{"title":"How Do Dishonest Reputation Upgrading Cues Affect Reputation-Based Cooperation? The Roles of Trust and Perceived Trustworthiness.","authors":"Yanyan Chen, Junhui Wu, Yugang Li, Baizhou Wu, Shenghua Luan","doi":"10.1177/01461672251324550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251324550","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The efficiency of reputation in promoting cooperation relies on reputation accuracy. Yet, people often dishonestly upgrade their reputation for potential benefits. To date, it remains unclear whether reputation-based cooperation would break down when reputation systems contain cues of dishonest reputation upgrading and whether trust and perceived trustworthiness could explain this effect. We addressed these questions across three studies (total <i>N</i> = 643) using hypothetical scenarios and incentivized games. In each study, participants interacted with high- and low-reputation targets with or without exposure to cues of dishonest reputation upgrading. Overall, compared to the baseline condition, dishonest reputation upgrading cues undermine cooperation with high-reputation targets, which was explained by lower trust and perceived trustworthiness in these targets. These findings suggest that reputation becomes a less reliable cue for cooperative decisions in reputation systems tainted by dishonest upgrading, reducing the trustworthiness of high-reputation targets and their attractiveness for cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251324550"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebnem Ture, Cavan V Bonner, Mary Yuan, Dan P McAdams
{"title":"Historical Consciousness: Recollections of Major Historical Events in the Personal Life Story.","authors":"Sebnem Ture, Cavan V Bonner, Mary Yuan, Dan P McAdams","doi":"10.1177/01461672251321018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do people incorporate collective major historical events into their personal life stories? This study investigates the concept of historical consciousness, which is the extent to which individuals integrate the recollection of major historical events into their narrative identity in personally meaningful ways. A sample of 134 midlife adults were asked to describe in detail two major historical events, social movements, or societal changes that impacted them and explain their personal significance. Individual differences in the degree to which the participants incorporated these collective events into their narrative identities were coded on a dimension running from \"tuning history out\" (low scores) to \"witnessing history\" (medium) to \"living history\" (high). Scores on the narrative measure of historical consciousness were positively associated with extraversion, identification with all humanity, indicators of psychosocial adjustment (i.e., generativity and psychological well-being), and civic and political engagement behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251321018"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143700959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonya Xinyue Xiao, Haining Ren, May Ling Halim, Carol Lynn Martin, Dawn DeLay, Richard A Fabes, Laura D Hanish, Krista Oswalt
{"title":"A Longitudinal Examination of Children's Friendships Across Racial Status and Gender and Their Intergroup Prosocial Behavior.","authors":"Sonya Xinyue Xiao, Haining Ren, May Ling Halim, Carol Lynn Martin, Dawn DeLay, Richard A Fabes, Laura D Hanish, Krista Oswalt","doi":"10.1177/01461672251321014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this research, we examined (a) the primary effects of intergroup friendships: whether having a friend of a different gender/racial status benefits children's gender/racial status-based prosocial behavior and (b) the secondary transfer of intergroup friendships: whether friendships from one domain (e.g., gender) would extend to improved prosocial behavior toward outgroup members of another domain (e.g., race). Participants were 603 third- to fifth-grade students (<i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 9.06, <i>SD</i> = .90; 47.9% girls; 52.4% racially minoritized). Peer nominations of prosocial behavior and friendships were collected twice in 1 year. Longitudinal path analyses focused on intergender friendships showed support for both the primary and secondary transfer effects on enhanced intergroup prosocial behavior. Analyses focused on racial status showed the primary effects of these friendships on enhanced interracial prosocial behavior, whereas the secondary transfer effects were less consistent. These findings provide a basis for interventions to promote equity in prosociality toward diverse others.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251321014"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yidan Yin, Robert Barrett, Michele Williams, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Cheryl Jan Wakslak
{"title":"Developing a General Construal Questionnaire.","authors":"Yidan Yin, Robert Barrett, Michele Williams, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Cheryl Jan Wakslak","doi":"10.1177/01461672251321318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>thinking and concrete thinking shape how we interpret and interact with the world. One of the most influential approaches to abstract and concrete construals is Construal Level Theory, which has primarily taken a situational approach to studying construal level. The current research develops the General Construal Questionnaire to measure individuals' general tendencies toward abstract and concrete thinking, opening possibilities for new research that extends past the focus on situational construal. Distinguishing abstract and concrete construals as distinct factors reveals that they have unique effects. Abstract construal correlates with extraversion, openness to experience, a focus on the future, promotion, and desirability, a preference for cognition, tolerance for uncertainty, and a tendency to perceive similarities, stereotype, and evaluate. Concrete construal correlates with conscientiousness, a focus on the present, prevention, and feasibility, a preference for certainty and perfectionism, and a tendency to perceive differences and make daily progress.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251321318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin M Silver, Wangjing Yu, Niall Bolger, Lila Davachi, Kevin N Ochsner
{"title":"What Are My Friends Really Like? How We Change Our Perceptions of Familiar Others' Traits and Actions.","authors":"Benjamin M Silver, Wangjing Yu, Niall Bolger, Lila Davachi, Kevin N Ochsner","doi":"10.1177/01461672251320476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251320476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In everyday life, our perceptions of others' traits are influenced by a combination of their actions and our relationship with them. We enrolled 142 participants in a virtual escape room to examine (a) whether an unfamiliar task changed perceptions of friends' traits, (b) which types of prior relationships influenced trait perceptions, and (c) the relative importance of perceptions of actions in assessing traits. Higher pregame similarity ratings led to increases in perceptions of competence, while higher pregame liking ratings led to increases in perceptions of sociability. In addition, objective performance mattered for competence ratings, whereas subjective perceptions of performance mattered for sociability ratings. Our findings demonstrate the importance of real-world relationships not only for how we change our beliefs about others' traits but also for perceptions of the very actions we use as evidence for those beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251320476"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143676900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scott Eidelman, Mejdy Jabr, Emily Vance, Marie Altgilbers Roweton, Austin Eubanks
{"title":"Racial Knowledge and the Tenets of Critical Race Theory: Is Opposition to CRT Due to Ignorance?","authors":"Scott Eidelman, Mejdy Jabr, Emily Vance, Marie Altgilbers Roweton, Austin Eubanks","doi":"10.1177/01461672251321993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Is racial ignorance a cause of lay opposition to critical race theory (CRT)? In Study 1, undergraduates completed a test of racial knowledge and indicated support for CRT tenets (e.g., that racism is common and structural; that race is socially constructed and intersectional). Accurate racial knowledge, determined by signal detection analysis, predicted tenet support, even when controlling for racial prejudice, social dominance, and political conservatism. In three experiments, White undergraduates learned critical knowledge about race vs. poverty or transportation (Studies 2 and 3, respectively) or structural racism vs. pig intelligence (Study 4). In each, critical racial knowledge increased CRT tenet support. In Study 1, racial knowledge predicted blind patriotism negatively but constructive patriotism positively. Acquiring critical racial knowledge in Studies 2-4 did not lead participants to distance from America, despite claims of cultural critics. Teaching critical knowledge about race may be an effective means to promote racial understanding.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251321993"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Woodcock, Blaine Pedersen, Paul R Hernandez, P Wesley Schultz
{"title":"Balancing Stereotypically Compatible and Incompatible Identities.","authors":"Anna Woodcock, Blaine Pedersen, Paul R Hernandez, P Wesley Schultz","doi":"10.1177/01461672251322088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251322088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social stereotypes have been linked with gender and racial disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Developing a domain identity in a STEM field is linked with persistence and success among students from negatively stereotyped groups. However, these students often report a conflict between their group and domain identities. Across two studies we apply balanced identity design theory and latent profile analysis (LPA) to understand how individuals navigate stereotypically incompatible identities. In Study 1, we find that novice STEM majors from negatively stereotyped groups are less likely to hold identity balance than their positively stereotyped counterparts. However, in a separate sample of students approaching graduation in Study 2, the groups converge; both predominantly achieving identity balance. LPA identified three predominant clusters of identity balanced students which differentially predicted academic achievement and well-being for negatively compared with positively stereotyped students. This underscores the importance of understanding balanced identities for addressing underrepresentation in STEM.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251322088"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143662730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Kappes, Xinyuan Yan, Molly J Crockett, Yina Ma
{"title":"Cultural Differences in Vicarious Optimism.","authors":"Andreas Kappes, Xinyuan Yan, Molly J Crockett, Yina Ma","doi":"10.1177/01461672251319566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251319566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prosocial behavior is affected by the beliefs people have about others. The maintenance of these beliefs is biased: people are <i>vicariously</i> optimistic when updating beliefs about the future of others they care about. This vicarious optimism influences prosocial behavior and might be shaped by the culture people live in. We investigated this question by measuring learning from good and bad news for oneself, friends, and strangers in a pre-registered study of Chinese and American participants (<i>N</i> = 963). American participants showed a stronger bias for better-than-expected \"good news\" over worse-than-expected \"bad news\" when learning about themselves (optimism bias) and others (vicarious optimism) compared to Chinese participants. Chinese participants showed vicarious optimism only when learning about a friend, while American participants showed the most vicarious optimism when learning about an identifiable stranger. Our results provide evidence that culture might shape social behavior by biasing learning about the future of others.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251319566"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Whinda Yustisia, Victor Ottati, Joevarian Hudiyana, Mario Muhammad Noer Fauzan, Khaerullah Fadhli Arasy Hasan, Salma Moaz, Kadek Dwita Apriani
{"title":"Rigidity-of-the-Right and Ideological Extremism in Belief Superiority: Evidence From National Surveys in Indonesia.","authors":"Whinda Yustisia, Victor Ottati, Joevarian Hudiyana, Mario Muhammad Noer Fauzan, Khaerullah Fadhli Arasy Hasan, Salma Moaz, Kadek Dwita Apriani","doi":"10.1177/01461672251319114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251319114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research in the United States has examined the Rigidity of the Right and Ideological Extremism hypotheses as they pertain to belief superiority. The former hypothesis predicts that conservatives possess higher levels of belief superiority than liberals, whereas the second hypothesis predicts that belief superiority is higher for ideologically extreme individuals than more moderate individuals. This study aims to examine these hypotheses in Indonesia. Unlike the United States, Indonesian political ideology often emphasizes the dichotomy between secular and religious beliefs. However, we expect similar results due to shared similarities, especially with regard to adherence to traditional values and authorities. We also investigated whether the relationship between ideology and belief superiority varied based on political expertise. Across two national surveys, we found evidence for both the Rigidity of the Right hypothesis and the Ideological Extremism hypothesis. These findings remained significant even after controlling for dogmatism. Political expertise did not consistently moderate these relationships. We discuss the implications of these results for the debates surrounding ideological extremism versus the right-rigidity hypothesis in political psychology.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251319114"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"U.S. Adults Believe That \"Children\" Are Color-Evasive and \"Black Children\" Process Race Early.","authors":"Leigh S Wilton, Jess Sullivan, Evan P Apfelbaum","doi":"10.1177/01461672251321545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across five pre-registered studies (three main text, two supplement, one single-paper meta-analysis; <i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 5,051), we test how adults' beliefs about children's engagement with race are shaped by children's specified race. We argue that specifying a child's race activates race-specific considerations that disrupt adults' default assumption that \"children\" (in generic terms) do not notice race or racial differences. As a result, adults perceive both Black children and White children as significantly more likely to notice race than \"children.\" We also argue that the particular racial group specified shapes adults' perceptions of <i>when</i> race-related capacities develop. This causes adults to perceive Black children as developing race-related capacities earlier than both White children and \"children.\" We connect these effects to differences in the timing and content of adult-child conversations about race and racism, showing that how adults construe children can change when and how they talk with them about race.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1461672251321545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}