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Signaling high sensitivity: The roles of sensory processing sensitivity, assertiveness, and the dark triad Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Marcin Moroń, Martyna Kajdzik, Klaudia Janik
High-sensitivity signaling may be an attempt to adapt to an environment by sensitive individuals. However, it may also be a deceptive strategy of nonreciprocal resources extraction used by people with a highly exploitative interpersonal style. In their first study ( n = 102), the authors used a peer-rating design to investigate the associations between perceiving somebody as highly sensitivity and
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Sensitivity to disgust, but not increased disgust, is associated with disapproval of gays: Experimental evidence from Turkey Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Busra Eylem Aktas, Furkan Tosyali
Previous research indicated that exposure to disgusting stimuli often leads to more negative attitudes toward gays. However, these findings primarily stemmed from Western cultures and were inconsistent. It remained uncertain whether the impact of disgust would apply to diverse cultural contexts. This study aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether the influence of disgust, previously observed
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The influence of testosterone on rejection sensitivity: Insights from salivary testosterone levels and genetic polymorphisms Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Pingyuan Gong, Xiaohan Li, Yuting Yang, Yafang Yang, Mengying Xue, Mengfei Zhang
Rejection sensitivity is invovled in a defensive mechanism that triggers an individual's flight or fight response to social exclusion. Inspired by the roles of testosterone in defensive behaviors, we explored the relationships between three indicators of testosterone and rejection sensitivity through two studies. In Study 1, we recruited a cohort ( N = 183, 88 females) and assessed individuals’ rejection
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Prevalence of experiencing public humiliation and its effects on victims’ mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Wendy Wen Li, Carolyn Heward, Alyssia Merrick, Belinda Astridge, Timothy Leow
Public humiliation is a negative self-conscious emotion that results from experiencing public humiliation; that is, being humiliated in public in front of witnesses. In the current study, experiencing public humiliation refers to the humiliation that is caused by a perpetrator or perpetrators with negative intent at a location that is accessible or visible to the public and in the presence of a witness(es)
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Perceptions of mental health and psychosocial problems among conflict-affected adults in North Bougainville: Results of a rapid qualitative assessment Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Shoshanna L. Fine, Jura L. Augustinavicius, Essah Barnabas, Marilyn K. Poli, David Tierney, Paul Bolton
The Bougainville Crisis (1988–1997) was characterized by widespread human rights violations, civilian deaths, and displacement. In March 2017, a rapid qualitative assessment was conducted to better understand the major mental health and psychosocial (MHPS) problems of conflict-affected adults living in North Bougainville in order to contribute to the design of feasible interventions to address these
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Effect of critical thinking disposition on employee innovative behavior: A meta-theory of personality perspective Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Zhihua Xu, Fu Yang
In today's highly uncertain and complex environment, innovation plays a critical role in an organization's survival and development. Therefore, examining factors that drive employee innovative behavior is necessary. Drawing from meta-theory of personality, this study explores the influence of critical thinking disposition on employee innovative behavior. Using data from a three-wave questionnaire survey
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Sleep spindles consolidate declarative memory with tags: A meta-analysis of adult data Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Peiyao Chen, Chao Hao, Ning Ma
Tags are attached to salient information during the wake period, which can preferentially determine what information can be consolidated during sleep. Previous studies demonstrated that spindles during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep give priority to strengthening memory representations with tags, indicating a privileged reactivation of tagged information. The current meta-analysis investigated
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Self-compassion as a factor in the deradicalisation of extremist offenders Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Muhammad Syafiq, Achmad Mauluddin Alfithon, Adrian Cherney, Winnifred R. Louis
The present study investigates the role of self-compassion in generating change amongst violent extremists through a study of terrorist prisoners in Indonesia. The aim is to provide insights into the under-explored role of self-transformation and agency in the deradicalisation process by applying Neff’s concept of self-compassion, which comprises psychological processes of self-kindness, perceptions
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COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Monica Pivetti, Francesca-Giorgia Paleari, Irem Ertan, Silvia Di Battista, Esra Ulukök
Pivetti et al. (2021a; 2021b) examined links between COVID-related conspiracy beliefs and acceptance of vaccinations in Italy and Finland in 2020. They found that moral purity negatively predicted ...
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Why are students with a higher level of grit more engaging in learning? The mediation effect of negotiable fate on the grit-student engagement relationship in higher education during COVID-19 Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Oscar K.T. Yau, Tse-Mei Shu
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered learning and teaching approaches in higher education. Research concerning COVID-19 revealed inconsistent results on student engagement, which is a robust predictor...
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Predictive validity of integrity tests for workplace deviance across industries and countries in the past 50 years: A meta-analytic review Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Rebecca Wing-Man Lau, Darius Kwan-Shing Chan, Fan Sun, Grand Hak-Land Cheng
The current meta-analysis provides a comprehensive and updated review on integrity-testing findings across industries and countries in the past 50 years (k = 150, N = 67,016). Integrity tests w...
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Complementing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for Pacific peoples in New Zealand Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Taulaga Auva’a-Alatimu
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivery to Pacific peoples by exploring Pacific psychologists’ perspectives. The research was qualitative in its ap...
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Growth mindset of meaning in Life: Viewing meaning in life as malleable matters Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Zhen Huang, Yiwen Wu, Yukun Zhao, Kaiping Peng
Meaning in life contributes to psychological well-being. However, few studies have adopted an implicit theory approach to studying people's beliefs about the malleability of meaning in life. We pro...
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Which noncognitive features provide more information about reading performance? A data-mining approach to big educational data Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Osman Tolga Aricak, Hakan Guldal, Irfan Erdogan
The purpose of this study is to discover which noncognitive variables provide more information about reading performance. To answer this question, data mining based on information gain, decision tr...
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Exploration of tolerance of unfairness under COVID-19 mortality salience and its effect on epidemic development Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Lin Peng, Siyang Luo
COVID-19 has brought awareness of the daily threat of death to everyone in the world and provided a natural context for raising widespread awareness of the salience of mortality. Previous researche...
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Growth mindset predicts teachers’ life satisfaction when they are challenged to innovate their teaching Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sau-Lai Lee, Hiu-Sze Chan, Yuk-Yue Tong, Chi-Yue Chiu
Teaching innovations can improve the quality of education and facilitate adaptation to environmental shifts caused by global shocks such as the COVID pandemic. However, the pressure to innovate and...
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Improving the predictor-criterion consistency of mindset measures: Application of the correspondence principle Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Hiu-Sze Chan, Chi-Yue Chiu, Sau-Lai Lee, Yuk-Yue Tong, Iris Tsz-Ching Leung, Angel Hiu-Tung Chan
Increasing the level of correspondence between measures of growth mindset and their related outcomes could afford more precise prediction of the relationships between growth mindset and social-emot...
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Impact of death anxiety on mental health during COVID-19: The mediating role of the meaning in life Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Yuchang Jin, Qiao Zeng, Xianglong Cong, Junxiu An, Peixuan Zheng
The aim of this article is to explore whether COVID-19 aroused an awareness of death, inflamed death anxiety, and affected mental health and to assess the degree that meaning in life played in the ...
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Can mindfulness-based stress reduction relieve depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Fengqin Ding, Jing Wu, Yi Zhang
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is becoming more and more popular in treating depressive symptoms, but previous studies have come to different conclusions. This meta-analysis aimed to eva...
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OXTR polymorphisms and parental bonding modulate alexithymia: The main effects and interaction Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Wenping Zhao, Yuting Yang, Wenxuan Guo, Pingyuan Gong
Alexithymia is a subclinical personality disorder characterized by difficulties in identifying and expressing one's own emotion. Individual differences in alexithymia are influenced by both genetic...
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Why and when does shyness hinder people from seeking advice? Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Fenghua Liang, Cheng Qian, Jinyun Duan
Although it hasn’t been thoroughly proven yet, shyness may prevent people from seeking advice. The current study, which is grounded on social cognitive theory, seeks to understand how and why shyne...
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Comparing the ideological correlates of anti-government and anti-Roma conspiracy beliefs in Romania Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Kenzo Nera, Iustina Procop, Olivier Klein
Conspiracy theories are often viewed as the manifestation of a “conspiracy mentality” grounded in power-challenging attitudes. Contrary to this approach, it has been proposed that conspiracy theori...
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Evidence of method effects in the authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism scales Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Da Xuan Ng, Peter K. H. Chew, Jonathan Edward Ramsay
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is notoriously complex, multifaceted, and difficult to measure as a psychological construct. Recently, Duckitt et al. developed the ACT scales, offering theoretica...
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Social representations of COVID-19 vaccines: Exploration of user-generated comments via online video sharing during the first year of the pandemic Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, Emanuele Fino, Andrei Corneliu Holman, Bishoy Hanna-Khalil
The current study aimed to explore the public understanding of COVID-19 vaccines and the social representations emerging from a corpus of user-generated comments on YouTube videos posted during the...
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Anxiety and well-being amidst the COVID-19 outbreak and the moderating role of locus-of-hope: Evidence from a large sample in the Philippines Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 John Ian Wilzon T. Dizon, Norman B. Mendoza, Ma. Jenina N. Nalipay
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a heavy psychological burden on the lives of many individuals and created a rise in the prevalence of anxiety, which could be detrimental to people's well-being. Ne...
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The role of growth mindset and symbol of shared event representation in the promotion of challenge-pursuit Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Yuk-Yue Tong, Man Leung Ha, Mo Kit Ip, Hiu-Sze Chan
Challenges are rigorous opportunities to grow and learn. Yet many students underutilize these opportunities. This study investigated how the growth mindset and priming of a shared-event representat...
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Smartphone use increases the likelihood of making short-sighted financial decisions Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Tianran Wang, Wei-Fen Chen, Xue Wang, Xiucheng Fan
Contextualizing in the digitalization of personal finance (e.g., mobile banking), the present research explores how financial decisions made on smartphones (vs. laptops or tablets) are more likely ...
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Growing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: The interplay among transformational leadership in government, public trust, and posttraumatic growth Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Hong Mian Yang, Kwok Kit Tong, Juliet Honglei Chen, Eilo Wing-yat Yu, Anise M. S. Wu
Individuals may experience positive changes or gain growths after struggling with traumas or challenging circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to assess potential levels of ...
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Distinct roles of perceived teacher and peer relationships in adolescent students’ academic motivation and outcomes: Father absence as a moderator Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Diyue Liu, Yi Jiang, Fangwen Wu, Xiangdong Yang, Ruirui Huang
In the learning environment, both teachers and peers are influential social agents. In the present study, we differentiated between positive and negative aspects of teacher and peer relationships a...
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Incremental intelligence mindset, fear of failure, and academic coping Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Vivienne Y. K. Tao, Yun Li, Anise M. S. Wu
Guided by the implicit theories of intelligence (ITI) and the cognitive–motivational–relational theory of emotion and coping, the current cross-sectional study aimed to test the effects of students...
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The beneficial effect of growth mindset intervention for adolescents in economically disadvantaged areas of China Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Ruixue Xia, Peiying Zhang, Ruiyang Liu, Junwei Xue, Huijing Zhu, Guaiguai Guo, Min Zhang, Yang Liu
The existing research has explored the effects of growth mindset intervention on individuals in Western culture. This study sought to determine whether growth mindset intervention has a positive im...
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Incremental theory of personality attenuates the effect of environmental uncertainty on intertemporal choices Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Xiaowei Geng, Mengyue Li, Feng Zhang, Wenjing Li, Dan Liu
To examine the impact of environmental uncertainty on individuals’ intertemporal choices and the moderating effect of implicit personality theory, two studies were conducted. Study 1 investigated t...
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Finding meaning from the present and future: The mediating role of meaning in life between temporal focus and mental health Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Zhiwei Zhou, Lei Zheng, Wei Qi, Miao Miao
Literature has shown that temporal focus (TF) is closely related to mental health, and both of them are associated with meaning in life (MIL). Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the functi...
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COVID-19 and a biased public mentality toward infection and vaccination: A case of unrealistic optimism and social comparisons between the vaccinated and unvaccinated Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Wojciech Kulesza, Dariusz Dolinski, Paweł Muniak, Tomasz Grzyb, Aidana Rizulla
Unrealistic Optimism in the context of COVID-19 is described as the tendency to perceive peers as being more at risk of infection. To date, however, no research has proposed more specific compariso...
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A network perspective on marital satisfaction among older couples Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Fengzhan Li, Lei Ren, Xiuchao Wang, Yinchuan Jin, Qun Yang, Dahua Wang
It will be helpful for older people to maintain good mental health by improving their marital satisfaction. The present study investigates how the elements of marital satisfaction among older coupl...
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The indirect effect of leader humility on employee creativity through a growth mindset for creativity Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Wa Yang, Shiyong Xu
Drawing on social learning theory, the authors hypothesized that leader humility would have an indirect effect on employee creativity through employees’ belief in the malleability of creativity (a ...
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The silver lining behind the dark cloud: Exploring the psycho-social factors impacting successful adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Tushar Singh, Shalini Mittal, Shivantika Sharad, Divya Bhanot, Sreeja Das, Rahul Varma, Harleen Kaur, Udisha Merwal, Yogesh K Arya, Sunil K Verma, Aishwarya Jaiswal, Benkat Krishna Bharti
While most studies have been reporting the psychological issues being faced by the public due to the global spread of coronavirus and sudden restrictions and changes accompanying it, the present st...
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Individual and situational influences on the propensity for unethical behavior in responses to organizational scenarios Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Zuleima Santalla-Banderali, José Malavé
This article reports two studies evaluating the impact of moral intensity, work experience, and gender on the propensity (attitude, behavioral intention, and subjective norm) for unethical behavior...
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Nostalgia across cultures Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's past, has been garnering keen empirical attention in the psychological literature over the last two decades. After providing a historical overview, we place the emotion in cross-cultural context. Laypeople in many cultures conceptualize nostalgia similarly: as a past-oriented, social, self-relevant, and bittersweet emotion, but more sweet (positively toned)
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Japanese people's attitudes toward acculturation and intercultural relations Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Joonha Park, John W. Berry, Mohsen Joshanloo
Dealing with cultural diversity is one of the key challenges in contemporary societies, with Japan being no exception. However, relatively little is known about how minority group members are viewed by members of the dominant group. The current paper presents a study that evaluated three hypotheses that are related to these issues with a survey of 210 Japanese adult participants. The study also examines
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Validation of the Moral Reasoning Questionnaire against Rasch Measurement Theory Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Lyndon Lim, Elaine Chapman
To support teachers in facilitating students’ moral reasoning development as specified within the Singapore Ministry of Education Character and Citizenship Education curriculum, the Moral Reasoning Questionnaire (MRQ) was developed and underwent preliminary validation. Based upon expert reviews, cognitive interviews and a classical test theory-based factor analytic approach, the development and preliminary
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Social representations of coronavirus/COVID-19 in Italy: Psychosocial anchoring to conspiracy beliefs, vaccine hesitancy, and the psychological dimension Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Giannino Melotti, Mariana Bonomo, Eemeli Hakoköngäs, Monica Pivetti
From the societal approach of the Theory of Social Representations, this study aimed to investigate the social representations of coronavirus/COVID-19 among the Italian population. By means of an online questionnaire, 599 individuals participated in the research, with a mean age of 38.09 years (SD = 14.44), 62.1% being women. The instrument was composed of sociodemographic questions, free association
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Conspiracy Theories about Infectious Diseases: An Introduction Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Ying-yi Hong, Hoi-Wing Chan, Karen M. Douglas
Understanding why people believe conspiracy theories related to disease outbreaks and the consequences of such beliefs is critical for combating both the COVID-19 pandemic and its corresponding “infodemic.” In the introduction to this special issue on conspiracy theories about infectious diseases, the authors first provide a brief overview of the narratives of conspiracy theories related to COVID-19
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Corrigendum to “The role of self-evaluation in predicting attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories: A direct and a conceptual replication of Cichoka et al. (2016).” Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-10
Siem, B., Kretzmeyer, & Stürmer, S. (2021). The role of self-evaluation in predicting attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories: A direct and a conceptual replication of Cichoka et al. (2016). Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/18344909211052587
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System Threat during a Pandemic: How Conspiracy Theories Help to Justify the System Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Jia-Yan Mao, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Shen-Long Yang, Yong-Yu Guo
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have endorsed conspiracy theories about foreign governments yet shown increased trust and support for their own government. Whether there is a potential correlation between these social phenomena and the psychological mechanisms behind them is still unclear. Integrating insights from the existential threat model of conspiracy theories and system justification
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Believe-in counterfactual thinking and psychological capital Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Chunhua Wang, Lei Wang
Counterfactual thinking puts a negative reality and better or worse alternative outcomes in the mind simultaneously. The implicit theory of intelligence considers whether individuals believe that intelligence can be promoted by effort or not. Previous studies suggest that counterfactual thinking interacting with the implicit theory of intelligence would evoke a belief in an attainable future or a belief
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Examining conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 in four countries: The role of disgust towards the political system and implications for prosocial behavior Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Chanki Moon, Giovanni A. Travaglino
Since late 2019, the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 disease has continued to spread across different regions of the world. As a result, governments have been implementing measures for controlling the disease which rely on people's cooperation. In this research, we considered predictors and implications of people's beliefs that they “haven’t been told the ‘whole story’ about COVID-19
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COVID-19 conspiracy theories and compliance with governmental restrictions: The mediating roles of anger, anxiety, and hope Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Linus Peitz, Fanny Lalot, Karen Douglas, Robbie Sutton, Dominic Abrams
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an ideal breeding ground for conspiracy theories. Yet, different beliefs could have different implications for individuals’ emotional responses, which in turn could relate to different behaviours and specifically to either a greater or lesser compliance with social distancing and health-protective measures. In the present research, we investigated the links between COVID-19
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Affected more than infected: The relationship between national narcissism and Zika conspiracy beliefs is mediated by exclusive victimhood about the Zika outbreak Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Paul Bertin, Sylvain Delouvée
Many conspiracy theories appeared along with the Zika outbreak. While the virus is still circulating, motives underlying Zika conspiracy beliefs remain underexplored. National narcissism has been shown to be a robust social motive predicting conspiracy beliefs about other public health crises. This relationship has been interpreted as conspiracy beliefs protecting one's idealistic national image from
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Relationship among sleep quality, depressed mood, and perceived social support in older adults: A longitudinal study Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Ran Xu, Yao Lin, Baoshan Zhang
Sleep quality and perceived social support (PSS) are acknowledged to play indispensable roles in enhancing the adaptation of later life and improving the health condition and well-being of older adults. Both have received widespread attention from researchers. Some researchers have begun focusing on physical factors or health-related behaviors, such as sleep, that have significant effects on PSS. Good
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To get vaccinated or not? Social psychological factors associated with vaccination intent for COVID-19 Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 María José Baeza-Rivera, Camila Salazar-Fernández, Leslie Araneda-Leal, Diego Manríquez-Robles
Pandemic control not only requires effective COVID-19 vaccines but also that they are accepted by at least 80% of the population. For this reason, understanding the social psychological variables associated with vaccination intent is essential to achieve herd immunity. Drawing on the theory of reasoned action, this study seeks to analyze vaccination intent using the beliefs about vaccine effectiveness
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The role of self-evaluation in predicting attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories: A direct and a conceptual replication of Cichocka et al. (2016) Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Birte Siem, Benedikt Kretzmeyer,, Stefan Stürmer
We examined the role of people’s self-evaluation in predicting their attitudes toward supporters of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories by replicating and extending the findings of a study by Cichocka et al. (2016, Study 3) in two preregistered studies (total N = 1179). Study 1, a direct replication, confirmed that narcissism and self-esteem—two different sources of people’s self-evaluation—differentially
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Increasing hand-hygiene compliance in clinical settings using a baby-eyes sticker: A field study Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Qian Yang, Tian Sang, Zhihua Wu, Run Liang, Fang Wang, Hua Wang, Xinfen Xu, Xinyue Zhou
This double-blind field study tested the effectiveness of a baby-eyes image in promoting healthcare workers’ hand-hygiene compliance in a hospital setting. Adults are inclined to take care of babies and aspire to be their role models; therefore, they should wash their hands thoroughly when being watched by babies. Participants were healthcare workers from the obstetrical and neonatology units of a
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A review of mindful parenting: Theory, measurement, correlates, and outcomes Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-27 Nigela Ahemaitijiang, Huiting Fang, Yaxuan Ren, Zhuo Rachel Han, Nirbhay N. Singh
The benefits of mindfulness are widely recognized, and it has received increasing research attention. Recently, researchers have extended the concept and practice of mindfulness to the parent–child relationship and proposed the construct of mindful parenting, that is, parenting with mindfulness. However, mindful parenting is a relatively new concept in the field of family studies, and the contents
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Conspiracy beliefs and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Finland Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Monica Pivetti, Silvia Di Battista, Francesca Giorgia Paleari, Eemeli Hakoköngäs
During the coronavirus pandemic, this study aimed to investigate the impact of conspiracy beliefs on Finnish attitudes toward vaccinations in general and COVID-19 vaccinations in particular. This study was a conceptual replication in Finland of a study by Pivetti et al. (2021). Some 529 Finnish participants responded to a self-report questionnaire during the partial lockdown in Finland in spring 2020
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Fofola e Fala ka e Talanoa e Kainga: A Tongan approach to family violence prevention and intervention Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Sesimani Havea, Siautu Alefaio-Tugia, Darrin Hodgetts
There is limited knowledge of how Pacific-indigenous approaches can aid efforts to curtail violence within the kainga (families). This article documents aspects of the inaugural application of the Tongan conceptual framework of Fofola e fala ka e talanoa e kainga (laying out the mat so families can dialogue) as part of the faith-based Kainga Tu’umalie (prosperous families) family violence intervention
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Evaluation of a Practice System Supporting Distributed Practice for Novice Programming Students Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Baoping Li, Fangjing Ning, Lifeng Zhang, Bo Yang, Lishan Zhang
Programming is an important skill in the 21st century, but it is difficult for novices to learn. To help students practice and learn efficiently, the authors developed a mobile platform called Daily Quiz, which incorporated distributed practice theory. To evaluate the impact of distributed practice in programming learning facilitated by Daily Quiz, the authors conducted a between-subject experiment
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PLEA: A social robot with teaching and interacting capabilities Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Tomislav Stipancic, Leon Koren, Dinko Korade, Duska Rosenberg
An approach to the design of learning environments where a social robot plays a role of a teacher is discussed in this study. Built-in robot functionalities provide a degree of situational embodiment, self-explainability, and context-driven interaction. The concept of embodiment enables immersion of the teacher into distant 3D environments. In that way the level of mutual understanding between participants
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AI in learning: Preparing grounds for future learning Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Hannele Niemi
This special issue raises two thematic questions: (1) How will AI change learning in the future and what role will human beings play in the interaction with machine learning, and (2), What can we learn from the articles in this special issue for future research? These questions are reflected in the frame of the recent discussion of human and machine learning. AI for learning provides many applications
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AI in learning: Intelligent digital tools and environments for education Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Hannele Niemi, Jia Liu
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world. It is ubiquitous in almost all domains of life. We have applications of AI, for example, in medicine and healthcare, traffic and transportation, industry, and knowledge production, as well as in sport and entertainment. We can also see that AI will radically change teaching and learning in schools and educational institutions and extend educational