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Motivated emotion and the rally around the flag effect: liberals are motivated to feel collective angst (like conservatives) when faced with existential threat by Porat, Roni, Tamir, Maya, Wohl, Michael J. A., Gur, Tamar, Halperin, Eran

“…A careful look at societies facing threat reveals a unique phenomenon in which liberals and conservatives react emotionally and attitudinally in a similar…”
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“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader by Sprong, Stefanie, Jetten, Jolanda, Wang, Zhechen, Peters, Kim, Mols, Frank, Verkuyten, Maykel, Bastian, Brock, Ariyanto, Amarina, Autin, Frédérique, Ayub, Nadia, Badea, Constantina, Besta, Tomasz, Butera, Fabrizio, Costa-Lopes, Rui, Cui, Lijuan, Fantini, Carole, Finchilescu, Gillian, Gaertner, Lowell, Gollwitzer, Mario, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Hong, Ying-Yi, Jensen, Dorthe Høj, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Karasawa, Minoru, Kessler, Thomas, Klein, Olivier, Lima, Marcus, Mégevand, Laura, Morton, Thomas, Paladino, Paola, Polya, Tibor, Renvik, Tuuli Anna, Ruza, Aleksejs, Shahrazad, Wan, Shama, Sushama, Smith, Heather J., Torres, Ana Raquel, van der Bles, Anne Marthe, Wohl, Michael J. A.

“…Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis…”
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Embodied Remorse: Physical Displays of Remorse Increase Positive Responses to Public Apologies, but Have Negligible Effects on Forgiveness by Hornsey, Matthew J, Wohl, Michael J. A, Harris, Emily A, Okimoto, Tyler G, Thai, Michael, Wenzel, Michael

“…Public apologies struggle to communicate genuineness. Previous studies have shown that, in response to public apologies, perceptions of remorse and levels of…”
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The past as a determinant of the present: Historical continuity, collective angst, and opposition to immigration by Jetten, Jolanda, Wohl, Michael J. A.

“…We propose that the perceived continuity between a group's past and present can be a psychological resource that provides confidence in the group's future…”
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Remembering Historical Victimization: Collective Guilt for Current Ingroup Transgressions by Wohl, Michael J. A, Branscombe, Nyla R

“…The authors examined the consequences of remembering historical victimization for emotional reactions to a current adversary. In Experiment 1, Jewish Canadians…”
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Why Group Apologies Succeed and Fail: Intergroup Forgiveness and the Role of Primary and Secondary Emotions by Wohl, Michael J. A., Hornsey, Matthew J., Bennett, Shannon H.

“…It is widely assumed that official apologies for historical transgressions can lay the groundwork for intergroup forgiveness, but evidence for a causal…”
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Belief in the Malleability of Groups Strengthens the Tenuous Link Between a Collective Apology and Intergroup Forgiveness by Wohl, Michael J. A., Cohen-Chen, Smadar, Halperin, Eran, Caouette, Julie, Hayes, Nicole, Hornsey, Matthew J.

“…Although it is widely assumed that collective apologies for intergroup harms facilitate forgiveness, evidence for a strong link between the two remains…”
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Forgiveness and Collective Guilt Assignment to Historical Perpetrator Groups Depend on Level of Social Category Inclusiveness by Wohl, Michael J. A, Branscombe, Nyla R

“…The authors examined how categorization influences victimized group members' responses to contemporary members of a historical perpetrator group. Specifically,…”
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Who Spends Money to Play for Free? Identifying Who Makes Micro-transactions on Social Casino Games (and Why) by Kim, Hyoun S., Hollingshead, Samantha, Wohl, Michael J. A.

“…Social casino games are online gambling-like games found on social networking sites. They are initially free to play, however, players are encouraged to make…”
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The Gambling Craving Scale: Psychometric Validation and Behavioral Outcomes by Young, Matthew M, Wohl, Michael J. A

“…Although craving is an important feature of problem gambling, there is a paucity of research investigating craving to gamble. A major stumbling block for…”
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Proximity under Threat: The Role of Physical Distance in Intergroup Relations by Xiao, Y Jenny, Wohl, Michael J A, Van Bavel, Jay J

“…Throughout human history, social groups have invested immense amounts of wealth and time to keep threatening out-groups at a distance. In the current research,…”
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Taking Up Offenses: Secondhand Forgiveness and Group Identification by Brown, Ryan P., Wohl, Michael J. A., Exline, Julie Juola

“…When a person or group is mistreated, those not directly harmed by the transgression might still experience antipathy toward offenders, leading to secondhand…”
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Victim and Perpetrator Groups' Responses to the Canadian Government's Apology for the Head Tax on Chinese Immigrants and the Moderating Influence of Collective Guilt by Wohl, Michael J. A, Matheson, Kimberly, Branscombe, Nyla R., Anisman, Hymie

“…European and Chinese Canadians' perceptions and expectations of the Canadian government's apology for the head tax placed on Chinese immigrants during the…”
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The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries by Elgar, Frank J., Stefaniak, Anna, Wohl, Michael J.A.

“…Can social contextual factors explain international differences in the spread of COVID-19? It is widely assumed that social cohesion, public confidence in…”
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The Perception of Time Heals All Wounds: Temporal Distance Affects Willingness to Forgive Following an Interpersonal Transgression by Wohl, Michael J. A., McGrath, April L.

“…Prior research has assessed the temporal unfolding of forgiveness and found that forgiveness becomes more likely as time distances the victim from the…”
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There is (still) a global factor that underlies the PGSI: A reanalysis of Tseng, Flack, Caudwell, and Stevens (2023) by Tabri, Nassim, J. A. Wohl, Michael

“…•Tseng et al. (2023) argued that 2 factors underlie scores on the PGSI items.•In our reanalyses a hierarchical model—1 global & 2 sub factors—best fit their…”
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response by Bavel, Jay J. Van, Baicker, Katherine, Boggio, Paulo S., Capraro, Valerio, Cichocka, Aleksandra, Cikara, Mina, Crockett, Molly J., Crum, Alia J., Douglas, Karen M., Druckman, James N., Drury, John, Dube, Oeindrila, Ellemers, Naomi, Finkel, Eli J., Fowler, James H., Gelfand, Michele, Han, Shihui, Haslam, S. Alexander, Jetten, Jolanda, Kitayama, Shinobu, Mobbs, Dean, Napper, Lucy E., Packer, Dominic J., Pennycook, Gordon, Peters, Ellen, Petty, Richard E., Rand, David G., Reicher, Stephen D., Schnall, Simone, Shariff, Azim, Skitka, Linda J., Smith, Sandra Susan, Sunstein, Cass R., Tabri, Nassim, Tucker, Joshua A., Linden, Sander van der, Lange, Paul van, Weeden, Kim A., Wohl, Michael J. A., Zaki, Jamil, Zion, Sean R., Willer, Robb

“…The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological…”
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The Chains on All My People Are the Chains on Me: Restrictions to Collective Autonomy Undermine the Personal Autonomy and Psychological Well-Being of Group Members by Kachanoff, Frank J., Taylor, Donald M., Caouette, Julie, Khullar, Thomas H., Wohl, Michael J. A.

“…Four studies assessed the potentially detrimental effects that restrictions to collective autonomy (i.e., a group's freedom to determine and practice its own…”
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One day we might be no more: Collective angst and protective action from potential distinctiveness loss by Wohl, Michael J.A., Giguère, Benjamin, Branscombe, Nyla R., McVicar, D. Neil

“…Potential loss of group distinctiveness can represent a threat to the existence of a group. Across three studies (Ns = 42, 60, 94), a mediated‐moderation model…”
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Perceiving Your Group’s Future to Be in Jeopardy: Extinction Threat Induces Collective Angst and the Desire to Strengthen the Ingroup by Wohl, Michael J. A., Branscombe, Nyla R., Reysen, Stephen

“…Collective angst reflects concern about the ingroup’s future vitality. In four studies, the authors examined the impact of ingroup extinction threat on the…”
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