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Comparative and Cross-Cultural Validity of the Moral Actions Questionnaire, a Measure for Ethical Virtue

Iurino, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)

Though current personality models provide a starting point for measuring ethical virtues, ethical content may not be fully captured in existing personality inventories due in part to the systematic elimination of ...
Intimations of a New Paradigm for Lexical Studies in Psychology

Saucier, Gerard (Frontiers in Psychology, 2022-07-01)

Several consecutive productive decades of research on basic dimensions of personality have given a firmer footing to the discipline due, in part, to contributions of lexical studies of personality. These studies helped ...
Investigating the Structure and Functions of Worldview Assumptions

Bou Malham, Philippe (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

The goal of this dissertation was to develop a relatively comprehensive and culturally de-centered measure of worldview assumptions, basic beliefs that humans have about the world and reality. A pool of 179 items was ...
Normalization of the Democidal Mindset: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Endorsement and Perceived Acceptability

Landau, Ashleigh (University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)

Both scholars and practitioners frequently stress the significant role played by high-level perpetrators in cases of mass killing. Often overlooked however is that the thinking and behavior of these leaders are often ...
Patterns in Individual Endorsement of Societal Metanarratives

Akers, Laura (University of Oregon, 2012)

Culturally shared beliefs about societies and humanity play a prominent part in world events, from beliefs about the histories and destinies of nations to beliefs about the appropriate relationship between humanity and the ...
Personality Attributes in Clinical Presentation, Measurement, and Treatment

Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)

Psychotherapy is sought for diverse problems, and trust in its efficacy has led to increasing parity in insurance coverage for psychological services. But about half of those who begin therapy drop out prematurely, and ...
Testing Novel Norm Interventions for Promoting Pro-environmental Consumption

Lieber, Sara (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

The purpose of the current project was to investigate how a social psychology approach could be used to develop an effective climate-change mitigation tool. A commonly used technique in the social psychology literature for ...
The Axiology of Necrologies: Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Values in Obituaries

Levernier, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)

This dissertation is centrally concerned with exploring obituaries as repositories of values. Obituaries are a publicly-available natural language source that are variably written for members of communities that are wide ...