Alexander W O'Donnell,Maria-Therese Friehs,Patrick F Kotzur,Lewis Nitschinsk,Morgana Lizzio-Wilson,Chris G Sibley,Fiona Kate Barlow
{"title":"Stable profiles of contact and prejudice: Few people report co-occurring increases in intergroup contact and decreases in prejudice over time.","authors":"Alexander W O'Donnell,Maria-Therese Friehs,Patrick F Kotzur,Lewis Nitschinsk,Morgana Lizzio-Wilson,Chris G Sibley,Fiona Kate Barlow","doi":"10.1037/pspi0000500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000500","url":null,"abstract":"The contact hypothesis proposes that positive intergroup encounters can causally improve intergroup attitudes, and its tenants have informed prejudice reduction efforts across the globe. Most support for the hypothesis is correlational, as it is assumed that correlations (partially) reflect a pattern whereby increases in positive intergroup contact cause increases in intergroup warmth. In the present article we interrogate this assumption. Latent growth class analysis can group people showing similar patterns of change over time into classes. We use this method to enumerate what percentage of people report co-occurring increases in intergroup contact and warmth over time. Using preexisting data sets, we examined starting points and trajectories of positive intergroup contact (Studies 1 and 2) and cross-group friendship (3 and 4). We drew on samples of adults from New Zealand (Study 1, N = 15,384) and Germany (Study 2, N = 2,726; Study 4, N = 1,667), and a sample of adolescents from the Netherlands (Study 3, N = 2,949). Fourteen intergroup contexts were examined. Results revealed contact varied markedly between persons; people were consistently grouped into classes characterized by high versus low levels of intergroup contact. Critically, however, few people reported substantive increases in intergroup contact. Instead, people reported relatively stable levels of intergroup contact across periods of up to 5 years. No single class emerged in which contact increased, and attitudes changed from negative to positive. One of the four studies found classes characterized by very small co-occurring increases in positive contact and intergroup warmth. We conclude with a discussion on the role of contact in our contemporary world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769828","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}
Jonas Paul Schöne,Matthew D Rocklage,Brian Parkinson,Amit Goldenberg
{"title":"Overestimation in the aggregation of emotional intensity of social media content.","authors":"Jonas Paul Schöne,Matthew D Rocklage,Brian Parkinson,Amit Goldenberg","doi":"10.1037/pspa0000458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000458","url":null,"abstract":"Users on social media are regularly presented with sequences of emotional content in their newsfeeds, which affects their viewpoints and emotions. Could the way users aggregate and remember emotional content from their feeds contribute to the fact emotions are amplified on social platforms? Across five studies (N = 1,051), using experimentally manipulated social media feeds, we found that participants consistently overestimated the average emotional intensity of the individual responses expressed by other users in a sequence (Study 1a). This overestimation led to stronger emotional reactions to the news content that these responses were reacting to (Study 1b). Investigating the mechanism suggested that while there was stronger memory for more emotional responses within a response sequence, we could not find a direct link between memory and overestimation (Study 2). We showed that overestimation was driven mainly by the salience of emotional intensity of different items in the sequence, by replicating the effect using sequences of emotional words (Study 3). We then turned to the consequences of overestimation, showing that overestimation of emotional sequences was uniquely associated with perceiving more intense emotional responses as more representative of how other people would react (Study 4) and with overestimation of the emotionality of the newsfeed as a whole (Study 5). Overestimation of the average individual emotional intensity ratings of a sequence was also predictive of willingness to share articles. This set of findings sheds light on how sampling from newsfeeds amplifies the perception of emotionality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769822","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":"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":6.7,"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":6.7,"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":6.7,"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":6.7,"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":6.7,"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}
Jonathan M. Adler, Robert B. Manning, Katie Pieterse, Henry Raffles Cowan, Kathleen R. Bogart, Sarah R. Lowe, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Joan M. Ostrove, Katie Wang
{"title":"“Just getting along, together”: The relationship between narratives of interdependence and psychological well-being among American adults with disabilities during the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Jonathan M. Adler, Robert B. Manning, Katie Pieterse, Henry Raffles Cowan, Kathleen R. Bogart, Sarah R. Lowe, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Joan M. Ostrove, Katie Wang","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000571","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748164","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":"Supplemental Material for “Just Getting Along, Together”: The Relationship Between Narratives of Interdependence and Psychological Well-Being Among American Adults With Disabilities During the First 3 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/pspp0000571.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000571.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715680","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":"Supplemental Material for Unstable, Indistinct, and Cohesive? How Group Cognitions Shape Attitudes Toward Transgender and Nonbinary People as a Function of Gender Essentialism","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/pspi0000501.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000501.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16691,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality and social psychology","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715679","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}