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Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation (2015)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Ng, Y., Griffin, S., Sutton, S., & Marteau, T. (2016). Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 21(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12152

Objectives: Unhealthy behaviour is more common amongst the deprived, thereby contributing to health inequalities. The evidence that the gap between intention and behaviour is greater amongst the more deprived is limited and inconsistent. We tested th... Read More about Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation.

Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods (2015)
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Vasiljevic, M., Pechey, R., & Marteau, T. (2015). Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods. Appetite, 91, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.03.034

Recent studies report that using green labels to denote healthier foods, and red to denote less healthy foods increases consumption of green- and decreases consumption of red-labelled foods. Other symbols (e.g. emoticons conveying normative approval... Read More about Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods.

Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking. (2015)
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Prati, F., Vasiljevic, M., Crisp, R., & Rubini, M. (2015). Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(6), 801-816. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214567762

One way to promote equality is to encourage people to generate counterstereotypic role models. In two experiments, we demonstrate that such interventions have much broader benefits than previously thought—reducing a reliance on heuristic thinking and... Read More about Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking..

Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality (2015)
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Abrams, D., Houston, D., Van de Vyver, J., & Vasiljevic, M. (2015). Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(1), 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000084

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 21(3) of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (see record 2015-17043-001). In the article, the copyright should have been “© 2015 The Author(s)”. In addition, the author n... Read More about Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality.

Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it (2013)
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Yao, B., Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Sereno, M., O'Donnell, P., & Sereno, S. (2013). Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e75000. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075000

Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically “big” (e.g., jungle) versus “small” (e.g., needle) concrete obj... Read More about Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it.

Power and Revenge (2013)
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Strelan, P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). Power and Revenge. British Journal of Social Psychology, 53(3), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12044

We took an individual differences approach to explain revenge tendencies in powerholders. Across four experimental studies, chronically powerless individuals sought more revenge than chronically powerful individuals following a high power episode (St... Read More about Power and Revenge.

Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination (2013)
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Vasiljevic, M., & Crisp, R. (2013). Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination. PLoS ONE, 8(3), Article e57106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057106

Prejudices towards different groups are interrelated, but research has yet to find a way to promote tolerance towards multiple outgroups. We devise, develop and implement a new cognitive intervention for achieving generalized tolerance based on scien... Read More about Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination.