Publications by authors named "Christoph Kogler"

Many apps (e.g., social media, online streaming) include a social component where individual privacy decisions go beyond individual contexts and affect other people.

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A theoretical perspective on grandiose narcissism suggests four forms of it (sanctity, admiration, heroism, rivalry) and states that these forms conduce to different ways of thinking and acting. Guided by this perspective, we examined in a multinational and multicultural study (61 countries; N = 15,039) how narcissism forms are linked to cognitions and behaviors prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As expected, differences in cognitions and behaviors across narcissism forms emerged.

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  • Moral framing strategies can effectively persuade individuals with strong moralized attitudes, but they may also deepen those moral divides and reduce willingness to compromise.
  • In three studies with a total of over 4,700 U.S. participants, moral messages intensified moral attitudes against big-data technologies, while nonmoral messages had the opposite effect.
  • Emotional responses, such as anger and disgust, contribute to moralization, while perceptions of financial cost promote de-moralization, suggesting that framing impacts how people view and act on contentious issues.
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We asked participants to predict which of two colors a similar other (student) and a dissimilar other (retiree) likes better. We manipulated if color-pairs were two hues from the same color-category (e.g.

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The endowment effect is the finding that possession of an item adds to its value. We introduce a new procedure for testing this effect: participants are divided into two groups. Possession group participants inspect a numbered lottery ticket and know it is theirs, while inspection group participants only inspect a lottery ticket without being endowed with it.

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