Dirk Van Rooy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4981019 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dirk Van Rooy |
| PRENOMES | Dirk |
| SOBRENOME | Van Rooy |
| ASSINATURA | VAN ROOY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2525-5408 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Gameful interventions for pro-environmental attitude change
Videogames are persuasive tools that can direct players’ pro-environmental attitudes. However, there is limited understanding of their impacts on attitudes in a climate-themed context. With a focus on message design and framing, this paper investigated the role and significance of videogames in climate communication. We conducted two parallel within-subjects experiments using two climate-themed games, Beyond Blue (N=36) and Plasticity (N=37), to …
Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true
Social influence processes by which women come to judge a hostile sexist attitude as relatively true and unprejudiced were examined. Based upon status characteristics theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a man's than a woman's interpretation of the sexist attitude as true or prejudiced. Based upon self-categorization theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a woman's than a man…
Digital justice
The increasing availability and use of mobile technology have allowed for innovative solutions to address a range of issues, especially in relation to health behaviour change. Such technological advances have also created opportunities within the justice context and the past decade has seen the development and use of mobile technology in the criminal justice system. Yet, little systematic research exists in this area. This study begins to fill th…
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health
There has been sustained interest in the intersection between social constructs and mental health from diverse disciplines including psychiatry, sociology and public health. However, no systematic attempt has been made to catalogue what is meant by ‘social’ by different researchers, how variables deemed ‘social’ constructs are linked to mental health, nor whether these patterns differ by academic discipline. Understanding interdisciplinary differ…
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people
We propose that part of the problem in combatting prejudice lies in people's dynamic understandings of what prejudice is. To examine this, we asked participants to rate the degree to which they perceived specific group‐relevant attitudes as prejudice. In Study 1, White participants perceived the attitudes as more prejudiced when the attitudes were targeted at Asian people than at White people and when expressed by an Anglo‐European speaker than b…
When are intergroup attitudes judged as free speech and when as prejudice? A social identity analysis of attitudes towards immigrants
Although anti‐immigrant attitudes continue to be expressed around the world, identifying these attitudes as prejudice, truth or free speech remains contested. This contestation occurs, in part, because of the absence of consensually agreed‐upon understandings of what prejudice is. In this context, the current study sought to answer the question, “what do people understand to be prejudice?” Participants read an intergroup attitude expressed by a m…
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
Pandemic and prejudice
This study examined when the realistic threat of COVID-19 leads to prejudicial social distancing. American participants reported social distancing preferences from Chinese or Italian people (out-group target) after viewing increasing or decreasing COVID-19 case numbers (threat level) in China or Italy (threat relevance). On the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, there was support for a disease avoidance hypothesis: greater social distancing preferen…
An analysis of public attitudes in Australia towards applications of biotechnology to humans
Modelling the Emergence of Shared Attitudes from Group Dynamics Using an Agent‐Based Model of Social Comparison Theory
We propose a novel agent‐based implementation of Festinger's social comparison theory (SCT). The social comparison model (SCM) consists of connectionist networks that simulate agent‐level social comparison processes. Agent networks are combined into an adaptive network structure that is shaped by social comparisons between individual agents. Simulations show how the SCM produces behavior consistent with the empirical literature on group dynamics.…
Illusory correlation, group size and memory
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
Pandemic and prejudice
This study examined when the realistic threat of COVID-19 leads to prejudicial social distancing. American participants reported social distancing preferences from Chinese or Italian people (out-group target) after viewing increasing or decreasing COVID-19 case numbers (threat level) in China or Italy (threat relevance). On the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, there was support for a disease avoidance hypothesis: greater social distancing preferen…
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
An analysis of public attitudes in Australia towards applications of biotechnology to humans
Modelling the Emergence of Shared Attitudes from Group Dynamics Using an Agent‐Based Model of Social Comparison Theory
We propose a novel agent‐based implementation of Festinger's social comparison theory (SCT). The social comparison model (SCM) consists of connectionist networks that simulate agent‐level social comparison processes. Agent networks are combined into an adaptive network structure that is shaped by social comparisons between individual agents. Simulations show how the SCM produces behavior consistent with the empirical literature on group dynamics.…
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
Illusory correlation, group size and memory
Modelling the Emergence of Shared Attitudes from Group Dynamics Using an Agent‐Based Model of Social Comparison Theory
We propose a novel agent‐based implementation of Festinger's social comparison theory (SCT). The social comparison model (SCM) consists of connectionist networks that simulate agent‐level social comparison processes. Agent networks are combined into an adaptive network structure that is shaped by social comparisons between individual agents. Simulations show how the SCM produces behavior consistent with the empirical literature on group dynamics.…
An analysis of public attitudes in Australia towards applications of biotechnology to humans
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people
We propose that part of the problem in combatting prejudice lies in people's dynamic understandings of what prejudice is. To examine this, we asked participants to rate the degree to which they perceived specific group‐relevant attitudes as prejudice. In Study 1, White participants perceived the attitudes as more prejudiced when the attitudes were targeted at Asian people than at White people and when expressed by an Anglo‐European speaker than b…
When are intergroup attitudes judged as free speech and when as prejudice? A social identity analysis of attitudes towards immigrants
Although anti‐immigrant attitudes continue to be expressed around the world, identifying these attitudes as prejudice, truth or free speech remains contested. This contestation occurs, in part, because of the absence of consensually agreed‐upon understandings of what prejudice is. In this context, the current study sought to answer the question, “what do people understand to be prejudice?” Participants read an intergroup attitude expressed by a m…
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
Pandemic and prejudice
This study examined when the realistic threat of COVID-19 leads to prejudicial social distancing. American participants reported social distancing preferences from Chinese or Italian people (out-group target) after viewing increasing or decreasing COVID-19 case numbers (threat level) in China or Italy (threat relevance). On the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, there was support for a disease avoidance hypothesis: greater social distancing preferen…
Digital justice
The increasing availability and use of mobile technology have allowed for innovative solutions to address a range of issues, especially in relation to health behaviour change. Such technological advances have also created opportunities within the justice context and the past decade has seen the development and use of mobile technology in the criminal justice system. Yet, little systematic research exists in this area. This study begins to fill th…
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health
There has been sustained interest in the intersection between social constructs and mental health from diverse disciplines including psychiatry, sociology and public health. However, no systematic attempt has been made to catalogue what is meant by ‘social’ by different researchers, how variables deemed ‘social’ constructs are linked to mental health, nor whether these patterns differ by academic discipline. Understanding interdisciplinary differ…
Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true
Social influence processes by which women come to judge a hostile sexist attitude as relatively true and unprejudiced were examined. Based upon status characteristics theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a man's than a woman's interpretation of the sexist attitude as true or prejudiced. Based upon self-categorization theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a woman's than a man…
Gameful interventions for pro-environmental attitude change
Videogames are persuasive tools that can direct players’ pro-environmental attitudes. However, there is limited understanding of their impacts on attitudes in a climate-themed context. With a focus on message design and framing, this paper investigated the role and significance of videogames in climate communication. We conducted two parallel within-subjects experiments using two climate-themed games, Beyond Blue (N=36) and Plasticity (N=37), to …
Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 obras) · Cognitive psychology (3 obras)