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Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
In this paper, we introduce the concept of 'societal emotional environment': the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data ...
Are students in Italy really disinterested in science? A person-centered approach using the PISA 2015 data
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2021)
Seen as one of the essential domains for active citizenship, examining how students relate to science has become crucial. Based on a person-centered approach, this article investigates self-related dispositions and motivation ...
Tendencies toward supernormality/subnormality in generating attractive and unattractive female and male avatars: Gender differences.
(Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2023)
In the present study we investigated the differences in the experience of attractiveness and unattractiveness of human bodies. One hundred one participants (55 females) were asked to create the most attractive and the most ...
Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism ...
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries*
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2021)
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. ...
Does the disposition towards psychotic-like experiences incrementally predict grandiose narcissism? Representative evidence from Germany
(Springer, New York, 2021)
A process model of narcissism proposes two positively related but distinct subdimensions of grandiose narcissism: admiration (agentic/bright) and rivalry (antagonistic/dark). We explore the relationship between narcissism ...