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Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection (2024)
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McPhetres, J., Han, A., Gao, H. H., Kemp, N., Khati, B., Pu, C. X., …Shui, X. (2024). Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection. Psychophysiology, Article e14605. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14605

Piloerection (e.g., goosebumps) is an essential thermoregulatory and social signaling mechanism in non‐human animals. Although humans also experience piloerection—often being perceived as an indicator of profound emotional experiences—its comparative... Read More about Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection.

Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication (2022)
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Pennycook, G., Bago, B., & McPhetres, J. (2023). Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 80-97. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001267

Some theoretical models assume that a primary source of contention surrounding science belief is political and that partisan disagreement drives beliefs; other models focus on basic science knowledge and cognitive sophistication, arguing that they fa... Read More about Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication.

Psychological Distance to Science as a Predictor of Science Skepticism Across Domains (2022)
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Većkalov, B., Zarzeczna, N., McPhetres, J., van Harreveld, F., & Rutjens, B. T. (2024). Psychological Distance to Science as a Predictor of Science Skepticism Across Domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(1), 18–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221118184

This article presents and tests psychological distance to science (PSYDISC) as a domain-general predictor of science skepticism. Drawing on the concept of psychological distance, PSYDISC reflects the extent to which individuals perceive science as a... Read More about Psychological Distance to Science as a Predictor of Science Skepticism Across Domains.

The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research (2022)
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McPhetres, J., & Zickfeld, J. H. (2022). The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 179, 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.06.010

This paper provides an accessible review of the biological and psychological evidence to guide new and experienced researchers in the study of emotional piloerection in humans. A limited number of studies have attempted to examine the physiological a... Read More about The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research.

How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions (2022)
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Kotzur, P., Stricker, J., Fricke, R., McPhetres, J., & Meyer, B. (2022). How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions. PLoS ONE, 17(3), Article e0266166. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266166

The successful integration of asylum seekers into the labor market is among the most pressing issues of refugee-receiving countries. We construe co-workers’ willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers as a crucial factor for integration and invest... Read More about How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions.

A decade of theory as reflected in Psychological Science (2009–2019) (2021)
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McPhetres, J., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Barbosa Mendes, A., Chow, E. C., Gonzalez-Marquez, P., Loukras, E., …Volodko, K. (2021). A decade of theory as reflected in Psychological Science (2009–2019). PLoS ONE, 16(3), Article e0247986. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247986

The dominant belief is that science progresses by testing theories and moving towards theoretical consensus. While it’s implicitly assumed that psychology operates in this manner, critical discussions claim that the field suffers from a lack of cumul... Read More about A decade of theory as reflected in Psychological Science (2009–2019).

A matter of time… consideration of future consequences and temporal distance contribute to the ideology gap in climate change scepticism (2021)
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Većkalov, B., Zarzeczna, N., Niehoff, E., McPhetres, J., & Rutjens, B. T. (2021). A matter of time… consideration of future consequences and temporal distance contribute to the ideology gap in climate change scepticism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101703

Factors that contribute to the well-established ideology gap in climate change beliefs (i.e., conservatives’ scepticism about climate change and its severity) remain underexplored. In the present research, we propose that there are differences in the... Read More about A matter of time… consideration of future consequences and temporal distance contribute to the ideology gap in climate change scepticism.

Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning (2021)
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Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Bago, B., & Rand, D. G. (2022). Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 750-765. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211023652

What are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western countries? In a two-wave study completed early (March) and later (December) in the pandemic, we f... Read More about Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning.

Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand? (2021)
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McPhetres, J., Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2021). Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220965709

A major focus of current research is understanding why people fall for and share fake news on social media. While much research focuses on understanding the role of personality-level traits for those who share the news, such as partisanship and analy... Read More about Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand?.

A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures (2020)
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Tierney, W., Hardy, J., Ebersole, C. R., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., Gordon, M., …Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060

How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoreti... Read More about A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures.