(2024):
On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence.
Psychological Science,
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Does (National) Religiosity Ease the Psychological Burden of Lower SES?
Project Directors
Prof. Dr. Jochen E. Gebauer,
Dr. Jana Berkessel
Research question/goal:
Lower socioeconomic status (SES; here: lower income, education, and job prestige) is a burden on people’s psychological well-being. For long, this burden was assumed to vanish with the nations’ increasing economic development. Recent findings, however, suggest that economic development does not alleviate the burden; in fact, lower SES predicts lower well-being more strongly in economically developed nations than in economically less developed ones. Our preliminary research (Berkessel et al., 2021) found that national religiosity may explain this effect: economically developed nations are less religious and therefore lack religious norms that buffer the negative consequences of lower SES and cast a bad light on higher SES. The proposed project examines what conditions need to be met for national religiosity to lower the psychological burden of lower SES (WP1), what religious and emotional processes underlie this effect (WP2), and how the strength of this effect develops over time in the face of a dynamically changing religious landscape (WP3).
Current stage:
We are currently preparing a funding proposal for this project, which aims to examine the effect of national religiosity on the link between socioeconomic status and well-being. The project will comprise three work packages, which will apply different methods (experiments, longitudinal modeling, machine learning) and use various data sources (large-scale cross-cultural surveys, experimental data, big data).
Publications
Journal Articles
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(2023): Transnational effects between personality and religiosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 2, 421-436. More
Presentations
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(2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, 15/09/2024 - 18/09/2024]. More
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(2024): On the Effect of National Religiosity on the Well-Being Detriments of Lower SES. [Post-Doc Workshop of the Social Psychology Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society, Hagen, 24/09/2024 - 26/09/2024]. More
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(2023): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Poster), Atlanta, 23/02/2023 - 26/02/2023]. More
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(2023): What constitutes a psychologically rich life? A big data approach. [Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, 23/02/2023 - 23/02/2023]. More
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(2023): Gender Differences in The Big Two Self-Concept across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [18. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Sozialpsychologie (FGSP) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Graz, 10/09/2023 - 12/09/2023]. More
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(2022): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [ 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Hildesheim, 09/09/2022 - 14/09/2022]. More
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(2022): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, 17/07/2022 - 20/07/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, 11/07/2022 - 14/07/2022]. More
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(2022): On the antecedence of individual differences in well-being: A person × culture perspective. [Personality Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), 20/03/2022 - 22/03/2022]. More
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(2022): Can money buy happiness (anywhere)? How cultural religiosity affects the well-being benefits of social class. [Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online talk), 16/02/2022 - 16/02/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), 15/02/2022 - 18/02/2022]. More
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(2022): On the importance of replicability in science. [Annual Workshop of the Centre for Advanced Studies and Exploratory Research of the European Commission, (online keynote), 15/11/2022 - 17/11/2022]. More
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(2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [16th Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society, (virtual conference), 11/09/2021 - 14/09/2021]. More
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(2021): Socioeconomic and sociocultural antecedents of well-being. [Social Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), 05/09/2021 - 07/09/2021]. More
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(2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Health psychology colloquium at the University of Mannheim, Mannheim, 03/11/2021 - 03/11/2021]. More
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(2021): Die Rolle religiöser Normen als Richtlinien unserer Gesellschaft. [Invited Contribution to the expert exchange on the “Future of Belief” at the Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh, 03/10/2021 - 03/10/2021]. More
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(2021): Science communication. [Panel discussion at the Junior Research Programme Open Conference, Sienna, 08/07/2021 - 08/07/2021]. More
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(2021): Blessed be ye poor? National religiosity lightens the burden of lower socioeconomic status in developing nations. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), 17/03/2021 - 17/03/2021]. More
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(2020): The psychologically rich life: A text analysis approach. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), 06/10/2020 - 06/10/2020]. More
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(2020): Open Science & Society. [Open Science Day, University of Mannheim, (virtual conference), 19/10/2020 - 19/10/2020]. More
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(2020): Cross-cultural differences in gender differences in agency and communion. [Computational social science research colloquium at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, (online talk), 14/07/2020 - 14/07/2020]. More
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(2020): Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of High (not Low) Social Status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [Computational social science research colloquium at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, (online talk), 14/04/2020 - 14/04/2020]. More
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(2019): Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis. [Open Science in Perspective Symposium at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 25/03/2019 - 25/03/2019]. More