{"title":"Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer's loss effect.","authors":"Jacob D Teeny, Richard E Petty","doi":"10.1037/pspa0000436","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pspa0000436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present research identifies a psychological phenomenon that helps to explain how people who prefer the same option to the same degree (e.g., two people equally prefer Politician A over Politician B) can differ in their negativity toward the same undesired outcome (e.g., one person reacts more negatively toward Politician A's defeat). Across multiple domains and a variety of methodologies (e.g., archival, longitudinal, experimental; <i>N</i> = 12,830), we provide evidence for a prevalent phenomenon we label <i>the opposer</i>'s <i>loss</i> <i>effect</i>. When people frame a preference in terms of opposition to the nonpreferred option (\"I'm anti politician B\") versus support for the preferred option (\"I'm pro Politician A\"), it does not change the extremity of their overall preference; however, opposers (vs. supporters) nonetheless report greater negativity to relevant, unwelcome news. As we show, this framing shifts <i>secondary characteristics</i> of the preference, namely, it decreases their feelings of ambivalence in their preference, which amplifies opposers' negativity when that preference is thwarted. Altogether, these findings advance the literature on framing effects, expand the known antecedents to felt ambivalence, and provide practical advice for forecasting negative, mass sentiment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":" ","pages":"209-225"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143492453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money matters for future well-being: A latent growth analysis and meta-analytic integration of associations between income, financial satisfaction, and 22 well-being variables across three data sets.","authors":"Vincent Y S Oh","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000552","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pspp0000552","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Are subjective or objective indicators of money more strongly associated with well-being in the short- and long term? We revisit this practically important question using a multidata, multioutcome, longitudinal approach to comprehensively examine whether income and financial satisfaction would be associated with short-term and long-term well-being. Specifically, using latent growth modeling, we analyzed three public-sample data sets from the United States and South Korea-the Midlife in the U.S. Study, the Understanding America Study, and the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. Specifically, we examined whether individual differences in income and financial satisfaction would be associated with individual differences in well-being or to changes in well-being over time. We also analyzed whether changes in income or financial satisfaction could be predicted by individual differences in well-being. Finally, we examined whether changes in income and financial satisfaction would covary with changes in well-being. In total, 22 well-being variables were examined, and all standardized effect sizes were subjected to a multilevel multivariate meta-analysis. Results from the meta-analysis indicated that starting financial satisfaction was related to better starting well-being (<i>d</i> = 1.54) and changes in financial satisfaction covaried positively with changes in well-being (<i>d</i> = .79), but starting financial satisfaction did not predict changes in well-being. Conversely, starting income was unrelated to starting well-being, and changes in income were unrelated to changes in well-being, but starting income significantly predicted more positive trajectories of change in well-being with a medium effect size (<i>d</i> = .40). Starting well-being was unrelated to changes in financial satisfaction or income. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":" ","pages":"384-406"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Louisa Scheling, Cornelia Wrzus, Rebekka Weidmann, Robert Philip Burriss, Jenna Wünsche, Alexander Grob, Janina Larissa Bühler
{"title":"Within-person variability and couple synchrony in state relationship satisfaction: Testing predictors and implications.","authors":"Louisa Scheling, Cornelia Wrzus, Rebekka Weidmann, Robert Philip Burriss, Jenna Wünsche, Alexander Grob, Janina Larissa Bühler","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000559","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pspp0000559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To better understand romantic relationship development, research has focused on how trait relationship satisfaction develops across months and years. However, because romantic relationships evolve in daily life, it is critical to also examine <i>state</i> relationship satisfaction and its fluctuations across and within days. In this preregistered study, we examined how strongly romantic partners vary in their state relationship satisfaction (within-person variability) and how synchronous they are in their variability (couple synchrony). Moreover, we focused on predictors (demographic, personality, and relationship characteristics) and implications (trait relationship satisfaction, stability) of variability and synchrony. We used two dyadic data sets of female-male couples, including 593 couples in Study 1 and 150 couples in Study 2. State relationship satisfaction was assessed daily in a multiwave diary study (Study 1) and multiple times a day in an experience sampling study (Study 2). The results of dynamic structural equation modeling indicated that individuals varied significantly in their state relationship satisfaction, with higher variability across than within days, and that couple synchrony was moderate to high. Key predictors of variability were both partners' perceived responsiveness and men's neuroticism, while the main predictor of couple synchrony was women's perceived responsiveness. Higher variability was related to lower trait relationship satisfaction, but variability and synchrony had no long-term implications for relationship satisfaction and stability. Together, these findings provide a granular view on romantic relationships, suggesting that variability in state relationship satisfaction is common to most romantic relationships. High variability, however, may be an indicator of unmet needs in the relationship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":" ","pages":"407-437"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144284949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signaling safety and fostering fairness: Exploring the psychological processes underlying (in)congruent cues among Black women.","authors":"India R Johnson, Evava S Pietri","doi":"10.1037/pspi0000466","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pspi0000466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exposure to an organizational diversity cue may help attract Black women to professional spaces. The cue transfer framework contends that because intergroup attitudes co-occur, both cues congruent or incongruent with one's minoritized identity signal an environment that welcomes all minoritized persons. Critically, the utility of such cues had yet to be explored among Black women. Integrating cue transfer with social identity complexity theory, across six studies (<i>N</i> = 2,167), we tested the novel prediction that Black women utilize a racial dominance identity structure and investigated the benefits of organizational diversity cues congruent and incongruent with Black women's identities. We also drew from stigma solidarity and examined whether perceiving an outgroup associated with an incongruent cue as experiencing similar bias (i.e., shared discrimination) facilitated cue efficacy. Ultimately, only racially congruent cues encouraged organizational safety (Studies 1, 2, and 6) and procedural fairness (Studies 2, 4, and 6), while cues aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or Latino individuals (Studies 1-4) were ineffective. Moreover, despite reporting greater shared discrimination with Latino than lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender persons (Study 4), shared discrimination was inconsequential for cue efficacy (Study 3). Black women's lay theories revealed that although they perceived negative intergroup attitudes as co-occurring, positive attitudes toward other minoritized groups were seen as unrelated to attitudes toward Black individuals (Studies 5a/5b). Finally, racially (but not gender) congruent cues mitigated organizational invisibility (Study 6). Collectively, the present investigation supports our assertion that Black women adopt a racial dominance lens and, more broadly, underscores the necessity of an intersectional framework when examining cue efficacy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":" ","pages":"313-340"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141310935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The preeminence of communality in the leadership preferences of followers.","authors":"Rebecca Ponce de Leon, Erica R Bailey","doi":"10.1037/pspa0000437","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pspa0000437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 <i>communal</i> traits, such as honesty, open-mindedness, and compassion-even at the expense of agentic traits. Eight preregistered studies (<i>N</i> = 3,682) support our theorizing. In Study 1, we find that people describe their ideal leader as more communal than the typical leader, representing a divide between preferred versus prototypical leaders. We then examine the preference for communality in leaders at the trait level (Studies 2 and 3) and in evaluations of candidates for leadership positions (Studies 4a-5). Further, we find that followers' preference for communal leaders is explained, in part, by the anticipation that a communal leader will create a more psychologically safe climate than an agentic leader (Study 6). Finally, we evince one reason communal leaders may not emerge-communality does not predict self-selection into leadership pathways (Study 7). Taken together, our findings suggest that prominent narratives about leadership have tended to downplay the importance and appeal of communal traits for followers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":" ","pages":"226-243"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael H Pasek,Allon Vishkin,Anne Lehner,Crystal M Shackleford,Starlett Hartley,Jeremy Ginges
{"title":"In their God we trust: Religious cognition increases cooperation across religious divides.","authors":"Michael H Pasek,Allon Vishkin,Anne Lehner,Crystal M Shackleford,Starlett Hartley,Jeremy Ginges","doi":"10.1037/pspi0000499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000499","url":null,"abstract":"Belief in moralizing Gods is widely thought to foster cooperation between coreligionists, but there is disagreement regarding whether this effect is limited to the religious ingroup or if it extends to members of religious outgroups. Here we report the results of a cross-cultural research program that demonstrates that people who think about God (a) are more trusted by both coreligionists and members of other religious groups and (b) typically behave in a more trustworthy manner toward both ingroups and outgroups. We ran three preregistered studies (N = 1,784) with Christians and Muslims in the United States, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Christians and Hindus in Fiji. Our contexts varied in multiple ways, including the level of intergroup conflict. Using two-player trust games involving real money, we varied whether participants interacted with ingroup or outgroup members and whether reciprocators considered God when deciding how much to return to trustors. We find in each context that making moralizing God beliefs of one player salient enhances both intragroup and intergroup cooperation. Our findings add to a nascent literature documenting the potential for religious cognition to extend moral norms across intergroup divides. We discuss implications for theories of the emergence of moralizing Gods and implications for public debates about religious pluralism in diverse societies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144645987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoph Lindner, Jan Retelsdorf, Gabriel Nagy, Steffen Zitzmann
{"title":"The waning willpower: A highly powered longitudinal study investigating fatigue vulnerability and its relation to personality, intelligence, and cognitive performance.","authors":"Christoph Lindner, Jan Retelsdorf, Gabriel Nagy, Steffen Zitzmann","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral variability as a function of people, situations, and their interaction.","authors":"Muchen Xi, Joshua J. Jackson","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000563","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Idiographic momentary profiles of personality facets.","authors":"Colin J. Lee, Emorie D. Beck","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Savvy or savage? How worldviews shape appraisals of antagonistic leaders.","authors":"Christine Q. Nguyen, Daniel R. Ames","doi":"10.1037/pspa0000456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}