Waleed A Jami
Biographic Data
| ID | 4636146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waleed A Jami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waleed A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jami |
| SIGNATURE | JAMI W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2336-0540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An integrative model of individual differences and attitudes on policy support
In the United States, mass incarceration is a prevalent issue within the criminal justice system. A major cause of this is the country’s continued shift for more punitive and harsh consequences to crime, despite the lack of evidence to support its overall improvement in crime prevention. A better understanding of why people support hardline penal policies is therefore vital. This study sets out to map the individual differences (victim sensitivit…
Cultural Influences on Inflation in the USA
Objective We examined how cultural norms (individualism‐collectivism, tightness‐looseness, and honor culture) and attitudes (relational collectivism, group‐oriented collectivism, and individualism) may influence inflation perceptions during the 2024 US presidential race. Methods We deployed quota sampling to acquire about 10 participants for each US state through Prolific. We utilized multi‐level modeling to examine level‐1 (individual level) and…
Not exactly twins
INTRODUCTION: Authoritarianism and populism are used regularly to describe the individuals responsible for anti-democratic action. These two constructs share some similarities with regard to how they hinder democracy and at times have been used interchangeably to describe such issues. However, authoritarians and populists may differ with regard to their political identification, as well as how they view the government and the existing establishme…
An Examination of Populist Attitudes With Social Values and the Motivational Differences Between Right-Wingers and Left-Wingers
Populism continues to become commonplace, not just among politicians and political parties, but also among individuals. The prevalence of populist attitudes may have soared because of economic and social issues like the outsourcing of jobs and the influx of immigrants, as well as the perceived injustice against ordinary people. Populism, as a psychological construct, is a relatively nascent research area. The present study contributes to this lit…
A Brief Intervention on E-Cigarette, Regular Cigarette, and Marijuana Use Results in Generalization Effects
Objective We hypothesized (1) perceived harm beliefs and intention to use e-cigarette attitudes will become more negative post-exposure to the intervention (2) this change will generalize to more negative beliefs and intention toward regular cigarettes and marijuana. Methods MANOVAs of students’ perceptions of harm beliefs and intention toward the use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes, and marijuana were performed to ascertain change in harm…
Culture and Democracy
Authoritarian leaders and parties are challenging the foundations of democracy across the world. We argue that this authoritarian upsurge is systematically linked to culturally shared beliefs about the world. Study 1 linked social axioms to authoritarianism and ethnonationalism in a US college sample. Study 2 replicated these findings with a multi-national dataset and predicted authoritarianism with country-level social axioms. Results from these…
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
The social axioms of populism
Populism is on the rise with various movements having electoral breakthroughs. Most social-science research on populism has focused primarily on party tactics and rhetoric, and a definition for the term itself; only recently has populism emerged as a psychological construct. We contribute to this growing literature with two studies (n = 456 and n = 5,837) that investigated the cultural worldviews underpinned in populist attitudes. Using the socia…
Remnants of Communism and Present-Day Inequality
Communism substantially shaped the values and beliefs of those who grew up under its regime. We argue that, after the Soviet Union’s collapse and the rapid transition to democracy and capitalism, many older people in post-communist countries continued to abide by an “ethos of equality” that was part of their socialization. These individuals continue to believe that it is the government’s responsibility to establish social equality; hence, they sh…
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
The social axioms of populism
Populism is on the rise with various movements having electoral breakthroughs. Most social-science research on populism has focused primarily on party tactics and rhetoric, and a definition for the term itself; only recently has populism emerged as a psychological construct. We contribute to this growing literature with two studies (n = 456 and n = 5,837) that investigated the cultural worldviews underpinned in populist attitudes. Using the socia…
The social axioms of populism
Populism is on the rise with various movements having electoral breakthroughs. Most social-science research on populism has focused primarily on party tactics and rhetoric, and a definition for the term itself; only recently has populism emerged as a psychological construct. We contribute to this growing literature with two studies (n = 456 and n = 5,837) that investigated the cultural worldviews underpinned in populist attitudes. Using the socia…
Remnants of Communism and Present-Day Inequality
Communism substantially shaped the values and beliefs of those who grew up under its regime. We argue that, after the Soviet Union’s collapse and the rapid transition to democracy and capitalism, many older people in post-communist countries continued to abide by an “ethos of equality” that was part of their socialization. These individuals continue to believe that it is the government’s responsibility to establish social equality; hence, they sh…
A Brief Intervention on E-Cigarette, Regular Cigarette, and Marijuana Use Results in Generalization Effects
Objective We hypothesized (1) perceived harm beliefs and intention to use e-cigarette attitudes will become more negative post-exposure to the intervention (2) this change will generalize to more negative beliefs and intention toward regular cigarettes and marijuana. Methods MANOVAs of students’ perceptions of harm beliefs and intention toward the use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes, and marijuana were performed to ascertain change in harm…
Culture and Democracy
Authoritarian leaders and parties are challenging the foundations of democracy across the world. We argue that this authoritarian upsurge is systematically linked to culturally shared beliefs about the world. Study 1 linked social axioms to authoritarianism and ethnonationalism in a US college sample. Study 2 replicated these findings with a multi-national dataset and predicted authoritarianism with country-level social axioms. Results from these…
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
An Examination of Populist Attitudes With Social Values and the Motivational Differences Between Right-Wingers and Left-Wingers
Populism continues to become commonplace, not just among politicians and political parties, but also among individuals. The prevalence of populist attitudes may have soared because of economic and social issues like the outsourcing of jobs and the influx of immigrants, as well as the perceived injustice against ordinary people. Populism, as a psychological construct, is a relatively nascent research area. The present study contributes to this lit…
Cultural Influences on Inflation in the USA
Objective We examined how cultural norms (individualism‐collectivism, tightness‐looseness, and honor culture) and attitudes (relational collectivism, group‐oriented collectivism, and individualism) may influence inflation perceptions during the 2024 US presidential race. Methods We deployed quota sampling to acquire about 10 participants for each US state through Prolific. We utilized multi‐level modeling to examine level‐1 (individual level) and…
Not exactly twins
INTRODUCTION: Authoritarianism and populism are used regularly to describe the individuals responsible for anti-democratic action. These two constructs share some similarities with regard to how they hinder democracy and at times have been used interchangeably to describe such issues. However, authoritarians and populists may differ with regard to their political identification, as well as how they view the government and the existing establishme…
An integrative model of individual differences and attitudes on policy support
In the United States, mass incarceration is a prevalent issue within the criminal justice system. A major cause of this is the country’s continued shift for more punitive and harsh consequences to crime, despite the lack of evidence to support its overall improvement in crime prevention. A better understanding of why people support hardline penal policies is therefore vital. This study sets out to map the individual differences (victim sensitivit…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Populism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works) · Economics (3 works)