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Journal Article

• Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C., Sarma, V. J., & Ng, P. K. (2023). Confidence in COVID‐19 vaccines moderates the association between vaccination status and mental distress. Stress and Health, 39(4), 744-752. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3216
• Wong, R. M. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Stewart-Williams, S. (2023). Right-leaning egalitarians are just as susceptible to social justice-induced product patronage! Evidence from the US and Malaysia. Acta Psychologica, 237, Article 103935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103935
• Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., & Bonetti, C. (2023). A Large-Scale Test of the Reality Constraint and Ingroup Bias Accounts of Women's Support for Male Privilege. Psychology of Women Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843231176222
• Owuamalam, C. K., Tan, C. M., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2023). Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2901
• Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., Spears, R., Rubin, M., Marinucci, M., & Ferrari, A. (2023). Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification. Acta Psychologica, 232, Article 103813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103813
• Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 268-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2184578
• Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 203-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2046422
• Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., Casini, A., Passini, S., & Moscato, G. (2023). Editorial: Exploring system justification phenomenon among disadvantaged individuals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1100440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1104400
• Caricati, L., Ferrari, A., & Owuamalam, C. (2022). Strongly identifying Italian women support their gender system because they accept their Italian way of doing things. Psicologia sociale, 3, 427-439. https://doi.org/10.1482/105496
• Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Sarma, V. (2022). Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Acta Psychologica, 225, Article 103556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103556
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2022). Heterosexual men in Trump's America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why?. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(2), 280-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2787
• Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2022). Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism?. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 797139. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797139
• Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., & Bonetti, C. (2021). Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 745168. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745168
• Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Ng, P. K. (2021). Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, Article 110948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110948
• Owuamalam, C., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., Matos, A., & Spears, R. (2021). Why do women support socio-economic systems that favour men more? A registered test of system justification- and social identity-inspired hope explanations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(7), 1073-1095. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2754
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2020). When Might Heterosexual Men Be Passive or Compassionate Toward Gay Victims of Hate Crime? Integrating the Bystander and Social Loafing Explanations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(5), 1693-1709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01592-y
• Caricati, L., & Owuamalam, C. K. (2020). System Justification Among the Disadvantaged: A Triadic Social Stratification Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00040
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Spears, R. (2020). Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, Article 103897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103897
• Brandt, M., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak, P., …Zimmerman, J. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(5), 921-942. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2694
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2019). Do egalitarians always help the disadvantaged more than the advantaged? Testing a value‐norm conflict hypothesis in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(2), 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12351
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2019). Is a system motive really necessary to explain the system justification effect? A response to Jost (2019) and Jost, Badaan, Goudarzi, Hoffarth, and Mogami (2019). British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(2), 393-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12323
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2019). Revisiting 25 years of system motivation explanation for system justification from the perspective of social identity model of system attitudes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(2), 362-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12285
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2018). A critical review of the (un)conscious basis for system-supporting attitudes of the disadvantaged. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12(11), https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12419
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2018). Addressing Evidential and Theoretical Inconsistencies in System-Justification Theory with a Social Identity Model of System Attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(2), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417737136
• Owuamalam, C., & Rubin, M. (2017). Fuming with rage! Do members of low status groups signal anger more than members of high status groups?. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 58(5), 458-467. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12388
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., Spears, R., & Weerabangsa, M. (2017). Why Do People from Low-Status Groups Support Class Systems that Disadvantage Them? A Test of Two Mainstream Explanations in Malaysia and Australia. Journal of Social Issues, 73(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12205
• Owuamalam, C., Paolini, S., & Rubin, M. (2017). Socially creative appraisals of rejection bolster ethnic migrants' subjective well-being. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(7), 366-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12444
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Issmer, C. (2016). Reactions to group devaluation and social inequality: A comparison of social identity and system justification predictions. Cogent Psychology, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1188442
• Owuamalam, C., Weerabangsa, M., Karunagharan, J., & Rubin, M. (2016). Chip on the shoulder? The hunchback heuristic predicts the attribution of anger to low status groups and calm to high status groups. Cogent Psychology, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1210998
• Owuamalam, C., Wong, K., & Rubin, M. (2016). Chubby but cheerful? Investigating the compensatory judgments of high, medium, and low status weight groups in Malaysia. Cogent Psychology, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1188441
• Owuamalam, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2016). The system justification conundrum: Re-examining the cognitive dissonance basis for system justification. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(NOV), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01889
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. (2014). On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(4), 521-528. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037645
• Owuamalam, C., Issmer, C., Zagefka, H., Klaßen, M., & Wagner, U. (2014). Why Do Members of Disadvantaged Groups Strike Back at Perceived Negativity Towards the In‐group?. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 24(3), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2165
• Owuamalam, C., & Rubin, M. (2014). When do low status groups help high status groups? The moderating effects of ingroup identification, audience group membership, and perceived reputational benefit. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2(1), 289-312. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v2i1.33
• Owuamalam, C., & Zagefka, H. (2013). We'll never get past the glass ceiling! Meta‐stereotyping, world‐views and perceived relative group‐worth. British Journal of Psychology, 104(4), 543-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12006
• Owuamalam, C. K., Tarrant, M., Farrow, C. V., & Zagefka, H. (2013). The effect of metastereotyping on judgements of higher-status outgroups when reciprocity and social image improvement motives collide. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 45(1), 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030012
• Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. (2011). Downplaying a compromised social image: The effect of metastereotype valence on social identification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(4), 528-537. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.805

Presentation

• Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. Chilling Effect of Metastereotyping on Employability Belief and Job-Seeking Resilience: (521512014-398)

Working Paper

• Magraw-Mickelson, Z., Hermida Carrillo, A., Weerabangsa, M. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Gollwitzer, M. (2021). Comparing Classic and Novel Approaches to Measurement Invariance