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Kristin Laurin
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Latest papers
When consent isn't enough: explaining third-party disapproval of consensual decisions within the contractualist framework.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · senior author
Socioeconomic Status and Meta-Perceptions: How Markers of Culture and Rank Predict Beliefs About How Others See Us.
Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024
Moral psychology biases toward individual, not systemic, representations.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $58,309
Reluctance to disclose political identities: Causes and consequences
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $46,052
Improving institutional land acknowledgments
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $20,763
Reluctance to disclose political identities: Causes and consequences
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
When consent isn't enough: explaining third-party disapproval of consensual decisions within the contractualist framework.
Zhang C, Laurin K
Socioeconomic Status and Meta-Perceptions: How Markers of Culture and Rank Predict Beliefs About How Others See Us.
Engstrom HR, Laurin K, Kay NR, Human LJ
Moral psychology biases toward individual, not systemic, representations.
Thomas IA, Kay NR, Laurin K
Assumptions About Algorithms' Capacity for Discrimination.
Jago AS, Laurin K
Editorial overview: Five observations about tradition and progress in the scientific study of political ideologies.
Jost JT, Halperin E, Laurin K
Polarization in America: two possible futures.
Heltzel G, Laurin K
The context of low socioeconomic status can undermine people's motivation for financial success.
Laurin K, Engstrom HR
System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change.
Friesen JP, Laurin K, Shepherd S, Gaucher D, Kay AC
Reluctance to disclose political identities: Causes and consequences
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: political psychology; relationships; misperceptions; self-disclosure
Improving institutional land acknowledgments
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: Land acknowledgments; Settler-indigenous relations; Colonization; Intergroup relations; Social justice
Reluctance to disclose political identities: Causes and consequences
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: political psychology; relationships; misperceptions; self-disclosure
Understanding who values democracy, why: The beginnings of a new program of inquiry
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: Democracy; Political Psychology; Moral values; Elitism; Need for control; Social activism
System justification: Self-regulatory causes and unintended emotional consequences
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: goal pursuit; cognitive resources; well-being; system justification; political psychology
Understanding the nature of rationalized confidence in the sociopolitical system
Principal investigators: Laurin, Kristin
Keywords: (1) Rationalization; (2) Confidence in the sociopolitical system; (3) System justification; (4) Emotion regulation; (5) Implicit emotion regulation; (6) Political psychology; (7) Social inequality; (8) Well-being; (9) Physiological stress
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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