Andrei Corneliu Holman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3559702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei Corneliu Holman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei Corneliu |
| FAMILY NAME | Holman |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMAN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9309-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Code to Canvas
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in art creation has intensified debate about how AI‐generated artworks are aesthetically evaluated. Previous research has shown that artworks identified as AI‐generated are often evaluated more negatively than human‐made artworks. The present study examined whether aesthetic evaluations change after authorship is attributed to AI, a human, or a human using AI, relative to initial author‐blind appraisals. P…
Why Sexual Satisfaction Matters for Problematic Pornography Consumption
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the role of motives for pornography use and moral disapproval of pornography in the association between sexual satisfaction and problematic pornography consumption. Method: The sample included 933 Romanian adults, aged 18–75 years (M = 29.22; SD = 10.07), most of whom were female (69.1%). Participants completed measures of sexual satisfaction, problematic pornography consumption, motives for pornography use…
The roles of fear of loneliness in the association between anxious attachment and attitudes toward infidelity
Perceived Procedural Justice, Criminal Identity, and Self-Concept Among Incarcerated Persons
Incarcerated people’s perception of being treated procedurally fairly by prison staff discourages criminal behavior and fosters rehabilitation. This study examined the links between perceived procedural justice, prison social climate, and two facets of incarcerated people’s identity, that is, criminal social identity and self-concept, which were previously found to be associated with criminal behavior and reoffending, in a sample of 149 adult mal…
The thin line between easy on the ear and simplistic
Past research showed that musical pieces exposed repeatedly are processed more fluently, which increases their liking, at least up to a certain number of repetitions. The present experiment focused on within-stimuli repetitions, that is, repeating musical units within songs, and examined the effects of five types of such repetitions on listeners’ aesthetic reactions. We also investigated processing fluency and perceived stimulus complexity as pot…
Longing for Another
This research examined the experience of extradyadic infatuation, i.e., the tendency to think and to have feelings and desires about someone outside one's committed relationship, building on previous work on sexual fantasies and “crushes”. This research examined the experience of extradyadic infatuation, i.e., the tendency to think and to have feelings and desires about someone outside one's committed relationship, building on previous work on se…
Are Today’s Gamers Tomorrow’s Gamblers? The Relationship Between Problem Gaming and Online Problem Gambling, and the Indirect Effect of Purchasing Loot Boxes’ Risk
The present study aims to bridge the gap regarding the potential influence of problem gaming on problem gambling (PG) by examining the potential indirect effect of risky loot box use in this relationship. We also aim to examine these relationships in an understudied cultural context, that is, Eastern European, thus enlarging the current geographical scope of the research on problematic gaming and gambling. The research was conducted on a sample o…
A just mobility transition? Intersectional responses to car-use reduction measures
Car-use reduction measures, which either restrict car use or encourage sustainable mobility alternatives, are increasingly promoted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve urban air quality. Yet individual reactions to these interventions often reveal tensions between environmental goals, mobility needs, and perceptions of fairness. Through an intersectional and qualitative lens, this article explores how residents of five European cities …
The Cross-cultural adaptability of the short dark tetrad (SD4)
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; Paulhus et al., European Journal of Psychological Assessment , 37 (3), 208–222, 2021) is a self-report measure of antagonistic or ‘dark’ traits. It assesses Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the SD4 in two undergraduate samples from a Romanian university ( N = 729). Four models were evaluated and tested using conf…
The Social Representations of Pornography Consumers Among Individuals in Romantic Relationships
Understanding the psychological conflicts associated with pornography consumption can help professionals tailor their interventions to address the mental health risks faced by individuals struggling with issues related to their pornography use. The main objective of this research was to investigate how pornography consumers are perceived from a social representation theoretical perspective and to examine variations in these perceptions—or social …
Factors of Workplace Procrastination
Background: Workplace procrastination is associated with a wide range of negative organizational outcomes. Our objectives are to systematically review the factors of workplace procrastination and the instruments used to measure this construct. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched for papers published between 2000 and 2023 through Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Taylor & Francis, using the search terms “workplace procrastination n…
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder and prolonged grief disorder in times of war
This research contributes to the understanding of CPTSD and PGD within the context of a contemporary war. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Forget the science – you just know this is wrong! the moralization of vaping and trust in new scientific information
Principled Faithfulness
The prevalence of infidelity is high, although it can have destructive impacts on marital relationships. Most past research has focused on utilitarian concerns against extramarital behavior, analyzing the motivational forces that either deter or foster infidelity as a function of the rewards and costs that unfaithful behavior would involve for the individual. The present research (total N = 1067 Romanian married participants) aimed to highlight t…
Exploring problem gambling’s lay understandings
The main aim of this study was to examine how people think about problem gambling, i.e., persistent gambling despite its negative effects, through the social representations (SRs) that they share about this issue. SRs are organized collections of beliefs, opinions, and knowledge that members of a social group have in common, and past research highlighted them as significant predictors of people’s behavior, and therefore valuable for public health…
Factors of Fake News Sharing in the Context of the Ukraine–Russia Conflict
This study examines the separate and joint effects of potential factors of fake news dissemination. A sample of 359 Romanian participants (61.3% female), aged between 18-79 years (M = 45.01; SD = 15.69) filled questionnaires assessing their perceptions of conflict between European Union (EU) and Ukraine; fake news sharing, and various socio-demographic data. Our results revealed that the behaviour of sharing fake news is positively associated wit…
Children’s altruism after recalling recent and distant morally-valenced behavior and the mediating role of guilt
Choosing a life with no children. The role of sexism on the relationship between religiosity and the attitudes toward voluntary childlessness
Cognitive reappraisal both buffers and mediates the negative effect of childhood emotional neglect on adult resilience
Moral in the future, better now
Social representations of Covid-19 vaccines
The current study aimed to explore the public understanding of COVID-19 vaccines and the social representations emerging from a corpus of user-generated comments on YouTube videos posted during the year following the World Health Organization's declaration of the novel coronavirus as pandemic. We used Structural Topic Modelling to process the text and identified a 10-topic solution as the best to represent the corpus of text data. The exploration…
Using fake news as means of cyber-bullying
Protective Factors against Morally Injurious Memories from the Covid-19 Pandemic on Nurses’ Occupational Wellbeing
The COVID-19 pandemic was a fertile ground for nurses' exposure to self- and other-Potentially Morally Injurious Events (PMIEs). Our study explored the effects of nurses' memories of self- and other-PMIEs on occupational wellbeing and turnover intentions. Using an experimental design on a convenience sample of 634 Romanian nurses, we tested a conceptual model with PLS-SEM, finding adequate explanatory and predictive power. Memories of self- and o…
The Moral Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Nurses’ Burnout, Work Satisfaction and Adaptive Work Performance
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented exposure to Potentially Morally Injurious Events (PMIEs) for nurses, in which they were both moral transgressors and moral victims, with deleterious consequences on their psycho-social health and functioning. Our experimental design compared memories of PMIEs with memories of severe moral transgressions (SMTs), in which participants were only moral transgressors. Drawing from Self-Determination Theo…
Using Moralization as a Persuasion Strategy in Public Health Messages
Using moralization in anti-vaping public health messages as a persuasion strategy was recently recommended to address the current vaping epidemic. However, previous findings indicated this could lead to moralized attitudes in the general population, which can be very difficult to change and could severely affect social cohesion and distort risk perception. Since the safety and efficiency of using electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation devices…
Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships
Most of the previously developed scales addressing infidelity were developed on young samples in dating relationships and with limited couple experience. The present study proposes an instrument to measure the proneness for infidelity among married people with substantial experience as a couple. Specific contexts described by the items, in which unfaithful behavior might occur, were selected from those revealed by previous research on people's mo…
Predictors of homophobia in a sample of Romanian young adults
Romania has surprised the European Union when, in 2018, the Coalition for Family, along with the ruling Social Democrats party, organised a controversial referendum against the LGBT community, asking to redefine marriage as only being between a man and a woman rather than ‘two spouses’. The present research contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between a series of demographic variables (gender and age), spirituality (spiritual…
Predictors of homophobia in a sample of Romanian young adults
Romania has surprised the European Union when, in 2018, the Coalition for Family, along with the ruling Social Democrats party, organised a controversial referendum against the LGBT community, asking to redefine marriage as only being between a man and a woman rather than ‘two spouses’. The present research contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between a series of demographic variables (gender and age), spirituality (spiritual…
Does your child think you’re happy? Exploring the associations between children’s happiness and parenting styles
Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships
Most of the previously developed scales addressing infidelity were developed on young samples in dating relationships and with limited couple experience. The present study proposes an instrument to measure the proneness for infidelity among married people with substantial experience as a couple. Specific contexts described by the items, in which unfaithful behavior might occur, were selected from those revealed by previous research on people's mo…
Using fake news as means of cyber-bullying
Protective Factors against Morally Injurious Memories from the Covid-19 Pandemic on Nurses’ Occupational Wellbeing
The COVID-19 pandemic was a fertile ground for nurses' exposure to self- and other-Potentially Morally Injurious Events (PMIEs). Our study explored the effects of nurses' memories of self- and other-PMIEs on occupational wellbeing and turnover intentions. Using an experimental design on a convenience sample of 634 Romanian nurses, we tested a conceptual model with PLS-SEM, finding adequate explanatory and predictive power. Memories of self- and o…
The Moral Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Nurses’ Burnout, Work Satisfaction and Adaptive Work Performance
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented exposure to Potentially Morally Injurious Events (PMIEs) for nurses, in which they were both moral transgressors and moral victims, with deleterious consequences on their psycho-social health and functioning. Our experimental design compared memories of PMIEs with memories of severe moral transgressions (SMTs), in which participants were only moral transgressors. Drawing from Self-Determination Theo…
Using Moralization as a Persuasion Strategy in Public Health Messages
Using moralization in anti-vaping public health messages as a persuasion strategy was recently recommended to address the current vaping epidemic. However, previous findings indicated this could lead to moralized attitudes in the general population, which can be very difficult to change and could severely affect social cohesion and distort risk perception. Since the safety and efficiency of using electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation devices…
Injurious Memories from the Covid-19 Frontline
Nurses have been frequently exposed to Potentially Morally Injurious Events (PMIEs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to resource scarcity, they both perpetrated (self-PMIEs) and passively witnessed (other-PMIEs) moral transgressions toward the patients, severely violating their moral values. Our study investigated the impact of self- and other-PMIEs on work outcomes by exploring nurses' episodic memories of these events and the basic psychologic…
A Person-Centered Approach to Moralization—The Case of Vaping
Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation is a controversial topic among health experts. Evidence suggests that vaping might have been moralized among the general public. Despite the detrimental consequences of moralizing health behaviors on social cohesion and health, some argue for using moralization strategically to prevent and combat vaping. We aim to add to the body of literature showing the dangers of moralization in health by proposing a pe…
Believing in or Denying Climate Change for Questionable Reasons
People's perceptions of climate change represent a growing concern, especially when these perceptions entail the denial of climate change. Past studies have highlighted the detrimental role of conspiracist beliefs concerning climate change regarding people's perceptions on this matter. However, the effects of generic conspiracy beliefs and the different types of beliefs determining skepticism about climate change, as well as that of an individual…
Children’s altruism after recalling recent and distant morally-valenced behavior and the mediating role of guilt
Choosing a life with no children. The role of sexism on the relationship between religiosity and the attitudes toward voluntary childlessness
Cognitive reappraisal both buffers and mediates the negative effect of childhood emotional neglect on adult resilience
Moral in the future, better now
Social representations of Covid-19 vaccines
The current study aimed to explore the public understanding of COVID-19 vaccines and the social representations emerging from a corpus of user-generated comments on YouTube videos posted during the year following the World Health Organization's declaration of the novel coronavirus as pandemic. We used Structural Topic Modelling to process the text and identified a 10-topic solution as the best to represent the corpus of text data. The exploration…
Exploring problem gambling’s lay understandings
The main aim of this study was to examine how people think about problem gambling, i.e., persistent gambling despite its negative effects, through the social representations (SRs) that they share about this issue. SRs are organized collections of beliefs, opinions, and knowledge that members of a social group have in common, and past research highlighted them as significant predictors of people’s behavior, and therefore valuable for public health…
Factors of Fake News Sharing in the Context of the Ukraine–Russia Conflict
This study examines the separate and joint effects of potential factors of fake news dissemination. A sample of 359 Romanian participants (61.3% female), aged between 18-79 years (M = 45.01; SD = 15.69) filled questionnaires assessing their perceptions of conflict between European Union (EU) and Ukraine; fake news sharing, and various socio-demographic data. Our results revealed that the behaviour of sharing fake news is positively associated wit…
Are Today’s Gamers Tomorrow’s Gamblers? The Relationship Between Problem Gaming and Online Problem Gambling, and the Indirect Effect of Purchasing Loot Boxes’ Risk
The present study aims to bridge the gap regarding the potential influence of problem gaming on problem gambling (PG) by examining the potential indirect effect of risky loot box use in this relationship. We also aim to examine these relationships in an understudied cultural context, that is, Eastern European, thus enlarging the current geographical scope of the research on problematic gaming and gambling. The research was conducted on a sample o…
A just mobility transition? Intersectional responses to car-use reduction measures
Car-use reduction measures, which either restrict car use or encourage sustainable mobility alternatives, are increasingly promoted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve urban air quality. Yet individual reactions to these interventions often reveal tensions between environmental goals, mobility needs, and perceptions of fairness. Through an intersectional and qualitative lens, this article explores how residents of five European cities …
The Cross-cultural adaptability of the short dark tetrad (SD4)
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; Paulhus et al., European Journal of Psychological Assessment , 37 (3), 208–222, 2021) is a self-report measure of antagonistic or ‘dark’ traits. It assesses Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the SD4 in two undergraduate samples from a Romanian university ( N = 729). Four models were evaluated and tested using conf…
The Social Representations of Pornography Consumers Among Individuals in Romantic Relationships
Understanding the psychological conflicts associated with pornography consumption can help professionals tailor their interventions to address the mental health risks faced by individuals struggling with issues related to their pornography use. The main objective of this research was to investigate how pornography consumers are perceived from a social representation theoretical perspective and to examine variations in these perceptions—or social …
Factors of Workplace Procrastination
Background: Workplace procrastination is associated with a wide range of negative organizational outcomes. Our objectives are to systematically review the factors of workplace procrastination and the instruments used to measure this construct. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched for papers published between 2000 and 2023 through Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Taylor & Francis, using the search terms “workplace procrastination n…
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder and prolonged grief disorder in times of war
This research contributes to the understanding of CPTSD and PGD within the context of a contemporary war. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Forget the science – you just know this is wrong! the moralization of vaping and trust in new scientific information
Principled Faithfulness
The prevalence of infidelity is high, although it can have destructive impacts on marital relationships. Most past research has focused on utilitarian concerns against extramarital behavior, analyzing the motivational forces that either deter or foster infidelity as a function of the rewards and costs that unfaithful behavior would involve for the individual. The present research (total N = 1067 Romanian married participants) aimed to highlight t…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Perception (6 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 works) · Romanian (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works)