Zdravko Marjanovic, Concordia University of Edmonton

Research

prosocial behavior helping behavior natural disasters conservation of resources need to help financial threat

Latest papers

A Clarified Examination of the Item Wording Effect: Item Valence (Good vs. Bad) Versus Semantic Framing (I Am vs. I Am Not).
Psychological reports · 2026 · first author
Financial threat and psychological resilience in student and community samples: An opportunistic, exploratory study.
Acta psychologica · 2026 · first author
The Conscientious Responders Scale Helps Researchers Verify the Integrity of Personality Questionnaire Data.
Psychological reports · 2019 · first author

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Why Help Natural-Disaster Victims? How Resources and Situational Pressures Bias Judgments of Responsibility and Reduce the Need to Help
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$71,312

All 1 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

A Clarified Examination of the Item Wording Effect: Item Valence (Good vs. Bad) Versus Semantic Framing (I Am vs. I Am Not).

Marjanovic Z, Maidens AL

Psychological reports2026First author

DOI: 10.1177/00332941241301353 PMID: 39541592

02

Financial threat and psychological resilience in student and community samples: An opportunistic, exploratory study.

Marjanovic Z, Comeau T

Acta psychologica2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107818 PMID: 42790222

03

The Conscientious Responders Scale Helps Researchers Verify the Integrity of Personality Questionnaire Data.

Marjanovic Z, Bajkov L, MacDonald J

Psychological reports2019First author

DOI: 10.1177/0033294118783917 PMID: 29914343

Why Help Natural-Disaster Victims? How Resources and Situational Pressures Bias Judgments of Responsibility and Reduce the Need to Help

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Marjanovic, Zdravko

Keywords: prosocial behavior; helping behavior; natural disasters; conservation of resources; need to help; financial threat

$71,312

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: prosocial behavior Dear Professor Marjanovic, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "A Clarified Examination of the Item Wording Effect: Item Valence (Good vs. Bad) Versus Semantic Framing (I Am vs. I Am Not)." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Why Help Natural-Disaster Victims? How Resources and Situational Pressures Bias Judgments of Responsibility and Reduce the Need to Help" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]