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Becky L. Choma is affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. Additional areas of study include Modeling and Simulation as well as Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their main research topics include Social and Intergroup Psychology, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Misinformation and Its Impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, and Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion.

Recent published papers by Becky L. Choma include:

  • Ideological and psychological predictors of COVID-19-related collective action, opinions, and health compliance across three nations, 2021, Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries, 2023, Scientific Data
  • Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning, 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • Cyber-aggression towards women: Measurement and psychological predictors in gaming communities, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior

Choma has frequently published in venues such as the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Nature Communications, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and Scientific Data.

Among frequent coauthors, Becky L. Choma has collaborated notably with Panagiotis Mitkidis, William A. Cunningham, David Sumantry, Arvin Jagayat, and Aleksandra Cichocka.

Best Publications

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Cognitive ability and authoritarianism: Understanding support for Trump and Clinton

    Becky L. Choma;Yaniv Hanoch

  • The role of intergroup disgust in predicting negative outgroup evaluations

    Gordon Hodson;Becky L. Choma;Jacqueline Boisvert;Carolyn L. Hafer

  • Self-Objectification, Self-Esteem, and Gender: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model

    Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Beth A. Visser;Julie A. Pozzebon;Anthony F. Bogaert

  • Belief in a Just World and Commitment to Long-Term Deserved Outcomes

    Carolyn L. Hafer;Laurent Bègue;Becky L. Choma;Julie L. Dempsey

  • Assessing the Role of Body Image Coping Strategies as Mediators or Moderators of the Links Between Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Well-Being

    Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Claire Shove;Michael A. Busseri;Stanley W. Sadava

  • An eye for the I : preferential attention to the eyes of ingroup members

    Kerry Kawakami;Amanda Williams;David Sidhu;Becky L. Choma

  • Experiencing Alien-Nation: Effects of a simulation intervention on attitudes toward homosexuals☆

    Gordon Hodson;Becky L. Choma;Kimberly Costello

  • Relations between risk perceptions and socio-political ideology are domain- and ideology- dependent

    Becky L. Choma;Yaniv Hanoch;Michaela Gummerum;Gordon Hodson

  • Functional or Fantasy? Examining the Implications of Subjective Temporal Perspective “Trajectories” for Life Satisfaction

    Michael A. Busseri;Becky L. Choma;Stan W. Sadava

  • “As good as it gets” or “The best is yet to come”? How optimists and pessimists view their past, present, and anticipated future life satisfaction

    Michael A. Busseri;Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Stan W. Sadava

  • Belief in a Just World, Perceived Fairness, and Justification of the Status Quo

    Carolyn L. Hafer;Becky L. Choma

  • Use of Objectification Theory to Examine the Effects of a Media Literacy Intervention on Women

    Becky L. Choma;Mindi D. Foster;Eileen Radford

  • Intergroup disgust sensitivity as a predictor of islamophobia: The modulating effect of fear

    Becky L. Choma;Gordon Hodson;Kimberly Costello

  • Liberal and conservative political ideologies: Different routes to happiness?

    Becky L. Choma;Michael A. Busseri;Stanley W. Sadava

  • Internalised White Ideal, Skin Tone Surveillance, and Hair Surveillance Predict Skin and Hair Dissatisfaction and Skin Bleaching among African American and Indian Women

    Kathryn Harper;Becky L. Choma

  • Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

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

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  • Right‐Wing Ideology as a Predictor of Collective Action: A Test Across Four Political Issue Domains

    Becky Choma;Gordon Hodson;Arvin Jagayat;Mark R. Hoffarth

  • Ideological and Psychological Predictors of COVID-19-Related Collective Action, Opinions, and Health Compliance Across Three Nations

    Becky L. Choma;Gordon Hodson;David Sumantry;Yaniv Hanoch

  • Autonomic and electrophysiological correlates of emotional intensity in older and younger adults.

    Jane Dywan;Karen J. Mathewson;Becky L. Choma;Brianna Rosenfeld

  • Right-Wing Ideology: Positive (and Negative) Relations to Threat

    Becky L. Choma;Gordon Hodson

  • Risk Propensity Among Liberals and Conservatives: The Effect of Risk Perception, Expected Benefits, and Risk Domain

    Becky L. Choma;Yaniv Hanoch;Gordon Hodson;Michaela Gummerum

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon Hodson
Gordon Hodson Brock University
Michael A. Busseri
Michael A. Busseri Brock University
Sidney J. Segalowitz
Sidney J. Segalowitz Brock University
Rhiannon N. Turner
Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast
Frank A. Russo
Frank A. Russo Toronto Metropolitan University
Anthony F. Bogaert
Anthony F. Bogaert Brock University
Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton Brock University
Rachel M. Calogero
Rachel M. Calogero University of Western Ontario
Kurt Hugenberg
Kurt Hugenberg Indiana University
Yoav Ganzach
Yoav Ganzach Tel Aviv University

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