Outputs (27)

Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust. (2024)
Journal Article
Marinthe, G., Brown, G., Cristea, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2024). Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust. Vaccine, 42(16), 3592-3600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.04.068

Autonomous motivation is considered a powerful driver of health behaviour, but less is known about the specific roles played by basic needs. Drawing on the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research examined basic needs as a motivational determi... Read More about Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust..

Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time (2023)
Journal Article
Abakoumkin, G., Tseliou, E., McCabe, K. O., Lemay, E. P., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M., …Leander, N. P. (2024). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), Article e12909. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909

Virus mitigation behavior has been and still is a powerful means to fight the COVID-19 pandemic irrespective of the availability of pharmaceutical means (e.g., vaccines). We drew on health behavior theories to predict health-protective (coping-specif... Read More about Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time.

Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms (2023)
Journal Article
Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Kutlaca, M., & Weick, M. (2023). Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0292842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292842

Universities are seeing growing numbers of students with poor mental health and wellbeing. Given that lower socioeconomic status (SES) students typically have poorer mental health and wellbeing than their peers, this may be, in part, caused by an inc... Read More about Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms.

(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action (2023)
Journal Article
Hartwich, L., Kutlaca, M., Ksenofontov, I., Jetten, J., & Becker, J. C. (2023). (Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(7), 1576-1592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2997

Do allies in collective action have a positive impact on political efficacy? Theoretical considerations and common sense might lead us to expect that advantaged group allies will be beneficial to the success of social movements. However, across five... Read More about (Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action.

The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations (2023)
Journal Article
Koudenburg, N., Kutlaca, M., & Kuppens, T. (2023). The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2992

Reaching consensus is important for human individual, social and societal functioning. The reverse process of polarization has been associated with individual uncertainty, social conflict and societal distrust, tension, or even schisms. In conversati... Read More about The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations.

Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., Van Lissa, C. J., Stroebe, W., Kreienkamp, J., Agostini, M., …Leander, N. P. (2023). Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2968

Psychological research on the predictors of conspiracy theorizing—explaining important social and political events or circumstances as secret plots by malevolent groups—has flourished in recent years. However, research has typically examined only a s... Read More about Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis.

Tolerance of political intolerance: The impact of context and partisanship on public approval of politicians’ uncivil behavior (2023)
Journal Article
Walter, L., & Kutlaca, M. (2024). Tolerance of political intolerance: The impact of context and partisanship on public approval of politicians’ uncivil behavior. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(1), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231156719

Politicians’ uncivil behaviors violate social and moral norms yet seem to be on the rise. We investigated under which circumstances politicians’ uncivil behavior towards their peers and opponents is tolerated by their supporters. We hypothesized that... Read More about Tolerance of political intolerance: The impact of context and partisanship on public approval of politicians’ uncivil behavior.

Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences (2022)
Journal Article
Kutlaca, M., & Radke, H. R. (2023). Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(2), Article 12724. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12724

Adding rainbow filters in support of LGBTQ+ movements or changing profile pictures to black squares to show support for the BlackLivesMatter movement have become common contemporary expressions of solidarity. However, these actions are often criticiz... Read More about Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences.

Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries (2022)
Journal Article
Han, Q., Zheng, B., Leander, N. P., Agostini, M., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., …Bélanger, J. J. (2022). Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221127487

Xenophobia and anti-immigrant attacks rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet this may not be solely due to the disease threat. According to theories of frustration and scapegoating, situational obstructions and deprivation can motivate prejudice agai... Read More about Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries.

Applying the Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Approach Coping to Collective Action Among Advantaged Group Allies and Disadvantaged Group Members (2022)
Journal Article
Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., & Becker, J. C. (2022). Applying the Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Approach Coping to Collective Action Among Advantaged Group Allies and Disadvantaged Group Members. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 875848. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875848

We apply the dynamic dual pathway model of approach coping to understanding the predictors of future collective action among a sample of advantaged group allies and disadvantaged group members who were attending a protest. We propose that problem-foc... Read More about Applying the Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Approach Coping to Collective Action Among Advantaged Group Allies and Disadvantaged Group Members.