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 […]

Renegotiating Identity: Behavioural Decisions Under Circumstances of Incongruent or Ambiguous Information About Group Norms  Smyth, L. (Australian National University), Kim, J. I. (Australian National University), Dwyer, B. (Australian National University), Grafton, A. (Australian National University)  This paper reports on 3 studies (N = 253; 302 & 217) that examined participant responses to different patterns of information about group norms. Study 1 examined responses to patterns of conflicting and […]

The Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Identity Processes: A New Look at Integration in the Context of Student Binge Drinking  Willis, L. (Australian National University), Lee, E. (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Reynolds, K. (Australian National University), Klik, K. (Australian National University)  The current study proposes a possible extension to the theory of planned behavior with respect to further integration with the social identity approach. The study explores whether […]