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Overview

Karl Aquino is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans various aspects of social sciences, focusing primarily on social and cognitive psychological themes. The main fields of study for Aquino's work include social sciences, with notable subfields covering sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, safety research, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work explores multiple interconnected topics, including psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, ethics in business and education, experimental behavioral economics studies, personality traits and psychology, misinformation and its impacts, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent publication outlets for Aquino include Academy of Management Proceedings, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

Among Aquino's recent papers are studies addressing diverse themes such as political behavior, personality psychology, and scientific censorship. These include:

  • Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter, 2022, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Man up and take it: Gender bias in moral typecasting, 2020, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Dual pathways to bias: Evaluators' ideology and ressentiment independently predict racial discrimination in hiring contexts, 2020, Journal of Applied Psychology

Aquino collaborates regularly with several researchers, with the most frequent coauthors including Maja Graso, Fan Xuan Chen, Ekin Ok, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, and Brendan Strejcek.

Best Publications

  • The self-importance of moral identity.

    Karl Aquino;Americus Reed

  • Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies

    Mark Simon;Susan M. Houghton;Karl Aquino

  • Who Displays Ethical Leadership, and Why Does It Matter? An Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Ethical Leadership

    David M. Mayer;Karl Aquino;Rebecca L. Greenbaum;Maribeth Kuenzi

  • Testing a Social-Cognitive Model of Moral Behavior: The Interactive Influence of Situations and Moral Identity Centrality

    Karl Aquino;Dilys Freeman;Americus Reed Ii;Vivien Lim

  • Getting even or moving on? Power, procedural justice, and types of offense as predictors of revenge, forgiveness, reconciliation, and avoidance in organizations.

    Karl Aquino;Thomas M. Tripp;Robert J. Bies

  • Workplace victimization: aggression from the target's perspective.

    Karl Aquino;Stefan Thau

  • Justice constructs, negative affectivity, and employee deviance: a proposed model and empirical test

    Karl Aquino;Karl Aquino;Margaret U. Lewis;Murray Bradfield

  • How employees respond to personal offense: the effects of blame attribution, victim status, and offender status on revenge and reconciliation in the workplace

    Karl Aquino;Thomas M. Tripp;Robert J. Bies

  • Moral identity and the expanding circle of moral regard toward out-groups.

    Americus Reed Ii;Karl F. Aquino

  • Moral Identity and Judgments of Charitable Behaviors

    Americus Reed;Karl Aquino;Eric Levy

  • A Social Context Model of Envy and Social Undermining

    Michelle K. Duffy;Kristin L. Scott;Jason D. Shaw;Bennett J. Tepper

  • The Effects of Blame Attributions and Offender Likableness on Forgiveness and Revenge in the Workplace

    Murray Bradfield;Karl Aquino

  • Moral identity and the experience of moral elevation in response to acts of uncommon goodness.

    Karl Aquino;Brent McFerran;Marjorie Laven

  • Identity threat and antisocial behavior in organizations: The moderating effects of individual differences, aggressive modeling, and hierarchical status

    Karl Aquino;Scott Douglas

  • Beyond moral reasoning: A review of moral identity research and its implications for business ethics

    Ruodan Shao;Karl Aquino;Dan Freeman

  • The effects of negative affectivity, hierarchical status, and self-determination on workplace victimization

    Karl Aquino;Steven L. Grover;Murray Bradfield;David G. Allen

  • A grotesque and dark beauty: How moral identity and mechanisms of moral disengagement influence cognitive and emotional reactions to war

    Karl Aquino;Americus Reed;Stefan Thau;Dan Freeman

  • Integrating justice constructs into the turnover process : a test of a referent cognitions model

    Karl Aquino;Rodger W. Griffeth;David G. Allen;Peter W. Hom

  • A relational model of workplace victimization: social roles and patterns of victimization in dyadic relationships.

    Karl Aquino;Kai Lamertz

  • Structural and individual determinants of workplace victimization: The effects of hierarchical status and conflict management style.

    Karl Aquino

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Lloyd D. Restubog
Simon Lloyd D. Restubog University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel P. Skarlicki
Daniel P. Skarlicki University of British Columbia
William H. Bommer
William H. Bommer California State University, Fresno
Vivien K. G. Lim
Vivien K. G. Lim National University of Singapore
Debra L. Shapiro
Debra L. Shapiro University of Maryland, College Park
David G. Allen
David G. Allen Texas Christian University
David M. Mayer
David M. Mayer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Jessica L. Tracy
Jessica L. Tracy University of British Columbia
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland

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