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Risk perception of COVID-19/coronavirus
No full textInternational survey of risk perception of COVID-19. Open dat
Inducing affective states in virtual reality through the illusion of height
No full textFoundation of Economic Education (Finland) funded work investigating the effects of a virtual reality height illusion on a user’s affective state during a public speaking simulation. Work conducted in Tampere University, Finland. Keywords: virtual reality, emotion management, emotion regulation, embodied cognition, stress, Trier Social Stress Test, public speaking, public speaking anxiety, emotional response, performance, self-statements, ECG, EDA, affective computing, human-computer interactio
Prevention and control of COVID-19 among the population deprived of liberty in the prison system: scoping review on the recommendations proposed by public managers
No full textIt is a scoping review protocol, which aims to identify in the national and international literature the recommendations proposed by public managers for the prevention and control of COVID-19 among the population deprived of freedom in the prison system
Good Feelings for Bad Deeds - Obvious vs Subtle Dishonesty
No full textThis research seeks to understand how positive emotions, specifically feelings of gratitude, help motivate the responses of beneficiaries to the dishonesty. Drawing on work showing that individuals react positively to the dishonesty of others, particularly that which benefits them directly, this research seeks to understand why gratitude may arise from others’ dishonesty. The project to seeks to understand why beneficiaries feel gratitude for the dishonesty of others, what are the boundaries of these reactions, and what sort of unethical behavior reduces of gratitude, reducing positive reinforcing behaviors
Affective states, attitudes, and familiarity are correlated with divisive social media content - Addendum v2
No full textThe relationship between individuals’ emotional reactions to social media content and the nature of that content is not well understood. In particular, the valence of the reaction, the intensity of the reaction, whether or not the person agrees with the opinion expressed, and how familiar they are with the topic may be related in some way. Additionally, such affective data could be captured and applied as a subjective metadata layer as another form of big data with a personal twist that may be harnessed by, for instance, an AI-based decision support aid. In particular, people’s affective responses to content could be used as a trigger for encouraging metacognition in the moment for individuals, or perhaps even be used to identify possible sources of misinformation at the group level. In this survey, we explore the possible relationships between these features and orientations towards social media content broadly, involving both old and new forms of social media. This work is expected to help us to better understand how the personal and the “big social” are related, as well as to inform a methodology for capturing and using such subjective metadata in algorithms
Effects of caffeine intake on pupil control in humans: Protocol for a systematic review
No full textPre-registration for PRISMA-P protocol v1.2 [20210506
Intersectional invisibility - social cognition approach | Study 1
No full textAuthors call for the embedding of gender dimension in racism experimental psychology or race dimension in sexism experimental psychology (Else-Quest & Hyde, 2016). For example, a non intersectional approach could tend to exclude women of color from research scope either in sampling or measured concepts, while subsequently overgeneralizing (e.g. research on racism towards Black Americans while only using male Black Americans). Using McCall’s (2005) typology of empirical application of intersectionality, this research would fall within intercategorical intersectionality, which assumes that categories (e.g. race) are socially constructed (vs. biologically) but are associated with inequalities and discrimination. In contrast with a color/gender-blind approach, race and gender are considered as meaningful – but non exhaustive – dimensions to understand discrimination processes.
Building on previous contributions on intersectional invisibility (Purdie-Vaughns, 2008; Sesko and Biernet, 2010/2018; Neel & Lasseter, 2019), this research will investigate the interpersonal invisibility of Black women through an attentional blindness paradigm. Sesko and Biernat (2010, p. 360) state that “in using the term ‘invisibility’, we do not mean to suggest Black women literally go unnoticed”. In contrast, this is exactly what we suggest. We will replicate Brown-Iannuzzi’s et al. (2014) procedure, while including Black and White women. In their study, these authors often refer to ‘African-Americans’, when they actually mean ‘male African-Americans’. Hence, we propose to further explore interpersonal invisibility bringing an intersectional approach.
As we mobilize an attentional blindness paradigm, our main focus are attentional processes, in contrast with Sesko and Biernat (2010/2016) who focused on memory-based tasks.
Through this study, we will evaluate the effect of race and gender on invisibility, which are visually cues (and often non-concealable).
This first study is a conceptual replication of Brown-Iannuzi et al. (2014) and aims to establish a difference in invisibility between Black men, Black women, White men and White women
How do we design exercise interventions to improve wellbeing? A meta-analysis using (motivational) behaviour-change techniques
No full textExercise improves wellbeing (Buecker et al., 2020). Effects are comparable to psychological interventions directly designed to improve wellbeing (van Agteren et al., 2021), but exercise also improves cognitive health, sleep, cancer, cardiovascular health, metabolic health, musculoskeletal health, and functional health (Ding et al., 2020). As a result, it’s a potent strategy for targeting this important outcome.
However, a recent meta-analysis did not find any significant moderators that indicated what types of exercise should be prescribed (Buecker et al., 2020). In many cases, the effect of exercise on outcomes is moderated by the behaviour change techniques implemented in the program (French et al., 2014; Michie et al., 2009; Williams & French, 2011). Studies that use self-monitoring and other self-regulatory strategies (e.g., goal setting, action planning) improve adherence among healthy populations (Michie et al., 2009) but not older adults (French et al., 2014). There are likely to be a number of behaviour change techniques that improve the effects of exercise on wellbeing, either directly by creating a sense of competence or indirectly by promoting better adherence