Anna Gunnthorsdottir
Biographic Data
| ID | 233524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Gunnthorsdottir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunnthorsdottir |
| SIGNATURE | GUNNTHORSDOTTIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7654-3931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reciprocity or Community? Different Cultural Pathways to Cooperation and Welfare
We compare efficiency-enhancing cooperation and its underlying motives in Iceland and the US. The two countries are distinct along all measures of national culture known to us. They are however both developed democracies with similar GDP/capita (PPP adjusted). These similarities make it possible to hold constant aspects of culture related to wealth and institutions. In an experimental Voluntary Contribution Mechanism (VCM), we prime the participa…
Using the Machiavellianism instrument to predict trustworthiness in a bargaining game
Physical Attractiveness of an Animal Species as a Decision Factor for its Preservation
This experimental study examines how framing an animal species as endangered affects its perceived attractiveness and how an animal's perceived attractiveness affects support for its conservation. Undergraduate students were shown a flyer from a fictitious environmental organization pleading for the protection of either a bat or an ape. The flyer contained either no picture, a picture of an attractive member of its species, or a picture of an una…
The Persuasive Effects of Emotive Visual Imagery
This study reevaluates the persuasive impact of emotional visual appeals within politics and examines two different explanations for their effects. One possibility is that the effects of emotive visual images are essentially superficial in nature, consistent with the view that feelings aroused by an affective image are transferred somewhat mechanically to a political candidate or cause with which it is paired. This transfer‐of‐affect explanation …
Physical Attractiveness of an Animal Species as a Decision Factor for its Preservation
This experimental study examines how framing an animal species as endangered affects its perceived attractiveness and how an animal's perceived attractiveness affects support for its conservation. Undergraduate students were shown a flyer from a fictitious environmental organization pleading for the protection of either a bat or an ape. The flyer contained either no picture, a picture of an attractive member of its species, or a picture of an una…
The Persuasive Effects of Emotive Visual Imagery
This study reevaluates the persuasive impact of emotional visual appeals within politics and examines two different explanations for their effects. One possibility is that the effects of emotive visual images are essentially superficial in nature, consistent with the view that feelings aroused by an affective image are transferred somewhat mechanically to a political candidate or cause with which it is paired. This transfer‐of‐affect explanation …
Using the Machiavellianism instrument to predict trustworthiness in a bargaining game
The Persuasive Effects of Emotive Visual Imagery
This study reevaluates the persuasive impact of emotional visual appeals within politics and examines two different explanations for their effects. One possibility is that the effects of emotive visual images are essentially superficial in nature, consistent with the view that feelings aroused by an affective image are transferred somewhat mechanically to a political candidate or cause with which it is paired. This transfer‐of‐affect explanation …
Physical Attractiveness of an Animal Species as a Decision Factor for its Preservation
This experimental study examines how framing an animal species as endangered affects its perceived attractiveness and how an animal's perceived attractiveness affects support for its conservation. Undergraduate students were shown a flyer from a fictitious environmental organization pleading for the protection of either a bat or an ape. The flyer contained either no picture, a picture of an attractive member of its species, or a picture of an una…
Using the Machiavellianism instrument to predict trustworthiness in a bargaining game
Reciprocity or Community? Different Cultural Pathways to Cooperation and Welfare
We compare efficiency-enhancing cooperation and its underlying motives in Iceland and the US. The two countries are distinct along all measures of national culture known to us. They are however both developed democracies with similar GDP/capita (PPP adjusted). These similarities make it possible to hold constant aspects of culture related to wealth and institutions. In an experimental Voluntary Contribution Mechanism (VCM), we prime the participa…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Persuasion (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)