Arin Korkmaz, Thomas C. Mann, Joshua Eibelman, R. Sommers, M. Ferguson
{"title":"Judging Guilt: Implicit Evaluations of Defendants Predict Verdicts","authors":"Arin Korkmaz, Thomas C. Mann, Joshua Eibelman, R. Sommers, M. Ferguson","doi":"10.1177/19485506231177328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231177328","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive jurisprudence research that has used indirect measures has mostly focused on how people’s implicit biases (e.g., race) predict people’s verdicts for an individual belonging to an out-group. We aim to expand on this work by investigating implicit evaluations’ predictive strength for verdicts using an impression formation approach. In three preregistered studies, we presented mock jurors with a fictional murder trial in which the evidence against a defendant was mixed: some witnesses provided testimony suggesting guilt, whereas others sowed doubt. In all studies, implicit evaluations of the defendant, operationalized by the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) scores, uniquely predicted verdicts above and beyond explicit evaluations (Studies 1–3), the reason for evidence exclusion (Study 2), and demographics of the defendant (Study 3). These findings advance our understanding of implicit social cognition by demonstrating that implicit evaluations, operationalized by the AMP scores, can have predictive power in complex, ecologically rich contexts.","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82259056","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 Status-based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/19485506231181584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231181584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81917978","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}
A. Tran, V. Bianchi, Ella K. Moeck, Beth Clarke, Isobel Moore, Skye J. H. Burney, Peter Koval, Elise K. Kalokerinos, Katharine H. Greenaway
{"title":"Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown","authors":"A. Tran, V. Bianchi, Ella K. Moeck, Beth Clarke, Isobel Moore, Skye J. H. Burney, Peter Koval, Elise K. Kalokerinos, Katharine H. Greenaway","doi":"10.1177/19485506231176603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231176603","url":null,"abstract":"Social interaction and loneliness have received much research interest. However, the direction of their relationship is unclear—does social interaction shape loneliness, or does loneliness shape willingness to interact? We explored dynamics of these social experiences under exceptional circumstances: COVID-19 lockdowns, which were necessary for public health but impacted people’s social lives. We investigated the relationship between social interaction and loneliness in and out of lockdown in Australia. We used experience sampling methodology to follow 233 people across 1 week ( Mage=30; 8,495 surveys) in a period that spanned one of the longest lockdowns in the world. Although loneliness did not predict subsequent social interaction, having a social interaction predicted lower subsequent loneliness, particularly in (vs. out of) lockdown. These findings suggest social interactions may limit loneliness, especially during physical isolation. In short, times when we are apart from others may be times we benefit from interacting with them the most.","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88716707","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}
Allecia E Reid, Madison L Eamiello, Andrea Mah, Katherine L Dixon-Gordon, Brian Lickel, Ezra Markowitz, Tatishe M Nteta, Joel Ginn, Se Min Suh
{"title":"Individual-Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Allecia E Reid, Madison L Eamiello, Andrea Mah, Katherine L Dixon-Gordon, Brian Lickel, Ezra Markowitz, Tatishe M Nteta, Joel Ginn, Se Min Suh","doi":"10.1177/19485506221121204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221121204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated whether misalignment between an individual and their community in partisan identity predicted psychological and behavioral distancing from local COVID-19 norms. A nationally representative sample of Republicans and Democrats provided longitudinal data in April (<i>N</i> = 3,492) and June 2020 (<i>N</i> = 2,649). Democrats in Republican communities reported especially heightened <i>better-than-average estimates</i>, perceiving themselves as more adherent to and approving of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI; e.g., mask wearing) than their community. Democrats'<i>better-than-average estimates</i> reflected high approval and behavior in Republican communities and substantial norm underestimation. Republicans in Democratic communities did not evidence <i>worse-than-average estimates</i>. In longitudinal models, injunctive norms only predicted NPI behavior when individual and community partisan identity were aligned. The strong personal approval-behavior association did not depend on misalignment; there were no effects of descriptive norms. Normative messages may have limited efficacy for a sizable subpopulation in politically polarized contexts, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"14 5","pages":"539-550"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10195689/pdf/10.1177_19485506221121204.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10298378","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}
Anatolia Batruch, Jolanda Jetten, Herman Van de Werfhorst, Céline Darnon, Fabrizio Butera
{"title":"Belief in School Meritocracy and the Legitimization of Social and Income Inequality.","authors":"Anatolia Batruch, Jolanda Jetten, Herman Van de Werfhorst, Céline Darnon, Fabrizio Butera","doi":"10.1177/19485506221111017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221111017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Educational institutions are imbued with an institutional meritocratic discourse: only merit counts for academic success. In this article, we study whether this institutional belief has an impact beyond its primary function of encouraging students to study. We propose that belief in school meritocracy has broader societal impact by legitimizing the social class hierarchy it produces and encouraging the maintenance of inequalities. The results of four studies (one correlational study, <i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 198; one experiment, <i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 198; and two international data surveys, <i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 88,421 in 40+countries) indicate that belief in school meritocracy reduces the perceived unfairness of social class inequality in society, support for affirmative action policies at university and support for policies aimed at reducing income inequality. Together, these studies show that the belief that schools are meritocratic carries consequences beyond the school context as it is associated with attitudes that maintain social class and economic inequality.</p>","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"14 5","pages":"621-635"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/69/28/10.1177_19485506221111017.PMC10201081.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10350375","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}
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Jacky C K Ng, Bryant P H Hui, Algae K Y Au, Ben C P Lam, Wesley C H Wu, Ngai Pun, Peter Beattie, Christian Welzel, James H Liu
{"title":"Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures.","authors":"Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Jacky C K Ng, Bryant P H Hui, Algae K Y Au, Ben C P Lam, Wesley C H Wu, Ngai Pun, Peter Beattie, Christian Welzel, James H Liu","doi":"10.1177/19485506221124392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221124392","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 has drastically changed human behaviors and posed a threat to globalism by spurring a resurgence of nationalism. Promoting prosocial behavior within and across borders is of paramount importance for global cooperation to combat pandemics. To examine both self-report and actual prosocial behavior, we conducted the first empirical test of global consciousness theory in a multinational study of 35 cultures (<i>N</i> = 18,171 community adults stratified by age, gender, and region of residence). Global consciousness encompassed cosmopolitan orientation, identification with all humanity, and multicultural acquisition, whereas national consciousness reflected ethnic protection. Both global consciousness and national consciousness positively predicted perceived risk of coronavirus and concern about coronavirus, after controlling for interdependent self-construal. While global consciousness positively predicted prosocial behavior in response to COVID-19, national consciousness positively predicted defensive behavior. These findings shed light on overcoming national parochialism and provide a theoretical framework for the study of global unity and cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"14 5","pages":"662-671"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10195682/pdf/10.1177_19485506221124392.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10298379","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":"Coronavirus-Related Searches on the Internet Predict COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the Real World: A Behavioral Immune System Perspective.","authors":"Mac Zewei Ma, Shengquan Ye","doi":"10.1177/19485506221106012","DOIUrl":"10.1177/19485506221106012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the <i>smoke detector</i> and <i>functional flexibility principles</i> of human behavioral immune system (BIS), the exposure to COVID-19 cues could motivate vaccine uptake. Using the tool of Google Trends, we tested that coronavirus-related searches-which assessed natural exposure to COVID-19 cues-would positively predict actual vaccination rates. As expected, coronavirus-related searches positively and significantly predicted vaccination rates in the United States (Study 1a) and across the globe (Study 2a) after accounting for a range of covariates. The stationary time series analyses with covariates and autocorrelation structure of the dependent variable confirmed that more coronavirus-related searches compared with last week indicated increases in vaccination rates compared with last week in the United States (Study 1b) and across the globe (Study 2b). With real-time web search data, psychological scientists could test their research questions in real-life settings and at a large scale to expand the ecological validity and generalizability of the findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"14 5","pages":"572-587"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10195687/pdf/10.1177_19485506221106012.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9871011","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}
Yang Hu, Shiwei Qiu, Gaotong Wang, Kui Liu, Weijian Li, Hongbo Yu, Xiaolin Zhou
{"title":"Are Guilt-Prone Power-Holders Less Corrupt? Evidence From Two Online Experiments","authors":"Yang Hu, Shiwei Qiu, Gaotong Wang, Kui Liu, Weijian Li, Hongbo Yu, Xiaolin Zhou","doi":"10.1177/19485506231168515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231168515","url":null,"abstract":"Bribery is ubiquitous in human society. Yet it remains unknown how bribe-taking behaviors of power-holders and underlying psychological processes are affected by guilt-proneness, a crucial moral-related personality trait, and how this trait–behavior association depends on harm salience brought by bribery. To address these questions, we conducted two online experiments ( Ntotal = 2, 082) combining economic games with personality measures. Experiment 1 showed that highly guilt-prone individuals were less willing to take bribes, especially when higher harm salience was involved. Leveraging a parametric design with computational modeling, Experiment 2 confirmed the moderation effect of harm salience, and revealed a mediation role of the concern for others’ suffering, a key psychological construct in the trait–behavior association. Together, these findings demonstrate a critical function of guilt-proneness in curbing bribe-taking behaviors and suggest the concern for others’ suffering as an underlying psychological mechanism.","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74239256","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":"Political-Ideological Differences in Cultural Pessimism and Nostalgia Reflect People’s Evaluation of Their Nation’s Historical Developments","authors":"J. Lammers, Pınar Uğurlar","doi":"10.1177/19485506231173735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231173735","url":null,"abstract":"Western conservatives are more focused on the past than are liberals: They experience stronger cultural pessimism and nostalgically yearn back for past society. We test the hypothesis that this ideological difference reflects long-term national-historical developments, by comparing ideological differences in the United States and Türkiye. Using archival data, Study 1 confirms that whereas U.S. society over the last century moved in a liberal direction, Turkish society recently shifted toward greater conservatism. Consistent with predictions, Studies 2 and 3 show that the relationship between political ideology and cultural pessimism is reversed in Türkiye, compared with the United States. Partially consistent with predictions, in both studies, the link between ideology and a nostalgic yearning for the past is attenuated (and essentially blocked) in Türkiye, although not reversed, compared with the United States. Together, these findings suggest that ideological differences in pessimism and nostalgia reflect, at least partially, objective differences in national-historical development.","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76481570","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}
T. Entringer, Madeline R. Lenhausen, C. Hopwood, W. Bleidorn
{"title":"No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country","authors":"T. Entringer, Madeline R. Lenhausen, C. Hopwood, W. Bleidorn","doi":"10.1177/19485506231169811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231169811","url":null,"abstract":"This research tests the unique predictions of three different theoretical perspectives on the self-esteem benefits of religiosity: the religiosity-as-a-personal-relationship-with-a-higher-power perspective, the religiosity-as-a-resource perspective, and the religiosity-as-social-value perspective. To do so, we used random-intercept cross-lagged panel models and examined the between- and within-person associations between three indicators of religiosity (belief in God, service attendance, and prayer frequency) and self-esteem across 11 annual assessments in a nationally representative sample of Dutch individuals ( N = 12,915). The results reveal largely nonsignificant associations between all three religiosity indicators and self-esteem at the between- and the within-person levels. This finding supports the religiosity-as-a-social-value perspective, suggesting that the self-esteem benefits of religiosity are restricted to religious cultures only. This research extends previous research by showing that the results hold across different measures of religiosity and by providing some initial evidence that the power of the religiosity-as-a-social-value perspective might be larger than formerly assumed.","PeriodicalId":21853,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological and Personality Science","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83909117","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}