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The general fault in our fault lines
(Nature Research, Berlin, 2021)
Ruggeri et al. tested perceptions of opposing political party members in 10,207 participants from 26 countries. Results show that beliefs about others are overly negative but could be more realistic with transparency about ...
On the Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression
(American Psychological Association, 2020)
What gives rise to sadism? While sadistic behavior (i.e., harming others for pleasure) is welldocumented, past empirical research is nearly silent regarding the psychological factors behind it. We help close this gap by ...
Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Shnabel and Nadler (2008), Study 4
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2020)
Shnabel and Nadler (2008) assessed a needs-based model of reconciliation suggesting that in conflicts, victims and perpetrators have different psychological needs that when satisfied increase the chances of reconciliation. ...
Relations Between Lexical and Biological Perspectives on Personality: New Evidence Based on HEXACO and Affective Neuroscience Theory
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2020)
We provide evidence on the convergence of language-based questionnaire and biological perspectives on personality traits. The first study, conducted on Serbian students, provided evidence on the position of Panksepp's ...
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 ...
Multitrait Multimethod validation of Implicit Association Test as a measure of individual differences in personality: Is there personality at all?
(Academic Press Inc., 2021)
The objective of the study was to investigate the validity of IAT in the assessment of the Big five personality traits. We employed the Multi-Trait Multi-Method (MTMM) approach on a sample of 146 respondents. We collected ...
Sociopsychological correlates of militant extremist beliefs in a postconflict society: The importance of ethnocentrism and quality of interethnic contacts
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2020)
This study investigates the attitudinal and motivational bases of militant extremist beliefs in a postconflict society (N = 600; 51% female). Militant extremist mindset (MEM) measures of proviolence, divine power, utopianism, ...
Ambulatory assessment of language use: Evidence on the temporal stability of Electronically Activated Recorder and stream of consciousness data
(Springer, New York, 2020)
The ambulatory assessment offers a wide range of methods enabling researchers to investigate psychological, behavioral, emotional, and biological processes. These methods enable us to gather data on individual differences ...
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. ...
What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2021)
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 ...