A new paper, Political Orientation as Psychological Defense or Basic Disposition? A Social Neuroscience Examination, by Kyle Nash and Josh Leota has been published by Springer in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
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New paper from our lab in Nature Scientific Reports demonstrating that neural processes in antecedent anxiety modulate risk-taking behavior.
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New paper from our lab in SCAN showing that economic threat increases neural conflict detection processes and support and motivation for personal wealth.
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New paper in collaboration with Kumar Yogeeswaran and colleagues examining the neural and attitudinal consequences of intergroup toleration. We found that calling for toleration of Muslim minority practices elicits an aggressive backlash against the group among conservatives but not liberal participants.
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Josh Leota has been awarded The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Diversity Graduate Travel Award for the 2020 SPSP convention in New Orleans.
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A new, pre-registered study by Josh Leota and Dr. Kyle Nash found that dismissive-avoidant participants engaged in increased reactive risk-taking behavior following a distressing experience, compared to their anxiously-attached counterparts.
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New paper from Dr. Kyle Nash showing social media approval reduces distress for people high in narcissism.
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Congratulations to Josh Leota of the NSN Lab for winning the 2019 Alberta Gambling Research Institute Graduate Scholarship and Research Allowance. Josh’s research examines the effect of anxiety on reactive risk-taking.
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