Catherine Molho
Biographic Data
| ID | 193468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Molho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Molho |
| SIGNATURE | MOLHO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2846-2544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gossip or confrontation? Sanctioning environmental norm violations and the reputation of punishers
Prior research has shown that peer punishment can promote norm adherence, but people's perceptions of whether and how environmentally harmful behaviors should be sanctioned remain underexplored. Shedding light on this question is important because normative consensus regarding environmental behaviors varies considerably, from strong and widely shared norms to weak or absent norms. Study 1 documents this normative variation by mapping norm percept…
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: Testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan
Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations.Across two studies sampling from Japan, we tested a socio-functional account of these two other-condemning moral emotions, which predicts differential associations of anger and disgust with direct versus indirect aggression.Study 1 (N = 1,231) revealed that anger relates to motives to ag…
Breaking the Silence: White Privilege Intervention in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts typically avoid using the term “race”, instead adopting a broader “diversity inclusion” framework that shifts focus from racial inequalities to cultural differences. Our project aimed to introduce, test, and apply a framework to reduce color‐evasive racial attitudes while fostering empathy among White participants toward racialized individuals. We tested a video intervention desig…
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust
The modern world affords unprecedented opportunities for individuals to express moral sentiments. The widespread distribution of one specific type of sentiment — outrage — has consequences for social and political harmony. The current investigation contributes to better understanding these consequences by examining what types of aggression people expect from the outraged. Furthermore, it delineates how these expectations are shaped by the emotion…
(In)Alienable Worth? Cultural Logics of Dignity, Honor, and Face and their Links to Prosociality Across the World
Cultural logic is a set of cultural scripts and patterns organized around a central theme. The cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face describe different ways of evaluating a person’s worth and maintaining cooperation. These cultural logics vary in prevalence across cultures. In this study, we collaboratively develop and validate a measure capturing these cultural logics, which will allow us to map world cultures based on the prevalence of th…
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust
The same moral violation can give rise to different emotional and behavioral responses in different individuals. The mechanisms that give rise to such differences – and the functions that those mechanisms serve – are unclear. Previous work suggests that people experience greater anger toward violations that target themselves or kin than those that target others, whereas they experience greater disgust toward violations that target others than tho…
Giving (in) to help an identified person
People give more to a person in need when this person's identity is known. Such altruistic behaviors may arise from a genuine concern for the person, leading people to give. Alternatively, altruistic behavior may also arise from one's attempt to reduce the guilt of not giving, leading people to give in. Is the increased altruism towards an identified (vs. unidentified) charity recipient driven by a genuine concern for the person or by guilt? The …
Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures
Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion, we investigate whether anger and shame connect to different behavioral intentions in dignity, face, and honor cultures. Using simple animations that showed perpetrators taking resources from victims, …
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people
Direct and indirect punishment of norm violations in daily life
Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory experiments. Here, we report a longitudinal study documenting punishment responses to norm violations in daily life ( k = 1507; N = 257) and test pre-registered hypotheses about the antecedents of direct punishment (i.e., confrontation) and indirect punishment (i.e., gossi…
Fostering Attachment Security: The Role of Interdependent Situations
This work adopts an Interdependence Theory framework to investigate how the features of interdependent situations that couples face in their daily life (i.e., situations in which partners influence each other's outcomes) shape attachment security toward their current partners. An experience sampling study examined attachment tendencies and features of interdependent situations that people experience with their partner in daily life to predict sat…
Interdependence and cooperation in daily life
Philosophers and scientists have long debated the nature of human social interactions and the prevalence of mutual dependence, conflict of interests, and power asymmetry in social situations. Yet, there is surprisingly little empirical work documenting the patterns of interdependence that people experience in daily life. We use experience sampling to study how people think about 3 dimensions of interdependence in daily life and how these dimensio…
Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship
How do people think about interdependence? A multidimensional model of subjective outcome interdependence
Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of social interactions. Interdependence Theory states that 6 dimensions describe differences between social situations. Here we examine if these 6 dimensions describe how people think about their interdependence with others in a situation. We find that people (in situ and ex situ) can reliably differentiate situations according to 5, but not 6, dimensions of interdependence: (a) mutual dependence, (…
Pathogen disgust requires no defense: A response to Shook, Terrizzi, Clay, & Oosterhoff (2015)
Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies?
How do people think about interdependence? A multidimensional model of subjective outcome interdependence
Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of social interactions. Interdependence Theory states that 6 dimensions describe differences between social situations. Here we examine if these 6 dimensions describe how people think about their interdependence with others in a situation. We find that people (in situ and ex situ) can reliably differentiate situations according to 5, but not 6, dimensions of interdependence: (a) mutual dependence, (…
Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship
Interdependence and cooperation in daily life
Philosophers and scientists have long debated the nature of human social interactions and the prevalence of mutual dependence, conflict of interests, and power asymmetry in social situations. Yet, there is surprisingly little empirical work documenting the patterns of interdependence that people experience in daily life. We use experience sampling to study how people think about 3 dimensions of interdependence in daily life and how these dimensio…
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people
Breaking the Silence: White Privilege Intervention in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts typically avoid using the term “race”, instead adopting a broader “diversity inclusion” framework that shifts focus from racial inequalities to cultural differences. Our project aimed to introduce, test, and apply a framework to reduce color‐evasive racial attitudes while fostering empathy among White participants toward racialized individuals. We tested a video intervention desig…
Giving (in) to help an identified person
People give more to a person in need when this person's identity is known. Such altruistic behaviors may arise from a genuine concern for the person, leading people to give. Alternatively, altruistic behavior may also arise from one's attempt to reduce the guilt of not giving, leading people to give in. Is the increased altruism towards an identified (vs. unidentified) charity recipient driven by a genuine concern for the person or by guilt? The …
Pathogen disgust requires no defense: A response to Shook, Terrizzi, Clay, & Oosterhoff (2015)
Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies?
How do people think about interdependence? A multidimensional model of subjective outcome interdependence
Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of social interactions. Interdependence Theory states that 6 dimensions describe differences between social situations. Here we examine if these 6 dimensions describe how people think about their interdependence with others in a situation. We find that people (in situ and ex situ) can reliably differentiate situations according to 5, but not 6, dimensions of interdependence: (a) mutual dependence, (…
Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship
Direct and indirect punishment of norm violations in daily life
Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory experiments. Here, we report a longitudinal study documenting punishment responses to norm violations in daily life ( k = 1507; N = 257) and test pre-registered hypotheses about the antecedents of direct punishment (i.e., confrontation) and indirect punishment (i.e., gossi…
Fostering Attachment Security: The Role of Interdependent Situations
This work adopts an Interdependence Theory framework to investigate how the features of interdependent situations that couples face in their daily life (i.e., situations in which partners influence each other's outcomes) shape attachment security toward their current partners. An experience sampling study examined attachment tendencies and features of interdependent situations that people experience with their partner in daily life to predict sat…
Interdependence and cooperation in daily life
Philosophers and scientists have long debated the nature of human social interactions and the prevalence of mutual dependence, conflict of interests, and power asymmetry in social situations. Yet, there is surprisingly little empirical work documenting the patterns of interdependence that people experience in daily life. We use experience sampling to study how people think about 3 dimensions of interdependence in daily life and how these dimensio…
Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures
Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion, we investigate whether anger and shame connect to different behavioral intentions in dignity, face, and honor cultures. Using simple animations that showed perpetrators taking resources from victims, …
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people
Giving (in) to help an identified person
People give more to a person in need when this person's identity is known. Such altruistic behaviors may arise from a genuine concern for the person, leading people to give. Alternatively, altruistic behavior may also arise from one's attempt to reduce the guilt of not giving, leading people to give in. Is the increased altruism towards an identified (vs. unidentified) charity recipient driven by a genuine concern for the person or by guilt? The …
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust
The modern world affords unprecedented opportunities for individuals to express moral sentiments. The widespread distribution of one specific type of sentiment — outrage — has consequences for social and political harmony. The current investigation contributes to better understanding these consequences by examining what types of aggression people expect from the outraged. Furthermore, it delineates how these expectations are shaped by the emotion…
(In)Alienable Worth? Cultural Logics of Dignity, Honor, and Face and their Links to Prosociality Across the World
Cultural logic is a set of cultural scripts and patterns organized around a central theme. The cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face describe different ways of evaluating a person’s worth and maintaining cooperation. These cultural logics vary in prevalence across cultures. In this study, we collaboratively develop and validate a measure capturing these cultural logics, which will allow us to map world cultures based on the prevalence of th…
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust
The same moral violation can give rise to different emotional and behavioral responses in different individuals. The mechanisms that give rise to such differences – and the functions that those mechanisms serve – are unclear. Previous work suggests that people experience greater anger toward violations that target themselves or kin than those that target others, whereas they experience greater disgust toward violations that target others than tho…
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: Testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan
Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations.Across two studies sampling from Japan, we tested a socio-functional account of these two other-condemning moral emotions, which predicts differential associations of anger and disgust with direct versus indirect aggression.Study 1 (N = 1,231) revealed that anger relates to motives to ag…
Breaking the Silence: White Privilege Intervention in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts typically avoid using the term “race”, instead adopting a broader “diversity inclusion” framework that shifts focus from racial inequalities to cultural differences. Our project aimed to introduce, test, and apply a framework to reduce color‐evasive racial attitudes while fostering empathy among White participants toward racialized individuals. We tested a video intervention desig…
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries
Gossip or confrontation? Sanctioning environmental norm violations and the reputation of punishers
Prior research has shown that peer punishment can promote norm adherence, but people's perceptions of whether and how environmentally harmful behaviors should be sanctioned remain underexplored. Shedding light on this question is important because normative consensus regarding environmental behaviors varies considerably, from strong and widely shared norms to weak or absent norms. Study 1 documents this normative variation by mapping norm percept…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Disgust (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (5 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 works)