{"title":"Knowledge of precise offers as a negotiating tactic does not reduce its effect on counteroffers","authors":"Todd J. Thorsteinson","doi":"10.1002/jts5.86","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.86","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past research has demonstrated that precise first offers (e.g., $4,983) serve as an anchor in negotiations and reduce counteroffers relative to round first offers (e.g., $5,000). Precise offers are frequently perceived as indicating greater competence and knowledge of the person making the offer. Three studies were conducted to determine if knowledge of precise offers as a negotiating tactic would reduce the effect of precision on counteroffers. Precise offers elicited smaller counteroffers than round offers in all three studies, and this effect persisted even when participants were aware of precision as a negotiating tactic. Despite its effectiveness at reducing counteroffers, participants receiving precise offers were more likely to decide to negotiate compared to participants receiving a round offer in two of the three studies. Perceptions of the other party and scale granularity were examined as mediators of the relationship between anchor type (precise or round offer) and counteroffers. Perceived fairness of the offer emerged as a mediator in all three studies. These results suggest that a precise first offer can be effective at reducing counteroffers, even when the other party suspects that it is a negotiating tactic.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"203-214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.86","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48497725","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}
Michael King, Nathan A. Bowling, Kevin J. Eschleman
{"title":"The degree of spuriousness within the job satisfaction-organizational citizenship behavior relationship","authors":"Michael King, Nathan A. Bowling, Kevin J. Eschleman","doi":"10.1002/jts5.84","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.84","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Overwhelming evidence suggests that job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) are positively related. Although researchers have generally assumed that satisfaction has a genuine relationship with OCB, we argue that the satisfaction–OCB relationship may be largely spurious. We tested the degree of spuriousness within the satisfaction–OCB relationship in two studies—a meta-analysis (Study 1) and a two-wave primary study (<i>N</i> = 420; Study 2). In both studies, we examined the strength of the satisfaction–OCB relationship after controlling for environmental variables (i.e., job characteristics, job stressors, and leader behaviors) and personality variables (i.e., five factor model characteristics and core self-evaluations). Across the two studies, we observed several instances in which the satisfaction–OCB relationship was significantly weaker after we controlled for a third variable, but a meaningful relationship was still present. And in some instances, the satisfaction–OCB relationship was rendered statistically nonsignificant or practically nonsignificant once controls were included. These findings suggest that satisfaction and OCB is at least partially spurious.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"162-182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.84","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41522279","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":"Moderating role of perceived behavioral control in the theory of planned behavior: A preregistered study","authors":"Francesco La Barbera, Icek Ajzen","doi":"10.1002/jts5.83","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.83","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Investigators frequently rely on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a conceptual framework to explain and predict human behavior in a variety of behavioral domains. Much of this research has focused on predicting behavioral intentions from attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, typically by examining the additive effects of these constructs. However, in the original formulation of the TPB, perceived behavioral control was postulated to moderate the influence of attitude and subjective norm on intention. This tenet of the TPB has been drawing increasing attention in recent years. In a preregistered program of research conducted in two European countries (Germany and UK) concerning two different behaviors (exercising and reducing energy consumption), we found empirical support for the postulated moderating effects. The results suggest that as scores on perceived behavioral control increase, the strength of the association between attitude and intention increases as well, whereas the strength of the association between subjective norm and intention decreases. Implications of these findings for theory and future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"35-45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.83","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48119335","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":"Decision letter for \"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":"","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/JTS5.105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44599277","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":"Decision letter for \"Role of psychological ownership in job crafting, work engagement, and counterproductive behavior\"","authors":"H. Tsai","doi":"10.1002/JTS5.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/JTS5.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/JTS5.104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44913594","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":"Personal meaning as a predictor of behavioral action over and above the role of state social anxiety","authors":"Carol S. Lee, Sarah A. Hayes-Skelton","doi":"10.1002/jts5.81","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.81","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present experiment investigated the personal meaning of a behavior and state social anxiety as predictors of behavioral action. Participants (<i>N</i> = 68) were given the chance to take the behavioral action of recording a statement for a video blog. Participants were randomized to personal meaning (<i>n</i> = 34; assigned to speak on the social issue most important to them and completed a personal meaning enhancement writing task) or control (<i>n</i> = 34; assigned to speak on the social issue least important to them and completed a control writing task) conditions. The results indicated that having personal meaning in a behavior significantly predicted the behavioral action. The findings suggest that having personal meaning in a social anxiety-provoking behavior can increase the likelihood of that behavior. Clinical implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"26-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.81","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46585779","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}
David E. Reed II, Rachel E. Williamson, Robert E. Wickham
{"title":"Memento mori: Understanding existential anxiety through the existential pathway model","authors":"David E. Reed II, Rachel E. Williamson, Robert E. Wickham","doi":"10.1002/jts5.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.79","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existentially derived frameworks have become more popular among researchers investigating a number of clinical areas, such as posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. Nevertheless, the concept of existential anxiety has often been perceived as overly abstract and conceptually amorphous, which severely limits the ability of empirical research to objectively decipher the corresponding intrapsychic processes. Contemporary existential thought, particularly terror management theory, considers awareness of our own mortality as a driving factor behind many of our motivations as human beings (e.g., meaning-making and connecting with others). By clearly delineating the pathways from death awareness to different manifestations of existential anxiety, clinicians and researchers would have a clearer framework through which to study existential anxiety. The present work introduces the concept of <i>existential pathways</i> as a way of recognizing, discerning, and addressing the causes of existential cognitions, affect, and behaviors within both clinical and research settings. Contemporary existential thought and empirically validated findings within terror management theory are used to develop a conceptual model of how death awareness potentially leads to thoughts, emotions, motivations, and behaviors associated with eight existential constructs: death anxiety, meaning, isolation, freedom, vulnerability, facticity, identity, and chaos. Clinical and research implications are discussed within the context of the existential pathway model, providing guidance on how the model may be used to harness behavioral change and inform research methodology.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"14-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.79","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72361978","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}
Mario Gollwitzer, Zoe Magraw-Mickelson, Björn Vollan, Philipp Süssenbach
{"title":"Victim sensitivity in groups: When is one a detriment to all?","authors":"Mario Gollwitzer, Zoe Magraw-Mickelson, Björn Vollan, Philipp Süssenbach","doi":"10.1002/jts5.76","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.76","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Victim sensitivity (VS)—a personality trait reflecting the anxious expectation of being exploited—reliably predicts egoistic behavior in interpersonal situations. Here, we look at intragroup situations and investigate whether even one highly victim-sensitive individual can have a detrimental effect of solidarity and cooperativeness on the entire group. Two studies—one field study with community residents from Philippine villages who played a solidarity game (<i>N</i> 800 individuals, 30 villages) and one lab study with participants in a small-group setting (<i>N</i> = 144 individuals, 48 groups) who played a public goods game—show that the highest VS score in a group negatively predicts solidarity and cooperation in the group, especially when external stressors (e.g., a natural disaster and a climate of distrust) are present and group-level resilience factors (e.g., in-group identification and task enjoyment) are absent. These results are relevant for research on the intragroup processes both from a basic as well as from an applied perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"3-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.76","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43562122","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}
Danielle R. Blazek, Jason T. Siegel, Cara N. Tan, Rachel Baumsteiger, James F. M. Cornwell
{"title":"Inducing motivational harmony to increase attitudes and intentions to register as an organ donor and engage in general prosocial behavior","authors":"Danielle R. Blazek, Jason T. Siegel, Cara N. Tan, Rachel Baumsteiger, James F. M. Cornwell","doi":"10.1002/jts5.75","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.75","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In three preregistered studies, we investigated whether positive and negative organ donation attitudes, intentions, as well as general prosocial behavioral intentions, could be influenced by inducing motivational harmony—the sense that things are going well in life. In Study 1, we examined correlations between motivational harmony, organ donation attitudes, intentions, and prosocial behavioral intentions. Study 2a represented an attempt to assess the malleability of motivational harmony using two different autobiographical recall tasks. The successful induction was utilized in Study 2b, designed to assess whether increasing motivational harmony caused changes in organ donation attitudes, intentions, and prosocial behavioral intentions. This study used a Solomon post-group design, where participants were randomly assigned to receive the scale assessing the proposed mediator (i.e., motivational harmony) or to receive the dependent variables directly after receiving the induction. These studies focused on attitudes and intentions to register oneself as an organ donor after death. Although no direct effects on donor outcomes were identified, the motivational harmony induction task indirectly increased organ donation registration intentions through increased motivational harmony. Moreover, there was both a direct relationship of the motivational harmony induction on prosocial behavior intentions and an indirect association through increased motivational harmony. These findings have theoretical implications for the construct of motivational harmony, as well as practical applications for the promotion of organ donation and prosocial behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"205-217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.75","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47800849","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}
Geoffrey D. Munro, Joseph A. Lesko, Zakary Clements, Antonia Santoro, Jeffrey Tsai
{"title":"Perceptions of counterarguing and source derogation as attitude resistance techniques","authors":"Geoffrey D. Munro, Joseph A. Lesko, Zakary Clements, Antonia Santoro, Jeffrey Tsai","doi":"10.1002/jts5.74","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts5.74","url":null,"abstract":"<p>People often remotely observe when others resist and reject persuasive messages. Two studies examined participants' perceptions of two strategies, counterarguing and source derogation that people commonly use when resisting persuasive attempts. Additionally, the target resisted a message with which the participants either agreed or disagreed (Studies 1 and 2) and one which contained either strong or weak logic (Study 2). In both studies the strategy of source derogation was evaluated more negatively than counterarguing. Additionally, participants evaluated the target more negatively when he resisted a message with which the participants agreed, even when the target resisted using counterarguing or strong logic. The implications of these different perceptions of attitude resistance techniques is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"194-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jts5.74","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45624364","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}