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How identity fusion predicts extreme pro-group orientations: A meta-analysis European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Anders Hustad Varmann, Line Kruse, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Jonas R. Kunst
ABSTRACT Researchers have productively tested identity fusion theory, aiming to explain extreme pro-group orientations. However, the strength of effects, types of measurements, and study contexts have varied substantially. This first meta-analysis (90 studies from 55 reports, 106 effects, N = 36,880) supported four main conclusions based on the available literature: (1) identity fusion has a strong
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A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Mark Rubin, Chuma Kevin Owuamalam, Russell Spears, Luca Caricati
ABSTRACT System justification theory (SJT) assumes that social identity theory (SIT) cannot fully account for system justification by members of low-status (disadvantaged) groups. Contrary to this claim, we provide several elaborations of SIT that explain when and why members of low-status groups show system justification independent from any separate system justification motive. According to the social
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Rejoinder to Rubin, Owuamalam, Spears, and Caricati (2023): Ideology is not accuracy; identity is not everything; and the social identity model of social attitudes does not explain system justification, it presupposes it European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 John T. Jost, Jeannine Alana Bertin, Ali Javeed, Usman Liaquat, Eduardo J. Rivera Pichardo
ABSTRACT This article rebuts arguments made by proponents of the Social Identity Model of Social Attitudes (SIMSA), especially the claim that needs for accuracy and a positively distinct social identity are sufficient to explain system justification by members of disadvantaged groups. There are many serious conceptual and empirical problems with SIMSA: (1) It treats system justification as the outcome
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Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mark Rubin, Chuma Kevin Owuamalam, Russell Spears, Luca Caricati
ABSTRACT In this article, we reply to Jost et al. (Citation2023) rejoinder to our article reviewing evidence for the social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA; Rubin et al., Citation2023). We argue that (1) SIMSA treats system justification as the outcome of an interaction between general social psychological process and specific historical, political, cultural, and ideological environments;
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Dilemmas of resistance: How concerns for cultural aspects of identity shape and constrain resistance among minority groups European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Andrew G. Livingstone, Russell Spears, Antony S. R. Manstead, Damilola Makanju, Joseph Sweetman
ABSTRACT A major theme in social psychological models of collective action is that shared social identity is a critical foundation for resistance and collective action. In this review, we suggest that this foundational role of social identity can be double edged for many minority groups because material disadvantage is often coupled with the historical erosion of key aspects of ingroup culture and
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Extending the scope for resistance to gender-based devaluation European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 J.A. van Breen, S. de Lemus, T. Kuppens, M. Barreto, R. Spears
ABSTRACT This review focuses on resistance to experiences of group-based devaluation, specifically in the context of gender. This literature has seen considerable development in recent years – we outline this development and review the empirical evidence that supports it. The first section of the review discusses definitional issues surrounding resistance. The second section describes how the literature
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Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Christian Unkelbach, Hans Alves, Matthew Baldwin, Jan Crusius, Kathi Diel, Adam D. Galinsky, Anne Gast, Wilhelm Hofmann, Roland Imhoff, Oliver Genschow, Joris Lammers, Eileen Pauels, Iris Schneider, Sascha Topolinski, Mareike Westfal, Thomas Mussweiler
ABSTRACT A key challenge for social psychology is to identify unifying principles that account for the complex dynamics of social behaviour. We propose psychological relativity and its core mechanism of comparison as one such unifying principle. To support our proposal, we review recent evidence investigating basic processes underlying and novel applications of social comparisons. Specifically, we
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The economic inequality as normative information model (EINIM) European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón, Guillermo B. Willis
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new model that aims to contribute to the growing literature about the consequences of economic inequality: the economic inequality as normative information ƒmodel (EINIM). In short, we argue that the level of economic inequality works as a cue that people use to infer the normative climate in a given society – for example, the common features that define individuals,
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Identities: A developmental social-psychological perspective European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Elisabetta Crocetti, Flavia Albarello, Wim Meeus, Monica Rubini
ABSTRACT In this contribution, we review research that uses a cross-fertilisation approach to integrate developmental and social-psychological perspectives on how identities are formed and changed over time and how identity processes are genuinely social, being embedded in social contexts and fed by social contents. First, we outline the three-factor identity model as a parsimonious approach to understanding
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The social psychology of intergroup tolerance and intolerance European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Maykel Verkuyten, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Levi Adelman
ABSTRACT Living with cultural, religious, and ideological diversity inevitably creates situations where people are confronted with beliefs, values, or practices that they disapprove of. In such situations, people may consider reasons to nevertheless tolerate what they disapprove of (i.e., forbearance tolerance), or reject these (i.e., intolerance). In the current review, we consider empirical research
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Blindspots in acculturation research: An agenda for studying majority culture change European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Hanna Zagefka, Katharina Lefringhausen, Lucía López Rodríguez, Ana Urbiola, Nali Moftizadeh, Alexandra Vázquez
ABSTRACT Research has investigated conditions which lead to minority members’ wanting to maintain their culture of origin, and to them wanting to adopt the majority culture. Majority members’ ideas for what minority members should do have also received attention. However, past research has developed a blindspot for some important questions: majority and minority members will also have preferences for
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Generalized Prejudice: Lessons about social power, ideological conflict, and levels of abstraction European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Robin Bergh, Mark J. Brandt
ABSTRACT Prejudices tend to come as a package deal; people who are more racist tend to also be more sexist, and so on. Documentations of such attitudinal patterns – generalised prejudice – have a rich history, but the theoretical understanding thereof has been lagging. In recent years, we have seen clear theoretical advancement in the understanding of this phenomenon. We discuss classic premises in
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Benefits of nostalgia in vulnerable populations European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered and exacerbated psychological distress, and exposed psychological vulnerabilities, in large swathes of the population. Under challenging circumstances, nostalgia may convey tangible psychological and physical health benefits. We review recent evidence for nostalgia’s utility in vulnerable populations, including sojourners and immigrants, civil war refugees
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The behavioural immune system and pandemic psychology: the evolved psychology of disease-avoidance and its implications for attitudes, behaviour, and public health during epidemic outbreaks European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Mark Schaller, Damian R. Murray, Marlise K. Hofer
ABSTRACT This article provides an overview of the “behavioural immune system” – a suite of psychological mechanisms that complements immunological defences by motivating pre-emptive behavioural responses to infection threats – and summarises research documenting its implications for social attitudes and social behaviour. This summary focuses on four domains of phenomena: interpersonal interactions
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Descriptive-to-prescriptive (D2P) reasoning: An early emerging bias to maintain the status quo European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Steven O. Roberts
ABSTRACT Group norms are necessary for navigating the social world, but they also constrain how we think about individuals. This manuscript progresses in three parts, along the way integrating research from cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, as well as the broader social sciences, to present a theoretical perspective on how the tendency to interpret descriptive norms (i.e., what is) as
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Flexibility mindsets: Reducing biases that result from spontaneous processing European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Kai Sassenberg, Kevin Winter, Daniela Becker, Lara Ditrich, Annika Scholl, Gordon B. Moskowitz
ABSTRACT Spontaneous (i.e., heuristic, fast, effortless, and associative) processing has clear advantages for human cognition, but it can also elicit undesirable outcomes such as stereotyping and other biases. In the current article, we argue that biased judgements and behaviour that result from spontaneous processing can be reduced by activating various flexibility mindsets. These mindsets are characterised
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The potential and limitations of empathy in changing health-relevant affect, cognition and behaviour European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Claudia Sassenrath, Svenja Diefenbacher, Stefan Pfattheicher, Johannes Keller
ABSTRACT Global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the impending climate change require each and every one of us to perform long-term self-restrictive behaviours, implying personal costs, for the sake of vulnerable others and future generations. We argue that empathy – conceptualised as other-oriented moral emotional process – can impact how we think, feel and act towards others in times of
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In field settings group members (often) show effort gains instead of social loafing European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Joachim Hüffmeier, Guido Hertel, Ann-Kathrin Torka, Christoph Nohe, Stefan Krumm
ABSTRACT Although group work has the potential to both reduce and increase the effort expenditure of its members, effort losses (i.e., reduced effort in group- versus individual work) have long been perceived as (nearly) inevitable in Social Psychology. This notion was elicited, accompanied, and bolstered by (i) pessimistic theorising on group productivity, and (ii) the primary use of laboratory experiments
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Strategies for the promotion of humanity attribution to outgroups European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Loris Vezzali, Dora Capozza, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo, Rossella Falvo, Sofia Stathi, Gordon Hodson
ABSTRACT Outgroup dehumanisation, the denial of full humanity to outgroups relative to ingroups, is pervasive in many contemporary societies. The aim of the present work is to review effective strategies aimed at fostering outgroup humanity attribution. After presenting the main models of humanity attribution, we differentiate two types of strategies. Outgroup-specific strategies are focused on a target
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Persuasion amidst a pandemic: Insights from the Elaboration Likelihood Model European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Mark W. Susmann, Mengran Xu, Jason K. Clark, Laura E. Wallace, Kevin L. Blankenship, Aviva Z. Philipp-Muller, Andrew Luttrell, Duane T. Wegener, Richard E. Petty
ABSTRACT COVID-19 mitigation strategies have largely relied on persuading populations to adopt behavioural changes, so it is critical to understand how such persuasive efforts can be made more effective. The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of persuasion allows for the integration of a variety of seemingly disparate effects into one overarching framework. This allows for prediction of which effects
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The social psychology of economic inequality, redistribution, and subjective well-being European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Margaux N. A. Wienk, Nicholas R. Buttrick, Shigehiro Oishi
ABSTRACT As economic inequality continues to rise, there is increased concern about both the consequences of inequality and what can be done to reverse this trend. In the present paper, we review the social psychology of economic inequality and redistribution, focusing on their effects on subjective well-being. We address who is affected by inequality and redistribution, what psychological processes
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The longstanding view of workers as objects: antecedents and consequences of working objectification European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Cristina Baldissarri, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato
ABSTRACT Objectification refers to the perception and treatment of human beings as mere objects. Although this dehumanizing process has deeply permeated the domain of work throughout history, social psychology researchers have only recently begun to empirically investigate it. Here, we review the recent literature that analysed working objectification by considering its two main facets: objectification
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Monoracial perceivers’ sociopolitical motives and their inclusion versus exclusion of multiracial people European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Arnold K. Ho, Nour S. Kteily
ABSTRACT Many societies today are organised as race-based social hierarchies, with clear boundaries between racial groups at the top versus bottom. The growth of multiracial populations has been heralded as holding the potential to blur existing group boundaries. But whether multiracial people do blur boundaries depends critically on how monoracial perceivers categorise them. We review our research
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How can we master the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic? The role of planning at social levels European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 J. Lukas Thürmer, Frank Wieber, Peter M. Gollwitzer
ABSTRACT Mastering global challenges such as the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic requires implementing effective responses at various social levels. Leadership teams (governmental, industrial) need to integrate available information to introduce effective regulation and update their decisions as new information becomes available. Groups (families, peers, teams) need to act persistently, even when these actions
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Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden
ABSTRACT There has been increasing concern with the growing infusion of misinformation, or “fake news”, into public discourse and politics in many western democracies. Our article first briefly reviews the current state of the literature on conventional countermeasures to misinformation. We then explore proactive measures to prevent misinformation from finding traction in the first place that is based
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Beyond bias: response bias and interpersonal (in)sensitivity as a contributors to race disparities European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-02-07 E. Paige Lloyd, Kurt Hugenberg
ABSTRACT In the present work, we review a growing programme of research identifying deficits in race-based interpersonal sensitivity, specifically emotion detection, as a route to creating pitfalls in interracial interactions and generating race-based disparities. Most existing research examining race disparities takes a bias perspective – focusing on how stereotypes and prejudice can make judgements
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Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions: Self-determination theory–based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Frank Martela, Nelli Hankonen, Richard M. Ryan, Maarten Vansteenkiste
ABSTRACT An effective response to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is dependent on the public voluntarily adhering to governmental rules and guidelines. How the guidelines are communicated can significantly affect whether people will experience a sense of self-initiation and volition, protecting compliance from eroding. From the perspective of Self-Determination Theory, a broad theory on human motivation
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Pro-diversity beliefs and intergroup relations European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Mathias Kauff, Frank Asbrock, Katharina Schmid
ABSTRACT Modern societies and organisations are becoming increasingly diverse, leading many to argue that diversity should be valued because it can benefit teams, organisations and societies more widely. Considerable attention in both organisational and social psychological research has been devoted to so-called pro-diversity beliefs (i.e. the idea that diversity has an instrumental value to groups)
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40 Years of Multiple Social Categorization: A Tool for Social Inclusivity European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-27 Francesca Prati, Richard J. Crisp, Monica Rubini
ABSTRACT We review a 40-year corpus of research that we collectively name “Multiple Categorisation Theory” (MCT). From early illustrations using the minimal group paradigm, through a focus on how people cognitively represent social diversity, to recent models of outgroup “re-humanisation”, this work has revealed much about how we think about inclusivity, exclusion, and intergroup differences. We review
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Existential escape of the bored: A review of meaning-regulation processes under boredom European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Andrew B. Moynihan, Eric R. Igou, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg
ABSTRACT Boredom is a common, unpleasant emotion that conveys meaninglessness in life and compels people to escape from this adverse existential experience. Within the paradigm of social psychology frameworks, previous research found that bored people endorse cultural sources of meaning as compensation against this state (e.g., nostalgia, political ideologies). In recent years, another form of defence
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If-then planning European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Maik Bieleke, Lucas Keller, Peter M. Gollwitzer
ABSTRACT The self-regulation strategy of forming implementation intentions has now been studied for almost 30 years. We trace the development of this research and explicate the questions that have been addressed. We then present current research that investigates the consequences of implementation intentions for flexible goal striving, behaviour in situations for which one had not planned, and neuropsychological
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Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Michael A. Hogg
ABSTRACT We live in a changing world that can create uncertainty about who we are, and make extremist groups, identities and ideologies attractive to us. This article invokes uncertainty-identity theory to explore the role played by context-induced self-uncertainty in radicalization, violent extremism, and support for populist ideologies and autocratic leadership. Uncertainty-identity theory argues
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Measured and manipulated effects of value similarity on prejudice and well-being European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Lukas J. Wolf, Paul H. P. Hanel, Gregory R. Maio
ABSTRACT We review recent research investigating the effect of shared human values on personal and social outcomes. Using more precise methods than past research, cross-sectional and experimental evidence suggests that well-being and prejudice are predicted by the extent to which people’s values align (or are perceived to align) with those of other people around them. Importantly, this research shows
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Changing prejudiced attitudes, promoting egalitarianism, and enhancing diversity through fundamental processes of persuasion European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Pablo Briñol, Richard E. Petty
ABSTRACT We review work from persuasion science relevant to reducing prejudiced attitudes. We begin by introducing the idea that the thoughts people generate – their number and valence – are critical for understanding when responding to persuasive attempts will result in egalitarian attitudes. A focus on thinking highlights the importance of understanding short and long-term attitude change in promoting
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Ideological differences in attitude and belief similarity: distinguishing perception and reality European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Chadly Stern
ABSTRACT Attitude and belief similarity have long stood as topics of inquiry for social psychology. Recent research suggests that there might be meaningful differences across people in the extent to which they perceive and actually share others’ attitudes and beliefs. I outline research examining the relationship between political ideology and the perception and reality of attitude similarity. Specifically
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A communal approach to sexual need responsiveness in romantic relationships European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Emily A. Impett, James J. Kim, Amy Muise
ABSTRACT Sex is a crucial factor that impacts the quality and stability of relationships, yet many couples report recurrent sexual issues – such as discrepancies in their desired sexual frequency or levels of sexual desire – that detract from their relationship quality. This article describes how applying the theory of communal motivation from relationship science to the sexual domain of relationships
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Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Nick Haslam, Brodie C. Dakin, Fabian Fabiano, Melanie J. McGrath, Joshua Rhee, Ekaterina Vylomova, Morgan Weaving, Melissa A. Wheeler
ABSTRACT “Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and trauma. This review presents a synopsis of relevant theoretical advances and empirical research findings on the phenomenon. It addresses three fundamental questions. First, it clarifies the characterisation of concept creep by refining its theoretical and historical
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Social game theory: Preferences, perceptions, and choices European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Joachim I. Krueger, Patrick R. Heck, Anthony M. Evans, Theresa E. DiDonato
ABSTRACT Building on classic game theory, psychologists have explored the effects of social preferences and expectations on strategic behaviour. Ordinary social perceivers are sensitive to additional contextual factors not addressed by game theory and its recent psychological extensions. We review the results of a research programme exploring how observers judge “players” (i.e., individuals making
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Bystanders’ reactions to intimate partner violence: an experimental approach European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Stefano Pagliaro, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Anna Costanza Baldry
ABSTRACT Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a widespread phenomenon. Despite the prevalence of IPV in Western societies, most cases remain unnoticed or at least unreported to authorities. Social psychologists have been investigating bystanders’ reactions to IPV, to understand which factors may influence the willingness to intervene in support of a female victim of violence. We review a research programme
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A meta-analytic integration of research on the relationship between right-wing ideological attitudes and aggressive tendencies European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Alain Van Hiel, Emma Onraet, Dries H. Bostyn, Jonas Stadeus, Tessa Haesevoets, Jasper Van Assche, Arne Roets
ABSTRACT Many studies have investigated the relationship between ideological attitudes and aggressive tendencies. The present meta-analytic integration of research on this relationship included data of 177 samples (total N = 47,933 participants). The results revealed that this relationship was substantial, r =.31, 95% CI [.27 to.35], p <.001. Such a relationship emerged for both attitudes towards violence
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How static facial cues relate to real-world leaders’ success: a review and meta-analysis European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-06-07 Miranda Giacomin, Nicholas O. Rule
ABSTRACT People use facial information to infer others’ leadership potential across numerous domains; but what forms the basis of these judgements and how much do they matter? Here, we quantitatively reviewed the literature on perceptions of leaders from facial cues to better understand the association between physical appearance and leader outcomes. We used standard random-effects meta-analytic techniques
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Text-based E-contact: Harnessing cooperative Internet interactions to bridge the social and psychological divide European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 Fiona A. White, Rachel Maunder, Stefano Verrelli
ABSTRACT In order to bridge the psychological and physical divide between different groups, researchers have harnessed the positive elements of the Internet to improve intergroup contact. One new and effective Internet strategy is Electronic- or E-contact. Unlike other contact approaches, E-contact is an experimental intergroup intervention that uniquely accommodates Allport’s contact theory and recategorisation
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It’s not just “us” versus “them”: Moving beyond binary perspectives on intergroup processes European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-03-21 John Dixon, Guy Elcheroth, Philippa Kerr, John Drury, Mai Al Bzour, Emina Subašić, Kevin Durrheim, Eva G. T. Green
ABSTRACT The social psychology of intergroup relations has emerged largely from studies of how one group of people (e.g., whites) think and feel about another (e.g., blacks). By reducing the social world to binary categories, this approach has provided an effective and efficient methodological framework. However, it has also obscured important features of social relations in historically divided societies
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Fitting in: How the intergroup context shapes minority acculturation and achievement European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-02-02 Karen Phalet, Gülseli Baysu
ABSTRACT Children of immigrants are at risk of underachieving in school with long-lasting consequences for future life-chances. Our research contextualises the achievement gap by examining minority acculturation experiences in daily intergroup contact across different intergroup contexts. Acculturation researchers often find an adaptive advantage for minority youth with an integration-orientation (combining
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The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2020-01-10 Orla T. Muldoon, S. Alexander Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, Michelle Kearns, Jolanda Jetten
ABSTRACT Research in clinical psychology and social psychiatry has highlighted the importance of social factors for outcomes following trauma. In this review, we speak to this issue in two ways. First, we highlight the value of a social identity framework for understanding the experience and impact of psychological trauma. Second, we draw on the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC) to understand
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An action control perspective of evaluative conditioning European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2019-12-10 Eva Walther, Katarina Blask, Georg Halbeisen, Christian Frings
ABSTRACT Attitudes are at the core of many topical issues, and a meeting point for research and discussion. This pervasiveness is not surprising given an attitude’s utility in reducing the complexity of the environment into relatively simple likes or dislikes of stimuli. How attitudes are formed is usually addressed by means of evaluative conditioning (EC). EC has been addressed from a traditional
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The evaluative information ecology: On the frequency and diversity of “good” and “bad” European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2019-11-24 Christian Unkelbach, Alex Koch, Hans Alves
ABSTRACT We propose the Evaluative Information Ecology (EvIE) model as a model of the social environment. It makes two assumptions: Positive “good” information is more frequent compared to negative “bad” information and positive information is more similar and less diverse compared to negative information. We review support for these two properties based on psycho-lexical studies (e.g., negative trait
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Linking regulatory focus and threat–challenge: transitions between and outcomes of four motivational states European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2019-07-29 Kai Sassenberg, Annika Scholl
ABSTRACT Self-regulation research has flourished for the last three decades. In social psychology and beyond, a number of motivational approaches have been developed and these have provided new insights about numerous phenomena. However, a theoretical integration of these approaches is lacking, as are empirical comparisons across theories. This article seeks to make a step towards closing this gap
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The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2019-06-21 Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut
ABSTRACT Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is an ambivalent – albeit more positive than negative – emotion. Nostalgia is infused with sociality, as it refers to important figures from one’s past or to momentous life events that include those figures. Dispositional nostalgia is related to prejudice reduction via increases in a form of sociality, empathy. Experimentally induced nostalgia
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How criminal organisations exert secret power over communities: An intracultural appropriation theory of cultural values and norms European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2019-06-13 Giovanni A. Travaglino, Dominic Abrams
ABSTRACT Criminal organisations have the ability to exert secret power – governance over the community and inhibition of opposition (omertà). Traditionally, omertà has been attributed to fear or passivity. Here, a model grounded in different premises, Intracultural Appropriation Theory (ICAT), stresses the central role of culture in sustaining relations of domination between groups. Specifically, ICAT
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Stress and the stability of social systems: A review of neurophysiological research European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-11-19 Daan Scheepers, Naomi Ellemers
ABSTRACT Current societies are characterised by unprecedented change in demographic, economic and political terms. These changes may be rather stressful, especially for those who have most to lose, that is members of (formerly) high-status groups. In this contribution, we review research on the influence of hierarchy stability on physiological stress, making a distinction between the cardiovascular
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The social and cultural psychology of honour: What have we learned from researching honour in Turkey? European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-11-15 Ayse K. Uskul, Susan E. Cross
ABSTRACT A growing literature in social and cultural psychology has examined cultures of honour primarily focusing on southern states in the United States and on Mediterranean countries of southern Europe. In this article, we review a programme of research that has extended theories of cultures of honour to an under-researched context: Turkey. We first describe research that assessed lay reports of
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Confirmation as coping with competition European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-11-14 Fabrizio Butera, Nicolas Sommet, Claudia Toma
ABSTRACT Confirmation is a widespread tendency to seek, use, interpret or remember information in such a way as to corroborate one’s hypothesis. We review various conceptions of confirmation and classify them as a function of whether they depict this phenomenon as a cognitive failure, a form of motivational prioritisation, or a pragmatic strategy. Then, we note that such a systematic and pervasive
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From crisis of evidence to a “crisis” of relevance? Incentive-based answers for social psychology’s perennial relevance worries European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-11-10 Roger Giner-Sorolla
ABSTRACT Current controversies in social psychology have sparked the promotion of new rules for evidence in the field. This “crisis of evidence” echoes prior concerns from the 1970s about a so-called “crisis of social psychology”, with such issues as replication and statistical significance once more under examination. I argue that parallel concerns about the relevance of our research, raised but not
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Why conspiracy theories matter: A social psychological analysis European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton
ABSTRACT Although conspiracy theories have arguably always been an important feature of social life, they have only attracted the attention of social psychologists in recent years. The last decade, however, has seen an increase in social psychological research on this topic that has yielded many insights into the causes and consequences of conspiracy thinking. In this article, we draw on examples from
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An experimental approach to Intergroup Threat Theory: Manipulations, moderators, and consequences of realistic vs. symbolic threat European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-10-31 Kimberly Rios, Nicholas Sosa, Hannah Osborn
ABSTRACT According to Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra, & Rios, 2015), perceived threats from outgroups can be categorised into realistic threats (to the ingroup’s power, resources, or well-being) and symbolic threats (to the ingroup’s values, identity, or way of life). Although many studies have documented correlations between such threats and intergroup attitudes, experimental and quasiexperimental
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Disparate roads to certainty processing strategy choices under need for closure European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-07-09 Małgorzata Kossowska, Ewa Szumowska, Piotr Dragon, Katarzyna Jaśko, Arie W. Kruglanski
ABSTRACT This paper describes a programme of research addressing an intriguing inconsistency in research findings about cognitive processes under a high need for cognitive closure (NFC). While early studies demonstrated that individuals who seek closure opt for closed-minded cognitive strategies, a growing body of research has identified a number of circumstances in which individuals who are high in
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Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-06-07 Martijn van Zomeren, Maja Kutlaca, Felicity Turner-Zwinkels
ABSTRACT Collective action refers to any action that individuals undertake as group members to pursue group goals such as social change. In this chapter, we further extend the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) by including not just (politicised) identity but also moral motivations into its core, effectively integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for. Conceptually
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Objectifying objectification: When and why people are cognitively reduced to their parts akin to objects European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-06-05 Philippe Bernard, Sarah J. Gervais, Olivier Klein
ABSTRACT Objectification occurs when people are seen and treated similarly to things. Research on this topic has been dominated by an interest in the content of impressions people form of targets, but much less is known about the processes involved in the objectification of others. To fill this gap, this paper reviews a recent line of research that investigates the cognitive objectification of others
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The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review European Review of Social Psychology (IF 5.652) Pub Date : 2018-05-29 John Drury
ABSTRACT This review provides a new integration of recent research that has formed the basis of a social identity explanation of supportive collective behaviour among survivors in emergencies and disasters. I describe a model in which a sense of common fate is the source of an emergent shared social identity among survivors, which in turn provides the motivation to give social support to others affected