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Affective and Moral Roots of Environmental Stewardship: The Role of Obligation, Gratitude and Compassion

Markowitz, Ezra (University of Oregon, 2012)

Environmental issues such as climate change and habitat loss pose significant challenges to existing political, legal and financial institutions. As these challenges have become clearer in recent years, interest in ...
Compassion fade and the challenge of environmental conservation

Markowitz, Ezra; Slovic, Paul; Vastfjall, Daniel; Hodges, Sara (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2013-07)

Compassion shown towards victims often decreases as the number of individuals in need of aid increases, identifiability of the victims decreases, and the proportion of victims helped shrinks. Such “compassion fade” may ...
Counter-Projection in a Polarized Political Climate: Examining the Role of Threat and Ways to Reduce It.

Denning, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

The term “polarization” is often associated with “opposition.” Yet, how do people come to see others as their opposites? There is likely a social cognitive process at play. One such process is counter-projection, where ...
Cross-ideological Communication: The Impact of Real Conversations Compared to Imagined Ones

Niella, Tamara (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

Political polarization has visibly increased in the last few years. A sense of divisiveness has been exacerbated by a surge in social media communication about contentious issues which has been replacing face-to-face ...
Doubly Double Negative: When Not Being Negative is More Important than Being Positive

Christian, Colton (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

When people are asked to compare themselves to others, they frequently engage in self-enhancement. Further, prior work has shown that when engaging in self-enhancement, people tend to downplay how often they engage in ...
Is Belongingness the Key to Increasing Student Wellness and Success? A Longitudinal Field Study of a Social-Psychological Intervention and a University’s Residential Communities

Clark, Brian (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

Institutions of higher education are replete with programs designed to position incoming undergraduate students to successfully persist toward a degree and to do and be well along the way. This longitudinal field study of ...
Searching for the Open Book: Exploring Predictors of Target Readability in Interpersonal Accuracy

Lewis, Karyn (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

Interpersonal perception research has disproportionately focused on perceivers (who make judgments), while largely ignoring targets (who are judged). This study explored the role target characteristics play as perceivers ...
Social Connection and Fiction: The Possible Benefit of "Interacting" with Fictional Characters

Mawhinney, Brinna (University of Oregon, 2022)

This study addresses one role that fiction may play in people’s lives – specifically, providing social “interaction.” Participants (265 University of Oregon students) completed a writing task that involved writing about ...
Understanding How Mental Health Care Delivery Affects Client Outcomes and Satisfaction

Mofhitz-Faieta, Briana (University of Oregon, 2022)

The COVID-19 pandemic forced society to make many abrupt shifts in order to ensure the safety of the general public. In the mental health care industry, this required the field to take an unforeseen leap into remote delivery ...
What Does Accuracy Get You? Empathic Accuracy During a Negotiation.

Howington, Devin (University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)

Accurately guessing the thoughts and feelings of another person, known as empathic accuracy, is thought to be a useful skill across many domains. However, the evidence supporting the value of empathic accuracy has been ...