Taciano L Milfont

Biographic Data

ID74556
NAMETaciano L Milfont
GIVEN NAMESTaciano L
FAMILY NAMEMilfont
SIGNATUREMILFONT T L
AFFILIATIONSVictoria University of Wellington
ORCID0000-0001-6838-6307
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS87
TOTAL CITATIONS311
AUTHOR COUNT87
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Selective Moral Leniency Toward Culturally Embedded Animal Exploitation

    Open AccessKristof Dhont, Ana C Leite et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2026

    Moral concern for animals is widely endorsed, yet people appear to make exceptions for practices of animal exploitation rooted in their own cultural traditions. In two studies (total N = 1,318), we tested whether support for culturally embedded practices of animal exploitation varies with cultural ingroup-outgroup origin as well as with ideological and identity-based factors. Across the United States (Study 1), Norway, Spain, and Australia (Study…

  • Institutional quality shapes who citizens hold responsible for climate change mitigation

    Open AccessChristoph Klebl, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026

    Public beliefs about who is primarily responsible for climate change mitigation vary widely across countries, and little is known about what explains this variation. Drawing on data from 106 countries ( N = 101,728), we examined how indicators of national institutional quality (government effectiveness, regulatory quality, control of corruption, and rule of law) shape people's attributions of climate responsibility to governments, businesses, and…

  • Narratives of Deforestation in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Olli Hellmann, Natasha Tassell-Matamua et al.ARTICLEMemory studies review2025

    This article examines how collective memories of deforestation in Aotearoa New Zealand shape pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, engaging with the “non-human turn” in memory studies. While acknowledging the field’s expansion to include non-human nature as an object of remembrance, we argue that environmental memory remains deeply influenced by human agency and social contexts. Two empirical studies inform the conclusions we draw. A high-p…

  • Further testing a dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people

    Open AccessFelipe Vilanova, Damião Soares De Almeida-Segundo et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

  • Which Cultural Dimensions Predict Variations in Emotional Conformity? An Extension of Vishkin et al. (2023) Across 28 Nations

    Open AccessP B Smith, Alexander Kirchner-Häusler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2025

    Despite being a classic social psychology topic, cultural variability in conformity has only been examined systematically in the last few decades. Vishkin et al. reported evidence that conformity of experienced emotions and of valued emotions is stronger in individualistic cultures. We tested the replicability of this finding using data from 28 nations ( N = 6,168), incorporating two further relevant cultural predictors of cultural differences: f…

  • Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries

    Open AccessNiels G Mede, Viktoria Cologna et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2025References: 11

    This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…

  • Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

    Open AccessDaniel Toribio-Florez, Marlene Altenmüller et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2025Cited by: 1References: 77

    Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related c…

  • Environmental influences on mental health

    Open AccessM Hobbs, Elena Moltchanova et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025References: 5

  • Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

    Open AccessViktoria Cologna, Niels G Mede et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Cited by: 7References: 76

    Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…

  • Predictors of compliance with Covid-19 guidelines across countries

    Open AccessAnne M Blackburn, Angélique M Blackburn et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

  • Political Common Ground on Preserving Nature

    Open AccessMatthew I Billet, Adam Baimel et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Behavior2024

    Environmental issues are becoming increasingly politically polarized, making common ground essential. This research investigated the political common ground of environmental motives—the reasons why nature is worth preserving. Natural language processing of liberals’ and conservatives’ open text responses (Study 1: N = 1,544) identified 12 central motives. Political common ground was shared on the most cited motives: Human survival, moral obligati…

  • Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries

    Open AccessNorbert Mesko, Marta Kowal et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2024

    The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic exposure) in 69,924 participants across 87 countries. Two self-report measures of Acceptance of Suga…

  • Validation of the Short Version (TLS-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45) across 37 Languages

    Open AccessMarta Kowal, P Sorokowski et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2024

    Love is a phenomenon that occurs across the world and affects many aspects of human life, including the choice of, and process of bonding with, a romantic partner. Thus, developing a reliable and valid measure of love experiences is crucial. One of the most popular tools to quantify love is Sternberg’s 45-item Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45), which measures three love components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. However, our literature review re…

  • A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs

    Open AccessLaura J Ferris, Matthew J Hornsey et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2024

    Lay beliefs about human trait heritability are consequential for cooperation and social cohesion, yet there has been no global characterisation of these beliefs. Participants from 30 countries ( N = 6128) reported heritability beliefs for intelligence, personality, body weight and criminality, and transnational factors that could influence these beliefs were explored using public nation-level data. Globally, mean lay beliefs differ from published…

  • The pesky problem of defining a ‘pest’

    Open AccessAlexandra Palmer, Alexandra P Palmer et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2024

    The Pest Management Attitudes (PMA) scale was developed to provide a unidimensional and versatile tool to assess attitudes toward introduced pests and their management. While the PMA has been tested and shown strong psychometric properties in samples from Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ), it is only beginning to be used internationally. This study tested the utility and influence of wording of the PMA scale in the United Kingdom (UK), using a 2021 surv…

  • Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism

    Open AccessMagdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Artur Sawicki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2024References: 33

  • Perceived personal control and subjective well-being among farmers

    Open AccessPhilip Brown, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2024References: 10

  • Social Psychological Studies of Latin American Cultures with Particular Reference to Brazil

    Open AccessP B Smith, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLEOnline Readings in Psychology and…2023

    This paper presents an English language translation of a book chapter that was originally published in Portuguese. It is reproduced here in full, by kind permission of the editors and publishers, in order to make it available to English language speakers. The paper first addresses ways of defining culture and the development of measures of cultural variation. Contrasts between the collectivism that defines East Asian culture and the collectivism …

  • An Investigation into Heritage, Sustainability, and Place Attachment

    Mazin Bahho, Brenda Vale et al.ARTICLEHeritage & Society2023

    Heritage not only concerns old buildings, but also the layered quality of historic places. These are buildings or sites that help create a sense of value, discovery, and mystery that can lead to increased levels of place attachment. The Ōtātara site in Hawke’s Bay is one of the oldest villages in New Zealand with strong historic, cultural, and spiritual associations with local indigenous Māori. In 1975, an arts program was established there in an…

  • Meta-analysis of personality trait differences between omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans

    Open AccessMarina E Reist, Wiebke Bleidorn et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Cited by: 4References: 54

  • Short version of the right-wing authoritarianism scale for the Brazilian context

    Open AccessFelipe Vilanova, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2023Cited by: 1References: 36

    Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) is a central predictor of distinct phenomena such as prejudice, voting behavior, corruption, conspiratory beliefs and dietary habits. Given its theoretical and practical relevance, researchers have incorporated RWA measures in large-scale surveys but their length can be an impediment. Although short RWA scales exist, none consider the cultural variability of the RWA structure in non-WEIRD contexts such as Brazil.…

  • Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness

    Open AccessMarta Kowal, P Sorokowski et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2022

    People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. We also test hypoth…

  • Consideration of future consequences (CFC)

    Open AccessRoosevelt Vilar, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2022

  • Climate Crisis as a Catalyst to Advance Indigenous Rights

    Open AccessNathan Gray, Ariana E Athy et al.ARTICLEMAI Journal A New Zealand Journal…2022

    Climate change is the most grievous threat of the 21st century and disproportionately affects politically marginalised communities such as Indigenous peoples. As custodians of approximately 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, Indigenous cultures have practised sustainable management of ecosystems and resources over millennia providing vital pathways for humanity to better mitigate accelerating climate change impacts. This article argues that a righ…

  • Belief in Luck and Precognition Around the World

    Open AccessE A Harris, Taciano L Milfont et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2022

    Although magical beliefs (such as belief in luck and precognition) are presumably universal, the extent to which such beliefs are embraced likely varies across cultures. We assessed the effect of culture on luck and precognition beliefs in two large-scale multinational studies (Study 1: k = 16, N = 17,664; Study 2: k = 25, N = 4,024). Over and above the effects of demographic factors, culture was a significant predictor of luck and precognition b…