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Karl Aquino

ResearcherManagement, Business, Administrative StudiesUniversity of British Columbia

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Karl Aquino

Researcher

Management, Business, Administrative Studies

Social Sciences and Humanities

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

vigilantes third party punishment justice workplace victimization employee outcomes

Latest papers

Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19.
Nature human behaviour · 2026
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA.
Journal of medical ethics · 2024
Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Effects of Workplace Victim Signaling Perceptions
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$73,639
Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$30,230
Helping or Hindering? Understanding Workplace Help Rejection
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$58,087

All 12 grants and awards

11 publications.

Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19.

Grašo M, Aquino K, Baral S, Berg N, Clark CJ, Conway LG, Dolan P, Grover S, Fousiani K, Kitz CC, Krpan D

Nature human behaviour2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02506-4 PMID: 42642645

Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA.

Graso M, Aquino K, Chen FX, Bardosh K

Journal of medical ethics2024

DOI: 10.1136/jme-2022-108825 PMID: 37295936

Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda.

Clark CJ, Jussim L, Frey K, Stevens ST, Al-Gharbi M, Aquino K, Bailey JM, Barbaro N, Baumeister RF, Bleske-Rechek A, Buss D, Ceci S, Del Giudice M, Ditto PH, Forgas JP, Geary DC, Geher G, Haider S, Honeycutt N, Joshi H, Krylov AI, Loftus E, Loury G, Lu L, Macy M, Martin CC, McWhorter J, Miller G, Paresky P, Pinker S, Reilly W, Salmon C, Stewart-Williams S, Tetlock PE, Williams WM, Wilson AE, Winegard BM, Yancey G, von Hippel W

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301642120 PMID: 37983511

Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self-esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders.

Mercadante EJ, Heine SJ, Aquino K

Journal of personality2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12799 PMID: 36478380

Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men than Women.

Graso M, Reynolds T, Aquino K

Archives of sexual behavior2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10508-023-02571-0 PMID: 36930334

The dark side of belief in Covid-19 scientists and scientific evidence.

Graso M, Henwood A, Aquino K, Dolan P, Chen FX

Personality and individual differences2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111594 PMID: 35291670

Artificial Intelligence Can't Be Charmed: The Effects of Impartiality on Laypeople's Algorithmic Preferences.

Claudy MC, Aquino K, Graso M

Frontiers in psychology2022

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.898027 PMID: 35846643

A decline in prosocial language helps explain public disapproval of the US Congress.

Frimer JA, Aquino K, Gebauer JE, Zhu LL, Oakes H

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500355112 PMID: 25964358

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

Aquino K, McFerran B, Laven M

Journal of personality and social psychology2011First author

DOI: 10.1037/a0022540 PMID: 21443375

Testing a social-cognitive model of moral behavior: the interactive influence of situations and moral identity centrality.

Aquino K, Freeman D, Reed A, Felps W, Lim VK

Journal of personality and social psychology2009First author

DOI: 10.1037/a0015406 PMID: 19586244

Effects of Workplace Victim Signaling Perceptions

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Aquino, Karl

Keywords: workplace victimization; employee outcomes

$73,639

Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Brassolotto, Julia

Keywords: Medical Assistance in Dying; MAiD; Canada; health policy; feminist political economy; ethics; autonomy; vulnerability

$30,230

Helping or Hindering? Understanding Workplace Help Rejection

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Zhu, Luke

Keywords: helping; moral identity; emotion; organizational behavior

$58,087

The Antecedents and Consequences of Swift Blame at Work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Skarlicki, Daniel

Keywords: antecedents and consequences of swift blame; reducing swift blame in the workplace; mindfulness training

$39,000

The Antecedents and Consequences of Swift Blame at Work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Skarlicki, Daniel

Keywords: antecedents and consequences of swift blame; reducing swift blame in the workplace; mindfulness training

$102,140

Moral identity symbolization in organizations: mechanisms and consequences

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Zhu, Lei

Keywords: moral identity; symbolization; prosocial behavior; behavioral ethics

$138,350

Workplace and consumer vigilantes: predictors and consequences

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Aquino, Karl

Keywords: vigilantes; third party punishment; justice

$148,300

The effect of desire and willpower on food quality-quantity tradeoffs

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cornil, Yann

Keywords: self-control; willpower; desire; food choices; sensory imagery

$154,228

Effective reintegration of wrongdoers in organizations: a restorative justice perspective

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Aquino, Karl

Keywords: restorative justice; reintegration; forgiveness

$171,855

Customer biases in service encounters

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Bhardwaj, Arjun

Keywords: customer biases; evaluations of service agents and organizations; service encounters; implicit and explicit biases

$52,546

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