{"title":"What Influences Human Behaviour to Follow Their Intentions When It Comes to Cybersecurity?","authors":"Onur Ceran, Serçin Karataş","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human behaviour in cybersecurity is often assessed through self-reported measures, which may obscure the gap between individuals' intentions and actual actions. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach by combining psychological measurement and machine learning to investigate the role of individual differences and other factors in this intention-behaviour gap within cybersecurity contexts. Using a decision tree classifier, we analysed the impact of demographic and sociodemographic factors, personality traits, individual differences, internet usage patterns, exposure to offences, risk-taking tendencies and risk perceptions on cybersecurity behaviours. In the first phase, 619 participants completed validated psychological assessments to evaluate their characteristics, personality traits and cybersecurity intentions. In the second phase, 301 participants interacted with a purpose-built website designed to assess whether their reported intentions aligned with their observable behaviours. The results revealed a significant divergence between intentions and actions, with individual differences, personality traits and conservative behavioural tendencies emerging as key predictors of this gap. These findings highlight the importance of incorporating psychological frameworks to understand complex human behaviours in cybersecurity better. This research offers valuable insights into the psychological mechanisms and individual differences driving digital behaviour, emphasising the need for tailored strategies to bridge the intention-action gap and improve cybersecurity practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144915329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural differences in revenge fantasies using drawings: A comparative study between Indians and Thais","authors":"Meghna Girish, Nisara Jaroenkajornkij, Bussakorn Binson, Rachel Lev-Wiesel","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unjust events cause humiliation and can elicit revenge fantasies. The present study explored cultural differences between Indians and Thais expressing revenge fantasies through drawings and narratives. A matched convenience sample of 100 adults, that is, 50 participants each (35 females and 15 males) from India and Thailand were recruited. The qualitative measures administrated include drawings with two prompts: ‘Draw an unjust event you experienced’ and ‘Draw what you would prefer to happen to the person who unjustly treated you’, followed by narratives about the drawings. The participants also filled in demographics, The Traumatic Events Checklist (TEC), and The Injustice Experiences Questionnaire (IEQ). Analysis revealed that Thais were more likely to report known individuals as perpetrators than Indians. In contrast, Indians were more likely to report strangers and family members than Thais. Indians preferred avoidance as revenge fantasy more than Thais. Thais in contrast preferred revenge by proxy more in comparison to Indians. Indians had higher scores for sexual abuse, loss of family members, and other unspecified events, than Thais. The drawings and IEQ scores also showed associations for full sample and for Thais alone (<i>p</i> < 0.05). The cultural differences shed light on how revenge fantasy is expressed between Indians and Thais.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144915328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The durability of imagined contact on intergroup attitudes and prejudice: An intervention among Japanese nationals towards Korean outgroups","authors":"Anqi Hu, Josh Brunotte, Jiro Takai","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Imagined contact is a promising method for reducing intergroup prejudice with potential merits in terms of ease of application, among other features. However, little is known about whether its mitigating effects go beyond the laboratory and how long such effects might endure. This study investigated the use of imagined contact and its durability in the Japanese context, a setting in which this method has not been widely explored. Eighty participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups, one imagining a favourable interaction scenario with an outgroup member (Korean) and the other imagining a control contact scenario with an ingroup member (fellow Japanese). The effects and durability of imagined contact on intergroup attitudes and prejudice were tracked over time. Results showed that participants who imagined a favourable interaction with an outgroup member exhibited more positive attitudes towards the outgroup. While these effects were especially evident right after engaging in imagined contact, some indices of prejudice also showed positive effects lasting for 1 month after. A mediation analysis revealed that social distance partially mediated the relationship between imagined contact and willingness to engage in future intergroup interactions. This suggests that imagined contact reduces psychological distance, thereby increasing openness to contact. Overall, imagined contact demonstrated potential for application outside the Western context and may serve as a viable tool for fostering positive intercultural attitudes in Japan.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear of losing face and desire to gain face: The effect of face consciousness on materialism","authors":"Hongting Su, Ling Yang, Qing Dong","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Materialism can have numerous negative effects on college students’ psychology and behaviour. Previous research has theoretically predicted that face consciousness leads to materialism. Therefore, this study examined the strong predictive association between face consciousness and materialism using experimental evidence. Moreover, this study explored the effect of face message framing on materialism to determine the relative importance of fear of losing face and desire to gain face. Experiment 1 examined the impact of trait and state face consciousness on materialism among undergraduate students in the mainland of China using a questionnaire survey and a behavioural experiment. The results indicated that face consciousness predicted materialism. Building on this, Experiment 2 from the perspectives of trait and state face consciousness explored the effect of face message framing on materialism among undergraduate students in the mainland of China using a questionnaire survey and a behavioural experiment. The results revealed that fear of losing face had a stronger influence on materialistic values than desire to gain face. Our study enriches the psychological mechanisms from the motivational perspective of college students’ materialism and provide experimental evidence for developing targeted interventions to reduce materialism among college students by addressing face consciousness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144853803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation from ‘suffering’ to ‘perpetrating’ of adolescent bullying behaviour: The mediating effect of angry rumination and the moderating effect of sports behaviour","authors":"Yurong Lu, Jialei Gu, Bingbin Xie, Weinan Zhou","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study, based on a sample of 606 adolescents, analyses the relationship between being cyberbullied, anger rumination and perpetrating school bullying using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The study also employs the PROCESS macro model to verify the moderating effect of sports behaviour. The results indicate that being cyberbullied has a significant positive impact on anger rumination, anger rumination has a significant positive impact on perpetrating school bullying and being cyberbullied has a significant positive impact on perpetrating school bullying. Furthermore, anger rumination serves as a significant mediator between being cyberbullied and perpetrating school bullying, while sports behaviour plays a positive moderating role in the pathways from being cyberbullied to anger rumination and subsequently to perpetrating school bullying. Based on these findings, targeted recommendations are proposed to provide insights and suggestions for future research on adolescent school bullying.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obligations in Japan: A three-year longitudinal study of midlife adults","authors":"Han Na Lee, Jeewon Oh, Takeshi Nakagawa","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Obligations embody a sense of responsibility toward others. Middle-aged adults may particularly feel obligated to many close others, from their parents to children, for instance. Previous studies suggest mixed findings on whether obligations benefit well-being and relationships. Accounting for the cultural context and different types of obligations can help explain the mixed findings. We examined obligations in 371 middle-aged adults living in Japan, using two waves of data from the Midlife in Japan (MIDJA) study. Factor analyses suggest three factors underlying obligation: light and substantive obligations to close others and public obligations to the broader community. Controlling for baseline outcomes, we examined whether obligation predicted changes in psychological and relational well-being over 3 years. Most associations between obligation and outcomes were non-significant. However, light obligation predicted less strain from friends over time (<i>β</i> = −0.21, <i>p</i> = 0.03), and substantive obligation predicted greater life satisfaction (<i>β</i> = 0.20, <i>p</i> = 0.035). Public obligation did not significantly predict any well-being or relational outcomes. Implications for research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do momentary phenomena evoke mixed emotions?","authors":"Mariko Shirai, Masato Nagamine","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies have revealed that meaningful endings cause people to experience mixed emotions. Endings are ubiquitous in various facets of our lives and can be categorised into personally meaningful (e.g., a graduation ceremony) and less personally meaningful experiences (e.g., falling flowers). However, it is unclear whether less personally meaningful endings evoke mixed emotions similar to meaningful endings. We hypothesised that awareness of endings is necessary to evoke mixed emotions irrespective of whether the endings are personally meaningful. As a less personally meaningful ending, we focused on momentary phenomena that occur in an instant. Such momentary phenomena are assumed to heighten the awareness of the ending because of their short duration, thereby intensifying mixed emotions. Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis. The results of the studies indicated that momentary phenomena evoked mixed emotions, and momentary phenomena with high fragility heightened the awareness of the ending and elicited stronger mixed emotions than those with low levels of fragility. These findings suggest that both personally meaningful and less personally meaningful endings, such as ephemeral phenomena, evoke mixed emotions. This background is related to the possibility that the fragility inherent in momentary phenomena enhances the awareness of an ending.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144716994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘An examination of the relationship between cultural distance and acculturation preferences in six post-Soviet societies’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tatarko, A. N., Lepshokova, Z. K., Berry, J. W. An examination of the relationship between cultural distance and acculturation preferences in six post-Soviet societies. <i>Asian Journal of Social Psychology</i>. 2025;<b>28</b>:e70013.</p><p>The Acknowledgements section is missing from the published paper.</p><p>The ‘Acknowledgements’ section as described below has now been added at the end of the paper after ‘Author contributions’.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moh Abdul Hakim, Fadjri Kirana Anggarani, Ayu Okvitawanli, Takeshi Hamamura
{"title":"How culture shapes community resilience: A cultural-psychological case study of coastal communities' responses to climate disaster in Indonesia","authors":"Moh Abdul Hakim, Fadjri Kirana Anggarani, Ayu Okvitawanli, Takeshi Hamamura","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes and explores a cultural model of community resilience to climate-related disasters in two coastal villages in Indonesia. Through a case-based research approach, we conducted interviews and focus groups with a total of 30 community members and leaders to uncover the underlying processes through which culture plays a critical role in community resilience. Our analyses identified local indigenous belief systems and practices that help the communities adapt and develop strategies to collectively cope with the impacts of rising sea level, including <i>gotong royong</i>, subsistence practices, place attachments, rituals, <i>musyawarah</i> and <i>bapak</i> leadership. We interpret these results from a cultural psychology perspective and argue that community resilience is a culturally embedded process, shaped by the specific norms, values, identities and social structures of each community. Our research highlights the importance of taking a contextualized, place-based approach to understanding resilience that addresses the cultural dimensions. These insights can inform the development of culturally responsive interventions to enhance community resilience in the face of climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144672880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retrodiction: In-group advantages between Europeans and Chinese","authors":"Junhao Chen, Christopher Egan","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated whether the in-group advantage in facial expression recognition extends to the ability to retrodict past events based on others' reactions and explored the influence of cultural familiarity on retrodiction accuracy. Chinese and European participants viewed videos of Chinese and European individuals reacting to four emotionally evocative events (being told a joke, receiving a compliment, listening to a story, or being kept waiting) and were asked to identify the event that caused each reaction. European participants demonstrated higher overall retrodiction accuracy and in-group advantages in specific events, while Chinese participants showed limited in-group advantages and even displayed signs of in-group disadvantages, revealing an asymmetrical pattern of in-group advantages. The relationship between cultural familiarity and retrodiction accuracy is complex and may be influenced by factors such as behavioural accommodation and cultural differences in emotion expression, regulation, and interpretation. The findings highlight the importance of considering cultural factors in emotion communication and social cognition research and underscore the need for developing cross-cultural competence in an increasingly globalized world.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144666261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}