N. Pontus Leander

University of Groningen — Netherlands

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Social and Intergroup Psychology(24), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(19), COVID-19 and Mental Health(16), Behavioral Health and Interventions(15), Cultural Differences and Values(12)

Publications80 total

Just World Beliefs in a Time of Crisis: Cross-Lagged Panel and Moderating Cross-National Effects on Mental Health and Well-Being Outcomes
Social Justice Research·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A threat-complexity hypothesis of conspiracy thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-national and longitudinal evidence of a three-way interaction effect of financial strain, disempowerment and paranoia
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships·2025Open Access
Gender inequality and cultural values in explaining gender differences in positive and negative emotions: A comparison of 24 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Current Psychology·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Prosociality During COVID-19: Pathways Through Affect, Financial Stress, Well-being, and Collective Disempowerment across 39 Countries
Universitas Psychologica·2024Open Access
Gun ownership and gun violence: A comparison of the United States and Switzerland
Aggression and Violent Behavior·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality
Sex Roles·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Passion for guns and beliefs in a dangerous world: An examination of defensive gun ownership
Aggressive Behavior·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Why Americans increasingly claim to own guns for self-protection: A modern culture of social-psychological threat defense
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
A goal systemic approach to risk taking
Advances in experimental social psychology·2024
COVID-19 may have increased global support for universal health coverage: multi-country observational study
Frontiers in Public Health·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Frustration–aggression hypothesis reconsidered: The role of significance quest
Aggressive Behavior·2023· 73 citedOpen Access
Needs Find a Way
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Evolution of Job Insecurity in Spatial Contexts in Europe During COVID-19 Pandemic
International Regional Science Review·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Why some people do not get vaccinated against COVID‐19: Social‐cognitive determinants of vaccination behavior
Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries
Social Psychological and Personality Science·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping
Journal of Vocational Behavior·2022· 19 citedOpen Access
When mass shootings fail to change minds about the causes of violence: How gun beliefs shape causal attributions.
Psychology of Violence·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Using machine learning to identify important predictors of COVID-19 infection prevention behaviors during the early phase of the pandemic
Patterns·2022· 25 citedOpen Access
Significance-Quest Theory
Perspectives on Psychological Science·2022· 140 citedOpen Access
Justice beliefs and cultural values predict support for COVID-19 vaccination and quarantine behavioral mandates: a multilevel cross-national study
Translational Behavioral Medicine·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jannis Kreienkamp(23), Maximilian Agostini(22), Wolfgang Stroebe(17), Jocelyn J. Bélanger(15), Ben Gützkow(14), Arie W. Kruglanski(11), Michelle R. vanDellen(10), Tanya L. Chartrand(9), Qing Han(8), Mioara Cristea(8), Erica Molinario(8), Edward P. Lemay(8), Caspar J. Van Lissa(7), Anne Margit Reitsema(7), James Y. Shah(7), Antonio Pierro(6), Georgios Abakoumkin(6), Veljko Jovanović(6), Yasin Koç(6), Bang Zheng(5)