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Political Ideology (7)

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Publications

People, places, things and communities: expanding behaviour settings theory in the twenty-first century

morality

moral judgment

categorization

dual-processes

causal evaluative modelling

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024)

Marek McGann, Miranda Lucas, Cillian Mchugh, Louise Barrett

To beckon or not to beckon: Testing a causal-evaluative modelling approach to moral judgment: A registered report

morality

moral judgment

categorization

dual-processes

causal evaluative modelling

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2024)

Cillian McHugh, Kathryn B. Francis, Jim A. C. Everett, Shane Timmons

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Identification

Data

Science Advances (2024)

Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, … … …, Siobhán M. Griffin, … … …, Cillian McHugh, … … …, Jay J. Van Bavel

Moral Judgment

morality

moral judgment

categorization

dual-processes

moral dumbfounding

Heroes

Heroism

Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies

Cillian McHugh, Jordan Wylie

Mental health hygiene during a health crisis: Exploring factors associated with media-induced secondary trauma in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic

pandemic

paranoia

media trauma

conspiracy theories

public health measures

compliance

news media

Health Psychology Open

Nishtha Lamba, Olga Khokhlova, Aditi Bhatia, Cillian McHugh

Cognitive Load Can Reduce Reason-Giving in a Moral Dumbfounding Task

morality

moral judgment

categorization

dual-processes

moral dumbfounding

Collabra: Psycholgy (2023)

Cillian McHugh, Marek McGann, Eric R. Igou, Elaine L. Kinsella

Just wrong? Or just WEIRD?

Investigating the prevalence of moral dumbfounding in non-Western samples

morality

moral dumbfounding

WEIRD

Memory & Cognition (2023)

Cillian McHugh, Run Zhang, Tanuja Karnatak, Nishtha Lamba, Olga Khokhlova

Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Identification

Data

Nature Scientific Data (2023)

Flavio Azevedo, Tomislav Pavlović, … … …, Cillian McHugh, … … …, Siobhán M. Griffin, … … …, Waldir M. Sampaio

Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning

COVID-19

moral identity

Political Ideology

machine learning

PNAS Nexus (2022)

Tomislav PavlovićJay J. Van Bavel, Flavio Azevedo, … … …, Cillian McHugh, … … …, Siobhán M. Griffin, … … …, Jay J. Van Bavel

Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID-19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology:

A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand

morality

moral identity

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Polarization

Political Psychology (2022)

Cillian McHugh, Siobhán M. Griffin, Melanie J. McGrath, Joshua J. Rhee, Paul J. Maher, Darragh McCashin, Jenny Roth

Pandemic threat and group cohesion:

national identification in the wake of COVID-19 is associated with authoritarianism

right wing authoritarianism

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Polarization

The Journal of Social Psychology (2022)

Paul J. Maher, Jenny Roth, Siobhán M. Griffin, Aoife Marie Foran, Sarah Jay, Cillian McHugh, Megan Ryan, Daragh Bradshaw, Michael Quayle, Orla T. Muldoon

National Identity Predicts Public Health Support during a Global Pandemic

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Identification

Nature Communications (2022)

Jay J. Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, … … …, Cillian McHugh, … … …, Siobhán M. Griffin, … … …, Paulo S. Boggio

Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)

morality

moral judgment

categorization

Perspectives in Psychological Science (2022)

Cillian McHugh, Marek McGann, Eric R. Igou, Elaine L. Kinsella

The Political Psychology of COVID-19

political psychology

COVID-19

Political Ideology

Polarization

politics

Political Psychology (2021)

Orla T. Muldoon, James H. Liu, Cillian McHugh

Solidarity Matters:

Prototypicality and Minority and Majority Adherence to National COVID-19 Health Advice

solidarity

identity

COVID-19

International Review of Social Psychology (2022)

Aoife-Marie Foran, Jenny Roth, Sarah Jay, Siobhán M. Griffin, Paul J. Maher, Cillian McHugh, Daragh Bradshaw, Megan Ryan, Michael Quayle, Orla T. Muldoon

Reasons or Rationalisations:

The Role of Principles in the Moral Dumbfounding Paradigm

morality

moral dumbfounding

methods

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (2020)

Cillian McHugh, Marek McGann, Eric R. Igou, Elaine L. Kinsella

Searching for Moral Dumbfounding:

Identifying Measurable Indicators of Moral Dumbfounding

morality

moral dumbfounding

methods

Collabra: Psychology (2017)

Cillian McHugh, Marek McGann, Eric R. Igou, Elaine L. Kinsella

Presentations

The Complexity of Moral Psychology:

When Right and Wrong is not Straightforward

Department of Psychology Seminar Series (2023)

It’s wrong…but I cannot explain why!

Demystifying moral dumbfounding

International Conference on Thinking (June 2021)