How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning-making. Through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of respo...

6 | The paper is Open Access and can be read here: doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

#EJSP #OpenAccess #Narratives #COVID-19 #meaning-making

Belief‐Consistent Information Processing or Coherence‐Based Reasoning: Integrating Two Parsimonious Frameworks for Biases Recently, two independently published papers put forward separate frameworks to explain several different biases. Although the two frameworks do not contradict each other, their mere co-existence is ...

In a newly accepted #EJSP paper, we (w/ Doro Mischkowski) discuss how the two accounts could be integrated and propose concrete predictions under which conditions people create coherence via belief-consistent processing or by updating their beliefs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper @moritzingendahl.bsky.social @johannawoitzel.bsky.social & @hansalves.bsky.social ) #EJSP

Smaller groups (numerical minorities) viewed more negatively, even controlling for group membership status!

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#PrejudiceResearch

New #EJSP paper finds those on the political right (vs. left) in US & Israel are more supportive of collateral civilian deaths in war.

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Lay perceptions of ethnic prejudice: causes, solutions, and individual differences We assessed lay perceptions of the causes of and solutions to ethnic prejudice, and determined whether individual differences related to intergroup relations (social dominance orientation, right-wing....

Reminds me of an #EJSP paper of mine with Vicki Esses from 2005 (yikes! That makes me feel old!)

We were interested in lay beliefs about the causes of, and solutions to, prejudice.

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Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso Many governments have invested in interventions that foster social cohesion to promote peace and prevent the rise of violent extremism. Yet, we know little about the relationship between social cohes...

New in #EJSP: We provide evidence on the role of social cohesion and its potential for reducing support for extremist violence. Work with Dominika Bulska, Rezarta Bilali and Ruoxi Xu. doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

Right‐wing adherence and objective numeracy as predictors of minority group size perceptions and size threat reactions Racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minority populations are growing rapidly in the West. We investigate predictors and consequences of threat responses to perceived minority group size, and percep...

@meganearle.bsky.social & I found, in multiple datasets, that those who are less numerate perceive larger minority groups

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#openaccess #ejsp "How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non-conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real-world online articles" - with Marcel Meuer and @aoeberst
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2903

Woot woot! With @_pietz_ : "How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Toward a more fine‐grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories" #EJSP #TopDownloadedArticle

EJSP Editorial Board Meeting in Warsaw: Room with a view....
#EJSP #bestteamever