Donating Blood as a Costly Signal  Lam, M. (University of Queensland), Masser, B.M. (University of Queensland), Dixson, B.J. (University of Queensland)  Costly signals are behaviours that are linked to underlying traits and are beneficial to signal, but are costly for the individual to perform. Researchers have proposed that donating blood is a costly signal, but it is unclear which traits […]

Predicting Blood Donation Intention: The Importance of Fear  Gilchrist, P. T. (Macquarie University), Masser, B. M. (University of Queensland), Fedoruk, C. (McGill University), Horsley, K. (McGill University), Ditto, B. (McGill University)  Blood donor recruitment and retention remain an important worldwide challenge due to changing demographics and shifts in the demand for blood. Social and cognitive models help predict donation intention, though the importance of […]

The Effect of Mortality Salience on Attitudes Towards National Outgroups  Prusova, I. (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Gulevich, O. (National Research University Higher School of Economics)  The aim of the study was to examine the mortality salience (MS) influence on attitudes towards ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly-oriented’ countries. According to the Terror Management Theory (TMT), MS enhances unfavorable attitudes toward ‘unfriendly-oriented’ countries and […]

A Privilege or a Responsibility? Different Meanings of Status Determine How It Is Enacted  Morton, T. A. (University of Copenhagen)  Experimental research suggests that individuals with higher status are likely to be less prosocial, more narcissistic, and behave less ethically than their low status counterparts, thereby contributing to social inequalities. Large-scale population data, however, does not always agree with this picture, and have […]