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“Be careful what you do”: How social threat influences social attention driven by reach-to-grasp movements J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Roberta Capellini, Simona Sacchi
ABSTRACT Social attention is the ability to share with social partners the attentional focus on an object and to orient attentional resources after observing others’ behaviors. In the present work, we analyzed whether social threat may influence social attention during the observation of social agents’ reach-to-grasp movements. In two experimental studies, we adopted a Posner-like paradigm: participants
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The academic success of boys and girls as an identity issue in gender relations: when the most threatened is not the one expected J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Alyson Sicard, Delphine Martinot, Marie-Christine Toczek-Capelle
ABSTRACT The present research aims to determine whether girls’ higher academic achievement, which should grant them a higher academic status than boys, could prevent them from experiencing social-identity threat on this dimension. Because they fear situations questioning their superiority, we argue that an unfavorable intergroup comparison would be more threatening for the high-status, rather than
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Genetic attributions and perceptions of naturalness are shaped by evaluative valence J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S. Appelbaum
ABSTRACT Genetic influences on human behavior are increasingly well understood, but laypeople may endorse genetic attributions selectively; e.g., they appear to make stronger genetic attributions for prosocial than for antisocial behavior. We explored whether this could be accounted for by the relationship of genetic attributions to perceptions of naturalness. Participants read about positively or
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Women do not shy away from competition: Competition in same-gender and cross-gender friendship dyads J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Mahzad Hojjat, Brian Ayotte, Madeleine Page, Emily Beauparlant, Clare Mehta
ABSTRACT This study explored gender differences in competition within friendships of emerging adults. In a sample of 118 same and cross-gender friendship dyads, we used a quasi-experimental design to examine how people competed with friends and reacted to this competition when completing a task in both competitive and noncompetitive conditions. Using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling approach
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Violent media use and aggression: Two longitudinal network studies J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Martin Delhove, Tobias Greitemeyer
ABSTRACT Exposure to violent media has been widely linked to increased aggression. In the present research, we examined whether violent media exposure would be associated with increased aggression, which would then spread within social networks like a contagious disease. Two groups of first year psychology students completed a questionnaire three times over the course of a year, measuring their media
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Stereotypes of nihilists are overwhelmingly negative J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 Matthew J. Scott, Adam B. Cohen
ABSTRACT Existential nihilism is on the rise in modern societies, but no previous work has investigated the social psychology of seeing no meaning in life. In the current research, five studies (N = 1,634) show that targets’ existential nihilist beliefs elicit a range of negative stereotypes about personality traits, commonly valued social traits, and targets’ ability to perform basic adaptive social
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Investigating mechanisms for recruiting and retaining volunteers: The role of habit strength and planning in volunteering engagement J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Barbara Mullan, Caitlin Liddelow, Jessica Charlesworth, Ashley Slabbert, Vanessa Allom, Courtenay Harris, Anne Same, Emily Kothe
ABSTRACT Volunteering rates in high-income countries are declining. Most research into understanding volunteering engagement has focused on conscious processes (e.g., motives), with little exploration of non-conscious antecedents of volunteering engagement. Adopting a new line of investigation, this research used temporal self-regulation theory to investigate the influence of both rational and automatic
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Traditionalism and victim blaming J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Richard B. Felson, Christopher C. Palmore
ABSTRACT A common claim is that rape victims are blamed for the crime because they have violated gender roles. We tested this idea by examining whether the relationship between traditional attitudes about gender roles and victim blaming is observed when the victim’s gender role violation is not followed by rape. We also examined whether participants with traditional attitudes about casual sex were
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Perceived proprietary right to resources and its role in reciprocal prejudices between Black and Asian Americans J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 John Tawa
ABSTRACT I offer a new measure of perceived proprietary right (PPR) to resources as an operationalization of one critical aspect of Harold Blumer’s group threat theory. Black (n = 82), Asian (n = 72), and White (n = 176) participants completed PPR items in the context of a residential resource allocation task designed to evoke competitive threat. A four-factor model of PPR was established through exploratory
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Contact-implicit preference relationships: Two large sample tests J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Christopher L. Aberson
ABSTRACT This work examines relationships between friendships and implicit preferences across two large samples. There is considerable evidence in the contact literature suggesting that friendships relate to more favorable attitudes toward outgroups, however, most evidence reflects explicit self-report measures. Using samples of 235,543 participants who completed the Disability IAT and 533,220 participants
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Geographic distribution of prejudice toward African Americans: Applying the two-dimensional model J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Scott Freng, Kimberly Schweitzer, Victoria Estrada-Reynolds, Elizabeth Leki, Samuel Choi
ABSTRACT Using the two-dimensional model of prejudice as a theoretical framework, we examined the geographic distribution of prejudice toward African Americans in the United States (N = 10,522). We found the East South Central, West South Central, and South Atlantic regions were associated with modern racism, principled conservatism characterized the Mountain region, aversive racism was prevalent in
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When the going gets tough: Power affects the process of making tough decisions J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Xiaoming Li, Chuansheng Chen, Xin Zhou, Daoqun Ding
ABSTRACT Powerful roles often require individuals to cope with impactful, complicated decisions. The present article reports two experiments investigating the effect of manipulated power mindset on the process of decision-making under different conditions: high vs. low choice conflict (Exp. 1) or high vs. no cognitive load (Exp. 2). Results showed that under the high-choice conflict and high-cognitive
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Cyberbullying perpetration in the COVID-19 era: An application of general strain theory J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Christopher P. Barlett, Alexis Rinker, Brendan Roth
ABSTRACT The world is currently grappling with the medical, psychological, economic, and behavioral consequences of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The existing research has rightly been focused on the medical contributions – treatment, symptoms, prevalence, etc. – which are paramount. A paucity of research has tested the psychological and behavioral consequences of COVID-19. In two cross-sectional studies
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Latent profiles of multidimensional prosocial behaviors: An examination of prosocial personality groups J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Meredith McGinley, Sarah L. Pierotti, Gustavo Carlo
ABSTRACT The current study sought to determine how prosocial behaviors reflecting various motivations (altruistic and public prosocial behaviors) and situations (i.e., anonymous, compliant, dire, and emotional prosocial behaviors) jointly inform subtypes of prosocial personality groups. Undergraduates (N = 324, M age = 19.47 years, 80% female) completed a measure of these six prosocial behaviors (Prosocial
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Latent profiles of multidimensional prosocial behaviors: An examination of prosocial personality groups J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Meredith McGinley, Sarah L. Pierotti, Gustavo Carlo
ABSTRACT The current study sought to determine how prosocial behaviors reflecting various motivations (altruistic and public prosocial behaviors) and situations (i.e., anonymous, compliant, dire, and emotional prosocial behaviors) jointly inform subtypes of prosocial personality groups. Undergraduates (N = 324, M age = 19.47 years, 80% female) completed a measure of these six prosocial behaviors (Prosocial
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How do confronters want perpetrators to respond? Defining successful confrontation as the match between desired and actual outcomes J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Jessica J. Good, Julie A. Woodzicka, Kimberly A. Bourne
ABSTRACT Research on confronting prejudice frequently defines an effective confrontation as one that induces change in the perpetrator’s prejudicial beliefs or actions. We argue for a broader definition, defining successful confrontation as one that elicits the confronter’s desired response. Using a community sample of 152 adults, we conducted an exploratory study in which participants recalled a time
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Receptivity to casual sexual requests J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 John E. Edlund, Dailyn Q. Clark, Alissa M. Kalmus, Aquene Sausville
ABSTRACT Research has long noted that there are differences between men’s and women’s responses to casual sexual requests. In this study, we sought to replicate and extend the Clark and Hatfield paradigm while exploring the influence of requestor attractiveness, sexual orientation, and two individual difference measures: sociosexuality (which is how open to sexuality a person is) and personal mate
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Millennials as organizational citizens: Conceptualization and measurement development J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Shih Yung Chou, Federica Bove, Charles Ramser, Bo Han
ABSTRACT Despite existing scholarly progress in organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), prior research has predominantly investigated OCB using Baby Boomers and Generation Xers. As Millennials who possess different sets of workplace values and beliefs are entering the workforce, there is a need for conceptualizing OCB and developing an OCB scale suitable for Millennials. In this study, we conceptualize
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Criminalization as a justification for violence against the homeless in Hungary J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Laura Faragó, Dávid Ferenczy-Nyúl, Anna Kende, Péter Krekó, Zoltán Gurály
ABSTRACT Criminalization of social groups can create new norms for intergroup relations. An example for this is the 2018 amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law, which openly criminalizes homeless people. In our research, we investigated whether criminalization of homelessness can become a source of justifying violence against homeless people in the Hungarian context. We assumed that right-wing
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Investigating mechanisms for recruiting and retaining volunteers: The role of habit strength and planning in volunteering engagement J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Barbara Mullan, Caitlin Liddelow, Jessica Charlesworth, Ashley Slabbert, Vanessa Allom, Courtenay Harris, Anne Same, Emily Kothe
ABSTRACT Volunteering rates in high-income countries are declining. Most research into understanding volunteering engagement has focused on conscious processes (e.g., motives), with little exploration of non-conscious antecedents of volunteering engagement. Adopting a new line of investigation, this research used temporal self-regulation theory to investigate the influence of both rational and automatic
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Understanding one’s character through the voice: Dimensions of personality perception from Chinese greeting word “Ni Hao” J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Qi Wu, Ying Liu, Dong Li, Haizhou Leng, Zahida Iqbal, Zhongqing Jiang
ABSTRACT Previous western studies revealed a two-dimensional model (valence and dominance) in voice impressions. To explore the cross-cultural validity of this model, the present study recruited Chinese participants to evaluate other people’s personality from recordings of Chinese vocal greeting word “Ni Hao”. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Varimax Rotation and Parallel Analysis was used to
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Effects of security on social trust among Chinese adults: Roles of life satisfaction and ostracism J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Lei Shao, Yan Dong, Denghao Zhang
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the effect of security on social trust and the roles of life satisfaction and ostracism among Chinese adults. Toward this end, the study recruited 1,206 Chinese adults to complete the Security Questionnaire, Social Trust Questionnaire, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and Ostracism Experiences Scale. Results show that (a) security is positively correlated with social
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Indigenous Alaskan and mainstream identification explain the link between perceived discrimination and acculturative stress J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Robyn K. Mallett, Jamie Patrianakos, Janet Swim
ABSTRACT Drawing from the rejection-identification model, acculturation, and acceptance threat literatures, we examined how Indigenous and mainstream identification influence the effect of discrimination on acculturative and physical stress. A community sample of 126 Indigenous Alaskans reported discrimination, identification with Indigenous Alaskans and mainstream Americans, and acculturative and
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The necessity of data transparency to publish J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Jon Grahe
(2021). The necessity of data transparency to publish. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 161, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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Assessing politicized gender identity: Validating the Feminist Consciousness Scale for men and women J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Lauren E. Duncan, Randi L. Garcia, Ilana Teitelman
ABSTRACT Current measures of feminist identity are based on developmental models and cannot be used with men. We introduce and validate a new measure of feminist consciousness, the Feminist Consciousness Scale (FCS) which is based on dominant social psychological theories of politicized social identities, and assesses identity, injustice, and efficacy components of feminist consciousness. In three
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Dietary similarity of friends and lovers: Vegetarianism, omnivorism, and personal relationships J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 John B. Nezlek, Marzena Cypryanska, Catherine A. Forestell
ABSTRACT In a series of studies conducted in the USA and Poland, we found that vegetarianism can serve as a basis for the formation of personal relationships. Consistent with research on the similarity-attraction effect, we found that vegetarians were more likely than omnivores to have friends and lovers who were vegetarians. In study 1, vegetarians reported that their diets were a more important part
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Goal commitment is in the eye of the beholder: Causes and consequences of perceiving others’ goal commitment J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Jessica Curtis, Edward Burkley, Thomas Hatvany, Brandon J. Higdon
ABSTRACT The present work examines how judgments of others’ commitment to a goal are influenced by three factors that influence one’s own goal commitment (satisfaction, investment, and alternatives). In two studies these three factors were manipulated. The results indicated that people rate another’s goal commitment higher when goal satisfaction is high, goal investment is high and goal alternatives
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Contingencies of self-worth and the strength of deontological and utilitarian inclinations J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Anna Macko
ABSTRACT Many studies have tried to understand what makes people adopt deontological or utilitarian inclinations when forming moral judgments or making moral choices. The present research examined the impact of motivational factors: contingencies of people’s self-worth on the strength of deontological and utilitarian inclinations. Study 1 found positive correlations between two contingencies of self-worth:
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Social exclusion enhances affiliative signaling J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Michael C. Philipp, Michael J. Bernstein, Eric J. Vanman, Lucy Johnston
ABSTRACT Reciprocating smiles is important for maintaining social bonds as it both signals affiliative intent and elicits affiliative responses. Feelings of social exclusion may increase mimicry as a means to regulate affiliative bonds with others. In this study, we examined whether feelings of exclusion lead people to selectively reciprocate the facial expressions of more affiliative-looking people
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Would that it were so simple: Dimensions of context diversity differentially relate to four implicit interethnic associations J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Melody Sadler, Angela Somo, Thierry Devos
ABSTRACT Published studies point to heterogeneity in the relations between context diversity and implicit associations. To rule out methodological variations as an explanation, the relations between three dimensions of context diversity and four implicit associations were examined across 747 counties and 341 metropolitan areas, keeping constant as many factors as possible. Black people were evaluated
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The effect of leader and follower extraversion on leader-member exchange: An interpersonal perspective incorporating power distance orientation J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Scott Dust, Peng Wang, Joseph Rode, Zhiming Wu, Xin Wu
ABSTRACT Organizational research commonly proposes that leader and/or follower extraversion will be positively related to leader-member exchange (LMX). The assumption is that being social translates into high-quality relationships. We move beyond this intrapersonal hypothesis and offer an interpersonal hypothesis. Following similarity-attraction theory, we suggest that leader-follower extraversion
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Impressing for popularity and influence among peers: The connection between employees’ upward impression management and peer-rated organizational influence J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Dirk De Clercq, Tasneem Fatima, Sadia Jahanzeb
ABSTRACT To investigate how employees’ impression management behavior, targeted upward at organizational leaders, relates to their peer-rated organizational influence, this study considers both a mediating role of peer-rated workplace popularity and a moderating role of self-rated social dominance orientation. Multisource, three-wave data from employees and their peers in the power-distant, collectivistic
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Is your own team against you? Implicit bias and interpersonal regard in criminal defense J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Joseph J. Avery, Jordan Starck, Yiqiao Zhong, Jonathan D. Avery, Joel Cooper
ABSTRACT Racial disparities in conviction and incarceration have been lamentable features of legal systems for a long time. Research has addressed the attitudes and decisions of police, prosecutors, jurors, and judges in contributing to these disparities, but very little attention has been paid to defendants’ own team members—i.e., criminal defense attorneys. Researchers have specifically identified
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Adults’ attitudes toward children, adolescents, and adults who are obese and tax-funded programs to combat obesity J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Mark A. Barnett, Tucker L. Jones, Kennedy A. Schmitt, Kyla C. Cordas, Sarah Harrod
ABSTRACT The goals of the present study were to assess (1) adults’ patterns of beliefs about and attitudes toward children, adolescents, and adults who are obese and (2) their attitudes toward hypothetical tax-funded programs designed to combat obesity in children, adolescents, and adults. A total of 267 participants, ranging in age from 19 to 88 years old, were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical
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The ACME shop: A paradigm to investigate working (self-) objectification J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Cristina Baldissarri, Alessandro Gabbiadini, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato
ABSTRACT The paper presents an open usable tool, the ACME shop paradigm, for experimentally studying self-objectification due to objectifying work activities. The paradigm consists of a simulation in which participants are asked to perform an objectifying (repetitive, fragmented, and other directed) vs a non-objectifying work activity. Two studies tested the construct (convergent and discriminant)
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The role of beauty as currency belief in acceptance of cosmetic surgery and career aspirations among Chinese young women J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Wenjing Wang, Xiaobing Zheng, Xiaodong Yue, Nian Zhong
ABSTRACT The current study tested the “beauty as currency” hypothesis in the framework of Objectification theory with a sample of Chinese young women. Four hundred and four college women completed a pencil-and-paper questionnaire. We hypothesized that beauty as currency would be associated with acceptance of cosmetic surgery and career aspirations through the serial meditation of self-objectification
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Parallel empathy and group attitudes in late childhood: The role of perceived peer group attitudes J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Ghislaine van Bommel, Jochem Thijs, Marta Miklikowska
ABSTRACT Although several studies have examined outgroup empathy, the link between trait empathy and outgroup attitudes has been underinvestigated. In the present study this link was investigated among two samples of ethnic Dutch preadolescents (N = 335, Mage = 10.83 years, SD = 0.94; 53% girls; N = 326; Mage = 10.53 years, SD = 1.03; 48% girls). It examined children’s parallel empathy in relation
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Regulatory focus and social reconnection following social exclusion J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Katherine E. Adams, James M. Tyler
ABSTRACT Promotion- and prevention-focused people are differentially sensitive to situational gains and losses, thus we reasoned that people’s state regulatory focus following social exclusion should influence whether a social reconnection opportunity is perceived as safe (i.e., will exclusion persist or abate). To create an exclusion condition, all participants believed that other ostensible participants
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Strategic confrontation: Examining the utility of low stakes prodding as a strategy for confronting sexism J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Julie A. Woodzicka, Jessica J. Good
ABSTRACT Confronting sexism has been routinely operationalized in experimental research as assertive behavior that expresses disapproval of sexism. The present research examines an indirect confrontation strategy we term low stakes prodding. We first establish the use of this strategy in a real-time sexist situation (Pilot study, N = 59), then test whether this indirect type of confrontation is considered
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Shifting perceptions of social class: Race-based shifts in class-related occupations J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-25 Matthew Weeks
ABSTRACT Based on social expectations associating White and Black racial categories with higher and lower ends of the social hierarchy, respectively, the criteria used in interpersonal judgments of social class categorizations should differ between White and Black targets, with Black targets needing objectively lower criteria than White targets to achieve a particular subjective level of social class
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Technology-enacted abusive supervision and its effect on work and family J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Matthew Valle, Dawn S. Carlson, John R. Carlson, Suzanne Zivnuska, Kenneth J Harris, Ranida B. Harris
ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of technology-enacted abusive supervision, defined as subordinate perceptions of supervisor’s use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engage in hostile communications. This research was designed to examine if technology-enacted abusive supervision has an impact on both the work and family domains. Based on conservation of resources theory
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When sexism is not a problem: The role of perceived intelligence in willingness to interact with someone who is sexist J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Elena Agadullina
ABSTRACT Two studies examined factors that would influence people’s preferences for interaction with a perpetrator of sexism. In Study 1 (n = 348), participants preferred to interact (being friends or developing a relationship) with an intelligent person regardless of whether or not that person was sexist. Study 2 (n = 614) replicated this finding and confirmed that where a perpetrator had a high level
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The relationship between narcissism and acceptance of violence revealed through a game designed to induce social ostracism J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Victoria Blinkhorn, Minna Lyons, Elizabeth S. Collier, Louise Almond
ABSTRACT Research shows that social exclusion may provoke aggression, especially in those who exhibit high levels of sensitivity to rejection, which has been related to aspects of narcissism. Few studies have investigated how individuals with high levels of narcissism react to social exclusion. In two experiments, we created and tested the effectiveness of a new game, Cyberpass, and investigated whether
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Brand awe: A key concept for understanding consumer response to luxury and premium brands J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Jooyoung Kim, Hyejin Bang, W. Keith Campbell
ABSTRACT In this study, we propose a new concept, brand awe, and explore its nature, underlying dimensions, and roles in relation to consumer responses. Brand awe is a specific mixture of emotions that consumers feel when they encounter a luxury or premium brand that they perceive to be vast and, thus, requires a schematic accommodation. Exploratory Factor Analysis (N = 205) and Confirmatory Factor
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How do laypeople define empathy? J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Judith A Hall,Rachel Schwartz,Fred Duong
ABSTRACT The term “empathy” is popular, yet fuzzy. How laypeople define it has not been investigated. In Study 1, we analyzed 99 participants’ free narratives describing their personal definition, and in Study 1 (N = 191) and Study 2 (N = 351), we asked participants to rate a list of specific behaviors and tendencies for how well each one matched their personal definition. Out of 10 coded components
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The hopeful dimension of locomotion orientation: Implications for psychological well-being J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Daniela Di Santo, Conrad Baldner, Antonio Aiello, Arie W. Kruglanski, Antonio Pierro
ABSTRACT Individuals who have a strong locomotion orientation tend to be future-oriented and motivated to move from the present state toward a future state, making swift and steady progress toward their goals. The current study has assessed the conceptual possibility that such motivation leads locomotors to experience greater hopeful thinking, an active cognitive process that consists in planning the
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Eliciting emotion ratings for a set of film clips: A preliminary archive for research in emotion. J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Barbra Zupan,Michelle Eskritt
Film clips are commonly used to elicit subjectively experienced emotional states for many research purposes, but film clips currently available in databases are out of date, include a limited set of emotions, and/or pertain to only one conceptualization of emotion. This work reports validation data from two studies aimed to elicit basic and complex emotions (amusement, anger, anxiety, compassion, contentment
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Cross-cultural validation of the Mood Questionnaire in three Spanish-speaking countries Argentina, Ecuador, and Spain J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-07-11 Ana Belén Górriz, Edgardo Etchezahar, Diego E. Pinilla-Rodríguez, María del Carmen Giménez-Espert, Vicente Prado-Gascó
ABSTRACT This study validates the Mood Questionnaire for adults in three Spanish-speaking countries: Argentina, Ecuador, and Spain. It then analyzes the influence of gender and cultural differences on mood, and whether there is a relationship between mood, emotional intelligence, and the Avoidance of Responsibility. A convenience sample of 1048 adults, with a middle-class socioeconomic background,
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Viewing nature scenes reduces the pain of social ostracism J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Ying Yang, Lishen Wang, Holli-Anne Passmore, Jing Zhang, Lifang Zhu, Huajian Cai
ABSTRACT In a series of four studies (Ns = 245, 135, 155, 222), we explored the effects of viewing nature scenes on promoting recovery from ostracism. We first manipulated experiences of ostracism, then randomly assigned participants to view photos of either nature, urban scenes, or neutral objects. Across all four studies, participants who viewed nature photos reported significantly lower levels of
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Can success deflect racism? Clothing and perceptions of African American men. J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Regan A R Gurung,Rosalyn Stoa,Nicholas Livingston,Hannah Mather
ABSTRACT We examined the effect of different clothing styles on the perceptions of African American men. Using a between-group design, we tested whether participants perception of African American models wearing sweatpants and sweatshirts (“swagger”), clothing showing they won an event, or formal clothing, would vary. Participants (N = 143) viewed four African American models in one of three conditions
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Oral hygiene effects verbal and nonverbal displays of confidence J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Paul Taylor, Faye Banks, Daniel Jolley, David Ellis, Steven Watson, Lynn Weiher, Brittany Davidson, Juliaana Julku
ABSTRACT Although oral hygiene is known to impact self-confidence and self-esteem, little is known about how it influences our interpersonal behavior. Using a wearable, multi-sensor device, we examined differences in consumers’ individual and interpersonal confidence after they had or had not brushed their teeth. Students (N = 140) completed nine one-to-one, 3-minute “speed dating” interactions while
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Factors contributing to the experience of shame and shame management: Adverse childhood experiences, peer acceptance, and attachment styles J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Neda Sedighimornani, Katharine Rimes, Bas Verplanken
ABSTRACT Previous research has firmly established that some individuals experience shame more frequently than others. This study employed a cross-sectional design to explore factors that are related to the experience of shame. In this study, 240 participants completed self-reported assessments of parental care and expectations, maternal attitudes toward negative emotions, peer acceptance during childhood
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Suffering doubly: How victims of coworker incivility risk poor performance ratings by responding with organizational deviance, unless they leverage ingratiation skills. J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Muhammad Umer Azeem,Dirk De Clercq,Inam Ul Haq
ABSTRACT Building on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates the relationship between employees’ exposure to coworker incivility and their job performance ratings, while also considering the mediating role of their deviant work behaviors and the moderating role of their ingratiation skills. Results based on multisource, three-wave data from employees and their supervisors in Pakistani
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Toward an understanding of trait competition, cooperation and explicit intergroup prejudice J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Reza Deiss Ghafur, Charlotte Chucky Tate
ABSTRACT We sought to measure whether, and to what extent, correlations existed between trait-level cooperation and competition and different forms of intergroup prejudice. We recruited two samples of heterosexual European-American participants (n = 113 and n = 223) from a U.S. national panel survey service. Participants completed measures of racial, gender, and sexual orientation prejudice as questionnaires
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Value priorities, impression management and self-deceptive enhancement: Once again, much substance and a little bit of style J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Francesca Danioni, Daniela Barni
ABSTRACT The connection between self-reported personal values and socially desirable responding in social psychology has been backed up by little empirical evidence. This study expands upon the pioneering work carried out by Schwartz and colleagues by analyzing the relationship between values and social desirability through the use of different self-report measures of values and by considering the
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Value priorities, impression management and self-deceptive enhancement: Once again, much substance and a little bit of style J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Francesca Danioni, Daniela Barni
The connection between self-reported personal values and socially desirable responding in social psychology has been backed up by little empirical evidence. This study expands upon the pioneering work carried out by Schwartz and colleagues by analyzing the relationship between values and social desirability through the use of different self-report measures of values and by considering the multidimensional
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The linkages between person-organization spirituality fit and workers' psychological well-being. J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 Tamer Koburtay,Abedelkareem Alzoubi
ABSTRACT There is a lack of guidance in the existing literature on the link between spirituality and psychology in the workplace. The present study seeks to emphasize the theoretical importance that workplace spirituality may contribute to the psychology literature. Specifically, the study aims to examine how Person-Organization (P-O) spirituality fit may enhance the psychological (eudaimonic) well-being
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More guilty if woman: The role of gender and causal attribution in political scandals’ impact J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 Silvia Cucchi, Nicoletta Cavazza
ABSTRACT Political scandals can have a great impact for the perpetrator, but negative consequences may vary considerably depending on such factors as personal characteristics of the involved political actors or citizens’ expectations. The present study investigated the effect of the gender of the politician involved in different kinds of scandals deriving from the transgression of gender role-based
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Dialogue and labeling. Are these helpful in finding volunteers? J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Tomasz Grzyb,Dariusz Dolinski,Wojciech Marek Kulesza
ABSTRACT Among social influence techniques, a special place is occupied by dialogue involvement – it is not only a means of improving chances for compliance, but it can also perform a synergistic function, reinforcing the workings of other influence techniques. In two field experiments, we explored what effectiveness the technique of dialogue involvement can have in acquiring volunteers (Study 1) and
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The future in our hands: How citizenship efficacy ensures commitment to the national group facing institutional inefficacy. J. Soc. Psychol. (IF 1.241) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Catarina L Carvalho,Isabel R Pinto,José M Marques
ABSTRACT Literature has shown that citizens’ mistrust in national institutions has a negative impact on their involvement with, and commitment to, their national group. We examine the idea that citizenship efficacy beliefs may revert this process. We propose that facing institutional inefficacy to exert social control, beliefs that civic participation is effective, strengthens individuals’ commitment
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