Simon Laham

Pixel asymmetry predicts between-object differences in the object-based compatibility effect

Shaheed Azaad, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

When participants make left/right responses to unimanually graspable objects, response times (RTs) are faster when the responding ..

Meta-Cognition Predicts Attitude Depolarization and Intentions to Engage With the Opposition Following Pro-Attitudinal Advocacy

Ravini S Abeywickrama, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychology

Abstract. Across two studies we show that attitudes can paradoxically depolarize when people advocate for their own opinions. In S..

Personality and moral judgment: Curious consequentialists and polite deontologists

Luke D Smillie, Milena Katic, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Personality

OBJECTIVE: How does our personality relate to the ways in which we judge right from wrong? Drawing on influential theories of mora..

Moral judgements of fairness-related actions are flexibly updated to account for contextual information

Milan Andrejevic, Daniel Feuerriegel, William Turner, Simon Laham, Stefan Bode

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

In everyday life we are constantly updating our moral judgements as we learn new information. However, this judgement updating pro..

Developing brief versions of the Moral Foundations Vignettes using a genetic algorithm-based approach

Damien L Crone, Joshua J Rhee, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Behavior Research Methods

Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries

Mark J Brandt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears, Luca Andrighetto, Frederique Autin, Peter Babincak, Constantina Badea, Jaechang Bae, Anatolia Batruch, Julia C Becker, Konrad Bocian, Bojana Bodroza, David Bourguignon, Marcin Bukowski, Fabrizio Butera, Sarah E Butler, Xenia Chryssochoou, Paul Conway, Jarret T Crawford, Jean-Claude Croizet, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of Social Psychology

The principle of discrimination: Investigating perceptions of soldiers

Hanne M Watkins, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Why moral advocacy leads to polarization and proselytization: The role of self-persuasion

RS Abeywickrama, JJ Rhee, DL Crone, SM Laham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Social and Political Psychology

This research is the first to examine the effects of moral versus practical pro-attitudinal advocacy in the context of self-persua..

Social Dominance Orientation Predicts Opposition to Hierarchy-Attenuating Intergroup Apologies

Kanishka Karunaratne, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2019  |  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

People who value social hierarchy may resist giving intergroup apologies because such apologies may attenuate the very hierarchies..

Sidestepping spatial confounds in object-based correspondence effects: The Bimanual Affordance Task (BMAT)

Shaheed Azaad, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2019  |  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Tucker and Ellis found that when participants made left/right button-presses to indicate whether objects were upright or inverted,..