Research papers

Research papers

2025

Adamus, M., Guzi, M., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2025). Evaluators’ masculine gender identity may drive gender biases in peer evaluation of business plans. Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. 119:102473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2025.102473

Sunyík, V., Grežo, M., & Adamus, M. (2025). Cognitive perspective on the self-reinforcing nature of poverty: Is scarcity related to financial behaviour via the ability to think analytically? Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. 119:102481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2025.102481 

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Block, K., et al. (2025). The Gender Gap in the Care Economy is Larger in Highly Developed Countries: Socio-Cultural Explanations for Paradoxical Findings. American Psychologist. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001512

Sobotová, B., Šrol, J., & Adamus, M. (2025). Taming the Dragons: Experimental study on the effectiveness of awareness-empowerment and social norms interventions to reduce psychological barriers to pro-environmental behaviour. Environment & Behavior. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165251390690

Šrol, J., Sobotová, B., & Adamus, M. (2025). Turning a blind eye to climate change: Moral disengagement and negative climate emotions as drivers of the green gap. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 35(6), e70203. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70203 

Adamus, M., Šrol, J., & Sobotová, B. (2025). Emotional, cognitive and social-psychological mechanisms underlying deliberate ignorance about climate change. Current Opinion in Psychology. 66:102115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102115

Adamus, M., Chayinska, M., Šrol, J., Adam-Troian, J., Ballová Mikušková, E., & Teličak, P. (2025). All you’ll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs. Political Psychology. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70003 

Ballová Mikušková, E., Kohut, M., Havan, P., & Adamus, M. (2025). Thinking styles (and how we measure them) matter: A four-component model of thinking styles tested with a balanced version of the 4-Component Thinking Styles Questionnaire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251327607 

Šrol, J., Čavojova, V., & Adamus, M. (2025) Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: The potential of anti-conspiracy interventions to curb the salience of conspiracy explanations. Thinking & Reasoning. 31(4), pp. 497-528. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2025.2464962 

Sobotová, B., Šrol, J., & Adamus, M. (2025). Dragons in action: Psychological barriers as mediators of the relationship between environmental value orientation and pro-environmental behaviour.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55(3), pp. 156-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13083 

Schinlder, S., et al. (2025). Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12806. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12806 

2024

Adamus, M. & Grežo, M. (2024). Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during Russian invasion of Ukraine: The case of Slovakia. Comparative Migration Studies, 12(44), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00405-z

Adamus, M., Ballová Mikušková, E., & Kohut, M. (2024). Conspire to one's own detriment:  Strengthening HPV program support through debunking epistemically suspect beliefs. Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing. 16(4), pp. 1886-1904. doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12570

Adamus, M. et al. (2024). The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam-Troian et al. (2023). British Journal of Social Psychology. 63(3), pp. 1207-1225 . doi: 10.1111/bjso.12725 

Adamus, M., Čavojova, V., & Fedáková, D. (2024). The role of educational choices in support of gender equality in unpaid domestic work: A case study of psychology and sTeM students in Slovakia. Czech Sociological Review, 60(6), online first. https://doi.org/10.13060/csr.2024.034

Grežo, M., Adamus, M., & Tencerová, J. (2024). Palliative and hegemonic aspects of conservatism: The mitigating role of institutional trust in shaping attitudes towards migrants and migration policy preferences. Frontiers in Psychology. 15(2024). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1308990 

Adamus, M. & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2024). Gender discrimination and the backlash effect in recruitment and dismissal processes: experimental evidence from Slovakia", Gender in Management, 39(1), pp. 107-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-01-2022-0002

2023

Adamus, M., Šrol, J., Čavojova, V., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2023). Seeing past the tip of your own nose? How outward and self-centred orientations could contribute to closing the green gap despite helplessness. BMC Psychology. 11, 79 (open access). 

Adamus, M., Čavojova, V., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2023). Emotional drivers of the vaccination hesitancy and refusal: a dataset from Slovakia. Data in Brief. April, 108980. (online first). 

Adamus, M. & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2023). Into the black box: challenging the myths in quantitative research on differences between men and women – the case of risky behaviour. Human Affairs. 33(1), pp. 13-33 (URL). 

Schaerer, M., et al. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol. 179(104280). (full text).

Olsson et al. (2023) Gender gap in parental leave intentions: Evidence from 37 countries. Political Psychology. (online first)

2022

Grežo, M., Adamus, M., & Kaššaiová, Z. (2022) Exploring the Factorial Structure, Criterion Validity, and General Level of Institutional Trust in Slovakia. Sociologicky časopis, 58(6), pp. 671-698. (URL). 

Adamus, M., Čavojova, V., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2022). Fear trumps the common good: Psychological antecedents of vaccination attitudes and behaviour. Acta Psychologica, vol. 227, 103606 (URL).  

Čavojova, V., Adamus, M., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (2022). You before me: How vertical collectivism and feelings of threat predicted more socially desirable behavior during COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology, n.d. (URL). 

Grežo, M. & Adamus, M. (2022). Light and Dark core of personality and the adherence to COVID-19 containment measures: The roles of motivation and trust in government. Acta Psychologica, vol. 223, 103483. (URL). 

2021

Adamus, M. & Ballová Mikušková, Eva. Appetites grow with age: Wage expectations among Slovak men and women. In Ekonomický časopis, 2021, vol. 69, no. 9, s. 885-906. (URL) 

Adamus, M., Grežo, M., & Dudeková, K. (2021). Stereotypes Concerns and a Discreet Existence of Differences Between Men and Women in Risk-Aversion – a Replication Study. Studia Psychologica, 63(3), pp. 221-251.  (URL). 

Adamus, M. & Grežo, M. (2021). Individual differences in behavioural responses to the financial threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences. vol. 179 (September, 2021). (URL). 

Adamus, M., Čavojová, V., & Šrol, J. (2021). Male world of entrepreneurship: the impact of gender stereotypes and gender-role self-concept on women’s entrepreneurial intentions. Gender in Management: an International Journal. n.d. (URL). 

Čavojová, V., & Šrol, J., & Adamus, M. (2018). My point is valid, yours is not: myside bias in reasoning about abortion. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 30(7), pp. 656-669. (URL). 

Adamus, M. (2017). Reasons for doing good: Behavioural explanations of prosociality in economics. Economics and Sociology. 10(1), pp. 122-134. (URL)