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Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism
(Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022)
Differences in attitudes on social issues such as abortion, immigration, and sex are hugely divisive, and understanding their origins is among the most important tasks facing human behavioural sciences. Despite the clear ...
Belief Inhibition during Thinking: Not So Fast
(Studia Psychologica, 2022)
The present study is a replication of De Neys & Franssens (2009) study about the role of belief inhibition and the nature of inhibition failure. We examined the accessibility of cued beliefs after syllogistic reasoning, ...
Latent structure of secondary traumatic stress, its precursors, and effects on people working with refugees
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2020)
The study aims to examine the latent structure of secondary traumatic stress (STS), its precursors, and the psychological effects of it on the population of service providers working with refugees passing through the Balkan ...
Empirical evaluation of computational models of lightness perception
(Nature, 2022)
Lightness of a surface depends not only on its physical characteristics, but also on the properties of the surrounding context. As a result, varying the context can significantly alter surface lightness, an effect exploited ...
Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2016)
Beginning January 2014, Psychological Science gave authors the opportunity to signal open data and materials if they qualified for badges that accompanied published articles. Before badges, less than 3% of Psychological ...
Measuring populist ideology: anti-elite orientation and government status
(Quality & Quantity, 2022)
In most contemporary conceptions of populist ideology, anti-elite orientation is considered to
be one of its central components. Consequently, instruments designed to measure populism
include items intended to capture ...
The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data From Ratings of Young Adolescents
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2010)
We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N=5,109) ages 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence ...
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning
(PNAS Nexus, 2022)
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining ...
Concern with COVID-19 pandemic threat and attitudes towards immigrants: The mediating effect of the desire for tightness
(Elsevier BV, 2022)
Tightening social norms is thought to be adaptive for dealing with collective threat yet it may have negative consequences for increasing prejudice. The present research investigated the role of desire for cultural
tightness, ...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over parietal cortex improves associative memory
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2019)
Associative memory plays a key role in everyday functioning, but it declines with normal ageing as well as due to various pathological states and conditions, thus impairing quality of life. Associative memory enhancement ...