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Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey (2021)
Journal Article
Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., & Bonetti, C. (2021). Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 745168. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745168

Do superordinate ingroup bias, temporal and social comparisons offer unique standalone explanations for system justification? We addressed this question using the latest World Value Survey (7th Wave), combining the responses of 55,721 participants fr... Read More about Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey.

Heterosexual men in Trump's America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why? (2021)
Journal Article
Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2022). Heterosexual men in Trump's America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why?. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(2), 280-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2787

Why would heterosexual men downplay their compassion for masculine (vs. feminine) gay victims of hate crime? Two social identity-inspired explanations provide contrasting answers to this question. The reactive distinctiveness thesis (RD) assumes that... Read More about Heterosexual men in Trump's America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why?.

Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health (2021)
Journal Article
Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Ng, P. K. (2021). Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, Article 110948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110948

How might confidence in government shape the negative association often found between stay-home mandates and mental health? Using a nationally representative sample of UK residents (N = 32,108), we showed that although the stay-home order during the... Read More about Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health.

Comparing Classic and Novel Approaches to Measurement Invariance (2021)
Working Paper
Magraw-Mickelson, Z., Hermida Carrillo, A., Weerabangsa, M. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Gollwitzer, M. (2021). Comparing Classic and Novel Approaches to Measurement Invariance

Measurement invariance (MI) is vital to any comparison of heterogeneous groups. With multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA), which is the standard practice for testing MI, there are widely acknowledged limitations, especially with a lar... Read More about Comparing Classic and Novel Approaches to Measurement Invariance.