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{"title":"Building the Evidence Base for Intergroup Contact Theory: Introduction to Linda R. Tropp's Kurt Lewin Award Address","authors":"Thomas F. Pettigrew","doi":"10.1111/josi.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It all began in 1998 while Linda Tropp and I waited for a slow elevator in the psychology building at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). I mentioned to her that I was considering conducting a meta-analysis of intergroup contact studies, and I asked her if she would like to be involved. New contact studies were being reported, and meta-analytic procedures had sharply advanced. But the task seemed to me to be almost overwhelming in size and scope.</p><p>Still in the midst of her graduate training, Linda was immediately excited by the idea, and fortunately, she did not see it as overwhelming. To conduct the initial searches, she enlisted the aid of 16 outstanding undergraduate psychology majors at both UCSC and Boston College, where she later held her first faculty position.1 We had no research funding at that point, so we offered the students course credit for independent research focused on meta-analysis. The students uncovered more than 800 contact references, many of which needed to be translated from other languages. I managed to read the ones in Dutch, Afrikaans, and German; Linda was able to read those in Spanish, and we recruited four additional translators, including my Arabic-fluent son, Mark, for the rest of the non-English papers. I reviewed each of them and found 515 studies with 713 independent samples usable for our meta-analysis. And then I determined the effect sizes for each of the 515 relevant studies.</p><p>We thought our meta-analysis (Pettigrew and Tropp <span>2006</span>) would attract greater attention to the intergroup contact literature. But we did not anticipate the flood of new studies and ideas on contact that soon flowed throughout social psychology. Indeed, over the years, we have been credited with sparking a “renaissance” in the study of intergroup contact. Thousands of contact papers followed the publication of our 2006 paper, and growth in this literature continues (see Paolini et al. <span>2021</span>). In the <i>International Journal of Intercultural Relations</i> alone, three consecutive journal issues in 2024 and 2025 featured 14 articles on intergroup contact. And, according to Google Scholar, as of August 2025, our 2026 meta-analysis has been referenced more than 13,000 times. Tropp herself has contributed heavily to the deluge of publications on intergroup contact; all told so far, she has authored or coauthored 90 published or in-press papers on intergroup contact.</p><p>Moreover, various applied fields have found intergroup contact theory and research useful in practice, a core interest Linda and I have long shared and one that is exemplified by the Lewin Award. Some recent studies show that intergroup contact contributes to reducing prejudice even in the face of threat and amidst protracted conflict (Grady et al. <span>2023</span>; Van Assche et al. <span>2023</span>). To my mind, the most important applications of intergroup contact research involve multilevel analyses that include the m","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145230747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Geopolitics of Civic Honesty: The Role of Interpersonal and Political Trust Amid Varying Degrees of Mafia Influence and State Resilience","authors":"Giovanni A. Travaglino,&nbsp;Alberto Mirisola,&nbsp;Pascal Burgmer,&nbsp;Chanki Moon,&nbsp;Daria Mendola,&nbsp;Isabella Giammusso","doi":"10.1111/josi.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Civic honesty—the moral standards that define citizens’ commitment to the public good—serves a fundamental role in societal functioning. Prior research has emphasized the role of vertical trust (trust in institutions) and horizontal trust (trust in fellow citizens) in predicting the endorsement of such standards among citizens. However, this research has mainly focused on the political conditions typical of the Global North while neglecting environments where criminal organizations, such as mafias, challenge state sovereignty and its monopoly over governance functions. Using a mixed-effects multilevel model and an extended Johnson–Neyman method for multiple moderators, we analyzed the role of two crucial contextual factors (i.e., criminal groups’ influence and state resilience) on the relationships between trust and civic honesty across 84 countries (<i>N</i> = 132,602). Results revealed that vertical trust is positively associated with civic honesty in contexts where the influence of criminal groups is lower and state resilience is higher. However, this relationship reverses when the influence of criminal groups is stronger and state resilience is weaker, suggesting that, in these circumstances, trust in institutions may reflect trust in (and adherence to) a system that is corrupt. In contrast, horizontal trust was negatively associated with civic honesty only in states characterized by lower resilience. Policy implications and future research directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Autism Is Black Too! Intersectional Experiences With Service Provision for Black Autistic Individuals and Their Families","authors":"Brea M. Banks,&nbsp;Tyra Jackson,&nbsp;Randi Goodwin,&nbsp;Raven Moore","doi":"10.1111/josi.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We aimed to address a gap in the literature surrounding the experiences of Black autistic individuals and their families, specific to their engagement in the diagnostic process and service provision broadly. Our study was theoretically oriented in critical theories, as we aimed to push back against the dominant narrative about autism. We used qualitative methods and conducted interviews with Black autistic people (<i>n</i> = 2) and parents of Black autistic people (<i>n</i> = 9) to learn about their experiences. We employed an inductive approach to interpretation of data and used MAXQDA to engage in analysis. Results demonstrated that participants experienced several barriers to receiving care that are not only driven by the intersection of race and disability, as marginalization given gender, income, and location also surfaced as factors that have made access to services difficult. In the midst of these difficulties, participants also reflected on ways they found support and community and how they learned to be resilient. Implications for future research and practice are discussed, with specific attention paid to policy implications that may inform future practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial Disparities in the Discretionary Context of Traffic Stops: How Organizational Practices Shape Institutional Interactions","authors":"Nicholas P. Camp,&nbsp;Vinodkumar Prabhakaran,&nbsp;Rebecca C. Hetey,&nbsp;Benoit Monîn,&nbsp;Dan Jurafsky,&nbsp;Jennifer L. Eberhardt","doi":"10.1111/josi.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount the <i>discretionary context</i> of stops—the degree of choice in the decision to stop a driver—and how organizations influence those circumstances. Discretionary stops entail more choice and thus create more ambiguity for the driver regarding the officer's intent. We examine racial disparities in the discretionary context of traffic stops, their disparate influence on community members’ impressions, and the power of departmental guidance to close them. We find that stops of Black (vs. White) drivers are more likely to be for high-discretion equipment violations, and Black community members evaluate recordings of high-discretion, but not low-discretion, stops more negatively than White participants. At the same time, we find promising evidence that organizational directives to curtail equipment stops can reduce this disparity.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial Representation in Psychology Textbooks","authors":"Karim Bettache","doi":"10.1111/josi.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The present research examines racial representation in psychology textbooks and its impact on students' personal relatability to psychological theories through two interconnected studies. Study 1 analyzed racial and skin tone representation across five psychology textbooks used in East/Southeast Asian universities, revealing significant overrepresentation of White individuals (66% of images) and light skin tones (68% of images) despite serving predominantly non-White student populations. Study 2 experimentally tested how representational (in)congruence affects Hong Kong Chinese university students' ability to personally relate to psychological content. Results showed significantly higher personal relatability to psychological theories when materials featured both ethnically and linguistically congruent content compared to incongruent content (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05). This relationship was fully mediated by students' perception of textbook images as representing their ingroup. The findings demonstrate how global power asymmetries in knowledge production continue to shape psychological education across geopolitical contexts, particularly through the persistent dominance of Western/White representations in educational materials used internationally. This research contributes to understanding how colonial-era social hierarchies are reproduced through contemporary academic practices, offering practical implications for decolonizing psychological pedagogy and creating more internationally relevant educational materials.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Renaissance of Social Relevance: Maximizing Insights and the Impact of Psychological Research","authors":"Linda R. Tropp","doi":"10.1111/josi.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Within each generation of academics, perennial, soul-searching questions emerge regarding whether and how psychological research can have meaningful impact, and calls for the broader applicability and significance of our work have only grown in recent years. Yet, oftentimes, the social relevance of our research is construed as being at odds with the scientific enterprise, as if we must choose between conducting rigorous tests of psychological theory and caring about the issues and populations we study, and about how psychological processes operate in the real-world. This address serves as a reminder that pursuing socially relevant research and maintaining scientific rigor need not be framed as being in opposition to each other. Instead, I propose quite the opposite: there are many ways in which a focus on social relevance can make our science better.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Can Psychologists Walk the Walk to Promote Racial Justice? Situating Racial Justice Intervention Research Within the Translational Research Framework","authors":"Nao Hagiwara,&nbsp;Peter Mende-Siedlecki","doi":"10.1111/josi.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70019","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The field of psychology boasts a long and robust history of engaging in scientific examinations of racism, as evidenced by the works of Archer and Archer (&lt;span&gt;1970&lt;/span&gt;), Van den Berghe (&lt;span&gt;1962&lt;/span&gt;), Clark and Clark (&lt;span&gt;1939&lt;/span&gt;), Langer (&lt;span&gt;1967&lt;/span&gt;), Pettigrew et al. (&lt;span&gt;1958&lt;/span&gt;), Pettigrew (&lt;span&gt;1960&lt;/span&gt;), and Thomas (&lt;span&gt;1970&lt;/span&gt;). Psychologists across the world have endeavored to better understand the origins (e.g., Benner and Graham &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;; Federico and Sidanius &lt;span&gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;; Louis et al. &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;; Sears and Henry &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;), underlying mechanisms (e.g., Cuddy et al. &lt;span&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;; Dovidio et al. &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;; Duckitt et al. &lt;span&gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;; Wilson et al. &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;), and consequences (e.g., Brown et al. &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;; David et al. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Neblett Jr &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Spencer et al. &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;) of racial stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. These inquiries extend across the entire lifespan of our field, as prominent research programs have focused on phenomena associated with racism from its infancy to its contemporary state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite these extensive efforts, however, racism and racial injustice persist today (Bourabain and Verhaeghe &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Williams &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). People who have been racially and ethnically minoritized (we will use the phrase “minoritized people” from here on) continue to experience racism firsthand in their daily lives (ABC News &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Institute for Social Research &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Konate &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Pew Research Center &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). Substantiating these personal accounts, documented instances of racial injustice permeate every social domain, including education, criminal justice, community safety and autonomy, employment, and healthcare, across countries and regions such as Australia (Australian Human Rights Commission &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), New Zealand (Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), South Africa (South African Human Rights Commission &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;), the United Kingdom (Institute of Race Relations &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), Canada (Cotter &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), the United States (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), and Europe (European Network Against Racism &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Statista Research Department, &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). These examples of racism are inherently intertwined with parallel cases of racialized xenophobia—for example, a surge in anti-Asian attitudes during and following the COVID-19 pandemic (Gover et al. &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; He et al. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). While these examples focus primarily on racism associated with White supremacy culture, we acknowledge that examples of racism and racist ideologies span the entire globe (Agier &lt;span&gt;1995&lt;/span&gt;; Bora &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Busey and Coleman-King &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Modood and Sealy &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Sambaraju &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racial injustice ha","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Good but Not for Us”: Contesting Neoliberal Representations of Feminism Among Beneficiaries of Gender Emancipation Projects in Rural India","authors":"Keshia D'silva","doi":"10.1111/josi.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing literature \u0000illustrates how development agendas reproduce colonial constructions of women in the Global South as backward and passive and attribute their poverty to traditional cultural practices rather than material inequalities. Yet, little is known about how the intended beneficiaries of women's emancipation programs respond to such messages. This would be important to study as the social representations theory—a social psychological theory of knowledge construction—highlights how marginalized groups can negotiate with hegemonic perspectives to produce polemic understandings. Accordingly, five focus group interviews were conducted with 33 rurally located female beneficiaries of three non-governmental organizations in the North Indian states of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. Thematic analysis, along with a decolonial approach to social representations, was utilized in analyzing the interview material. Findings illustrate how participants challenge hegemonic representations by situating their lack of agency in structural constraints, rejecting their backwardness by emphasizing changes within their communities, and contesting self-sufficiency as a solution by emphasizing the importance of community action and participatory governance. These results are discussed in relation to their geopolitical implications to shed light on the interaction between micro and macro-level phenomena that shape social representations and social practices related to women's emancipation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Intergroup Time Bias and Its Implications for Medical Healthcare","authors":"Emerson Do Bú,&nbsp;Renata Pimentel da Silva,&nbsp;Cícero Roberto Pereira,&nbsp;Ana Raquel Rosas Torres,&nbsp;Filipa Madeira,&nbsp;Jorge Vala,&nbsp;Nao Hagiwara","doi":"10.1111/josi.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Intergroup Time Bias (ITB) is an unobtrusive yet impactful form of discrimination, characterized by the unequal allocation of time, favoring White individuals compared to Black individuals. This biased time allocation has significant implications for racial inequities in critical social domains, including healthcare. Across three studies, we demonstrate the ITB as a pervasive factor contributing to racial healthcare disparities. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 166 patients, <i>N</i> = 9 physicians) examined real-world clinical interactions in Brazil, revealing that White physicians consistently spent more time with White patients than Black patients across multiple medical specialties. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 210) extended these findings to Portugal through a vignette study, where White medical trainees spent significantly more time to clinical tasks involving a White (vs. Black) patient, leading to enhanced diagnostic accuracy and more comprehensive clinical recommendations for the White patient. Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 99) explored additional ITB consequences, specifically medical trainees’ written email communication to patients in Portugal, using the same clinical scenario as Study 2. Consistent with Study 2, trainees spent significantly more time on clinical tasks involving a White (vs. Black) patient, which translated into higher quality written communication for the White patient. Notably, trainees who scored high on implicit racial bias but low on explicit racial bias (i.e., aversive racists) showed stronger ITB than those with high implicit and explicit racial bias (i.e., prejudiced) or low implicit and explicit racial bias (i.e., non-prejudiced). This research represents work in T1, with a goal to establish proof of concept, through observational and experimental studies, on the critical role that ITB plays in contributing to racial healthcare disparities. Future T2–T4 research is needed to understand how the ITB manifests in multiple aspects of patient care in the actual clinical settings, test interventions to reduce it, and refine these interventions for broader effectiveness.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the Hoax Narratives: Understanding Climate Change Conspiracy Beliefs Through the Lens of the US–China Conflicts","authors":"Hoi-Wing Chan,&nbsp;Kim-Pong Tam","doi":"10.1111/josi.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, conspiracy narratives suggesting that it is a hoax created to mislead people still exist. While research studies and public opinion polls have shown that belief in this hoax conspiracy is not uncommon, they often overlook that climate change conspiracy narratives can extend beyond just this simple “hoax” accusation. Given that conspiracy narratives can evolve from geopolitical conflicts, we propose expanding the psychology of climate change conspiracy beliefs by considering the impacts of these conflicts. We identify two additional dimensions of climate change conspiracy narratives: the historical anti-West narrative of “Western imperialism” from the Cold War, and the “China behind” narrative that stems from United States President Donald Trump's assertion that China is primarily responsible for climate change. We conducted a US–China cross-national survey to examine if people believe these conspiracy narratives and whether such beliefs really represent distinct dimensions. We recruited 1009 and 1024 adult participants from the two countries, respectively, with gender and age groups resembling the distribution in the population census. Both confirmatory factor analyses and latent profile analyses supported the distinction between the three dimensions of climate change conspiracy beliefs, with a more heterogeneous pattern observed among mainland Chinese participants. Furthermore, these conspiracy beliefs were predicted by national collective narcissism, conspiracy mentality, and perceived cost/benefit of climate actions. Our findings suggest that estimating climate change conspiracy beliefs solely based on the “hoax” narratives may underestimate the prevalence of conspiratorial explanations of climate change beyond the Western context. They also highlight how rising tensions between the United States and China would contribute to climate change conspiracy beliefs. We discuss the potential implications of incorporating geopolitical conflicts into understanding belief in conspiracy theories.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}