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Social theory

Are Luxury Brand Labels and “Green” Labels Costly Signals of Social Status? An Extended Replication

Joël Berger

Why conspiracy theorists are not always paranoid: Conspiracy theories and paranoia form separate factors with distinct psychological predictors

Azzam Alsuhibani, Mark Shevlin, [ ... ], Richard P. Bentall

What Are Punishment and Reputation for?

Max M. Krasnow, Leda Cosmides, Eric J. Pedersen, John Tooby

Development and validation of scales for speaking self-efficacy: Constructs, sources, and relations

Yawen Wang, Peijian Paul Sun

The Impact of Emotional Solidarity on Residents’ Attitude and Tourism Development

Ali Hasani, Sedigheh Moghavvemi, Amran Hamzah

Interventions to address unequal gender and power relations and improve self-efficacy and empowerment for sexual and reproductive health decision-making for women living with HIV: A systematic review

Jennifer L. Robinson, Manjulaa Narasimhan, [ ... ], Caitlin Elizabeth Kennedy

The Influence of Social Comparison on Visual Representation of One's Face

Ethan Zell, Emily Balcetis

Conceptualizing Community Mobilization for HIV Prevention: Implications for HIV Prevention Programming in the African Context

Sheri A. Lippman, Suzanne Maman, [ ... ], Audrey Pettifor

Videos about older adults on TikTok

Reuben Ng, Nicole Indran

The applicability of social cognitive career theory in predicting life satisfaction of university students: A meta-analytic path analysis

Roziah Mohd Rasdi, Seyedali Ahrari

Are diverse societies less cohesive? Testing contact and mediated contact theories

Sarah McKenna, Eunro Lee, [ ... ], Katherine J. Reynolds

Impacts of different interactive elements on consumers’ purchase intention in live streaming e-commerce

Xiaoli Liu, Lei Zhang

Stakeholder theory and management: Understanding longitudinal collaboration networks

Julian Fares, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Alireza Abbasi

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