Browsing BI Open by Journals "PLOS ONE"
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Are some interoceptive sensibility components more central than others? Using item pool visualisation to understand the psychometric representation of interoception
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Interoception refers to the processing of stimuli originating within the body and is widely considered a multidimensional construct. However, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the definition and measurement of ... -
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Intergroup relations theory posits that cross-group friendship reduces threat perceptions and negative emotions about outgroups. This has been argued to mitigate the negative effects of ethnic diversity on generalized ... -
Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs
(Others, 2022)This study explored how the Big Five personality traits, as well as measures of personality disorders, are related to two different measures of conspiracy theories (CTs)The two measures correlated r = .58 and were applied ... -
Global structures and local network mechanisms of knowledge-flow networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Understanding the patterns and underlying mechanisms that come into play when employees exchange their knowledge is crucial for their work performance and professional development. Although much is known about the relationship ... -
Money attitudes, financial capabilities, and impulsiveness as predictors of wealth accumulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this study we examined three correlates of personal wealth–financial capability, buying impulsiveness, and attitudes to money in a large UK adult sample (N = 90,184). We were interested in how these psychological variables ... -
Reflecting glory or deflecting stigma? The interplay between status and social proximity in peer evaluations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)How do candidates’ status and social proximity to members of the evaluating audience interact to shape recognition in peer-based evaluative settings? In this study, we shed light on this question by adopting a mixed-method ... -
Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Research on sensemaking in organisations and on linguistic relativity suggests that speakers of the same language mayusethis language in different ways to construct social realities at work. We apply a semantic theory of ... -
The temperature of emotions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Emotions and temperature are closely related through embodied processes, and people seem to associate temperature concepts with emotions. While this relationship is often evidenced by everyday language (e.g., cold and warm ... -
Unobtrusive measures of prejudice: Estimating percentages of public beliefs and behaviours
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study was concerned with how accurate people are in their knowledge of population norms and statistics concerning such things as the economic, health and religious status of a nation and how those estimates are related ...