Jonas R. Kunst

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin; Feist, Felix J., Imhoff, Roland, Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively

British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(4) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70015

Abstract Social scientists have developed impactful frameworks to understand who unites in protest. Yet, when exceptional circumstances arise, people are sometimes astounded by the convergence of disparate groups protesting together for an apparently unifying cause. One recent example is the COVID‐19 pandemic. A new movement protesting the containment measures rapidly evolved, gaining momentum only weeks after the measures' implementation. Strikingly, the movement included participants from, among others, the political far left and right—individuals who had protested each other only weeks earlier and would do so again after the pandemic was declared over. This context enabled a real‐life investigation of how people navigated conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively. Drawing on 11 naturalistic protest observations and template analysis of 30 interviews with 31 protesters, we find that most participants indeed experienced the movement as ideologically diverse. At the same time, protesters used three strategies to navigate ideological conflict: (1) highlighting superordinate identities and ally utility (i.e., usefulness in advancing shared goals); (2) defending allies through in−/out‐group biases; and (3) embracing diversity. Our analysis demonstrates the combined explanatory power of social identity, social categorisation, and coalitional psychology frameworks in understanding emerging Querfront alliances, showing how protesters moved from identity construction to coalition calculus.

Michal, Piksa; Magdalena, Zaniewska, Agata, Cieslik-Starkiewicz, Kunst, Jonas R., Mikolaj, Morzy, Jan, Piasecki & Rafal, Rygula (2025)

The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation

Psychopharmacology, , s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-025-06802-1

Zhou, Xiaoyu; English, Alexander Scott, Wei, Liuqing, Yudiarso, Ananta, Dash, Arobindu, Tipandjan, Arun, Biddle, Ashley, Nam, Benjamin H., Boonroungrut, Chinun, Chettiar, Cicilia, Daniele, Paolini, Dubrov, Dmitrii, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Šakan, Dušana, Oliver, Eliza, Korjenic, Elma Medosevic -, Campos, Adolfo Fabricio Licoa, Novaes, Felipe, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés, Belen, Hacer, Gunawan, Hendrik, Jiang, Huang, Hofhuis, Joep, Kunst, Jonas R., Park, Joonha, Neto, Jose Candido Pereira, Huang, Kaiyue, Addington-Lefringhausen, Katharina, Hossain, Kazi Nur, Martínez-Buelvas, Laura, Yousefi, Mahdi, Yuki, Masaki, Falavarjani, Mehrdad F., Schwarzenthal, Miriam, Klimek-Tulwin, Monika, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Geeraert, Nicolas, Khieowan, Nuannut, Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit, Sun, Qian, Cowden, Richard G., Castro, Rita, Thomson, Robert, Tong, Rongtian, Malik, Sadia, Lins, Samuel, Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Wang, Shuang, Aquino, Sibele D., Kulich, Steve, Farid, Tahir, Alves, Tales, Talhelm, Thomas, Jovanović, Veljko, Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan, Li, Xiaoyuan & Zhang, Xinyi (2025)

Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 107, s. 1-11. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102198

Ackerman, Joshua M.; Samore, Theodore, Fessler, Daniel M.T., Kupfer, Tom R., Choi, Soyeon, Merrell, Wilson N., Aarøe, Lene, Aavik, Toivo, Acabado, Stephen, Akello, Grace, Alfian, Ilham N., Al-Shawaf, Laith, Alvarez, Marinés M., Ammann, Jeanine, Arikan, Gizem, Asha, Saiyeda A., Astobiza, Anibal M., Baeza-Ugarte, Carmen G., Barclay, Pat, Barlow, Fiona Kate, Bizarro, Lisiane, Bressan, Paola, Castellanos-Chacón, Andres, Choy, Bryan K.C., Chusairi, Achmad, Contreras-Garduño, Jorge, Cosamalón, Brenda L. Chávez, Costa-Neves, Bernardo, De, Mallika, Lima, Tiago J.S. de, Zoysa, Piyanjali de, Dryžaitė, Ieva, Elbæk, Christian T., Fedor, Peter, Fernández, Ana M., Fernandez-Morales, Regina, Fülöp, Márta, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado, Garcia-Gómez, Leonor, Garcia-Marques, Leonel, Garduño-Franco, Jimena, Grazioso, María del Pilar, Habacht, Fanny, Hasan, Youssef, Haugestad, Camila P., Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios, Havlíček, Jan, Hernandez, Earl J., Hoang, Vu M., Hong, Minsung, Hromatko, Ivana, Iliško, Dzintra, Imada, Hirotaka, Jakšić, Ivana, Jarmakowski, Tomasz, Jónsdóttir, Harpa L. Hjördísar, Kajokaite, Kotrina, Kaňková, Šárka, Kervyn, Nicolas, Kim, Jinseok P., Kunst, Jonas R., Laakasuo, Michael, Leongómez, Juan David, Li, Norman P., Lu, Junsong, Lynch, Nathan, Maegli, María A., Manley, Harry, Marcu, Gabriela, McAfee, Thea, Mitkidis, Panagiotis, Molnár, Nándor B., Morvinski, Coby, Muhamad, Haslina, Nejat, Pegah, Huy, Hoang Nguyen, Oliveira, Angelica N., Olsson, Mats J., Onyishi, Charity N., Onyishi, Ike E., Orozco, Reegan, Otterbring, Tobias, Ottersen, Ida Strande, Pacheco-López, Gustavo, Panagiotopoulou, Penny, Paniagua, Walter, Parvin, Roksana, Pavlović, Zoran, Prokop, Pavol, Raffman, Emma, Rizwan, Muhammad, Rojas, Sheila, Różycka-Tran, Joanna, Sánchez, Oscar R., Selim, Heyla, Sevi, Barış, Shani, Yaniv, Shastry, Madhulika S., Stieger, Stefan, Suh, Eunkook M., Sumari, Melati, Takemura, Kosuke, Tognetti, Arnaud, Trombetta, Roberta Z.R., Tybur, Joshua M., Ucak, Eylul B., Uchida, Yukiko, Valentova, Jaroslava V., Viciana, Hugo, Visine, Amandine, Wang, Jin, Wang, XT (XiaoTian), Yahiiaiev, Illia I., Zein, Rizqy A. & Žeželj, Iris (2025)

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 128, s. 737-750. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020

Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Redefining the Mainstream: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evolving Dynamics of Majority-Group Acculturation

European Review of Social Psychology, , s. 1-51. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2492506

Harris, Samantha M.; Bye, Hege H. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The Role of Norms and Acculturation in Migrants’ Willingness to Seek Mental Health Care: Results from a Large Preregistered Study

Social Science and Medicine, , s. 118598-118598. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118598

Kunst, Jonas R. & Bierwiaczonek, Kinga (2025)

Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures

Psychological Inquiry, 35(3-4) , s. 229-232. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2024.2442938

Conspiracy theories have the capacity to evoke intense emotions that can serve as catalysts for behavioral propensities, even those of the most extreme nature (Bierwiaczonek et al., 2024), underscoring the paramount importance of a psychological understanding of this intricate process. While a number of studies have investigated the role of emotions in this context (e.g., Prooijen, 2022; van Prooijen et al., 2022; Wabnegger et al., 2024), a comprehensive framework to elucidate how different conspiracy theories elicit distinct emotions based on their appraisal has been notably absent. This lacuna in the literature makes the contribution by Pummerer et al. (2024) all the more invaluable and timely. In their review, the authors put forward the Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT) to understand the diverse emotional and behavioral consequences of conspiracy beliefs. The model posits that different features of conspiracy theories, when made salient, elicit specific combinations of appraisals related to certainty, control, and pleasantness. These appraisal patterns are thought to be associated with distinct emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, pride, and schadenfreude, which in turn are connected to different action tendencies ranging from withdrawal, confrontation, aggression aimed at exclusion, to community-building. The model can be considered a seminal contribution to the field and generates many testable hypotheses for future research.

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R. & Myftari, Kledian (2025)

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding the Role of Threat Perceptions in Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 345-365.

Black, Shlomo & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Individual and community post-traumatic growth: A data-driven examination of person, process, and contextual factors

British Journal of Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70021

Kunst, Jonas R. & Obaidi, Milan (2025)

The Future of Violent Extremism Research – 5 Recommendations Based on a Machine Learning Analysis of 34,000+ Articles

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 28-45.

Osborn, D; Lilly, Kieren J., Kunst, Jonas R., Obaidi, Milan & Bos, Kees van den (2025)

The Role of Relative Deprivation in the Process of Radicalization into Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 323-344.

Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud; Miles-Novelo, Andreas, Kunst, Jonas R., Obaidi, Milan & Anderson, Craig A. (2025)

Climate and Catalyst Events and Their Intersection with Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 451-473.

Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

Cambridge University Press

Ozer, Simon; Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism

Migration Studies, 13(1) , s. 1-25. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf009

Renvik, Tuuli Anna; Eskelinen, Viivi, Pauha, Teemu, Jetten, Jolanda, Kunst, Jonas R., Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2025)

The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups

The international journal for the psychology of religion, , s. 18-18. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2568774

Allegretta, Silvia; Gavrilova, Margarita, Kartushina, Natalia, Mayor, Julien, Roch, Maja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire

Collabra: Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.130882

Petterson, Aino Lilja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Handbook of Diversity Competence - European Perspectives, , s. 473-487. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69308-3

Philis, Curtis Edward; Miller, Jeremy K., Buchanan, Erin M., Williams, Amanda, Meyers, Chanel, Brown, Elizabeth R., Pfuhl, Gerit, Martiny, Sarah E., Klevjer, Kristoffer, Woelfert, Frederike S., Kunst, Jonas R., Tamnes, Christian Krog, Korbmacher, Max, Bernabeu, Pablo Cesar de Juan, Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich, Volsa, Selina, Stieger, Stefan, Oberzaucher, Elisabeth, Mlakic, Vinka, Vasilev, Martin, Dalgar, İlker, Çoksan, Sami, Söylemez, Sinem, Solak, Çağlar, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Çoktok, Belemir, Kung, Chun-Chia, Suavansri, Panita, Manley, Harry, Álvarez-Solas, Sara, Ricaurte, Danilo Zambrano, Ropovik, Ivan, Baník, Gabriel, Babinčák, Peter, Adamkovič, Matúš, Kačmár, Pavol, Hricová, Monika, Bavoľár, Jozef, Li, Lisa, Gao, Fei, Chen, Zhong, Ković, Vanja, Gvozdenović, Vasilije, Arriaga, Patrícia, Filip, Katarzyna, Barzykowski, Krystian, Adamus, Sylwia, Singh, Margaret Messiah, Pradhan, Sraddha & Parveen, Noorshama (2025)

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323938 - Full text in research archive

Previous research has studied the extent to which men are the default members of social groups in terms of memory, categorization, and stereotyping, but not attitudes which is critical because of attitudes’ relationship to behavior. Results from our survey (N > 5000) collected via a globally distributed laboratory network in over 40 regions demonstrated that attitudes toward Black people and politicians had a stronger relationship with attitudes toward the men rather than the women of the group. However, attitudes toward White people had a stronger relationship with attitudes toward White women than White men, whereas attitudes toward East Asian people, police officers, and criminals did not have a stronger relationship with attitudes toward either the men or women of each respective group. Regional agreement with traditional gender roles was explored as a potential moderator. These findings have implications for understanding the unique forms of prejudice women face around the world.

Petterson, Aino Lilja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Handbook of Diversity Competence - European Perspectives, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69308-3

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin; Feist, Felix J., Imhoff, Roland, Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively

British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(4) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70015

Abstract Social scientists have developed impactful frameworks to understand who unites in protest. Yet, when exceptional circumstances arise, people are sometimes astounded by the convergence of disparate groups protesting together for an apparently unifying cause. One recent example is the COVID‐19 pandemic. A new movement protesting the containment measures rapidly evolved, gaining momentum only weeks after the measures' implementation. Strikingly, the movement included participants from, among others, the political far left and right—individuals who had protested each other only weeks earlier and would do so again after the pandemic was declared over. This context enabled a real‐life investigation of how people navigated conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively. Drawing on 11 naturalistic protest observations and template analysis of 30 interviews with 31 protesters, we find that most participants indeed experienced the movement as ideologically diverse. At the same time, protesters used three strategies to navigate ideological conflict: (1) highlighting superordinate identities and ally utility (i.e., usefulness in advancing shared goals); (2) defending allies through in−/out‐group biases; and (3) embracing diversity. Our analysis demonstrates the combined explanatory power of social identity, social categorisation, and coalitional psychology frameworks in understanding emerging Querfront alliances, showing how protesters moved from identity construction to coalition calculus.

Michal, Piksa; Magdalena, Zaniewska, Agata, Cieslik-Starkiewicz, Kunst, Jonas R., Mikolaj, Morzy, Jan, Piasecki & Rafal, Rygula (2025)

The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation

Psychopharmacology, , s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-025-06802-1

Zhou, Xiaoyu; English, Alexander Scott, Wei, Liuqing, Yudiarso, Ananta, Dash, Arobindu, Tipandjan, Arun, Biddle, Ashley, Nam, Benjamin H., Boonroungrut, Chinun, Chettiar, Cicilia, Daniele, Paolini, Dubrov, Dmitrii, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Šakan, Dušana, Oliver, Eliza, Korjenic, Elma Medosevic -, Campos, Adolfo Fabricio Licoa, Novaes, Felipe, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés, Belen, Hacer, Gunawan, Hendrik, Jiang, Huang, Hofhuis, Joep, Kunst, Jonas R., Park, Joonha, Neto, Jose Candido Pereira, Huang, Kaiyue, Addington-Lefringhausen, Katharina, Hossain, Kazi Nur, Martínez-Buelvas, Laura, Yousefi, Mahdi, Yuki, Masaki, Falavarjani, Mehrdad F., Schwarzenthal, Miriam, Klimek-Tulwin, Monika, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Geeraert, Nicolas, Khieowan, Nuannut, Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit, Sun, Qian, Cowden, Richard G., Castro, Rita, Thomson, Robert, Tong, Rongtian, Malik, Sadia, Lins, Samuel, Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Wang, Shuang, Aquino, Sibele D., Kulich, Steve, Farid, Tahir, Alves, Tales, Talhelm, Thomas, Jovanović, Veljko, Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan, Li, Xiaoyuan & Zhang, Xinyi (2025)

Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 107, s. 1-11. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102198

Ackerman, Joshua M.; Samore, Theodore, Fessler, Daniel M.T., Kupfer, Tom R., Choi, Soyeon, Merrell, Wilson N., Aarøe, Lene, Aavik, Toivo, Acabado, Stephen, Akello, Grace, Alfian, Ilham N., Al-Shawaf, Laith, Alvarez, Marinés M., Ammann, Jeanine, Arikan, Gizem, Asha, Saiyeda A., Astobiza, Anibal M., Baeza-Ugarte, Carmen G., Barclay, Pat, Barlow, Fiona Kate, Bizarro, Lisiane, Bressan, Paola, Castellanos-Chacón, Andres, Choy, Bryan K.C., Chusairi, Achmad, Contreras-Garduño, Jorge, Cosamalón, Brenda L. Chávez, Costa-Neves, Bernardo, De, Mallika, Lima, Tiago J.S. de, Zoysa, Piyanjali de, Dryžaitė, Ieva, Elbæk, Christian T., Fedor, Peter, Fernández, Ana M., Fernandez-Morales, Regina, Fülöp, Márta, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado, Garcia-Gómez, Leonor, Garcia-Marques, Leonel, Garduño-Franco, Jimena, Grazioso, María del Pilar, Habacht, Fanny, Hasan, Youssef, Haugestad, Camila P., Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios, Havlíček, Jan, Hernandez, Earl J., Hoang, Vu M., Hong, Minsung, Hromatko, Ivana, Iliško, Dzintra, Imada, Hirotaka, Jakšić, Ivana, Jarmakowski, Tomasz, Jónsdóttir, Harpa L. Hjördísar, Kajokaite, Kotrina, Kaňková, Šárka, Kervyn, Nicolas, Kim, Jinseok P., Kunst, Jonas R., Laakasuo, Michael, Leongómez, Juan David, Li, Norman P., Lu, Junsong, Lynch, Nathan, Maegli, María A., Manley, Harry, Marcu, Gabriela, McAfee, Thea, Mitkidis, Panagiotis, Molnár, Nándor B., Morvinski, Coby, Muhamad, Haslina, Nejat, Pegah, Huy, Hoang Nguyen, Oliveira, Angelica N., Olsson, Mats J., Onyishi, Charity N., Onyishi, Ike E., Orozco, Reegan, Otterbring, Tobias, Ottersen, Ida Strande, Pacheco-López, Gustavo, Panagiotopoulou, Penny, Paniagua, Walter, Parvin, Roksana, Pavlović, Zoran, Prokop, Pavol, Raffman, Emma, Rizwan, Muhammad, Rojas, Sheila, Różycka-Tran, Joanna, Sánchez, Oscar R., Selim, Heyla, Sevi, Barış, Shani, Yaniv, Shastry, Madhulika S., Stieger, Stefan, Suh, Eunkook M., Sumari, Melati, Takemura, Kosuke, Tognetti, Arnaud, Trombetta, Roberta Z.R., Tybur, Joshua M., Ucak, Eylul B., Uchida, Yukiko, Valentova, Jaroslava V., Viciana, Hugo, Visine, Amandine, Wang, Jin, Wang, XT (XiaoTian), Yahiiaiev, Illia I., Zein, Rizqy A. & Žeželj, Iris (2025)

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 128, s. 737-750. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020

Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Redefining the Mainstream: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evolving Dynamics of Majority-Group Acculturation

European Review of Social Psychology, , s. 1-51. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2492506

Harris, Samantha M.; Bye, Hege H. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The Role of Norms and Acculturation in Migrants’ Willingness to Seek Mental Health Care: Results from a Large Preregistered Study

Social Science and Medicine, , s. 118598-118598. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118598

Kunst, Jonas R. & Bierwiaczonek, Kinga (2025)

Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures

Psychological Inquiry, 35(3-4) , s. 229-232. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2024.2442938

Conspiracy theories have the capacity to evoke intense emotions that can serve as catalysts for behavioral propensities, even those of the most extreme nature (Bierwiaczonek et al., 2024), underscoring the paramount importance of a psychological understanding of this intricate process. While a number of studies have investigated the role of emotions in this context (e.g., Prooijen, 2022; van Prooijen et al., 2022; Wabnegger et al., 2024), a comprehensive framework to elucidate how different conspiracy theories elicit distinct emotions based on their appraisal has been notably absent. This lacuna in the literature makes the contribution by Pummerer et al. (2024) all the more invaluable and timely. In their review, the authors put forward the Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT) to understand the diverse emotional and behavioral consequences of conspiracy beliefs. The model posits that different features of conspiracy theories, when made salient, elicit specific combinations of appraisals related to certainty, control, and pleasantness. These appraisal patterns are thought to be associated with distinct emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, pride, and schadenfreude, which in turn are connected to different action tendencies ranging from withdrawal, confrontation, aggression aimed at exclusion, to community-building. The model can be considered a seminal contribution to the field and generates many testable hypotheses for future research.

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R. & Myftari, Kledian (2025)

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding the Role of Threat Perceptions in Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 345-365.

Black, Shlomo & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Individual and community post-traumatic growth: A data-driven examination of person, process, and contextual factors

British Journal of Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70021

Kunst, Jonas R. & Obaidi, Milan (2025)

The Future of Violent Extremism Research – 5 Recommendations Based on a Machine Learning Analysis of 34,000+ Articles

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 28-45.

Osborn, D; Lilly, Kieren J., Kunst, Jonas R., Obaidi, Milan & Bos, Kees van den (2025)

The Role of Relative Deprivation in the Process of Radicalization into Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 323-344.

Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud; Miles-Novelo, Andreas, Kunst, Jonas R., Obaidi, Milan & Anderson, Craig A. (2025)

Climate and Catalyst Events and Their Intersection with Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism, , s. 451-473.

Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

Cambridge University Press

Ozer, Simon; Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism

Migration Studies, 13(1) , s. 1-25. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf009

Renvik, Tuuli Anna; Eskelinen, Viivi, Pauha, Teemu, Jetten, Jolanda, Kunst, Jonas R., Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2025)

The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups

The international journal for the psychology of religion, , s. 18-18. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2568774

Allegretta, Silvia; Gavrilova, Margarita, Kartushina, Natalia, Mayor, Julien, Roch, Maja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire

Collabra: Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.130882

Petterson, Aino Lilja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Handbook of Diversity Competence - European Perspectives, , s. 473-487. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69308-3

Philis, Curtis Edward; Miller, Jeremy K., Buchanan, Erin M., Williams, Amanda, Meyers, Chanel, Brown, Elizabeth R., Pfuhl, Gerit, Martiny, Sarah E., Klevjer, Kristoffer, Woelfert, Frederike S., Kunst, Jonas R., Tamnes, Christian Krog, Korbmacher, Max, Bernabeu, Pablo Cesar de Juan, Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich, Volsa, Selina, Stieger, Stefan, Oberzaucher, Elisabeth, Mlakic, Vinka, Vasilev, Martin, Dalgar, İlker, Çoksan, Sami, Söylemez, Sinem, Solak, Çağlar, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Çoktok, Belemir, Kung, Chun-Chia, Suavansri, Panita, Manley, Harry, Álvarez-Solas, Sara, Ricaurte, Danilo Zambrano, Ropovik, Ivan, Baník, Gabriel, Babinčák, Peter, Adamkovič, Matúš, Kačmár, Pavol, Hricová, Monika, Bavoľár, Jozef, Li, Lisa, Gao, Fei, Chen, Zhong, Ković, Vanja, Gvozdenović, Vasilije, Arriaga, Patrícia, Filip, Katarzyna, Barzykowski, Krystian, Adamus, Sylwia, Singh, Margaret Messiah, Pradhan, Sraddha & Parveen, Noorshama (2025)

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323938 - Full text in research archive

Previous research has studied the extent to which men are the default members of social groups in terms of memory, categorization, and stereotyping, but not attitudes which is critical because of attitudes’ relationship to behavior. Results from our survey (N > 5000) collected via a globally distributed laboratory network in over 40 regions demonstrated that attitudes toward Black people and politicians had a stronger relationship with attitudes toward the men rather than the women of the group. However, attitudes toward White people had a stronger relationship with attitudes toward White women than White men, whereas attitudes toward East Asian people, police officers, and criminals did not have a stronger relationship with attitudes toward either the men or women of each respective group. Regional agreement with traditional gender roles was explored as a potential moderator. These findings have implications for understanding the unique forms of prejudice women face around the world.

Petterson, Aino Lilja & Kunst, Jonas R. (2025)

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Handbook of Diversity Competence - European Perspectives, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69308-3

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin; Juttemeier, Marilena, Obaidi, Milan, Power, Seamus A. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

European Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3037

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina & Zagefka, Hanna (2024)

Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 98 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101911

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikolaj, Piasecki, Jan & Rygula, Rafal (2024)

The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation

Frontiers in Public Health, 12 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1414864

Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge; Linden, Sander van der, Piasecki, Jan, Rygula, Rafal, Noworyta, Karolina & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods

The Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12(2) , s. 265-283. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.13385 - Full text in research archive

Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud; Rothgerber, Hank & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Development of the Passive and Active Meat-Animal Dissociation Scale (MADS)

Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 3 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.12975 - Full text in research archive

Many individuals like eating meat but condemn causing harm to animals. Dissociating meat from its animal origins is one way to avoid the cognitive dissonance this ‘meat paradox’ elicits. While the significance of meat-animal dissociation for meat consumption is well-established, a recent literature review suggested that it consists of two distinct tendencies. First, people may differ in the degree to which they passively disassociate meat from its animal origins. Second, they may differ in the extent to which they actively dissociate to decrease dissonance. By developing and validating a scale in three pre-registered studies using samples of American and British meat-eaters, the present investigation aimed to quantitatively establish whether these two proposed tendencies constitute distinct constructs with different relations to dietary preferences, meat-related cognition, and affect. Study 1 (n = 300) provided initial support for a normally-distributed scale with two orthogonal dimensions that were systematically and differently related to a range of individual differences and dietary preferences. In Study 2 (n = 628), both dimensions were non-responsive to short-term cues that highlight the animal-meat link but predicted dietary preferences independent of them. Finally, Study 3 (n = 231) showed that the dissociation dimensions predict dietary preferences even in people working in the meat industry who have long-term exposure to cues that connect meat with its animal origins. Together, the results of the three studies supported the notion that people’s dissociation tendencies can be divided into two qualitatively distinct tendencies. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav Mandt, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ystrøm, Eivind, Kunst, Jonas R., Gjerde, Line Cecilie & Thomsen, Lotte (2024)

Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

Behavior Genetics, 54, s. 321-332. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-024-10185-y - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan, Fluit, Sam, Soest, Tilmann von, SAM, DAVID & Dovidio, John F. (2024)

Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority-group acculturation

British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12801 - Full text in research archive

Psychological research has begun considering the dynamics involved in majority-group acculturation, which is the extent to which cultural majority groups adopt the culture of immigrants and minority groups. However, previous research has predominantly concentrated on reactions to ‘immigrants’ or ‘minority groups’ as a homogenous entity, overlooking the nuanced perceptions and varied valuations attributed to different groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity among immigrant and minority groups, the present work investigated the influence of several perceived characteristics of immigrant and minority groups on majority-group members' adoption of their cultures. Specifically, in three pre-registered studies—one correlational (Nparticipants = 201, Ntrials = 2814) and two within-subjects experimental (Nparticipants = 144 and 146, Ntrials = 720 and 730) designs with close to politically representative samples from the U.K. and U.S. —majority-group members were more willing to adopt immigrant and minority-group cultures that they perceived as warm, competent and moral because these perceptions made immigrants and minority groups seem indispensable to the identity and economy of the mainstream society. Our studies highlight the importance of considering the differentiated acculturation that majority-group members have to various groups within the same national context. We discuss the societal and cultural repercussions of this selective uptake of other cultures.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Krysińska, Izabela, Piasecki, Jan, Wójtowicz, Tomi, Rygula, Rafal, Linden, Sander van der & Morzy, Mikolaj (2024)

Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online

Nature Communications, 15(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51740-9

Zhou, Xiaoyu; English, Alexander Scott, Kulich, Steve J., Zheng, Lu, Alves, Tales, Aquino, Sibele D., Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Belen, Hacer, Biddle, Ashley, Boonroungrut, Chinun, Campos, Adolfo Fabricio Licoa, Castro, Rita, Chettiar, Cicilia, Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit, Cowden, Richard G., Dubrov, Dmitrii, Falavarjani, Mehrdad F., Farid, Tahir, Geeraert, Nicolas, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Gunawan, Hendrik, Hofhuis, Joep, Hossain, Kazi Nur, Huang, Kaiyue, Jiang, Huang, Jovanović, Veljko, Khieowan, Nuannut, Klimek-Tulwin, Monika, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Kunst, Jonas R., Lefringhausen, Katharina, Li, Xiaoyuan, Lins, Samuel, Malik, Sadia, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Martínez-Buelvas, Laura, Korjenic, Elma Medosevic -, Nam, Benjamin H., Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés, Neto, Jose Candido Pereira, Novaes, Felipe, Oliver, Eliza, Paolini, Daniele, Park, Joonha, Šakan, Dušana, Schwarzenthal, Miriam, Sun, Qian, Talhelm, Thomas, Thomson, Robert, Tipandjan, Arun, Tong, Rongtian, Torres-Marín, Jorge, Wang, Shuang, Wei, Liuqing, Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan, Yousefi, Mahdi, Yudiarso, Ananta, Yuki, Masaki & Zhang, Xinyi (2024)

COVID-19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross-cultural study in 26 countries

Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12919

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Kunst, Jonas R., Ystrøm, Eivind & Thomsen, Lotte (2024)

The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality

Journal of Personality, 92(6) , s. 1744-1758. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12921 - Full text in research archive

Objective: Political attitudes are predicted by the key ideological variables of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), as well as some of the Big Five personality traits. Past research indicates that personality and ideological traits are correlated for genetic reasons. A question that has yet to be tested concerns whether the genetic variation underlying the ideological traits of RWA and SDO has distinct contributions to political attitudes, or if genetic variation in political attitudes is subsumed under the genetic variation underlying standard Big Five personality traits. Method: We use data from a sample of 1987 Norwegian twins to assess the genetic and environmental relationships between the Big Five personality traits, RWA, SDO, and their separate contributions to political policy attitudes. Results: RWA and SDO exhibit very high genetic correlation (r = 0.78) with each other and some genetic overlap with the personality traits of openness and agreeableness. Importantly, they share a larger genetic substrate with political attitudes (e.g., deporting an ethnic minority) than do Big Five personality traits, a relationship that persists even when controlling for the genetic foundations underlying personality traits. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the genetic foundations of ideological traits and political attitudes are largely non-overlapping with the genetic foundations of Big Five personality traits.

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Piasecki, Jan, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikolaj & Rygula, Rafal (2024)

Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information

ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 15(7) , s. 1515-1522. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00825

Kunst, Jonas R. & Mesoudi, Alex (2024)

Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation

Personality and Social Psychology Review, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683241258406

Shani, Maor; Kunst, Jonas R., Anjum, Gulnaz, Obaidi, Milan, Leshem, Oded Adomi, Antonovsky, Roman, Zalk, Maarten van & Halperin, Eran (2024)

Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

British Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12722

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga ; Fluit, Sam, Soest, Tilmann von, Hornsey, Matthew J. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife

Nature Communications, 15(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47113-x

Ikizer, Elif G.; Fischer, Ronald, Kunst, Jonas R. & Dovidio, John F. (2024)

Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241273285

Black, Shlomo; Horenczyk, Gabriel & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Beyond singular perspectives: Minority-group members’ acculturation expectations and tightness

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 100 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101976

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin; Juttemeier, Marilena, Obaidi, Milan, Power, Seamus A. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

European Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3037

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina & Zagefka, Hanna (2024)

Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 98 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101911

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikolaj, Piasecki, Jan & Rygula, Rafal (2024)

The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation

Frontiers in Public Health, 12 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1414864

Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge; Linden, Sander van der, Piasecki, Jan, Rygula, Rafal, Noworyta, Karolina & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods

The Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12(2) , s. 265-283. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.13385 - Full text in research archive

Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud; Rothgerber, Hank & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Development of the Passive and Active Meat-Animal Dissociation Scale (MADS)

Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 3 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.12975 - Full text in research archive

Many individuals like eating meat but condemn causing harm to animals. Dissociating meat from its animal origins is one way to avoid the cognitive dissonance this ‘meat paradox’ elicits. While the significance of meat-animal dissociation for meat consumption is well-established, a recent literature review suggested that it consists of two distinct tendencies. First, people may differ in the degree to which they passively disassociate meat from its animal origins. Second, they may differ in the extent to which they actively dissociate to decrease dissonance. By developing and validating a scale in three pre-registered studies using samples of American and British meat-eaters, the present investigation aimed to quantitatively establish whether these two proposed tendencies constitute distinct constructs with different relations to dietary preferences, meat-related cognition, and affect. Study 1 (n = 300) provided initial support for a normally-distributed scale with two orthogonal dimensions that were systematically and differently related to a range of individual differences and dietary preferences. In Study 2 (n = 628), both dimensions were non-responsive to short-term cues that highlight the animal-meat link but predicted dietary preferences independent of them. Finally, Study 3 (n = 231) showed that the dissociation dimensions predict dietary preferences even in people working in the meat industry who have long-term exposure to cues that connect meat with its animal origins. Together, the results of the three studies supported the notion that people’s dissociation tendencies can be divided into two qualitatively distinct tendencies. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav Mandt, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ystrøm, Eivind, Kunst, Jonas R., Gjerde, Line Cecilie & Thomsen, Lotte (2024)

Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

Behavior Genetics, 54, s. 321-332. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-024-10185-y - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan, Fluit, Sam, Soest, Tilmann von, SAM, DAVID & Dovidio, John F. (2024)

Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority-group acculturation

British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12801 - Full text in research archive

Psychological research has begun considering the dynamics involved in majority-group acculturation, which is the extent to which cultural majority groups adopt the culture of immigrants and minority groups. However, previous research has predominantly concentrated on reactions to ‘immigrants’ or ‘minority groups’ as a homogenous entity, overlooking the nuanced perceptions and varied valuations attributed to different groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity among immigrant and minority groups, the present work investigated the influence of several perceived characteristics of immigrant and minority groups on majority-group members' adoption of their cultures. Specifically, in three pre-registered studies—one correlational (Nparticipants = 201, Ntrials = 2814) and two within-subjects experimental (Nparticipants = 144 and 146, Ntrials = 720 and 730) designs with close to politically representative samples from the U.K. and U.S. —majority-group members were more willing to adopt immigrant and minority-group cultures that they perceived as warm, competent and moral because these perceptions made immigrants and minority groups seem indispensable to the identity and economy of the mainstream society. Our studies highlight the importance of considering the differentiated acculturation that majority-group members have to various groups within the same national context. We discuss the societal and cultural repercussions of this selective uptake of other cultures.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Krysińska, Izabela, Piasecki, Jan, Wójtowicz, Tomi, Rygula, Rafal, Linden, Sander van der & Morzy, Mikolaj (2024)

Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online

Nature Communications, 15(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51740-9

Zhou, Xiaoyu; English, Alexander Scott, Kulich, Steve J., Zheng, Lu, Alves, Tales, Aquino, Sibele D., Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Belen, Hacer, Biddle, Ashley, Boonroungrut, Chinun, Campos, Adolfo Fabricio Licoa, Castro, Rita, Chettiar, Cicilia, Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit, Cowden, Richard G., Dubrov, Dmitrii, Falavarjani, Mehrdad F., Farid, Tahir, Geeraert, Nicolas, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Gunawan, Hendrik, Hofhuis, Joep, Hossain, Kazi Nur, Huang, Kaiyue, Jiang, Huang, Jovanović, Veljko, Khieowan, Nuannut, Klimek-Tulwin, Monika, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Kunst, Jonas R., Lefringhausen, Katharina, Li, Xiaoyuan, Lins, Samuel, Malik, Sadia, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Martínez-Buelvas, Laura, Korjenic, Elma Medosevic -, Nam, Benjamin H., Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés, Neto, Jose Candido Pereira, Novaes, Felipe, Oliver, Eliza, Paolini, Daniele, Park, Joonha, Šakan, Dušana, Schwarzenthal, Miriam, Sun, Qian, Talhelm, Thomas, Thomson, Robert, Tipandjan, Arun, Tong, Rongtian, Torres-Marín, Jorge, Wang, Shuang, Wei, Liuqing, Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan, Yousefi, Mahdi, Yudiarso, Ananta, Yuki, Masaki & Zhang, Xinyi (2024)

COVID-19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross-cultural study in 26 countries

Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12919

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Kunst, Jonas R., Ystrøm, Eivind & Thomsen, Lotte (2024)

The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality

Journal of Personality, 92(6) , s. 1744-1758. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12921 - Full text in research archive

Objective: Political attitudes are predicted by the key ideological variables of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), as well as some of the Big Five personality traits. Past research indicates that personality and ideological traits are correlated for genetic reasons. A question that has yet to be tested concerns whether the genetic variation underlying the ideological traits of RWA and SDO has distinct contributions to political attitudes, or if genetic variation in political attitudes is subsumed under the genetic variation underlying standard Big Five personality traits. Method: We use data from a sample of 1987 Norwegian twins to assess the genetic and environmental relationships between the Big Five personality traits, RWA, SDO, and their separate contributions to political policy attitudes. Results: RWA and SDO exhibit very high genetic correlation (r = 0.78) with each other and some genetic overlap with the personality traits of openness and agreeableness. Importantly, they share a larger genetic substrate with political attitudes (e.g., deporting an ethnic minority) than do Big Five personality traits, a relationship that persists even when controlling for the genetic foundations underlying personality traits. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the genetic foundations of ideological traits and political attitudes are largely non-overlapping with the genetic foundations of Big Five personality traits.

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Piasecki, Jan, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikolaj & Rygula, Rafal (2024)

Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information

ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 15(7) , s. 1515-1522. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00825

Kunst, Jonas R. & Mesoudi, Alex (2024)

Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation

Personality and Social Psychology Review, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683241258406

Shani, Maor; Kunst, Jonas R., Anjum, Gulnaz, Obaidi, Milan, Leshem, Oded Adomi, Antonovsky, Roman, Zalk, Maarten van & Halperin, Eran (2024)

Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

British Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12722

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga ; Fluit, Sam, Soest, Tilmann von, Hornsey, Matthew J. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife

Nature Communications, 15(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47113-x

Ikizer, Elif G.; Fischer, Ronald, Kunst, Jonas R. & Dovidio, John F. (2024)

Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241273285

Black, Shlomo; Horenczyk, Gabriel & Kunst, Jonas R. (2024)

Beyond singular perspectives: Minority-group members’ acculturation expectations and tightness

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 100 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101976

Dandy, Justine; Doidge, Adiran, Lefringhausen, Katharina, Kunst, Jonas R. & Kenin, Abraham (2023)

How do Australian majority-group members acculturate? A person-centred approach

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101876

Obaidi, Milan; Anjum, Gulnaz, Bierwiaczonek, Kinga, Dovidio, John F., Ozer, Simon & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 120(20) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213874120

Kunst, Jonas R.; Coenen, Ann-Cathrin, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge & Obaidi, Milan (2023)

How are acculturation orientations associated among majority-group members? The moderating role of ideology and levels of identity

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 96 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101857

Tahir, Hajra; Kunst, Jonas R. & SAM, DAVID (2023)

Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101759 - Full text in research archive

Muslims in the U.K. who maintain their religious culture are often viewed as a suspect community. This pre-registered experimental research examined the mediating role of perceived (dis)loyalty as underlying process and the moderating role of acculturation expectations. A total of 334 non-Muslim White British participants in Study 1 and 810 in Study 2 were asked to indicate their acculturation expectations towards Muslims. They were then randomly assigned to read a text that described Muslims in a fictional town as either (a) maintaining their religious culture or (b) adopting the mainstream British culture, or they read (c) a neutral control text. As expected, in Study 1, when Muslims were presented as maintaining their religious culture, trust decreased compared to the control group. Conversely, when described as adopting the mainstream culture, trust increased while support for surveillance of Muslims decreased. Both effects were mediated by the perception of Muslims being disloyal or loyal to the U.K in both studies, respectively. Perceived loyalty to their religious group did not significantly mediate any effect. We replicated these findings in Study 2. Moreover, we showed that describing Muslims as maintaining their religious culture decreased trust and increased support for surveillance especially among participants who expected Muslims to give up their religious culture. Moderated mediation analysis showed that these effects were partly mediated by perceived loyalty to the U.K. We discuss the societal implications of the findings for policymakers and Muslim leaders along with recommendations for future research.

Renvik, Tuuli Anna; Eskelinen, Viivi, Kunst, Jonas R., Jetten, Jolanda, Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2023)

Support for religious minorities' rights among (non)religious national majority group members: A motivational approach to worldviews

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2711

Kimel, Sasha Y.; Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan, Foeman, Anita, Lawton, Bessie, Sidanius, James & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Finding Your Roots: Do DNA Ancestry Tests Increase Racial (In)Tolerance?

Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000488

Fluit, Sam; Kunst, Jonas R., Bierwiaczonek, Kinga & Soest, Tilmann von (2023)

Self-esteem trajectories over three decades predict opposition to social equality in midlife

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 120(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212906120 - Full text in research archive

Although life trajectories are frequently theorized to explain people’s attitudes toward different social groups, few studies have been able to directly assess their importance with suitable data. Addressing this gap and focusing on the development of general and domain-specific self-esteem, we report results from a population-based sample of Norwegians (N = 2,215) followed over 28 years and five time points from adolescence to midlife. Growth curve models demonstrated that irrespective of self-esteem domain, low levels of self-esteem in adolescence as well as a depressed self-esteem development over the next three decades were related to more overall opposition to social equality as well as more opposition to gender equality and immigration in midlife. The results held when controlling for participants’ baseline political orientations and other key covariates in adolescence. Our findings indicate that low self-esteem and a lack of posi- tive self-esteem development can be detrimental to harmonious intergroup relations in ever-diversifying societies. We discuss how future psychological interventions aimed at enhancing self-esteem may promote support for a more inclusive society.

Treider, John Melvin Gudnyson; Kunst, Jonas R. & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2023)

The influence of musical parameters and subjective musical ratings on perceptions of culture

Scientific Reports, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45805-w - Full text in research archive

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikoƚaj, Piasecki, Jan & Rygula, Rafal (2023)

Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Factors influencing susceptibility to fake news

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1165103

Varmann, Anders Hustad; Kruse, Line , Bierwiaczonek, Kinga, Gomez, Angel, Vázquez, Alexandra & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

How identity fusion predicts extreme pro-group orientations: A meta-analysis

European Review of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2190267

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga ; Cheung, Mike W.-L. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Revisiting the integration hypothesis again: High heterogeneity complicates the interpretation of cross-sectional evidence

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101780

Buchanan, Erin M.; Lewis, Savannah C., Paris, Bastien, Forscher, Patrick S., Pavlacic, Jeffrey M., Beshears, Julie E., Drexler, Shira Meir, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie, Mallik, Peter R., Silan, Miguel Alejandro A, Miller, Jeremy K., IJzerman, Hans, Moshontz, Hannah, Beaudry, Jennifer L., Suchow, Jordan W., Chartier, Christopher R., Coles, Nicholas A., Sharifian, MohammadHasan, Todsen, Anna Louise, Levitan, Carmel A., Azevedo, Flávio, Legate, Nicole, Heller, Blake, Rothman, Alexander J., Dorison, Charles A., Gill, Brian P., Wang, Ke, Rees, Vaughan W., Gibbs, Nancy, Goldenberg, Amit, Nguyen, Thuy-Vy Thi, Gross, James J., Kaminski, Gwenaêl, Bastian, Claudia C. von, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Mosannenzadeh, Farnaz, Azouaghe, Soufian, Bran, Alexandre, Ruiz-Fernandez, Susana, Santos, Anabela Caetano, Reggev, Niv, Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich, Akkas, Handan, Pantazi, Myrto, Ropovik, Ivan, Korbmacher, Max, Arriaga, Patrícia, Gjoneska, Biljana, Warmelink, Lara, Alves, Sara G., Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda, Stieger, Stefan, Schei, Vidar, Hanel, Paul H P, Szaszi, Barnabas, Fedotov, Maksim, Antfolk, Jan, Marcu, Gabriela-Mariana, Schrötter, Jana, Kunst, Jonas R., Geiger, Sandra J., Adetula, Adeyemi, Kocalar, Halil Emre, Kielińska, Julita, Kačmár, Pavol, Bokkour, Ahmed, Galindo-Caballero, Oscar J., Djamai, Ikhlas, Pöntinen, Sara Johanna, Agesin, Bamikole Emmanuel, Jernsäther, Teodor, Urooj, Anum, Rachev, Nikolay R., Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Kurfalı, Murathan, Pit, Ilse L., Li, Ranran, Çoksan, Sami, Dubrov, Dmitrii, Paltrow, Tamar Elise, Baník, Gabriel, Korobova, Tatiana, Studzinska, Anna, Jiang, Xiaoming, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R, Vintr, Jáchym, Chiu, Faith, Kaliska, Lada, Berkessel, Jana B., Tümer, Murat, Morales-Izquierdo, Sara, Chuan-Peng, Hu, Vezirian, Kevin, Rosa, Anna Dalla, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Vasilev, Martin R., Beitner, Julia, Kácha, Ondřej, Žuro, Barbara, Westerlund, Minja, Nedelcheva-Datsova, Mina, Findor, Andrej, Krupić, Dajana, Kowal, Marta, Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Pourafshari, Razieh, Đorđević, Jasna Milošević, Schmidt, Nadya-Daniela, Baklanova, Ekaterina, Szala, Anna, Zakharov, Ilya, Vranka, Marek A., Ihaya, Keiko, Grano, Caterina, Cellini, Nicola, Białek, Michał, Anton-Boicuk, Lisa, Dalgar, Ilker, Adıgüzel, Arca, Verharen, Jeroen P H, Maturan, Princess Lovella G, Kassianos, Angelos P., Oliveira, Raquel, Čadek, Martin, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Sverdrup, Therese E., Aczel, Balazs, Zambrano, Danilo, Ahmed, Afroja, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Yamada, Yuki, Volz, Leonhard, Sunami, Naoyuki, Suter, Lilian, Vieira, Luc, Groyecka-Bernard, Agata, Kamburidis, Julia Arhondis, Reips, Ulf-Dietrich, Harutyunyan, Mikayel, Adetula, Gabriel Agboola, Allred, Tara Bulut, Barzykowski, Krystian, Antazo, Benedict G., Zsido, Andras N., Šakan, Dušana Dušan, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Ahlgren, Lina Pernilla, Hruška, Matej, Vega, Diego, Manunta, Efisio, Mokady, Aviv, Capizzi, Mariagrazia, Martončik, Marcel, Say, Nicolas, Filip, Katarzyna, Vilar, Roosevelt, Staniaszek, Karolina, Vdovic, Milica, Adamkovic, Matus, Johannes, Niklas, Hajdu, Nandor, Cohen, Noga, Overkott, Clara, Krupić, Dino, Hubena, Barbora, Nilsonne, Gustav, Mioni, Giovanna, Solorzano, Claudio Singh, Ishii, Tatsunori, Chen, Zhang, Kushnir, Elizaveta, Karaarslan, Cemre, Ribeiro, Rafael R., Khaoudi, Ahmed, Kossowska, Małgorzata, Bavolar, Jozef, Hoyer, Karlijn, Roczniewska, Marta, Karababa, Alper, Becker, Maja, Monteiro, Renan P., Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Metin-Orta, Irem, Adamus, Sylwia, Kozma, Luca, Czarnek, Gabriela, Domurat, Artur, Štrukelj, Eva, Alvarez, Daniela Serrato, Parzuchowski, Michal, Massoni, Sébastien, Czamanski-Cohen, Johanna, Pronizius, Ekaterina, Muchembled, Fany, Schie, Kevin van, Saçaklı, Aslı, Hristova, Evgeniya, Kuzminska, Anna O., Charyate, Abdelilah, Bijlstra, Gijsbert, Afhami, Reza, Majeed, Nadyanna M., Musser, Erica D., Sirota, Miroslav, Ross, Robert M., Yeung, Siu Kit, Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta, Foroni, Francesco, Almeida, Inês A T, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Lewis, David M G, Holford, Dawn L., Janssen, Steve M J, Tatachari, Srinivasan, Batres, Carlota, Olofsson, Jonas K., Daches, Shimrit, Belaus, Anabel, Pfuhl, Gerit, Corral-Frias, Nadia Sarai, Sousa, Daniela, Röer, Jan Philipp, Isager, Peder Mortvedt, Godbersen, Hendrik, Walczak, Radoslaw B., Doren, Natalia Van, Ren, Dongning, Gill, Tripat, Voracek, Martin, DeBruine, Lisa M., Anne, Michele, Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Thomas, Andrew G., Arvanitis, Alexios, Ostermann, Thomas, Wolfe, Kelly, Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom, Bundt, Carsten, Lamm, Claus, Calin-Jageman, Robert J., Davis, William E., Karekla, Maria, Zorjan, Saša, Jaremka, Lisa M., Uttley, Jim, Hricova, Monika, Koehn, Monica A., Kiselnikova, Natalia, Bai, Hui, Krafnick, Anthony J., Balci, Busra Bahar, Ballantyne, Tonia, Lins, Samuel, Vally, Zahir, Esteban-Serna, Celia, Schmidt, Kathleen, Macapagal, Paulo Manuel L, Szwed, Paulina, Zdybek, Przemysław Marcin, Moreau, David, Collins, W Matthew, Joy-Gaba, Jennifer A., Vilares, Iris, Tran, Ulrich S., Boudesseul, Jordane, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Dixson, Barnaby James Wyld, Perillo, Jennifer T., Ferreira, Ana, Westgate, Erin C., Aberson, Christopher L., Arinze, Azuka Ikechukwu, Jaeger, Bastian, Butt, Muhammad Mussaffa, Silva, Jaime R., Storage, Daniel Shafik, Janak, Allison P., Jiménez-Leal, William, Soto, Jose A., Sorokowska, Agnieszka, McCarthy, Randy, Tullett, Alexa M., Frias-Armenta, Martha, Ribeiro, Matheus Fernando Felix, Hartanto, Andree, Forbes, Paul A G, Willis, Megan L., R, María Del Carmen Tejada, Torres, Adriana Julieth Olaya, Stephen, Ian D., Vaidis, David C., Rosa-Gómez, Anabel de la, Yu, Karen, Sutherland, Clare A M, Manavalan, Mathi, Behzadnia, Behzad, Urban, Jan, Baskin, Ernest, McFall, Joseph P., Ogbonnaya, Chisom Esther, Fu, Cynthia H Y, Rahal, Rima-Maria, Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu L G, Hostler, Thomas J., Kappes, Heather Barry, Sorokowski, Piotr, Khosla, Meetu, Lazarevic, Ljiljana B., Eudave, Luis, Vilsmeier, Johannes K., Luis, Elkin O., Muda, Rafał, Agadullina, Elena, Cárcamo, Rodrigo A., Reeck, Crystal, Anjum, Gulnaz, Venegas, Mónica Camila Toro, Misiak, Michal, Ryan, Richard M., Nock, Nora L., Travaglino, Giovanni A., Mensink, Michael C., Feldman, Gilad, Wichman, Aaron L., Chou, Weilun, Ziano, Ignazio, Seehuus, Martin, Chopik, William J., Kung, Franki Y H, Carpentier, Joelle, Vaughn, Leigh Ann, Du, Hongfei, Xiao, Qinyu, Lima, Tiago J S, Noone, Chris, Onie, Sandersan, Verbruggen, Frederick, Radtke, Theda & Primbs, Maximilian A. (2023)

The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

Scientific Data, 10, s. 1-15. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7 - Full text in research archive

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental study, a general questionnaire examining health prevention behaviors and COVID-19 experience, geographical and cultural context characterization, and demographic information for each participant. Each participant started the study with the same general questions and then was randomized to complete either one longer experiment or two shorter experiments. Data were provided by 73,223 participants with varying completion rates. Participants completed the survey from 111 geopolitical regions in 44 unique languages/dialects. The anonymized dataset described here is provided in both raw and processed formats to facilitate re-use and further analyses. The dataset offers secondary analytic opportunities to explore coping, framing, and self-determination across a diverse, global sample obtained at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be merged with other time-sampled or geographic data.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Juttemeier, Marilena, Bailey, April H., Anjum, Gulnaz, English, Alexander S., Obaidi, Milan, SAM, DAVID, Yaşın-Tekizoğlu, Fatma & Agyemang, Collins B. (2023)

Investigation of gender bias in the mental imagery of faces

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231200168 - Full text in research archive

People tend to think of the prototypical person as a man more than as a woman, but this bias has primarily been observed in language-based tasks. Here, we investigated whether this bias is also present in the mental imagery of faces. A preregistered cross-cultural reverse-correlation study including participants from six WEIRD and non-WEIRD countries varying in gender equality (i.e., China, Ghana, Norway, Pakistan, Turkey, and the US; N = 645) unexpectedly suggested that people imagine the face of a generic “person” more as a woman than as a man. Replicating this unexpected result, a second preregistered study (N = 115) showed that U.S. participants imagine the face of a typical person as being more similar to their imagined face of a woman than of a man. We discuss explanations for these unexpected findings, including the possibility that the prototypical person is male-biased—consistent with previous work—but the default face may be female-biased.

Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge; Linden, Sander van der, Piksa, Michal, Morzy, Mikołaj, Piasecki, Jan, Rygula, Rafal, Gwiaździński, Paweł, Noworyta, Karolina & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups

Royal Society Open Science, 10(10) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221036

Kunst, Jonas R.; Ozer, Simon, Lefringhausen, Katharina, Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan & SAM, DAVID (2023)

How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93:101779, s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101779 - Full text in research archive

Do minority-group members welcome or reject that majority-group members adopt other cultures? Acculturation is commonly defined as a process of mutual accommodation. Yet, the acculturation of majority-group members has only recently received research attention. To date, we do not know the extent to which minority-group members expect majority-group members to adopt the culture of minority groups and/or to maintain their mainstream culture. Knowledge is also lacking about how these expectations relate to minority-group members’ own acculturation orientations and symbolic and realistic threat perceptions. We further do not know whether such associations are similar among minority- and majority-group members. To address these gaps, we surveyed 246 Muslim minority-group members and 247 White Christian majority-group members in the United Kingdom. Muslim minority-group members’ acculturation expectations towards majority-group members were normally distributed around the midpoint of the scale, suggesting that they did not reject majority-group acculturation on average. Acculturation expectations were correlated with symbolic and realistic threat perceptions among majority-group members but not among minority-group members. Cluster analyses showed that integrated Muslim minority-group members found it relatively important for majority-group members to adopt minority-group culture and to maintain their own culture. In sum, the results support the idea that minority-group members, at least in some contexts and settings, view acculturation as a mutual cultural change rather than as cultural appropriation.

Gwiaździński, Paweł; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Piksa, Michal, Krysińska, Izabela, Kunst, Jonas R., Noworyta, Karolina, Olejniuk, Agata, Morzy, Mikołaj, Rygula, Rafal, Wójtowicz, Tomi & Piasecki, Jan (2023)

Psychological interventions countering misinformation in social media: A scoping review

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.974782

Kunst, Jonas R. & Bierwiaczonek, Kinga (2023)

Utilizing AI questionnaire translations in cross-cultural and intercultural research: Insights and recommendations

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101888

Dandy, Justine; Doidge, Adiran, Lefringhausen, Katharina, Kunst, Jonas R. & Kenin, Abraham (2023)

How do Australian majority-group members acculturate? A person-centred approach

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101876

Obaidi, Milan; Anjum, Gulnaz, Bierwiaczonek, Kinga, Dovidio, John F., Ozer, Simon & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 120(20) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213874120

Kunst, Jonas R.; Coenen, Ann-Cathrin, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge & Obaidi, Milan (2023)

How are acculturation orientations associated among majority-group members? The moderating role of ideology and levels of identity

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 96 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101857

Tahir, Hajra; Kunst, Jonas R. & SAM, DAVID (2023)

Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101759 - Full text in research archive

Muslims in the U.K. who maintain their religious culture are often viewed as a suspect community. This pre-registered experimental research examined the mediating role of perceived (dis)loyalty as underlying process and the moderating role of acculturation expectations. A total of 334 non-Muslim White British participants in Study 1 and 810 in Study 2 were asked to indicate their acculturation expectations towards Muslims. They were then randomly assigned to read a text that described Muslims in a fictional town as either (a) maintaining their religious culture or (b) adopting the mainstream British culture, or they read (c) a neutral control text. As expected, in Study 1, when Muslims were presented as maintaining their religious culture, trust decreased compared to the control group. Conversely, when described as adopting the mainstream culture, trust increased while support for surveillance of Muslims decreased. Both effects were mediated by the perception of Muslims being disloyal or loyal to the U.K in both studies, respectively. Perceived loyalty to their religious group did not significantly mediate any effect. We replicated these findings in Study 2. Moreover, we showed that describing Muslims as maintaining their religious culture decreased trust and increased support for surveillance especially among participants who expected Muslims to give up their religious culture. Moderated mediation analysis showed that these effects were partly mediated by perceived loyalty to the U.K. We discuss the societal implications of the findings for policymakers and Muslim leaders along with recommendations for future research.

Renvik, Tuuli Anna; Eskelinen, Viivi, Kunst, Jonas R., Jetten, Jolanda, Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2023)

Support for religious minorities' rights among (non)religious national majority group members: A motivational approach to worldviews

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2711

Kimel, Sasha Y.; Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan, Foeman, Anita, Lawton, Bessie, Sidanius, James & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Finding Your Roots: Do DNA Ancestry Tests Increase Racial (In)Tolerance?

Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000488

Fluit, Sam; Kunst, Jonas R., Bierwiaczonek, Kinga & Soest, Tilmann von (2023)

Self-esteem trajectories over three decades predict opposition to social equality in midlife

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 120(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212906120 - Full text in research archive

Although life trajectories are frequently theorized to explain people’s attitudes toward different social groups, few studies have been able to directly assess their importance with suitable data. Addressing this gap and focusing on the development of general and domain-specific self-esteem, we report results from a population-based sample of Norwegians (N = 2,215) followed over 28 years and five time points from adolescence to midlife. Growth curve models demonstrated that irrespective of self-esteem domain, low levels of self-esteem in adolescence as well as a depressed self-esteem development over the next three decades were related to more overall opposition to social equality as well as more opposition to gender equality and immigration in midlife. The results held when controlling for participants’ baseline political orientations and other key covariates in adolescence. Our findings indicate that low self-esteem and a lack of posi- tive self-esteem development can be detrimental to harmonious intergroup relations in ever-diversifying societies. We discuss how future psychological interventions aimed at enhancing self-esteem may promote support for a more inclusive society.

Treider, John Melvin Gudnyson; Kunst, Jonas R. & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2023)

The influence of musical parameters and subjective musical ratings on perceptions of culture

Scientific Reports, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45805-w - Full text in research archive

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R., Morzy, Mikoƚaj, Piasecki, Jan & Rygula, Rafal (2023)

Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Factors influencing susceptibility to fake news

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1165103

Varmann, Anders Hustad; Kruse, Line , Bierwiaczonek, Kinga, Gomez, Angel, Vázquez, Alexandra & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

How identity fusion predicts extreme pro-group orientations: A meta-analysis

European Review of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2190267

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga ; Cheung, Mike W.-L. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

Revisiting the integration hypothesis again: High heterogeneity complicates the interpretation of cross-sectional evidence

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101780

Buchanan, Erin M.; Lewis, Savannah C., Paris, Bastien, Forscher, Patrick S., Pavlacic, Jeffrey M., Beshears, Julie E., Drexler, Shira Meir, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie, Mallik, Peter R., Silan, Miguel Alejandro A, Miller, Jeremy K., IJzerman, Hans, Moshontz, Hannah, Beaudry, Jennifer L., Suchow, Jordan W., Chartier, Christopher R., Coles, Nicholas A., Sharifian, MohammadHasan, Todsen, Anna Louise, Levitan, Carmel A., Azevedo, Flávio, Legate, Nicole, Heller, Blake, Rothman, Alexander J., Dorison, Charles A., Gill, Brian P., Wang, Ke, Rees, Vaughan W., Gibbs, Nancy, Goldenberg, Amit, Nguyen, Thuy-Vy Thi, Gross, James J., Kaminski, Gwenaêl, Bastian, Claudia C. von, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Mosannenzadeh, Farnaz, Azouaghe, Soufian, Bran, Alexandre, Ruiz-Fernandez, Susana, Santos, Anabela Caetano, Reggev, Niv, Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich, Akkas, Handan, Pantazi, Myrto, Ropovik, Ivan, Korbmacher, Max, Arriaga, Patrícia, Gjoneska, Biljana, Warmelink, Lara, Alves, Sara G., Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda, Stieger, Stefan, Schei, Vidar, Hanel, Paul H P, Szaszi, Barnabas, Fedotov, Maksim, Antfolk, Jan, Marcu, Gabriela-Mariana, Schrötter, Jana, Kunst, Jonas R., Geiger, Sandra J., Adetula, Adeyemi, Kocalar, Halil Emre, Kielińska, Julita, Kačmár, Pavol, Bokkour, Ahmed, Galindo-Caballero, Oscar J., Djamai, Ikhlas, Pöntinen, Sara Johanna, Agesin, Bamikole Emmanuel, Jernsäther, Teodor, Urooj, Anum, Rachev, Nikolay R., Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Kurfalı, Murathan, Pit, Ilse L., Li, Ranran, Çoksan, Sami, Dubrov, Dmitrii, Paltrow, Tamar Elise, Baník, Gabriel, Korobova, Tatiana, Studzinska, Anna, Jiang, Xiaoming, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R, Vintr, Jáchym, Chiu, Faith, Kaliska, Lada, Berkessel, Jana B., Tümer, Murat, Morales-Izquierdo, Sara, Chuan-Peng, Hu, Vezirian, Kevin, Rosa, Anna Dalla, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Vasilev, Martin R., Beitner, Julia, Kácha, Ondřej, Žuro, Barbara, Westerlund, Minja, Nedelcheva-Datsova, Mina, Findor, Andrej, Krupić, Dajana, Kowal, Marta, Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Pourafshari, Razieh, Đorđević, Jasna Milošević, Schmidt, Nadya-Daniela, Baklanova, Ekaterina, Szala, Anna, Zakharov, Ilya, Vranka, Marek A., Ihaya, Keiko, Grano, Caterina, Cellini, Nicola, Białek, Michał, Anton-Boicuk, Lisa, Dalgar, Ilker, Adıgüzel, Arca, Verharen, Jeroen P H, Maturan, Princess Lovella G, Kassianos, Angelos P., Oliveira, Raquel, Čadek, Martin, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Sverdrup, Therese E., Aczel, Balazs, Zambrano, Danilo, Ahmed, Afroja, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Yamada, Yuki, Volz, Leonhard, Sunami, Naoyuki, Suter, Lilian, Vieira, Luc, Groyecka-Bernard, Agata, Kamburidis, Julia Arhondis, Reips, Ulf-Dietrich, Harutyunyan, Mikayel, Adetula, Gabriel Agboola, Allred, Tara Bulut, Barzykowski, Krystian, Antazo, Benedict G., Zsido, Andras N., Šakan, Dušana Dušan, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Ahlgren, Lina Pernilla, Hruška, Matej, Vega, Diego, Manunta, Efisio, Mokady, Aviv, Capizzi, Mariagrazia, Martončik, Marcel, Say, Nicolas, Filip, Katarzyna, Vilar, Roosevelt, Staniaszek, Karolina, Vdovic, Milica, Adamkovic, Matus, Johannes, Niklas, Hajdu, Nandor, Cohen, Noga, Overkott, Clara, Krupić, Dino, Hubena, Barbora, Nilsonne, Gustav, Mioni, Giovanna, Solorzano, Claudio Singh, Ishii, Tatsunori, Chen, Zhang, Kushnir, Elizaveta, Karaarslan, Cemre, Ribeiro, Rafael R., Khaoudi, Ahmed, Kossowska, Małgorzata, Bavolar, Jozef, Hoyer, Karlijn, Roczniewska, Marta, Karababa, Alper, Becker, Maja, Monteiro, Renan P., Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Metin-Orta, Irem, Adamus, Sylwia, Kozma, Luca, Czarnek, Gabriela, Domurat, Artur, Štrukelj, Eva, Alvarez, Daniela Serrato, Parzuchowski, Michal, Massoni, Sébastien, Czamanski-Cohen, Johanna, Pronizius, Ekaterina, Muchembled, Fany, Schie, Kevin van, Saçaklı, Aslı, Hristova, Evgeniya, Kuzminska, Anna O., Charyate, Abdelilah, Bijlstra, Gijsbert, Afhami, Reza, Majeed, Nadyanna M., Musser, Erica D., Sirota, Miroslav, Ross, Robert M., Yeung, Siu Kit, Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta, Foroni, Francesco, Almeida, Inês A T, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Lewis, David M G, Holford, Dawn L., Janssen, Steve M J, Tatachari, Srinivasan, Batres, Carlota, Olofsson, Jonas K., Daches, Shimrit, Belaus, Anabel, Pfuhl, Gerit, Corral-Frias, Nadia Sarai, Sousa, Daniela, Röer, Jan Philipp, Isager, Peder Mortvedt, Godbersen, Hendrik, Walczak, Radoslaw B., Doren, Natalia Van, Ren, Dongning, Gill, Tripat, Voracek, Martin, DeBruine, Lisa M., Anne, Michele, Očovaj, Sanja Batić, Thomas, Andrew G., Arvanitis, Alexios, Ostermann, Thomas, Wolfe, Kelly, Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom, Bundt, Carsten, Lamm, Claus, Calin-Jageman, Robert J., Davis, William E., Karekla, Maria, Zorjan, Saša, Jaremka, Lisa M., Uttley, Jim, Hricova, Monika, Koehn, Monica A., Kiselnikova, Natalia, Bai, Hui, Krafnick, Anthony J., Balci, Busra Bahar, Ballantyne, Tonia, Lins, Samuel, Vally, Zahir, Esteban-Serna, Celia, Schmidt, Kathleen, Macapagal, Paulo Manuel L, Szwed, Paulina, Zdybek, Przemysław Marcin, Moreau, David, Collins, W Matthew, Joy-Gaba, Jennifer A., Vilares, Iris, Tran, Ulrich S., Boudesseul, Jordane, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Dixson, Barnaby James Wyld, Perillo, Jennifer T., Ferreira, Ana, Westgate, Erin C., Aberson, Christopher L., Arinze, Azuka Ikechukwu, Jaeger, Bastian, Butt, Muhammad Mussaffa, Silva, Jaime R., Storage, Daniel Shafik, Janak, Allison P., Jiménez-Leal, William, Soto, Jose A., Sorokowska, Agnieszka, McCarthy, Randy, Tullett, Alexa M., Frias-Armenta, Martha, Ribeiro, Matheus Fernando Felix, Hartanto, Andree, Forbes, Paul A G, Willis, Megan L., R, María Del Carmen Tejada, Torres, Adriana Julieth Olaya, Stephen, Ian D., Vaidis, David C., Rosa-Gómez, Anabel de la, Yu, Karen, Sutherland, Clare A M, Manavalan, Mathi, Behzadnia, Behzad, Urban, Jan, Baskin, Ernest, McFall, Joseph P., Ogbonnaya, Chisom Esther, Fu, Cynthia H Y, Rahal, Rima-Maria, Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu L G, Hostler, Thomas J., Kappes, Heather Barry, Sorokowski, Piotr, Khosla, Meetu, Lazarevic, Ljiljana B., Eudave, Luis, Vilsmeier, Johannes K., Luis, Elkin O., Muda, Rafał, Agadullina, Elena, Cárcamo, Rodrigo A., Reeck, Crystal, Anjum, Gulnaz, Venegas, Mónica Camila Toro, Misiak, Michal, Ryan, Richard M., Nock, Nora L., Travaglino, Giovanni A., Mensink, Michael C., Feldman, Gilad, Wichman, Aaron L., Chou, Weilun, Ziano, Ignazio, Seehuus, Martin, Chopik, William J., Kung, Franki Y H, Carpentier, Joelle, Vaughn, Leigh Ann, Du, Hongfei, Xiao, Qinyu, Lima, Tiago J S, Noone, Chris, Onie, Sandersan, Verbruggen, Frederick, Radtke, Theda & Primbs, Maximilian A. (2023)

The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

Scientific Data, 10, s. 1-15. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7 - Full text in research archive

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental study, a general questionnaire examining health prevention behaviors and COVID-19 experience, geographical and cultural context characterization, and demographic information for each participant. Each participant started the study with the same general questions and then was randomized to complete either one longer experiment or two shorter experiments. Data were provided by 73,223 participants with varying completion rates. Participants completed the survey from 111 geopolitical regions in 44 unique languages/dialects. The anonymized dataset described here is provided in both raw and processed formats to facilitate re-use and further analyses. The dataset offers secondary analytic opportunities to explore coping, framing, and self-determination across a diverse, global sample obtained at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be merged with other time-sampled or geographic data.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Juttemeier, Marilena, Bailey, April H., Anjum, Gulnaz, English, Alexander S., Obaidi, Milan, SAM, DAVID, Yaşın-Tekizoğlu, Fatma & Agyemang, Collins B. (2023)

Investigation of gender bias in the mental imagery of faces

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231200168 - Full text in research archive

People tend to think of the prototypical person as a man more than as a woman, but this bias has primarily been observed in language-based tasks. Here, we investigated whether this bias is also present in the mental imagery of faces. A preregistered cross-cultural reverse-correlation study including participants from six WEIRD and non-WEIRD countries varying in gender equality (i.e., China, Ghana, Norway, Pakistan, Turkey, and the US; N = 645) unexpectedly suggested that people imagine the face of a generic “person” more as a woman than as a man. Replicating this unexpected result, a second preregistered study (N = 115) showed that U.S. participants imagine the face of a typical person as being more similar to their imagined face of a woman than of a man. We discuss explanations for these unexpected findings, including the possibility that the prototypical person is male-biased—consistent with previous work—but the default face may be female-biased.

Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge; Linden, Sander van der, Piksa, Michal, Morzy, Mikołaj, Piasecki, Jan, Rygula, Rafal, Gwiaździński, Paweł, Noworyta, Karolina & Kunst, Jonas R. (2023)

The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups

Royal Society Open Science, 10(10) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221036

Kunst, Jonas R.; Ozer, Simon, Lefringhausen, Katharina, Bierwiaczonek, Kinga , Obaidi, Milan & SAM, DAVID (2023)

How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93:101779, s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101779 - Full text in research archive

Do minority-group members welcome or reject that majority-group members adopt other cultures? Acculturation is commonly defined as a process of mutual accommodation. Yet, the acculturation of majority-group members has only recently received research attention. To date, we do not know the extent to which minority-group members expect majority-group members to adopt the culture of minority groups and/or to maintain their mainstream culture. Knowledge is also lacking about how these expectations relate to minority-group members’ own acculturation orientations and symbolic and realistic threat perceptions. We further do not know whether such associations are similar among minority- and majority-group members. To address these gaps, we surveyed 246 Muslim minority-group members and 247 White Christian majority-group members in the United Kingdom. Muslim minority-group members’ acculturation expectations towards majority-group members were normally distributed around the midpoint of the scale, suggesting that they did not reject majority-group acculturation on average. Acculturation expectations were correlated with symbolic and realistic threat perceptions among majority-group members but not among minority-group members. Cluster analyses showed that integrated Muslim minority-group members found it relatively important for majority-group members to adopt minority-group culture and to maintain their own culture. In sum, the results support the idea that minority-group members, at least in some contexts and settings, view acculturation as a mutual cultural change rather than as cultural appropriation.

Gwiaździński, Paweł; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Piksa, Michal, Krysińska, Izabela, Kunst, Jonas R., Noworyta, Karolina, Olejniuk, Agata, Morzy, Mikołaj, Rygula, Rafal, Wójtowicz, Tomi & Piasecki, Jan (2023)

Psychological interventions countering misinformation in social media: A scoping review

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.974782

Kunst, Jonas R. & Bierwiaczonek, Kinga (2023)

Utilizing AI questionnaire translations in cross-cultural and intercultural research: Insights and recommendations

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101888

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F., Bailey, April & Obaidi, Milan (2022)

The Way They Look: Phenotypic Prototypicality Shapes the Perceived Intergroup Attitudes of In- and Out-group Members

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104303

Obaidi, Milan; Skaar, Sara With, Ozer, Simon & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Measuring extremist archetypes: Scale development and validation

PLOS ONE, 17(7) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270225 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health responses: A meta-analysis

Current Opinion in Psychology, 46 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101346

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Piasecki, Jan, Gwiazdzinski, Pawel, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R. & Rygula, Rafal (2022)

Cognitive Processes and Personality Traits Underlying Four Phenotypes of Susceptibility to (Mis)Information

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.912397

Dorison, Charles A; Lerner, Jennifer S., Heller, Blake H., Rothman, Alexander J., Kawachi, Ichiro I., Wang, Ke, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese, Korbmacher, Max, Lund, Maria Louise, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Kunst, Jonas R., Anjum, Gulnaz, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Bundt, Carsten, Pfuhl, Gerit, Askelund, Jo Adrian Dahl, Rees, Vaughan W., Gill, Brian P., Gibbs, Nancy, Ebersole, Charles R., Vally, Zahir, Tajchman, Zuzanna, Zsido, Andras N., Zrimsek, Mija, Chen, Zhang, Ziano, Ignazio, Gialitaki, Zoi, Ceary, Chris D., Lin, Yijun, Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Yamada, Yuki, Xiao, Qinyu, Jiang, Xiaoming, Du, Xinkai, Yao, Elvin, Wilson, John Paul, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Jimenez-Leal, William, Law, Wilbert, Collins, W. Matthew, Richard, Karley L., Vranka, Marek, Ankushev, Vladislav, Križanić, Valerija, Kadreva, Veselina Hristova, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Tran, Ulrich S., Yeung, Siu Kit & Hassan, Widad (2022)

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

Affective Science, 3, s. 577-602. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

Lefringhausen, Katharina; Marshall, T., Ferenczi, Nelli, Zagefka, Hanna & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Majority members’ acculturation: How proximal-acculturation relates to expectations of immigrants and intergroup ideologies over time

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221096324

Dovidio, John F. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Delight in Disorder: Inclusively Defining and Operationalizing Implicit Bias

Psychological Inquiry, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106756

Legate, Nicole; Nguyen, Thuy-vy, Weinstein, Netta, Moller, Arlen C, Legault, Lisa, Vally, Zahir, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese E., Korbmacher, Max, Lund, Maria Louise, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Kunst, Jonas R., Pfuhl, Gerit, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Bundt, Carsten, Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Tajchman, Zuzanna, Zsido, Andras N., Zrimsek, Miha, Chen, Zhang, Ziano, Ignazio, Gialitaki, Zoi, Ceary, Chris D., Jang, Yuna, Lin, Yijun, Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Yamada, Yuki, Xiao, Qinyu, Jiang, Xiaoming, Du, Xinkai, Yao, Elvin, Ryan, William S., Wilson, John Paul, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Jimenez-Leal, William, Law, Wilbert, Unanue, Wenceslao, Collins, W. Matthew, Richard, Karley L., Vranka, Marek, Ankushev, Vladislav, Lerche, Veronika, Kovic, Vanja, Križanić, Valerija, Kadreva, Veselina Hristova, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Tran, Ulrich S., Yeung, Siu Kit, Hassan, Widad & Houston, Ralph (2022)

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 119(22) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119 - Full text in research archive

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kirkøen, Jannicke & Mohamdain, Onab (2022)

Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters

Management Decision, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-06-2021-0747 - Full text in research archive

Abstract Purpose Physically less attractive job applicants are discriminated against in hiring decisions. In a US context, the authors tested whether appearance-altering photo-filters can exploit this bias, focusing on the moderating role of job type, gender and race as well the mediating role of two major dimensions of person perception (warmth and competence). Design/methodology/approach In study 1, 223 managers evaluated White mock applicants presented with or without a beautifying filter for either a position as a social worker or an IT specialist. In study 2, 212 managers evaluated Black and White mock applicants with or without beautifying filters for an HR specialist position. Findings In study 1, beautifying filters increased perceived hireability irrespective of job type, but especially when applicants were female. Both male and female applicants whose photos were filtered were perceived as more competent, but only male applicants were perceived as warmer. In study 2, beautifying filters increased the hireability only slightly for White female applicants, followed by White and Black male applicants but substantially for Black female applicants. The filters increased the perceived competence of Black (and especially Black female) applicants but not of White applicants and increased the perceived warmth of all groups except for White females. Warmth and competence partially mediated the observed effects on hireability in both studies. Originality/value In the context of widely available technological advances, the authors show that beautifying photo-filters can exploit attractiveness biases, at least at an early hiring stage. The results emphasize the importance of intersecting factors such as gender and race.

Eldor, David S.; Lindholm, Karine, Chavez, Maria H., Vassanyi, Sander, Badiane, Michelle O. I., Yaldizli, Kemal, Frøysa, Petter, Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Resilience against radicalization and extremism in schools: Development of a psychometric scale

Frontiers in Psychology, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.980180

Ottersen, Ida Strande; Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Daily reminders about the animal-welfare, environmental and health consequences of meat and their main and moderated effects on meat consumption

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 5 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100068

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F., Bailey, April & Obaidi, Milan (2022)

The Way They Look: Phenotypic Prototypicality Shapes the Perceived Intergroup Attitudes of In- and Out-group Members

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104303

Obaidi, Milan; Skaar, Sara With, Ozer, Simon & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Measuring extremist archetypes: Scale development and validation

PLOS ONE, 17(7) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270225 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga; Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health responses: A meta-analysis

Current Opinion in Psychology, 46 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101346

Piksa, Michal; Noworyta, Karolina, Piasecki, Jan, Gwiazdzinski, Pawel, Gundersen, Aleksander Bjørge, Kunst, Jonas R. & Rygula, Rafal (2022)

Cognitive Processes and Personality Traits Underlying Four Phenotypes of Susceptibility to (Mis)Information

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.912397

Dorison, Charles A; Lerner, Jennifer S., Heller, Blake H., Rothman, Alexander J., Kawachi, Ichiro I., Wang, Ke, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese, Korbmacher, Max, Lund, Maria Louise, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Kunst, Jonas R., Anjum, Gulnaz, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Bundt, Carsten, Pfuhl, Gerit, Askelund, Jo Adrian Dahl, Rees, Vaughan W., Gill, Brian P., Gibbs, Nancy, Ebersole, Charles R., Vally, Zahir, Tajchman, Zuzanna, Zsido, Andras N., Zrimsek, Mija, Chen, Zhang, Ziano, Ignazio, Gialitaki, Zoi, Ceary, Chris D., Lin, Yijun, Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Yamada, Yuki, Xiao, Qinyu, Jiang, Xiaoming, Du, Xinkai, Yao, Elvin, Wilson, John Paul, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Jimenez-Leal, William, Law, Wilbert, Collins, W. Matthew, Richard, Karley L., Vranka, Marek, Ankushev, Vladislav, Križanić, Valerija, Kadreva, Veselina Hristova, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Tran, Ulrich S., Yeung, Siu Kit & Hassan, Widad (2022)

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

Affective Science, 3, s. 577-602. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

Lefringhausen, Katharina; Marshall, T., Ferenczi, Nelli, Zagefka, Hanna & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Majority members’ acculturation: How proximal-acculturation relates to expectations of immigrants and intergroup ideologies over time

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221096324

Dovidio, John F. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Delight in Disorder: Inclusively Defining and Operationalizing Implicit Bias

Psychological Inquiry, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106756

Legate, Nicole; Nguyen, Thuy-vy, Weinstein, Netta, Moller, Arlen C, Legault, Lisa, Vally, Zahir, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese E., Korbmacher, Max, Lund, Maria Louise, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Kunst, Jonas R., Pfuhl, Gerit, Tamnes, Christian Krog, Bundt, Carsten, Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Tajchman, Zuzanna, Zsido, Andras N., Zrimsek, Miha, Chen, Zhang, Ziano, Ignazio, Gialitaki, Zoi, Ceary, Chris D., Jang, Yuna, Lin, Yijun, Kunisato, Yoshihiko, Yamada, Yuki, Xiao, Qinyu, Jiang, Xiaoming, Du, Xinkai, Yao, Elvin, Ryan, William S., Wilson, John Paul, Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Jimenez-Leal, William, Law, Wilbert, Unanue, Wenceslao, Collins, W. Matthew, Richard, Karley L., Vranka, Marek, Ankushev, Vladislav, Lerche, Veronika, Kovic, Vanja, Križanić, Valerija, Kadreva, Veselina Hristova, Adoric, Vera Cubela, Tran, Ulrich S., Yeung, Siu Kit, Hassan, Widad & Houston, Ralph (2022)

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 119(22) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119 - Full text in research archive

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kirkøen, Jannicke & Mohamdain, Onab (2022)

Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters

Management Decision, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-06-2021-0747 - Full text in research archive

Abstract Purpose Physically less attractive job applicants are discriminated against in hiring decisions. In a US context, the authors tested whether appearance-altering photo-filters can exploit this bias, focusing on the moderating role of job type, gender and race as well the mediating role of two major dimensions of person perception (warmth and competence). Design/methodology/approach In study 1, 223 managers evaluated White mock applicants presented with or without a beautifying filter for either a position as a social worker or an IT specialist. In study 2, 212 managers evaluated Black and White mock applicants with or without beautifying filters for an HR specialist position. Findings In study 1, beautifying filters increased perceived hireability irrespective of job type, but especially when applicants were female. Both male and female applicants whose photos were filtered were perceived as more competent, but only male applicants were perceived as warmer. In study 2, beautifying filters increased the hireability only slightly for White female applicants, followed by White and Black male applicants but substantially for Black female applicants. The filters increased the perceived competence of Black (and especially Black female) applicants but not of White applicants and increased the perceived warmth of all groups except for White females. Warmth and competence partially mediated the observed effects on hireability in both studies. Originality/value In the context of widely available technological advances, the authors show that beautifying photo-filters can exploit attractiveness biases, at least at an early hiring stage. The results emphasize the importance of intersecting factors such as gender and race.

Eldor, David S.; Lindholm, Karine, Chavez, Maria H., Vassanyi, Sander, Badiane, Michelle O. I., Yaldizli, Kemal, Frøysa, Petter, Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Resilience against radicalization and extremism in schools: Development of a psychometric scale

Frontiers in Psychology, 13 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.980180

Ottersen, Ida Strande; Benningstad, Nora Cornelia Glerud & Kunst, Jonas R. (2022)

Daily reminders about the animal-welfare, environmental and health consequences of meat and their main and moderated effects on meat consumption

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 5 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100068

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Ozer, Simon & Kimel, Sasha Y. (2021)

The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, , s. 1-21. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211028293

Kunst, Jonas R.; Obaidi, Milan, Coenen, Ann-Cathrin, Vasseljen, Vilde Dyvik & Gill, Paul (2021)

What Makes a Terrorist? Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ Lay Perceptions of Risk Factors and Their Consequences for Counter-terrorism Policy Support

Terrorism and Political Violence, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1967149

Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios; Skauge, Anja Duun, Kunst, Jonas R. & Power, Seamus (2021)

Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 76 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101647

The #FridaysForFuture movement has attracted young activists around the world. In the present mixed-method, socio-cultural psychological research, we investigate people's motivations for joining the movement in the privileged yet paradoxical context of Norway – a country that has gathered most of its wealth through oil production (i.e., the Norwegian Paradox). In Study 1, from a thematic analysis of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork from a series of major strikes and interviews with protestors (N = 93) it emerged that attributing responsibility for climate change, a necessity for shared action to mitigate the effects of climate change, and a shared sense of collective identity, helped to galvanize the prolonged social movement. These inductive and ecologically valid findings, combined with existing theory, in Study 2, partially confirmed and extended the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA; van Zomeren et al., 2008) with survey data from high school students (N = 362). Collective guilt, environmental threat, past protest participation, organized environmentalism, political orientation, and social capital predicted future protest intentions, whereas activist identification and group efficacy mediated these effects. We discuss how the understanding of global environmental movements from the perspective of participants, who are both structurally responsible for the crisis and will experience most of its consequences themselves, can contribute to the broader discussion on facilitating climate action within privileged contexts.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina, Skaar, Sara With & Obaidi, Milan (2021)

Who adopts the culture of ethnic minority groups? A personality perspective on majority-group members’ acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.01.001 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Onyeador, Ivuoma N. & Dovidio, John F. (2021)

Knowledge About Individuals’ Interracial Friendships Is Systematically Associated With Mental Representations of Race, Traits, and Group Solidarity

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211024118 - Full text in research archive

Wang, Ke; Kunst, Jonas R., Tamnes, Christian Krog, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese E., Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Pfuhl, Gerit, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Korbmacher, Max, Bundt, Carsten, Goldberg, Amit, Dorison, Charles A., Miller, Jeremy K., Uusberg, Andero, Lerner, Jennifer, Gross, James J, Agesin, Bamikole Bamikole, Bernardo, Marcia, Campos, Olatz, Eudave, Luis, Grzech, Karolina, Ozery, Daphna Hausman, Garcia, Elkin Oswaldo Luis, Jackson, Emily A., Drexler, Shira Meir, Jurkovic, Anita Penic, Rana, Kafeel, Wilson, John Paul, Antoniadi, Maria, Desai, Kermeka, Gialitaki, Zoi, Kushnir, Elizaveta, Nadif, Khaoula, Bravo, Olalla Nino, Nauman, Rafia, Oosterlinck, Marlies, Pantazi, Myrto, Pilecka, Natalia, Szabelska, Anna, Steenkiste, I.M.M. van, Filip, Katarzyna, Bozdoc, Andrea Ioana, Marcu, Gabriela Mariana, Agadullina, Elena, Adamkovic, Matus, Roczinewska, Marta, Reyana, Cecilia, Kassianos, Angelos P., Westerlund, Minja, Ahlgren, Lina & Pöntinen, Sara (2021)

A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nature Human Behaviour, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x - Full text in research archive

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries and regions (n = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vesus both control conditions) consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing interventions had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world.

Eskelinen, Viivi; Renvik, Tuuli Anna, Pauha, Teemu, Jetten, Jolanda, Kunst, Jonas R., Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2021)

Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups

British Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12496

Simon, Ozer; Kunst, Jonas R. & Schwartz, Seth J. (2021)

Investigating direct and indirect globalization-based acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, s. 155-167. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.07.012 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Psychological Science, 32(9) , s. 1476-1493. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211006432 - Full text in research archive

Eskelinen, Viivi; Pauha, Teemu, Kunst, Jonas R., Räsänen, Antti & Lahti, Inga Jasinskaja - (2021)

Exploring religiosity and attitudes towards Christians and non-believers among recent Muslim refugees to Finland

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.10.007

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina, Sam, David, Berry, John W. & Dovidio, John F. (2021)

The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(6) , s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211040771 - Full text in research archive

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Ethnic diversity and extremist attitudes in soccer teams: A multi-level investigation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.07.003 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Are we facing a “causality crisis” in acculturation research? The need for a methodological (r)evolution

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 85 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.003 - Full text in research archive

Lefringhausen, Katharina; Ferenczi, Nelli, Marshall, Tara C. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

A new route towards more harmonious intergroup relationships in England? Majority members’ proximal-acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.03.006

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Ozer, Simon & Kimel, Sasha Y. (2021)

The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, , s. 1-21. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211028293

Kunst, Jonas R.; Obaidi, Milan, Coenen, Ann-Cathrin, Vasseljen, Vilde Dyvik & Gill, Paul (2021)

What Makes a Terrorist? Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ Lay Perceptions of Risk Factors and Their Consequences for Counter-terrorism Policy Support

Terrorism and Political Violence, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1967149

Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios; Skauge, Anja Duun, Kunst, Jonas R. & Power, Seamus (2021)

Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 76 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101647

The #FridaysForFuture movement has attracted young activists around the world. In the present mixed-method, socio-cultural psychological research, we investigate people's motivations for joining the movement in the privileged yet paradoxical context of Norway – a country that has gathered most of its wealth through oil production (i.e., the Norwegian Paradox). In Study 1, from a thematic analysis of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork from a series of major strikes and interviews with protestors (N = 93) it emerged that attributing responsibility for climate change, a necessity for shared action to mitigate the effects of climate change, and a shared sense of collective identity, helped to galvanize the prolonged social movement. These inductive and ecologically valid findings, combined with existing theory, in Study 2, partially confirmed and extended the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA; van Zomeren et al., 2008) with survey data from high school students (N = 362). Collective guilt, environmental threat, past protest participation, organized environmentalism, political orientation, and social capital predicted future protest intentions, whereas activist identification and group efficacy mediated these effects. We discuss how the understanding of global environmental movements from the perspective of participants, who are both structurally responsible for the crisis and will experience most of its consequences themselves, can contribute to the broader discussion on facilitating climate action within privileged contexts.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina, Skaar, Sara With & Obaidi, Milan (2021)

Who adopts the culture of ethnic minority groups? A personality perspective on majority-group members’ acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.01.001 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Onyeador, Ivuoma N. & Dovidio, John F. (2021)

Knowledge About Individuals’ Interracial Friendships Is Systematically Associated With Mental Representations of Race, Traits, and Group Solidarity

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211024118 - Full text in research archive

Wang, Ke; Kunst, Jonas R., Tamnes, Christian Krog, Schei, Vidar, Sverdrup, Therese E., Askelund, Adrian Dahl, Pfuhl, Gerit, Klevjer, Kristoffer, Korbmacher, Max, Bundt, Carsten, Goldberg, Amit, Dorison, Charles A., Miller, Jeremy K., Uusberg, Andero, Lerner, Jennifer, Gross, James J, Agesin, Bamikole Bamikole, Bernardo, Marcia, Campos, Olatz, Eudave, Luis, Grzech, Karolina, Ozery, Daphna Hausman, Garcia, Elkin Oswaldo Luis, Jackson, Emily A., Drexler, Shira Meir, Jurkovic, Anita Penic, Rana, Kafeel, Wilson, John Paul, Antoniadi, Maria, Desai, Kermeka, Gialitaki, Zoi, Kushnir, Elizaveta, Nadif, Khaoula, Bravo, Olalla Nino, Nauman, Rafia, Oosterlinck, Marlies, Pantazi, Myrto, Pilecka, Natalia, Szabelska, Anna, Steenkiste, I.M.M. van, Filip, Katarzyna, Bozdoc, Andrea Ioana, Marcu, Gabriela Mariana, Agadullina, Elena, Adamkovic, Matus, Roczinewska, Marta, Reyana, Cecilia, Kassianos, Angelos P., Westerlund, Minja, Ahlgren, Lina & Pöntinen, Sara (2021)

A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nature Human Behaviour, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x - Full text in research archive

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries and regions (n = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vesus both control conditions) consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing interventions had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world.

Eskelinen, Viivi; Renvik, Tuuli Anna, Pauha, Teemu, Jetten, Jolanda, Kunst, Jonas R., Noll, Jolanda van der, Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2021)

Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups

British Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12496

Simon, Ozer; Kunst, Jonas R. & Schwartz, Seth J. (2021)

Investigating direct and indirect globalization-based acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, s. 155-167. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.07.012 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Psychological Science, 32(9) , s. 1476-1493. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211006432 - Full text in research archive

Eskelinen, Viivi; Pauha, Teemu, Kunst, Jonas R., Räsänen, Antti & Lahti, Inga Jasinskaja - (2021)

Exploring religiosity and attitudes towards Christians and non-believers among recent Muslim refugees to Finland

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.10.007

Kunst, Jonas R.; Lefringhausen, Katharina, Sam, David, Berry, John W. & Dovidio, John F. (2021)

The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(6) , s. 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211040771 - Full text in research archive

Coenen, Ann-Cathrin & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Ethnic diversity and extremist attitudes in soccer teams: A multi-level investigation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.07.003 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

Are we facing a “causality crisis” in acculturation research? The need for a methodological (r)evolution

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 85 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.003 - Full text in research archive

Lefringhausen, Katharina; Ferenczi, Nelli, Marshall, Tara C. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2021)

A new route towards more harmonious intergroup relationships in England? Majority members’ proximal-acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.03.006

Kunst, Jonas R. & Pich, Olivia (2020)

Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories ReducesSocial Distancing over Time

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12223

Uenal, Fatih; Bergh, Robin, Sidanius, James, Zick, Andreas, Kimel, Sasha Y. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2020)

The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220922643 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga Maria; Kunst, Jonas R. & Pich, Olivia (2020)

Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Reduces Social Distancing over Time

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12223 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R. & Obaidi, Milan (2020)

Understanding violent extremism in the 21st century: The (re)emerging role of relative deprivation

Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, s. 55-59. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.03.010 - Full text in research archive

Petsko, Christopher; Lei, Ryan, Kunst, Jonas R., Bruneau, Emile & Kteily, Nour (2020)

Blatant dehumanization in the mind's eye: Prevalent even among those who explicitly reject it?

Journal of experimental psychology. General, 150(6) , s. 1115-1131. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000961 - Full text in research archive

Kende, Anna; Hadarics, Márton, Bigazzi, Sára, Boza, Mihaela, Kunst, Jonas R., Lantos, Nóra Anna, Lášticová, Barbara, Minescu, Anca, Pivetti, Monica & Urbiola, Ana (2020)

The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220907701 - Full text in research archive

Woelfert, Frederike S. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2020)

How Political and Social Trust Can Impact Social Distancing Practices During COVID-19 in Unexpected Ways

Frontiers in Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572966 - Full text in research archive

Pauha, Teemu; Tuuli, Anna Renvik, Eskelinen, Viivi, Jetten, Jolanda, Noll, Jolanda van der, Kunst, Jonas R., Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2020)

The Attitudes of Deconverted and Lifelong Atheists Towards Religious Groups: The Role of Religious and Spiritual Identity

The international journal for the psychology of religion, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2020.1774206 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R. & Pich, Olivia (2020)

Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories ReducesSocial Distancing over Time

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12223

Uenal, Fatih; Bergh, Robin, Sidanius, James, Zick, Andreas, Kimel, Sasha Y. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2020)

The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220922643 - Full text in research archive

Bierwiaczonek, Kinga Maria; Kunst, Jonas R. & Pich, Olivia (2020)

Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Reduces Social Distancing over Time

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12223 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R. & Obaidi, Milan (2020)

Understanding violent extremism in the 21st century: The (re)emerging role of relative deprivation

Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, s. 55-59. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.03.010 - Full text in research archive

Petsko, Christopher; Lei, Ryan, Kunst, Jonas R., Bruneau, Emile & Kteily, Nour (2020)

Blatant dehumanization in the mind's eye: Prevalent even among those who explicitly reject it?

Journal of experimental psychology. General, 150(6) , s. 1115-1131. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000961 - Full text in research archive

Kende, Anna; Hadarics, Márton, Bigazzi, Sára, Boza, Mihaela, Kunst, Jonas R., Lantos, Nóra Anna, Lášticová, Barbara, Minescu, Anca, Pivetti, Monica & Urbiola, Ana (2020)

The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220907701 - Full text in research archive

Woelfert, Frederike S. & Kunst, Jonas R. (2020)

How Political and Social Trust Can Impact Social Distancing Practices During COVID-19 in Unexpected Ways

Frontiers in Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572966 - Full text in research archive

Pauha, Teemu; Tuuli, Anna Renvik, Eskelinen, Viivi, Jetten, Jolanda, Noll, Jolanda van der, Kunst, Jonas R., Rohmann, Anette & Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (2020)

The Attitudes of Deconverted and Lifelong Atheists Towards Religious Groups: The Role of Religious and Spiritual Identity

The international journal for the psychology of religion, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2020.1774206 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F. & Thomsen, Lotte (2019)

Fusion with political leaders predicts willingness to persecute immigrants and political opponents

Nature Human Behaviour, , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0708-1 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte & Dovidio, John F. (2019)

Divided Loyalties: Perceptions of Disloyalty Underpin Bias Toward Dually-Identified Minority-Group Members

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(4) , s. 807-838. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000168 - Full text in research archive

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Kunst, Jonas R. & Thomsen, Lotte (2019)

Correlations between social dominance orientation and political attitudes reflect common genetic underpinnings

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 116(36) , s. 17741-17746. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818711116 - Full text in research archive

English, Alexander S.; Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2019)

Climatic effects on the sociocultural and psychological adaptation of migrants within China: A longitudinal test of two competing perspectives

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(3) , s. 244-255. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12363 - Full text in research archive

Little is known about how climatic differences may psychologically impact individuals who migrate from one geographical area to another. A climatic demand theory perspective suggests that migration from more demanding climatic areas to less demanding climatic areas would lead to better psychological outcomes while predicting the opposite for migration from less demanding to more demanding climates. In contrast, a climatic‐fit perspective would predict that moving to areas that climatically are similar to one's home would lead to the best psychological outcomes whereas any major deviation would lead to worse outcomes. To test these competing perspectives, a longitudinal, multisite study was conducted with over 1,000 student migrants who moved from various areas in China to 12 cities. Participants’ life satisfaction and perceived stress were assessed upon arrival and at the end of the semester together with their sociocultural adaptation. Supporting the climatic‐fit perspective, multilevel analyses showed that participants reported the least stress and highest sociocultural adaptation when they migrated to host sites that were climatically similar to their homes. Conversely, individuals who migrated from very demanding to less demanding climatic regions and vice versa reported an increase in stress and lower sociocultural adaptation.

Benningstad, Nora C. G & Kunst, Jonas R. (2019)

Dissociating meat from its animal origins: A systematic literature review

Appetite, 147:104554, s. 1-8. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104554 - Full text in research archive

Tahir, Hajra; Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2019)

Threat, anti-western hostility and violence among European muslims: The mediating role of acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 73, s. 74-88. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.08.001 - Full text in research archive

In many Western countries, the public has extensively debated factors potentially leading Muslim minority-group members to support violence by foreign extremist states or to commit violence themselves. Here, one central question has been whether their acculturation orientations may play a role. Combining perspectives from intergroup threat theory and acculturation psychology, the present study investigated whether one reason for why threat perceptions lead to higher violent behavioral intentions among Muslims, as evidence by previous research, may be that they are related to distinct acculturation orientations. It tested this proposition in two samples comprising of Norwegian (N = 253) and British Muslims (N = 194). The more Norwegian Muslims perceived realistic threat, the more violent behavioral intentions they showed, but this relation was not mediated by acculturation. Among British Muslims, mainstream acculturation orientation was related to more violent intentions, while threat was not. In both samples, symbolic threat was associated with more support for Muslim military violence and this relationship was mediated by religious acculturation in the U.K. In contrast to previous research, symbolic threat was linked with less personal intentions to commit violence in the U.K., mediated by religious acculturation. Complementary analyses calculating acculturation strategies indicated that assimilated, and to some extend integrated, Muslims in both countries tended to show the highest violent behavioral intentions. By contrast, separated individuals showed the highest level of support for Muslim military violence. Ways in which these findings can be used to counter violence and improve intergroup relations in Western ethnically diverse societies are discussed.

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F. & Thomsen, Lotte (2019)

Fusion with political leaders predicts willingness to persecute immigrants and political opponents

Nature Human Behaviour, , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0708-1 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte & Dovidio, John F. (2019)

Divided Loyalties: Perceptions of Disloyalty Underpin Bias Toward Dually-Identified Minority-Group Members

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(4) , s. 807-838. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000168 - Full text in research archive

Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Kunst, Jonas R. & Thomsen, Lotte (2019)

Correlations between social dominance orientation and political attitudes reflect common genetic underpinnings

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 116(36) , s. 17741-17746. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818711116 - Full text in research archive

English, Alexander S.; Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2019)

Climatic effects on the sociocultural and psychological adaptation of migrants within China: A longitudinal test of two competing perspectives

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(3) , s. 244-255. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12363 - Full text in research archive

Little is known about how climatic differences may psychologically impact individuals who migrate from one geographical area to another. A climatic demand theory perspective suggests that migration from more demanding climatic areas to less demanding climatic areas would lead to better psychological outcomes while predicting the opposite for migration from less demanding to more demanding climates. In contrast, a climatic‐fit perspective would predict that moving to areas that climatically are similar to one's home would lead to the best psychological outcomes whereas any major deviation would lead to worse outcomes. To test these competing perspectives, a longitudinal, multisite study was conducted with over 1,000 student migrants who moved from various areas in China to 12 cities. Participants’ life satisfaction and perceived stress were assessed upon arrival and at the end of the semester together with their sociocultural adaptation. Supporting the climatic‐fit perspective, multilevel analyses showed that participants reported the least stress and highest sociocultural adaptation when they migrated to host sites that were climatically similar to their homes. Conversely, individuals who migrated from very demanding to less demanding climatic regions and vice versa reported an increase in stress and lower sociocultural adaptation.

Benningstad, Nora C. G & Kunst, Jonas R. (2019)

Dissociating meat from its animal origins: A systematic literature review

Appetite, 147:104554, s. 1-8. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104554 - Full text in research archive

Tahir, Hajra; Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2019)

Threat, anti-western hostility and violence among European muslims: The mediating role of acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 73, s. 74-88. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.08.001 - Full text in research archive

In many Western countries, the public has extensively debated factors potentially leading Muslim minority-group members to support violence by foreign extremist states or to commit violence themselves. Here, one central question has been whether their acculturation orientations may play a role. Combining perspectives from intergroup threat theory and acculturation psychology, the present study investigated whether one reason for why threat perceptions lead to higher violent behavioral intentions among Muslims, as evidence by previous research, may be that they are related to distinct acculturation orientations. It tested this proposition in two samples comprising of Norwegian (N = 253) and British Muslims (N = 194). The more Norwegian Muslims perceived realistic threat, the more violent behavioral intentions they showed, but this relation was not mediated by acculturation. Among British Muslims, mainstream acculturation orientation was related to more violent intentions, while threat was not. In both samples, symbolic threat was associated with more support for Muslim military violence and this relationship was mediated by religious acculturation in the U.K. In contrast to previous research, symbolic threat was linked with less personal intentions to commit violence in the U.K., mediated by religious acculturation. Complementary analyses calculating acculturation strategies indicated that assimilated, and to some extend integrated, Muslims in both countries tended to show the highest violent behavioral intentions. By contrast, separated individuals showed the highest level of support for Muslim military violence. Ways in which these findings can be used to counter violence and improve intergroup relations in Western ethnically diverse societies are discussed.

Gundersen, Aleksander & Kunst, Jonas R. (2018)

Feminist ≠ Feminine? Feminist Women Are Visually Masculinized Whereas Feminist Men Are Feminized

Sex Roles, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0931-7

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F. & Dotsch, Ron (2018)

White Look-Alikes: Mainstream Culture Adoption Makes Immigrants “Look” Phenotypically White

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(2) , s. 265-282. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217739279

Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Kunst, Jonas R. & Hohle, Sigrid Møyner (2018)

Too sweet to eat: Exploring the effects of cuteness on meat consumption

Appetite, 120, s. 181-195. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.08.038 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha Y., Obaidi, Milan, Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Kunst, Jonas R. & Haugestad, Christian Andrés Palacios (2018)

The effects of dissociation on willingness to eat meat are moderated by exposure to unprocessed meat: A cross-cultural demonstration

Appetite, 120(1) , s. 356-366. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.09.016 - Full text in research archive

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Kteily, Nour, Lotte, Thomsen & Sidanius, James (2018)

Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism

European Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2555

Kunst, Jonas R.; Myhren, Lisa Sophie & Onyeador, Ivuoma N. (2018)

Simply Insane? Attributing Terrorism to Mental Illness (Versus Ideology) Affects Mental Representations of Race

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818794742 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kimel, Sasha, Shani, Maor, Alayan, Ramzi & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Can Abraham bring peace? The relationship between acknowledging shared religious roots and intergroup conflict.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11(4) , s. 417-432. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000192 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Bailey, April, Prendergast, Claire Nicole & Gundersen, Aleksander (2018)

Sexism, rape myths and feminist identification explain gender differences in attitudes toward the #metoo social media campaign in two countries

Media Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1532300

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha, Obaidi, Milan, Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, 13(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Kunst, Jonas R. & Phillibert, Esther N. (2018)

Skin-tone discrimination by Whites and Africans is associated with the acculturation of African immigrants in Norway

PLOS ONE, 13(12) , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209084 - Full text in research archive

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Kteily, Nour, Thomsen, Lotte & Sidanius, Jim (2018)

Living Under Threat: Mutual Threat Perception Drives Anti-Muslim and Anti-Western Hostility in the Age of Terrorism

European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(5) , s. 567-584. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2362 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha Y., Obaidi, Milan, Thomsen, Lotte & Shani, Maor (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Gundersen, Aleksander & Kunst, Jonas R. (2018)

Feminist ≠ Feminine? Feminist Women Are Visually Masculinized Whereas Feminist Men Are Feminized

Sex Roles, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0931-7

Kunst, Jonas R.; Dovidio, John F. & Dotsch, Ron (2018)

White Look-Alikes: Mainstream Culture Adoption Makes Immigrants “Look” Phenotypically White

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(2) , s. 265-282. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217739279

Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Kunst, Jonas R. & Hohle, Sigrid Møyner (2018)

Too sweet to eat: Exploring the effects of cuteness on meat consumption

Appetite, 120, s. 181-195. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.08.038 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha Y., Obaidi, Milan, Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Kunst, Jonas R. & Haugestad, Christian Andrés Palacios (2018)

The effects of dissociation on willingness to eat meat are moderated by exposure to unprocessed meat: A cross-cultural demonstration

Appetite, 120(1) , s. 356-366. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.09.016 - Full text in research archive

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Kteily, Nour, Lotte, Thomsen & Sidanius, James (2018)

Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism

European Journal of Social Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2555

Kunst, Jonas R.; Myhren, Lisa Sophie & Onyeador, Ivuoma N. (2018)

Simply Insane? Attributing Terrorism to Mental Illness (Versus Ideology) Affects Mental Representations of Race

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818794742 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kimel, Sasha, Shani, Maor, Alayan, Ramzi & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Can Abraham bring peace? The relationship between acknowledging shared religious roots and intergroup conflict.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11(4) , s. 417-432. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000192 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Bailey, April, Prendergast, Claire Nicole & Gundersen, Aleksander (2018)

Sexism, rape myths and feminist identification explain gender differences in attitudes toward the #metoo social media campaign in two countries

Media Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1532300

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha, Obaidi, Milan, Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, 13(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Kunst, Jonas R. & Phillibert, Esther N. (2018)

Skin-tone discrimination by Whites and Africans is associated with the acculturation of African immigrants in Norway

PLOS ONE, 13(12) , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209084 - Full text in research archive

Obaidi, Milan; Kunst, Jonas R., Kteily, Nour, Thomsen, Lotte & Sidanius, Jim (2018)

Living Under Threat: Mutual Threat Perception Drives Anti-Muslim and Anti-Western Hostility in the Age of Terrorism

European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(5) , s. 567-584. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2362 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen, Kimel, Sasha Y., Obaidi, Milan, Thomsen, Lotte & Shani, Maor (2018)

Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

PLOS ONE, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190639

Johansson, Ole Jørgen & Kunst, Jonas R. (2017)

Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(12) , s. 682-695. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12483 - Full text in research archive

People with mental disorders often face prejudices that can further deteriorate their condition. We tested whether Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and Belief in a Just World (BJW), and characteristics of the mentally ill predict such prejudices. Both in a general population sample and a sample of health professionals and trainees, SDO, but not RWA and BJW, predicted more prejudice, although this pattern was less pronounced among health professionals/trainees. BJW interacted with the targets' gender in Study 1, predicting less empathy toward a male but not toward a female mentally ill person. In Study 2, depressed individuals were blamed more for their illness than those with schizophrenia or cancer. Implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed.

Haugen, Ingvild & Kunst, Jonas R. (2017)

A two-way process? A qualitative and quantitative investigation of majority members’ acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 60, s. 67-82. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.07.004 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Ronald, Fischer, Sidanius, Jim & Thomsen, Lotte (2017)

Preferences for group dominance track and mediate the effects of macro-level social inequality and violence across societies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 114(21) , s. 5407-5412. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616572114

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kteily, Nour & Thomsen, Lotte (2017)

“You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups

Social Psychological and Personality Science, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617740613 - Full text in research archive

Johansson, Ole Jørgen & Kunst, Jonas R. (2017)

Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(12) , s. 682-695. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12483 - Full text in research archive

People with mental disorders often face prejudices that can further deteriorate their condition. We tested whether Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and Belief in a Just World (BJW), and characteristics of the mentally ill predict such prejudices. Both in a general population sample and a sample of health professionals and trainees, SDO, but not RWA and BJW, predicted more prejudice, although this pattern was less pronounced among health professionals/trainees. BJW interacted with the targets' gender in Study 1, predicting less empathy toward a male but not toward a female mentally ill person. In Study 2, depressed individuals were blamed more for their illness than those with schizophrenia or cancer. Implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed.

Haugen, Ingvild & Kunst, Jonas R. (2017)

A two-way process? A qualitative and quantitative investigation of majority members’ acculturation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 60, s. 67-82. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.07.004 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Ronald, Fischer, Sidanius, Jim & Thomsen, Lotte (2017)

Preferences for group dominance track and mediate the effects of macro-level social inequality and violence across societies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 114(21) , s. 5407-5412. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616572114

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kteily, Nour & Thomsen, Lotte (2017)

“You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups

Social Psychological and Personality Science, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617740613 - Full text in research archive

Kunst, Jonas R.; Sadeghi, Talieh, Tahir, Hajra, Sam, David Lackland & Thomsen, Lotte (2016)

The vicious circle of religious prejudice: Islamophobia makes the acculturation attitudes of majority and minority members clash

European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(2) , s. 249-259. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2174

Kimel, Sasha; Huesmann, R., Kunst, Jonas R. & Halperin, Eran (2016)

Living in a Genetic World: How Learning About Interethnic Genetic Similarities and Differences Affects Peace and Conflict

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(5) , s. 688-700. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216642196

Kunst, Jonas R. & Hohle, Sigrid (2016)

Meat eaters by dissociation: How we present, prepare and talk about meat increases willingness to eat meat by reducing empathy and disgust

Appetite, 105, s. 758-774. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.07.009

Kunst, Jonas R.; Sadeghi, Talieh, Tahir, Hajra, Sam, David Lackland & Thomsen, Lotte (2016)

The vicious circle of religious prejudice: Islamophobia makes the acculturation attitudes of majority and minority members clash

European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(2) , s. 249-259. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2174

Kimel, Sasha; Huesmann, R., Kunst, Jonas R. & Halperin, Eran (2016)

Living in a Genetic World: How Learning About Interethnic Genetic Similarities and Differences Affects Peace and Conflict

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(5) , s. 688-700. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216642196

Kunst, Jonas R. & Hohle, Sigrid (2016)

Meat eaters by dissociation: How we present, prepare and talk about meat increases willingness to eat meat by reducing empathy and disgust

Appetite, 105, s. 758-774. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.07.009

Kunst, Jonas R. & Thomsen, Lotte (2015)

Prodigal Sons: Dual Abrahamic Categorization Mediates the Detrimental Effects of Religious Fundamentalism on Christian–Muslim Relations

The international journal for the psychology of religion, 25(4) , s. 293-306. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2014.937965 - Full text in research archive

Dalsklev, Madeleine Mahin & Kunst, Jonas R. (2015)

The effect of disgust-eliciting media portrayals on outgroup dehumanization and support of deportation in a Norwegian sample

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 47, s. 28-40. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.03.028

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte, Sam, David Lackland & Berry, John W. (2015)

“We Are in This Together”: Common Group Identity Predicts Majority Members’ Active Acculturation Efforts to Integrate Immigrants

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(10) , s. 1438-1453. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215599349

Kunst, Jonas R. & Thomsen, Lotte (2015)

Prodigal Sons: Dual Abrahamic Categorization Mediates the Detrimental Effects of Religious Fundamentalism on Christian–Muslim Relations

The international journal for the psychology of religion, 25(4) , s. 293-306. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2014.937965 - Full text in research archive

Dalsklev, Madeleine Mahin & Kunst, Jonas R. (2015)

The effect of disgust-eliciting media portrayals on outgroup dehumanization and support of deportation in a Norwegian sample

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 47, s. 28-40. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.03.028

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte, Sam, David Lackland & Berry, John W. (2015)

“We Are in This Together”: Common Group Identity Predicts Majority Members’ Active Acculturation Efforts to Integrate Immigrants

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(10) , s. 1438-1453. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215599349

Kunst, Jonas R.; Løset, Gøril Kvamme, Hosøy, Daniel, Bjorvatn, Bjørn, Moen, Bente Elisabeth, Magerøy, Nils & Pallesen, Ståle (2014)

The relationship between shift work schedules and spillover in a sample of nurses

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE), 20(1) , s. 139-147. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2014.11077030

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2014)

“It’s on time that they assimilate” – differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 39(1) , s. 188-195. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.10.007

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte & Sam, David Lackland (2014)

Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians

European Journal of Social Psychology, 44(4) , s. 337-348. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2014

Kunst, Jonas R.; Løset, Gøril Kvamme, Hosøy, Daniel, Bjorvatn, Bjørn, Moen, Bente Elisabeth, Magerøy, Nils & Pallesen, Ståle (2014)

The relationship between shift work schedules and spillover in a sample of nurses

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE), 20(1) , s. 139-147. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2014.11077030

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2014)

“It’s on time that they assimilate” – differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 39(1) , s. 188-195. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.10.007

Kunst, Jonas R.; Thomsen, Lotte & Sam, David Lackland (2014)

Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians

European Journal of Social Psychology, 44(4) , s. 337-348. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2014

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2013)

Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37(4) , s. 477-490. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.04.007

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2013)

Expanding the margins of identity: a critique of marginalization in a globalized world

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 2(4) , s. 225-241. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000008

Kunst, Jonas R.; Sam, David Lackland & Ulleberg, Pål (2013)

Perceived islamophobia: Scale development and validation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37(2) , s. 225-237. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2012.11.001

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2013)

Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37(4) , s. 477-490. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.04.007

Kunst, Jonas R. & Sam, David Lackland (2013)

Expanding the margins of identity: a critique of marginalization in a globalized world

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 2(4) , s. 225-241. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000008

Kunst, Jonas R.; Sam, David Lackland & Ulleberg, Pål (2013)

Perceived islamophobia: Scale development and validation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37(2) , s. 225-237. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2012.11.001

Kunst, Jonas Rønningdalen; Tajamal, Hajra, Sam, David Lackland & Ulleberg, Pål (2012)

Coping with Islamophobia: The effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities' identity formation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36(4) , s. 518-532. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.12.014

Islamophobic sentiments in the Western world have gained scientific attention, particularly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. However, the effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities’ identity formation have rarely been studied. Using structural equation modeling, this cross-sectional study examined direct and indirect effects of different forms of religious stigma on the national affiliation of 210 Norwegian-Pakistani and 216 German-Turkish Muslims. Furthermore, the study examined the mediator role of religious identity. Our results suggest that being a Muslim in Norway is more reconcilable with affiliating with the nation than being a Muslim in Germany. However, across the samples, the results indicated that various forms of religious stigma affected Muslims’ national identity and engagement in the public and private sphere in distinct ways. These effects were both positive and negative, differed between the two samples, and in Germany, were mediated by the participants’ religious identity. The findings indicated that the ways in which religious stigma influences Muslims’ national affiliation is context and culture bound.

Kunst, Jonas Rønningdalen; Tajamal, Hajra, Sam, David Lackland & Ulleberg, Pål (2012)

Coping with Islamophobia: The effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities' identity formation

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36(4) , s. 518-532. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.12.014

Islamophobic sentiments in the Western world have gained scientific attention, particularly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. However, the effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities’ identity formation have rarely been studied. Using structural equation modeling, this cross-sectional study examined direct and indirect effects of different forms of religious stigma on the national affiliation of 210 Norwegian-Pakistani and 216 German-Turkish Muslims. Furthermore, the study examined the mediator role of religious identity. Our results suggest that being a Muslim in Norway is more reconcilable with affiliating with the nation than being a Muslim in Germany. However, across the samples, the results indicated that various forms of religious stigma affected Muslims’ national identity and engagement in the public and private sphere in distinct ways. These effects were both positive and negative, differed between the two samples, and in Germany, were mediated by the participants’ religious identity. The findings indicated that the ways in which religious stigma influences Muslims’ national affiliation is context and culture bound.

Jonas R. Kunst

Biography

Area of Expertise

Publications

The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively

The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation

Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures

Redefining the Mainstream: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evolving Dynamics of Majority-Group Acculturation

The Role of Norms and Acculturation in Migrants’ Willingness to Seek Mental Health Care: Results from a Large Preregistered Study

Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding the Role of Threat Perceptions in Violent Extremism

Individual and community post-traumatic growth: A data-driven examination of person, process, and contextual factors

The Future of Violent Extremism Research – 5 Recommendations Based on a Machine Learning Analysis of 34,000+ Articles

The Role of Relative Deprivation in the Process of Radicalization into Violent Extremism

Climate and Catalyst Events and Their Intersection with Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism

The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups

Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively

The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation

Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries

I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures

Redefining the Mainstream: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evolving Dynamics of Majority-Group Acculturation

The Role of Norms and Acculturation in Migrants’ Willingness to Seek Mental Health Care: Results from a Large Preregistered Study

Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding the Role of Threat Perceptions in Violent Extremism

Individual and community post-traumatic growth: A data-driven examination of person, process, and contextual factors

The Future of Violent Extremism Research – 5 Recommendations Based on a Machine Learning Analysis of 34,000+ Articles

The Role of Relative Deprivation in the Process of Radicalization into Violent Extremism

Climate and Catalyst Events and Their Intersection with Violent Extremism

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism

The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups

Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class

The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation

The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation

Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods

Development of the Passive and Active Meat-Animal Dissociation Scale (MADS)

Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority-group acculturation

Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online

COVID-19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross-cultural study in 26 countries

The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality

Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information

Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation

Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife

Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study

Beyond singular perspectives: Minority-group members’ acculturation expectations and tightness

The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation

The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation

Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods

Development of the Passive and Active Meat-Animal Dissociation Scale (MADS)

Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority-group acculturation

Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online

COVID-19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross-cultural study in 26 countries

The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality

Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information

Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation

Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife

Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study

Beyond singular perspectives: Minority-group members’ acculturation expectations and tightness

How do Australian majority-group members acculturate? A person-centred approach

Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure

How are acculturation orientations associated among majority-group members? The moderating role of ideology and levels of identity

Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies

Support for religious minorities' rights among (non)religious national majority group members: A motivational approach to worldviews

Finding Your Roots: Do DNA Ancestry Tests Increase Racial (In)Tolerance?