Browsing BI Open by Author "Robinson, Charlotte"
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Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults
Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social ... -
Consensual ideas for prioritizing patients: correlates of preferences in the allocation of medical resources
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte; Grover, Simmy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Five hundred adults indicated their preferences about the fairness and ethics of allocating scarce medical interventions. They also completed an IQ test, a measure of self-esteem and the extent to which they believed in a ... -
Correlates of belief in climate change: Demographics, ideology and belief systems
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper reports on two studies that examine correlates of attitudes to climate change (ACC). In the first study, five hundred participants completed five questionnaires and an intelligence test as well as two related ... -
Correlates of beliefs about, and solutions to, the problem of evil
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explored people’s attitudes towards various explanations for the theological Problem of Evil. Five hundred adults rated the importance of 16 possible solutions to the Problem of Evil. Participants also indicated ... -
Correlates of Self-Assessed Optimism
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)What are the bright- and dark-side personality trait, ideological belief, and mind-set correlates of self-assessed optimism? This paper reports on four studies, with a total N > 2000. In each, participants rated to what ... -
Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (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 ... -
Explanations for the Sources of Wealth: It Is Not a Just World
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Five hundred participants indicated the extent to which they thought very wealthy people had become rich from four routes: three by personal effort (executive, investor, entrepreneur) and one by inheritance. These ratings ... -
Ideology, personality disorders and the militant extremist mindset
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study examined the relationship between demographic factors, intelligence, individual ideology (politics and religious beliefs), all the personality disorders (PDs) and the militant extremism mindset (MEM). Nearly 400 ... -
The intuitive eating scale-2: re-evaluating its factor structure using a bifactor exploratory structural equation modelling framework
Swami, Viren; Maïano, Christophe; Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose Previous studies examining the appropriateness of the 4-factor model of intuitive eating scale-2 (IES-2) scores have returned equivocal results, which may reflect methodological limitations in the way IES-2 scores ... -
Myths and misconceptions about personality traits and tests
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study examined the prevalence of myths about personality traits as set out in a book (Donnellan & Luca, 2021) and beliefs in the predictive validity of personality tests. In all, 616 participants completed a questionnaire ... -
Positive Rational Acceptance of Body Image Threats Mediates the Association between Nature Exposure and Body Appreciation
Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to natural environments is associated with more positive body image, but mechanistic pathways are not fully understood. In this study, we tested one such indirect pathway involving ... -
Sex Difference in Estimated Intelligence and Estimated Emotional Intelligence and IQ Scores
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In five different online studies of community samples, participants (N > 2,200) estimated their IQ and EQ on a single scale and completed three different, short, untimed intelligence tests. In all studies, women estimated ... -
Spenders and Savers, Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Individual Correlates of Personal Ratings of Being a Spender or a Saver
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte; Grover, Simmy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)There is limited literature on the causes, correlates, and consequences of being a saver (tightwad) or a spender (spendthrift). This paper reports on five studies which look at demographic, bright- and dark-side personality, ... -
Stoicism: Bright and Dark Side Correlates
Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examined stoicism as a coping style. Just over 500 people completed a new, short, multi-dimensional stoicism scale; a short measure of the Big Five (Bright-side personality); the PID-6BF which measures personality ... -
Support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies: Modelling the role of attitudes toward poverty alongside weight stigma, causal attributions about weight, and prejudice
Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin; Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte; Tran, Ulrich S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the present study, we sought to position support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies within a broader political and socioeconomic context. Specifically, we hypothesised that individualistic (rather ... -
Unobtrusive measures of prejudice: Estimating percentages of public beliefs and behaviours
Furnham, Adrian; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte (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 ...