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Spassena Koleva
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 19
Citations - 4235
Spassena Koleva is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Moral disengagement & Morality. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 19 publications receiving 3468 citations. Previous affiliations of Spassena Koleva include University of California & New York University.
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Mapping the Moral Domain
TL;DR: The Moral Foundations Questionnaire is developed on the basis of a theoretical model of 5 universally available (but variably developed) sets of moral intuitions and convergent/discriminant validity evidence suggests that moral concerns predict personality features and social group attitudes not previously considered morally relevant.
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Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes
TL;DR: This paper studied the psychological underpinnings of culture war attitudes using Moral Foundations Theory and found that endorsement of five moral foundations predicted judgments about these issues over and above ideology, age, gender, religious attendance, and interest in politics.
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Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
TL;DR: Across 16 measures in a large web-based sample that included 11,994 self-identified libertarians, libertarian values showed convergent relationships with libertarian emotional dispositions and social preferences, adding to a growing recognition of the role of personality differences in the organization of political attitudes.
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Reducing Implicit Racial Preferences: I. A Comparative Investigation of 17 Interventions
Calvin K. Lai,Maddalena Marini,Steven A. Lehr,Carlo Cerruti,Jiyun Elizabeth L. Shin,Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba,Arnold K. Ho,Arnold K. Ho,Bethany A. Teachman,Sean P. Wojcik,Spassena Koleva,Spassena Koleva,Spassena Koleva,Rebecca S. Frazier,Larisa Heiphetz,Eva E. Chen,Rhiannon Turner,Jonathan Haidt,Selin Kesebir,Carlee Beth Hawkins,Hillary S. Schaefer,Sandro Rubichi,Giuseppe Sartori,Christopher M. Dial,N. Sriram,Mahzarin R. Banaji,Brian A. Nosek +26 more
TL;DR: Eight of 17 interventions were effective at reducing implicit preferences for Whites compared with Blacks, particularly ones that provided experience with counterstereotypical exemplars, used evaluative conditioning methods, and provided strategies to override biases.
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Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions.
Calvin K. Lai,Maddalena Marini,Steven A. Lehr,Carlo Cerruti,Jiyun Elizabeth L. Shin,Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba,Arnold K. Ho,Bethany A. Teachman,Sean P. Wojcik,Spassena Koleva,Rebecca S. Frazier,Larisa Heiphetz,Eva E. Chen,Rhiannon Turner,Jonathan Haidt,Selin Kesebir,Carlee Beth Hawkins,Hillary S. Schaefer,Sandro Rubichi,Giuseppe Sartori,Christopher M. Dial,N. Sriram,Mahzarin R. Banaji,Brian A. Nosek +23 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a research contest to compare interventions for reducing the expression of implicit racial prejudice and found that the most potent interventions were those that invoked high self-involvement or linked Black people with positivity and White people with negativity.