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Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations (2024)
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Paolini, S., Harwood, J., Rubin, M., Huck, J., Dunn, K., & Dixon, J. (2024). Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(8), Article e12988. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12988

The benefits of positive intergroup contact for intergroup attitudes are well‐established. Yet individual and group self‐segregation practices demonstrate that opportunities for intergroup contact are not sufficient for contact uptake; and persistent... Read More about Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations.

Intersectional invisibility: The moderating impact of perceived incongruence between stigmatized identities (2024)
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Sternberg, B., Badea, C., Sesko, A. K., & Rubin, M. (online). Intersectional invisibility: The moderating impact of perceived incongruence between stigmatized identities. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241245393

There is evidence that people with multiple stigmatized identities sometimes experience psychological invisibility—perceivers show difficulty remembering information about these targets (e.g., their faces, spoken statements). In three experiments (to... Read More about Intersectional invisibility: The moderating impact of perceived incongruence between stigmatized identities.

Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being (2023)
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Evans, O., Hardacre, S., Rubin, M., & Tran, M. (2023). Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1181233. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1181233

An important distinction to make when assessing the impact of social media use on mental health is whether the use is passive (e.g., browsing) or active (e.g., posting). Recent research suggests that the connection between passive social media use an... Read More about Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being.

Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees: Different labels for immigrants influence attitudes through perceived benefits in nine countries (2023)
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Graf, S., Rubin, M., Assilamehou‐Kunz, Y., Bianchi, M., Carnaghi, A., Fasoli, F., …Sczesny, S. (2023). Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees: Different labels for immigrants influence attitudes through perceived benefits in nine countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2947

The world is witnessing the highest level of displacement of people on record. Public discourse often uses labels to describe people on the move such as ‘migrants’, ‘asylum seekers’, or ‘refugees’ interchangeably. A preregistered study in nine countr... Read More about Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees: Different labels for immigrants influence attitudes through perceived benefits in nine countries.

A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive (2023)
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Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 203-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2046422

System justification theory (SJT) assumes that social identity theory (SIT) cannot fully account for system justification by members of low-status (disadvantaged) groups. Contrary to this claim, we provide several elaborations of SIT that explain whe... Read More about A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive.

Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students (2023)
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McGuffog, R., Rubin, M., Boyes, M., Caltabiano, M. L., Collison, J., Lovell, G. P., …Paolini, S. (2023). Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students. British Journal of Psychology, 114(3), 710-730. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12645

A substantial body of research indicates that higher education students from lower social class backgrounds tend to have poorer health than those from higher social class backgrounds. To investigate sleep as a potential mediator of this relationship,... Read More about Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students.

Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications (2023)
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Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 268-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2184578

In this article, we reply to Jost et al.'s (Citation2023) rejoinder to our article reviewing evidence for the social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA; Rubin et al., Citation2023). We argue that (1) SIMSA treats system justification as the ou... Read More about Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications.

Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations (2023)
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Gendi, M., Rubin, M., & Sanatkar, S. (2023). Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations. New Ideas in Psychology, 69, Article 101007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.101007

The need for closure and the ability to achieve closure are generally thought to be independent from one another. However, previous researchers have found inconsistent relations between these two variables, possibly due to measurement scale modificat... Read More about Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations.

Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., Spears, R., Rubin, M., Marinucci, M., & Ferrari, A. (2023). Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification. Acta Psychologica, 232, Article 103813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103813

Members of disadvantaged groups sometimes support societal systems that enable the very inequalities that disadvantaged them. Is it possible to explain this puzzling system-justifying orientation in terms of rational group-interested motives, without... Read More about Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification.

Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Tan, C. M., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2023). Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2901

Why do poorer and less educated Asians trust their institutions of governance more than their richer and well educated counterparts, despite their disadvantaged position within society? System justification theory (SJT) assumes that this trust is dri... Read More about Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia.

An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale (2022)
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Sanatkar, S., & Rubin, M. (2023). An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale. International Journal of Psychology, 58(1), 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12878

The Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Scale is based on Cross et al.'s conceptualisation of relational-interdependent self-construal. The IIPSS provides a relatively context-free measure of people's tendencies to solve problems independently... Read More about An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale.

Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests (2022)
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Rubin, M., & Donkin, C. (online). Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests. Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2113771

Preregistration has been proposed as a useful method for making a publicly verifiable distinction between confirmatory hypothesis tests, which involve planned tests of ante hoc hypotheses, and exploratory hypothesis tests, which involve unplanned tes... Read More about Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests.

Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach (2022)
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Turner, R., & Rubin, M. (2022). Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(11), 1070-1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12913

Around a third of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers in Australia experience relatively high levels of psychological distress. Although a wide range of associated workplace stressors have been proposed in this context, it is unclear to what extent FIFO wo... Read More about Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach.

Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism? (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2022). Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism?. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 797139. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797139

Why do voters seek to change the political landscape or to retain it? System justification theory (SJT) proposes that a separate system motive to preserve the existing order drives support for the status-quo, and that this motivation operates indepen... Read More about Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism?.