Angel D Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Shelby Nincehelser, Jessica R Bray
{"title":"Passing and Panic: Investigating the Role of Passing and Perceived Deception in the Trans-Panic Defense.","authors":"Angel D Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Shelby Nincehelser, Jessica R Bray","doi":"10.1177/01461672251380438","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251380438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The trans-panic legal defense justifies violence against transgender individuals due to defendants' alleged panic upon learning someone's transgender identity. Perceived deception and one's ability to present as the gender with which they identify are drivers of intergroup hostility between transgender and cisgender individuals. Based on expectancy violations theory, we conducted two experiments (Experiment 1, <i>N</i> = 808; Experiment 2, <i>N</i> = 1,006) that examined defendant- and victim-oriented consequences of passing status and the trans-panic defense. We found partial support for our predictions: poorer victim-oriented outcomes (e.g., victim blame) and more positive defendant-oriented outcomes (e.g., fewer guilty verdicts, more lenient sentencing) occurred for passing versus non-passing transgender (Experiments 1-2) and cisgender victims (Experiment 2) through increases in perceived deception and moral outrage (Experiment 2). Our findings underscore implications for how transphobia proliferates.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3379-3396"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145337365","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}
Zhuo Job Chen, Telli Davoodi, Pablo Diego-Rosell, Timothy Lomas, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Richard G Cowden
{"title":"Religious/Spiritual Connection and Subjective Well-Being Across Religious and Nonreligious Individuals in 121 Countries.","authors":"Zhuo Job Chen, Telli Davoodi, Pablo Diego-Rosell, Timothy Lomas, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Richard G Cowden","doi":"10.1177/01461672251382007","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251382007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research suggests a positive association between some religious/spiritual variables and well-being. However, many measures of religious/spiritual constructs are often within explicitly religious contexts, limiting the conceptualization of links between spiritual connection and well-being among nonreligious individuals. The present study employs a novel, versatile measure assessing how frequently individuals feel connected to a religion or form of spirituality. Using nationally representative 2021 Gallup World Poll data from 121 countries (<i>N</i> = 125,843), we describe the distribution of religious/spiritual connection and examine its associations with subjective well-being among religious and nonreligious individuals. A majority of individuals worldwide-including many who are nonreligious-reported \"often/always\" feeling religious/spiritual connection. Adjusting for relevant covariates, religious/spiritual connection associated positively with subjective well-being in the global sample of religious individuals and, in some countries, nonreligious individuals (effect sizes were mostly small). Cross-national variation points to the complex role of religious/spiritual connection in shaping subjective well-being globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3324-3335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145302630","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":"Testing Education and Accountability as Moderators of the Self-Interest Bias in Moral Character Judgments.","authors":"Yong Lu, Katarzyna Miazek, Konrad Bocian","doi":"10.1177/01461672251364308","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251364308","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The self-interest bias describes an inclination of people to evaluate transgressors morally better when the latter's actions serve the former's interests. Effective interventions to mitigate this type of self-serving bias remain underexplored. The current research investigates education and accountability as potential moderators of this bias. In preregistered Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 668), as predicted, educating participants about the self-interest bias eliminated its effect on their moral character judgments. However, across three preregistered accountability studies (<i>N</i> = 2,239), holding participants accountable for their judgments did not attenuate the bias. Similarly, in preregistered Study 5 (<i>N</i> = 641), we found no evidence of a combined effect of education and accountability on reducing the bias. These findings suggest that while increasing awareness through education may effectively reduce biased moral judgments, accountability, especially when lacking external scrutiny or consequences, does not. Theoretical implications, methodological limitations, and future research opportunities are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3127-3143"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13507493/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144964492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partisan or Principled?: Explaining Political Differences in Attitudes About Violations of Democratic Norms.","authors":"Paul E Teas","doi":"10.1177/01461672251372671","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251372671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although both Democrats and Republicans tend to be more tolerant of democratic norm violations that benefit their own party, this pattern is not always symmetrical, even when political stakes appear identical. Two experiments (<i>N</i> = 2,352) tested competing explanations: that partisans differ in democratic commitment, their tendency to rationalize violations as legitimate, or the values they prioritize (e.g., voter access vs. election integrity). Both parties rationalized weaker opposition to beneficial violations as more democratic. However, Republicans in Study 1 were more responsive to partisan advantage without showing similarly greater democratic rationalization and more tolerant of mail-in voting restrictions regardless of partisan benefit. These differences disappeared in Study 2 when different violations were tested, suggesting such asymmetries are issue-specific rather than fixed. Overall, the findings suggest that partisan gaps in support for democratic norm violations reflect the politicization of particular practices more than stable differences in commitment to democracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3496-3511"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145422320","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":"Corrigendum to \"Prospects of Downward Mobility Cause Status Anxiety and Life Dissatisfaction\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/01461672261471542","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672261471542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148550122","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":"When Leader's Forgiveness Backfires: Consequences on Trust and a Potential Mitigation Strategy.","authors":"Minjoo Joo","doi":"10.1177/01461672251354896","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251354896","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When leaders forgive, does it influence follower trust? This study examines whether forgiveness creates an integrity-benevolence dilemma for leaders, potentially reducing follower trust. Across three studies (<i>N</i> = 1,235), findings reveal that forgiveness has a dual impact: it decreases integrity-based trust while enhancing benevolence-based trust. These findings were consistent across studies with controlled scenarios depicting typical organizational misconduct and a behavioral experiment with real stakes. Moreover, the negative impact of forgiveness on integrity-based trust was more pronounced in cases involving moral transgressions rather than competence, and when the consequences of the misconduct were severe (Study 1). However, when leaders explicitly articulated the moral principles behind their forgiveness, the negative effect on integrity was mitigated (Studies 2 and 3). These findings offer theoretical insights into leader forgiveness and trust as well as practical guidance for leaders to manage the forgiveness dilemma effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3099-3112"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144964515","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}
Hsuan-Che Brad Huang, Friedrich M Götz, Lieke L Ten Brummelhuis
{"title":"Biting Off More Than You Can <i>Chew</i> at Work: Measuring Individual Perceptions of Cultural Hard and Excessive Work (I-CHEW).","authors":"Hsuan-Che Brad Huang, Friedrich M Götz, Lieke L Ten Brummelhuis","doi":"10.1177/01461672251368648","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251368648","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research attributes differences in working styles (e.g., diligence, excessive hours) primarily to individual traits or values, such as workaholism, neglecting cultural context. This research introduces cultural work ideals-subjective perceptions of societal expectations about work-and distinguishes between perceived cultural values of (a) hard work (i.e., efficiency, high quality, wise time use) and (b) excessive work (i.e., long hours, high quantity, constant work prioritization). We develop and validate the <b>I</b>ndividual Perceptions of <b>C</b>ultural <b>H</b>ard and <b>E</b>xcessive <b>W</b>ork (I-CHEW) Scale across six diverse North American samples (<i>N</i> = 1,902), including full-time employees, business undergraduates, MBA students, and alumni. Psychometric analyses support the I-CHEW's reliability and validity. As hypothesized, perceiving a cultural ideal of hard work predicts beneficial outcomes (e.g., lower cynicism, higher engagement) beyond individual, organizational, and cultural factors. Conversely, perceiving a cultural ideal of excessive work predicts negative outcomes, including greater emotional exhaustion, reduced well-being and job satisfaction, and poorer physical health.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3251-3278"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13507501/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145186458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directive and Interpretive Functions of World Beliefs in Dyadic Interaction: Providing and Perceiving Social Support.","authors":"Edward P Lemay, Jennifer N Cutri, Ronald T Or","doi":"10.1177/01461672251366093","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251366093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current research examines the functions of world beliefs in the context of observed social support interactions between romantic partners and their implications for affective experience and psychological well-being. Both members of romantic couples (<i>N</i> = 235 couples) discussed personal problems while being recorded. When listening to their partner's problems, participants who saw the world as <i>Enticing</i> (i.e., full of rewards and worth exploring) were more responsive to their partner's bids for support. When discussing their problems, participants who saw the world as generally <i>Good</i> and <i>Enticing</i> perceived that their partner was more supportive, which predicted more positive mood at the end of the conversation and greater well-being a year later. These results provide novel evidence for behavioral and interpretive functions of world beliefs in the context of social support interactions and suggest that world beliefs may influence affective experience and well-being through their impact on support perceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3295-3309"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145302662","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}
Samuel Pratt, Daniel L Rosenfeld, Amelia Goranson, A Janet Tomiyama, Paschal Sheeran, Kurt Gray
{"title":"Health Behaviors Are Moralized When Perceived to Cause Harm.","authors":"Samuel Pratt, Daniel L Rosenfeld, Amelia Goranson, A Janet Tomiyama, Paschal Sheeran, Kurt Gray","doi":"10.1177/01461672251372823","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251372823","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People readily moralize health, whether by criticizing smokers or treating exercise as noble. Drawing from the theory of dyadic morality, we theorized that people moralize health most strongly when they perceive poor health as a source of suffering. Through five studies (total <i>N</i> = 2,055), we show that perceived harm can drive the moralization of health. We identified three types of harm-personal, interpersonal, and collective-that people perceive as relevant to health and created a 15-item measure to capture each (Study 1). Perceived interpersonal harm reliably predicted moralizations of health, whether health was conceived broadly (Study 2) or as a concrete health issue (e.g., smoking, eating healthfully, disease prevention; Study 3). Experimentally manipulating the interpersonal harmfulness of a health behavior caused participants to moralize it (Studies 4 and 5), whereas disgust had no unique effect (Study 4). We suggest that perceived harm plays a key role in moralizing health.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3528-3543"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13507489/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145438740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Relevance and Modern Perceptions: Mixed-Black and Mixed-Native Racial Categorization and Resource Deservingness.","authors":"Hailey Shangin, C Malik Boykin, Tyler Jimenez","doi":"10.1177/01461672251376137","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672251376137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Growing multiracial populations in the United States underscore the evolving complexity of racial identity, particularly in how racial perceptions shape perceived deservingness to resources. This research examines how individuals with Black/White and Native American/White ancestries are categorized and the influence of categorization on perceived deservingness of group-specific resources. It explores the persistence of hypodescent (assigning by non-dominant identity) and hyperdescent (assigning by dominant identity) relating to historical and policy contexts. Across two studies, participants categorized mixed-race targets and evaluated their deservingness for minority-specific resources (i.e., scholarship). Black/White targets were categorized as more Black, consistent with hypodescent bias, while Native/White targets were often categorized as more White, consistent with hyperdescent. Comparatively, these categorizations shaped perceptions of resource deservingness, especially for Black/White targets. This underscores the complexities of perceived multiracial group categorization and may suggest the need for nuanced understanding of racial identity in an increasingly diverse society.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"3411-3425"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145372928","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}