Claudia Toma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Toma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Toma |
| SIGNATURE | TOMA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0596-2122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy
Belief in gender discrimination is a key predictor of employees’ attitudes toward gender equality policies in organizations. We hypothesized that this belief increases men's support for gender equality policies but decreases women's support due to the perception of organizational hypocrisy. Across three studies—two correlational ( N = 420; N = 669) and one experimental ( N = 420)—we found evidence for a dual pathway: Among men, stronger belief in…
Les politiques d’égalité de genre, encore du wokisme
Social control and solidarity during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: The direct and indirect effects of causal attribution of insufficient compliance through perceived anomie
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis which called for two crucial modes of social regulation: social control and social solidarity . In the present pre-registered study, we examine how the perceived non-compliance with health measures relates to attitudes towards these modes of social regulation, as well as to the role played by the perception of disintegrated and disregulated society ( anomie ). Using data from an online cross-sectional survey cond…
Clinical Experience with Anti-IgE Monoclonal Antibody (Omalizumab) in Pediatric Severe Allergic Asthma—A Romanian Perspective
This study showed that Omalizumab can be an effective and safe therapeutic option for Romanian children and adolescents with severe allergic asthma, providing clinically relevant information on asthma control and exacerbation rate in children and adolescents. The results demonstrated the positive effect of Omalizumab in young patients with asthma, starting from the first year of treatment
Disease Perception and Coping with Emotional Distress During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Survey Among Medical Staff
The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is a highly contagious infectious disease declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic and a global public health emergency. During outbreaks, health care workers are submitted to an enormous emotional burden as they must balance the fundamental "duty to treat" with their parallel duties to family and loved ones. The aims of our study were to evaluate disease perceptions, levels of stress, em…
I Think That I Made a Good Impression!”: Meta-Perception Improves Performance in Public Speaking
In an evaluative context, does the impression we think we convey to others matter, such that the more positive we think the impression conveyed is, the better we perform? Does this belief need to be accurate to perform better? We investigate the role of meta-perception and meta-accuracy in a public speaking context by asking participants to deliver a speech in front of an audience in virtual reality. Main results showed that participants’ meta-pe…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Pathways to intercultural accuracy: Social projection processes and core cultural values
The present research examines intercultural accuracy—people's ability to make accurate judgments about outgroup values—and the role of social projection processes. Across four studies, U.S. and British participants showed low overall levels of intercultural accuracy for Chinese students’ individualistic and collectivistic values. In line with recent changes toward individualism in China, we observed different levels of intercultural accuracy, hin…
Confirmation as coping with competition
Confirmation is a widespread tendency to seek, use, interpret or remember information in such a way as to corroborate one’s hypothesis. We review various conceptions of confirmation and classify them as a function of whether they depict this phenomenon as a cognitive failure, a form of motivational prioritisation, or a pragmatic strategy. Then, we note that such a systematic and pervasive phenomenon must be a central mechanism of human activity s…
The Power of Projection for Powerless and Powerful People: Effect of Power on Social Projection Is Moderated by Dimension of Judgment
Past social projection research has mainly focused on target characteristics as a moderator of projective effects. The current research considers the power of the perceiver and how it affects projection of competence and warmth. In three studies, participants first rated themselves on a list of traits/preferences, then performed a power manipulation task, and, finally, rated a target person on the same list. Studies 1 and 2 reveal that the effect…
Grading Hampers Cooperative Information Sharing in Group Problem Solving
We hypothesized that individual grading in group work, a widespread practice, hampers information sharing in cooperative problem solving. Experiment 1 showed that a condition in which members' individual contribution was expected to be visible and graded, as in most graded work, led to less pooling of relevant, unshared information and more pooling of less-relevant, shared information than two control conditions where individual contribution was …
Because I’m Worth It! (More than Others …): Cooperation, Competition, and Ownership Bias in Group Decision-Making
In group decision-making, people take insufficient account of the information coming from others. We hypothesize that this can be explained by an ownership bias that would especially occur in competition, rather than in cooperation. In a two-phase decision-making situation, people reached an initial decision and then evaluated the value of their own information and the consistent and inconsistent information of others under different conditions o…
The double-edge of similarity and difference mindsets: What comparison mindsets do depends on whether self or group representations are focal
Nice or smart? Task relevance of self-characteristics moderates interpersonal projection
Anticipated cooperation vs. competition moderates interpersonal projection
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Anticipated cooperation vs. competition moderates interpersonal projection
Social control and solidarity during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: The direct and indirect effects of causal attribution of insufficient compliance through perceived anomie
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis which called for two crucial modes of social regulation: social control and social solidarity . In the present pre-registered study, we examine how the perceived non-compliance with health measures relates to attitudes towards these modes of social regulation, as well as to the role played by the perception of disintegrated and disregulated society ( anomie ). Using data from an online cross-sectional survey cond…
Grading Hampers Cooperative Information Sharing in Group Problem Solving
We hypothesized that individual grading in group work, a widespread practice, hampers information sharing in cooperative problem solving. Experiment 1 showed that a condition in which members' individual contribution was expected to be visible and graded, as in most graded work, led to less pooling of relevant, unshared information and more pooling of less-relevant, shared information than two control conditions where individual contribution was …
The double-edge of similarity and difference mindsets: What comparison mindsets do depends on whether self or group representations are focal
I Think That I Made a Good Impression!”: Meta-Perception Improves Performance in Public Speaking
In an evaluative context, does the impression we think we convey to others matter, such that the more positive we think the impression conveyed is, the better we perform? Does this belief need to be accurate to perform better? We investigate the role of meta-perception and meta-accuracy in a public speaking context by asking participants to deliver a speech in front of an audience in virtual reality. Main results showed that participants’ meta-pe…
Pathways to intercultural accuracy: Social projection processes and core cultural values
The present research examines intercultural accuracy—people's ability to make accurate judgments about outgroup values—and the role of social projection processes. Across four studies, U.S. and British participants showed low overall levels of intercultural accuracy for Chinese students’ individualistic and collectivistic values. In line with recent changes toward individualism in China, we observed different levels of intercultural accuracy, hin…
Nice or smart? Task relevance of self-characteristics moderates interpersonal projection
Anticipated cooperation vs. competition moderates interpersonal projection
Nice or smart? Task relevance of self-characteristics moderates interpersonal projection
Because I’m Worth It! (More than Others …): Cooperation, Competition, and Ownership Bias in Group Decision-Making
In group decision-making, people take insufficient account of the information coming from others. We hypothesize that this can be explained by an ownership bias that would especially occur in competition, rather than in cooperation. In a two-phase decision-making situation, people reached an initial decision and then evaluated the value of their own information and the consistent and inconsistent information of others under different conditions o…
The double-edge of similarity and difference mindsets: What comparison mindsets do depends on whether self or group representations are focal
Grading Hampers Cooperative Information Sharing in Group Problem Solving
We hypothesized that individual grading in group work, a widespread practice, hampers information sharing in cooperative problem solving. Experiment 1 showed that a condition in which members' individual contribution was expected to be visible and graded, as in most graded work, led to less pooling of relevant, unshared information and more pooling of less-relevant, shared information than two control conditions where individual contribution was …
The Power of Projection for Powerless and Powerful People: Effect of Power on Social Projection Is Moderated by Dimension of Judgment
Past social projection research has mainly focused on target characteristics as a moderator of projective effects. The current research considers the power of the perceiver and how it affects projection of competence and warmth. In three studies, participants first rated themselves on a list of traits/preferences, then performed a power manipulation task, and, finally, rated a target person on the same list. Studies 1 and 2 reveal that the effect…
Confirmation as coping with competition
Confirmation is a widespread tendency to seek, use, interpret or remember information in such a way as to corroborate one’s hypothesis. We review various conceptions of confirmation and classify them as a function of whether they depict this phenomenon as a cognitive failure, a form of motivational prioritisation, or a pragmatic strategy. Then, we note that such a systematic and pervasive phenomenon must be a central mechanism of human activity s…
Pathways to intercultural accuracy: Social projection processes and core cultural values
The present research examines intercultural accuracy—people's ability to make accurate judgments about outgroup values—and the role of social projection processes. Across four studies, U.S. and British participants showed low overall levels of intercultural accuracy for Chinese students’ individualistic and collectivistic values. In line with recent changes toward individualism in China, we observed different levels of intercultural accuracy, hin…
Disease Perception and Coping with Emotional Distress During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Survey Among Medical Staff
The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is a highly contagious infectious disease declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic and a global public health emergency. During outbreaks, health care workers are submitted to an enormous emotional burden as they must balance the fundamental "duty to treat" with their parallel duties to family and loved ones. The aims of our study were to evaluate disease perceptions, levels of stress, em…
I Think That I Made a Good Impression!”: Meta-Perception Improves Performance in Public Speaking
In an evaluative context, does the impression we think we convey to others matter, such that the more positive we think the impression conveyed is, the better we perform? Does this belief need to be accurate to perform better? We investigate the role of meta-perception and meta-accuracy in a public speaking context by asking participants to deliver a speech in front of an audience in virtual reality. Main results showed that participants’ meta-pe…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Clinical Experience with Anti-IgE Monoclonal Antibody (Omalizumab) in Pediatric Severe Allergic Asthma—A Romanian Perspective
This study showed that Omalizumab can be an effective and safe therapeutic option for Romanian children and adolescents with severe allergic asthma, providing clinically relevant information on asthma control and exacerbation rate in children and adolescents. The results demonstrated the positive effect of Omalizumab in young patients with asthma, starting from the first year of treatment
Social control and solidarity during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: The direct and indirect effects of causal attribution of insufficient compliance through perceived anomie
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis which called for two crucial modes of social regulation: social control and social solidarity . In the present pre-registered study, we examine how the perceived non-compliance with health measures relates to attitudes towards these modes of social regulation, as well as to the role played by the perception of disintegrated and disregulated society ( anomie ). Using data from an online cross-sectional survey cond…
Les politiques d’égalité de genre, encore du wokisme
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy
Belief in gender discrimination is a key predictor of employees’ attitudes toward gender equality policies in organizations. We hypothesized that this belief increases men's support for gender equality policies but decreases women's support due to the perception of organizational hypocrisy. Across three studies—two correlational ( N = 420; N = 669) and one experimental ( N = 420)—we found evidence for a dual pathway: Among men, stronger belief in…
Psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Perception (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works)