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- All I do is win, win, win no matter what? Pre-game anxiety and experience predict athletic performance in the NBAPublication . Gruda, Dritjon; Ojo, AdegboyegaIn this study, we examine the relationship between anxiety and athletic performance, measuring pre-game anxiety in a corpus of 12,228 tweets of 81 National Basketball Association (NBA) players using an anxiety inference algorithm, and match this data with certified NBA individual player game performance data. We found a positive relationship between pre-game anxiety and athletic performance, which was moderated by both player experience and minutes played on the court. This paper serves to demonstrate the use case for using machine learning to label publicly available micro-blogs of players which can be used to form important discrete emotions, such as pre-game anxiety, which in turn can predict athletic performance in elite sports. Based on the results, we discuss these findings and outline recommendations for athletes, teams, team leaders, coaches, and managers.
- Cause we are living in a Machiavellian world, and I am a Machiavellian major: Machiavellianism and academic major choicePublication . Gruda, Dritjon; McCleskey, Jim; Khoury, IssaStudents from diverse academic majors differ in their personalities. However, the study of the association between Machiavellianism (i.e., desire for power, status, and social dominance) and educational choices (i.e., academic major choices) that lay a path toward occupations that allow for those outcomes has been largely ignored. Using a large multinational sample of 35,025 participants across 50 majors, we found overall support for a significant association between Machiavellianism and academic major choice. We break down the results by sex and provide a cross-country comparison.
- A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-beingPublication . Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Hess, Ursula; Dostal, Daniel; Seitl, Martin; Hypsova, Petra; Hareli, Shlomo; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; Schütz, Astrid; Gruda, Dritjon; Campbell, Kelly; Chen, Bin Bin; Held, Marco J.; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kimura, Takuma; Kirchner-Häusler, Alexander; Livi, Stefano; Mandal, Eugenia; Ochnik, Dominika; Sakman, Ezgi; Sumer, Nebi; Theodorou, Annalisa; Uskul, Ayse K.Emotion Recognition Accuracy (ERA) is vital for social functioning and social relationships, yet empirical support for a positive link with well-being has been sparse. In three studies, we show that the Assessment of Contextualized Emotions (ACE) which distinguishes between accurately perceiving intended emotions and bias due to perceiving additional, secondary emotions, consistently predicted personal and social well-being. Across thirteen world cultures, accuracy was associated with higher well-being and life satisfaction, and bias linked to loneliness. A social interaction study in Czech Republic found accuracy (bias) was positively (negatively) associated with social well-being. The effects of accuracy and bias on well-being were partially mediated by social interaction quality in a third study. These findings further our understanding of ERA's social functions.
- Creativity gain or drain: the dual association between boundary-spanning and creativityPublication . Tang, Mingfeng; Liu, Xiaomeng; Walsh, Grace Sheila; Gruda, DritjonBoundary-spanning behavior, which involves building relationships with external entities to achieve organizational goals, has been highlighted as a key mechanism for enhancing the inflow of external knowledge. While boundary-spanning can fuel creativity by providing employees with new resources, ideas, and inspiration, it also poses challenges, potentially depleting resources and inducing stress that hinders creativity. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, this paper explores the dual impact of boundary-spanning on employee creativity—serving both as a facilitator and inhibitor. Through an experimental study (n = 299) and a field study (n = 331 employees, 49 supervisors), we examine how external engagement fosters or hampers creative thinking, focusing on the mechanisms of resource gain and resource drain. Our findings contribute to the understanding of how organizations can balance the demands of boundary-spanning to harness its creative potential while mitigating its negative consequences. This research provides actionable insights for businesses seeking to thrive in competitive, innovation-driven environments.
- Every vote you make: attachment and state culture predict bipartisanship in U.S. CongressPublication . Gruda, Dritjon; Hanges, Paul; Mikneviciute, Eimante; Karanatsiou, Dimitra; Vakali, AthenaDo politicians' relational traits predict their bipartisan voting behavior? In this paper, we empirically test and find that relational individual dispositions, namely attachment orientations and conformity to cultural norms, can predict the bipartisan voting behavior of politicians in the United States House of Representatives and Senate. We annotated politicians' tweets using a machine learning approach paired with archival resources to obtain politicians' home-state looseness-tightness culture scores. Anxiously-attached politicians were less likely to be bipartisan than avoidantly-attached individuals. Bipartisan voting behavior was less likely in politicians whose home state was less tolerant of deviation from cultural norms. We discuss these results and possible implications, such as the preemptive assessment of politicians' bipartisanship likelihood based on attachment and state cultural pressure to adhere to group norms.
- Higher social class is associated with higher contextualized emotion recognition accuracy across culturesPublication . Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Hess, Ursula; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; Schütz, Astrid; Gruda, Dritjon; Campbell, Kelly; Chen , Bin-Bin; Dostal, Daniel; Held, Marco J.; Hypsova, Petra; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kimura, Takuma; Kirchner-Häusler, Alexander; Kyvelea, Marina; Livi, Stefano; Mandal, Eugenia; Ochnik, Dominika; Papageorgakopoulos, Nektarios; Seitl, Martin; Sakman, Ezgi; Sumer, Nebi; Sulejmanov, Filip; Theodorou, Annalisa; Uskul, Ayse K.We tested links between social status and emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) with participants from a diverse array of cultures and a new model and method of ERA, the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE), which incorporates social context and is linked to different types of social interaction across cultures. Participants from the Czech Republic (Study 1) and from 12 cultural groups in Europe, North America, and Asia (Study 2) completed a short version of the ACE, a self-construal scale, and the MacArthur Subjective Social Status (SSS) scale. In both studies, higher SSS was associated with more accuracy. In Study 2, this relationship was mediated by higher independent self-construal and moderated by countries’ long-term orientation and relational mobility. The findings suggest that the positive association between higher social class and emotion recognition accuracy is due to the use of agentic modes of socio-cognitive reasoning by higher status individuals. This raises new questions regarding the socio-cultural ecologies that afford this relationship.
- Hit me with your best puff: personality predicts preference for cigar vs. cigarette smokingPublication . Gruda, Dritjon; McCleskey, Jim A.In this study, we examine the association between Big Five personality traits and cigar or cigarette smoking in a sample of 9,918 older adults across 11 European countries derived from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. We find significant associations between several traits and smoking groups. Smoking was associated with lower scores on Conscientiousness and Agreeableness and higher Extraversion scores. In addition, cigar smokers exhibit lower Neuroticism and higher Openness compared to both cigarette smokers and non-smokers. These findings suggest that both personality traits are antecedents of smoking behavior, offering implications for targeted public health interventions and social policies aimed at combating the global tobacco epidemic.
- I hear you call my name and it feels like home: Right-Wing Authoritarianism and academic major choicePublication . Gruda, Dritjon; McCleskey, Jim A.Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) is characterized by a preference for order, hierarchy, and conformity to norms, and has been associated with conservative values and structured environments. Using a sample of 5762 participants across 18 majors, we examine the association between RWA and academic college major choice, proposing that individuals with higher RWA scores are more likely to select disciplines that align with their values of structure and authority. We found that individuals with higher RWA scores were more likely to choose disciplines emphasizing authority and tradition, such as Business, Law, and Medicine. We also found a moderating effect of gender, in that men with high RWA tended to select traditionally masculine fields (e.g., Engineering and Law), while women favored caregiving-oriented majors (e.g., Psychology and Social Work), reinforcing conventional gender roles. These findings suggest that RWA influences not only political and social attitudes but also academic choices, highlighting the importance of considering personality traits in understanding educational trajectories and their broader social implications.
- I keep my mind on my money and my money on my mind: trait machiavellianism in business majorsPublication . Gruda, Dritjon; McCleskey, Jim A.Recent research has shown a particularly positive association between Machiavellianism and academic major choices, namely Economics, Law, and Politics. Interestingly, previous findings indicated that the academic major Business – usually portrayed as power-hungry and greedy in mainstream media and movies – was not positively associated with Machiavellianism. In this paper, we posit that these prior results are incomplete since Business is a college major encompassing several sub-fields (e.g., Advertising, Finance, Human Resources). Using a sample of 2630 participants from 110 countries and nine business majors, we found overall support for a significant association between Machiavellianism and specific business specializations, with Finance majors scoring highest on Machiavellianism. We compare these findings to prior results and break down results by gender.
- Individual differences in cyberpsychologyPublication . Schermer, Julie Aitken; Bonfá-Araujo, Bruno; Gruda, Dritjon