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Researcher
Vera Hoorens
- Disciplines:Social psychology, Psychological methods, Other pedagogical and educational sciences
Affiliations
- Methods, Individual and Cultural Differences, Affect and Social Behavior (Research unit)
Member
From1 Apr 2022 → Today - Social and Cultural Psychology (Research group)
Member
From23 Mar 2001 → 31 Mar 2022
Projects
1 - 10 of 19
- Is fluency the message? Exploring the causal role of cognitive ease in the more-less asymmetry in comparative communicationFrom1 Oct 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Does feeling holier than others make one more or less moral? The effect of the belief in moral self- superiority on moral judgment, action, and sanctioningFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Are old folks wise, or are they wiser than youngsters? How the wording of claims about social groups spreads stereotypes.From4 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Comparative Legal ThinkingFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Does feeling holier than others make one more or less moral? The effect of the belief in moral self-superiority on moral judgment, action, and sanctioning.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Are old folks wise, or are they wiser than youngsters? How the wording of claims about social groups spreads stereotypes.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- 'We All Knew': A Historical, Empirical-Theological Study of Bystandership in Cases of Transgressive Behavior Towards Minors Within Flemish Church ContextsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The Influence of Claim Wordings on Intuitive Truth PerceptionFrom26 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Sabbatical Hoorens: From information to insight. A theoretical and didactical contemplationFrom1 Oct 2021 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO Prices and sabbaticals (before FWO undefined), BOF - mobility
- The more you tell me how and why to avoid spreading COVID-19, the more I feel I can spare myself the trouble. Enhancing compliance with measures against COVID-19 by counteracting side-effects of appeals for preventive behaviour.From1 Nov 2020 → 31 Oct 2021Funding: FWO thematic call for applied research
Publications
21 - 30 of 54
- Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries(2020)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Pages: 1276 - 1291 - Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID-19; implications for adherence with lockdown advice.(2020)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Pages: 1502 - 1511 - The Hubris Hypothesis: People particularly dislike explicitly comparative braggers from their ingroup(2019)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Pages: 405 - 424 - Het zelf(2017)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Pages: 71 - 128Number of pages: 58 - Expectation(2017)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Pages: 142 - 149 - The hubris hypothesis: The downside of comparative optimism displays(2017)
Authors: Vera Hoorens, Carolien Van Damme
Pages: 45 - 55 - When praising yourself insults others: Self-superiority claims provoke aggression(2017)
Authors: Eline Van Geert, Vera Hoorens
Pages: 1008 - 1019 - Macht, meningen en na-apers. Thema's uit de sociale psychologie(2016)
Authors: Vera Hoorens
Number of pages: 464 - Why self-enhancement provokes dislike: The hubris hypothesis and the aversiveness of explicit self-superiority claims(2016)
Authors: Carolien Van Damme, Vera Hoorens
Pages: 173 - 190 - Indirect stereotype change in artificial and real-life stereotypes(2016)
Authors: Joke Claes, Carolien Van Damme, Vera Hoorens
Pages: 55 - 80