Thomas Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4681-0725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1901 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reframing Africa’s Image
People often counteract unwanted stereotypes by stating they are false, known as stereotype negation, but is this effective? The current work applies evaluative learning theories to Western portrayals of Africa, which are dominated by negative stereotypes around poverty, backwardness, and harsh nature. In four preregistered experiments, U.S. participants read statements about Africa that were framed either as positive facts (PFs) or as negated ne…
Learning to Like the Enemy
Affective polarization, the growing gap between negativity toward political outgroups and positivity toward political ingroups, threatens democracies. This preregistered research tested the effectiveness of a novel moral learning treatment, which combines the significance of morality with basic learning principles, in reducing affective polarization in the U.S. context. A pre-study demonstrated in-party preference, which was challenged in Experim…
What Causes What
Past research showed that Evaluative Conditioning (EC) effects are shaped by the framing of the relationship between conditioned stimuli (CS) and unconditioned stimuli (US). We tested if causal directionality—whether the CS causes the US or the US causes the CS—moderates EC effects. Across two preregistered experiments ( N = 680), participants viewed food brands (CSs) paired with facial expressions (USs). In Experiment 1, the EC effect was strong…
The Enduring Effect of Exposure to Moral Exemplars During Active Intergroup Tensions
Learning about outgroup individuals who risked their lives to save members of one’s ingroup can improve intergroup relations. However, previous studies have primarily focused on historical conflicts with clear intergroup boundaries, relied solely on self-report measures, and lacked assessments of durable effects. A preregistered preliminary experiment and a preregistered main experiment tested whether exposure to moral exemplars would improve the…
Community-Centred Public Health Responses
This study focuses on the lessons and challenges related to achieving an inclusive, equitable and effective risk communication and community engagement response to a pandemic, such as COVID-19. Challenges and lessons are examined in the context of an innovative model of partnership, collaboration, and coordination, which was piloted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), United Nations International Childr…
An Assimilative Effect of Stimulus Co-Occurrence on Evaluation Despite Contrasting Relational Information
The co-occurrence of a neutral stimulus with affective stimuli typically causes the neutral stimulus’s evaluation to shift toward the affective stimuli’s valence. Does that assimilative effect occur even when one knows the co-occurrence is due to an opposition relation between the stimuli (e.g., Batman stops crime)? Previous evidence tentatively supported that possibility, based on results compatible with an assimilative effect obscured by a larg…
Are Members of Political Out-Groups More Morally or Physically Disgusting
Recent research has found that Americans are disgusted by anonymous members of their political out-group. Determining whether the disgust elicited by political out-group members is more physical or moral may contribute to the understating of what enables its elicitation and regulation. Building on research showing the experience of moral disgust involves relatively abstract construal and the experience of physical disgust involves relatively conc…
Evaluative conditioning interventions
0.21). Analyses revealed some evidence favoring publication bias, including when controlling for significant moderators, but heterogeneity among the studies prevents a definitive conclusion. Results further revealed a more substantial effect on attitudinal and behavioral measures than behavioral intention measures, a larger effect on implicit evaluation than explicit evaluation measurements, and larger effects on immediate than delayed measuremen…
Can approach-avoidance instructions influence facial representations? A distinction between past- and future-oriented inferences
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses
Pairing a neutral object with a valenced stimulus often results in the former acquiring the valence of the latter (i.e., the Evaluative Conditioning [EC] effect). However, the pairing of an object with an affective stimulus is not always indicative of valence similarity. Three preregistered experiments (total N = 1052) explored EC effects when people were explicitly informed that pairings do not reflect valence similarity. In Experiment 1, inform…
Exemplar-based ingroup projection
Top-down racial biases in size perception
Examining Automatic Stereotyping From a Propositional Perspective
Research on automatic stereotyping is dominated by the idea that automatic stereotyping reflects the activation of (group–trait) associations. In two preregistered experiments (total N = 391), we tested predictions derived from an alternative perspective that suggests that automatic stereotyping is the result of the activation of propositional representations that, unlike associations, can encode relational information and have truth values. Expe…
Can (Instructions About) Stimulus Pairings Influence Automatic and Self-Reported Evaluations in the Presence of More Diagnostic Evaluative Information
Evaluative conditioning (EC) and persuasion are important pathways for shaping evaluations. However, little is known about how these pathways interact. Two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,510) examined effects of EC procedures (i.e., stimulus pairings) and EC instructions (i.e., instructions about stimulus pairings) on automatic and self-reported evaluations of social groups in the presence of more diagnostic information about the evaluati…
Testing the judgment-related account for the extinction of evaluative conditioning
Evaluative conditioning (EC) effects refer to changes in the liking of a neutral (conditioned) stimulus (CS) due to pairing with an affective (unconditioned) stimulus (US). Some research found that EC effects are resistant to presentations of the CS without the US, whereas other studies found evidence for extinction effects. A recent study found extinction of EC only when participants rated the CS before and after the CS-only presentations, but n…
The Camera Devoured
Pedro Costa’s Casa De Lava (1994) draws on the cannibalistic potential of cinema in order to excavate the history of colonialism in Cape Verde. Cannibalism operates in a two-fold manner in Casa. Firstly, it refers to Costa’s practice of employing cinematic references in order to draw out otherwise concealed elements of earlier films. Secondly, it denotes an aesthetic practice in which the film is cannibalised by the people and geography of Cape V…
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust
Previous research has distinguished between core disgust , elicited by revolting physical objects like spoiled food, and sociomoral disgust , elicited by violations of social norms or moral principles. We suggest that different levels of construal are involved in the elicitation of core disgust and moral disgust. Specifically, we predicted that the elicitation of core disgust involves more concrete than abstract construal, while the elicitation o…
Simultaneous ingroup and outgroup favoritism in implicit social cognition
The effect of the validity of co‐occurrence on automatic and deliberate evaluations
Co‐occurrence of an object and affective stimuli does not always mean that the object and the stimuli are the same valence (e.g., false accusations that Richard is a crook). Contemporary theory posits that information about the (in)validity of co‐occurrence has stronger influence on deliberate than automatic evaluation. However, available evidence supports that hypothesis only when the (in)validity information is delayed. Further, the existing ev…
Processing goals moderate the effect of co-occurrence on automatic evaluation
Chinese Modern
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolu…
High Culture Fever
Modernism and the Nativist Resistance
Introduction to This Special issue on Context in Design
Commentary on Borderline issues
Simultaneous ingroup and outgroup favoritism in implicit social cognition
Processing goals moderate the effect of co-occurrence on automatic evaluation
The effect of the validity of co‐occurrence on automatic and deliberate evaluations
Co‐occurrence of an object and affective stimuli does not always mean that the object and the stimuli are the same valence (e.g., false accusations that Richard is a crook). Contemporary theory posits that information about the (in)validity of co‐occurrence has stronger influence on deliberate than automatic evaluation. However, available evidence supports that hypothesis only when the (in)validity information is delayed. Further, the existing ev…
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses
Pairing a neutral object with a valenced stimulus often results in the former acquiring the valence of the latter (i.e., the Evaluative Conditioning [EC] effect). However, the pairing of an object with an affective stimulus is not always indicative of valence similarity. Three preregistered experiments (total N = 1052) explored EC effects when people were explicitly informed that pairings do not reflect valence similarity. In Experiment 1, inform…
The Camera Devoured
Pedro Costa’s Casa De Lava (1994) draws on the cannibalistic potential of cinema in order to excavate the history of colonialism in Cape Verde. Cannibalism operates in a two-fold manner in Casa. Firstly, it refers to Costa’s practice of employing cinematic references in order to draw out otherwise concealed elements of earlier films. Secondly, it denotes an aesthetic practice in which the film is cannibalised by the people and geography of Cape V…
Influences of sex composition, decision rule, and decision consequences in small group policy making
The Ethics of Wealth
Introduction to American History
Journal Article Introduction to American histrory. By James Albert Woodburn, professor of American history and politics, Indiana university, and Thomas Francis Moran, professor of history and economics, Purdue university. (New York: Longmans, Green, and company, 1916. 308 p. $.72) Get access O. M. Dickerson O. M. Dickerson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 4, Issue 1, June…
America at War
Journal Article America at war. A handbook of patriotic education references. By Albert Bushnell Hart. [Patriotic publications of the National security league] (New York: George H. Doran company, 1918. 425 p.) Get access Thomas F. Moran Thomas F. Moran Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 1919, Page 404, https://doi.org/10.2307/1886338 Published: 01 Decem…
American Presidents
Journal Article American Presidents: Their Individualities and Their Contributions to American Progress. By Thomas Francis Moran. (2nd ed., New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1928. xii + 318 pp. Portraits. $2.50.) Get access Reginald C. McGrane Reginald C. McGrane Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 15, Issue 3, December 1928, Pages 415–417, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892449…
American Presidents, Their Individualities and Their Contributions to American Progress
American Presidents, Their Individualities and Their Contributions to American Progress. By Thomas Francis Moran. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Louis Martin Sears. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1933. xii + 318 pp. Illustrations, $2.50.) Get access Roy M. Robbins Roy M. Robbins W. R. U. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 20, Issue 2, September 1933, Pages 304–…
Influences of sex composition, decision rule, and decision consequences in small group policy making
The ideal computer lab from floor to ceiling
Questions, Options, and Criteria
Design Space Analysis is an approach to representing design rationale. It uses a semiformal notation, called QOC (Questions, Options, and Criteria), to represent the design space around an artifact. The main constituents of QOC are Questions identifying key design issues, Options providing possible answers to the Questions, and Criteria for assessing and comparing the Options. Design Space Analysis also takes account of justifications for the des…
Introduction to This Special issue on Design Rationale
Introduction to This Special issue on Context in Design
Commentary on Borderline issues
Modernism and the Nativist Resistance
High Culture Fever
Chinese Modern
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolu…
Processing goals moderate the effect of co-occurrence on automatic evaluation
The effect of the validity of co‐occurrence on automatic and deliberate evaluations
Co‐occurrence of an object and affective stimuli does not always mean that the object and the stimuli are the same valence (e.g., false accusations that Richard is a crook). Contemporary theory posits that information about the (in)validity of co‐occurrence has stronger influence on deliberate than automatic evaluation. However, available evidence supports that hypothesis only when the (in)validity information is delayed. Further, the existing ev…
Simultaneous ingroup and outgroup favoritism in implicit social cognition
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust
Previous research has distinguished between core disgust , elicited by revolting physical objects like spoiled food, and sociomoral disgust , elicited by violations of social norms or moral principles. We suggest that different levels of construal are involved in the elicitation of core disgust and moral disgust. Specifically, we predicted that the elicitation of core disgust involves more concrete than abstract construal, while the elicitation o…
Testing the judgment-related account for the extinction of evaluative conditioning
Evaluative conditioning (EC) effects refer to changes in the liking of a neutral (conditioned) stimulus (CS) due to pairing with an affective (unconditioned) stimulus (US). Some research found that EC effects are resistant to presentations of the CS without the US, whereas other studies found evidence for extinction effects. A recent study found extinction of EC only when participants rated the CS before and after the CS-only presentations, but n…
The Camera Devoured
Pedro Costa’s Casa De Lava (1994) draws on the cannibalistic potential of cinema in order to excavate the history of colonialism in Cape Verde. Cannibalism operates in a two-fold manner in Casa. Firstly, it refers to Costa’s practice of employing cinematic references in order to draw out otherwise concealed elements of earlier films. Secondly, it denotes an aesthetic practice in which the film is cannibalised by the people and geography of Cape V…
Can (Instructions About) Stimulus Pairings Influence Automatic and Self-Reported Evaluations in the Presence of More Diagnostic Evaluative Information
Evaluative conditioning (EC) and persuasion are important pathways for shaping evaluations. However, little is known about how these pathways interact. Two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,510) examined effects of EC procedures (i.e., stimulus pairings) and EC instructions (i.e., instructions about stimulus pairings) on automatic and self-reported evaluations of social groups in the presence of more diagnostic information about the evaluati…
Examining Automatic Stereotyping From a Propositional Perspective
Research on automatic stereotyping is dominated by the idea that automatic stereotyping reflects the activation of (group–trait) associations. In two preregistered experiments (total N = 391), we tested predictions derived from an alternative perspective that suggests that automatic stereotyping is the result of the activation of propositional representations that, unlike associations, can encode relational information and have truth values. Expe…
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses
Pairing a neutral object with a valenced stimulus often results in the former acquiring the valence of the latter (i.e., the Evaluative Conditioning [EC] effect). However, the pairing of an object with an affective stimulus is not always indicative of valence similarity. Three preregistered experiments (total N = 1052) explored EC effects when people were explicitly informed that pairings do not reflect valence similarity. In Experiment 1, inform…
Exemplar-based ingroup projection
Top-down racial biases in size perception
Psychology (17 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 works) · History (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)