A Espinosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Espinosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Espinosa |
| SIGNATURE | ESPINOSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2275-5792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations, focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivi…
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spiritu…
Beyond Weird societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio‐cultural and economic predictors
In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Using data collected in 45 countries ( N = 9807, preregistere…
Environmental Inequity and Cancer Prognosis: An Urban Exposome Cohort Study
Legitimacy, institutional trust, and political moral laxity: Psychopolitical impact of the governance of the legacy of ‘Lima 2019’ games
This paper analyzes the relationships between the perception of legitimacy, institutional trust, and political moral laxity (PML) using “Proyecto Especial Legado” (LEGADO) as a case study. LEGADO is a public governance organization, created by the Government of Peru to manage the infrastructure and provide services derived from the organization of the Pan American and Parapan American Games “Lima 2019.” The results indicate a direct relationship …
Antecedents and consequences of political moral laxity: A Peruvian case
Political Moral Laxity is defined as a set of beliefs and attitudes that tolerate and support dishonest or corrupt actions of authorities and politicians, especially when these actions benefit private interests to the detriment of the public good. Political Moral Laxity is the result of perverse political socialisation in political systems characterised by the lack of legitimacy of authorities, the weakening of institutions and, consequently, the…
Gender Moderates Persuasion Effects of Negative Health Messages
The literature on health messages has paid considerable attention to cognitive determinants of successful message framing, but a recent meta-analysis showed that positive and negative emotions, too, exert influence. We surmised that the contradictions in the literature could have owed to a failure to control the composition of the study samples. Women typically show greater Neuroticism scores than men and greater susceptibility to negative emotio…
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Measurement of sustainable attitudes: A scale for business students
Purpose This study aims to present the development and validation of a scale to measure the attitudes of Latin American business students toward sustainable management practices in the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Design/methodology/approach Using a nonprobabilistic sample, the appreciation for sustainable practices in students (ASP-S) scale was administered to a total of 653 undergraduate and graduate business students in Argen…
A qualitative study on the social representations of populism and democracy in Peru
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the social representations of democracy, populism and the relationship between both concepts in a sample of citizens from different regions of Peru ( n = 76). To this end, a qualitative research design was proposed, using in-depth interviews, which were analyzed from a discursive approach. The results show that democracy and populism are two closely related concepts in tension. On the one hand,…
Sociopolitical consequences of Covid‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices
Although different social crises may eventually favor undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such antidemocratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research investigates how and whether the COVID‐19 pandemic might have favoured greater support for antidemocratic governmental practices, on the premise of regaining control and security. Using data from 17 …
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Satisfaction with vaccination services and its relationship to emotional responses of service users in Lima. Legado’s quality management model as a public solution to promote citizen emotional well-be…
This article analyzes the levels of citizen satisfaction with LEGADO’s quality management model service during the first year of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in public spaces administered by LEGADO, and its relationship with the user’s emotional responses. To this end, a survey study has been developed from July 2021 until March 2022 at 4 moments to citizens ( n = 1,697) who attended 3 vaccination locations administered by LEGADO (VIDENA, Compl…
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …
The psychological effects of music and dance on building a culture of peace
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru
The present research seeks to develop a scale that can measure attitudes toward different musical expressions representative of different social groups, such as the Andean and Afro-Peruvian groups. The participants were 312 individuals between 18 and 83 years of age ( M = 32.42, SD = 14.97), and the majority had no professional musical knowledge. First, Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed using the Unweighted Least Squares as the extraction…
Ideology and Political Cynicism: Effects of Authoritarianism and Social Dominance on Perceptions about the Political System in 11 Ibero-American Countries
This study investigates; (1) how Political Cynicism is structured and, (2) how this structure relates to Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) in 11 Ibero-American countries (N=2388). The results show that the structure of Political Cynicism is composed of four dimensions: (1) Mistrust, (2) Perception of Corruption, (3) Need for Change and, (4) Political Moral Laxity. Furthermore, the study reveals that there is…
Fused identity and its relationship with ethnic and national identities in the Jewish community of Lima, Peru
This study explores the relationship between identity fusion and the strength of ethnic and national identification in members of Lima’s Jewish community. A set of questionnaires measuring levels of ethnic identification, national identification, and identity fusion were administered to 100 members of the Jewish community in Lima. The results showed that fused members of the Jewish community identified significantly more strongly with the Jewish …
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
Collective memories of political violence of health-care providers in Ayacucho, Perú
The article presents a study about collective memories of the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC) in Peru (1980-2000) from the perspective of a group of health-care professionals providing services in the region that was most affected by political violence. A brief historical analysis of the IAC is presented. A qualitative design with 15 interviews based on Grounded Theory is used for analyzing the discourse of the participants, and accounting for coll…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Between Remembering and Forgetting the Years of Political Violence: Psychosocial Impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru
This article analyzes the association between knowledge of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), evaluation of TRC's achievements, experience of victimization, attitudes toward remembering and forgetting past political violence, perceptions of socioemotional climate (SEC), belief in forgiveness and attitudes toward violence in Peru based on a study conducted in three Peruvian cities with different rates of victimization due to political …
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
A qualitative study on the social representations of populism and democracy in Peru
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the social representations of democracy, populism and the relationship between both concepts in a sample of citizens from different regions of Peru ( n = 76). To this end, a qualitative research design was proposed, using in-depth interviews, which were analyzed from a discursive approach. The results show that democracy and populism are two closely related concepts in tension. On the one hand,…
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Fused identity and its relationship with ethnic and national identities in the Jewish community of Lima, Peru
This study explores the relationship between identity fusion and the strength of ethnic and national identification in members of Lima’s Jewish community. A set of questionnaires measuring levels of ethnic identification, national identification, and identity fusion were administered to 100 members of the Jewish community in Lima. The results showed that fused members of the Jewish community identified significantly more strongly with the Jewish …
Collective memories of political violence of health-care providers in Ayacucho, Perú
The article presents a study about collective memories of the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC) in Peru (1980-2000) from the perspective of a group of health-care professionals providing services in the region that was most affected by political violence. A brief historical analysis of the IAC is presented. A qualitative design with 15 interviews based on Grounded Theory is used for analyzing the discourse of the participants, and accounting for coll…
Medical Ethnobotany of the Teribes of Bocas del Toro, Panama
Correlatos psicológicos de las intenciones y comportamientos migratorios de jóvenes peruanos de clase media y alta
Este estudio analiza la relación de diversas variables psico-sociales como la Personalidad, los Valores, y el Clima Emocional en la intención de emigrar y en el comportamiento migratorio de jóvenes estudiantes y profesionales de clase media y alta peruana. Con ese objetivo, se compararon 3 grupos de personas: Los que no tienen intención de emigrar (n=33), los que si tienen intención de emigrar (n=33) y los que ya emigraron (n=33). En cuanto a la …
Aspectos psicológicos de los problemas de organización de base y su relación con dilemas sociales en una comunidad rural de la costa norte del Perú
El estudio es un diagnóstico de los aspectos psicológicos asociados a los problemas de organización que acontecen en una comunidad rural de la costa norte peruana. Para tal fin, se elaboró una investigación de índole cualitativa, donde a través de entrevistas grupales e individuales, se indagó sobre la problemática general de la comunidad. Los resultados muestran poca capacidad en sus agentes para implementar tareas que supongan una acción social…
Identidad, etnicidad y bienestar social en un contexto socialmente excluyente
El estudio analiza los estereotipos que una muestra de adultos de clase media de Lima (n=130) posee sobre distintos grupos étnicos en el Perú. Asimismo, se analizan las relaciones entre las identificaciones con los grupos étnicos referidos y el bienestar social. Las representaciones estereotípicas muestran la presencia de grupos percibidos como de alto y de bajo estatus, los cuales son diferenciados por sus posibilidades de acceso al poder. El al…
Social identity and emotional climate in a rural community of Peru: An Empirical Study
The aim of this paper is to describe how the social identity and the emotional climate relate to each other in a rural community, assuming that both constructs are psychological indicators of a healthy collective functioning and that they are somehow affected by the social and political situation of the in-group. For this purpose, a research was undertaken in a rural community of 200 households, where 80 villagers were surveyed. The results sugge…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.
Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differ…
Calidez, Competencia, Moralidad y Nacionalismo ideal como dimensiones auto-estereotípicas del auto-concepto nacional en seis países de Latinoamérica
Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana (APL) es una revista electrónica cuatrimestral con evaluación por pares, que publica artículos en todas las áreas de la psicología. La revista se dirige a científicos y profesionales en psicología y disciplinas afines. Incluye contribuciones empíricas y teóricas originales y excepcionalmente revisiones de literatura de alta calidad. Se publican artículos escritos en español, inglés, portugués o italiano con r…
Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures
Self-continuity – the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected – is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative…
Between Remembering and Forgetting the Years of Political Violence: Psychosocial Impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru
This article analyzes the association between knowledge of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), evaluation of TRC's achievements, experience of victimization, attitudes toward remembering and forgetting past political violence, perceptions of socioemotional climate (SEC), belief in forgiveness and attitudes toward violence in Peru based on a study conducted in three Peruvian cities with different rates of victimization due to political …
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
The association between Truth Commissions evaluation, emotional climate and institutional trust: Comparison and meta-analysis of surveys in six South American countries (La relación entre la evaluació…
This article analyses the assessments of Truth Commissions (TCs) and their association with positive socio-emotional climate and trust in institutions in six South American countries The sample consisted of 4,442 participants (53.3% women), 13 to 90-years-old ( M = 37.4, SD = 15.7). Participants answered a questionnaire comprised of scales that evaluated their knowledge, evaluation, emotions and social sharing about the TC, as well as the socio-e…
Prosocialidad-productiva, tensiones de una subjetividad emprendedora solidaria: Un estudio con emprendedores sociales peruanos
En las últimas décadas, se ha fortalecido y extendido el campo de estudio del emprendimiento desde un enfoque que interpela la necesidad de hacer consciencia de su aporte social. Este estudio busca comprender cómo se integra, en la subjetividad emprendedora, la coexistencia de discursos sobre la creación de valor social y valor económico. Tras entrevistar a 26 emprendedoras y emprendedores sociales peruanos/as, se propone un concepto de carácter …
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
Collective memories of political violence of health-care providers in Ayacucho, Perú
The article presents a study about collective memories of the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC) in Peru (1980-2000) from the perspective of a group of health-care professionals providing services in the region that was most affected by political violence. A brief historical analysis of the IAC is presented. A qualitative design with 15 interviews based on Grounded Theory is used for analyzing the discourse of the participants, and accounting for coll…
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru
The present research seeks to develop a scale that can measure attitudes toward different musical expressions representative of different social groups, such as the Andean and Afro-Peruvian groups. The participants were 312 individuals between 18 and 83 years of age ( M = 32.42, SD = 14.97), and the majority had no professional musical knowledge. First, Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed using the Unweighted Least Squares as the extraction…
Ideology and Political Cynicism: Effects of Authoritarianism and Social Dominance on Perceptions about the Political System in 11 Ibero-American Countries
This study investigates; (1) how Political Cynicism is structured and, (2) how this structure relates to Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) in 11 Ibero-American countries (N=2388). The results show that the structure of Political Cynicism is composed of four dimensions: (1) Mistrust, (2) Perception of Corruption, (3) Need for Change and, (4) Political Moral Laxity. Furthermore, the study reveals that there is…
Fused identity and its relationship with ethnic and national identities in the Jewish community of Lima, Peru
This study explores the relationship between identity fusion and the strength of ethnic and national identification in members of Lima’s Jewish community. A set of questionnaires measuring levels of ethnic identification, national identification, and identity fusion were administered to 100 members of the Jewish community in Lima. The results showed that fused members of the Jewish community identified significantly more strongly with the Jewish …
Satisfaction with vaccination services and its relationship to emotional responses of service users in Lima. Legado’s quality management model as a public solution to promote citizen emotional well-be…
This article analyzes the levels of citizen satisfaction with LEGADO’s quality management model service during the first year of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in public spaces administered by LEGADO, and its relationship with the user’s emotional responses. To this end, a survey study has been developed from July 2021 until March 2022 at 4 moments to citizens ( n = 1,697) who attended 3 vaccination locations administered by LEGADO (VIDENA, Compl…
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …
The psychological effects of music and dance on building a culture of peace
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (7 works)