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Untreated Depression Predicts Higher Suicide Rates in U.S. Honor Cultures
(2014)
Osterman and Brown demonstrated that U.S. honor states had higher rates of suicide than non-honor states and related this phenomenon to the higher incidence of depression and a reduced readiness to seek antidepression ...
Ethnicity and Contemporary American Culture: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Horizontal–Vertical Individualism–Collectivism
(2013)
The United States is one of the most culturally diverse societies. Research has documented numerous differences in cultural orientations across U.S. ethnic/racial groups. But with continual intergroup interactions and ...
Weber Revisited: A Cross-National Analysis of Religiosity, Religious Culture, and Economic Attitudes
(2011)
Weber's Protestant Ethic hypothesis holds that elements of theology gave Protestants a cultural affinity with the economic demands of early market capitalism, particularly compared with their Catholic neighbors, which led ...
What Predicts Loneliness? Cultural Difference Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies in Europe
(2014)
Using two multilevel analyses of residents in 12 (1992 Eurobarometer; N = 3,902) and 22 (2006 European Social Survey, N = 38,867) European societies, respectively, we examined loneliness as a function of dominant cultural ...
Attitudes Toward Same?Sex Marriage: An Essentialist Approach
(2012)
The present research examines the implications of psychological essentialism for attitudes toward same-sex marriage (SSM), a hotly contested policy issue. Based on the literature on psychological essentialism, we tested ...
Islamist Terrorism as Identity Threat: The Case of Ambivalent Identification and Self?Stereotyping Among Turkish Muslims
(2014)
Terrorist attacks committed in 2003 by T urkish I slamist extremists threatened the social identity of T urkish M uslims by associating them with terrorism. Using a 2 × 3 experimental design, we categorized T urkish ...
Creativity in Its Social Context: The Interplay of Organizational Norms, Situational Threat, and Gender
(2012)
Past research has frequently made the assumptions that creativity is an individual, rather than social, behavior; that the factors shaping creative behavior influence everyone in the same way; and that these factors always ...
Creativity in Men and Women: Threat, Other-Interest, and Self-Assessment
(2016)
Previous research into gender and creativity has provided little evidence for consistent differences between men and women in creative performance. This research revisits this topic by proposing a person x situation approach, ...
Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama's Skin Tone
(2014)
White Americans higher in prejudice were less likely to vote for Barack Obama than other Americans. Recent research also demonstrated that supporters and opponents of Mr. Obama engaged in skin tone biases, i.e., they ...
The Closed-Mindedness That Wasn't: Need for Structure and Expectancy-Inconsistent Information
(2015)
Social-cognitive researchers have typically assumed that individuals high in need for structure or need for closure tend to be closed-minded: they are motivated to resist or ignore information that is inconsistent with ...