Psychological Entitlement Stronge, S. (University of Auckland), Sibley, C. (University of Auckland) The rejection-identification model describes how rejection of an ingroup often results in increased ingroup identification. However, research regarding narcissists suggests they are only likely to identify with a group when it is personally beneficial. Using a large national panel study of adult New […]

 Gullibility and Replying to Scam Emails Teunisse, A. K. (Macquarie University), Case, T. I. (Macquarie University) Last year, in Australia, over $107 million was lost to scammers (Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, 2017). The magnitude of the amount of money lost, and resulting psychological distress, is a clarion call to psychologists to investigate why some […]

It Ain’t Over ’til the Fat Lady Sings: Emotional Intelligence, Performance Anxiety, and Mental Health in Opera Singers. Walker, S. A. (University of Sydney), MacCann, C. (University of Sydney), Double, K. S. (The University of Oxford), Tiliopoulos, N. (University of Sydney) There has been increasing concern regarding the mental health of opera singers with a […]

 The Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Friends on the Development of Outgroup Attitudes: A Five-Wave Longitudinal Social Network Study Bracegirdle, C. (University of Oxford), Wölfer, R. (University of Oxford), van Zalk, M. (Osnabrück University), Hewstone, M. (University of Oxford) An extensive body of research shows that outgroup contact improves outgroup attitudes, yet the corresponding influence […]