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Evaluating the "Simple Exercises from your HSE physiotherapist to Keep you steady and Strong" and "Let's Get Moving Again" Programmes: Balance and Mobility Interventions for Older People (Qualitative)
No full textThis project will explore participants’ perceptions and experiences of the physio-led "Simple Exercises from your HSE physiotherapist to Keep you steady and Strong" and ‘Let’s Get Moving’ exercise programmes
Dual Message Nature Documentaries: Effects on Entertainment Experiences and Pro-Environmental Intentions – UPDATE
No full textThis is an update of the preregistration "Dual Message Nature Documentaries: impact on entertainment experiences and environmental intentions" (https://osf.io/4v8uf/?view_only=4df54d3b8d4047ac9d644533ab529510).
A justification for this update and a detailed description can be found under 'Summary' and in the file "Pre Registration_Dual Message Nature Documentaries_Update.pdf"
Ideomotor Learning in Joint Action
No full textIdeomotor accounts of action planning and control assume that voluntary actions are controlled by representations of their associated sensory outcomes. In this study, we explore a potential application of this principle to the planning and control of joint actions. We investigate the idea that representations of joint action outcomes influence individual action planning and selection processes by activating associated group-level representations that encode spatio-temporal relations between the individual contributions of self and other. To test this idea, we adapt the procedure of a well-established two-phase action-effect learning task to a joint action setting. In an initial learning phase, pairs of participants produce a series of high and low power-chords by means of synchronized button presses depicting specific spatial relations between each other. In a subsequent test phase, the former joint action outcomes (high and low power-chords) are then presented as imperative stimuli to which participants must respond according to a fixed stimulus-response mapping. We manipulate the stimulus-response mapping in the test phase to be either congruent or incongruent to the mapping between joint responses and joint action outcomes of the learning phase
Effects of an identity-based intervention on likelihood of sharing misinformation
No full textIn this study we will assess the effects of an identity-based intervention on people’s likelihood of sharing social media posts with misinformation. The intervention is a new Twitter design feature that allows social media users to flag a post as Misleading. The number of people who have flagged a post as Misleading is public, and can be found right next to the number of Retweets and Likes.
We will test this intervention on a sample of 400 voters of the Republican party and 400 voters of the Democratic party. Across all participants, we will evaluate different conditions: a.) whether the intervention is more effective in reducing misinformation sharing about sacred values (e.g., immigration) compared to non-sacred values (e.g., infrastructure), b.) whether the intervention is more effective in reducing misinformation sharing when the Misleading Count comes from the participant’s ingroup (fellow Republicans or fellow Democrats) as compared to when it comes from general social media users.
We will ask all participants how likely they would be to share a series of tweets about both sacred and non-sacred values. All participants will be exposed to 50% of tweets with a Misleading Count and 50% of control tweets without Misleading Counts. The Misleading Count will be 30% of the count of Likes. The sample will be divided in two groups: one group (N = 400, 200 Democrats and 200 Republicans) will be told the Misleading Count reflects the opinion of their ingroup, and the other group (N = 400, 200 Democrats and 200 Republicans) will be told it reflects the opinion of other social media users in general
Validating the Mechanism of Acceptance and Change in The Informative Process Model
No full textIntractable intergroup conflicts remain unresolved between Israelis and Palestinians, and around the world. The costs of those conflicts are not only money spent and lives lost, but they also have negative effects on the psychological wellbeing of every individual experiencing the conflict. To make matters more challenging, most of those involved in intractable conflicts seem to hold beliefs that are deeply entrenched, resistant to change, and reduce the likelihood of any resolution to the conflict. In previous research (Rosler et al., 2020) we introduced the Informative Process Model (IPM), which informs and validates socio-psychological processes through which individuals form and maintain conflict supporting narratives and suggests that these narratives come with the cost of perpetuating the conflict, and can be changed. A key mechanism assumed to underlie the IPM is based on an acceptance-change dialectic, where one is exposed to messages that humanize and normalize the conflict supporting narratives, while simultaneously challenging them to consider a less costly alternative. This combination is believed to encourage unfreezing and compel individuals to reassess their current attitudes and beliefs. Therefore, we proposed that giving legitimacy to, as well as rationalizing narratives common to intractable conflicts (acceptance), as well as informing how those same perceptions of the conflict serve as barriers to its resolution (change) may facilitate unfreezing and subsequent meaningful change in conflict-related beliefs and attitudes. In four previous studies we demonstrated that exposure to short, original, videos that followed the IPM principles (vs. control videos) led to deliberation of the new information presented, acceptance of the IPM-based message, and increased support for negotiations. The IPM-based messages tested in previous studies used the complete model, including both acceptance and change elements. However, there is no direct evidence to suggest that both of these elements play a role in the intervention’s effectiveness. In the present research we aim to determine whether the change and acceptance components of the IPM are both necessary but not sufficient to produce the already known effect of IPM-based messages by comparing an IPM-based message that includes both components to messages that include only one of them
Effect of intuitive process on unethical pro-organizational behavior
No full textIn this pre-registered study, we will test the effect of intuitive process on unethical pro-organizational behavior
Antagonistic Secondary Transfer Effect: Germany survey
No full textThe secondary transfer effect (STE) of intergroup contact is a phenomenon whereby contact with one social group (i.e., primary outgroup) improves attitudes towards other social groups (i.e., secondary outgroups). We propose that contact has another, so far unconsidered and potentially harmful side-effect, that occurs when outgroups are perceived to be in conflict (antagonistic STE). In the presence of a conflict between the primary and secondary outgroups, positive (negative) contact with the primary outgroup is expected to have a negative (positive) effect on attitude towards the secondary outgroup.
Our prior research suggests that outgroup conflict reduces or eliminates STEs, but evidence for antagonistic STEs has been limited. One explanation for the absence of antagonistic STEs in our prior research might be that the outgroup conflicts were not self-relevant enough (Tropp & Barlow, 2018) and that contact led to more positive attitudes but not solidarity with the primary outgroups (Kerr et al., 2017; Subašić et al., 2008). Prior research shows, for example, that solidarity is hugely influenced by what is said during intergroup interactions (Becker et al., 2013).
In this study, we explore the role of the self-relevance of outgroup conflict by asking respondents not only about intergroup contact (frequency, valence) but also about outgroup friendships, the intimacy of outgroup friendships, conversation topics with outgroup friends (do intergroup friends talk about secondary outgroups?), and the attitudes of one’s outgroup friends towards secondary outgroups assuming all these factors are linked to greater self-investment and self-relevance of outgroup conflicts.
As we focus on gay people and Muslims as two potentially conflicting outgroups, our respondents will be non-religious heterosexual Germans. We will test two scenarios: 1) the effect of contact with gay people on attitudes towards Muslims and 2) the effect of contact with Muslims on attitudes towards gay people
A network meta-analysis of five categories of external therapy of traditional Chinese for Diarrhea-predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome
No full textThe network meta-analysis consists of three parts, to compare the effectiveness of five kinds of external therapy of traditional Chinese for common diseases of Diarrhea-predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome.The five categories of traditional Chinese external treatment are: Acupuncture, moxibustion , Auriculotherapy, acupoint application and massage
Multicultural Identities as Cultural Assets
No full textThis study investigates whether adolescents from multiethnic or multi-faith families score higher than their peers on civic and character measures