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The interaction between individual traits and societal factors in predicting abortion stigma 个体特征与社会因素对流产污名的交互作用

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70038

Iraklis Grigoropoulos, Demos Michael

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Cultural violence in news coverage of the George Floyd murder: Exploring media depictions of police brutality toward Black-Americans 乔治·弗洛伊德谋杀案新闻报道中的文化暴力：探索媒体对美国黑人警察暴行的描述

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70036

Jada Cheek, Courtney M. Bonam, Regina D. Langhout

{"title":"Cultural violence in news coverage of the George Floyd murder: Exploring media depictions of police brutality toward Black-Americans","authors":"Jada Cheek, Courtney M. Bonam, Regina D. Langhout","doi":"10.1111/asap.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70036","url":null,"abstract":"The 2020 killing of George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin sparked one of the largest protest movements in the United States. Chauvin was ultimately convicted of murder—a rare but necessary step to police officer accountability for wrongdoing. The media play an important role in framing the public's attitudes surrounding high-profile cases involving police killings of unarmed civilians. The current study investigates media narratives surrounding the Floyd case for evidence of cultural violence, which occurs when direct, physical violence becomes institutionalized, accepted as normative, and legitimized. We looked for evidence of cultural violence across 300 articles from three U.S. newspapers (i.e., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Star Tribune). We coded for cultural violence themes, which we operationalized as the seven mechanisms of moral disengagement, that is, the process of convincing oneself that ethical standards do not apply. Cultural violence was prevalent across all news outlets (i.e., it occurred in 88.9% of articles in the overall sample). These findings have implications for how media framing influences attitudes surrounding high-profile police brutality cases involving Black victims, and psychological theory related to violence, morality, and racism.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Living in fear: The psychological impact of the threat of sexual violence on women in India 生活在恐惧中：性暴力威胁对印度妇女的心理影响

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70037

Afreen Waseem, Naila Firdous, Shah Alam

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Partisan identity, ideological orientations, and the differential criticisms of ingroup and outgroup leadership: An examination of the 2024 U.S. election 党派认同、意识形态取向以及对群体内外领导的不同批评：对2024年美国大选的考察

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70033

Joseph A. Wagoner, Yani Yakob

{"title":"Partisan identity, ideological orientations, and the differential criticisms of ingroup and outgroup leadership: An examination of the 2024 U.S. election","authors":"Joseph A. Wagoner, Yani Yakob","doi":"10.1111/asap.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70033","url":null,"abstract":"Do partisans ever oppose their candidates during U.S. presidential elections? We explored this question across two studies (N = 1106) using U.S. Republicans and Democrats in the context of the 2024 Presidential Election. We propose that partisan identity and ideological orientations related to different criticisms of in-group and out-group leaders, which differently relates to level of candidate support. For Democrats, we focused on the ideological orientation of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA). For Republicans, we focused on the ideological belief in democracy. Study 1 measured participants criticisms of in-group and out-group candidates, while Study 2 manipulated the salience of in-group (or out-group) leadership support. Across both studies, stronger partisan identity related to lower levels of in-group criticism, higher levels of out-group criticism, and more leadership support. Importantly, the examined ideological orientation lead Democrats (but not Republicans) to oppose their in-group leader. Manipulating the salience of leadership support did not impact these relationships.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Facial characteristics and electoral success: Evidence from the Czech Senate elections 面部特征与选举成功：来自捷克参议院选举的证据

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70035

Vojtěch Kotrba, Lucie Hnídková

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National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency 国家前列腺症与群体内保护、群体外贬损以及对唐纳德·特朗普总统任期支持的减少有关

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70034

Angel D. Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Hannah Volpert-Esmond, Michael A. Zárate

{"title":"National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency","authors":"Angel D. Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Hannah Volpert-Esmond, Michael A. Zárate","doi":"10.1111/asap.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70034","url":null,"abstract":"National nostalgia is a mechanism through which intergroup hostility is catalyzed. In contrast, national prostalgia has been shown to benefit individuals due to its optimistic and motivational functions. Collective forms of future-oriented thinking, such as national prostalgia, predict increases in support for agents of change in society. Few studies, though, have investigated how future-oriented variables are linked to prejudice or support for political candidates. Thus, we investigated how national nostalgia and prostalgia may predict prejudice (Study 1, N = 177) and support for Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Study 2, N = 110). As hypothesized, national nostalgia and prostalgia respectively predicted increases and decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump. Neither national nostalgia nor prostalgia predicted support for Joe Biden. In Study 1, there was a suppression effect, such that national prostalgia was only a significant predictor of intergroup attitudes when national nostalgia was a predictor in the models. These findings were not a result of individual optimism, political conservatism, gender, age, or associating Trump with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These results highlight that national prostalgia and nostalgia are distinct psychological phenomena associated with unique consequences.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145021884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Populist attitudes of Democrats and Republicans are differentially affected by changes in electoral fairness and democratic satisfaction 民主党和共和党的民粹主义态度受到选举公平性和民主满意度变化的不同影响

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70032

Joseph D. Foley, Paul J. Maher, Orla T. Muldoon

{"title":"Populist attitudes of Democrats and Republicans are differentially affected by changes in electoral fairness and democratic satisfaction","authors":"Joseph D. Foley, Paul J. Maher, Orla T. Muldoon","doi":"10.1111/asap.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70032","url":null,"abstract":"Populism has long accompanied the development of modern democracies like a shadow, reflecting the presence of institutional faults. Given populism's discursive targeting of elites, it is particularly attractive to those who feel unfairly treated by the current state of affairs. In this paper, we explore how these populist grievances change in reaction to electoral events. Specifically, we assess perceptions of fairness and apply them to an electoral context. To accomplish this, we conducted a longitudinal study of three time-points throughout the 2024 US presidential election (n = 540), two before and one after the election. We hypothesized that changes in perceptions of electoral fairness, particularly among partisans whose candidate lost, would meaningfully affect an individual's populist attitudes post-election. Using mediation analyses, we found that decreases in both electoral fairness evaluations and democratic satisfaction mediated an increase in populist attitudes only among Democrats, while serial mediation revealed a causal link between electoral fairness and democratic satisfaction. Although democratic satisfaction may represent a broader attitude towards electoral systems, perceptions of unfairness within the electoral process also have the potential to stoke populist sentiment. We discuss the mechanics of this effect and other procedural contexts which may be of further interest.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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AI as moral cover: How algorithmic bias exploits psychological mechanisms to perpetuate social inequality 人工智能作为道德掩护：算法偏见如何利用心理机制使社会不平等永久化

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70031

Islam Borinca

{"title":"AI as moral cover: How algorithmic bias exploits psychological mechanisms to perpetuate social inequality","authors":"Islam Borinca","doi":"10.1111/asap.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70031","url":null,"abstract":"Algorithmic decision-making systems are increasingly shaping critical social outcomes (e.g., hiring, lending, criminal justice, healthcare), yet technical approaches to bias mitigation ignore crucial psychological mechanisms that enable discriminatory use. To address this gap, I integrate motivated reasoning, system justification, and moral disengagement theories to argue that AI systems may function as “moral cover,” allowing users to perpetuate inequality while maintaining beliefs in their own objectivity. Users often demonstrate “selective adherence,” following algorithmic advice when it confirms stereotypes while dismissing counter-stereotypical outputs. System justification motives lead people to defend discriminatory algorithmic outcomes as legitimate, “data-driven” decisions. Moral disengagement mechanisms (including responsibility displacement, euphemistic labeling, and advantageous comparison) can enable discrimination while preserving moral self-regard. Finally, I argue that understanding AI bias as fundamentally psychological rather than merely technical demands interventions addressing these underlying psychological processes alongside algorithmic improvements.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Functions of post-disaster collective action: An ethnographic perspective on the silent walk commemorating the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes 灾后集体行动的功能：从民族志角度看纪念2023年日本地震的静默行走

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70026

Dr Selin Tekin

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How do neoliberals vote? Power-based asymmetries in hierarchy-enhancement 新自由主义者如何投票？层级强化中基于权力的不对称

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1111/asap.70029

Tristan G. Martin, Harrison J. Schmitt, Tyler Jimenez

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