Browsing by Author "Basabe, Nekane"

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    Sociopolitical consequences of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices
    (2023-10-17) Pizarro, José J.; Cakal, Huseyin; Méndez, Lander; Zumeta, Larraitz N.; Gracia- Leiva, Marcela; Basabe, Nekane; Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés; Cazan, Ana-Maria; Keshavarzi, Saeed; López- López, Wilson; Yahiiaiev, Illia; Alzugaray-Ponce, Carolina; Villagrán, Loreto; Moyano-Díaz, Emilio; Petrović, Nebojša; Mathias, Anderson; Techio, Elza M.; Wlodarczyk, Anna; Alfaro-Beracoechea, Laura; Ibarra, Manuel L.; Michael, Andreas; Mhaskar, Sumeet; Martínez-Zelaya, Gonzalo; Bilbao, Marian; Delfino, Gisela; Carvalho, Catarina L.; Pinto, Isabel R.; Zehra Mohsin, Falak; Espinosa, Agustín; Cueto, Rosa María; Cavalli, Stefano; da Costa, Silvia; Amutio, Alberto; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; Páez, Darío
    Although different social crises may eventually favor undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such antidemocratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research investigates how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic might have favoured greater support for antidemocratic governmental practices, on the premise of regaining control and security. Using data from 17 countries (N = 4364) and national-level indicators (i.e., real number of contagions and deaths, and sociopolitical indicators), we test how the risk of contagion and death from COVID-19, along with personal orientations (i.e., social dominance orientation [SDO], right-wing authoritarianism [RWA], and perceived anomie) motivate authoritarian and antidemocratic practices. Results from multilevel models indicate that risk perception and perceptions of political instability predict a wish for stronger leadership, agreement with martial law, and support for a controlling government especially when SDO and RWA are high, while more egalitarian and less conservative people agree less with these authoritarian measures in spite of the levels of risk perception. We discuss the implications for these findings for future research on similar but also dissimilar external events (natural disasters, war, or terror incidents) and the consequences for societies with higher authoritarian tendencies.
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    Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries
    (2021-04-13) Zickfeld, Janis H.; van de Ven, Niels; Pich, Olivia; Schubert, Thomas W.; Berkessel, Jana B.; Pizarro, José J.; Bhushan, Braj; Mateo, Nino Jose; Barbosa, Sergio; Sharman, Leah; Kököyei, Gyöngyi; Schrover, Elke; Kardum, Igor; Benzon Aruta, John Jamir; Lazarevic, Ljiljana B.; Escobar, María Josefina; Stadel, Marie; Arriaga, Patrícia; Dodaj, Arta; Shankland, Rebecca; Majeed, Nadyanna M.; Li, Yansong; Lekkou, Eleimonitria; Hartanto, Andree; Özdogru, Asil A.; Vaughn, Leigh Ann; Espinoza, Maria del Carmen; Caballero, Amparo; Kolen, Anouk; Karsten, Julie; Manley, Harry; Maeura, Nao; Eskisu, Mustafa; Shani, Yaniv; Chittham, Phakkanun; Ferreira, Diogo; Bavolar, Jozef; Konova, Irina; Sato, Wataru; Morvinski, Coby; Carrera, Pilar; Villar, Sergio; Ibanez, Agustin; Hareli, Shlomo; Garcia, Adolfo M.; Kremer, Inbal; Götz, Friedrich M.; Schwerdtfeger, Andreas; Estrada-Mejia, Catalina; Nakayama, Masataka; Ng, Wee Qin; Sesar, Kristina; Orjiakor, Charles T.; Dumont, Kitty; Allred, Tara Bulut; Gracanin, Asmir; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Schönefeld, Victoria; Vally, Zahir; Barzykowski, Krystian; Peltola, Henna-Riikka; Tcherkassof, Anna; Haque, Shamsul; Smieja, Magdalena; Su-May, Terri Tan; IJzerman, Hans; Vatakis, Argiro; Ong, Chew Wei; Choi, Eunsoo; Schorch, Sebastian L.; Páez, Darío; Malik, Sadia; Kacmár, Pavol; Bobowik, Magdalena; Jose, Paul; Vuoskoski, Jonna K.; Basabe, Nekane; Dogan, Ugur; Ebert, Tobias; Uchida, Yukiko; Zheng, Michelle Xue; Mefoh, Philip; Sebena, René; Stanke, Franziska A.; Ballada, Christine Joy; Blaut, Agata; Wu, Yang; Daniels, Judith K.; Kocsel, Natalia; Demirag Burak, Elif Gizem; Balt, Nina F.; Vanman, Eric; Stewart, Suzanne L.K.; Verschuere, Bruno; Sikka, Pilleriin; Boudesseul, Jordane; Martins, Diogo; Nussinson, Ravit; Ito, Kenichi; Mentser, Sari; Çolak, Tugba Seda; Martinez-Zelaya, Gonzalo; Vingerhoets, Ad
    Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were presented with four pictures out of 100 possible targets with or without digitallyadded tears. We confirmed the main prediction that seeing a tearful individual elicits the intention to support, d = 0.49 [0.43, 0.55]. Our data suggest that this effect could be mediated by perceiving the crying target as warmer and more helpless, feeling more connected, as well as feeling more empathic concern for the crier, but not by an increase in personal distress of the observer. The effect was moderated by the situational valence, identifying the target as part of one’s group, and trait empathic concern. A neutral situation, high trait empathic concern, and low identification increased the effect. We observed high heterogeneity across countries that was, via split-half validation, best explained by country-level GDP per capita and subjective well-being with stronger effects for higher-scoring countries. These findings suggest that tears can function as social glue, providing one possible explanation why emotional crying persists into adulthood.
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    Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia
    (2020-11-04) Pizarro, José; Cakal, Huseyin; Méndez, Lander; Da Costa, Silvia; Zumeta, Larraitz; Gracia-Leiva, Marcela; Basabe, Nekane; Navarro-Carrilo, Ginés; Cazan, Ana María; Keshavarzi, Saeed; López-López, Wilson; Yahiiaiev, Illia; Alzugaray-Ponce, Carolina; Villagrán, Loreto; Moyano-Díaz, Emilio; Petrovic, Nebojsa; Anderson, Mathias; Techio, Elza; Wlodarczyk, Ana; Alfaro-Beracoechea, Laura; Ibarra, Manuel; Psaltis, Charis; Michael, Andreas; Mhaskar, Sumeet; Martínez-Zelaya, Gonzalo; Bilbao, Marian; Delfino, Gisela; Carvalho, Catarina; Pinto, Isabel; Zehra-Mohsin, Falak; Espinosa, Agustín; Cueto, Rosa; Cavalli, Stefano
    This study analyses the range and content of Social Representations (SSRRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries of the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Following the theoretical framework of Social Representations Theory, as well as psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the agreement with different SSRRs, and participants’ Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and agreement with Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). Different sets of beliefs as SSRRs are discussed and their prevalence and association with contextual variables (e.g., new contagions and deaths during data collection). Results show that severity and risk perceptions were associated with different SSRRs of the pandemics. In specific, to SSRRs focusing on Emerging Externalizing zoonotic and ecological factors, to Polemic Conspiracies, a view of Elite and Masses Villains, as well as Personal Responsibility in the pandemic. Further, these effects are replicated in most geographical areas. Additional meta-analyses and multi-level regressions show that Risk Perception was a consistent explanatory variable even after controlling demographics and ‘real risk’ (i.e., actual number of contagious and deaths), suggesting that, while coping and making sense of the pandemic, there is a shift to more authoritarian-alike responses.