Inequality in researchers' minds: Four guiding questions for studying subjective perceptions of economic inequality

JM Jachimowicz, S Davidai… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health
metrics, and societal well‐being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on …

Metaverse is not my cup of tea! An investigation into how personality traits shape metaverse usage intentions

A Kumar, A Shankar, P Nayal - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
This research investigates how various personality traits influence individuals' inclination to
engage with the metaverse. The study gathered 332 responses to assess the hypotheses …

Moral values predict county-level COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States.

NK Reimer, M Atari, F Karimi-Malekabadi… - American …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, the United States has a
depressed rate of vaccination relative to similar countries. Understanding the psychology of …

Are regional differences in psychological characteristics and their correlates robust? Applying spatial-analysis techniques to examine regional variation in personality

T Ebert, JE Gebauer, T Brenner… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
There is growing evidence that psychological characteristics are spatially clustered across
geographic regions and that regionally aggregated psychological characteristics are related …

The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment

R Maertens, FM Götz, HF Golino, J Roozenbeek… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Interest in the psychology of misinformation has exploded in recent years. Despite ample
research, to date there is no validated framework to measure misinformation susceptibility …

Physical topography is associated with human personality

FM Götz, S Stieger, SD Gosling, J Potter… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Regional differences in personality are associated with a range of consequential outcomes.
But which factors are responsible for these differences? Frontier settlement theory suggests …

Global behaviors, perceptions, and the emergence of social norms at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

L Hensel, M Witte, AS Caria, T Fetzer, S Fiorin… - Journal of economic …, 2022 - Elsevier
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents
between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and …

Spatial analysis for psychologists: How to use individual-level data for research at the geographically aggregated level.

T Ebert, FM Götz, L Mewes, PJ Rentfrow - Psychological Methods, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychologists have become increasingly interested in the geographical organization of
psychological phenomena. Such studies typically seek to identify geographical variation in …

Smart green nudging: Reducing product returns through digital footprints and causal machine learning

M von Zahn, K Bauer, C Mihale-Wilson… - Marketing …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In e-commerce, product returns have become a costly and escalating issue for retailers.
Beyond the financial implications for businesses, product returns also lead to increased …

The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life

H Du, FM Götz, RB King, PJ Rentfrow - Journal of Personality, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This research investigates how economic inequality shapes basic human values
across three cross‐national, cross‐regional, and longitudinal studies (N total= 219,697) …