cure and decrease the chance of
recovery. Previous studies have indicated that the use of TCAM is rooted in the “irrational
mindset” (IM) - a composite of irrational beliefs and cognitive biases. However, different ways
of using TCAM may not be equally irrational. Here, we explored whether the IM predicts the
three ways of TCAM use. Participants from a nationally representative Serbian sample (N =
1003) filled in a set of the IM measures: Medical conspiracy theories (ɑ = .83), Superstition (ɑ
= .70), Magical beliefs about health (ɑ = .77), Extrasensory beliefs (ɑ = .77), and Naturalness
bias (single item). They also indicated how they typically used different domains of TCAM
practices (preventively, complementarily, alternatively, or none). We coded their answers “1”
if they indicated that they used a domain in a particular way and with “0” otherwise.
We tested the explanatory power of IM variables for the ways of TCAM use within three binary
logistic regression models, one for each way of use. The irrational mindset was the most
predictive for the alternative use of TCAM (χ2(5) = 40.56, p < .001; Nagelkerke R2 = .07).
Those endorsing medical conspiracy theories (OR = 1.48, p = .001) and extrasensory
perception beliefs (OR = 1.41, p = .009) were more likely to turn to TCAM alternative to the
prescribed therapy. On the other hand, the predictive power of IM was quite weak for
preventive (χ2(5) = 14.39, p = .013; Nagelkerke R2 = .02) and complementary use (χ2(5) =
18.06, p = .003; Nagelkerke R2 = .02) suggesting these behaviors not to be irrational.
Whilst abandoning treatment and turning to TCAM is the rarest scenario (17%), it is the most
dangerous one, particularly in case of life-threatening illnesses. This is why health
communication interventions must cut deeper and also address its underlying irrational beliefs:
endorsing unfounded extrasensory abilities and dismissing official medicine due to so-called
“Big pharma conspiracies”.
PB  - Institute of Psychology & Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
C3  - Book of Apstacts of the XXX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - Turning away from conventional medicine to traditional, complementary and alternative medical treatments - an irrational choice
EP  - 94
SP  - 94
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6479
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Ninković, Milica and Knežević, Goran and Purić, Danka and Opačić, Goran and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Petrović, Marija B. and Teovanović, Predrag and Stanković, Sanda and Zupan, Zorana and Žeželj, Iris Lav",
year = "2024",
abstract = "Although it lacks a solid evidence base, people use traditional, complementary, and alternative
medicine (TCAM), and they do so in three distinct ways: 1) for preventive purposes, 2)
complementarily to prescribed therapy, and 3) as an alternative to it. While preventive use of
TCAM is of least concern, these treatments can sometimes have detrimental interactions with
conventional when used as complementary, and especially as an alternative to treatment. Using
TCAM instead of conventional treatments can delay efficient cure and decrease the chance of
recovery. Previous studies have indicated that the use of TCAM is rooted in the “irrational
mindset” (IM) - a composite of irrational beliefs and cognitive biases. However, different ways
of using TCAM may not be equally irrational. Here, we explored whether the IM predicts the
three ways of TCAM use. Participants from a nationally representative Serbian sample (N =
1003) filled in a set of the IM measures: Medical conspiracy theories (ɑ = .83), Superstition (ɑ
= .70), Magical beliefs about health (ɑ = .77), Extrasensory beliefs (ɑ = .77), and Naturalness
bias (single item). They also indicated how they typically used different domains of TCAM
practices (preventively, complementarily, alternatively, or none). We coded their answers “1”
if they indicated that they used a domain in a particular way and with “0” otherwise.
We tested the explanatory power of IM variables for the ways of TCAM use within three binary
logistic regression models, one for each way of use. The irrational mindset was the most
predictive for the alternative use of TCAM (χ2(5) = 40.56, p < .001; Nagelkerke R2 = .07).
Those endorsing medical conspiracy theories (OR = 1.48, p = .001) and extrasensory
perception beliefs (OR = 1.41, p = .009) were more likely to turn to TCAM alternative to the
prescribed therapy. On the other hand, the predictive power of IM was quite weak for
preventive (χ2(5) = 14.39, p = .013; Nagelkerke R2 = .02) and complementary use (χ2(5) =
18.06, p = .003; Nagelkerke R2 = .02) suggesting these behaviors not to be irrational.
Whilst abandoning treatment and turning to TCAM is the rarest scenario (17%), it is the most
dangerous one, particularly in case of life-threatening illnesses. This is why health
communication interventions must cut deeper and also address its underlying irrational beliefs:
endorsing unfounded extrasensory abilities and dismissing official medicine due to so-called
“Big pharma conspiracies”.",
publisher = "Institute of Psychology & Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade",
journal = "Book of Apstacts of the XXX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology",
title = "Turning away from conventional medicine to traditional, complementary and alternative medical treatments - an irrational choice",
pages = "94-94",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6479"
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Ninković, M., Knežević, G., Purić, D., Opačić, G., Lazarević, L. B., Petrović, M. B., Teovanović, P., Stanković, S., Zupan, Z.,& Žeželj, I. L.. (2024). Turning away from conventional medicine to traditional, complementary and alternative medical treatments - an irrational choice. in Book of Apstacts of the XXX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
Institute of Psychology & Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade., 94-94.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6479

Ninković M, Knežević G, Purić D, Opačić G, Lazarević LB, Petrović MB, Teovanović P, Stanković S, Zupan Z, Žeželj IL. Turning away from conventional medicine to traditional, complementary and alternative medical treatments - an irrational choice. in Book of Apstacts of the XXX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2024;:94-94.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6479 .

Ninković, Milica, Knežević, Goran, Purić, Danka, Opačić, Goran, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Petrović, Marija B., Teovanović, Predrag, Stanković, Sanda, Zupan, Zorana, Žeželj, Iris Lav, "Turning away from conventional medicine to traditional, complementary and alternative medical treatments - an irrational choice" in Book of Apstacts of the XXX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2024):94-94,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6479 .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Petrović, Marija
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4763
AB  - People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health - they intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (e.g. self-medicate or modify the prescribed therapies; iNAR), or use traditional/complementary/alternative (TCAM) medicine. As retrospective reports overestimate adherence and suffer from recall and desirability bias, we tracked the variations in daily questionable health behaviors and compared them to their retrospectively reported lifetime use. We also preregistered and explored their relations to a wide set of psychological predictors - distal (personality traits and basic thinking dispositions) and proximal (different unfounded beliefs and biases grouped under the term irrational mindset). A community sample (N = 224) tracked daily engagement in iNAR and TCAM use for 14 days, resulting in 3136 data points. We observed a high rate of questionable health practices over the 14 days; daily engagement rates roughly corresponded to lifetime ones. Both iNAR and TCAM were weakly, but robustly positively related. Independent of the assessment method, an irrational mindset was the most important predictor of TCAM use. For iNAR, however, psychological predictors emerged as relevant only when assessed retrospectively. Our study offers insight into questionable health behaviors from both a within and between-person perspective and highlights the importance of their psychological roots.
T2  - Scientific Reports
T1  - Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study
SP  - 14058
VL  - 13
DO  - 10.1038/s41598-023-41243-w
ER  - 

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author = "Lazarević, Ljiljana and Knežević, Goran and Purić, Danka and Teovanović, Predrag and Petrović, Marija and Ninković, Milica and Živanović, Marko and Stanković, Sanda and Branković, Marija and Lukić, Petar and Opačić, Goran and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2023",
abstract = "People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health - they intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (e.g. self-medicate or modify the prescribed therapies; iNAR), or use traditional/complementary/alternative (TCAM) medicine. As retrospective reports overestimate adherence and suffer from recall and desirability bias, we tracked the variations in daily questionable health behaviors and compared them to their retrospectively reported lifetime use. We also preregistered and explored their relations to a wide set of psychological predictors - distal (personality traits and basic thinking dispositions) and proximal (different unfounded beliefs and biases grouped under the term irrational mindset). A community sample (N = 224) tracked daily engagement in iNAR and TCAM use for 14 days, resulting in 3136 data points. We observed a high rate of questionable health practices over the 14 days; daily engagement rates roughly corresponded to lifetime ones. Both iNAR and TCAM were weakly, but robustly positively related. Independent of the assessment method, an irrational mindset was the most important predictor of TCAM use. For iNAR, however, psychological predictors emerged as relevant only when assessed retrospectively. Our study offers insight into questionable health behaviors from both a within and between-person perspective and highlights the importance of their psychological roots.",
journal = "Scientific Reports",
title = "Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study",
pages = "14058",
volume = "13",
doi = "10.1038/s41598-023-41243-w"
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Lazarević, L., Knežević, G., Purić, D., Teovanović, P., Petrović, M., Ninković, M., Živanović, M., Stanković, S., Branković, M., Lukić, P., Opačić, G.,& Žeželj, I.. (2023). Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study. in Scientific Reports, 13, 14058.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41243-w

Lazarević L, Knežević G, Purić D, Teovanović P, Petrović M, Ninković M, Živanović M, Stanković S, Branković M, Lukić P, Opačić G, Žeželj I. Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study. in Scientific Reports. 2023;13:14058.
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41243-w .

Lazarević, Ljiljana, Knežević, Goran, Purić, Danka, Teovanović, Predrag, Petrović, Marija, Ninković, Milica, Živanović, Marko, Stanković, Sanda, Branković, Marija, Lukić, Petar, Opačić, Goran, Žeželj, Iris, "Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study" in Scientific Reports, 13 (2023):14058,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41243-w . .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Petrović, Marija
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/EIP23_proceedings.pdf
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4927
AB  - To understand the reasons behind the trend of growing use of traditional, complementary and alternative (TCAM) practices this study sought to uncover how people use them - to prevent disease/promote health, to treat medical conditions by complementing official medical treatments, or as an alternative to them. A sample of N = 583 Serbian citizens completed an online questionnaire assessing four TCAM domains: Alternative medical systems (AMS), Natural product-based practices (NP), New Age medicine (NA), and Rituals/Customs (RC). Participants indicated whether they had used a given practice in the past year, and if yes, how they used it. Overall, participants used TCAM preventively in two-thirds of cases, but we also found a significant association between TCAM domain and way of use. AMS was used alternatively more than any other TCAM domain, NP was the most prevalent complementary treatment, while NA and RC were predominantly used preventively. Our results suggest that different domains of TCAM practices may impact people’s health differently, depending on how they are used, which should inform interventions.
PB  - Institut za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd
PB  - Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd
C3  - Proceedings - 29th scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine
EP  - 25
SP  - 22
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4927
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Purić, Danka and Opačić, Goran and Petrović, Marija and Knežević, Goran and Stanković, Sanda and Lazić, Aleksandra and Lukić, Petar and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Teovanović, Predrag and Zupan, Zorana and Ninković, Milica and Branković, Marija and Živanović, Marko and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2023",
abstract = "To understand the reasons behind the trend of growing use of traditional, complementary and alternative (TCAM) practices this study sought to uncover how people use them - to prevent disease/promote health, to treat medical conditions by complementing official medical treatments, or as an alternative to them. A sample of N = 583 Serbian citizens completed an online questionnaire assessing four TCAM domains: Alternative medical systems (AMS), Natural product-based practices (NP), New Age medicine (NA), and Rituals/Customs (RC). Participants indicated whether they had used a given practice in the past year, and if yes, how they used it. Overall, participants used TCAM preventively in two-thirds of cases, but we also found a significant association between TCAM domain and way of use. AMS was used alternatively more than any other TCAM domain, NP was the most prevalent complementary treatment, while NA and RC were predominantly used preventively. Our results suggest that different domains of TCAM practices may impact people’s health differently, depending on how they are used, which should inform interventions.",
publisher = "Institut za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd",
journal = "Proceedings - 29th scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology",
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pages = "25-22",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4927"
}

Purić, D., Opačić, G., Petrović, M., Knežević, G., Stanković, S., Lazić, A., Lukić, P., Lazarević, L. B., Teovanović, P., Zupan, Z., Ninković, M., Branković, M., Živanović, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2023). To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. in Proceedings - 29th scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
Institut za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd., 22-25.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4927

Purić D, Opačić G, Petrović M, Knežević G, Stanković S, Lazić A, Lukić P, Lazarević LB, Teovanović P, Zupan Z, Ninković M, Branković M, Živanović M, Žeželj I. To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. in Proceedings - 29th scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2023;:22-25.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4927 .

Purić, Danka, Opačić, Goran, Petrović, Marija, Knežević, Goran, Stanković, Sanda, Lazić, Aleksandra, Lukić, Petar, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Teovanović, Predrag, Zupan, Zorana, Ninković, Milica, Branković, Marija, Živanović, Marko, Žeželj, Iris, "To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine" in Proceedings - 29th scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2023):22-25,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4927 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Petrović, Marija
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/EIP2023_book_of_abstracts.pdf
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4928
AB  - To understand the reasons behind the trend of growing use of traditional, complementary and alternative (TCAM) practices we should first reflect on how people use them - to prevent disease/promote health, to treat medical conditions by complementing official medical treatments, or as an alternative to them. A total of N = 583 (Mage = 39.01 years, SDage = 12.10; 74.4% females) participants from Serbia completed an online survey including a list of 24 TCAM practices, grouped into four domains: Alternative Medical Systems (e.g., acupuncture, homeopathy), Natural product-based practices (e.g., herbal extracts/supplements), New Age medicine (e.g., yoga, mindfulness) and Rituals/Customs (e.g., visiting monasteries for health). Participants who indicated using a certain practice in the past year were asked to consider their most recent experience with that practice and choose only one option for how they used it: for preventive purposes/advancing health, at the same time with official medicine therapy, instead of official medicine therapy. Participants also provided information on whether a TCAM practitioner was involved in their last use of any of the TCAM practices and how often, in general, they consult TCAM practitioners. Overall, 63%, 95%CI [60, 65] of participants used TCAM practices for preventive purposes, 31% [29, 34] in parallel with, and 6% [5, 8] as an alternative to official treatments. Of the four domains of TCAM use, New Age medicine and Rituals/Customs were most frequently used for prevention, with 78% [74, 83] and 77% [72, 82], respectively, while Natural product-based practices were used for prevention in 57% [54, 60] and Alternative Medical Systems in 41% [33, 49] of the cases. Alternative use of TCAM practices was the most common in the case of Alternative Medical Systems (21% [14, 28]), while it amounted to no more than 7% of participants for any of the other domains. For 24% of participants, a TCAM practitioner was present during their last TCAM use, 10% reported a practitioner previously prescribing the practice, while 66% of participants reported no practitioner involvement. The results suggest the importance of treating different domains of TCAM practices separately, as they may have different impacts on people’s health behavior. We especially point to the importance of monitoring adherence to alternative medical systems, as they may potentially distract patients from official therapies and thus further compromise their health.
C3  - Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine
EP  - 56
SP  - 55
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4928
ER  - 

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author = "Purić, Danka and Opačić, Goran and Petrović, Marija and Stanković, Sanda and Lazić, Aleksandra and Lukić, Petar and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Teovanović, Predrag and Zupan, Zorana and Ninković, Milica and Branković, Marija and Živanović, Marko and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2023",
abstract = "To understand the reasons behind the trend of growing use of traditional, complementary and alternative (TCAM) practices we should first reflect on how people use them - to prevent disease/promote health, to treat medical conditions by complementing official medical treatments, or as an alternative to them. A total of N = 583 (Mage = 39.01 years, SDage = 12.10; 74.4% females) participants from Serbia completed an online survey including a list of 24 TCAM practices, grouped into four domains: Alternative Medical Systems (e.g., acupuncture, homeopathy), Natural product-based practices (e.g., herbal extracts/supplements), New Age medicine (e.g., yoga, mindfulness) and Rituals/Customs (e.g., visiting monasteries for health). Participants who indicated using a certain practice in the past year were asked to consider their most recent experience with that practice and choose only one option for how they used it: for preventive purposes/advancing health, at the same time with official medicine therapy, instead of official medicine therapy. Participants also provided information on whether a TCAM practitioner was involved in their last use of any of the TCAM practices and how often, in general, they consult TCAM practitioners. Overall, 63%, 95%CI [60, 65] of participants used TCAM practices for preventive purposes, 31% [29, 34] in parallel with, and 6% [5, 8] as an alternative to official treatments. Of the four domains of TCAM use, New Age medicine and Rituals/Customs were most frequently used for prevention, with 78% [74, 83] and 77% [72, 82], respectively, while Natural product-based practices were used for prevention in 57% [54, 60] and Alternative Medical Systems in 41% [33, 49] of the cases. Alternative use of TCAM practices was the most common in the case of Alternative Medical Systems (21% [14, 28]), while it amounted to no more than 7% of participants for any of the other domains. For 24% of participants, a TCAM practitioner was present during their last TCAM use, 10% reported a practitioner previously prescribing the practice, while 66% of participants reported no practitioner involvement. The results suggest the importance of treating different domains of TCAM practices separately, as they may have different impacts on people’s health behavior. We especially point to the importance of monitoring adherence to alternative medical systems, as they may potentially distract patients from official therapies and thus further compromise their health.",
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Purić, D., Opačić, G., Petrović, M., Stanković, S., Lazić, A., Lukić, P., Lazarević, L. B., Teovanović, P., Zupan, Z., Ninković, M., Branković, M., Živanović, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2023). To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, 55-56.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4928

Purić D, Opačić G, Petrović M, Stanković S, Lazić A, Lukić P, Lazarević LB, Teovanović P, Zupan Z, Ninković M, Branković M, Živanović M, Žeželj I. To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2023;:55-56.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4928 .

Purić, Danka, Opačić, Goran, Petrović, Marija, Stanković, Sanda, Lazić, Aleksandra, Lukić, Petar, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Teovanović, Predrag, Zupan, Zorana, Ninković, Milica, Branković, Marija, Živanović, Marko, Žeželj, Iris, "To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine" in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2023):55-56,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4928 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Petrović, Marija
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/EIP2023_book_of_abstracts.pdf
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4925
AB  - Despite unknown efficiency, known risks, and associated adverse effects of certain traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) practices, the number of people using them appears to be on the rise. Existing taxonomies of TCAM practices mostly relied on either conceptual reasons, or they relied on attitudes toward TCAM, rather than its actual use. In this study, we sought to group TCAM practices based on their patterns of use. A sample of N = 583 (Mage = 39.01 years, SDage = 12.10; 74.4% females) participants residing in Serbia completed an online survey including a list of 71 TCAM practices. For each practice, they indicated if and when they used it to promote their own or their children's health (options: never heard about it/never used it/more than a year ago/in the past year/during the past two weeks). To evaluate the lifetime use of TCAM, we binarized all TCAM items to reflect whether participants have ever used a given practice (never using a practice was coded as 0, using it at least once as 1). After excluding items with frequencies below 5%, we performed an exploratory factor analysis on the tetrachoric correlation matrix for the remaining 49 items. Using a minimum residual method of extraction and oblimin rotation, we identified four meaningful factors explaining 42% of total variance: 1) Natural product-based practices (NP) comprising the use of products such as extracts and supplements of herbal and non-herbal origin; 2) Rituals/Customs (RC) which reflected the use of traditional medicine and religious practices, such as visiting monasteries; 3) New age medicine (NA) incorporating mind-body therapies and energy medicine practices; and 4) Alternative medical systems (AMS) such as acupuncture, homeopathy, quantum medicine, and osteopathy/chiropractic. Factor correlations ranged from r = .18, p <.001 for RC and AMS to r = .30, p < .001 for NA and AMS. The latent structure we obtained based on the pattern of TCAM use corresponds closely to existing conceptual typologies, as well as to those based on attitudes toward TCAM. This suggests that consumers are sensitive to common characteristics of certain TCAM treatments and are more likely to resort to similar types of TCAM practices to promote their health. The existence of relatively independent factors of TCAM use opens the possibility of differential patterns of their psychological predictors and health-related outcomes.
C3  - Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - The latent structure of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practices based on patterns of use
EP  - 55
SP  - 54
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4925
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Purić, Danka and Petrović, Marija and Teovanović, Predrag and Živanović, Marko and Ninković, Milica and Zupan, Zorana and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Stanković, Sanda and Lukić, Petar and Branković, Marija and Opačić, Goran and Lazić, Aleksandra and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2023",
abstract = "Despite unknown efficiency, known risks, and associated adverse effects of certain traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) practices, the number of people using them appears to be on the rise. Existing taxonomies of TCAM practices mostly relied on either conceptual reasons, or they relied on attitudes toward TCAM, rather than its actual use. In this study, we sought to group TCAM practices based on their patterns of use. A sample of N = 583 (Mage = 39.01 years, SDage = 12.10; 74.4% females) participants residing in Serbia completed an online survey including a list of 71 TCAM practices. For each practice, they indicated if and when they used it to promote their own or their children's health (options: never heard about it/never used it/more than a year ago/in the past year/during the past two weeks). To evaluate the lifetime use of TCAM, we binarized all TCAM items to reflect whether participants have ever used a given practice (never using a practice was coded as 0, using it at least once as 1). After excluding items with frequencies below 5%, we performed an exploratory factor analysis on the tetrachoric correlation matrix for the remaining 49 items. Using a minimum residual method of extraction and oblimin rotation, we identified four meaningful factors explaining 42% of total variance: 1) Natural product-based practices (NP) comprising the use of products such as extracts and supplements of herbal and non-herbal origin; 2) Rituals/Customs (RC) which reflected the use of traditional medicine and religious practices, such as visiting monasteries; 3) New age medicine (NA) incorporating mind-body therapies and energy medicine practices; and 4) Alternative medical systems (AMS) such as acupuncture, homeopathy, quantum medicine, and osteopathy/chiropractic. Factor correlations ranged from r = .18, p <.001 for RC and AMS to r = .30, p < .001 for NA and AMS. The latent structure we obtained based on the pattern of TCAM use corresponds closely to existing conceptual typologies, as well as to those based on attitudes toward TCAM. This suggests that consumers are sensitive to common characteristics of certain TCAM treatments and are more likely to resort to similar types of TCAM practices to promote their health. The existence of relatively independent factors of TCAM use opens the possibility of differential patterns of their psychological predictors and health-related outcomes.",
journal = "Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology",
title = "The latent structure of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practices based on patterns of use",
pages = "55-54",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4925"
}

Purić, D., Petrović, M., Teovanović, P., Živanović, M., Ninković, M., Zupan, Z., Lazarević, L. B., Stanković, S., Lukić, P., Branković, M., Opačić, G., Lazić, A.,& Žeželj, I.. (2023). The latent structure of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practices based on patterns of use. in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, 54-55.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4925

Purić D, Petrović M, Teovanović P, Živanović M, Ninković M, Zupan Z, Lazarević LB, Stanković S, Lukić P, Branković M, Opačić G, Lazić A, Žeželj I. The latent structure of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practices based on patterns of use. in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2023;:54-55.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4925 .

Purić, Danka, Petrović, Marija, Teovanović, Predrag, Živanović, Marko, Ninković, Milica, Zupan, Zorana, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Stanković, Sanda, Lukić, Petar, Branković, Marija, Opačić, Goran, Lazić, Aleksandra, Žeželj, Iris, "The latent structure of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practices based on patterns of use" in Book of abstracts - XXIX scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2023):54-55,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4925 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Petrović, Marija
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KNJIGA-REZIMEA-2022_FIN-sa-isbn_bez_linija-1.pdf
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4930
AB  - The main project methodology is planned in five stages that inform one another and cross-validate data from multiple methods. These include: (1) A study documenting online media coverage of TM/CAM practices in Serbia. This study will use a qualitative methodology, and conduct a content analysis of news stories from the five most popular news websites in Serbia, focusing on identifying the types of reported practices and content of the advice (e.g., whether risks are addressed) (2) Development of instruments for assessing familiarity and frequency of two types of health behaviors: engagement with different TM/CAM practices, as well as the frequency of NAR. Instrument development will be based on the results of the qualitative study, literature review, input from medical and CAM practitioners. The instrument will be piloted on a convenience sample (3) A study tracking the prevalence and the pattern of TM/CAM usage and NAR during 3 weeks on a community sample. This study will consist of a development of a mobile app and battery for experience sampling of TM/CAM and NAR behaviors over 21 days and their relations with personality and cognitive styles in a community sample (4) Examining the relations between these two types of health behaviors on a general population. This study will explore the relations between TM/CAM, NAR, personality, and cognitive styles on a representative sample in Serbia. (5) Developing interventions aimed at reducing TM/CAM use and NAR through changing the irrational mindset. This study will be experimental and will examine how inducing or reducing irrational beliefs affects health behaviors, and if certain personality traits and/or thinking styles moderate the outcome of these interventions.
C3  - Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - REASON4HEALTH: Methodology
SP  - 27
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4930
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Zupan, Zorana and Žeželj, Iris and Knežević, Goran and Opačić, Goran and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Purić, Danka and Branković, Marija and Teovanović, Predrag and Živanović, Marko and Stanković, Sanda and Lazić, Aleksandra and Lukić, Petar and Ninković, Milica and Petrović, Marija",
year = "2022",
abstract = "The main project methodology is planned in five stages that inform one another and cross-validate data from multiple methods. These include: (1) A study documenting online media coverage of TM/CAM practices in Serbia. This study will use a qualitative methodology, and conduct a content analysis of news stories from the five most popular news websites in Serbia, focusing on identifying the types of reported practices and content of the advice (e.g., whether risks are addressed) (2) Development of instruments for assessing familiarity and frequency of two types of health behaviors: engagement with different TM/CAM practices, as well as the frequency of NAR. Instrument development will be based on the results of the qualitative study, literature review, input from medical and CAM practitioners. The instrument will be piloted on a convenience sample (3) A study tracking the prevalence and the pattern of TM/CAM usage and NAR during 3 weeks on a community sample. This study will consist of a development of a mobile app and battery for experience sampling of TM/CAM and NAR behaviors over 21 days and their relations with personality and cognitive styles in a community sample (4) Examining the relations between these two types of health behaviors on a general population. This study will explore the relations between TM/CAM, NAR, personality, and cognitive styles on a representative sample in Serbia. (5) Developing interventions aimed at reducing TM/CAM use and NAR through changing the irrational mindset. This study will be experimental and will examine how inducing or reducing irrational beliefs affects health behaviors, and if certain personality traits and/or thinking styles moderate the outcome of these interventions.",
journal = "Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology",
title = "REASON4HEALTH: Methodology",
pages = "27",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4930"
}

Zupan, Z., Žeželj, I., Knežević, G., Opačić, G., Lazarević, L. B., Purić, D., Branković, M., Teovanović, P., Živanović, M., Stanković, S., Lazić, A., Lukić, P., Ninković, M.,& Petrović, M.. (2022). REASON4HEALTH: Methodology. in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, 27.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4930

Zupan Z, Žeželj I, Knežević G, Opačić G, Lazarević LB, Purić D, Branković M, Teovanović P, Živanović M, Stanković S, Lazić A, Lukić P, Ninković M, Petrović M. REASON4HEALTH: Methodology. in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2022;:27.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4930 .

Zupan, Zorana, Žeželj, Iris, Knežević, Goran, Opačić, Goran, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Purić, Danka, Branković, Marija, Teovanović, Predrag, Živanović, Marko, Stanković, Sanda, Lazić, Aleksandra, Lukić, Petar, Ninković, Milica, Petrović, Marija, "REASON4HEALTH: Methodology" in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2022):27,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4930 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Branković, Marija
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Živanović, Marko
AU  - Stanković, Sanda
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Petrović, Marija
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KNJIGA-REZIMEA-2022_FIN-sa-isbn_bez_linija-1.pdf
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4929
AB  - Non-adherence to medical recommendations (NAR) leads to increasing mortality/disease rates and raises the costs of treatments, thus it is a burden on the healthcare system. Typically viewed as harmless, the use of traditional/complementary/alternative medicine (TM/CAM) can lead to adverse health events, but also to avoidance of official treatment or undesirable interaction with it. Thus, there is an increasing call in the medical community to promote evidence-based use of TM/CAM and adherence to official advice; understanding why consumers opt for questionable health practices can contribute to this call. We put forward a comprehensive program to study the psychological roots of these two broad categories of questionable health practices. The program offers a framework for concepts from cognitive, personality, social, and health psychology. We propose that an irrational mindset (a system of irrational thinking and beliefs), rooted in basic psychological dispositions (personality, thinking styles) makes certain consumers susceptible to NAR and TM/CAM practices. We plan to: a. explore the media environment the consumers are exposed to (e.g. predatory practices in advertising TM/CAM), b. identify the large spectrum of NAR and TM/CAM typical for the local cultural context, c. test whether irrational beliefs of very different content really form a mindset (how they are interrelated), d. measure the prevalence of NAR and TM/CAM and relate them to irrational mindset and further to personality traits, and e. test whether the TM/CAM proneness can be affected by manipulating irrational beliefs. The results will be useful to stakeholders in different ways: information on the prevalence of TM/CAM and NAR in Serbia is useful by itself, but identifying their underlying psychological mechanisms will help in understanding the most vulnerable portions of the population. In addition, we will provide useful input for designing interventions that will support consumers in making rational health decisions.
C3  - Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology
T1  - REASON4HEALTH: Rationale and impact
SP  - 26
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4929
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Žeželj, Iris and Knežević, Goran and Opačić, Goran and Lazarević, Ljiljana B. and Purić, Danka and Branković, Marija and Zupan, Zorana and Teovanović, Predrag and Živanović, Marko and Stanković, Sanda and Lazić, Aleksandra and Lukić, Petar and Ninković, Milica and Petrović, Marija",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Non-adherence to medical recommendations (NAR) leads to increasing mortality/disease rates and raises the costs of treatments, thus it is a burden on the healthcare system. Typically viewed as harmless, the use of traditional/complementary/alternative medicine (TM/CAM) can lead to adverse health events, but also to avoidance of official treatment or undesirable interaction with it. Thus, there is an increasing call in the medical community to promote evidence-based use of TM/CAM and adherence to official advice; understanding why consumers opt for questionable health practices can contribute to this call. We put forward a comprehensive program to study the psychological roots of these two broad categories of questionable health practices. The program offers a framework for concepts from cognitive, personality, social, and health psychology. We propose that an irrational mindset (a system of irrational thinking and beliefs), rooted in basic psychological dispositions (personality, thinking styles) makes certain consumers susceptible to NAR and TM/CAM practices. We plan to: a. explore the media environment the consumers are exposed to (e.g. predatory practices in advertising TM/CAM), b. identify the large spectrum of NAR and TM/CAM typical for the local cultural context, c. test whether irrational beliefs of very different content really form a mindset (how they are interrelated), d. measure the prevalence of NAR and TM/CAM and relate them to irrational mindset and further to personality traits, and e. test whether the TM/CAM proneness can be affected by manipulating irrational beliefs. The results will be useful to stakeholders in different ways: information on the prevalence of TM/CAM and NAR in Serbia is useful by itself, but identifying their underlying psychological mechanisms will help in understanding the most vulnerable portions of the population. In addition, we will provide useful input for designing interventions that will support consumers in making rational health decisions.",
journal = "Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology",
title = "REASON4HEALTH: Rationale and impact",
pages = "26",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4929"
}

Žeželj, I., Knežević, G., Opačić, G., Lazarević, L. B., Purić, D., Branković, M., Zupan, Z., Teovanović, P., Živanović, M., Stanković, S., Lazić, A., Lukić, P., Ninković, M.,& Petrović, M.. (2022). REASON4HEALTH: Rationale and impact. in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, 26.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4929

Žeželj I, Knežević G, Opačić G, Lazarević LB, Purić D, Branković M, Zupan Z, Teovanović P, Živanović M, Stanković S, Lazić A, Lukić P, Ninković M, Petrović M. REASON4HEALTH: Rationale and impact. in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2022;:26.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4929 .

Žeželj, Iris, Knežević, Goran, Opačić, Goran, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Purić, Danka, Branković, Marija, Zupan, Zorana, Teovanović, Predrag, Živanović, Marko, Stanković, Sanda, Lazić, Aleksandra, Lukić, Petar, Ninković, Milica, Petrović, Marija, "REASON4HEALTH: Rationale and impact" in Book of abstracts - XXVIII scientific conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (2022):26,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4929 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Ilić, Sandra
AU  - Lep, Žan
AU  - Damnjanović, Kaja
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Hacin-Beyazoglu, Kaja
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5388
AB  - While the COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone, not everyone‘s experience of the pandemic is the same. Young people, for example, were not considered a risk group, but from a public health perspective, a successful mitigation of the outbreak calls for coordinated effort across generations. The aim of the study was to explore the »generational view« of the pandemic in Serbia by observing age-group differences in perceptions of the pandemic (alertness), adherence to protective measures, means of gathering information and perceived trust and credibility using serial cross-sectional data collected in the first five months of the outbreak. The sample included 8.911 participants (79% female, Mage = 40.0), divided into four age groups (emerging adulthood, early, middle, and late adulthood). Overall, emerging adults reported lower alertness (but not lower than adults over 60; F(3) = 5.30, p = .001, η2 < .01), hypothetical (F(3) = 10.87, p < .001, η2 = .01), and actual self-protective behaviour than their seniors (F(3) = 25.04, p < .001, η2 = .01), but perceived the information they received as more credible (F(3) = 29.75, p < .001, η2 = .01). However, when looking into temporal stability of the differences, they were significant (though small in absolute terms) in the acute psychological phase of the pandemic (first two weeks), but evened out during adaptation and relaxation phases. In terms of trust, the estimates of emerging adults regarding the healthcare system and institutions started to grow significantly during the relaxation phase, suggesting they based their judgements on their performance in dealing with the epidemic (their trust increased when easing of measures was announced). As perceived trust and credibility of information contribute to people‘s adherence to protective measures, we discuss the public health implications of our findings, which align with fuzzy trace theory’s notion regarding risk perceptions of young adults.
PB  - Društvo psihologov Slovenije
C3  - Book of Abstracts, 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, 5-8 July
T1  - The generational differences in the perceptions of the pandemic: were emerging adults less alert and more trusting?
SP  - 143
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5388
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Ilić, Sandra and Lep, Žan and Damnjanović, Kaja and Teovanović, Predrag and Hacin-Beyazoglu, Kaja",
year = "2022",
abstract = "While the COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone, not everyone‘s experience of the pandemic is the same. Young people, for example, were not considered a risk group, but from a public health perspective, a successful mitigation of the outbreak calls for coordinated effort across generations. The aim of the study was to explore the »generational view« of the pandemic in Serbia by observing age-group differences in perceptions of the pandemic (alertness), adherence to protective measures, means of gathering information and perceived trust and credibility using serial cross-sectional data collected in the first five months of the outbreak. The sample included 8.911 participants (79% female, Mage = 40.0), divided into four age groups (emerging adulthood, early, middle, and late adulthood). Overall, emerging adults reported lower alertness (but not lower than adults over 60; F(3) = 5.30, p = .001, η2 < .01), hypothetical (F(3) = 10.87, p < .001, η2 = .01), and actual self-protective behaviour than their seniors (F(3) = 25.04, p < .001, η2 = .01), but perceived the information they received as more credible (F(3) = 29.75, p < .001, η2 = .01). However, when looking into temporal stability of the differences, they were significant (though small in absolute terms) in the acute psychological phase of the pandemic (first two weeks), but evened out during adaptation and relaxation phases. In terms of trust, the estimates of emerging adults regarding the healthcare system and institutions started to grow significantly during the relaxation phase, suggesting they based their judgements on their performance in dealing with the epidemic (their trust increased when easing of measures was announced). As perceived trust and credibility of information contribute to people‘s adherence to protective measures, we discuss the public health implications of our findings, which align with fuzzy trace theory’s notion regarding risk perceptions of young adults.",
publisher = "Društvo psihologov Slovenije",
journal = "Book of Abstracts, 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, 5-8 July",
title = "The generational differences in the perceptions of the pandemic: were emerging adults less alert and more trusting?",
pages = "143",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5388"
}

Ilić, S., Lep, Ž., Damnjanović, K., Teovanović, P.,& Hacin-Beyazoglu, K.. (2022). The generational differences in the perceptions of the pandemic: were emerging adults less alert and more trusting?. in Book of Abstracts, 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, 5-8 July
Društvo psihologov Slovenije., 143.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5388

Ilić S, Lep Ž, Damnjanović K, Teovanović P, Hacin-Beyazoglu K. The generational differences in the perceptions of the pandemic: were emerging adults less alert and more trusting?. in Book of Abstracts, 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, 5-8 July. 2022;:143.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5388 .

Ilić, Sandra, Lep, Žan, Damnjanović, Kaja, Teovanović, Predrag, Hacin-Beyazoglu, Kaja, "The generational differences in the perceptions of the pandemic: were emerging adults less alert and more trusting?" in Book of Abstracts, 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, 5-8 July (2022):143,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5388 .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Lazić, Aleksandra
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2021
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3355
AB  - In the coronavirus "infodemic," people are exposed to official recommendations but also to potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID-19. We examined whether irrational beliefs predict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines as well as susceptibility to such misinformation. Irrational beliefs were indexed by belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, COVID-19 knowledge overestimation, type I error cognitive biases, and cognitive intuition. Participants (N = 407) reported (1) how often they followed guidelines (e.g., handwashing, physical distancing), (2) how often they engaged in pseudoscientific practices (e.g., consuming garlic, colloidal silver), and (3) their intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Conspiratorial beliefs predicted all three outcomes in line with our expectations. Cognitive intuition and knowledge overestimation predicted lesser adherence to guidelines, while cognitive biases predicted greater adherence, but also greater use of pseudoscientific practices. Our results suggest an important relation between irrational beliefs and health behaviors, with conspiracy theories being the most detrimental.
PB  - Wiley, Hoboken
T2  - Applied Cognitive Psychology
T1  - Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
EP  - 496
IS  - 2
SP  - 486
VL  - 35
DO  - 10.1002/acp.3770
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Teovanović, Predrag and Lukić, Petar and Zupan, Zorana and Lazić, Aleksandra and Ninković, Milica and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2021",
abstract = "In the coronavirus "infodemic," people are exposed to official recommendations but also to potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID-19. We examined whether irrational beliefs predict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines as well as susceptibility to such misinformation. Irrational beliefs were indexed by belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, COVID-19 knowledge overestimation, type I error cognitive biases, and cognitive intuition. Participants (N = 407) reported (1) how often they followed guidelines (e.g., handwashing, physical distancing), (2) how often they engaged in pseudoscientific practices (e.g., consuming garlic, colloidal silver), and (3) their intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Conspiratorial beliefs predicted all three outcomes in line with our expectations. Cognitive intuition and knowledge overestimation predicted lesser adherence to guidelines, while cognitive biases predicted greater adherence, but also greater use of pseudoscientific practices. Our results suggest an important relation between irrational beliefs and health behaviors, with conspiracy theories being the most detrimental.",
publisher = "Wiley, Hoboken",
journal = "Applied Cognitive Psychology",
title = "Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID-19 pandemic",
pages = "496-486",
number = "2",
volume = "35",
doi = "10.1002/acp.3770"
}

Teovanović, P., Lukić, P., Zupan, Z., Lazić, A., Ninković, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2021). Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. in Applied Cognitive Psychology
Wiley, Hoboken., 35(2), 486-496.
https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3770

Teovanović P, Lukić P, Zupan Z, Lazić A, Ninković M, Žeželj I. Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. in Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2021;35(2):486-496.
doi:10.1002/acp.3770 .

Teovanović, Predrag, Lukić, Petar, Zupan, Zorana, Lazić, Aleksandra, Ninković, Milica, Žeželj, Iris, "Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID-19 pandemic" in Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, no. 2 (2021):486-496,
https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3770 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Zupan, Zorana
AU  - Knežević, Goran
PY  - 2021
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3324
AB  - The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model complemented by Disintegration, which represents psychotic-like experiences and behaviors reconceptualized as a personality trait. Mediation analyses conducted on a convenient sample from the general population recruited via social media and by snowballing (N = 417) showed that engagement in pseudoscientific behaviors was predicted by high Disintegration. However, this relationship was entirely mediated by high experiential and low rational thinking styles. Adherence to health practices recommended by COVID-19 guidelines was predicted by high Honesty traits, while low Disintegration had both direct and indirect effects through conspiracy mentality.
PB  - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
T2  - Personality and Individual Differences
T1  - What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality
VL  - 176
DO  - 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Lazarević, Ljiljana and Purić, Danka and Teovanović, Predrag and Lukić, Petar and Zupan, Zorana and Knežević, Goran",
year = "2021",
abstract = "The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model complemented by Disintegration, which represents psychotic-like experiences and behaviors reconceptualized as a personality trait. Mediation analyses conducted on a convenient sample from the general population recruited via social media and by snowballing (N = 417) showed that engagement in pseudoscientific behaviors was predicted by high Disintegration. However, this relationship was entirely mediated by high experiential and low rational thinking styles. Adherence to health practices recommended by COVID-19 guidelines was predicted by high Honesty traits, while low Disintegration had both direct and indirect effects through conspiracy mentality.",
publisher = "Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford",
journal = "Personality and Individual Differences",
title = "What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality",
volume = "176",
doi = "10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771"
}

Lazarević, L., Purić, D., Teovanović, P., Lukić, P., Zupan, Z.,& Knežević, G.. (2021). What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 176.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771

Lazarević L, Purić D, Teovanović P, Lukić P, Zupan Z, Knežević G. What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2021;176.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771 .

Lazarević, Ljiljana, Purić, Danka, Teovanović, Predrag, Lukić, Petar, Zupan, Zorana, Knežević, Goran, "What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality" in Personality and Individual Differences, 176 (2021),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lep, Zan
AU  - Ilić, Sandra
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Hacin-Beyazoglu, Kaja
AU  - Damnjanović, Kaja
PY  - 2021
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3259
AB  - COVID-19 pandemic is a long-lasting process associated with dynamic changes within society and in individual psychological responses. Effective communication of measures by credible sources throughout the epidemic is one of the crucial factors for the containment of the disease, and the official communication about pandemics is straightforwardly directed toward changes in behavior via engagement in (self-)protective measures. Calls for the adherence to these measures are aimed at the general population, but people's reactions to these calls vary depending on, for example, their individual differences in cognitive and emotional responses to the situation. The focus of our study was the general narrative about the epidemic as conveyed by both state officials and media outlets in times of decreased social contacts due to the quarantine, in which relying on these sources of information is even more pivotal. Our aim was to explore the stability of the proposed mediational model during the course of the epidemic in Serbia. In the model, we tested the relationship between perceived credibility of information (PCI) and two types of protective behavior-the actual self-protective behavior (ASPB) and the hypothetical protective behavior (HPB), as well as the potential mediating role of alertness in these relationships time-wise. A cross-sectional study (N = 10,782, female = 79.1%) was being administered daily during the first epidemic wave and in three more 2-week time frames during the second wave. Based on the variability of these measures during the first epidemic wave, three stages of psychological responses were mapped (acute, adaptation, and relaxation stage), which were observed, with some deviations, also in the second wave. The mediational model was relatively robust after the initial few weeks, but the strength of pairwise relationships was more changeable. With both types of protective behaviors, the predictive power of PCI was partially mediated through alertness. This suggests that, while individual differences in cognitive and affective responses are important, so is coherent, focused, and credible communication in all stages of the epidemic, which emphasizes the communality aspect of the social containment of the infection. Our findings can thus be valuable in informing the planning of effective future communication.
PB  - Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
T1  - One Hundred and Sixty-One Days in the Life of the Homopandemicus in Serbia: The Contribution of Information Credibility and Alertness in Predicting Engagement in Protective Behaviors
VL  - 12
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631791
ER  - 

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title = "One Hundred and Sixty-One Days in the Life of the Homopandemicus in Serbia: The Contribution of Information Credibility and Alertness in Predicting Engagement in Protective Behaviors",
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Lep, Z., Ilić, S., Teovanović, P., Hacin-Beyazoglu, K.,& Damnjanović, K.. (2021). One Hundred and Sixty-One Days in the Life of the Homopandemicus in Serbia: The Contribution of Information Credibility and Alertness in Predicting Engagement in Protective Behaviors. in Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne., 12.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631791

Lep Z, Ilić S, Teovanović P, Hacin-Beyazoglu K, Damnjanović K. One Hundred and Sixty-One Days in the Life of the Homopandemicus in Serbia: The Contribution of Information Credibility and Alertness in Predicting Engagement in Protective Behaviors. in Frontiers in Psychology. 2021;12.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631791 .

Lep, Zan, Ilić, Sandra, Teovanović, Predrag, Hacin-Beyazoglu, Kaja, Damnjanović, Kaja, "One Hundred and Sixty-One Days in the Life of the Homopandemicus in Serbia: The Contribution of Information Credibility and Alertness in Predicting Engagement in Protective Behaviors" in Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (2021),
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631791 . .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Lukić, Petar
AU  - Ninković, Milica
AU  - Žeželj, Iris
PY  - 2020
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4636
AB  - As a major societal crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. This aspect of the “infodemic” might be especially dangerous since previous research consistently reported that medical conspiracy theories have been associated with a range of risky health behaviors. Our study was aimed to examine antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories, as well as their relations with other forms of irrational thinking. We developed Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Scale for the purpose of our study (N = 407) which consisted of 13 items representing a sample of conspiracy theories circulating in digital media and
conversations on social networks. In accordance with findings on the monological belief system, the scale was unidimensional (λ1 = 6.34) and highly reliable (α = .90). Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories correlated with measures of irrational thinking such as percentage of intuitive responses on Cognitive Reflection Test (r = .28) and frequency of type I error responses on set of heuristic-and-biases tasks (r = .33). Results also revealed that older (r = .11) and less educated (r = -.27) were more prone to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, as well as those subjects who showed higher scores on measures of psychoticism-proneness (r = .27), religiosity (r = .31) and rightwing orientation (r = .36). More importantly, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories was consistently related to each examined health-related behavior during the first wave of pandemic – it predicted adherence to COVID-19 guidelines (r = -.17), use of pseudoscientific practices (r = .31), and intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (r = -.53) - thus suggesting a possible effect on decisions that may lead to detrimental public health outcomes.
PB  - Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru
C3  - Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar
T1  - 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic
SP  - 56
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Teovanović, Predrag and Lukić, Petar and Ninković, Milica and Žeželj, Iris",
year = "2020",
abstract = "As a major societal crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. This aspect of the “infodemic” might be especially dangerous since previous research consistently reported that medical conspiracy theories have been associated with a range of risky health behaviors. Our study was aimed to examine antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories, as well as their relations with other forms of irrational thinking. We developed Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Scale for the purpose of our study (N = 407) which consisted of 13 items representing a sample of conspiracy theories circulating in digital media and
conversations on social networks. In accordance with findings on the monological belief system, the scale was unidimensional (λ1 = 6.34) and highly reliable (α = .90). Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories correlated with measures of irrational thinking such as percentage of intuitive responses on Cognitive Reflection Test (r = .28) and frequency of type I error responses on set of heuristic-and-biases tasks (r = .33). Results also revealed that older (r = .11) and less educated (r = -.27) were more prone to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, as well as those subjects who showed higher scores on measures of psychoticism-proneness (r = .27), religiosity (r = .31) and rightwing orientation (r = .36). More importantly, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories was consistently related to each examined health-related behavior during the first wave of pandemic – it predicted adherence to COVID-19 guidelines (r = -.17), use of pseudoscientific practices (r = .31), and intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (r = -.53) - thus suggesting a possible effect on decisions that may lead to detrimental public health outcomes.",
publisher = "Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru",
journal = "Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar",
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pages = "56",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636"
}

Teovanović, P., Lukić, P., Ninković, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2020). 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic. in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar
Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru., 56.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636

Teovanović P, Lukić P, Ninković M, Žeželj I. 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic. in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar. 2020;:56.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636 .

Teovanović, Predrag, Lukić, Petar, Ninković, Milica, Žeželj, Iris, "5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic" in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar (2020):56,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636 .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Bosnjak, Michael
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Petrović, Boban
AU  - Opačić, Goran
PY  - 2019
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2822
AB  - Eysenck's model of personality (PEN) was one of the most influential personality models in the 20th century. A unique characteristic of this model is the claim of psychosis-proneness being incorporated into it as one of its three basic traits - Psychoticism. The main goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to find out the associations between PEN traits and a diverse set of operationalizations of psychosis-proneness (PP). We set the benchmark for assuming their distinctness to a correlation coefficient amounting to 0.40. A systematic review has been conducted, yielding 350 correlations of interest. By computing inverse sampling variance weighted mean correlation coefficients, we found the following associations between psychosis-proneness and Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism, respectively: 0.21, -0.09, and 0.30. All prediction intervals around the three mean effect sizes do include zero, suggesting that psychosis-proneness is only marginally captured by the PEN model. Moderator analyses further demonstrated this distinctness and the lack of phenotypic validity of the Psychoticism scale/construct.
PB  - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
T2  - Personality and Individual Differences
T1  - Does Eysenck's personality model capture psychosis-proneness? A systematic review and meta-analysis
EP  - 164
SP  - 155
VL  - 143
DO  - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009
ER  - 

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year = "2019",
abstract = "Eysenck's model of personality (PEN) was one of the most influential personality models in the 20th century. A unique characteristic of this model is the claim of psychosis-proneness being incorporated into it as one of its three basic traits - Psychoticism. The main goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to find out the associations between PEN traits and a diverse set of operationalizations of psychosis-proneness (PP). We set the benchmark for assuming their distinctness to a correlation coefficient amounting to 0.40. A systematic review has been conducted, yielding 350 correlations of interest. By computing inverse sampling variance weighted mean correlation coefficients, we found the following associations between psychosis-proneness and Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism, respectively: 0.21, -0.09, and 0.30. All prediction intervals around the three mean effect sizes do include zero, suggesting that psychosis-proneness is only marginally captured by the PEN model. Moderator analyses further demonstrated this distinctness and the lack of phenotypic validity of the Psychoticism scale/construct.",
publisher = "Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford",
journal = "Personality and Individual Differences",
title = "Does Eysenck's personality model capture psychosis-proneness? A systematic review and meta-analysis",
pages = "164-155",
volume = "143",
doi = "10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009"
}

Knežević, G., Lazarević, L., Purić, D., Bosnjak, M., Teovanović, P., Petrović, B.,& Opačić, G.. (2019). Does Eysenck's personality model capture psychosis-proneness? A systematic review and meta-analysis. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 143, 155-164.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009

Knežević G, Lazarević L, Purić D, Bosnjak M, Teovanović P, Petrović B, Opačić G. Does Eysenck's personality model capture psychosis-proneness? A systematic review and meta-analysis. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2019;143:155-164.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009 .

Knežević, Goran, Lazarević, Ljiljana, Purić, Danka, Bosnjak, Michael, Teovanović, Predrag, Petrović, Boban, Opačić, Goran, "Does Eysenck's personality model capture psychosis-proneness? A systematic review and meta-analysis" in Personality and Individual Differences, 143 (2019):155-164,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Damnjanović, Kaja
AU  - Ilić, Sandra
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
PY  - 2019
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2764
AB  - Odluke o ličnom zdravlju protežu se od svakodnevnih i lakih, kao što je odluka o uzimanju vitaminskog suplementa, do onih koje se donose u situacijama kada je prisutna životno ugrožavajuća bolest. Pacijenti koji donose odluku o izboru tretmana suočavaju se sa specifičnim izazovima i imaju poteškoća da razumeju statističke podatke o mogućim ishodima alternativnih tretmana, o verovatnoći i o rizicima. Ova problematika je posebno značajna u kontekstu prakse zajedničkog odlučivanja, u kojoj i pacijent, a ne samo lekar, donosi odluku o tome na koji način će se tretirati bolest. Cilj ove studije bio je da se ispita uticaj naziva tretmana u zadacima odlučivanja u uslovima rizika. Efekat okvira rizičnog izbora se odnosi na sistematsku promenu redosleda preferencija koje su različite po rizičnosti. Do toga dolazi usled naglašavanja različitih aspekata identične situacije prilikom prikazivanja opcija donosiocima odluka. U našoj studiji ispitanici su prinudno birali između nerizičnog i rizičnog tretmana, koji su predstavljeni u terminima dobitka i gubitka. U prvoj eksperimentalnoj situaciji, kao rizična opcija predstavljena je operacija, a u drugoj zračenje. U trećem eksperimentu, nazivi tretmana su zamenjeni apstraktnim oznakama A i B. Rezultati pokazuju statistički značajnu razliku u proporcijama rizičnih odgovora između tri eksperimentalne situacije. Efekat okvira je registrovan u prvom i drugom eksperimentu; u prvom umerenog, a u drugom većeg intenziteta. Kada biraju između operacije i zračenja na ispitanike utiče naziv tretmana, ali to ne objašnjava celokupnu varijansu. Po pravilu, preferirali su operaciju, a kada je ona prikazana u terminima gubitka, ta preferencija je bila još jača.
AB  - Decisions about one's own health range from everyday easy ones, such as taking a vitamin pill, to those made in the situations of life-threatening diseases. When it comes to choosing treatments, patients have difficulty understanding statistical information about the possible outcomes of alternative treatments, such as probabilities and risks. These challenges are especially important in the context of the shared decision-making. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of the labelling of the treatment in risky choice decision tasks. The risky choice framing effect (FE) pertains to the systematic preference reversal because different aspects of formally identical situations are emphasized. In the present study, the participants made a forced choice between a non-risky and risky treatment presented in terms of gains and losses. In the first condition surgery was the risky option and in the second it was radiation. In the third condition, the treatments' labels were replaced with ' A' and 'B'. Chi-square tests revealed a significant difference in the proportions of risky choices between the three conditions. The FE was registered only in the first and the second condition, and it was moderate and strong, respectively. When choosing between surgery and radiation, participants' choices were indeed influenced by the naming of the treatment, but not exclusively-they generally preferred surgery, and when it was offered in terms of losses, they preferred it even more.
PB  - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za psihologiju, Beograd
T2  - Psihološka istraživanja
T1  - Okvir i naziv medicinskog tretmana i njihov uticaj na zdravstvene odluke
T1  - The frame and name of the medical treatment and their influence on health decisions
EP  - 254
IS  - 2
SP  - 239
VL  - 22
DO  - 10.5937/PSISTRA22-23375
ER  - 

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author = "Damnjanović, Kaja and Ilić, Sandra and Teovanović, Predrag",
year = "2019",
abstract = "Odluke o ličnom zdravlju protežu se od svakodnevnih i lakih, kao što je odluka o uzimanju vitaminskog suplementa, do onih koje se donose u situacijama kada je prisutna životno ugrožavajuća bolest. Pacijenti koji donose odluku o izboru tretmana suočavaju se sa specifičnim izazovima i imaju poteškoća da razumeju statističke podatke o mogućim ishodima alternativnih tretmana, o verovatnoći i o rizicima. Ova problematika je posebno značajna u kontekstu prakse zajedničkog odlučivanja, u kojoj i pacijent, a ne samo lekar, donosi odluku o tome na koji način će se tretirati bolest. Cilj ove studije bio je da se ispita uticaj naziva tretmana u zadacima odlučivanja u uslovima rizika. Efekat okvira rizičnog izbora se odnosi na sistematsku promenu redosleda preferencija koje su različite po rizičnosti. Do toga dolazi usled naglašavanja različitih aspekata identične situacije prilikom prikazivanja opcija donosiocima odluka. U našoj studiji ispitanici su prinudno birali između nerizičnog i rizičnog tretmana, koji su predstavljeni u terminima dobitka i gubitka. U prvoj eksperimentalnoj situaciji, kao rizična opcija predstavljena je operacija, a u drugoj zračenje. U trećem eksperimentu, nazivi tretmana su zamenjeni apstraktnim oznakama A i B. Rezultati pokazuju statistički značajnu razliku u proporcijama rizičnih odgovora između tri eksperimentalne situacije. Efekat okvira je registrovan u prvom i drugom eksperimentu; u prvom umerenog, a u drugom većeg intenziteta. Kada biraju između operacije i zračenja na ispitanike utiče naziv tretmana, ali to ne objašnjava celokupnu varijansu. Po pravilu, preferirali su operaciju, a kada je ona prikazana u terminima gubitka, ta preferencija je bila još jača., Decisions about one's own health range from everyday easy ones, such as taking a vitamin pill, to those made in the situations of life-threatening diseases. When it comes to choosing treatments, patients have difficulty understanding statistical information about the possible outcomes of alternative treatments, such as probabilities and risks. These challenges are especially important in the context of the shared decision-making. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of the labelling of the treatment in risky choice decision tasks. The risky choice framing effect (FE) pertains to the systematic preference reversal because different aspects of formally identical situations are emphasized. In the present study, the participants made a forced choice between a non-risky and risky treatment presented in terms of gains and losses. In the first condition surgery was the risky option and in the second it was radiation. In the third condition, the treatments' labels were replaced with ' A' and 'B'. Chi-square tests revealed a significant difference in the proportions of risky choices between the three conditions. The FE was registered only in the first and the second condition, and it was moderate and strong, respectively. When choosing between surgery and radiation, participants' choices were indeed influenced by the naming of the treatment, but not exclusively-they generally preferred surgery, and when it was offered in terms of losses, they preferred it even more.",
publisher = "Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za psihologiju, Beograd",
journal = "Psihološka istraživanja",
title = "Okvir i naziv medicinskog tretmana i njihov uticaj na zdravstvene odluke, The frame and name of the medical treatment and their influence on health decisions",
pages = "254-239",
number = "2",
volume = "22",
doi = "10.5937/PSISTRA22-23375"
}

Damnjanović, K., Ilić, S.,& Teovanović, P.. (2019). Okvir i naziv medicinskog tretmana i njihov uticaj na zdravstvene odluke. in Psihološka istraživanja
Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za psihologiju, Beograd., 22(2), 239-254.
https://doi.org/10.5937/PSISTRA22-23375

Damnjanović K, Ilić S, Teovanović P. Okvir i naziv medicinskog tretmana i njihov uticaj na zdravstvene odluke. in Psihološka istraživanja. 2019;22(2):239-254.
doi:10.5937/PSISTRA22-23375 .

Damnjanović, Kaja, Ilić, Sandra, Teovanović, Predrag, "Okvir i naziv medicinskog tretmana i njihov uticaj na zdravstvene odluke" in Psihološka istraživanja, 22, no. 2 (2019):239-254,
https://doi.org/10.5937/PSISTRA22-23375 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Bosnjak, Michael
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Petrović, Boban
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Bodroža, Bojana
PY  - 2016
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2109
AB  - Relying on a recent re-conceptualization of psychosis proneness as a personality trait, its relations with the Big Five traits were investigated in a meta-analytic study. This re-conceptualized trait - named Disintegration - is articulated as a broad, hierarchically organized, nine-faceted behavioral disposition. Disintegration is postulated to be a basic personality trait distinct from the Big Five traits. In accordance with this conceptualization, all the articles considered for this meta-analysis carry information on the relationship between Disintegration-like phenomena (referring to various aspects of symptomatology with prefix 'schizo-', both at the clinical and the sub-clinical level), and at least one Big Five trait. The benchmark for assuming distinctness of the trait Disintegration was .40, based on the meta-analytically derived correlations found among the Big Five traits. By computing inverse sampling variance weighted mean correlation coefficients under a random-effects assumption, the following associations were found between Disintegration and N, E, O, A, and C, respectively: .24, -.27, 0, -.19, and -13. The differences in true correlations between the studies were substantial for each coefficient Three variables were found to moderate Disintegration-personality correlations. The finding about the distinctness of Disintegration from other personality traits can have repercussions on the taxonomy of traits.
PB  - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
T2  - Personality and Individual Differences
T1  - Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence
EP  - 222
SP  - 214
VL  - 95
DO  - 10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Knežević, Goran and Lazarević, Ljiljana and Bosnjak, Michael and Purić, Danka and Petrović, Boban and Teovanović, Predrag and Opačić, Goran and Bodroža, Bojana",
year = "2016",
abstract = "Relying on a recent re-conceptualization of psychosis proneness as a personality trait, its relations with the Big Five traits were investigated in a meta-analytic study. This re-conceptualized trait - named Disintegration - is articulated as a broad, hierarchically organized, nine-faceted behavioral disposition. Disintegration is postulated to be a basic personality trait distinct from the Big Five traits. In accordance with this conceptualization, all the articles considered for this meta-analysis carry information on the relationship between Disintegration-like phenomena (referring to various aspects of symptomatology with prefix 'schizo-', both at the clinical and the sub-clinical level), and at least one Big Five trait. The benchmark for assuming distinctness of the trait Disintegration was .40, based on the meta-analytically derived correlations found among the Big Five traits. By computing inverse sampling variance weighted mean correlation coefficients under a random-effects assumption, the following associations were found between Disintegration and N, E, O, A, and C, respectively: .24, -.27, 0, -.19, and -13. The differences in true correlations between the studies were substantial for each coefficient Three variables were found to moderate Disintegration-personality correlations. The finding about the distinctness of Disintegration from other personality traits can have repercussions on the taxonomy of traits.",
publisher = "Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford",
journal = "Personality and Individual Differences",
title = "Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence",
pages = "222-214",
volume = "95",
doi = "10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044"
}

Knežević, G., Lazarević, L., Bosnjak, M., Purić, D., Petrović, B., Teovanović, P., Opačić, G.,& Bodroža, B.. (2016). Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 95, 214-222.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044

Knežević G, Lazarević L, Bosnjak M, Purić D, Petrović B, Teovanović P, Opačić G, Bodroža B. Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2016;95:214-222.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044 .

Knežević, Goran, Lazarević, Ljiljana, Bosnjak, Michael, Purić, Danka, Petrović, Boban, Teovanović, Predrag, Opačić, Goran, Bodroža, Bojana, "Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence" in Personality and Individual Differences, 95 (2016):214-222,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Bosnjak, Michael
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Petrović, Boban
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Bodroža, Bojana
PY  - 2016
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2195
AB  - This meta-analytic study investigates the relations between Disintegration-like phenomena (i.e., various aspects of symptomatology with the prefix "schizo-," both at the clinical and the subclinical level) and the traits of the Psychobiological Model of Personality (PBMP). The empirically based benchmark for assuming the distinctness of the trait Disintegration was .30. The sample included 26 manuscripts with 30 studies and 424 effect sizes. By computing inverse sampling variance weighted mean correlation coefficients under a random-effects assumption, the following associations were found between Disintegration and Harm Avoidance, Novelty Seeking, Reward Dependence, Persistence, Self-Directedness, Cooperativeness, and Self-Transcendence: .23, .04, -.15, -.02, -.23, -.16, and .17, respectively. Two variables were found to moderate the Disintegration-Self-Transcendence correlation. Despite the theoretical expectation and some empirical evidence that Self-Transcendence (and other character traits) should capture variations in Disintegration-like phenomena, our results suggest that schizo-type phenomena are not adequately covered by the PBMP.
PB  - Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Gottingen
T2  - Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology
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VL  - 224
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year = "2016",
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Lazarević, L., Bosnjak, M., Knežević, G., Petrović, B., Purić, D., Teovanović, P., Opačić, G.,& Bodroža, B.. (2016). Disintegration as an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of Personality Assessing Discriminant Validity via Meta-Analysis. in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology
Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Gottingen., 224(3), 204-215.
https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000254

Lazarević L, Bosnjak M, Knežević G, Petrović B, Purić D, Teovanović P, Opačić G, Bodroža B. Disintegration as an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of Personality Assessing Discriminant Validity via Meta-Analysis. in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology. 2016;224(3):204-215.
doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000254 .

Lazarević, Ljiljana, Bosnjak, Michael, Knežević, Goran, Petrović, Boban, Purić, Danka, Teovanović, Predrag, Opačić, Goran, Bodroža, Bojana, "Disintegration as an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of Personality Assessing Discriminant Validity via Meta-Analysis" in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 224, no. 3 (2016):204-215,
https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000254 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lazarević, Ljiljana
AU  - Bosnjak, Michael
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Petrović, Boban
AU  - Purić, Danka
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Opačić, Goran
AU  - Bodroža, Bojana
PY  - 2016
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2181
PB  - Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Gottingen
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Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Gottingen., 224(4), 313-313.
https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000274

Lazarević L, Bosnjak M, Knežević G, Petrović B, Purić D, Teovanović P, Opačić G, Bodroža B. Disintegration as an additional trait in the psychobiological model of personality: Assessing discriminant validity via meta-analysis (vol 224, pg 204, 2016). in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology. 2016;224(4):313-313.
doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000274 .

Lazarević, Ljiljana, Bosnjak, Michael, Knežević, Goran, Petrović, Boban, Purić, Danka, Teovanović, Predrag, Opačić, Goran, Bodroža, Bojana, "Disintegration as an additional trait in the psychobiological model of personality: Assessing discriminant validity via meta-analysis (vol 224, pg 204, 2016)" in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 224, no. 4 (2016):313-313,
https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000274 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Teovanović, Predrag
AU  - Knežević, Goran
AU  - Stankov, Lazar
PY  - 2015
UR  - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1986
AB  - In this paper we seek to gain an improved understanding of the structure of cognitive biases and their relationship with measures of intelligence and relevant non-cognitive constructs. We report on the outcomes of a study based on a heterogeneous set of seven cognitive biases - anchoring effect, belief bias, overconfidence bias, hindsight bias, base rate neglect, outcome bias and sunk cost effect. New scales for the assessment of these biases were administered to 243 undergraduate students along with measures of fluid (Gf) and crystallized (Gc) intelligence, a Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), Openness/Intellect (O/I) scale and Need for Cognition (NFC) scale. The expected experimental results were confirmed - i.e., each normatively irrelevant variable significantly influenced participants' responses. Also, with the exception of hindsight bias, all cognitive biases showed satisfactory reliability estimates (alpha s  gt  .70). However, correlations among the cognitive bias measures were low (rs  lt  .20). Although exploratory factor analysis produced two factors, their robustness was doubtful. Cognitive bias measures were also relatively independent (rs  lt  .25) from the Gf, Gc, CRT, O/I and NFC and they define separate latent factors. This pattern of results suggests that a major part of the reliable variance of cognitive bias tasks is unique, and implies that a one-factor model of rational behavior is not plausible.
PB  - Elsevier Science Inc, New York
T2  - Intelligence
T1  - Individual differences in cognitive biases: Evidence against one-factor theory of rationality
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SP  - 75
VL  - 50
DO  - 10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.008
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year = "2015",
abstract = "In this paper we seek to gain an improved understanding of the structure of cognitive biases and their relationship with measures of intelligence and relevant non-cognitive constructs. We report on the outcomes of a study based on a heterogeneous set of seven cognitive biases - anchoring effect, belief bias, overconfidence bias, hindsight bias, base rate neglect, outcome bias and sunk cost effect. New scales for the assessment of these biases were administered to 243 undergraduate students along with measures of fluid (Gf) and crystallized (Gc) intelligence, a Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), Openness/Intellect (O/I) scale and Need for Cognition (NFC) scale. The expected experimental results were confirmed - i.e., each normatively irrelevant variable significantly influenced participants' responses. Also, with the exception of hindsight bias, all cognitive biases showed satisfactory reliability estimates (alpha s  gt  .70). However, correlations among the cognitive bias measures were low (rs  lt  .20). Although exploratory factor analysis produced two factors, their robustness was doubtful. Cognitive bias measures were also relatively independent (rs  lt  .25) from the Gf, Gc, CRT, O/I and NFC and they define separate latent factors. This pattern of results suggests that a major part of the reliable variance of cognitive bias tasks is unique, and implies that a one-factor model of rational behavior is not plausible.",
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Teovanović, P., Knežević, G.,& Stankov, L.. (2015). Individual differences in cognitive biases: Evidence against one-factor theory of rationality. in Intelligence
Elsevier Science Inc, New York., 50, 75-86.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.008

Teovanović P, Knežević G, Stankov L. Individual differences in cognitive biases: Evidence against one-factor theory of rationality. in Intelligence. 2015;50:75-86.
doi:10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.008 .

Teovanović, Predrag, Knežević, Goran, Stankov, Lazar, "Individual differences in cognitive biases: Evidence against one-factor theory of rationality" in Intelligence, 50 (2015):75-86,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.008 . .