Browsing by Author "Peker, Müjde"
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A 32-society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida; Jetten, Joland; Peters, Kim; Ashokkumar, Ashwini; Barry, Oumar; Billet, Matthew; Becker, Maja (Wiley, 2022)There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the ... -
Biyoloji, biliş ve siyaset psikolojisi
Peker, Müjde; Booth, Robert W (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2017)Eğer bu kitabı okuyorsanız, halihazırda siayset bilimi ve psikoloji etkileşimiyle ilgileniyorsunuz demektir. -
Collective narcissism predicts hypersensitivity to in-group insult and direct and indirect retaliatory intergroup hostility
de Zavala, Agnieszka Golec; Peker, Müjde; Guerra, Rita; Baran, Tomazs (Wiley, 2016)Results of five studies (N?=?1596) linked collective narcissism—a belief in in-group exaggerated greatness contingent on external validation—to direct and indirect, retaliatory hostility in response to situations that ... -
Estimated probabilities of positive, vs. negative, events show separable correlations with covid-19 preventive behaviours
Booth, Robert W.; Peker, Müjde; Yavuz, Burak Baran; Aksu, Ayça (Elsevier, 2022)Research has associated optimism with better health-protective behaviours, but few studies have measured optimism or pessimism directly, by asking participants to estimate probabilities of events. We used these probability ... -
Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism
Bastian, Brock; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Loughnan, Steve; Bain, Paul; Ashokkumar, Ashwini; Becker, Maja; Bilewicz, Michał; Collier-Baker, Emma; Crespo, Carla; Eastwick, Paul W; Fischer, Ronald; Friese, Malte; Gómez, Ángel; M. Guerra, Valeschka; Guevara, José Luis Castellanos; Hanke, Katja; Hooper, Nic; Huang, Li-Li; Junqi, Shi; Karasawa, Minoru; Kuppens, Peter; Leknes, Siri; Peker, Müjde; Pelay, Cesar; Pina, Afroditi; Sachkova, Marianna; Saguy, Tamar; Silfver-Kuhalampi, Mia; Sortheix, Florencia; Tong, Jennifer; Yeung, Victoria Wai-lan; Duffy, Jacob; Swann, William B (Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019)Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading to the emergence of strategies designed to help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed to explain and predict the devastating ... -
Individual differences in collectivism predict city identification and city evaluation in Australian, French and Turkish cities
Rubin, Mark; Badea, Constantina; Condie, Jenna; Mahfud, Yara; Morrison, Tessa; Peker, Müjde (Elsevier, 2017)Collectivism is a sociocultural variable that predicts how people relate to social groups. Cities are social groups. Hence, collectivism should predict how people relate to cities. To test this prediction, the researchers ... -
Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups
Rudnev, Maksim; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; AminihajibashiI, Samira; Becker, Maja; Bilewicz, Michal; Luis Castellanos Guevara, Jose; Collier-Baker, Emma; Crespo, Carla; Eastwic, Paul; Fischer, Ronald; Friese, Malte; Gomez, Angel; Guerra, Valeschka; Hanke, Katja; Hooper, Nic; Huang, Li-li; Karasawa, Minoru; Kuppens, Peter; Loughnan, Steve; Peker, Müjde; Pelay, Cesar; Pina, Afroditi; Sachkova, Marianna; Saguy, Tamar; Shi, Junqi; Silfver-Kuhalampi, Mia; Sortheix, Florencia; Swann, William; Tong, Jennifer (Yuk-Yue); Wailan Yeung, Victoria; Bastian, Brock (Public Library of Science, 2020)Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalism Scale had been designed to assess moral vitalism in a brief survey form. Previous studies ... -
Moral expansiveness around the world: The role of societal factors across 36 countries
Kirkland, Kelly; Crimston, Charlie R.; Jetten, Jolanda; Rudnev, Maksim; Acevedo-Triana, Cesar; Amiot, Catherine E.; Peker, Müjde (SAGE Publications Inc., 2022)What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' ... -
Muhafazakarlık, kaygı ve tehdit edici uyarıcılara karşı dikkat yanlılığı
Peker, Müjde; Booth, Robert W; Dikçe, Uğurcan (2017)Muhafazakarlık, kaygı ve tehdide karşı hassasiyetin Türkiye örnekleminde incelenmesi için iki çalışma yapılmıştır. Çoğunlukla A.B.D.’de yapılmış çalışmalar, muhafazakarlığın tehditten korkmanın (özellikle ölüm korkusunun) ... -
Perceived self-society moral discrepancies concerning fairness predict depression and paranoid ideation
Peker, Müjde; Booth, Robert W; Güney, Onuray (Springer, 2021)This study investigated the psychological correlates of perceiving a discrepancy between one’s own moral beliefs and those of the greater society (a ‘moral discrepancy’). One hundred and one female Turkish students answered ... -
Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
Dejonckheere, Egon; Rhee, J Joshua; Baguma, K Peter; Barry, Oumar; Becker, Maja; Bilewicz, Michal; Peker, Müjde; Bastian, Brock (Nature Research, 2022)Happiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm ... -
Relationships among self-construal, gender, social dominance orientation, and interpersonal distance
Peker, Müjde; Booth, Robert W.; Eke, Aylin (Wiley, 2018)The present research focuses on the cognitive embodiment of physical proximity, through interpersonal distance’s relationship with self‐construal, gender, and social dominance orientation. Previous work showed that more ... -
Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations
Kirkland, Kelly; Van Lange; Paul AM; Van Doum; Niels J.; Acevedo-Triana; Cesar,Amiot; Catherine E.; Ausmees, Liisi; Peker, Müjde (EMTREE, 2022)People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice – known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear ... -
State anxiety impairs attentional control when other sources of control are minimal
Booth, Robert William; Peker, Müjde (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Research suggests anxiety impairs attentional control; however, this effect has been unreliable. We argue that anxiety’s impairment of attentional control is subtle, and can be obscured by other non-emotional sources of ... -
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
Brandt, Mark J.; Kuppens, Toon; Spears, Russell; Andrighetto, Luca; Autin, Frederique; Babincak, Peter; Badea, Constantina; Bae, Jaechang; Batruch, Anatolia; Becker, Julia C.; Bocian, Konrad; Bodroža, Bojana; Bourguignon, David; Bukowski, Marcin; Butera, Fabrizio; Butler, Sarah E.; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Conway, Paul; Crawford, Jarret T.; Croizet, Jean‐claude; De Lemus, Soledad; Degner, Juliane; Dragon, Piotr; Durante, Federica; Easterbrook, Matthew J.; Essien, Iniobong; Forgas, Joseph P.; Peker, Müjde (John Wiley and Sons, 2020)The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 ... -
Turkish adaptation of the fear of spiders questionnaire: reliability and validity in non-clinical samples
Booth, Robert William; Peker, Müjde; Öztop, Pınar (Taylor & Francis, 2016)The rapid, objective measurement of spider fear is important for clinicians, and for researchers studying fear. To facilitate this, we adapted the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ) into Turkish. The FSQ is quick to ...
