Professor Mario Weick's Outputs (39)

Socio-economic status modulates the link between vagal tone and chocolate consumption (2025)
Journal Article
Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2025). Socio-economic status modulates the link between vagal tone and chocolate consumption. Food Quality and Preference, 129, Article 105491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105491

Socio-economic status (SES) correlates with patterns of food consumption, yet the underlying physiological mechanisms remain unclear. This study examines how SES modulates the relationship between vagal tone, a physiological marker of self-regulation... Read More about Socio-economic status modulates the link between vagal tone and chocolate consumption.

Social Cognition (2024)
Book Chapter
Weick, M. (2024). Social Cognition. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

Kahneman in Quotes and Reflections (2024)
Journal Article
Buttliere, B., Arvanitis, A., Białek, M., Choshen-Hillel, S., Davidai, S., Gilovich, T., Haran, U., Jiang-Wang, Á., Teo, Q. K., Kotrba, V., Liu, C., Mandel, D., Pennycook, G., Rebholz, T. R., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Schwarz, N., Shtudiner, Z., Sloman, S., Sundh, J., Sunstein, C., …Weick, M. (2024). Kahneman in Quotes and Reflections. Psychological Inquiry, 35(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840x.2024.2366813

In this retrospective honoring the exemplary psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024), the authors present a curated selection of quotes from the academic community reflecting on his ideas. These submissions, gathered from a wide range of scholars, h... Read More about Kahneman in Quotes and Reflections.

Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science (2024)
Journal Article
Hamzah, H. A., Marcinko, A. J., Stephens, B., & Weick, M. (2025). Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432x.2024.2376909

Soft skills training often does not yield the desired behaviour changes at work – a phenomenon known as the soft skills transfer problem. Meanwhile, behavioural science interventions have proven successful in changing behaviours in various contexts.... Read More about Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science.

Can Environmental Traffic Light Warning Labels Reduce Meat Meal Selection? A Randomised Experimental Study with UK Meat Consumers. (2024)
Journal Article
Hughes, J. P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2024). Can Environmental Traffic Light Warning Labels Reduce Meat Meal Selection? A Randomised Experimental Study with UK Meat Consumers. Appetite, 200, Article 107500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107500

An important area for tackling climate change and health improvement is reducing population meat consumption. Traffic light labelling has successfully been implemented to reduce the consumption of unhealthy foods and sugary drinks. The present resear... Read More about Can Environmental Traffic Light Warning Labels Reduce Meat Meal Selection? A Randomised Experimental Study with UK Meat Consumers..

Can warning labels communicating the environmental impact of meat reduce meat consumption? Evidence from two multiple treatment reversal experiments in college dining halls (2024)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Hughes, J. P., Andersen, C. D., Pennington, G., Leite, A. C., Weick, M., & Couturier, D. (2024). Can warning labels communicating the environmental impact of meat reduce meat consumption? Evidence from two multiple treatment reversal experiments in college dining halls. Food Quality and Preference, 115, Article 105084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2023.105084

Meat consumption has an adverse impact on both human and planetary health. To date, very few studies have examined the effectiveness of interventions tackling the overconsumption of meat in field settings. The present research addresses this gap by e... Read More about Can warning labels communicating the environmental impact of meat reduce meat consumption? Evidence from two multiple treatment reversal experiments in college dining halls.

How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review. (2023)
Journal Article
Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Wright, J. D., & Weick, M. (2024). How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review. Social Science & Medicine, 343, Article 116542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116542

Rationale: Meta-reviews synthesising research on social class and mental health and wellbeing are currently limited and focused on specific facets of social class (e.g., social capital) or mental health and wellbeing (e.g., mental health disorders),... Read More about How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review..

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.

Impact of pictorial warning labels on meat meal selection: A randomised experimental study with UK meat consumers (2023)
Journal Article
Hughes, J. P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2023). Impact of pictorial warning labels on meat meal selection: A randomised experimental study with UK meat consumers. Appetite, 190, Article 107026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107026

Meat consumption has been linked to adverse health consequences, worsening climate change, and the risk of pandemics. Meat is however a popular food product and dissuading people from consuming meat has proven difficult. Outside the realm of meat con... Read More about Impact of pictorial warning labels on meat meal selection: A randomised experimental study with UK meat consumers.

Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Couturier, L.-C., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., Leite, A., Marcinko, A., Nguyen, T., & Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered... Read More about Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes.

Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Ioannou, A., Tussyadiah, I., Miller, G., Li, S., & Weick, M. (2021). Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256822

Objective Digital nudging has been mooted as a tool to alter user privacy behavior. However, empirical studies on digital nudging have yielded divergent results: while some studies found nudging to be highly effective, other studies found no such eff... Read More about Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms (2021)
Journal Article
Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(10), 965-986. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12814

Within Higher Education (HE), staff and students from lower social class backgrounds often experience poorer wellbeing than their higher social class counterparts. Previous research conducted outside educational contexts has linked social class diffe... Read More about Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms.

Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic (2021)
Report
Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic. [No known commissioning body]

This report documents the mental health and wellbeing of university staff during the coronavirus pandemic, using survey data collected online in March 2021 from 1,182 staff employed across 92 UK universities. Overall, the survey data suggest that uni... Read More about Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Taking charge of one's feelings: Sense of power and affect regulation (2020)
Journal Article
Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2020). Taking charge of one's feelings: Sense of power and affect regulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 161, Article 109958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109958

People who are good at regulating their feelings benefit from more desirable affective lives. Here we examine whether individual differences in chronic feelings of power are associated with regulatory efforts aimed at maintaining positive affect and... Read More about Taking charge of one's feelings: Sense of power and affect regulation.

When smiles (and frowns) speak words: Does power impact the correspondence between self-reported affect and facial expressions? (2020)
Journal Article
Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2020). When smiles (and frowns) speak words: Does power impact the correspondence between self-reported affect and facial expressions?. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 683-701. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12433

Self-reported experiences are often poor indicators of outward expressions. Here we examine social power as a variable that may impact the relationship between self-reported affect and facial expressions. Earlier studies addressing this issue were li... Read More about When smiles (and frowns) speak words: Does power impact the correspondence between self-reported affect and facial expressions?.

Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship (2019)
Journal Article
Weick, M. (2020). Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.10.003

‘Power’ and ‘aggression’ are two constructs that seem like a natural fit. After all, why should people in power not deploy aggression to get their way? Yet, when looking at empirical studies, the relationship between power and aggression is fickle at... Read More about Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship.

Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators (2018)
Journal Article
Moon, C., Uskul, A., & Weick, M. (2019). Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 3(3), 137-145. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.40

Although politeness is an important concern in communications across cultures, a prevalent assumption in psychology is that East Asians are more inclined to be polite than members of other cultural groups due to prevalent cultural norms. Yet, evidenc... Read More about Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators.

From grumpy to cheerful (and back): How power impacts mood in and across different contexts (2018)
Journal Article
Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2018). From grumpy to cheerful (and back): How power impacts mood in and across different contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.05.004

Although lay intuition and some academic theories suggest that power increases variability in mood, the prevailing view in the literature is that power elevates mood—a view that is not consistently borne out in empirical data. To rectify these discre... Read More about From grumpy to cheerful (and back): How power impacts mood in and across different contexts.

Taming the lion: How perceived worth buffers the detrimental influence of power on aggression and conflict (2018)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Vasiljevic, M., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Taming the lion: How perceived worth buffers the detrimental influence of power on aggression and conflict. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 858. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00858

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is little empirical evidence that elevated power, by default, fuels conflict and aggression. Instead, previous studies have shown that extraneous factors that decrease powerholders’ perceived worth, making power... Read More about Taming the lion: How perceived worth buffers the detrimental influence of power on aggression and conflict.

Cultural variation in individual's responses to incivility by colleagues of different rank: The role of descriptive and injunctive norms (2017)
Journal Article
Moon, C., Weick, M., & Uskul, A. (2018). Cultural variation in individual's responses to incivility by colleagues of different rank: The role of descriptive and injunctive norms. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(4), 472-489. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2344

The present research sought to establish how cultural settings create a normative context that determines individuals’ reactions to subtle forms of mistreatment. Two experimental studies (n = 449) examined individuals’ perceptions of high- and low-ra... Read More about Cultural variation in individual's responses to incivility by colleagues of different rank: The role of descriptive and injunctive norms.