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System circumvention: Dishonest‐illegal transgressions are perceived as justified in non‐meritocratic societies British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Hyunjin J. Koo, Paul K. Piff, Jake P. Moskowitz, Azim F. Shariff
Does believing that “effort doesn't pay” in society shape how people view dishonest‐illegal transgressions? Across five studies, we show that when people view societal success as non‐meritocratic—that is, more dependent on luck and circumstances than on hard work—they are more lenient in their moral judgements of dishonest‐illegal transgressions. Perceiving society as non‐meritocratic predicted greater
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Lived experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the UK: Migration and identity British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jana Warren, Dennis Nigbur
Sri Lankan Tamil refugees (SLTRs) have lived in the United Kingdom in substantial numbers for about three decades. However, they remain under‐represented in academic and public discourse, and little is known about their migration experiences. This study examined first‐hand accounts of such experiences, with special attention paid to identity and acculturation. Data were collected through four semi‐structured
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Can agentic messages help? Linguistic strategies to counteract voice‐based sexual orientation discrimination British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Fabio Fasoli, Magdalena Formanowicz
Gay men who believe to sound ‘gay’ expect to be discriminated against because of their voices and gay‐sounding men are discriminated against in the hiring process. We examined whether uttering an agency‐based message decreased discrimination expectancy and enactment. In Study 1a (N = 256; gay and bisexual men) and Study 1b (N = 216; gay men), speakers uttered agentic (vs. neutral) messages. We assessed
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Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lewis Doyle, Matthew J. Easterbrook, Linda R. Tropp
The vicious cycle of educational inequality may be maintained and perpetuated by teachers' lack of desire to work in socioeconomically deprived communities. Across two studies (Ntotal = 606), we experimentally investigated whether teachers' aversions to such settings could be mitigated by contact experiences with (a) people experiencing financial hardship and (b) children from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Exploring the origins of identity fusion: Shared emotional experience activates fusion with the group over time British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jon Zabala, Alexandra Vázquez, Susana Conejero, Aitziber Pascual
Identity fusion is a visceral feeling of oneness with a group, known to strongly motivate extreme pro‐group behaviour. However, the evidence on its causes is currently limited, primarily due to the prevalence of cross‐sectional research. To address this gap, this study analysed the evolution of fusion in response to a massive collective ritual, Korrika—a race in support of the Basque language—, over
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Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Anton Gollwitzer, Evelina Bao, Gabriele Oettingen
False beliefs pose significant societal threats, including health risks, political polarization and even violence. In two studies (N = 884) we explored the efficacy of an individual‐based approach to correcting false beliefs. We examined whether the character virtue of intellectual humility (IH)—an appreciation of one's intellectual boundaries—encourages revising one's false beliefs in response to
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Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Xinni Wei, Feng Yu, Kaiping Peng
Although global warming is a serious problem that influences numerous people worldwide, individuals are still reluctant to change their behaviours. The present research investigates how local hot temperatures affect climate action in non‐Western groups. In Study 1, an analysis of temperature and information acquisition by Shanghai residents in 122 days found that heat increased attention and awareness
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Shame in social interaction: Descriptions of experiences of shame by participants with high or low levels of narcissistic traits British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Emmi Koskinen, Pentti Henttonen, Sanna Kie Kettunen, Sanna Pesonen, Matias Piispanen, Liisa Voutilainen, Mariel Wuolio, Anssi Peräkylä
In this study, we investigate how personal experiences about shameful events are described in face‐to‐face social interaction, and how these stories differ between participants who have either high or low levels of narcissistic personality traits. The dataset consists of 22 dyadic conversations where the participants describe events where they felt ashamed of themselves. We found the narratives to
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Beyond normative and non‐normative: A systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mete Sefa Uysal, Patricio Saavedra, John Drury
This paper critically examines the normative versus non‐normative distinction commonly used in collective action research. To explore the similarities and differences between antecedents of normative versus non‐normative actions, we conducted a systematic review on diverse predictors of non‐normative, radical and violent collective actions. We examined 37 social and political psychology studies published
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Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Maor Shani, Jonas R. Kunst, Gulnaz Anjum, Milan Obaidi, Oded Adomi Leshem, Roman Antonovsky, Maarten van Zalk, Eran Halperin
Previous research on group‐based hope has predominantly focused on positive intergroup outcomes, such as peace and harmony. In this paper, we demonstrate that hope experienced towards group‐centric political outcomes, such as a victory in a conflict and defeating the enemy, can be detrimental to peace. In Study 1, conducted among Israeli Jews, hope for victory over the Palestinians was uniquely associated
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‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Helenor Tormis, Katarina Pettersson, Inari Sakki
Previous studies on environmental issues in right-wing populism have mostly focused on political actors and their argumentation. In contrast, this study examines environmental populist discourse from the perspective of laypeople in Finland. We used interviews (n = 25) to analyse affective–discursive practices in environmental talk, identifying four partly interrelated practices: belittling the ‘annoying
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Being pressed for time leads to treating others as things: Exploring the relationships among time scarcity, agentic and communal orientation and objectification British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Xinying Jiang, Nan Zhang, Xiaomin Sun, Zhenzhen Liu, Yuqiao Lilly Wang
Time scarcity has become one of the most ubiquitous phenomena in daily life worldwide. Five studies (total valid N = 1332) examined whether time scarcity elicits people's agentic orientation and dampens their communal orientation, thus increasing the likelihood of objectification towards others. Results suggested that people who perceived time scarcity were more likely to exhibit objectification towards
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Do conspiracy beliefs fuel support for reactionary social movements? Effects of misbeliefs on actions to oppose lockdown and to “stop the steal” British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Emma F. Thomas, Lucy Bird, Alexander O'Donnell, Danny Osborne, Eliana Buonaiuto, Lisette Yip, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Michael Wenzel, Linda Skitka
Pundits have speculated that the spread of conspiracies and misinformation (termed “misbeliefs”) is leading to a resurgence of right-wing, reactionary movements. However, the current empirical picture regarding the relationship between misbeliefs and collective action is mixed. We help clarify these associations by using two waves of data collected during the COVID-19 Pandemic (in Australia, N = 519
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Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jack Loughnane, Jenny Roth, Wijnand van Tilburg
Collective nostalgia is an emotion experienced when one sentimentally recalls events or things related to a particular social identity. We investigated the relationship between collective nostalgia about the United Kingdom (UK) and UK citizens' desire to leave the European Union (EU). We collected data of UK citizens twice prior to the UK's official withdrawal from the European Union (N = 347 and N = 240)
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Popularity at first sight: Dominant behaviours mediate the link between extraversion and popularity in face-to-face and virtual group interactions British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Martje Buss, Jenny Wagner, Eva Bleckmann, Larissa L. Wieczorek
Although there is robust evidence that being more extraverted is related to higher popularity, only few studies have examined which actual behaviours (e.g., verbal content, body language) might explain this association. The current study examined whether observer-rated dominant behaviours (nonverbal, paraverbal, verbal, and general cues) mediate the relationship between self-rated extraversion and
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The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam-Troian et al. (2023) British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Magdalena Adamus, Eva Ballová Mikušková, Pavol Kačmár, Martin Guzi, Matuš Adamkovič, Maria Chayinska, Jais Adam-Troian
The paper reports the results of registered conceptual replications of the indirect effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs (CB). The original study of Adam-Troian et al. (2023; British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(S1), 136-159) indicated that subjective appraisals of economic hardship are associated with lower trust in governments
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Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion-secure base hypothesis British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jack W. Klein, Katharine H. Greenaway, Brock Bastian
Identity fusion – a powerful form of group alignment – is a strong predictor of using violence to defend the ingroup. However, recent theorizing suggests, in the absence of outgroup threat, fusion may instead promote intergroup trust and cooperation. Across five studies we find evidence that fusion to a range of groups (e.g., country, football team) was consistently positively associated with a willingness
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Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Stephanie Demoulin, Florence Stinglhamber
Quantification, that is, the shaping of human environments in numerical terms, is so widespread in contemporary societies that it has contaminated almost all spheres of human life. We explore the links between performance quantification and individuals' feelings of being treated in a dehumanized way, that is, metadehumanization. We present an integrative research that assessed the relationships between
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Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Vinzenz H. Duderstadt, Andreas Mojzisch, Markus Germar
Building on the seminal studies of Solomon Asch and Muzafer Sherif, recent research has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying social influence by applying a diffusion model analysis. Here, we combined the social identity approach to social influence with a diffusion model analysis to unravel the mechanisms underlying social influence. In particular, we aimed to disentangle whether
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The Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale: A valid tool with greater predictive utility than income British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Victor Auger, Nicolas Sommet, Alice Normand
This article introduces the Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale (PESS), a novel instrument measuring the subjective evaluation and experience of economic scarcity (the feeling of having insufficient financial resources to meet one's needs). We conducted three high-powered preregistered studies (total N = 1900) to rigorously evaluate the PESS's psychometric properties. In Study 1, we generated a pool
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Human aggression in everyday life: An empirical test of the general aggression model British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Riccarda Kersten, Tobias Greitemeyer
With the general aggression model (GAM), Anderson and Bushman (2002) provided an integrative framework to explain the complex nature of aggression. Based on the GAM, we examined whether personological and situational factors (interactively) have an impact on the person's internal state (consisting of aggressive cognition, affect, and physiological arousal), which in turn is assumed to lead to aggressive
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A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Melissa A. Wheeler, Samuel G. Wilson, Naomi Baes, Vlad Demsar
Throughout the course of scholarly history, some concepts have been notoriously hard to define. The ‘common good’ is one such concept. While the common good has a long and contested scholarly history, social psychology research on folk theories – lay beliefs that represent an individual's informal and subjective understanding of the world – may provide a key for unlocking this nebulous concept. In
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The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self-esteem and affect British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Sanne Preuter, Bastian Jaeger, Mariëlle Stel
Deceiving others is generally viewed as immoral. However, most people lie on a daily basis. This article examines the psychological consequences for the liars themselves, as they are participating in what is generally perceived as immoral behaviour. More specifically, this article focuses on the effects of lying on the liar's self-esteem and affect. We tested if lying, in comparison to telling the
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Damned if she does: The subordinate male target hypothesis and discrimination of social dominant female minority members British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Sarah Buhl, Frank Asbrock, Chris G. Sibley, Carla Houkamau
According to the subordinate male target hypothesis (SMTH), racism is based on an ethnicity-by-gender interaction, with a stronger link between experiencing racist discrimination and subordinate or dominant ethnic group status for men compared to women. This study reevaluates the SMTH, originally focused on objective discrimination, by applying it to self-reported active harm as a theoretically derived
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Red-pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ira Frejborg, Katarina Pettersson
Previous research into the gendered social identity work involved in conspiracy theories (CTs) has largely focused on expressions of masculinity. The present study investigates the employment and mobilization of feminine identities in online Covid-19 conspiracy theory seminars through a critical discursive psychological perspective. The analysis finds three interpretative repertoires for representing
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Toleration, discrimination, or acceptance? How majorities interpret and legitimize minority toleration depends on outgroup threat British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Berfin Acar, Sabahat Cigdem Bagci, Maykel Verkuyten
The notion of tolerance is widely embraced in plural contexts, but little is known about how majority members interpret the toleration of minorities. With four studies, we investigated majority group members' interpretations of a minority toleration situation (compared to full acceptance and discrimination situations) as a function of outgroup threat. Study 1 (N = 214) showed that higher perception
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White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’ British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 James Johnson, Len Lecci, John F. Dovidio
We examined the dynamics of minority-directed police violence by considering how our White participants' empathy for Black victims may be influenced by critical intragroup differences related to racial stereotyping. Although the role of stereotyping in reactions to Black Americans accused of crime is well-established, we explore the influence of pejorative Black stereotypes on reactions to Black victims
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The sound of silence: The importance of bystander support for confronters in the prevention of norm erosion British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Anna S. C. Tirion, Laetitia B. Mulder, Tim Kurz, Namkje Koudenburg, Annayah M. B. Prosser, Paul Bain, Jan Willem Bolderdijk
Observing deviant behaviour can lead to ‘norm erosion’, where a norm is no longer seen as relevant and compliance with it is reduced. Previous research argues that social confrontations can mitigate norm erosion. However, this work has not considered the impact of bystanders to confrontations, who might influence the outcome by supporting—or failing to support—the person confronting a social rule breaker
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Is conservative opposition to climate change threat-based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Samantha K. Stanley, Kirsti M. Jylhä, Zoe Leviston, Iain Walker
Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perceived threat. That is, they fear that accepting climate change means accepting problems with a favoured socioeconomic system and supporting action on climate change threatens to disrupt these systems. We draw together lines of research and reasoning
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How positive and negative intergroup contact jointly inform minority support for social change: The role of system-fairness beliefs British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Katrín Árnadóttir, Gülseli Baysu, Colette Van Laar, Karen Phalet, Linda R. Tropp, Simone Sebben, Johannes Ullrich, Tabea Hässler
Research suggests that positive contact with majorities may ‘sedate’ (undermine) minority support for social change, while negative contact may promote it. However, most studies to date have examined both forms of contact separately, which may not give an accurate picture of their effects. This study examines the joint effects and interplay of positive and negative contact on minority support for social
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Multiple social identities and well-being: Insights from a person-centred approach British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Claudia Manzi, Fabio Paderi, Veronica Benet-Martinez
Recent research on social identity and identity integration suggests that individuals who have multiple identities and who also successfully integrate them are better adjusted. We combine predictions from these studies and examine how social identification, together with identity integration, are related to psychological well-being using a person-centred approach. A first study (N = 2705) showed that
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Canadian politicians' rhetoric on Twitter/X: Analysing prejudice and inclusion towards Muslims using structural topic modelling and rhetorical analysis British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 John Shayegh, David Sumantry, Arvin Jagayat, Becky Choma
We analysed tweets from five English-speaking Canadian political parties in the year leading up to the 2019 federal election to explore both prejudicial and inclusive rhetoric in relation to Muslim identities on social media. We used structural topic modelling to understand what topics were discussed before moving to a rhetorical approach to analyse how topics were discussed. We identified 10 topics
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Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Terry Au-Yeung, Richard Philpot, Clifford Stott, Matt Radburn, John Drury
Across a range of recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, the question of how crowds behave in confined public space is an important concern. Classical theoretical assumptions are that human behaviour in such contexts is relatively uniform, self-interested and pathological. We contest these assumptions by reporting on a study of public response to a marauding knife attack that occurred on London's
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Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Robert Gruber, Michael Häfner, Sven Kachel
Clothing behaviour remains an understudied research area within social psychology. Through the present research, we aim to anchor attire as an empirical research subject by investigating the psychological properties of one of its functionalities, namely, to provide protection. We argue that attire's undisputed role in shielding humans from environmental hazards may extend to the psychological level
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Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade-off determines carbon allocation preference British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Lingling Huang, Li Liu, Jianning Dang, Cong Wei, Xiaoyan Miao
International carbon allocation confronts the conflict between efficiency and equality. Previous research based on the intergroup bias perspective has attributed carbon allocation preference to the defence of ingroup interests (i.e., national interests) while overlooking the critical role of trade-offs between competing moral values. Integrating the contingency theory of justice and moral philosophical
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Is contact among social class groups associated with legitimation of inequality? An examination across 28 countries British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Salvador Vargas Salfate, Chadly Stern
Is class-based contact associated with legitimation of inequality? Drawing from the idea that people adopt beliefs predominant in groups with whom they interact, we hypothesized that upper-class contact would correspond to greater legitimation of inequality, whereas lower-class contact would correspond to lesser legitimation of inequality among lower- and upper-class individuals. We also hypothesized
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Exaggerating differences back and forth: Two levels of intergroup accentuation British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Patrick Rothermund, Roland Deutsch
Social perceivers tend to exaggerate existing differences between groups, a phenomenon known as intergroup accentuation. In two preregistered experiments, we tested the hypothesis that accentuation originates in the initial learning of information about a novel group. In both experiments, perceivers exaggerated differences between two fictitious social groups that differed probabilistically in two
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How our ideological out-group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio-political reality British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Julia Elad-Strenger, Amit Goldenberg, Tamar Saguy, Eran Halplerin
What shapes our emotional responses to socio-political events? Following the social identity approach, we suggest that individuals adjust their emotional responses to socio-political stimuli based on their ideological out-group's responses, in a manner that preserves the comparative and normative fit of ideological in-group–out-group categories. In Study 1 and Study 2 (pre-registered), Jewish-Israeli
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Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Larisa Riedijk, Lianne Aarntzen, Ruth van Veelen, Belle Derks
Although women's labour force participation has increased, women still lag behind in financial independence and men in spending time on parenting. Insight in individuals' explicit conversations with their partner about how to coordinate daily household, childcare and paid work may help to overcome these persistent inequalities. Using a daily diary design, the present study examined to what extent daily
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Not all ballots should be considered equal: How education-based dehumanization undermines the democratic social contract British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Mario Sainz, Alexandra Vázquez
Less educated people are viewed negatively and their opinions are belittled in our society. Besides, along with other groups, they are underrepresented in the political arena which questions the legitimacy of democratic systems. Despite the existence of education-based devaluation, research on how people dehumanize individuals and groups with lesser education and minimize their democratic rights is
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Ableism differs by disability, gender and social context: Evidence from vignette experiments British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Shane Timmons, Frances McGinnity, Eamonn Carroll
Existing research on prejudice and discrimination towards disabled people (i.e. ‘ableism’) has conceptualized it as a general attitude, obscuring the role of social context in its manifestation. We aimed to investigate whether and how ableism manifests differently depending on the nature of the disability, the disabled person's gender and the social context of the interaction. A nationally representative
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Why do we never have enough time? Economic inequality fuels the perception of time poverty by aggravating status anxiety British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Qi Zhao, Rongzi Ma, Zhenzhen Liu, Tianxin Wang, Xiaomin Sun, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Mengxi Dong, Yue Yuan
People in many societies report that they do not have enough time. What makes people feel so rushed? We propose that economic inequality leads to perceived time poverty by increasing status anxiety. Five studies examined this line of reasoning. Study 1 (N = 230) found a positive correlation between economic inequality and perceived time poverty. Study 2 (N = 194) manipulated economic inequality to
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Implicit association tests: Stimuli validation from participant responses British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sally A. M. Hogenboom, Katrin Schulz, Leendert van Maanen
The Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald et al., J. Pers. Soc. Psychol., 74, 1998, 1464) is a popular instrument for measuring attitudes and (stereotypical) biases. Greenwald et al. (Behav. Res. Methods, 54, 2021, 1161) proposed a concrete method for validating IAT stimuli: appropriate stimuli should be familiar and easy to classify – translating to rapid (response times <800 ms) and accurate
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A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Crystal J. La Rue, Niklas K. Steffens, Belén Álvarez Werth, Sarah V. Bentley, Catherine Haslam
Positive experiences of groups (e.g., the extent to which groups are important and supportive) tend to be associated with better retirement adjustment outcomes. However, group experiences are not always positive, and we know little about their varied contribution to adjustment outcomes. We addressed this gap by exploring the nature of social group memberships – in terms of varying positive and negative
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Love thy (Ukrainian) neighbour: Willingness to help refugees depends on their origin and is mediated by perceptions of similarity and threat British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Samantha Sinclair, Mark Granberg, Towe Nilsson
Prejudice and discrimination against minorities can be a powerful tool for populistic and reactionary political movements, and it is therefore crucial to study its determinants. The aim of this research is to develop the understanding of a possible mechanism of such discrimination: cultural distance. In a pre-registered survey experiment with a between-subjects design, we draw on the large increase
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Category intersections as conceptual combinations: Combining male categories of age and sexual orientation British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Rosandra Coladonato, Vincent Yzerbyt, Andrea Carnaghi
We reconcile interactive and additive models of category intersection by recasting these theoretical efforts within the conceptual combination framework. In three studies (Ntot = 364), we showed that, in line with an interactive approach, combining ‘elderly men’ with ‘gay men’ generated an atypical subtype with unique attributes that could not be reduced to the sum of the attributes of the constituent
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Passion is key: High emotionality in diversity statements promotes organizational attractiveness British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Vladislav Krivoshchekov, Sylvie Graf, Sabine Sczesny
To attract and retain a more diverse workforce, organizations embrace diversity initiatives, expressed in diversity statements on their websites. While the explicit content of diversity statements influences attitudes towards organizations, much less is known about the effect of subtle cues such as emotions. In three pre-registered studies, we tested the effect of positive emotionality in diversity
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Severity and deservedness determine signalled trustworthiness in third party punishment British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Juan C. Salcedo, William Jimenez-Leal
Studies on third-party punishment (TPP) have shown it promotes cooperation and prosocial behaviour, albeit at a cost to the punisher. Contrary to the view that such punishment is entirely altruistic, recent research suggests that punishers gain reputational benefits from third-party punishing in the form of increased trustworthiness. Nevertheless, both how the signal is determined and the honesty of
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The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross-level interaction model British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Eerika Finell, Asko Tolvanen, Ian Shuttleworth, Kevin Durrheim, Maaret Vuorenmaa
The social identity approach to health argues that well-being depends on the psychosocial circumstances of the groups to which individuals belong. However, little is known about how the average level of identification in the group – ‘the identification environment’ – buffers the negative health consequences of stressors. We used multilevel modelling to investigate whether identification environment
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Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Samuel Murray, William Jiménez-Leal, Santiago Amaya
Are we ever morally permitted to do what is morally wrong? It seems intuitive that we are, but evidence for dissociations among judgement of permissibility and wrongness is relatively scarce. Across four experiments (N = 1438), we show that people judge that some behaviours can be morally wrong and permissible. The dissociations arise because these judgements track different morally relevant aspects
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The role of group memberships and school identification on student well-being British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Emma K. Dunstone, Katherine J. Reynolds, Diana Cárdenas
There are widespread concerns about a decline in young people's mental health. One promising direction to address this issue involves group memberships and social identity processes. Despite progress, there are several issues in current theory and research including (1) whether the number of groups to which an individual belongs is related to more positive well-being, (2) better understanding the relationship
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Coping strategies and belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Zuzanna Molenda, Marta Marchlewska, Adam Karakula, Dagmara Szczepańska, Marta Rogoza, Ricky Green, Aleksandra Cislak, Karen M. Douglas
Conspiracy beliefs have been related to aversive emotional experiences often accompanying major world events and have also been linked to maladaptive ways of coping with stress. In this research, we examined how different coping strategies (i.e. self-sufficient, social-support, avoidance and religious) predicted the adoption of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. In two studies (Study 1, n = 1000 and Study
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The role of identity-related beliefs in the appraisal and management of crowding: Insights from the Hajj British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Enes Yalcin, Nick Hopkins
In crowds, to the degree one identifies with other crowd members one likely experiences a sense of common purpose, social connection and mutual support. Such is the psychological significance of these correlates of a shared identity that even others' close physical proximity can be pleasurable. However, such pleasure in others' proximity cannot be assumed: physical crowding can bring practical challenges
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Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Julia Stern, Sabine Ostermann, Lars Penke
In contrast to some non-human primate species, human females do not show overt cues to fertility. Previous research argued that women still show systematic changes in their appearance across their ovulatory cycle to enhance their mating success when fertile. We report five studies investigating whether women's clothing style and grooming behaviour change across the ovulatory cycle. All studies were
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What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ+ lobby conspiracies (GILC) scale British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Marco Salvati, Valerio Pellegrini, Valeria De Cristofaro, Mauro Giacomantonio
Previous literature on conspiracy beliefs has an important gap, as it has almost completely excluded conspiracy beliefs relating to LGBTQ+ people. The purpose of the present research was to develop and validate a specific tool to measure the Gender Ideology and LGBTQ+ Lobby Conspiracies Beliefs: the GILC scale. Two independent data collections (Ntot = 1.908) were run involving both heterosexual and
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A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Evangelos Ntontis, Klara Jurstakova, Fergus Neville, S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen Reicher
On January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump's speech during a ‘Save America’ rally was followed by mass violence, with Trump's supporters storming the U.S. Capitol to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election. In its wake, there was a great deal of debate around whether the speech contained direct instructions for the subsequent violence. In this paper, we use a social identity
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Dishonest collaboration in an intergroup context British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Tjits van Lent, Thijs Verwijmeren, Gijsbert Bijlstra
Collaborations may sometimes increase the likelihood of engaging in dishonest behaviour. As yet, it remains unknown what factors contribute to this phenomenon. Here, we investigate whether it matters with whom people are collaborating for the extent to which they are dishonest. We aim to (I) replicate dishonest collaboration effects and (II) examine whether collaborating with an ingroup member (vs
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Political apologies and their acceptance: Experimental evidence from victims and perpetrators nations British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Roman David, Pui Chuen Tam
Political apologies have been argued to contribute to reconciliation among groups and nations but their efficacy has also been questioned. This paper examines the acceptance of political apologies, their content and the protagonists in the victim nation, the perpetrator nation and their subgroups. Guided by studies on the structure of apologies, it distinguishes 10 features of apologies, seven of which
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The utility of nostalgia for unhealthy populations: A systematic review and narrative analysis British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michael J. A. Wohl, Mackenzie E. Dowson, Melissa M. Salmon, Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut
Nostalgic reverie (i.e. sentimental longing) has received increased attention as a predictor of health and well-being, but only a handful of reviews have summarized this literature. The available reviews (Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 19, 2020, 330; Intimations of nostalgia: Multidisciplinary explorations of an enduring emotion, Bristol University Press, 2022)
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What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship British Journal of Social Psychology (IF 6.92) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michael Thai, Jarren L. Nylund
Advantaged group allies can incur costs or rewards as a result of their allyship. The present work investigates whether such costs and rewards affect how marginalised group members perceive these allies. Across four experiments that collectively examine marginalised group members' perceptions of individual and corporate allies in the context of allyship for women's rights, Black Lives Matter and the