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When New Fathers Take More Leave, Does Maternal Gatekeeping Decline? Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-15 Reed Donithen, Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Miranda Berrigan, Claire Kamp Dush
The current study examined associations between the length of paternity leave taken by new fathers and maternal gatekeeping behavior and attitudes (i.e., mothers’ encouragement or discouragement of fathers’ involvement in parenting). Survey data on fathers’ and mothers’ leave length, maternal gatekeeping behavior and attitudes, and psychological and demographic covariates were drawn from a longitudinal
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Adoption and social identity loss: Insights from adults adopted through Ireland's mother and baby homes British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-15 Dearbhla Moroney, Aisling O'Donnell, Mary O'Connor, Orla T. Muldoon
A central issue in adoption research is understanding why some individuals adapt to their adoption experience while others face considerable difficulties. The social identity approach (SIA) offers a valuable framework for examining this. Recent research has increasingly shown that identifying with social groups can protect and promote well‐being. However, in the context of adoption, certain groups
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The more positive intergroup contacts you have, the less LGBTQ+ conspiracies beliefs you will report: The role of knowledge, anxiety, and empathy British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-15 Sara Panerati, Marco Salvati
Conspiracy theories and beliefs against LGBTQ+ people are a recurrent theme in the political agenda, depicting them as evil actors in a larger plot, seeking to undermine societal norms, institutions, and traditional values. Lessening LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs is crucial to reaching more social equality, and intergroup contact might represent a useful strategy. Study 1 (N = 253) investigated the associations
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Virtual Echoes: Enhancing Empathy Through the Experience of Others' Physiology in Emotional Virtual Scenarios. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-14 Henar Guillen-Sanz,Ines Miguel-Alonso,Bruno Rodriguez-Garcia,Giuseppe Riva
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Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018 Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Xiaoling Shu, Kelsey D. Meagher
Despite dramatic changes since the 1970s, gender and educational gaps in gender egalitarian attitudes have persisted while the racial gap (with Blacks leading) has narrowed. We apply interest-based and socialization mechanisms to predict the differential influences of labor market influences on changing gender attitudes for different races, genders, and educational groups. Using 21 waves of the General
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Inter‐ and Intraindividual Relations Between Agentic, Communal Self‐Enhancement and Hedonic, Eudaimonic Well‐Being: Feedback and Mediation Mechanisms Journal of Personality (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Jiangyong Li, Huaiyuan Qi, Huiqing Huang, Junyi Wang, Xuhai Chen, Yangmei Luo
IntroductionResearchers seldom consider the interplay between self‐enhancement (SE) and well‐being at both inter‐ and intraindividual levels. Previous studies have primarily focused on agentic SE and hedonic well‐being, often neglecting communal SE and eudaimonic well‐being. This study aims to address these gaps by examining the reciprocal relationship between both agentic and communal SE and both
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Using social psychology to create inclusive education British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Matthew J. Easterbrook, Lewis Doyle, Daniel Talbot
Social psychological processes related to identities and stereotypes—such as threat, belonging uncertainty, identity incompatibility and bias—can be ignited by features and practices in educational contexts, often further disadvantaging members of minoritised or underrepresented groups. Such psychological processes are consequential and predict hard academic outcomes such as attainment and progression
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The Perfect Storm of Cyberscam Risk: Examining Personal, Injury, and Psychosocial Risk Factors for People With and Without Acquired Brain Injury. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Jao-Yue Carminati,Joshua F Wiley,Jennie Ponsford,Kate Rachel Gould
Cyberscams are a pervasive global issue with losses exceeding $1 trillion worldwide and resulting in significant psychosocial impacts, particularly shame. People with disabilities, such as acquired brain injury (ABI), may be additionally vulnerable due to cognitive impairments and social isolation. Increased scam vulnerability and risk factors for people with ABI have not been investigated. This study
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The Silent Struggle: Moral Injury Among Health Care Workers. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Brenda K Wiederhold
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Alone Together: The Paradox of Digital Connection and Social Isolation. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Brenda K Wiederhold
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“Who Islamises us?”: Does political ideology moderate the effects of exposure to different Great Replacement Conspiracy explanations on radical collective action against different targets? British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Hakan Çakmak, Valentin Mang, Feiteng Long
Conspiracy theories against outgroups (e.g., the Great Replacement Conspiracy [GRC]) are believed to fuel radicalisation. Two experimental studies with British and American samples (Ntotal = 1690) examined how different GRC narratives and political ideologies influence radical collective action against Muslims and ideologically opposed political elites. We predicted that the Muslim conspirator and
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Ethical Sexual Regret in Men: A Discourse Analysis Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Sharon Lamb, Aashika Anantharaman, Sarah Swanson, Rudolph Eiland
Ethical sexual regret refers to regret for acts during a sexual experience that questions one’s ethical behavior and may be an important concept in understanding and preventing sexual assault. Although sexual regret is relevant to discussions of consent and unwanted/coerced sex, few researchers have explored the concept, even fewer have explored the phenomenon in men, and none in queer men. In this
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Investigating the impact of structural racism explanations for discriminatory behavior on judgments of the perpetrator. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Jaclyn A Lisnek,Jazmin L Brown-Iannuzzi,Gabrielle S Adams
Structural racism has become a household term used in the media and in everyday conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Despite increased discussion of structural racism, people often struggle to understand how structural racism is perpetuated by individuals. We integrate research on moral psychology, social cognition, and intergroup relations to investigate whether structural
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Linking person-specific network parameters to between-person trait change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Adam T Nissen,Emorie D Beck
Typical nomothetic, dimensional conceptualizations of personality traits have demonstrated that traits show robust patterns of change across the lifespan. Yet, questions linger about both the mechanisms underlying trait change and the extent to which we can understand any individual using only dimensional approaches. Alternatively, a person-specific conceptualization of personality that emphasizes
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Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Mariëlle Stel, Aiko Unterweger
The way we use animals for human consumption, medicines, and entertainment causes problems for the environment, our health, and animal welfare. This research investigated an intervention aimed at reducing harmful attitudes and behaviours towards animals. As the underlying mechanism of prejudice towards animals is similar to human outgroup prejudice, we designed an intervention based on synthesized
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Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 C. Dale Shaffer‐Morrison, Naseem H. Dillman‐Hasso, Robyn S. Wilson
A future time perspective is critical to domains where outcomes of choices are delayed and potentially catastrophic: such as with agriculture where management decisions today are critical to the viability of multiple outcomes in the future. Farmers are on the front lines of climate change where shifts in rainfall and temperature threaten the viability of crop production. This reality is compounded
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Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in STEM in Canada: An Intersectional Qualitative Analysis Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Sareh Nazari
This study explores the workplace experiences of Muslim women in two STEM sectors in Canada: computer sciences and engineering sciences. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 17 Muslim women and drawing on theories of inequality regimes and intersectionality, this paper investigates the barriers that Muslim women face to fit into the organizational cultures within the computer and engineering
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A Meta-Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Technologies Use and Loneliness: Examining the Influence of Physical Embodiment, Age Differences, and Effect Direction. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Xu Dong,Jun Xie,He Gong
Recent research has investigated the connection between artificial intelligence (AI) utilization and feelings of loneliness, yielding inconsistent outcomes. This meta-analysis aims to clarify this relationship by synthesizing data from 47 relevant studies across 21 publications. Findings indicate a generally significant positive correlation between AI use and loneliness (r = 0.163, p < 0.05). Specifically
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A Looking Glass into a Research Wonderland: Decades of Virtual Reality Scholarship Explicated Via Natural Language Processing. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 David M Markowitz,Jeremy N Bailenson
How has the field of virtual reality (VR) evolved and what type of research has made an impact? We used natural language processing techniques and generative artificial intelligence to develop the most complete review of experimental social science VR research to date (1992-2024). From a collection of 21,195 abstracts written by 52,543 unique authors, 13 reliable themes emerged over time, with immersive
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The preeminence of communality in the leadership preferences of followers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Rebecca Ponce de Leon,Erica R Bailey
Widespread narratives about leadership often emphasize the importance of exhibiting agentic traits like assertiveness, ambition, and confidence. Counter to this perspective, the present research suggests that when evaluating leaders, followers especially value communal traits, such as honesty, open-mindedness, and compassion-even at the expense of agentic traits. Eight preregistered studies (N = 3
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Failing to express emotion on 911 calls triggers suspicion through violating expectations and moral typecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Jessica M Salerno,Samantha R Bean,Nicholas D Duran,Alia N Wulff,Isabelle Reeder,Saul M Kassin
Coming to suspect that someone has engaged in wrongdoing based on their unexpected behavior is a common phenomenon-yet, little is known about what triggers initial suspicion. We investigated how violating expectations for high emotionality during a traumatic event can trigger suspicion that one has engaged in immoral-or even criminal-activity through moral typecasting. Five studies demonstrate this
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What could be? Depends on who you ask: Using latent profile analysis and natural language processing to identify the different types and content of utopian visions British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Morgana Lizzio‐Wilson, Emma F. Thomas, Michael Wenzel, Emily Haines, Jesse Stevens, Daniel Fighera, Patrick Williams, Samuel Arthurson, Danny Osborne, Linda J. Skitka
When people think of a utopian future, what do they imagine? We examined (a) whether people's self‐generated utopias differ by how much they criticize, seek to change or escape from an undesirable present; and (b) whether these distinct types of utopian thinking predict system‐critical attitudes and intentions to change the status quo. Participants (N = 509) wrote about a future where a social issue
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Can I tolerate that kind of behaviour? Self‐esteem, expected benefits, risk perceptions and risk tolerance in romantic relationships British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Veronica M. Lamarche, Jonathan J. Rolison
Previous research has relied on characteristics of relationship behaviours (e.g., choosing/avoiding intimacy) as evidence of prioritising potential rewards over the perceived risks (i.e., interpersonal risk tolerance). Across four studies (Ntotal = 1422), we drew from psychological risk–reward models of decision‐making to test whether perceived risks, benefits, and/or risk tolerance were associated
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Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function Journal of Personality (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Dimitris I. Tsomokos
ObjectiveTo explore the developmental pathways linking infant psychomotor function with personality in late adolescence through cognitive, social, and self‐regulation skills. The broader research question, seen through the lens of embodied cognition, is whether cognition and personality in youth develop from basic sensorimotor and communicative systems in infancy.MethodThe sample included 9202 participants
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Does a Small Country Have Meaningful Regional Personality Differences? The Case of Estonia Journal of Personality (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Ling Xu, Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, Siiri Silm, Uku Vainik, Wendy Johnson, René Mõttus
BackgroundRegional differences in the Big Five personality domains have been observed in several countries at different geographical granularities, often correlating with regional political, economic, social, and health (PESH) indicators.ObjectiveWe examined the extent of regional personality differences in Estonia and whether these differences were meaningfully correlated with PESH indicators.MethodsUsing
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Children’s Health Lifestyles And The Perpetuation Of Inequalities Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Stefanie Mollborn, Jennifer A. Pace, Bethany Rigles
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Internalized Sexism and Well-Being in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Matthew A. Andersson, Anastasia N. McSwain
Although structural sexism in state-level institutions is harmful to women’s and men’s health, less is known about how micro-level structural sexism relates to well-being. Using the 2017 and 2021 Gallup Values and Beliefs of the American Public surveys (N = 1,501 in 2017; N = 1,248 in 2021), we investigate diverse approaches to internalized sexism. Although we find no significant associations with
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Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Thoa V. Khuu, Jennifer Van Hook, Kendal L. Lowrey
In recent decades, naturalization rates among U.S. immigrants have surged as many seek citizenship to regain lost rights and protections. However, the impact of naturalization on immigrants’ life outcomes, such as health, remains underexplored in academic research. Challenges arising from selection processes complicate the interpretation of any observed health disparities between naturalized citizens
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Entrusted power enhances psychological other‐orientation and altruistic behavioural tendencies British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Matthias S. Gobel, Eunsoo Choi, Yukiko Uchida
From the playground to the boardroom, social power profoundly shapes the way people think and behave. Social psychological research has offered a nuanced understanding of the diverse psychological and behavioural tendencies of powerholders. We add to this literature by proposing that powerholders also differ in how they construe the origin of their power. Specifically, we differentiate between perceiving
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How prototypical are we compared to them? The role of the group relative prototypicality in explaining the path from intergroup contact to collective action British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Veronica Margherita Cocco, Sofia Stathi, Alice Lucarini, Saeed Keshavarzi, Ali Ruhani, Fateme Ebrahimi, Loris Vezzali
In two cross‐sectional and two experimental studies across both advantaged and disadvantaged group members (Ntotal = 1980 from two national contexts, UK and Italy), we explored if perceptions of group relative prototypicality may explain the association of positive and negative contact with collective action. Specifically, across studies, we investigated subgroup relative prototypicality with respect
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Diluting perceived immigration threat: When and how intersectional identities shape views of North African immigrants British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Béatrice Sternberg, Vincent Yzerbyt, Constantina Badea
In the European context, North African immigrants are often perceived as a threat to societal values and resources. Studies suggest that intersected identities (e.g., gay North African immigrant) may dilute the threat associated with one of those social categories (e.g., North African immigrant). However, the mechanisms underlying this dilution effect remain largely misunderstood. Three studies (NTotal
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Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Kate Hawks
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the success of public health authorities’ strategies to curb the spread of the virus hinged on individuals’ voluntary compliance with their directives. This study considers how two components of the cultural authority of public health influenced compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic: (1) individuals’ views of public health officials
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“It's that feeling that you can't get away”: Motherhood, gender inequality and the stress process during extreme events British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Evangelos Ntontis, Jennifer Monkhouse, Natalie Stokes‐Guizani, Aida Malovic, Patricio Saavedra
The impacts of extreme events can intersect with pre‐disaster systemic inequalities and deficiencies, exacerbating distress. This paper contributes to the existing literature by exploring the psychosocial processes through which stressors become traumatic during an extreme event. It does so by focusing on how mothers of children and/or adolescents in the United Kingdom experienced the COVID‐19 pandemic
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Impact of Spatial Presence on Charitable Behavior in the Metaverse: A Moderated Mediation Model of Norm Message and Involvement with Charity. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Jaeyeon Bang,Seungjae Oh,Jiyeon Park,Yejoo Lee,Yeonsoo Cho,Soyeon Park,Taeyeon Kim
With the rapid development of virtual technology, the metaverse has become an influential communication tool driving engagement in prosocial behavior. This study examined whether spatial presence in a metaverse affects charitable involvement and prosocial behavior. Additionally, it explored the impact of descriptive norms in the metaverse, validated as effective in the physical world. A laboratory
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Context as politicised psycho‐geographies: The psychological relationship between individual, politics, and country British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Geetha Reddy, Ilka H. Gleibs
This paper sheds light on how spaces become contested sites for identity construction and negotiation to take place. Applying the Social Representations Approach, a qualitative study of 10 focus group discussions (n = 39), was conducted in Singapore, Malaysia and the UK to explore how, and why racialised identity construction changed in each socio‐political context. The study challenged two underlying
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Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup–Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements Journal of Personality (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Ronja Demel, Lena Masch, David Schieferdecker, Hanna Schwander, Swen Hutter, Jule Specht
ObjectiveIn times of societal crises, it is pivotal to understand and share others' feelings. Yet, the role of empathy in fostering prosocial responses during societal crises has not gained enough attention. Our study uses the onset of Russia's war on Ukraine to examine three key questions: (1) Is empathy related to attitudes toward pro‐refugee policies? (2) Does empathy correlate with a higher tolerance
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Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Ángel Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Conor O'Dea, Ayse K. Uskul, Alexander Kirchner‐Häusler, Vivian Vignoles, Phatthanakit Chobthamkit, Rendy Alfiannoor Achmad, Sonny Andrianto, Andreas Agung Kristanto, Rahkman Ardi, Cokorda Bagus Jaya Lesmana, Vanessa A. Castillo, Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon, Alfred Chan Huan Zhi, Bovornpoch Choompunuch, Susan E. Cross, Son Duc Nguyen, Elaine Frances Fernandez, Fredrick Dermawan
We examined the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and endorsement of honour. We studied the SES‐honour link in 5 studies (N = 13,635) with participants recruited in different world regions (the Mediterranean and MENA, East Asian, South‐East Asian, and Anglo‐Western regions) using measures that tap into various different facets of honour. Findings from these studies revealed that individuals
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Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Sandra Obradović, Orsolya Vincze, Gordon Sammut
Critical voices within social psychology have, for some time, emphasized that context matters for understanding psychological phenomena and processes. This special issue examines what a social psychology of context, and in context, can contribute to understanding contemporary geopolitics. We argue that, in examining the interplay between social psychology and contemporary geopolitics, we can understand
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Your needs or mine? The role of allies' needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups' needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Ahmed Faruk Sağlamöz, Maja Kutlaca, Ana C. Leite
We propose a new motivational model that integrates self‐determination theory (with a focus on basic needs) with social‐psychological research on allyship and solidarity to better understand when and why allies may engage in different actions to address social injustice. We theorize that normative (e.g., donations and protesting) and non‐normative (e.g., blocking highways and disrupting events) solidarity‐based
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Algorithmic Management in Organizations? From Edge Case to Center Stage Ann. Rev. Organ. Psych. Organ. Behav. (IF 14.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Anne Keegan, Jeroen Meijerink
This article offers a comprehensive review of the literature on algorithmic management (AM), focusing on insights from human resource management (HRM), organizational psychology (OP), and organizational behavior (OB). It examines how AM is conceptualized in the contexts of platform work and the gig economy, revealing unique challenges and implications. AM functions as a holistic system, primarily in
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Intensive Longitudinal Models Ann. Rev. Organ. Psych. Organ. Behav. (IF 14.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Robert E. Ployhart, Paul D. Bliese, Sam D. Strizver
Intensive longitudinal models (ILMs) allow researchers to analyze nested data collected through frequent measurements—typically 20 or more repeated occasions—over densely spaced durations. Rather than being a single statistical approach, ILMs encompass various models unified by their capability to handle densely collected longitudinal data. We briefly summarize the nature of intensive longitudinal
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On the Evolution of Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Ann. Rev. Organ. Psych. Organ. Behav. (IF 14.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Michael G. Pratt
I explore how qualitative research has evolved in organizational research by examining developments in two major areas: how we do qualitative research and how we evaluate it. In particular, I track broad changes in case study, grounded theory, and ethnographic methods, as well as changes in various analytic practices or “moves” common across each as they relate to study design and data collection,
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Being in the minority boosts in-group love:Explanations and boundary conditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Roman Angel Gallardo,Austin Smith,Uri Zak,Darinel Lopez,Erika Kirgios,Alex Koch
People appreciate members of their in-group, and they cooperate with them-tendencies we refer to as in-group love. Being a member of a minority (vs. majority) is a common experience that varies both between groups in a context and within a group between contexts, but how does it affect in-group love? Across six studies, we examined when and why being in the minority boosts in-group love. In Study 1
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Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Isabel Thielmann,Benjamin E Hilbig,Christoph Schild,Daniel W Heck
A fundamental assumption about human behavior forming the backbone of trait theories is that, to some extent, individuals behave consistently across structurally comparable situations. However, especially for unethical behavior, the consistency assumption has been severely questioned, at least from the early 19th century onward. We provide a strict test of the consistency assumption for a prominent
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Does Perfectionism Affect Parental Identity Development? A One‐Year Longitudinal Study Journal of Personality (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Konrad Piotrowski, Kamil Janowicz, Lavinia Damian‐Ilea, Oana Negru‐Subtirica
IntroductionPrevious studies have revealed that perfectionism and identity development during adolescence are related. However, no longitudinal study has been conducted on the impact of perfectionism on identity development in adulthood. In the present study, we analyzed for the first time the longitudinal relationship between personal standards, an indicator of perfectionistic strivings, and concern
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I Did 10,000 Steps so I Earned This Treat: Problematic Smartwatch Use and Exercise Tracking Associations with Compensatory Eating and Sedentary Activity. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Aysha Siddika,Morgan E Ellithorpe
Smartwatches are digital devices, similar to smartphones, and come with the possibility of problematic use. Problematic technology use is the experience of psychological distress or reduced daily functioning in response to excessive or addictive technology use. The purpose of this study was to explore whether problematic use of smartwatch devices for exercise tracking influences user's health behaviors
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Down the Digital Rabbit Hole: Objectification Increases Problematic Gaming. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Jiaxin Shi,Zaixuan Zhang,Zhansheng Chen,Tianhua Wei,Xianyou He
Objectification, being perceived and treated merely as an object with a denial of one's humanness, has been linked to numerous adverse outcomes in daily life. Despite this, its influence on online behaviors, particularly problematic gaming, remains underexplored. The current research (total N = 1,000) extends the literature on objectification by investigating the effect of objectification on problematic
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Women’s Intention to Apply to Top-Executive Positions: The Role of Gender Meta-Stereotypes in Job Ads Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Aylin Koçak, Eva Derous
Women are still underrepresented at the top levels of organizations across Europe and the United States. Scholars have identified obstacles that hinder women’s climb to the top but have overlooked women’s perceptions of job advertisements for top-level positions as a potential barrier to top-level positions. The present study investigated the effects of meta-stereotyped person requirements (positive
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VEGI GRASP: A Virtual Reality Platform for Integrated Cognitive-Motor Assessment in Frail Older Adults. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Sarah Todisco,Alessandra Magrelli,Chiara Stramba-Badiale,Giuseppe Riva
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Threat to control promotes utilitarian moral judgement: The role of judgement type and length of control deprivation British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Sindhuja Sankaran, Wiktor Soral, Karol Lewczuk, Mirosław Kofta
In three studies (total N = 622), the effects of threat to control on subsequent moral judgement were examined. After recalling a lack‐of‐control experience, participants evaluated the morality of a protagonist's decisions in a series of incongruent moral dilemmas. We found that a control‐threatening reminder made moral judgements more utilitarian on the deontological–utilitarian dimension, which is
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Studying Kurdishness in Turkey: A review of existing research British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Elif Sandal‐Önal, Ercan Şen, Mete Sefa Uysal
Knowledge production on marginalized identities is frequently shaped by epistemic violence, which limits both the scope and methodologies of research. One example of this is the case of Kurdish identity in Turkey, where we find that methodological and epistemic problems are evident particularly in social psychological research. To summarize social psychological studies on Kurdishness, Kurdish identity
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Right‐wing authoritarianism and perceptions that minoritized groups pose a threat: The moderating roles of individual‐ and country‐level religiosity and marginalization British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Fahima Farkhari, Julian Scharbert, Lara Kroencke, Christin Schwarzer, Jonas F. Koch, Maarten H. W. van Zalk, Bernd Schlipphak, Mitja D. Back
Right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) refers to an adherence to conventional values and authorities with the power to penalize groups that are perceived to challenge the cohesion of ingroup norms. Correspondingly, RWA has repeatedly been linked to negative perceptions of minoritized groups, such as refugees or religious minorities. To investigate whether and how sociocultural factors add to and moderate
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Acts from the cracks: Representations and positions of the decolonial in the geopolitical (de)construction of power‐entangled knowledge British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Subas Amjad Ali, Mauro Sarrica, Gordon Sammut, Sara Bigazzi
This paper examines the geopolitical implications of knowledge production in psychology through two studies that respond to the growing body of work on the ‘Decolonisation of Knowledge’ and the ‘Decolonisation of Psychology’ over the past two decades. By adopting a constructivist approach, particularly through the lens of Social Representation Theory (SRT), these studies explore the ways in which geopolitical
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On the Measurement of Episodic Empowerment British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Jonathan Bartholomaeus, Joe Mandrell, Peter Strelan
This article reports the development and validation of the Episodic Empowerment Scale (EES): A manipulation check designed to measure a momentary psychological state. In Study 1, participants (n = 125) completed a selection of candidate items after being exposed to a low‐ or high‐power manipulation. Exploratory factor analysis was used to reduce the number of items to a brief five‐item measure. We
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A qualitative and quantitative study of radical pro‐environmental social change as anticipated future loss and threat: A gender perspective British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Robert A. T. Avery, Asma Korichi, Catheline Vagli, Hugo Jean Elie Chkroun, Florian Raphaël Seefeld, Isabella Kaiser, Kenzo Giaccari, Lucie Defauw, Lucien Brey, Nelson Glardon, Noah Ajani, Tom Sorgius, Fabrizio Butera
Degrowth‐oriented climate change mitigation policies offer inspiring possibilities for future societies. However, they require radical change to individual and collective behaviours; and research has not yet fully addressed how people may anticipate future loss and threat when confronted with such policies. This study proposes a twofold examination of anticipated reactions to pro‐environmental degrowth‐oriented
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Generations X, Y, Z: The Moderating Role of Self-Reliance in Relationships Between Loneliness, Social Media Addiction, and Life Satisfaction in Men. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-14 Sabina Lissitsa,Maya Kagan
In today's sociocultural milieu, characterized by pervasive social media and evolving conceptions of masculinity, this study examines the interplay among loneliness, social media addiction, self-reliance, and life satisfaction across Generations (Gen) X, Y, and Z. Employing a comprehensive model, the study explores social media addiction as a mediator between loneliness and life satisfaction, with
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The Unbearable Weight of Gender Inequalities: Development and Validation of the Social Treatment and Experiences of Women (STEW) Scale Sex Roles (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Stefano Ciaffoni, Monica Rubini, Silvia Moscatelli
Gender inequalities are pervasive across various life domains, yet research has often overlooked how people perceive that women are treated differently than men. To fill this gap, we developed and validated the 16-item multidimensional Social Treatment and Experiences of Women (STEW) scale across different samples of women and different cultural contexts, namely Italy and the UK N = 1,195). Using exploratory
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Associations of personality trait level and change with mortality risk in 11 longitudinal studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Emily C Willroth,Emorie Beck,Tomiko B Yoneda,Christopher R Beam,Ian J Deary,Johanna Drewelies,Denis Gerstorf,Martijn Huisman,Mindy J Katz,Richard B Lipton,Graciela Muniz Tererra,Nancy L Pedersen,Chandra A Reynolds,Avron Spiro,Nicholas A Turiano,Sherry Willis,Daniel K Mroczek,Eileen K Graham
People who are higher in conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness and lower in neuroticism tend to live longer. The present research tested the hypothesis that personality trait change in middle and older adulthood would also be associated with mortality risk, above and beyond personality trait level. Personality trait change may causally influence mortality risk through corresponding changes