Andrea S. Matos Devesa- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andrea S. Matos Devesa
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Introduction
Andrea does research in Social Psychology.
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2017 - March 2020
Position
- Teaching Assistant for First Year Psychology Classes
June 2017 - present
June 2016 - September 2016
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- I assisted Dr. Owuamalam and his PhD student in conducting a research study as part of the student's thesis. I mainly assisted in recruiting participants, as well as helped supervise participants and collected data for the study.
Education
July 2017 - July 2020
September 2014 - July 2017
Publications
Publications (9)
A large aspect of social psychology is the assumption that people derive their self-image from the social groups they belong to. However, because social positions are often dynamic, the need to achieve and maintain a positive and distinct social image is ever-present. While people can belong to multiple social groups within their lives, most resear...
Does the social status of victims in emergencies play a role in bystanders’ compassionate orientations towards them? In this thesis, I examine the hitherto unexplored proposition that bystanders may be more inclined toward expressing compassion in favor of victims who signal high (rather than low) social status. I tested this novel thesis in six ex...
Why would heterosexual men downplay their compassion for masculine (vs. feminine) gay
victims of hate crime? Two social identity-inspired explanations provide contrasting answers to this question. The reactive distinctiveness thesis (RD) assumes that heterosexual men would downplay their compassion more, when cued to a gay victim’s masculinity than...
Why do women support social and economic arrangements that disadvantage them? System justification theory (SJT) proposes that an autonomous system-level motive is responsible for this tendency, beyond any group-interested considerations (e.g. hope of future group advancement). The social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA) disputes the exist...
Compassionate feelings for people who are victimised because of their perceived sexual deviance (e.g., gay men) may be incompatible with support for heterosexual norms among heterosexual men. But, passivity (even indifference) towards such victims could raise concern over heterosexual men’s gay-tolerance attitude. Two classic social psychological t...
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Compassionate feelings for people who are victimised because of their perceived sexual deviance (e.g., gay men) may be incompatible with support for heterosexual norms among heterosexual men. But, passivity (even indifference) towards such victims could raise concern over heterosexual men’s gay-tolerance attitude. Two classic social psychological t...
Do egalitarians always express greater compassion towards the disadvantaged than towards the advantaged? A closer look at existing scholarship on the topic suggests that they likely do. Here, we investigated whether such tendency is also apparent within interdependent high-power distant cultures where the high-status privilege prevails. Given the e...
We tested a novel value-norm conflict hypothesis with regards to a status-based compassion bias that; (a) people will show greater compassion towards higher-, rather than lower-, status victims, and; (b) that such status privilege would be visible for egalitarians in interdependent societies when the reputational cost of adhering to the normative h...
