Michael Barlev
Biographic Data
| ID | 3491207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Barlev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Barlev |
| SIGNATURE | BARLEV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7749-8930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Google-Search Data for Psychological Scientists
Google searches have been described as the most important data set on the human psyche ever assembled. Google-search data—accessible through a tool called Google Trends—can provide new insights on topics as varied as stereotypes and prejudices, political attitudes, religious identity and belief, personality, motivations, psychological well-being, mental health, and culture. Google Trends can generate highly customized data sets: Users can compare…
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Stereotypes versus preferences
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences
Rational reasons for irrational beliefs
According to many, we live in "posttruth" times, with the pervasiveness of falsehoods being an existential threat to democracy and the functioning of free societies. Why do people believe and propagate falsehoods? Current accounts focus on psychological deficiencies, heuristic errors, self-enhancing motivations, and motivations to sow chaos. Here, we advance a complementary, outwardly (vs. inwardly) oriented, and ultimate (vs. proximate) account …
Sex Differences in Fearful Personality Traits Are Mediated by Physical Strength
Across cultures, women reliably exhibit higher levels of Neuroticism than men. Recent work shows that this sex difference, particularly in Neuroticism’s anxiety facet, is partly mediated by the sex difference in physical strength. We build on this finding by testing pre-registered predictions of mediation by physical strength of the sex differences in HEXACO Emotionality and its Anxiety and Fearfulness facets (HEXACO stands for the factors of hon…
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
A Feature-Based Approach to the Comparative Study of "Nonordinary" Experiences
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers and clinicians compared case studies of patients diagnosed with hysteria and mediums who claimed to channel spirits based on alterations they observed in their sense of self. Yet, notwithstanding its early promise, this comparative approach to such "nonordinary experiences" (NOEs) was never fully realize due to disciplinary siloing and the challenges involved in comparing culture-laden accounts. Today,…
Past Minds
Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast in May 2007.The volume is comprised of four sections with four theoretical papers on cognitive historiography in the introductory and concluding sections and nine case studies, drawn from ancient religions, in two sections devoted respectively to the Roman world and various other ancient civilizations.The papers are linked by an overarching interest in the transmission of tradition an…
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Rational reasons for irrational beliefs
According to many, we live in "posttruth" times, with the pervasiveness of falsehoods being an existential threat to democracy and the functioning of free societies. Why do people believe and propagate falsehoods? Current accounts focus on psychological deficiencies, heuristic errors, self-enhancing motivations, and motivations to sow chaos. Here, we advance a complementary, outwardly (vs. inwardly) oriented, and ultimate (vs. proximate) account …
A Feature-Based Approach to the Comparative Study of "Nonordinary" Experiences
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers and clinicians compared case studies of patients diagnosed with hysteria and mediums who claimed to channel spirits based on alterations they observed in their sense of self. Yet, notwithstanding its early promise, this comparative approach to such "nonordinary experiences" (NOEs) was never fully realize due to disciplinary siloing and the challenges involved in comparing culture-laden accounts. Today,…
Past Minds
Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast in May 2007.The volume is comprised of four sections with four theoretical papers on cognitive historiography in the introductory and concluding sections and nine case studies, drawn from ancient religions, in two sections devoted respectively to the Roman world and various other ancient civilizations.The papers are linked by an overarching interest in the transmission of tradition an…
A Feature-Based Approach to the Comparative Study of "Nonordinary" Experiences
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers and clinicians compared case studies of patients diagnosed with hysteria and mediums who claimed to channel spirits based on alterations they observed in their sense of self. Yet, notwithstanding its early promise, this comparative approach to such "nonordinary experiences" (NOEs) was never fully realize due to disciplinary siloing and the challenges involved in comparing culture-laden accounts. Today,…
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
Sex Differences in Fearful Personality Traits Are Mediated by Physical Strength
Across cultures, women reliably exhibit higher levels of Neuroticism than men. Recent work shows that this sex difference, particularly in Neuroticism’s anxiety facet, is partly mediated by the sex difference in physical strength. We build on this finding by testing pre-registered predictions of mediation by physical strength of the sex differences in HEXACO Emotionality and its Anxiety and Fearfulness facets (HEXACO stands for the factors of hon…
Stereotypes versus preferences
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences
Rational reasons for irrational beliefs
According to many, we live in "posttruth" times, with the pervasiveness of falsehoods being an existential threat to democracy and the functioning of free societies. Why do people believe and propagate falsehoods? Current accounts focus on psychological deficiencies, heuristic errors, self-enhancing motivations, and motivations to sow chaos. Here, we advance a complementary, outwardly (vs. inwardly) oriented, and ultimate (vs. proximate) account …
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Google-Search Data for Psychological Scientists
Google searches have been described as the most important data set on the human psyche ever assembled. Google-search data—accessible through a tool called Google Trends—can provide new insights on topics as varied as stereotypes and prejudices, political attitudes, religious identity and belief, personality, motivations, psychological well-being, mental health, and culture. Google Trends can generate highly customized data sets: Users can compare…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agreeableness (1 work)