Previous research suggests that several individual and cultural level attitudes, cognitions, and societal structures may have evolved to mitigate the pathogen threats posed by intergroup interactions. It has been suggested that these anti-pathogen defenses are at the root of conservative political ideology. Here, we test a hypothesis that political conservatism functions as a pathogen-avoidance...

Using data from 3 different samples, the authors found that: (a) the relationships between political conservatism and racism generally increased as a function of educational sophistication; however, the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Black affect did not increase with educational sophistication, (b) The correlation between political conservatism and racism could be entirel...

The main purpose of the present study is to examine relationship between religiosity and gender traditionalism in a secular Muslim country, Turkey. Based on previous research perspectives several hypotheses were developed test. A joint data, which collected by European Value Survey World from Turkey 2018, was used for analysis. series models linear logistic regression created test effect each p...

We reflect on the convergence and termination of optimization algorithms based on convex and separable approximations using two recently proposed strategies, namely a trust region with filtered acceptance of the iterates, and conservatism. We then propose a new strategy for convergence and termination, denoted f iltered conservatism, in which the acceptance or rejection of an iterate is determi...

In this paper, we empirically evaluate two views on the relation between product market competition and conditional accounting conservatism. One view is that intense product market competition increases bankruptcy risk and consequently, exacerbates shareholder-bondholder conflict of interest and enhances the likelihood of litigation. In response, both bondholders and auditors demand a higher le...

BACKGROUND Political and social developments point at increasing marginalization of Muslim migrants, but little is known about its consequences for the mental health of this particular group. AIM To explore the relationship between acculturation and psychological distress among first-generation Muslim migrants from Turkey and Morocco in the Netherlands. METHODS A cross-sectional study. Resp...