{"title":"Decision letter for \"How much could your heart embrace? What about your behavior? The Socio‐moral Radar as a behavioral expression of moral regard\"","authors":"Sara Sánchez Díez, A. Zlobina","doi":"10.1002/jts5.117/v1/decision1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.117/v1/decision1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42709181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desiring to punish leaders: A new test of the model of people as intuitive prosecutors","authors":"Ramadhar Singh, Himanshu Rai","doi":"10.1002/jts5.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When a national leader is accused of impropriety, people often desire his/her ouster. To explain such desire for punishment, the authors tested two predictions of the model of intuitive prosecutors. While continuing in the position after the allegation activates the prosecutorial mind among people, resigning from the position deactivates it (Prediction 1). The relation between an inappropriate response by the leader and the desired punishment is mediated sequentially by dispositional attribution to, outrage with, and attitude toward him/her (Prediction 2). In Experiment 1, the accused leader had <i>resigned</i> (i.e., already punished) or <i>hadn't</i> <i>resigned from</i> the position (i.e., remained unpunished). In Experiment 2, the leader had also <i>cooperated with</i> (i.e., an appropriate response) or <i>threatened</i> the accusers and the investigators (i.e., an inappropriate response). Participants (<i>N</i>s = 168 and 200) from India made the dispositional attribution, outrage, attitude, and punishment responses to the leader. Results supported both predictions. Theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"377-390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72310639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonas Krüppel, Dahlnym Yoon, K. Fieg, P. Sharma, A. Mokros
{"title":"Decision letter for \"On the relationship between right-wing attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and intergroup threat: Introducing an indirect measure for intergroup threat\"","authors":"Jonas Krüppel, Dahlnym Yoon, K. Fieg, P. Sharma, A. Mokros","doi":"10.1002/JTS5.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/JTS5.103","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theoretical models stress the importance of both personal and contextual factors in the development of political extremism. One such theory is the Intergroup Threat Theory (ITT) that suggests a relationship between extremism and intergroup threat (i.e., the perception that one's ingroup is threatened by a particular social outgroup). Using an adaptation of the Semantic Misattribution Procedure (SMP), the present research aimed at replicating the results of previous studies using a novel measure. In a first study ( N = 88, 77% female), self- reported intergroup threat was significantly and positively related to two types of extreme political attitudes, namely, right- wing authoritarianism and generic conspiracy beliefs. The SMP score, in contrast, was only significantly correlated to right- wing authoritarianism. In a second study, these results were replicated in a larger sample ( N = 243, 68% female). Moreover, both self- reported and indirectly measured intergroup threat were related to hostile attitudes and stereotypes against immigrants. When compared to explicit intergroup threat, however, the SMP score was not incremental in the prediction of hostile attitudes against immigrants. These results support the validity of the SMP for the assessment of intergroup threat. Replications should explore the practical utility of the SMP in other samples using additional validation criteria.","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/JTS5.103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48552581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonas Krüppel, Dahlnym Yoon, Kerstin Fieg, Petra Sharma, Andreas Mokros
{"title":"On the relationship between right-wing attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and intergroup threat: Introducing an indirect measure for intergroup threat","authors":"Jonas Krüppel, Dahlnym Yoon, Kerstin Fieg, Petra Sharma, Andreas Mokros","doi":"10.1002/jts5.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent theoretical models stress the importance of both personal and contextual factors in the development of political extremism. One such theory is the Intergroup Threat Theory (ITT) that suggests a relationship between extremism and intergroup threat (i.e., the perception that one's ingroup is threatened by a particular social outgroup). Using an adaptation of the Semantic Misattribution Procedure (SMP), the present research aimed at replicating the results of previous studies using a novel measure. In a first study (<i>N</i> = 88, 77% female), self-reported intergroup threat was significantly and positively related to two types of extreme political attitudes, namely, right-wing authoritarianism and generic conspiracy beliefs. The SMP score, in contrast, was only significantly correlated to right-wing authoritarianism. In a second study, these results were replicated in a larger sample (<i>N</i> = 243, 68% female). Moreover, both self-reported and indirectly measured intergroup threat were related to hostile attitudes and stereotypes against immigrants. When compared to explicit intergroup threat, however, the SMP score was not incremental in the prediction of hostile attitudes against immigrants. These results support the validity of the SMP for the assessment of intergroup threat. Replications should explore the practical utility of the SMP in other samples using additional validation criteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"354-365"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72351162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of psychological ownership in job crafting, work engagement, and counterproductive behavior","authors":"Hung-Yu Tsai","doi":"10.1002/jts5.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study advances the understanding of job crafting by examining its effect on different dimensions of employee outcome facets, such as work engagement and counterproductive work behavior. Drawing on the self-determination theory, we theorize and test how job crafting predicts different facets of employee outcomes through feelings of psychological ownership. Data were collected in several rounds over two time spans from 286 full-time employees in Taiwan. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. The results show that job crafting is positively related to psychological ownership. In addition, psychological ownership positively predicts work engagement and is negatively associated with counterproductive work behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"366-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72342629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Stathi, Sajid Humayun, Reay Stoddart Isaac, Demi M. McCarron
{"title":"Review for \"Psychopathy and prejudice: The mediating role of empathy, social dominance orientation and right‐wing authoritarianism\"","authors":"S. Stathi, Sajid Humayun, Reay Stoddart Isaac, Demi M. McCarron","doi":"10.1002/jts5.116/v1/review1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.116/v1/review1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46581693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social autonomy ≠ social empowerment: The social self-restriction model","authors":"Harry M. Wallace, Kevin P. McIntyre","doi":"10.1002/jts5.97","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.97","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper introduces the social self-restriction (SSR) model, which highlights a drawback associated with the increasingly accessible privilege of social autonomy. Social autonomy enables individuals to connect with preferred social partners and avoid undesirable others. The benefits of social autonomy are undeniable; however, the SSR model makes the novel assertion that people tend to exercise social autonomy in ways that ultimately constrain their potential for social empowerment—a higher-order form of personal freedom. Attaining the ideal of high social empowerment requires both high social autonomy and high social adaptability. People with high social adaptability can feel reasonably comfortable and act competently in social environments they did not choose to inhabit. Unfortunately, people with high social autonomy are unlikely to possess high social adaptability. We propose that social autonomy undermines social adaptability by tempting people to avoid social challenges and socialize selectively with similar others in familiar contexts, a habit that limits social skill development, promotes social intolerance, and distorts social perceptions. In essence, we argue that social autonomy allows people to live in their social comfort zones, at the cost of restricting their social range. Our discussion of the SSR model incorporates evidence and perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines, and includes consideration of opportunities for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"338-353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.97","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44903063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blaming immigrants to enhance control: Exploring the control-bolstering functions of causal attribution, in-group identification, and hierarchy enhancement","authors":"Magdalena Hirsch, Susanne Veit, Immo Fritsche","doi":"10.1002/jts5.73","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.73","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Blaming immigrants seems to be in part motivated by the need for control. However, three alternative explanations have been proposed as to why blaming bolsters feelings of control. First, blaming may restore a sense of an orderly world in which negative events can be attributed to a clear cause (causal attribution). Second, blaming others may strengthen in-group identities thereby facilitating group-based control (in-group identification). Finally, blaming low-status groups may enhance individuals' perceptions of dominance and superior status (hierarchy enhancement). Addressing these arguments, we conducted two survey experiments in the German context. In the first experiment, we examined the control-bolstering functions of causal attribution and in-group identification. Participants were primed with an economic crisis threat and then, given the opportunity to either blame out-groups (immigrants and managers), blame an abstract cause (globalization), or affirm their national identity. In the second experiment, we examine control enhancement in the context of political conflict and status hierarchies. Participants had the opportunity to either express prejudice toward low-status out-groups (immigrants and obese people) or indicate their opinion on the polarized issue of representation of the far-right. Both studies replicate earlier findings showing that anti-immigrant blaming and prejudice enhances the feelings of control. Neither mere causal attribution nor mere in-group identity salience produce similar control-bolstering effects. Instead, findings suggest that intergroup conflict and status differences benefit control the enhancement processes supporting accounts of both group-based control and social dominance. Findings are discussed with respect to social cohesion and the appeal of populist frames promoting antagonistic, unequal intergroup relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"114-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.73","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43413353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unpacking the social psychology of populism: A brief introductory note","authors":"Sofia Stathi, Rita Guerra","doi":"10.1002/jts5.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.98","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on populism spans disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies. As interest in the study of populism rises, social psychology scholars strive to understand (social) psychological factors associated with it. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the unique yet complementary role of social psychology in understanding - and possibly tackling - populism. The papers comprising this Special Issue offer an in-depth, comprehensive study of the topic, while including theoretical and methodological approaches to move the research in this field forward. Taken together, the papers provide insights of interest to academics, researchers, as well as policy makers and educators.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"50-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.98","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72321292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How many different types of populists are there in Germany? An experimental approach with multiple methods","authors":"M. Murat Ardag, Jan Philipp Thomeczek","doi":"10.1002/jts5.70","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.70","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the demand-side of populism; to this day, many studies implemented variable-centered approaches to investigate populist attitudes. Utilizing a convenient sample of the German voters (<i>N</i> = 839), we adopt a person-centered approach by estimating latent psychological profiles and examining the exchange between the supply and demand side of populism in an experimental setting. After treating the participants with real-life populist slogans in two different demonstration settings (contemporary vs. historical) and comparing them to a control group, we discover that the estimated populist profile is only reactive to the slogan in the contemporary demonstration. This finding expands the ideational approach to populism by showing that the populism's supply demand exchange mechanism is not only context-specific but also sensitive to subjective viewpoints. Acknowledging this person in the context approach contributes to the normative and empirical debates in the field by showing populist attitudes' subjective manifestations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"132-145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.70","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48556986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}