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Overview

Marc S. Wilson is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, with a significant number of publications contributing to these fields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, Wilson's work engages with several subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The primary topics covered in their research are diverse and reflect a focus on health and social issues:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Wilson has authored multiple recent papers, including:

  • Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being, 2020, American Psychologist
  • The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale, 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • To meat, or not to meat: A longitudinal investigation of transitioning to and from plant-based diets, 2021, Appetite
  • Nonsuicidal self-injury thoughts and behavioural characteristics: Associations with suicidal thoughts and behaviours among community adolescents, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation predict rejection of science and scientists, 2021, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Prominent frequent co-authors with whom Wilson has collaborated include:

  • Chris G. Sibley
  • Kealagh Robinson
  • Joseph Bulbulia
  • Danny Osborne
  • Taciano L. Milfont

Their work has been published repeatedly in various academic venues, particularly:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • New Zealand Journal of Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Best Publications

  • Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being.

    Chris G. Sibley;Lara M. Greaves;Nicole Satherley;Marc S. Wilson

  • Antecedents of Men’s Hostile and Benevolent Sexism: The Dual Roles of Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

    Chris G. Sibley;Marc S. Wilson;John Duckitt

  • New Zealand Journal of Psychology

    Marc Wilson

  • The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale

    Teaghan L. Hogg;Samantha K. Stanley;Léan V. O'Brien;Marc S. Wilson

  • A functional approach to instrumental and terminal values and the value‐attitude‐behaviour system of consumer choice

    Michael W. Allen;Sik Hung Ng;Marc Wilson

  • Values and beliefs of vegetarians and omnivores.

    Michael W. Allen;Marc Wilson;Sik Hung Ng;Michael Dunne

  • Social identity and the perception of history: Cultural representations of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

    James H. Liu;James H. Liu;Marc Stewart Wilson;John McClure;Te Ripowai Higgins

  • Effects of Dangerous and Competitive Worldviews on Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation over a Five‐Month Period

    Chris G. Sibley;Marc S. Wilson;John Duckitt

  • Prevalence, correlates, and prospective predictors of non-suicidal self-injury among New Zealand adolescents: cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data

    Jessica Anne Garisch;Marc Stewart Wilson

  • Differentiating Hostile and Benevolent Sexist Attitudes Toward Positive and Negative Sexual Female Subtypes

    Chris G. Sibley;Marc Stewart Wilson

  • Environmental Consequences of the Desire to Dominate and Be Superior

    Taciano L. Milfont;Isabel Richter;Chris G. Sibley;Marc S. Wilson

  • Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Additive and Interactive Effects

    Chris G. Sibley;Andrew Robertson;Marc S. Wilson

  • Social dominance orientation and gender: the moderating role of gender identity.

    Marc Stewart Wilson;James H. Liu

  • Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Additive and Interactive Effects on Political Conservatism

    Marc Stewart Wilson;Chris G. Sibley

  • The Mini-IPIP6: Validation and extension of a short measure of the Big-Six factors of personality in New Zealand.

    Chris G. Sibley;Nils Luyten;Missy Purnomo;Annelise Mobberley

  • A brief motivational interviewing intervention with prisoners: when you lead a horse to water, can it drink for itself?

    Brendan Anstiss;Devon L.L. Polaschek;Marc Wilson

  • Neural correlates of mystical experience.

    Irene Cristofori;Irene Cristofori;Joseph Bulbulia;John H. Shaver;Marc Wilson

  • Vulnerabilities to deliberate self-harm among adolescents: the role of alexithymia and victimization.

    Jessica Anne Garisch;Marc Stewart Wilson

  • Meta-analysing the association between social dominance orientation, authoritarianism, and attitudes on the environment and climate change

    Samantha K. Stanley;Marc S. Wilson

  • Differential Effects of Right–Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation on Dimensions of Generalized Prejudice in Brazil:

    Clara Cantal;Taciano L. Milfont;Marc S. Wilson;Valdiney V. Gouveia

  • A social-value analysis of postmaterialism.

    Marc Stewart Wilson

  • The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample

    Lara M. Greaves;Fiona Kate Barlow;Fiona Kate Barlow;Carol H. J. Lee;Correna M. Matika

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato
Danny Osborne
Danny Osborne University of Auckland
Fiona Kate Barlow
Fiona Kate Barlow University of Queensland
James H. Liu
James H. Liu Massey University
Devon L. L. Polaschek
Devon L. L. Polaschek University of Waikato
Nancy L. Heath
Nancy L. Heath McGill University
Nickola C. Overall
Nickola C. Overall University of Auckland
Don E. Davis
Don E. Davis Georgia State University
John Duckitt
John Duckitt University of Auckland

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