Ulrich S Tran

Dados Biográficos

ID93138
NOMEUlrich S Tran
PRENOMESUlrich S
SOBRENOMETran
ASSINATURATRAN U S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Vienna
ORCID0000-0002-6589-3167
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR27
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction

    Open AccessSofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2026

    Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…

  • Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pediatric oncology and hematology

    Maximilian Hopfgartner, Liesa Weiler-Wichtl et al.ARTICLEHealth Psychology Review2026

  • Influence of friendship on benign and malicious envy among secondary school students

    Open AccessFlora Fassl, Maximilian Hofleitner et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…2026

    BACKGROUND: Benign and malicious envy arise from social comparisons regarding a quality, achievement or possession. As school is inherently evaluative and social, the classroom offers a relevant and understudied context to investigate envy and the impact of friendship on envy. Prior research has shown a positive association between relationship closeness and benign envy. AIMS: Broadening research on the interconnectedness of emotional and social …

  • Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness

    Open AccessMiles Richardson, Michael L Lengieza et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026Referências: 61

    Nature connectedness is increasingly recognised as a causal issue in environmental crises and a powerful strategy for transformative change. However, little is known about how it varies across countries and the macro-level factors that influence the human–nature relationship at a societal level. Using a large dataset ( N = 56 968) from a diverse set of 61 countries, this study explored how both objective country-level indicators of the socio-ecol…

  • Mindfulness Predicts Mind Wandering and Differentially Affects Its Controllability in Everyday Life

    Open AccessAgatha Normann, Martin Voracek et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2025

    It is currently unresolved whether control, or its lack, over mind wandering contributes to its associations with creativity.Mind wandering and mindfulness are seen as opposing constructs concerning the ability to remain undistracted and, at the same time, appear to have a complex relationship with one another and with creativity.This study investigated the influence of control on novelty and usefulness of thought content during mind wandering in…

  • Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

    Open AccessErin M Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Referências: 90

  • Self-reported mindfulness accounts for the effects of mindfulness interventions and nonmindfulness controls on self-reported mental health

    Ulrich S Tran, Layla Birnbaum et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2022

  • Author Correction

    Open AccessKe Wang, Amit Goldenberg et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2022

  • “Kneweth one who makes these notes . . .”

    Ulrich S Tran, Viren Swami et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2021

    Previous studies suggest that personality and individual difference traits are associated with aesthetic preferences, but have infrequently examined associations within specific genres or across media domains. We examined associations between the Big Five personality traits with preferences (i.e., liking) for two non-conventional genres of film and literature, namely nouveau roman and existentialism, in samples of 548 non-experts and 95 genre exp…

  • The Impact of Educative News Articles about Suicide Prevention

    Barry Till, Ulrich S Tran et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2021

    Media stories featuring stories of personal experiences of coping with suicidal ideation have been shown to decrease suicide risk, but it is unclear whether more impersonal awareness materials have similar effects. This study aimed to test the impact of impersonal educative news articles featuring interviews with suicide prevention experts. Because the impact of news articles may be determined by the articles’ pull quotes and headlines, we also a…

  • Mental health literacy of depression

    Viren Swami, Clemens G Grüneis et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2021

    The study of mental health literacy is well-developed, but the basic methodology used in this research (i.e., the use of text-based vignettes) has not changed substantively in over two decades of work. Here, we developed novel filmed disclosures to re-assess mental health literacy of depression in a preregistered study utilizing a randomized, fully within-subjects design. A total of 405 adults from Austria (57% women, age M = 32.5 years) viewed s…

  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessKe Wang, Amit Goldenberg et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Citada por: 4Referências: 117

  • Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide

    Open AccessThomas Niederkrotenthaler, Marlies Braun et al.ARTICLEBMJ2020

  • Is Individualism Suicidogenic? Findings From a Multinational Study of Young Adults From 12 Countries

    Open AccessMehmet Eskin, Ulrich S Tran et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    The associations of individualistic versus collectivistic value orientations with suicidal ideation and attempts, attitudes towards suicide and towards suicidal individuals, and psychological distress were investigated across 12 nations ( N = 5572 university students). We expected differential associations of value orientations with suicidal behavior and moderating effects of the prevailing value orientations in the various countries. Findings sh…

  • The Role of Religion in Suicidal Behavior, Attitudes and Psychological Distress Among University Students

    Open AccessMehmet Eskin, Senel Poyrazli et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2019Citada por: 3Referências: 35

    The purpose of this study was to determine the associations between religion, suicidal behavior, attitudes and psychological distress in 5572 students from 12 countries by means of a self-report questionnaire. Our results showed that an affiliation with Islam was associated with reduced risk for suicide ideation, however affiliating with Orthodox Christianity and no religion was related to increased risk for suicide ideation. While affiliating wi…

  • Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think

    Open AccessJacob Westfall, Tal Yarkoni et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2016

    Social scientists often seek to demonstrate that a construct has incremental validity over and above other related constructs. However, these claims are typically supported by measurement-level models that fail to consider the effects of measurement (un)reliability. We use intuitive examples, Monte Carlo simulations, and a novel analytical framework to demonstrate that common strategies for establishing incremental construct validity using multip…

  • Suicidal Behavior and Psychological Distress in University Students

    Mehmet Eskin, Jian-Min Sun et al.ARTICLEArchives of Suicide Research2016

    This study investigated the prevalence of suicidal behavior and psychological distress in university students across 12 nations. A total of 5,572 university students from 12 countries were surveyed about suicide ideation, suicide attempts, and psychological distress by means of a self-administered questionnaire. Almost 29% of the samples reported having contemplated suicide and 7% reported attempting suicide. Of the total sample, 51.1% scored abo…

  • Who Believes in the Giant Skeleton Myth? An Examination of Individual Difference Correlates

    Open AccessViren Swami, Ulrich S Tran et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2016

    This study examined individual difference correlates of belief in a narrative about the discovery of giant skeletal remains that contravenes mainstream scientific explanations. A total of 364 participants from Central Europe completed a survey that asked them to rate their agreement with a short excerpt describing the giant skeleton myth. Participants also completed measures of the Big Five personality factors, New Age orientation, anti-scientifi…

  • Physical self-concept and the frequency of lucid dreams and nightmares

    Andreas Hausberger, Peter Pollak et al.ARTICLEDreaming2016

  • Music and Suicidality

    Open AccessBarry Till, Benedikt Till et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2015

    In recent years, the question whether personal suicidality is reflected in individual music preferences has been discussed. We assessed associations of preferred music genres and cumulative exposure to and rating of 50 preselected songs, including 25 suicide-related songs, with suicide risk factors in an online survey with 943 participants. Preferences for sad music were associated with high psychoticism, while fanship of music genres with predom…

  • Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

    Open AccessViren Swami, Martin Voracek et al.ARTICLECognition2014

  • Principal Component Analysis of Smoothed Tetrachoric Correlation Matrices as a Measure of Dimensionality

    Open AccessRudolf Debelak, Ulrich S TranARTICLEEducational and Psychological…2013

    The application of principal component analysis and parallel analysis to smoothed tetrachoric correlation matrices was investigated in a simulation study. To evaluate the effect of several smoothing algorithms, 360 different types of data sets were simulated. Under each simulated condition, two item sets, each fitting a unidimensional two-parameter logistic model, were combined with each other. The simulations differed in the size of the simulate…

  • Factorial Structure and Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the E (Empathy) Scale

    Open AccessUlrich S Tran, Anton-Rupert Laireiter et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2013

    The Empathy (E) scale has been proposed as a theoretically and psychometrically more satisfying alternative to existing self-report measures of empathy. Its four scales (facets) cover both components (cognitive vs. emotional) and both reality statuses (fictitious vs. real-life) of empathy in pairwise combinations. Confirmatory factor analyses of the E-scale in an Austrian community sample (N = 794) suggested that one prior assumption, namely the …

  • Happy and angry faces

    Open AccessUlrich S Tran, Elisabeth Lamplmayr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2013Referências: 32

  • Psychometric Analysis of Stöber's Social Desirability Scale (SDS—17)

    Open AccessUlrich S Tran, Stefan Stieger et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2012

    Stöber's Social Desirability Scale (SDS-17) was examined psychometrically in 5 samples (N=2817) from Austria, Canada, and the U.S.A. Rasch and Mokken scaling analyses attested the SDS-17 is not strictly unidimensional. Age, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were notable positive correlates of SDS-17 scores. There were signs of non-normal score distributions, acquiescence bias, and sex and country differences (higher scores among Austrians than…