Dario Krpan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1835265 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dario Krpan |
| NOMBRES | Dario |
| APELLIDO | Krpan |
| FIRMA | KRPAN D |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3420-4672 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mainstream psychological and behavioural science meets anthropology
Transformative behavioural change refers to a profound and often radical shift in individuals’ actions and values. Mainstream WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) psychological and behavioural science, which is the dominant research tradition in Euro‐American contexts, has increasingly recognized such change as critical to tackling global challenges such as the climate crisis and widening social inequalities. However, t…
Do people better recognize inconsistencies in others’ moral judgments than their own? If so, why
This paper explores whether people are more likely to recognize inconsistency in others’ judgments than in their own, and if so, why. It reports two pre-registered online experiments with samples representative of the UK population (N = 814 and N = 1,623). In Study 1, people are more likely to recognize inconsistency in others’ moral (and non-moral) judgments than in their own. Study 2 replicates this finding and tests three explanations: (i) mot…
Assessing public support for degrowth
Stop, think, buy
Diet-related diseases are a global health concern, prompting governments to implement population-wide dietary improvements. In the UK, the traffic light system (TLS) of nutritional labelling aims to guide healthier food choices. However, concerns have arisen about whether retailer price promotions may counteract positive effects of the TLS on diet. To address these concerns, in the present research we investigated the effects of the TLS and price…
A call for precision in the study of behaviour and decision
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth
Predictors of partisan strength and in-party affect
Recent years have seen a global surge in affective polarization, extending from the US to European and Asian democracies. Concurrently, empirical research proliferates, exploring factors driving this rise, with significant focus on aspects like partisan strength and in-party affective attitude. This scoping review sheds light on investigated predictors of partisan strength and in-party affect and associated mechanisms of influence on the two key …
The aesthetic quality model
Visual complexity has been identified as a fundamental property that shapes the beauty of visual images. However, its exact influence on beauty judgments, and the mechanism behind this influence, remain a conundrum. In the present article, we developed and empirically evaluated the Aesthetic Quality Model, which proposes that the link between complexity and beauty depends on another key visual property—randomness. According to the model, beauty j…
Agenda for psychological and behavioural science of transformative behavioural change
Since the emergence of psychological and behavioural science, one of its foundational goals has been to explain human behaviour. Although the discipline has been highly successful in this endeavour, there is an elephant in the room. Psychological and behavioural science has neglected studying the most challenging aspect of human behaviour−transformative behavioural change. This change can be described as a fundamental and difficult-to-achieve shi…
The positive–negative–competence (PNC) model of psychological responses to representations of robots
Robots are becoming an increasingly prominent part of society. Despite their growing importance, there exists no overarching model that synthesizes people’s psychological reactions to robots and identifies what factors shape them. To address this, we created a taxonomy of affective, cognitive and behavioural processes in response to a comprehensive stimulus sample depicting robots from 28 domains of human activity (for example, education, hospita…
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During Covid-19
“You must stay at home!” This is how the UK Prime Minister announced lockdown in March 2020. Many countries implemented similarly assertive messages. Research, however, suggests that authoritative language can backfire by inciting psychological reactance (i.e., feelings of anger arising from threats to one’s autonomy). In a series of three studies, we therefore tested whether commanding versus control and noncommanding messages influence several …
When the Future “Spills Under”
We examined whether an expected future activity (exercise vs. relaxation) impacts a present behavior (performance on an intellectual task) that occurs prior to this activity. Across two experiments ( n = 320 and n = 466), the influence of expected exercise compared to relaxation on present intellectual performance was moderated by general self-efficacy (GSE)—a core personality trait that determines people’s confidence that they can surmount physi…
From libertarian paternalism to liberalism
Behavioural science has been effectively used by policy makers in various domains, from health to savings. However, interventions that behavioural scientists typically employ to change behaviour have been at the centre of an ethical debate, given that they include elements of paternalism that have implications for people's freedom of choice. In the present article, we argue that this ethical debate could be resolved in the future through implemen…
(When) should psychology be a science
Since its emergence in the 19 th century, academic psychology has striven to become accepted as a scientific discipline. This emphasis on “science” has led to many unprecedented advancements in the understanding of human behavior. However, the view that psychology must be approached as a science has become ingrained in the field over time, and critically discussing the implications of this notion has turned into a taboo. In this article, I examin…
Unburdening the Shoulders of Giants
In current academic psychology, scholars typically develop their research and ideas by drawing on the work of other contemporary and preceding psychological scientists and by following certain conventions of the field. I refer to this variant of psychology as connected because the emphasis is on connecting various research findings and ideas generated by different scholars (e.g., by showing how they are related to each other via referencing). In …
When behavioural science can make a difference in times of Covid-19
In a large study that involved 2637 participants recruited from a representative UK and US sample, we tested the influence of four behavioural interventions (versus control) on a range of behaviours important for reducing the spread of COVID-19 a day after the interventions were administered. Even if people largely complied with social distancing measures, our analyses showed that for certain subgroups of the population the interventions made a p…
Revisiting embodied approach and avoidance effects on behavior
(Not) Eating for the environment
Too close for comfort
The relationship between approach and avoidance motivational orientations and valenced stimuli has previously been discussed in relation to physical distance. However, it has remained unclear whether approach and avoidance can actually change how people perceive the physical distance to valenced stimuli. Drawing on research on motivational orientation and valence as well as the motivated perception account, we predicted that valenced stimuli inco…
When perception says “no” to action
(Not) Eating for the environment
When behavioural science can make a difference in times of Covid-19
In a large study that involved 2637 participants recruited from a representative UK and US sample, we tested the influence of four behavioural interventions (versus control) on a range of behaviours important for reducing the spread of COVID-19 a day after the interventions were administered. Even if people largely complied with social distancing measures, our analyses showed that for certain subgroups of the population the interventions made a p…
From libertarian paternalism to liberalism
Behavioural science has been effectively used by policy makers in various domains, from health to savings. However, interventions that behavioural scientists typically employ to change behaviour have been at the centre of an ethical debate, given that they include elements of paternalism that have implications for people's freedom of choice. In the present article, we argue that this ethical debate could be resolved in the future through implemen…
When perception says “no” to action
Agenda for psychological and behavioural science of transformative behavioural change
Since the emergence of psychological and behavioural science, one of its foundational goals has been to explain human behaviour. Although the discipline has been highly successful in this endeavour, there is an elephant in the room. Psychological and behavioural science has neglected studying the most challenging aspect of human behaviour−transformative behavioural change. This change can be described as a fundamental and difficult-to-achieve shi…
Too close for comfort
The relationship between approach and avoidance motivational orientations and valenced stimuli has previously been discussed in relation to physical distance. However, it has remained unclear whether approach and avoidance can actually change how people perceive the physical distance to valenced stimuli. Drawing on research on motivational orientation and valence as well as the motivated perception account, we predicted that valenced stimuli inco…
When perception says “no” to action
(Not) Eating for the environment
Revisiting embodied approach and avoidance effects on behavior
Unburdening the Shoulders of Giants
In current academic psychology, scholars typically develop their research and ideas by drawing on the work of other contemporary and preceding psychological scientists and by following certain conventions of the field. I refer to this variant of psychology as connected because the emphasis is on connecting various research findings and ideas generated by different scholars (e.g., by showing how they are related to each other via referencing). In …
When behavioural science can make a difference in times of Covid-19
In a large study that involved 2637 participants recruited from a representative UK and US sample, we tested the influence of four behavioural interventions (versus control) on a range of behaviours important for reducing the spread of COVID-19 a day after the interventions were administered. Even if people largely complied with social distancing measures, our analyses showed that for certain subgroups of the population the interventions made a p…
When the Future “Spills Under”
We examined whether an expected future activity (exercise vs. relaxation) impacts a present behavior (performance on an intellectual task) that occurs prior to this activity. Across two experiments ( n = 320 and n = 466), the influence of expected exercise compared to relaxation on present intellectual performance was moderated by general self-efficacy (GSE)—a core personality trait that determines people’s confidence that they can surmount physi…
From libertarian paternalism to liberalism
Behavioural science has been effectively used by policy makers in various domains, from health to savings. However, interventions that behavioural scientists typically employ to change behaviour have been at the centre of an ethical debate, given that they include elements of paternalism that have implications for people's freedom of choice. In the present article, we argue that this ethical debate could be resolved in the future through implemen…
(When) should psychology be a science
Since its emergence in the 19 th century, academic psychology has striven to become accepted as a scientific discipline. This emphasis on “science” has led to many unprecedented advancements in the understanding of human behavior. However, the view that psychology must be approached as a science has become ingrained in the field over time, and critically discussing the implications of this notion has turned into a taboo. In this article, I examin…
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During Covid-19
“You must stay at home!” This is how the UK Prime Minister announced lockdown in March 2020. Many countries implemented similarly assertive messages. Research, however, suggests that authoritative language can backfire by inciting psychological reactance (i.e., feelings of anger arising from threats to one’s autonomy). In a series of three studies, we therefore tested whether commanding versus control and noncommanding messages influence several …
The positive–negative–competence (PNC) model of psychological responses to representations of robots
Robots are becoming an increasingly prominent part of society. Despite their growing importance, there exists no overarching model that synthesizes people’s psychological reactions to robots and identifies what factors shape them. To address this, we created a taxonomy of affective, cognitive and behavioural processes in response to a comprehensive stimulus sample depicting robots from 28 domains of human activity (for example, education, hospita…
Predictors of partisan strength and in-party affect
Recent years have seen a global surge in affective polarization, extending from the US to European and Asian democracies. Concurrently, empirical research proliferates, exploring factors driving this rise, with significant focus on aspects like partisan strength and in-party affective attitude. This scoping review sheds light on investigated predictors of partisan strength and in-party affect and associated mechanisms of influence on the two key …
The aesthetic quality model
Visual complexity has been identified as a fundamental property that shapes the beauty of visual images. However, its exact influence on beauty judgments, and the mechanism behind this influence, remain a conundrum. In the present article, we developed and empirically evaluated the Aesthetic Quality Model, which proposes that the link between complexity and beauty depends on another key visual property—randomness. According to the model, beauty j…
Agenda for psychological and behavioural science of transformative behavioural change
Since the emergence of psychological and behavioural science, one of its foundational goals has been to explain human behaviour. Although the discipline has been highly successful in this endeavour, there is an elephant in the room. Psychological and behavioural science has neglected studying the most challenging aspect of human behaviour−transformative behavioural change. This change can be described as a fundamental and difficult-to-achieve shi…
Mainstream psychological and behavioural science meets anthropology
Transformative behavioural change refers to a profound and often radical shift in individuals’ actions and values. Mainstream WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) psychological and behavioural science, which is the dominant research tradition in Euro‐American contexts, has increasingly recognized such change as critical to tackling global challenges such as the climate crisis and widening social inequalities. However, t…
Do people better recognize inconsistencies in others’ moral judgments than their own? If so, why
This paper explores whether people are more likely to recognize inconsistency in others’ judgments than in their own, and if so, why. It reports two pre-registered online experiments with samples representative of the UK population (N = 814 and N = 1,623). In Study 1, people are more likely to recognize inconsistency in others’ moral (and non-moral) judgments than in their own. Study 2 replicates this finding and tests three explanations: (i) mot…
Assessing public support for degrowth
Stop, think, buy
Diet-related diseases are a global health concern, prompting governments to implement population-wide dietary improvements. In the UK, the traffic light system (TLS) of nutritional labelling aims to guide healthier food choices. However, concerns have arisen about whether retailer price promotions may counteract positive effects of the TLS on diet. To address these concerns, in the present research we investigated the effects of the TLS and price…
A call for precision in the study of behaviour and decision
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth
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