Peker Booth, Müjde
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Peker, Müjde
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boothm@mef.edu.tr
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04.02. Department of Psychology
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290
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320
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16.11
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17.78
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| Journal | Count |
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| European Journal of Social Psychology | 3 |
| Scientific Reports | 2 |
| Current Psychology | 1 |
| European Journal of Personality | 1 |
| Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 1 |
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Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Estimated Probabilities of Positive, Vs. Negative, Events Show Separable Correlations With Covid-19 Preventive Behaviours(Elsevier, 2022) Aksu, Ayça; Booth, Robert W.; Yavuz, Burak Baran; Peker, MüjdeResearch has associated optimism with better health-protective behaviours, but few studies have measured optimism or pessimism directly, by asking participants to estimate probabilities of events. We used these probability estimates to examine how optimism and/or pessimism relate to protecting oneself from COVID-19. When COVID-19 first reached Turkey, we asked a snowball sample of 494 Istanbul adults how much they engaged in various COVID-protective behaviours. They also estimated the probabilities of their catching COVID-19, and of other positive and negative events happening to them. Estimated probability of general positive events (optimism) correlated positively with officially-recommended helpful behaviours (e.g. wearing masks), but not with less-helpful behaviours (e.g. sharing ‘alternative’ COVID-related information online). Estimated probabilities of general negative events (pessimism), or of catching COVID, did not correlate significantly with helpful COVID-related behaviours; but they did correlate with psychopathological symptoms, as did less-helpful COVID-related behaviours. This shows important nuances can be revealed by measuring optimism and pessimism, as separate variables, using probability estimates.Conference Object Gain Sensitivity and Cheating: the Role of Psychological Entitlement(Hogrefe, 2023) Şahin, Türkay; Demircan, Nilhan; Koloğlugil, Serhat; Peker, Müjde...Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 20Moral Expansiveness Around the World: the Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries(SAGE Publications Inc., 2022) Rudnev, Maksim; Peker, Müjde; Jetten, Jolanda; Acevedo-Triana, Cesar; Crimston, Charlie R.; Kirkland, Kelly; Amiot, Catherine E.What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found low generalized trust, greater perceptions of a breakdown in the social fabric of society, and greater perceived economic inequality were associated with smaller moral circles. Generalized trust also helped explain the effects of perceived inequality on lower levels of moral inclusiveness. Other inequality indicators (i.e., Gini coefficients) were, however, unrelated to moral expansiveness. These findings suggest that societal factors, especially those associated with generalized trust, may influence the size of our moral circles.Article Citation - WoS: 41Citation - Scopus: 44Multinational Data Show That Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated With the Perception (and Reality) of Poor National Economic Performance(Wiley, 2022) Jetten, Jolanda; Peker Booth, Mujde; Van Lange, Paul A. M.; Sassenberg, Kai; Kang, Jemima; Pearson, Samuel; Hornsey, Matthew J.While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country-level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed 6723 participants from 36 countries. In line with predictions, propensity to believe conspiracy theories was negatively associated with perceptions of current and future national economic vitality. Furthermore, countries with higher GDP per capita tended to have lower belief in conspiracy theories. The data suggest that conspiracy beliefs are not just caused by intrapsychic factors but are also shaped by difficult economic circumstances for which distrust might have a rational basis.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 6Measurement Invariance of the Moral Vitalism Scale Across 28 Cultural Groups(Public Library of Science, 2020) Bilewicz, Michal; Kuppens, Peter; Crespo, Carla; Collier-Baker, Emma; Fischer, Ronald; Pelay, Cesar; Peker, Müjde; Pina, Afroditi; Karasawa, Minoru; Hooper, Nic; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Friese, Malte; AminihajibashiI, Samira; Wailan Yeung, Victoria; Rudnev, Maksim; Eastwic, Paul; Luis Castellanos Guevara, Jose; Saguy, Tamar; Silfver-Kuhalampi, Mia; Gomez, Angel; Becker, Maja; Loughnan, Steve; Bastian, Brock; Swann, William; Tong, Jennifer (Yuk-Yue); Sortheix, Florencia; Guerra, Valeschka; Huang, Li-li; Shi, Junqi; Hanke, Katja; Sachkova, MariannaMoral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalism Scale had been designed to assess moral vitalism in a brief survey form. Previous studies established the reliability and validity of the scale in US-American and Australian samples. In this study, the cross-cultural comparability of the scale was tested across 28 different cultural groups worldwide through measurement invariance tests. A series of exact invariance tests marginally supported partial metric invariance, however, an approximate invariance approach provided evidence of partial scalar invariance for a 5-item measure. The established level of measurement invariance allows for comparisons of latent means across cultures. We conclude that the brief measure of moral vitalism is invariant across 28 cultures and can be used to estimate levels of moral vitalism with the same precision across very different cultural settings.Article Citation - WoS: 98Citation - Scopus: 109Collective Narcissism Predicts Hypersensitivity To In-Group Insult and Direct and Indirect Retaliatory Intergroup Hostility(Wiley, 2016) de Zavala, Agnieszka Golec; Baran, Tomazs; Guerra, Rita; Peker, MüjdeResults of five studies (N?=?1596) linked collective narcissism—a belief in in-group exaggerated greatness contingent on external validation—to direct and indirect, retaliatory hostility in response to situations that collective narcissists perceived as insulting to the in-group but which fell well beyond the definition of an insult. In Turkey, collective narcissists responded with schadenfreude to the European economic crisis after feeling humiliated by the Turkish wait to be admitted to the European Union (Study 1). In Portugal, they supported hostile actions towards Germans and rejoiced in the German economic crisis after perceiving Germany's position in the European Union as more important than the position of Portugal (Study 2). In Poland, they supported hostile actions towards the makers of a movie they found offensive to Poland (Studies 3 and 5) and responded with direct and indirect hostility towards a celebrity whose jokes about the Polish government they found offensive (Study 4). Comparisons with self-positivity and in-group positivity indices and predictors of intergroup hostility indicated that collective narcissism is the only systematic predictor of hypersensitivity to in-group insult followed by direct and indirect, retaliatory intergroup hostility.Article Citation - WoS: 17Citation - Scopus: 21Perceiving Societal Pressure To Be Happy Is Linked To Poor Well-Being, Especially in Happy Nations(Nature Research, 2022) Rhee, J Joshua; Peker, Müjde; Becker, Maja; Bilewicz, Michal; Bastian, Brock; Baguma, K Peter; Barry, Oumar; Dejonckheere, EgonHappiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm that ironically compromises individual well-being. In this multi-national study (40 countries; 7443 participants), we investigate how societal pressure to be happy and not sad predicts emotional, cognitive and clinical indicators of well-being around the world, and examine how these relations differ as a function of countries' national happiness levels (collected from the World Happiness Report). Although detrimental well-being associations manifest for an average country, the strength of these relations varies across countries. People's felt societal pressure to be happy and not sad is particularly linked to poor well-being in countries with a higher World Happiness Index. Although the cross-sectional nature of our work prohibits causal conclusions, our findings highlight the correlational link between social emotion valuation and individual well-being, and suggest that high national happiness levels may have downsides for some.Article Citation - WoS: 51Citation - Scopus: 51Subjective Status and Perceived Legitimacy Across Countries(John Wiley and Sons, 2020) Andrighetto, Luca; Croizet, Jean‐claude; Bocian, Konrad; Essien, Iniobong; Batruch, Anatolia; Autin, Frederique; Durante, Federica; Bukowski, Marcin; De Lemus, Soledad; Babincak, Peter; Conway, Paul; Bae, Jaechang; Easterbrook, Matthew J.; Brandt, Mark J.; Dragon, Piotr; Crawford, Jarret T.; Bourguignon, David; Butler, Sarah E.; Butera, Fabrizio; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Becker, Julia C.; Spears, Russell; Bodroža, Bojana; Forgas, Joseph P.; Badea, Constantina; Peker, Müjde; Degner, Juliane; Kuppens, ToonThe relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries (N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status and perceived legitimacy was never negative at any levels of eight moderator variables, although the positive association was sometimes reduced. Although not always consistent with hypotheses, group identification, self-esteem, and beliefs in social mobility were all associated with perceived legitimacy among people who have low subjective status. These findings enrich our understanding of the relationship between social status and legitimacy.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 7State Anxiety Impairs Attentional Control When Other Sources of Control Are Minimal(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Booth, Robert William; Peker, MüjdeResearch suggests anxiety impairs attentional control; however, this effect has been unreliable. We argue that anxiety’s impairment of attentional control is subtle, and can be obscured by other non-emotional sources of control. We demonstrate this by examining conflict adaptation, an enhancement in attentional control following a trial with high conflict between distracter and target stimuli. Participants completed a Stroop task featuring incongruent (e.g. RED in green font; high-conflict) and control (e.g. +++ in green font; low-conflict) trials. More state-anxious participants showed greater Stroop interference following control trials, but interference was uniformly low following incongruent trials. This suggests state anxiety can impair attention, but other sources of top-down control – such as conflict adaptation – can easily overcome this impairment. This is consistent with recent theories of anxious cognition and shows that anxiety researchers must attend to the dynamics and sources of attentional control.Article Muhafazakarlık, Kaygı ve Tehdit Edici Uyarıcılara Karşı Dikkat Yanlılığı(2017) Booth, Robert W; Dikçe, Uğurcan; Peker, MüjdePolitical ideology often forms an important part of someone’s identity, and affects their life in many ways. Many have studied the correlates and predictors of ideology, especially conservative ideology (e.g. Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, & Sanford, 1950; Jost, Glaser, Kruglanksi, & Sulloway, 2003; Tomkins, 1963; Wilson, 1973). Psychologists and political scientists have become increasingly convinced that ideology is related to biological, physiological and cognitive factors. For example, twin studies suggest political attitudes are about 30-60% heritable (see Bouchard & McGue, 2003; Hatemi et al., 2010). Here, we focus on cognitive and associated emotional correlates of ideology.
