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Olga Stavrova

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ID201879
NOMEOlga Stavrova
PRENOMESOlga
SOBRENOMEStavrova
ASSINATURASTAVROVA O
AFILIAÇÕESTilburg University
ORCID0000-0002-6079-4151
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES137
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H7
  • Trajectories of Psychological Outcomes During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2026

    The 2024 U.S. presidential election seemed to have the potential to profoundly impact the national economy, financial markets, and geopolitics. Did Donald Trump’s re-election influence Americans’ psychology as well? We conducted a 7-wave longitudinal survey tracking N = 623 Americans (36% male, M age = 45.05 years ( SD age = 22.97) from 3 weeks before the election to 16 weeks after. As the election results came in, Democratic supporters reported …

  • Socioeconomic and Immigration Disparities in Ostracism

    Open Access•Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2026

    Does ostracism disproportionally affect certain groups? Which groups are at greater risk, and in which social domains (e.g., family, workplace)? To address these questions, we adopted a descriptive approach, leveraging a probability-based sample of Dutch adults, with 5,290 participants and 22,075 ratings of ostracism experiences in various social domains. The distribution of ostracism ratings was zero-inflated and extremely skewed: the majority o…

  • Psychological Forecasting in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2026

    Can people accurately predict how major political events will affect their views of themselves and the world? We assessed people’s accuracy in forecasting their affective reactions and changes in enduring psychological traits to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In a three-wave longitudinal study, people made forecasts of their affective states and traits encompassing well-being (life satisfaction, meaning in life), views of the self (self-est…

  • Unobscuring the Concept of Tax Morale

    Open Access•Žiga Puklavec, Christoph Kogler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Business Ethics•2025

    Enhancing tax morale is considered crucial for increasing tax compliance, reducing tax evasion, and decreasing the shadow economy. Despite its clear importance within tax research and policy development, there is surprisingly little consensus about what tax morale is. To address this problem, a systematic literature review of 323 articles was conducted. The review summarizes the many different definitions and operationalizations of tax morale, re…

  • Don’t Drag Me Down

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, W J Chopik•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2025

    There is a notable similarity in psychological well-being among romantic partners. Drawing on valence asymmetry research (e.g., negativity bias), we tested whether partners’ convergence toward a similar level of well-being is marked by the happier partner’s over-time deterioration or by the less happy partner’s over-time improvement. In two studies using nationally representative samples of German and Dutch couples ( N couples =21,894) followed f…

  • Changes in psychological well-being across the transition to motherhood

    Chau B Tran, Katya Ivanova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2025

    Becoming a parent is a major life event associated with changes in psychological well-being. Existing research has often focused on the long-term development of trait well-being, leaving several gaps unaddressed. The current preregistered study employed three waves of intensive longitudinal data, including 7-day experience sampling data per wave, to investigate psychological well-being trajectories across the transition to motherhood. This approa…

  • Ostracism in everyday life

    Christiane M Büttner, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2025•Citada por: 3

    7,943 assessments including 767 ostracism experiences in 7 days) show that ostracism is an aversive experience that takes place in a range of contexts and relationships, as often as two to three times per week on average. Reconciling previously mixed findings regarding ostracism's effects on behavior and extending existing theory, we propose a novel framework of behavioral reactions based on need-threat levels: When psychological needs are severe…

  • Investigating lived ostracism

    Open Access•Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Social Psychology•2025•Citada por: 3•Referências: 1

    The field of ostracism research is witnessing a growing interest in understanding ostracism - being excluded and ignored - as a lived experience outside of the laboratory context. How do researchers draw valid causal conclusions about naturally occurring experiences of ostracism without relying on experimental designs? In this article, we draw on insights from the well-established causal inference framework to emphasize a critical step for streng…

  • Turning the Camera Off in Virtual Interactions Can Harm the Reputation

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2025•Referências: 66

    Virtual communication on digital‐meeting platforms is increasingly common in work, educational and other settings. One contentious issue concerns camera use. Some suggest keeping the camera off to mitigate ‘Zoom fatigue’, whereas others argue that keeping the camera on is a sign of dedication and engagement. Here, we conducted an experiment to examine the effects of camera use from two perspectives: the perspective of actors and observers. Partic…

  • Does protection come at a cost? A random stimuli approach to investigating the (side-)effects of misinformation inoculations

    Open Access•Teodora Spiridonova, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2025•Referências: 4

  • Exploring the Morality of Tax Morale

    Open Access•Žiga Puklavec, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 5

    Tax morale, commonly measured as a moral evaluation of cheating on taxes, is important for shaping policy to increase voluntary compliance. Although tax morale is commonly understood as citizens' moral responsibility to pay taxes, there is a dearth of empirical research on whether and how differences in basic morality shape tax morale. Three studies investigated associations between moral ideals, as defined by Moral Foundations Theory, and tax mo…

  • Transition to Parenthood

    Open Access•Chau B Tran, Katya Ivanova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2024

    Parenthood is often assumed to profoundly impact well-being. Yet, few studies have explored how the transition to parenthood relates to parent’s family-life satisfaction, and existing research has produced conflicting results. We propose that expected costs and rewards of having children (individual differences in the perceived value of children in one’s life) could explain the mixed findings. Following respondents in a nationally representative …

  • In control but uninspired

    Open Access•Michail D Kokkoris, Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2024•Referências: 49

    Previous research highlighted the interpersonal benefits of self‐control in professional contexts: People prefer high self‐control individuals as work or study partners and expect them to perform better than low self‐control individuals. We show that these benefits of self‐control reverse in the artistic domain. Results of one pilot study and five preregistered online experiments ( N = 1644) reveal that artists with high (vs. low) self‐control ar…

  • Cynical people desire power but rarely acquire it

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2024•Citada por: 2•Referências: 80

    Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism-for cynics themselves and the people around them-render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power to avoid exploitation by others (and less so to exploit …

  • Alone in a Crowd

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Dong Ren•ARTICLE•Journal of Happiness Studies•2023

    People are often advised to engage in social contact to cope with the experience of loneliness and improve well-being. But are the moments of loneliness actually more bearable when spent in other people’s company? In this research, we proposed and tested two conflicting theoretical accounts regarding the role of social contact: social contact is associated with a stronger (the amplifying account) or with a weaker (the buffering account) negative …

  • The Effects of Partner Extraversion and Agreeableness on Trust

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anthony M Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2023

    Existing research has documented the social benefits (i.e., higher popularity and liking) of extraversion and agreeableness. Do these positive reputational consequences extend to social dilemma situations that require trust? We found that people do not trust extraverts more than introverts. Instead, people’s trust decisions are guided by their partner’s level of agreeableness. In a trust game (Studies 1 and 2), individuals were more likely to tru…

  • Does a pandemic context attenuate people's negative perception and meta‐perception of solitude

    Open Access•Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•International Journal of Psychology•2023

    Solitude—the state of being alone without social interactions—is a common experience in everyday life. Despite that spending time alone can be enjoyable and functional, solitude is often stigmatised: People who engage in solitary activities are perceived negatively (negative perceptions of solitude) and anticipate a negative judgement from others (negative meta‐perceptions of solitude). Using the COVID‐19 pandemic as a backdrop, we examined wheth…

  • Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality

    Open Access•Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2023

    OBJECTIVE: People value solitude for themselves. Yet little is known about how people perceive dispositional preference for solitude in others. Does dispositional preference for solitude represent a protective factor from psychological distress during times of social distancing? And do laypeople have accurate beliefs about the role of preference for solitude? METHOD: = 1418) at the early and a later stage of the COVID-19 pandemic using experiment…

  • Cynical, But Useful

    Teodora Spiridonova, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology•2023•Citada por: 1•Referências: 43

    Cynicism - the belief that people are driven primarily by self-interest - has been predominantly associated with detrimental consequences for individuals and organizations. Less is known about its potentially positive implications. We investigated whether lay people consider cynicism helpful in preventing antisocial behavior and therefore see value in cynical leaders. We found that people viewed cynical (vs. trusting) leaders as better at detecti…

  • Consensus and (lack of) accuracy in perceptions of avatar trustworthiness

    Open Access•Maria Machneva, Anthony M Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2022

    In some online interactions, people use avatars to represent themselves and judge whether interaction partners should be trusted. However, little is known about human accuracy in perceptions of avatar trustworthiness. We conducted a two-stage study to investigate whether people are able to accurately judge trustworthiness in avatars. In Stage 1, participants created avatars using avatarmaker.com and made decisions as trustees in an incentivized t…

  • Low Self-Control

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2022

    Loneliness has been associated with multiple negative outcomes. But what contributes to loneliness in the first place? Drawing from the literature on the importance of self-regulatory ability for successful social functioning, the present research explored the role of low self-control as a factor leading to loneliness. A set of four studies (and three additional studies in Supplementary Online Materials ) using cross-sectional, experimental, dail…

  • Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the Covid-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work

    Open Access•Anthony M Evans, Maria Christina Meyers et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2022

    At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations around the world rapidly transitioned to enforced remote work. We examined the relationship between personality and within-person changes in five job outcomes (self-reported performance, engagement, job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover intentions) during this transition. We conducted a four-wave longitudinal study, from May to August 2020, of employees working from home due to COVID-19, …

  • Examining the accuracy of lay beliefs about the effects of personality on prosocial behavior

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anthony M Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Behavioral Decision…•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 9

    Prior research on personality and prosocial behavior has focused on actor‐level effects of personality by examining which personality traits predict individuals' prosocial behavior. But do lay people take into account others' personality when making predictions of others' future prosocial behavior? The present research was designed to answer this question. We focused on two interpersonal traits from the Big Five model, agreeableness and extravers…

  • Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anne K Reitz et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2022•Citada por: 1•Referências: 56

    Theories and laboratory research in social psychology associate parenthood with increased vigilance and distrust. Yet, longitudinal studies examining whether the transition to parenthood affects trust in real life are lacking. We examined the temporal dynamics of trust surrounding the transition to parenthood in a sample of adults followed for up to 12 years. We used discontinuous change models and propensity score matching to compare first-time …

  • Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections

    Open Access•Sangmin Kim, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 37

    Despite widespread recognition that conspiracy theories carry the potential for serious harm, relatively little research has investigated possible antidotes to conspiracy beliefs. Previous theorizing posits that belief in conspiracy theories is driven in part by existential motives related to a sense of control and social motives aimed at maintaining a positive image of oneself and one's ingroup. Using electoral contests as the context, we invest…

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  • Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2013•Citada por: 36•Referências: 76

  • Are the unemployed equally unhappy all around the world? The role of the social norms to work and welfare state provision in 28 OECD countries

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Thomas Schlösser et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Psychology•2011•Citada por: 16•Referências: 55

  • Single Parents, Unhappy Parents? Parenthood, Partnership, and the Cultural Normative Context

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer•ARTICLE•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 55

    Although the question of whether parenthood is generally beneficial for well-being is currently being hotly debated in the social sciences, single parents are nearly unanimously assumed to be worse off than their partnered counterparts. The present research questions this finding by demonstrating that whether single parents are actually less happy than partnered parents depends on a country's cultural norms regarding childbearing practices. Using…

  • Married and cohabiting parents' well-being

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2015•Citada por: 10•Referências: 93

    Research of personal relationships has typically linked childbearing in cohabiting (compared to married) couples to decreased well-being. Using data from 24 European countries, we show that this effect is not universal; rather, it is restricted to countries with a strong social norm that proscribes childbearing in cohabiting unions. We examine two potential mechanisms of this effect; the personal norm (cohabiting parents are worse off because the…

  • Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections

    Open Access•Sangmin Kim, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 37

    Despite widespread recognition that conspiracy theories carry the potential for serious harm, relatively little research has investigated possible antidotes to conspiracy beliefs. Previous theorizing posits that belief in conspiracy theories is driven in part by existential motives related to a sense of control and social motives aimed at maintaining a positive image of oneself and one's ingroup. Using electoral contests as the context, we invest…

  • Cohabitation, Gender, and Happiness

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•2012•Citada por: 9•Referências: 57

    Research commonly finds married people to be slightly happier than unmarried cohabitors-the phenomenon referred to as the cohabitation gap. In this article, we examine several relationships. First, we consider whether there are gender differences in the cohabitation gap; second, whether these gender differences are the same in different countries; and third, whether national differences in the gender role norms and gender equity in economic empow…

  • Are conservatives happier than liberals? Not always and not everywhere

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Maike Luhmann•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 30

  • Nonlinear effect of social interaction quantity on psychological well-being

    Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2021•Citada por: 6•Referências: 7

    Social contact is an important ingredient of a happy and satisfying life. But is more social contact necessarily better? Although it is well-established that increasing the quantity of social interactions on the low end of its spectrum promotes psychological well-being, the effect of interaction quantity on the high end remains largely unexplored. We propose that the effect of interaction quantity is nonlinear; specifically, at high levels of int…

  • Cynical beliefs about human nature and income

    Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2016•Citada por: 5

    Based on the existing literature on worldview beliefs, cynical hostility, and Machiavellian cynicism, we suggest that holding cynical beliefs about human nature can be detrimental for individuals' income. Cynical individuals are more likely to avoid cooperation and trust or to overinvest in monitoring, control, and other means of protection from potential exploitation. As a result, they are more likely to forgo valuable opportunities for cooperat…

  • Examining the accuracy of lay beliefs about the effects of personality on prosocial behavior

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anthony M Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Behavioral Decision…•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 9

    Prior research on personality and prosocial behavior has focused on actor‐level effects of personality by examining which personality traits predict individuals' prosocial behavior. But do lay people take into account others' personality when making predictions of others' future prosocial behavior? The present research was designed to answer this question. We focused on two interpersonal traits from the Big Five model, agreeableness and extravers…

  • When and why is helping others good for well‐being? The role of belief in reciprocity and conformity to society's expectations

    Open Access•Cristina Oarga, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 65

    This research investigates the relation between informal help and subjective well‐being and its underlying mechanisms using a cross‐national perspective. We focus on two potential mechanisms derived from the self‐determination theory and conformity to the social norms literature. From the standpoint of self‐determination theory, helping others is good for well‐being if it is intrinsically motivated, rather than driven by the expectation of recipr…

  • Ostracism in everyday life

    Christiane M Büttner, Dong Ren et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2025•Citada por: 3

    7,943 assessments including 767 ostracism experiences in 7 days) show that ostracism is an aversive experience that takes place in a range of contexts and relationships, as often as two to three times per week on average. Reconciling previously mixed findings regarding ostracism's effects on behavior and extending existing theory, we propose a novel framework of behavioral reactions based on need-threat levels: When psychological needs are severe…

  • Investigating lived ostracism

    Open Access•Dong Ren, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Social Psychology•2025•Citada por: 3•Referências: 1

    The field of ostracism research is witnessing a growing interest in understanding ostracism - being excluded and ignored - as a lived experience outside of the laboratory context. How do researchers draw valid causal conclusions about naturally occurring experiences of ostracism without relying on experimental designs? In this article, we draw on insights from the well-established causal inference framework to emphasize a critical step for streng…

  • Cynical people desire power but rarely acquire it

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2024•Citada por: 2•Referências: 80

    Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism-for cynics themselves and the people around them-render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power to avoid exploitation by others (and less so to exploit …

  • Does life satisfaction predict reemployment? Evidence form German panel data

    Open Access•Damaris Rose, Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Psychology•2019•Citada por: 2•Referências: 64

  • How regional personality affects individuals’ life satisfaction

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2015•Citada por: 2•Referências: 16

  • Exploring the Morality of Tax Morale

    Open Access•Žiga Puklavec, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 5

    Tax morale, commonly measured as a moral evaluation of cheating on taxes, is important for shaping policy to increase voluntary compliance. Although tax morale is commonly understood as citizens' moral responsibility to pay taxes, there is a dearth of empirical research on whether and how differences in basic morality shape tax morale. Three studies investigated associations between moral ideals, as defined by Moral Foundations Theory, and tax mo…

  • Cynical, But Useful

    Teodora Spiridonova, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology•2023•Citada por: 1•Referências: 43

    Cynicism - the belief that people are driven primarily by self-interest - has been predominantly associated with detrimental consequences for individuals and organizations. Less is known about its potentially positive implications. We investigated whether lay people consider cynicism helpful in preventing antisocial behavior and therefore see value in cynical leaders. We found that people viewed cynical (vs. trusting) leaders as better at detecti…

  • Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anne K Reitz et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2022•Citada por: 1•Referências: 56

    Theories and laboratory research in social psychology associate parenthood with increased vigilance and distrust. Yet, longitudinal studies examining whether the transition to parenthood affects trust in real life are lacking. We examined the temporal dynamics of trust surrounding the transition to parenthood in a sample of adults followed for up to 12 years. We used discontinuous change models and propensity score matching to compare first-time …

  • Expressions of Doubt in Online News Discussions

    Open Access•Anthony M Evans, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 14

    Online discussions about politics and current events play a growing role in public life, and they can foster positive outcomes (e.g., civic engagement and political participation) and negative outcomes (e.g., hostility and polarization). The present research examines how the use of doubtful (vs. confident) language influences behavior in online discussions of current events. We examine the effects of doubtful language on comment popularity (i.e.,…

  • Choosing goals that express the true self

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Tila M Pronk et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Citada por: 1•Referências: 30

    Why is trait self‐control associated with successful goal progress? Existing research has attempted to answer this question by focusing on individual differences in the process of goal pursuit. Herein, we propose and test a novel mechanism suggesting that self‐control facilitates goal attainment not only by affecting the process of goal pursuit but also the type of goals people select in the first place. Three studies showed that high (vs. low) s…

  • Examining the trade‐off between confidence and optimism in future forecasts

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anthony M Evans•ARTICLE•Journal of Behavioral Decision…•2018•Citada por: 1•Referências: 10

    Confident business forecasters are seen as more credible and competent (“confidence heuristic”). We explored a boundary condition of this effect by examining how individuals react to the trade‐off between confidence and optimism. Using hypothetical scenarios, we examined this trade‐off from the perspectives of judges (i.e., business owners who hired analysts to make sales predictions) and forecasters (i.e., the analysts hired to make predictions)…

  • Justice Concerns Can Feed Nationalistic Concerns and Impede Solidarity in the Euro Crisis

    Open Access•Tobias Rothmund, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 48

  • The role of magical thinking in forecasting the future

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Andrea Meckel•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 67

    This article explores the role of magical thinking in the subjective probabilities of future chance events. In five experiments, we show that individuals tend to predict a more lucky future (reflected in probability judgements of lucky and unfortunate chance events) for someone who happened to purchase a product associated with a highly moral person than for someone who unknowingly purchased a product associated with a highly immoral person. In t…

  • Are the unemployed equally unhappy all around the world? The role of the social norms to work and welfare state provision in 28 OECD countries

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Thomas Schlösser et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Psychology•2011•Citada por: 16•Referências: 55

  • Cohabitation, Gender, and Happiness

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•2012•Citada por: 9•Referências: 57

    Research commonly finds married people to be slightly happier than unmarried cohabitors-the phenomenon referred to as the cohabitation gap. In this article, we examine several relationships. First, we consider whether there are gender differences in the cohabitation gap; second, whether these gender differences are the same in different countries; and third, whether national differences in the gender role norms and gender equity in economic empow…

  • Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2013•Citada por: 36•Referências: 76

  • Religion, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2015

    Existing research, mostly based on the data from the United States, suggests that religiosity contributes to better health and longevity. This article explores the association between religiosity and self-rated health across 59 countries and shows that the positive association between religiosity and self-rated health is an exception found in a relatively small number of countries. Consistent with the person–culture fit literature, Study 1 shows …

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Romantic Relationship Formation

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2015

    In line with the sexual selection for altruism hypothesis, research has shown that men and women typically prefer hypothetical partners who are described as prosocial to otherwise similar individuals. In this study, we consider this hypothesis in the real world by examining whether prosocial behavior conveys actual benefits in terms of real-life mating success. Using a nationally representative annual panel data set, we examine the impact of sing…

  • How regional personality affects individuals’ life satisfaction

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2015•Citada por: 2•Referências: 16

  • When and why is helping others good for well‐being? The role of belief in reciprocity and conformity to society's expectations

    Open Access•Cristina Oarga, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 65

    This research investigates the relation between informal help and subjective well‐being and its underlying mechanisms using a cross‐national perspective. We focus on two potential mechanisms derived from the self‐determination theory and conformity to the social norms literature. From the standpoint of self‐determination theory, helping others is good for well‐being if it is intrinsically motivated, rather than driven by the expectation of recipr…

  • Married and cohabiting parents' well-being

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2015•Citada por: 10•Referências: 93

    Research of personal relationships has typically linked childbearing in cohabiting (compared to married) couples to decreased well-being. Using data from 24 European countries, we show that this effect is not universal; rather, it is restricted to countries with a strong social norm that proscribes childbearing in cohabiting unions. We examine two potential mechanisms of this effect; the personal norm (cohabiting parents are worse off because the…

  • Single Parents, Unhappy Parents? Parenthood, Partnership, and the Cultural Normative Context

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Detlef Fetchenhauer•ARTICLE•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 55

    Although the question of whether parenthood is generally beneficial for well-being is currently being hotly debated in the social sciences, single parents are nearly unanimously assumed to be worse off than their partnered counterparts. The present research questions this finding by demonstrating that whether single parents are actually less happy than partnered parents depends on a country's cultural norms regarding childbearing practices. Using…

  • Social connectedness as a source and consequence of meaning in life

    Olga Stavrova, Maike Luhmann•ARTICLE•The Journal of Positive Psychology•2016

    Multiple studies have shown that the sense of belonging and connectedness contribute to meaning in life, but does meaning also influence social connectedness? The present research examines the reciprocal relationships between meaning and different types of connectedness: intimate, relational, and collective. Analyzing data from a nationally representative longitudinal study (Study 1) with cross-lagged panel models, we found that only collective c…

  • Overfulfilling the Norm

    Olga Stavrova, Vanessa Köneke et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology•2016•Referências: 5

    This research extends the better-than-average (BTA) effect commonly observed in judgments of abilities and personality traits to the domain of attitudes. Participants reported their attitudes toward 18 sociopolitical issues and estimated the attitudes of most other people toward these issues. Consistent with the research on pro-norm and anti-norm deviance, for issues high (vs. low) in the injunctive norm, participants perceived their attitudes to…

  • Are conservatives happier than liberals? Not always and not everywhere

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Maike Luhmann•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 30

  • Cynical beliefs about human nature and income

    Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2016•Citada por: 5

    Based on the existing literature on worldview beliefs, cynical hostility, and Machiavellian cynicism, we suggest that holding cynical beliefs about human nature can be detrimental for individuals' income. Cynical individuals are more likely to avoid cooperation and trust or to overinvest in monitoring, control, and other means of protection from potential exploitation. As a result, they are more likely to forgo valuable opportunities for cooperat…

  • Justice Concerns Can Feed Nationalistic Concerns and Impede Solidarity in the Euro Crisis

    Open Access•Tobias Rothmund, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 48

  • The role of magical thinking in forecasting the future

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Andrea Meckel•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 67

    This article explores the role of magical thinking in the subjective probabilities of future chance events. In five experiments, we show that individuals tend to predict a more lucky future (reflected in probability judgements of lucky and unfortunate chance events) for someone who happened to purchase a product associated with a highly moral person than for someone who unknowingly purchased a product associated with a highly immoral person. In t…

  • Education as an Antidote to Cynicism

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2018

    Although cynical beliefs about human nature yield numerous adverse consequences for individuals’ life outcomes and well-being, very little is known about factors that counteract the development of cynical beliefs. Drawing from the literature on the “education effect” describing the importance of education in overcoming close-mindedness and negative views of others, we propose that education can represent an antidote to cynicism. The results of tw…

  • Finding meaning in self-control

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Tila M Pronk et al.•ARTICLE•Self and Identity•2018

    The present research explored whether self-control is associated with the perception of meaning in life. A week-long daily diary study (Study 1) showed trait self-control (but not daily experiences of self-control failure) to be positively associated with a general sense of meaning in life and daily experiences of meaning. This association was robust against controlling for life satisfaction, positive and negative affect. Study 2 tested two poten…

  • Examining the trade‐off between confidence and optimism in future forecasts

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Anthony M Evans•ARTICLE•Journal of Behavioral Decision…•2018•Citada por: 1•Referências: 10

    Confident business forecasters are seen as more credible and competent (“confidence heuristic”). We explored a boundary condition of this effect by examining how individuals react to the trade‐off between confidence and optimism. Using hypothetical scenarios, we examined this trade‐off from the perspectives of judges (i.e., business owners who hired analysts to make sales predictions) and forecasters (i.e., the analysts hired to make predictions)…

  • The synergistic effect of prosociality and physical attractiveness on mate desirability

    Open Access•Daniel Ehlebracht, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2018•Referências: 61

    Mate selection requires a prioritization and joint evaluation of different traits present or absent in potential mates. Herein, we focus on two such traits - physical attractiveness and prosociality - and examine how they jointly shape impressions of overall desirability. We report on two related experiments which make use of an innovative methodology combining large samples of raters and target persons (i.e., stimuli) and information on targets'…

  • Social Perception of Forecasters

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2019

    While people’s forecasts of future outcomes are often guided by their preferences (“desirability bias”), it has not been explored yet whether people infer others’ preferences from their forecasts. Across 3 experiments and overall 30 judgments, forecasters who thought that a particular future outcome was likely (vs. unlikely) were perceived as having a stronger preference for this outcome. Individuals were more likely to infer preferences from for…

  • How Much Do Sources of Happiness Vary Across Countries? A Review of the Empirical Literature

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…•2019

    This article presents a review of empirical research exploring cross-national differences in the correlates of subjective well-being (SWB). I start by giving an overview of the concept of SWB across psychological, sociological, and economic literature. Measures of SWB have good cross-cultural validity, yet there is currently little consensus regarding the cultural universality of the definition of happiness. An overview of existing empirical lite…

  • Does life satisfaction predict reemployment? Evidence form German panel data

    Open Access•Damaris Rose, Olga Stavrova•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Psychology•2019•Citada por: 2•Referências: 64

  • Choosing goals that express the true self

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Tila M Pronk et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Citada por: 1•Referências: 30

    Why is trait self‐control associated with successful goal progress? Existing research has attempted to answer this question by focusing on individual differences in the process of goal pursuit. Herein, we propose and test a novel mechanism suggesting that self‐control facilitates goal attainment not only by affecting the process of goal pursuit but also the type of goals people select in the first place. Three studies showed that high (vs. low) s…

  • Expressions of doubt and trust in online user reviews

    Open Access•Anthony M Evans, Olga Stavrova et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2021

    How do expressions of doubt affect trust in online reviews? Some previous studies find that people trust confident advisors more than doubtful advisors, whereas others find doubtful advisors are trusted more. We tested the effects of expressing doubt using Yelp data and in a controlled experiment: In Study 1, reviews from Yelp (N = 5.9 million) were coded using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) software. Reviews with doubtful language were…

  • Does Using Social Media Jeopardize Well-Being? The Importance of Separating Within- From Between-Person Effects

    Open Access•Olga Stavrova, Jaap J A Denissen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2021

    Social networking sites (SNS) are frequently criticized as a driving force behind rising depression rates. Yet empirical studies exploring the associations between SNS use and well-being have been predominantly cross-sectional, while the few existing longitudinal studies provided mixed results. We examined prospective associations between SNS use and multiple indicators of well-being in a nationally representative sample of Dutch adults ( N ∼ 10,…

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