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94Obligation or Desire: Variation in Motivation for Compliance With COVID-19 Public Health GuidanceFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Why do people comply with coronavirus disease 2019 public health guidance? This study considers cultural-psychological foundations of variation in beliefs about motivations for such compliance. Specifically, we focused on beliefs about two sources of prosocial motivation: desire to protect others and obligation to society. Across two studies, we observed that the relative emphasis on the desire to protect others as an explanation for compliance was greater in the United States settings associate…Read more
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9The Paradox of the Moderate Muslim Discourse: Subtyping Promotes Support for Anti-muslim PoliciesFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.Tolerant discourse in the United States has responded to heightened stereotyping of Muslims as violent by countering that “not all Muslims are terrorists.” This subtyping of Muslims—as some radical terrorists among mostly peaceful “moderates”—is meant to protect a positive image of the group but leaves the original negative stereotype unchanged. We predicted that such discourse may paradoxically increase people’s support of anti-Muslim policies because the subtyping and its associated negative s…Read more
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |