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Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being (2023)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Questionable Metascience Practices (2023)
Journal Article

Metascientists have studied questionable research practices in science. The present article considers the parallel concept of questionable metascience practices (QMPs). A QMP is a research practice, assumption, or perspective that has been questioned... Read More about Questionable Metascience Practices.

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.