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Tracking earmarked funding to international organizations: Introducing the earmarked funding dataset
Over the past two decades, donor funding of international organizations (IOs) such as the United Nations, has shifted from core resources toward...
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Legitimacy Through Diversity: China's Leadership in the BRICS + Expansion for Global Balance
This analysis explores China's quest for international legitimacy through its leadership in the BRICS + expansion, a strategic maneuver to foster a...
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“The Sum Is Greater Than the Parts?”—The Role of Student Covitality in Flourishing
Existing studies have revealed associations of positive psychological traits with human thriving and flourishing. However, how these traits...
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Adolescent Residential Mobility and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
Moving in adolescence could be a stressful experience, potentially disturbing development into adulthood. This study investigated the relationship...
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Using Self-Directed Humor to Regulate Emotion: Effects Comparison of Self-Enhancing Humor and Self-Defeating Humor
Humor is an effective strategy in regulating emotion. Whereas most previous studies have investigated the correlational relationship between...
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Contested Narratives: The Poetics of Home in Susan Muaddi Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile and Angela Tehaan Leon’s Swimming Toward the Light
Home and its meanings and significance have received extensive examination within the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy,...
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Childhood Socioeconomic Status Shapes Beliefs About Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Happiness: A Life History Approach
Many have pondered whether happiness is chiefly made of positive feelings and joy (hedonism) or by acquiring meaning via self-actualization...
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The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market
Despite societal progress toward achieving gender equality, women remain disadvantaged across all walks of life. We examine how pressures by the...
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Acceptable Hierarchies: Epistemic Democracy in Europe and the Middle East
The people can tolerate elitists’ claims to be superior on three conditions, relating to distributive justice, open access, and transparent...
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Your silence speaks volumes: Weak states and strategic absence in the UN General Assembly
Country participation in one-state, one-vote forums like the United Nations General Assembly often reflects underlying power asymmetries and...
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The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion
States use symbolic gestures to increase their international status, or relative po- sition, within the international community. But how do the...
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Hierarchies and the Complementarity of Authority and Equality
Authority involves hierarchy and is a component of many patterns of useful collective action, capacity-building for addressing needs, and social...
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Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations
Why would weak states accept rules which authorize strong states to take coercive action against them? I argue that, in some cases, this is a way of...
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The Soundtrack of a Crisis: More Positive Music Preferences During Economic and Social Adversity
This paper studies the positiveness in most consumed songs during a period of sadness, worry and uncertainty: the COVID-19 crisis in comparison with...
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Discovering Psychological Well-Being: A Bibliometric Review
Psychological well-being is among the concepts that have attracted significant attention from researchers in the fields of social life, work life,...
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Librealism's Boundaries in Addressing the Climate Crisis: Insights from Domenico Losurdo and Posthumanism
This study critically examines the limitations of liberalism in effectively addressing the climate crisis, informed by Domenico Losurdo’s critique...
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Profile Membership of Self-Worth Contingencies Predicts Well-being, Virtues, and Values
Historically, researchers have conceptualized self-esteem as global self-evaluation; recently, others have suggested that people are selective about...
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Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs
Who adjusts under International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and why? In this paper, I demonstrate that labor groups adjust when there is a fixed...
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Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US
The United States has helped create and lead many international organizations (IOs). Yet in the last six years, the US announced its withdrawal from...
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A Meta-Analysis of Life Satisfaction’s Association with Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression: The Influences of Age, Gender, and Cultural Values
This meta-analysis aims to clarify the correlations between cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, and life satisfaction. We searched the...
