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Jamin Halberstadt

Jamin Halberstadt

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Psychology

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46
Citations
13389
World Ranking
6313
National Ranking
38

Overview

Jamin Halberstadt is a researcher affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Halberstadt has authored numerous publications, including papers featured in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • New Ideas in Psychology
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Oral Rehabilitation

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates" (2021), Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade)
  • "Does lack of control lead to conspiracy beliefs? A meta-analysis" (2020), European Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models" (2022), PLoS ONE
  • "On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe." (2022), Emotion
  • "Does Perceived Lack of Control Lead to Conspiracy Theory Beliefs? Findings from an online MTurk sample" (2020), PLoS ONE

Halberstadt has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Jesse M. Bering
  • Steven Davey
  • Elliot Bell
  • Ana Stojanov
  • David Rozado

Their contributions also extend to book publications, including the title Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions (2020), published by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • Prototypes Are Attractive Because They Are Easy on the Mind

    Piotr Winkielman;Jamin Halberstadt;Tedra Fazendeiro;Steve Catty

  • Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands

    David P. Schmitt

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • When did her smile drop? Facial mimicry and the influences of emotional state on the detection of change in emotional expression

    Paula M. Niedenthal;Markus Brauer;Jamin B. Halberstadt;Åse H. Innes-Ker

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates.

    Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Filip de Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. Mccrae

  • Emotional state and the detection of change in facial expression of emotion

    Paula M. Niedenthal;Jamin B. Halberstadt;Jonathan Margolin;Åse H. Innes-Ker

  • Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner

    David P. Schmitt

  • Emotional response categorization.

    Paula M. Niedenthal;Jamin B. Halberstadt;Åse H. Innes-Ker

  • The Attractiveness of Nonface Averages: Implications for an Evolutionary Explanation of the Attractiveness of Average Faces

    Jamin Halberstadt;Gillian Rhodes

  • It's not just average faces that are attractive: computer-manipulated averageness makes birds, fish, and automobiles attractive.

    Jamin Halberstadt;Gillian Rhodes

  • Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism.

    Gillian Rhodes;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Romina Palermo;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

    V. K. Alogna;M. K. Attaya;P. Aucoin;Š. Bahník

  • Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups.

    Joshua Conrad Jackson;Jonathan Jong;Jonathan Jong;David Bilkey;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Foxhole atheism, revisited: The effects of mortality salience on explicit and implicit religious belief

    Jonathan Jong;Jamin Halberstadt;Matthias Bluemke

  • Similarity in context

    Robert L. Goldstone;Douglas L. Medin;Jamin Halberstadt

  • The religious correlates of death anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Jonathan Jong;Jonathan Jong;Robert Ross;Tristan Philip;Si Hua Chang

  • Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: universal and accurate?

    Wayne Chan;Robert R. McCrae;Filip De Fruyt;Lee Jussim

  • Emotional Conception How Embodied Emotion Concepts Guide Perception and Facial Action

    Jamin Halberstadt;Piotr Winkielman;Paula M. Niedenthal;Paula M. Niedenthal;Nathalie Dalle;Nathalie Dalle

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates

    Corinna Lockenhoff;Filip De Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Jüri Allik
Jüri Allik University of Tartu
Antonio Terracciano
Antonio Terracciano Florida State University
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ted Ruffman
Ted Ruffman University of Otago
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
Michelle Yik
Michelle Yik Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Jérôme Rossier
Jérôme Rossier University of Lausanne
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

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