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Benjamin C. Ruisch
Researcher at Leiden University
Publications - 23
Citations - 238
Benjamin C. Ruisch is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications receiving 99 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin C. Ruisch include Ohio State University & Cornell University.
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Motivated recall in the service of the economic system: The case of anthropogenic climate change.
TL;DR: The authors found that when high system justifiers were led to believe that the economy was in a recovery, they recalled climate change information to be more serious than did those assigned to a control condition.
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Social distancing decreases an individual's likelihood of contracting COVID-19.
Russell H. Fazio,Benjamin C. Ruisch,Courtney A. Moore,Javier A. Granados Samayoa,Shelby T. Boggs,Jesse T. Ladanyi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the individual's social distancing behavior, particularly as assessed by the virtual behavior measure, predicted whether they contracted COVID-19 during the intervening 4 mo This was true when considering only participants who reported having tested positively for the virus and when considering additional participants who believed that they had contracted the virus.
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Examining the Left-Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Benjamin C. Ruisch,Courtney A. Moore,Javier A. Granados Samayoa,Shelby T. Boggs,Jesse T. Ladanyi,Russell H. Fazio +5 more
TL;DR: This article examined the factors that contribute to the ideological gap in pandemic response across domains including personality (e.g., empathic concern), attitudes, trust in science, information and vulnerability.
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Who is (not) complying with the U. S. social distancing directive and why? Testing a general framework of compliance with virtual measures of social distancing.
Russell H. Fazio,Benjamin C. Ruisch,Courtney A. Moore,Javier A. Granados Samayoa,Shelby T. Boggs,Jesse T. Ladanyi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study involving over 2000 online participants (US residents) tested a general framework regarding compliance with a directive in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A matter of taste: Gustatory sensitivity predicts political ideology.
TL;DR: It is found that sensitivity to the chemicals PROP and PTC-2 well established measures of taste sensitivity-are associated with greater political conservatism, and that this association is partially statistically mediated by disgust sensitivity.