Lei Fan
lfanpsych.bsky.social
Lei Fan
@lfanpsych.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher at CEPDISC Aarhus University. #EvoPsych #Morality #Emotion #PathogenAvoidance #IntergoupInteraction
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New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation!

Do the faces on the left and right look different to you?

They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”:

🟩 Generated by egalitarians (low SDO)
🟥 Generated by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🚨New paper led by Lei Fan, with Florian van Leeuwen, @hirotakaimada.bsky.social, and @joshtybur.bsky.social, out in Cognition & Emotion:

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0269...

In two preregistered studies from Japan 🇯🇵 , we find that anger relates to confrontation while disgust to gossip and social exclusion.
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan
Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations. Across two studies sampling from J...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM