All Outputs (36)

Power moves beyond complementarity: A staring look elicits avoidance in low power perceivers and approach in high power perceivers (2017)
Journal Article
Weick., M., McCall, C., & Blascovich, J. (2017). Power moves beyond complementarity: A staring look elicits avoidance in low power perceivers and approach in high power perceivers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(8), 1188-1201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217708576

Sustained, direct eye-gaze — staring — is a powerful cue that elicits strong responses in many primate and non-primate species. The present research examined whether fleeting experiences of high and low power alter individuals’ spontaneous responses... Read More about Power moves beyond complementarity: A staring look elicits avoidance in low power perceivers and approach in high power perceivers.

Stuck in the heat or stuck in the hierarchy? Power relations explain regional variations in violence (2017)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Vasiljevic, M., Uskul, A., & Moon, C. (2017). Stuck in the heat or stuck in the hierarchy? Power relations explain regional variations in violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, Article e102. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1600114x

We contend that an ecological account of violence and aggression requires consideration of societal and cultural settings. Focusing on hierarchical relations, we argue countries with higher (vs. lower) power distance are, on average, located closer t... Read More about Stuck in the heat or stuck in the hierarchy? Power relations explain regional variations in violence.

The underwriter and the models - solo dances or pas-de-deux? What policy data can tell us about how underwriters use models (2017)
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Armstrong, S., Weick, M., Sandberg, A., Snyder-Beattie, A., & Beckstead, N. (2017). The underwriter and the models - solo dances or pas-de-deux? What policy data can tell us about how underwriters use models. [No known commissioning body]

Using a collection of data on some of the catastrophe policies written since 2006 by a major reinsurance organisation, this paper explores how tightly underwriters follow the models and under what conditions they deviate from them.

Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power (2016)
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Uskul, A., Paulmann, S., & Weick, M. (2016). Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power. Emotion, 16(1), 11-15. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000110

Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker’s tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker. While a growing body of research has explored how emotion... Read More about Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power.

Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias (2015)
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Weick, M., Allen, J., Vasiljevic, M., & Yao, B. (2016). Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias. Cognition, 147, 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.006

Healthy individuals display a tendency to allocate attention unequally across space, and this bias has implications for how individuals interact with their environments. However, the origins of this phenomenon remain relatively poorly understood. The... Read More about Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias.

How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room (2014)
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Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room. [No known commissioning body]

In this article, Mario Weick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent and Milica Vasiljevic, Research Associate at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, discuss insights gained from social, cognitive,... Read More about How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room.

Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it (2013)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks (2013)
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Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Taylor-Gooby, P., Abrams, D., & Hopthrow, T. (2013). Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks. [No known commissioning body]

The present report outlines behavioural biases studied in the literature in relation to the way people reason about and respond to catastrophe risks. The project is led by the Lighthill Risk Network, in collaboration with a team of social and behavio... Read More about Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks.

Cognition: Minding Risks (2012)
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Weick, M., Hopthrow, T., Abrams, D., & Taylor-Gooby, P. (2012). Cognition: Minding Risks. [No known commissioning body]

Risk identification is one of the keys to successful risk management, but we are not equally aware of all risks. Because the brain filters information, people make decisions based on a subset of the available evidence. This fundamental principle of c... Read More about Cognition: Minding Risks.

Does power magnify the expression of dispositions? (2012)
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Guinote, A., Weick, M., & Cai, A. (2012). Does power magnify the expression of dispositions?. Psychological Science, 23(5), 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611428472

Conventional wisdom holds that power holders act more in line with their dispositions than do people who lack power. Drawing on principles of construct accessibility, we propose that this is the case only when no alternative constructs are activated.... Read More about Does power magnify the expression of dispositions?.

Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination (2011)
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Weick, M., Guinote, A., & Wilkinson, D. (2011). Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(3), 208-213. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024258

Powerless individuals face much challenge and uncertainty. As a consequence, they are highly vigilant and closely scrutinize their social environments. The aim of the present research was to determine whether these qualities enhance performance in mo... Read More about Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination.

On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults (2011)
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Abrams, D., Weick, M., Thomas, D., Colbe, H., & Franklin, K. (2011). On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151010x494089

This research examines adults', and for the first time, children's and adolescents' reaction to being ostracized and included, using an on-line game, 'Cyberball' with same and opposite sex players. Ostracism strongly threatened four primary needs (es... Read More about On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults.

Feeling socially powerless makes you more prone to bumping into things on the right and induces leftward line bisection error (2010)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, D., Guinote, A., Weick, M., Molinari, R., & Graham, K. (2010). Feeling socially powerless makes you more prone to bumping into things on the right and induces leftward line bisection error. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17(6), 910-914. https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.17.6.910

Social power affects the manner in which people view themselves and act toward others, a finding that has attracted broad interest from the social and political sciences. However, there has been little interest from those within cognitive neuroscienc... Read More about Feeling socially powerless makes you more prone to bumping into things on the right and induces leftward line bisection error.

How long will it take? Power biases time predictions (2010)
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Weick, M., & Guinote, A. (2010). How long will it take? Power biases time predictions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(4), 595-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.005

People tend to underestimate the time it takes to accomplish tasks. This bias known as the planning fallacy derives from the tendency to focus attention too narrowly on the envisaged goal and to ignore additional information that could make predictio... Read More about How long will it take? Power biases time predictions.

When subjective experiences matter: power increases reliance on ease of retrieval (2008)
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Weick, M., & Guinote, A. (2008). When subjective experiences matter: power increases reliance on ease of retrieval. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(6), 956-970. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.94.6.956

Past research on power focused exclusively on declarative knowledge and neglected the role of subjective experiences. Five studies tested the hypothesis that power increases reliance on the experienced ease or difficulty that accompanies thought gene... Read More about When subjective experiences matter: power increases reliance on ease of retrieval.