Todd Lucas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3794010 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Todd Lucas |
| NOMBRES | Todd |
| APELLIDO | Lucas |
| FIRMA | LUCAS T |
| AFILIACIONES | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8785-1830 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Just World Beliefs in a Time of Crisis
Belief in a just world (BJW) is well established as a coping resource, particularly for those times when the world is experienced as uncertain, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was such a time, and therefore provided an opportunity to test the boundary conditions of BJW theorizing. Here, we make a new methodological contribution, testing (a) cross-lagged panel effects of BJW on mental health and well-bein…
Lung cancer disparities in rural, persistent poverty counties
Smoking, lung cancer incidence, and lung cancer mortality are highest in counties that are both rural and persistent poverty, suggesting an urgent need to develop targeted lung cancer interventions in these communities
Medical Mistrust and Sars-CoV-2 Antibody Testing Among African Americans and White Americans
Recent research suggests that in addition to structural barriers (e.g., access), psychosocial factors like medical mistrust can influence uptake of COVID-19 tools and treatments. However, less is known about racial differences in how medical mistrust affects SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing. We evaluated whether medical mistrust alters receptivity to SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing, and whether this influence differs across race. African American ( N = 29…
Believing in Justice for Self and Others
Believing in justice can enhance health, especially if one believes the world is personally fair (justice beliefs for self). However, health benefits conferred by believing in justice may be nuanced for racial minorities, whose lived experiences may also reinforce links from health outcomes to beliefs about justice more generally (justice beliefs for others). Across two studies, we consider how the belief in a just world for self and others are r…
Complex effects of racism and discrimination on African Americans' health and well-being
Moderators of the effects of perceived racism and discrimination on cancer-related health behaviors among two samples of African Americans
Fairness and forgiveness
Justice beliefs buffer against perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: African Americans develop and die from colorectal cancer (CRC) more than any other racial group in the United States. Perceived barriers to screening (e.g. embarrassment and financial costs) likely exacerbate these disparities. Identifying psychological factors that can reduce the impact of perceived barriers and encourage CRC screening is therefore critical. This study explored whether believing the world is fairer for oneself than i…
Writing about justice and injustice
The Neurogenetics of Racial Injustice
Perceived Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Multisystem Stress Response to Social Evaluative Threat Among African American Men and Women
OBJECTIVE: Understanding individual differences in the psychobiology of the stress response is critical to grasping how psychosocial factors contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities. However, the ways in which environmentally sensitive biological systems coordinate in response to acute stress is not well understood. We used a social-evaluative stress task to investigate coordination among the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pitui…
Justice, perceived threat and vaccination intention in the USA
Guided by the Extended Parallel Process Model, this experiment demonstrates how perceived fairness in health resource policy decisions can influence both the protective action and denial-oriented health threat responses of policy affected individuals. Students from a large urban university in the Midwestern USA (n = 127) read about a purported illness and were told about a vaccination that would soon be available to them through their university.…
Distributive and Procedural Justice for Self and Others
Tendencies to believe in justice are multidimensional, and some justice beliefs enhance personal well-being. These features suggest a considerable but largely overlooked potential for similarities and differences in the structure, endorsement, and wellness-promoting functions of justice beliefs across cultures. In the current research, we evaluate a recently available four-factor conceptualization of justice beliefs in samples of university stude…
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
Distributive Justice for Others, Collective Angst, and Support for Exclusion of Immigrants
Harsh treatment of others can reflect an underlying motivation to view the world as fair and just and also a dispositional tendency to believe in justice. However, there is a critical need to refine and expand existing knowledge, not only to identify underlying psychological processes but also to better understand how justice may be implicated in support for exclusionary policies. Across two studies, we show that support for policies that restric…
Marital Satisfaction Across Three Cultures
U.S. studies indicate that children tend to stabilize marriage but, paradoxically, to reduce marital satisfaction. To explore whether this finding exists in a similar fashion in other cultures, the authors studied the impact of number of children on spousal love in the United States, United Kingdom, and Turkey, while accounting for other marital demographics (such as duration of marriage and the ages of wives and husbands). The number of children…
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Cultural and Evolutionary Components of Marital Satisfaction
Couples assess their satisfaction with one another according to numerous culturally determined criteria. However, evolutionary perspectives on marriage emphasize that husbands and wives are also concerned with their adaptive fitness, and this suggests that some aspects of marital satisfaction may be cross-culturally homogenous. We examined whether marital satisfaction reflects both `culturally unique' and `adaptively universal' concerns of husban…
The relationship between self‐reported received and perceived social support
Social support is broad term encompassing a variety of constructs, including support perceptions (perceived support) and receipt of supportive behaviors (received support). Of these constructs, only perceived support has been regarded as consistently linked to health, and researchers have offered differing assessments of the strength of the received‐perceived support relationship. An overall estimate of the received‐perceived support relationship…
Distributive Justice for Others, Collective Angst, and Support for Exclusion of Immigrants
Harsh treatment of others can reflect an underlying motivation to view the world as fair and just and also a dispositional tendency to believe in justice. However, there is a critical need to refine and expand existing knowledge, not only to identify underlying psychological processes but also to better understand how justice may be implicated in support for exclusionary policies. Across two studies, we show that support for policies that restric…
Marital Satisfaction Across Three Cultures
U.S. studies indicate that children tend to stabilize marriage but, paradoxically, to reduce marital satisfaction. To explore whether this finding exists in a similar fashion in other cultures, the authors studied the impact of number of children on spousal love in the United States, United Kingdom, and Turkey, while accounting for other marital demographics (such as duration of marriage and the ages of wives and husbands). The number of children…
Cultural and Evolutionary Components of Marital Satisfaction
Couples assess their satisfaction with one another according to numerous culturally determined criteria. However, evolutionary perspectives on marriage emphasize that husbands and wives are also concerned with their adaptive fitness, and this suggests that some aspects of marital satisfaction may be cross-culturally homogenous. We examined whether marital satisfaction reflects both `culturally unique' and `adaptively universal' concerns of husban…
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Writing about justice and injustice
Distributive and Procedural Justice for Self and Others
Tendencies to believe in justice are multidimensional, and some justice beliefs enhance personal well-being. These features suggest a considerable but largely overlooked potential for similarities and differences in the structure, endorsement, and wellness-promoting functions of justice beliefs across cultures. In the current research, we evaluate a recently available four-factor conceptualization of justice beliefs in samples of university stude…
Moderators of the effects of perceived racism and discrimination on cancer-related health behaviors among two samples of African Americans
Complex effects of racism and discrimination on African Americans' health and well-being
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
The relationship between self‐reported received and perceived social support
Social support is broad term encompassing a variety of constructs, including support perceptions (perceived support) and receipt of supportive behaviors (received support). Of these constructs, only perceived support has been regarded as consistently linked to health, and researchers have offered differing assessments of the strength of the received‐perceived support relationship. An overall estimate of the received‐perceived support relationship…
Cultural and Evolutionary Components of Marital Satisfaction
Couples assess their satisfaction with one another according to numerous culturally determined criteria. However, evolutionary perspectives on marriage emphasize that husbands and wives are also concerned with their adaptive fitness, and this suggests that some aspects of marital satisfaction may be cross-culturally homogenous. We examined whether marital satisfaction reflects both `culturally unique' and `adaptively universal' concerns of husban…
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Marital Satisfaction Across Three Cultures
U.S. studies indicate that children tend to stabilize marriage but, paradoxically, to reduce marital satisfaction. To explore whether this finding exists in a similar fashion in other cultures, the authors studied the impact of number of children on spousal love in the United States, United Kingdom, and Turkey, while accounting for other marital demographics (such as duration of marriage and the ages of wives and husbands). The number of children…
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
Distributive Justice for Others, Collective Angst, and Support for Exclusion of Immigrants
Harsh treatment of others can reflect an underlying motivation to view the world as fair and just and also a dispositional tendency to believe in justice. However, there is a critical need to refine and expand existing knowledge, not only to identify underlying psychological processes but also to better understand how justice may be implicated in support for exclusionary policies. Across two studies, we show that support for policies that restric…
Justice, perceived threat and vaccination intention in the USA
Guided by the Extended Parallel Process Model, this experiment demonstrates how perceived fairness in health resource policy decisions can influence both the protective action and denial-oriented health threat responses of policy affected individuals. Students from a large urban university in the Midwestern USA (n = 127) read about a purported illness and were told about a vaccination that would soon be available to them through their university.…
Distributive and Procedural Justice for Self and Others
Tendencies to believe in justice are multidimensional, and some justice beliefs enhance personal well-being. These features suggest a considerable but largely overlooked potential for similarities and differences in the structure, endorsement, and wellness-promoting functions of justice beliefs across cultures. In the current research, we evaluate a recently available four-factor conceptualization of justice beliefs in samples of university stude…
Perceived Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Multisystem Stress Response to Social Evaluative Threat Among African American Men and Women
OBJECTIVE: Understanding individual differences in the psychobiology of the stress response is critical to grasping how psychosocial factors contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities. However, the ways in which environmentally sensitive biological systems coordinate in response to acute stress is not well understood. We used a social-evaluative stress task to investigate coordination among the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pitui…
The Neurogenetics of Racial Injustice
Fairness and forgiveness
Justice beliefs buffer against perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: African Americans develop and die from colorectal cancer (CRC) more than any other racial group in the United States. Perceived barriers to screening (e.g. embarrassment and financial costs) likely exacerbate these disparities. Identifying psychological factors that can reduce the impact of perceived barriers and encourage CRC screening is therefore critical. This study explored whether believing the world is fairer for oneself than i…
Writing about justice and injustice
Complex effects of racism and discrimination on African Americans' health and well-being
Moderators of the effects of perceived racism and discrimination on cancer-related health behaviors among two samples of African Americans
Just World Beliefs in a Time of Crisis
Belief in a just world (BJW) is well established as a coping resource, particularly for those times when the world is experienced as uncertain, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was such a time, and therefore provided an opportunity to test the boundary conditions of BJW theorizing. Here, we make a new methodological contribution, testing (a) cross-lagged panel effects of BJW on mental health and well-bein…
Lung cancer disparities in rural, persistent poverty counties
Smoking, lung cancer incidence, and lung cancer mortality are highest in counties that are both rural and persistent poverty, suggesting an urgent need to develop targeted lung cancer interventions in these communities
Medical Mistrust and Sars-CoV-2 Antibody Testing Among African Americans and White Americans
Recent research suggests that in addition to structural barriers (e.g., access), psychosocial factors like medical mistrust can influence uptake of COVID-19 tools and treatments. However, less is known about racial differences in how medical mistrust affects SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing. We evaluated whether medical mistrust alters receptivity to SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing, and whether this influence differs across race. African American ( N = 29…
Believing in Justice for Self and Others
Believing in justice can enhance health, especially if one believes the world is personally fair (justice beliefs for self). However, health benefits conferred by believing in justice may be nuanced for racial minorities, whose lived experiences may also reinforce links from health outcomes to beliefs about justice more generally (justice beliefs for others). Across two studies, we consider how the belief in a just world for self and others are r…
Psychology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Economic Justice (6 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras)