Vera Hoorens

Hoogleraar (Full professor)

KU Leuven

Belgium

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Vera Hoorens is a Full Professor at KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on optimism, self-superiority, and health beliefs, particularly in the context of COVID-19. Recent articles have explored the impact of personal and vicarious experiences on optimism, as well as gender bias in student evaluations. Hoorens' work contributes to understanding how individual perceptions influence health behaviors and social comparisons.

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Mandy Boehnke

University of Bremen

GERMANY

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Articles (15)

Recent personal and vicarious experience with COVID-19 affects personal, but not comparative optimism: a large longitudinal study

Interpretations of Generic Versus Comparative Statements About Groups: Similarities and Differences

Moral vs Agentic Self-Superiority and Self-Esteem: The Role of Trait Properties

Are Women Brave or Braver Than Men? Judgments of Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Comparisons

Precision and Provocativeness as Virtues and Vulnerabilities in Modeling

Do optimism and moralization predict vaccination? A five-wave longitudinal study.

Do health beliefs about COVID‐19 predict morbidity? A longitudinal study

Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study

Comparative Optimism, Self-Superiority, Egocentric Impact Perception and Health Information Seeking: A COVID-19 Study

Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations

Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Students’ Self-Affirmation Reduces the Bias by Lowering Evaluations of Male Professors

Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Students' Self-Affirmation Reduces the Bias by Lowering Evaluations of Male Professors

Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID‐19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice

Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID-19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice

Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries

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Mandy Boehnke

kristian larsen

Clara Kulich

Paul Hutchings

Desirée Kozlowski

Fran Collyer

Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna

Hedy Greijdanus

Rawan Ghazzawi

Ewen Speed

Leslie Dubbin

Neil Stewart Coulson

Koula Asimakopoulou

Mary Kinahan

Katie Sullivan

Justine Dandy

Silvia Moscatelli

Geert Molenberghs

Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir

Francesca Guizzo

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