Pursuing Safety in Social Connection: A Flexibly Fluid Perspective on Risk Regulation in Relationships

SL Murray, GS Pascuzzi - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
People are fundamentally motivated to be included in social connections that feel safe,
connections where they are consistently cared for and protected, not hurt or exploited …

Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.

SL Murray, JK McNulty, J Xia… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A new goal-systems model is proposed to help explain when individuals will protect
themselves against the risks inherent to social connection. This model assumes that people …

“You want to be politically correct”: Opposition to political correctness predicts less adherence to COVID‐19 guidelines in the US

CD Mackey, K Rios, E Johnson - Journal of Applied Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has demonstrated that conservative individuals (relative to liberal
individuals) were less likely to adhere to COVID‐19 guidelines (eg, social distancing). We …

[HTML][HTML] Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation

VM Lamarche, MD Seery, SL Murray… - Current Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The proposed model of ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation posits that close
relationships offer symbolic safety when natural ecologically-based threats activate the need …

[HTML][HTML] The germ aversion paradox: When germ aversion predicts reduced alpha power suppression to norm violations

S Kitayama, CE Salvador, J Ackerman - Current Research in Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prior work shows that germ-averse individuals are more norm-abiding than their less germ-
averse counterparts in the absence of any germ threat. However, it is unclear if germ …

[PDF][PDF] Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

S Kitayama, CE Salvador, J Ackerman - Current Research in …, 2023 - sites.duke.edu
Prior work shows that germ-averse individuals are more norm-abiding than their less germ-
averse counterparts in the absence of any germ threat. However, it is unclear if germ …

Understanding How Social Ties and Prison Mindset Affect Recidivism in the Cameroon Prison System

JM Atabong - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The focus in this qualitative study was on whether and how the bonds and mindsets inmates
formed while incarcerated led them to or deterred them from returning to crime and …