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Cross-cultural studies

A woman wearing a gold and purple sari throwing up coloured powder at a Holi festival.

Moving countries has a huge impact on people

How does knowing two languages affect your ability to produce language?

What effects does it have on you when you live abroad?
Growing up with two cultures: does it affect your well-being?
Is emotional speech comprehension comparable across different cultures?
Do you prefer to listen to someone from your own culture?
How stressful is a cultural transition?
Different cultures, different values?

Our interest in cross-cultural research is broad and encompasses these and other questions. Our academics are leading figures in their fields and employ a mutli-method approach to studying these questions. They also carry out research in related areas including communication and language, and political psychology.

Recent publications

2023

Swami, Viren and Tran, Ulrich S and Stieger, Stefan and Hanel, Paul HP and et al (2023) Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age. Body Image, 46. pp. 449-466.
Wood, Reed M and Juanchich, Marie and Ramirez, Mark and Zhang, Shenghao (2023) Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content. Social Science and Medicine, 324. p. 115863.

2022

Callizo-Romero, Carmen and Tutnjević, Slavica and Pandza, Maja and Ouellet, Marc and Kranjec, Alexander and Ilić, Sladjana and Gu, Yan and Göksun, Tilbe and Chahboun, Sobh and Casasanto, Daniel and Santiago, Julio (2022) Does time extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? A multitask crosscultural study. Language and Cognition, 14 (2). pp. 275-302.
Dorison, Charles and Lerner, Jennifer Susan and Heller, Blake H and Rothman, Alexander and Kawachi, Ichiro I and Wang, Ke and Rees, Vaughan W and Gill, Brian P and Gibbs, Nancy and Hanel, Paul HP and Sirota, Miroslav and Chiu, Faith and Holford, Dawn Liu and Theodoropoulou, Andriana and Coles, Nicholas Alvaro and et al (2022) In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3 (3). pp. 577-602.
Geeraert, Nicolas and Ward, Colleen and Hanel, Paul HP (2022) Returning home: The role of expectations in re‐entry adaptation. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 14 (3). pp. 949-966.
Moreira, Paulo and Inman, Richard A and Hanel, Paul HP and Faria, Sara and Araújo, Marta and Pedras, Susana and Cunha, Diana (2022) Engagement and Disengagement with Sustainable Development: Further conceptualization and evidence of validity for the Engagement/Disengagement in Sustainable Development Inventory (EDiSDI). Journal of Environmental Psychology, 79. p. 101729.
Sun, Qian and Geeraert, Nicolas and Lamarche, Veronica (2022) Home is Where the Heart is: Implications of Dyadic Acculturation for Migrant Couples' Personal and Relational Well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50 (4). pp. 550-570.

2021

Hanel, Paul and da Silva, Sara MG and Inman, Richard A (2021) 'Using public datasets to understand the psychological correlates of smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity: A country-level analysis.' Cross-Cultural Research. p. 106939712110621. ISSN 1069-3971 (In Press)
Vilar, Roosevelt and Liu, James H and Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda and Hanel, Paul HP and Araújo, Rafaella de Carvalho Rodrigues and Monteiro, Renan P and Gouveia, Valdiney V (2021) 'On the road: Personality and values of sojourners.' Current Psychology. ISSN 1046-1310 (In Press)

2020

Schwartz, Seth J and Walsh, Sophie D and Ward, Colleen and Geeraert, Nicolas and Tartakovsky, Eugene and Weisskirch, Robert S and Vedder, Paul and Makarova, Elena and Bardi, Anat and Birman, Dina and Oppedal, Brit and Benish-Weisman, Maya and Lorenzo-Blanco, Elma I and Güngör, Derya and Stevens, Gonneke WJM and Benet-Martínez, Veronica and Titzmann, Peter F and Silbereisen, Rainer K (2020) 'The Role of Psychologists in International Migration Research: Complementing Other Expertise and an Interdisciplinary Way Forward.' Migration Studies. ISSN 2049-5838

2019

Geeraert, Nicolas and Li, Ren and Ward, Colleen and Gelfand, Michele and Demes, Kali (2019) 'A tight spot: How personality moderates the impact of social norms on sojourner adaptation.' Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976
Hanel, Paul HP and Maio, Gregory R and Manstead, Antony SR (2019) 'A new way to look at the data: Similarities between groups of people are large and important.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116 (4). 541 - 562. ISSN 0022-3514

Academics

Dr Nicolas Geeraert

Senior Lecturer

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Lecturer

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Senior Lecturer

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Also interested in: Political psychology; justice, fairness and equality.

Professor Silke Paulmann

Professor

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Also interested in: Communication and language; neuro-cognitive disorders; emotion; motivation; well-being.

Dr Natalia Zarzeczna

Lecturer

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Also interested in: Meaning in life, trust and interdepence; Risk, judgement and decision making; Political psychology; Wellbeing; Communication and language.

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