Andras N Zsido
Biographic Data
| ID | 205775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andras N Zsido |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andras N |
| FAMILY NAME | Zsido |
| SIGNATURE | ZSIDO A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pecs |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0506-6861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 38 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anticipatory attentional avoidance in learned threat associations
The processing of threatening content tends to take priority over neutral or other emotional stimuli. Compared to other attentional biases (in response to threat), less research has been dedicated to understanding anticipatory attentional avoidance, and existing studies on this topic have yielded mixed results. In this study, we investigated anticipatory attentional avoidance, focusing on how predictive cues associated with threatening stimuli in…
Feedback-type interactive features in electronic storybooks enhance learning regardless of cognitive differences
Electronic storybook applications with interactive features offer classroom learning benefits, but their effectiveness may vary due to individual differences as attentional and working memory processes affect their efficiency. Therefore, understanding how to apply interactive features without increasing cognitive load and decreasing efficiency is crucial to selecting applications beneficial for most students. Our study aimed to explore the effect…
Examining the multi‐disciplinary origins of biophobia towards threatening and non‐threatening wildlife in a highly urbanised city in China
Urbanisation is reshaping how people experience wildlife, reducing our shared spaces with local biodiversity. Fewer opportunities for human–wildlife interactions weaken our emotional attachments to nature and precipitate a loss of species knowledge and familiarity. However, we still know little about why modern city residents have become increasingly fearful of both threatening and non‐threatening animals. To address this gap, we surveyed 1430 ad…
Motivational Pathways Diverge Between Frequent and Problematic Pornography Use
Objectives: With the increasing accessibility of online sexual content, pornography consumption has become a prevalent aspect of contemporary sexual behavior. However, frequent use does not inherently indicate problematic involvement. This study aimed to clarify the motivational pathways that differentiate frequent from problematic pornography use and to examine their associations with sexual regulation and sexual motivations. Methods: A total of…
Extreme weather salience as a climate crisis signal
Personal salience regarding extreme weather events may be crucial for recognising the profound effects of anthropogenic climate change. However, efforts to understand how individuals attribute extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change, and their implications for eco-anxiety, have not effectively integrated psychological perspectives. Following Hong Kong’s wettest storm on record in 2023, we recruited a cross-sectional sample of adult…
Openness to “Sugar Relationships” Reflects Personality and Emotional Vulnerabilities in a Representative Sample of Hungarian Women
Openness to sugar relationships—arrangements in which companionship or sexual intimacy is exchanged for material benefits within loosely structured, mutually negotiated agreements—has garnered growing attention in psychological research. However, little is known about the underlying personality and emotion regulation patterns associated with such attitudes. In this preregistered study, we examined whether early maladaptive schemas (EMS), personal…
Reduced sense of danger following two years of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic led to sudden changes in many people's lives, due to the risky and unpredictable nature of the disease and the consequences of public policies aimed at controlling its spread. As the pandemic progressed, people became more aware of what to do, and restrictions were relaxed. Our aim was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals' psychological reactions and to examine differences due to long-term exposu…
Development of the short and super-short version of the Emergency Reaction Questionnaire
Emergencies are sudden, life-threatening situations that challenge individuals' ability to respond effectively. The Emergency Reaction Questionnaire (ERQ) is a measure widely used to assess individual differences in emergency behavior; however, its 30-item length may limit its utility in certain contexts. Consequently, in this study, we aimed to develop two abbreviated versions of the ERQ: a short form retaining the original factor structure, and…
Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Sexual Motivation Associated with Faking Orgasm among Hungarian Women
Objectives: Faking orgasm is a common yet psychologically complex behavior among women, shaped by both emotional vulnerabilities and sexual motivations. This study examined the psychological correlates of faking orgasm in two sexual contexts-vaginal intercourse and oral sex-focusing on difficulties in emotion regulation and sexual motivation. Method: A sample of 425 Hungarian women completed self-report measures assessing six facets of emotion re…
Psychopathy
These findings are discussed in detail
Different Pathways Leading to Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers
Prosocial behavior, which encompasses actions intended to benefit others, develops rapidly during the preschool years and is shaped by both environmental and individual factors. We aimed to explore the possible relationships between parenting styles, children’s cognitive and emotional self‐regulation, and their temperament in relation to prosocial behavior in preschoolers. A cross‐sectional study was conducted involving 524 parents ( M = 35.57 ye…
Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to “Sugar Relationships” More Than Life History Strategy
Life history theory suggests that individuals vary in their sexual, reproductive, parental, familial, and social behavior in response to the physical and social challenges encountered during development. So-called “sugar relationships” generally involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship between a younger partner and an older provider. This research aimed to explore the relationship between openness to sugar relationships and lif…
The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance
Although the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, similarly to valence, is an integrative part of emotion theories, previous studies and reviews mostly focused on the valence of a stimulus and rarely investigated the role of arousal. Here, I systematically searched for articles that used visual attentional paradigms, manipulated emotional arousal by auditory or visual, task-relevant or task-irrelevant stimuli, measured behavioral responses, ocu…
Can the processing of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli be inhibited? – The role of shape and valence in the saliency of threatening objects
Numerous studies have demonstrated that attention is quickly oriented towards threatening stimuli, and that this attentional bias is difficult to inhibit. The root cause(s) of this bias may be attributable to the affective (e.g., valence) or visual features (e.g., shape) of threats. In two experiments (behavioral, eye-tracking), we tested which features play a bigger role in the salience of threats. In both experiments, participants looked for a …
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear
How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which may encourage negative feelings towards it and the environment in which it is found. Animals associated with fear, such as snakes, are often the victims of hunting and killing, possibly in part due to an overperception of their inherent danger. Past research has shown …
(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…
Differential effects of threat types on attentional processes
These findings underscore the importance of considering individual differences and emotion regulation strategies in fear research and provide insight into the complex interplay between threat perception and attentional processes
Psychometric properties and further validation of the emergency reaction questionnaire in a sample of Portuguese adults
The role of self-reported fear and disgust in the activation of behavioral harm avoidance related to medical settings
More knowledge and experiences, better perceived control together with reduced disgust and fear of pain can decrease the probability of avoiding medical situations. Implications to treatment are discussed. Results support the importance of targeting these contextual factors in prevention to increase the likelihood of people attending regular screenings or seeking medical care when needed
Negative time perspective predicts the self-perceived affective and physical components of pain independently from depression, anxiety, and early life circumstances
People's attitudes toward time, the time perspectives (TPs) rooted in past experiences, might be crucial for the emotional evaluation of life events, such as painful situations. In a survey-based study (N = 353), we investigated the relationship of TPs with the self-perceived affective and physical aspects of pain. Specifically, we hypothesised that past-negative TP would be associated with a negative emotional appraisal of pain characterised by …
Task demands determine whether shape or arousal of a stimulus modulates competition for visual working memory resources
It has been posited (Öhman, 1986) that the processing of threatening stimuli became prioritized during the course of mammalian evolution and that such objects may still enjoy an advantage in visual processing to this day. It has been well-documented that both mid-level visual features (i.e., conjunctions of low-level features) and the arousal level of threatening stimuli affect attentional allocation (Cisler & Koster, 2010; Wolfe & Horowitz, 2004…
Psychological well-being, risk factors, and coping strategies with social isolation and new challenges in times of adversity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 triggers anxiety and fear due to several reasons, and thus, dealing with it requires prolonged coping mechanisms. When the number of infections soared, to slow the spread, many governments decided to close universities and dormitories and move teaching to online platforms. The majority of the university students decided to move back home to their parents changing their social lives. Here, we aimed to point to risk, as well as …
Nature relatedness
Worldwide, urbanization has created completely novel environments, which bring many conveniences but carry several drawbacks too. One of the most important disadvantages is that most people living in cities lose contact with nature including interaction with animals. Current evidence shows that countries with lower levels of urbanization also have a lower prevalence of animal fears and phobias. Here, we sought to test whether nature relatedness (…
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status upon Adolescent Identity Formation
Building upon the Family Stress Model, the present study investigated the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) upon adolescent identity formation (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment) and the mediating role of family characteristics (i.e., family rituals, knowledge of family history, and identification with the family). Participants were 256 secondary school students (Mage = 16.81 SD = 1.10). Data were collec…
Pain catastrophizing, pain sensitivity and fear of pain are associated with early life environmental unpredictability
The findings converged on the conclusion that individuals experiencing disadvantageous early life conditions tended to have an elevated level of pain catastrophizing, higher perceived sensitivity to pain, and higher level of pain-related fear. These associations were mediated by an unpredictability schema and body awareness
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sex and Relationship Differences on the Short Love Attitude Scale
Love styles are attitudes towards romantic relationships that are related to sexual motivation, sociosexuality, mate value, and relationship status. In the present study, the Short Love Attitude Scale (LAS-SF) was adapted to Hungarian, and the original factor structure was replicated with a Hungarian sample of 800 participants (439 females, mean age = 38.6 years). The results show that the Hungarian LAS-SF is a reliable and valid measure, which e…
Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to “Sugar Relationships” More Than Life History Strategy
Life history theory suggests that individuals vary in their sexual, reproductive, parental, familial, and social behavior in response to the physical and social challenges encountered during development. So-called “sugar relationships” generally involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship between a younger partner and an older provider. This research aimed to explore the relationship between openness to sugar relationships and lif…
Disentangling the facilitating and hindering effects of threat-related stimuli - A visual search study
Although large body of research has demonstrated the attention-grabbing nature of threat-related stimuli, threat could also facilitate attentional processes. Previous studies suggest a linear relationship between the facilitating effect of the arousal level conveyed by threat and performance on visual search tasks. Due to the temporal competition bias favouring stimuli with higher arousal level, this could be more pronounced for shorter onset tim…
Is a snake scarier than a gun? The ontogenetic–phylogenetic dispute from a new perspective
Organisms have to be able to detect threats in order to activate their defensive mechanisms. Previous research has suggested that evolutionary old stimuli have an advantage during visual processing. Recent evidence indicates that negative emotional stimuli have a greater effect on the cognitive system regardless of evolutionary relevance. We suggest that the arousal level of the stimuli could account for these mixed results. We investigated how v…
Development of the short version of the spielberger state—trait anxiety inventory
The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) has been widely used to measure the state and trait components of anxiety. We sought to develop a short, yet reliable and valid form of these scales for use in circumstances where the full-form is not feasible. We abbreviated the scales using item response theory analyses to retain the items that could discriminate the best among participants. One sample (N = 922) completed the state scale, a s…
On the Nature of Fear and Anxiety Triggered by Covid-19
Emergencies that occur during natural disasters, such as avalanches, earthquakes, and floods, tend to be sudden, unexpected, and ephemeral and recruit defensive responses, similar to the ones recruited when faced with dangerous animals. Defensive behaviors are triggered by activity in survival circuits that detects imminent threats and fear is the conscious emotion of that follows immediately. But this particular threat (COVID-19) is useable and …
The emergency reaction questionnaire – First steps towards a new method
During emergencies, people are more or less capable of performing adequately. Knowledge about human behavior while facing emergencies has become more significant nowadays. This knowledge can help improving our already present defensive responses and natural coping mechanisms when facing imminent dangers, natural disasters, and catastrophes. A new method is here offered to explore the core points of this topic. The Emergency Reaction Questionnaire…
Cybervictimization and Cyberbullying
Social and emotional competences are considered to have a crucial role in cyberbullying as, e.g., difficulties concerning emotion regulation and empathy can characterize both cyberbullies and cybervictims. Although, the dynamics of socio-emotional processes underlying cyberbullying are still open for research, as e.g., there are contradicting results concerning the role of empathy in cybervictimization. Thus, the aim of our study was to explore t…
Disentangling the facilitating and hindering effects of threat-related stimuli - A visual search study
Although large body of research has demonstrated the attention-grabbing nature of threat-related stimuli, threat could also facilitate attentional processes. Previous studies suggest a linear relationship between the facilitating effect of the arousal level conveyed by threat and performance on visual search tasks. Due to the temporal competition bias favouring stimuli with higher arousal level, this could be more pronounced for shorter onset tim…
Sex and Relationship Differences on the Short Love Attitude Scale
Love styles are attitudes towards romantic relationships that are related to sexual motivation, sociosexuality, mate value, and relationship status. In the present study, the Short Love Attitude Scale (LAS-SF) was adapted to Hungarian, and the original factor structure was replicated with a Hungarian sample of 800 participants (439 females, mean age = 38.6 years). The results show that the Hungarian LAS-SF is a reliable and valid measure, which e…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Negative time perspective predicts the self-perceived affective and physical components of pain independently from depression, anxiety, and early life circumstances
People's attitudes toward time, the time perspectives (TPs) rooted in past experiences, might be crucial for the emotional evaluation of life events, such as painful situations. In a survey-based study (N = 353), we investigated the relationship of TPs with the self-perceived affective and physical aspects of pain. Specifically, we hypothesised that past-negative TP would be associated with a negative emotional appraisal of pain characterised by …
Task demands determine whether shape or arousal of a stimulus modulates competition for visual working memory resources
It has been posited (Öhman, 1986) that the processing of threatening stimuli became prioritized during the course of mammalian evolution and that such objects may still enjoy an advantage in visual processing to this day. It has been well-documented that both mid-level visual features (i.e., conjunctions of low-level features) and the arousal level of threatening stimuli affect attentional allocation (Cisler & Koster, 2010; Wolfe & Horowitz, 2004…
Psychological well-being, risk factors, and coping strategies with social isolation and new challenges in times of adversity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 triggers anxiety and fear due to several reasons, and thus, dealing with it requires prolonged coping mechanisms. When the number of infections soared, to slow the spread, many governments decided to close universities and dormitories and move teaching to online platforms. The majority of the university students decided to move back home to their parents changing their social lives. Here, we aimed to point to risk, as well as …
Nature relatedness
Worldwide, urbanization has created completely novel environments, which bring many conveniences but carry several drawbacks too. One of the most important disadvantages is that most people living in cities lose contact with nature including interaction with animals. Current evidence shows that countries with lower levels of urbanization also have a lower prevalence of animal fears and phobias. Here, we sought to test whether nature relatedness (…
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status upon Adolescent Identity Formation
Building upon the Family Stress Model, the present study investigated the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) upon adolescent identity formation (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment) and the mediating role of family characteristics (i.e., family rituals, knowledge of family history, and identification with the family). Participants were 256 secondary school students (Mage = 16.81 SD = 1.10). Data were collec…
Pain catastrophizing, pain sensitivity and fear of pain are associated with early life environmental unpredictability
The findings converged on the conclusion that individuals experiencing disadvantageous early life conditions tended to have an elevated level of pain catastrophizing, higher perceived sensitivity to pain, and higher level of pain-related fear. These associations were mediated by an unpredictability schema and body awareness
Task-irrelevant threatening information is harder to ignore than other valences
Emotionally salient objects activate the survival circuits of the brain and are given priority in cognitive processing, even at the cost of inhibiting ongoing activities. These circuits arouse and prepare the organism to take swift action when needed. Previous studies have suggested, however, that not all emotional dimensions are equally prioritized. Threatening stimuli may have greater prominence than other emotional categories. Thus, we sought …
Sex Differences in Predictors of Relationship Satisfaction
The present study explored sex differences in the predictors of relationship satisfaction (dyadic coping, love, sexual motivation, having children). A total of 465 Hungarian participants (319 women and 146 men) with a mean age of 33.6 years completed an online test battery comprising four self-report measures. The results revealed that women’s relationship satisfaction had more significant predictors than men’s, and half of the common predictors …
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load
Human visual attention is biased to rapidly detect threats in the environment so that our nervous system can initiate quick reactions. The processes underlying threat detection (and how they operate under cognitive load), however, are still poorly understood. Thus, we sought to test the impact of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on the salience network and executive control of attention during low and high cognitive load. Participants were exp…
Why Hungarians Have Sex
The present study developed a brief version of the Hungarian Why Sex? questionnaire (Meskó et al., 2022). The study was in part based on previously reported data obtained from several samples ( N = 6193; 1976 men, 4217 women). Using Mokken Scaling Procedure, Item Response Model and redundancy analysis indicated that retaining three summary scales comprising five items each was the optimal solution for the brief version. The validity of the brief …
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Psychometric properties and further validation of the emergency reaction questionnaire in a sample of Portuguese adults
The role of self-reported fear and disgust in the activation of behavioral harm avoidance related to medical settings
More knowledge and experiences, better perceived control together with reduced disgust and fear of pain can decrease the probability of avoiding medical situations. Implications to treatment are discussed. Results support the importance of targeting these contextual factors in prevention to increase the likelihood of people attending regular screenings or seeking medical care when needed
The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance
Although the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, similarly to valence, is an integrative part of emotion theories, previous studies and reviews mostly focused on the valence of a stimulus and rarely investigated the role of arousal. Here, I systematically searched for articles that used visual attentional paradigms, manipulated emotional arousal by auditory or visual, task-relevant or task-irrelevant stimuli, measured behavioral responses, ocu…
Can the processing of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli be inhibited? – The role of shape and valence in the saliency of threatening objects
Numerous studies have demonstrated that attention is quickly oriented towards threatening stimuli, and that this attentional bias is difficult to inhibit. The root cause(s) of this bias may be attributable to the affective (e.g., valence) or visual features (e.g., shape) of threats. In two experiments (behavioral, eye-tracking), we tested which features play a bigger role in the salience of threats. In both experiments, participants looked for a …
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear
How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which may encourage negative feelings towards it and the environment in which it is found. Animals associated with fear, such as snakes, are often the victims of hunting and killing, possibly in part due to an overperception of their inherent danger. Past research has shown …
(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…
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