Social CognitionPub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.117
Laura Niemi, C. Leone, L. Young
{"title":"Linguistic Evidence for the Dissociation Between Impurity and Harm: Differences in the Duration and Scope of Contamination Versus Injury","authors":"Laura Niemi, C. Leone, L. Young","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.117","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that harm and impurity are relevant to a different extent across individuals and transgressions. However, the source of these differences is still unclear. Here, we combine language analysis and social-moral psychology to articulate the core defining features of impurity versus harm. In Study 1 (a–c), we found systematic variation in language use, indicating that people infer that contamination, unlike injury, affects a target completely and irreversibly, rendering them a transmitter of contamination. In Study 2 (a–b), we investigated how evoking intuitions about these core features of contamination—completeness, irreversibility, and transferability—influences judgments of impurity and harm. We found that implying effects on a target were complete and irreversible altered judgments of impurity, but not harm. Overall, our research supports the conclusion that impurity and harm are substantially distinct in cognition and moral judgment; unlike harm, impurity connotes negative effects that spread continually across space and time.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"39 1","pages":"117-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43991342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.1
Larisa Heiphetz, F. Cushman
{"title":"Introduction to Morality as a Hub: Connections Within and Beyond Social Cognition","authors":"Larisa Heiphetz, F. Cushman","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"39 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41769907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.183
James P. Dunlea, Larisa Heiphetz
{"title":"Moral Psychology as a Necessary Bridge Between Social Cognition and Law","authors":"James P. Dunlea, Larisa Heiphetz","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.183","url":null,"abstract":"Coordinating competing interests can be difficult. Because law regulates human behavior, it is a candidate mechanism for creating coordination in the face of societal disagreement. We argue that findings from moral psychology are necessary to understand why law can effectively resolve cooccurring conflicts related to punishment and group membership. First, we discuss heterogeneity in punitive thought, focusing on punishment within the United States legal system. Though the law exerts a weak influence on punitive ideologies before punishment occurs, we argue that it effectively coordinates perceptions of individuals who have already been punished. Next, we discuss intergroup conflict, which often co-occurs with disagreements related to punishment and represents a related domain where coordination can be difficult to achieve. Here, we underscore how insights from moral psychology can promote equality via the law. These examples demonstrate how contributions from moral psychology are necessary to understand the connection between social cognition and law.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"39 1","pages":"183-199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47941764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.4
Audrey-Ann Deneault, Stuart I. Hammond
{"title":"Connecting the Moral Core: Examining Moral Baby Research Through an Attachment Theory Perspective","authors":"Audrey-Ann Deneault, Stuart I. Hammond","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2021.39.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Infants care for and are cared for by others from early in life, a fact reflected in infants' morality and attachment. According to moral core researchers, infants are born with a moral sense that allows them to care about and evaluate the actions of third parties. In attachment theory, care manifests through infants' relationships with caregivers, which forms representations called internal working models that shape how babies think, feel, and act. Although accumulating evidence supports the existence of a moral core directed toward others, nevertheless, without a notion of care connected to infants' own lives, the core is an incomplete and underpowered construct. We show how the moral core, like attachment, could emerge in first- and second-person working models that develop through social interaction and incorporate representational forms (embodied, social, cognitive, emotional, moral), which contribute to the emergence of third-person representations and give infants' moral sense its vitality and meaning.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"39 1","pages":"4-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43206032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.571
Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, G. Moskowitz
{"title":"Easy to Make, Hard to Revise: Updating Spontaneous Trait Inferences in the Presence of Trait-Inconsistent Information","authors":"Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, G. Moskowitz","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.571","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that perceivers spontaneously form trait inferences from others' behaviors received at a single point in time. The present work examined the persistence of spontaneous trait inferences (STIs) in the presence of trait-inconsistent information about others. We hypothesized that STIs should be resistant to change over time and in the presence of new trait-inconsistent information due to perceivers forming and storing multiple STIs independently in memory. Consistently, Experiments 1a and 1b showed that initial STIs were not affected by new trait-inconsistent information. Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that STIs were persistent over 48 hours. Two experiments also tested memory reconsolidation as a possible mechanism of updating first impressions. While STIs were not substantially affected, spontaneous goal inferences (SGIs) were elevated among those with a better explicit memory of behaviors after learning trait-inconsistent information following a memory reactivation procedure. Implications of these findings on impression formation and updating processes are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"38 1","pages":"571-625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48620990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.627
{"title":"Author Index to Volume 38, 2020 Social Cognition","authors":"","doi":"10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48466084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.489
Travis J. Carter, Gayathri Pandey, N. Bolger, Ran R. Hassin, M. Ferguson
{"title":"Has the Effect of the American Flag on Political Attitudes Declined Over Time? A Case Study of the Historical Context of American Flag Priming","authors":"Travis J. Carter, Gayathri Pandey, N. Bolger, Ran R. Hassin, M. Ferguson","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.489","url":null,"abstract":"We report findings from a meta-analysis on all published and unpublished studies from our labs (total N = 9,656) examining the priming effect of the American flag on political attitudes. Our analyses suggest that, consistent with the studies we originally published in 2011 (T. J. Carter et al., 2011b), American flag primes did create politically conservative shifts in attitudes and beliefs during the initial time period when data were collected (even excluding the published studies), but this effect has since declined over time to be roughly zero, though we believe that other interpretations, including false positives, are plausible. We discuss possible interpretations of this decline effect and the importance of considering the historical context inrelation to the priming effects of symbols whose meaning is not static over time. We also highlight the value of publicly posting data, emptying file drawers, and conducting direct as well as conceptual replications.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"38 1","pages":"489-520"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41909163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.555
Balbir Singh, Jordan R. Axt, Sean M. Hudson, Christopher Mellinger, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll
{"title":"When Practice Fails to Reduce Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot: The Case of Cognitive Load","authors":"Balbir Singh, Jordan R. Axt, Sean M. Hudson, Christopher Mellinger, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll","doi":"10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.555","url":null,"abstract":"Practice improves performance on a first-person shooter task (FPST), increasing accuracy and decreasing racial bias. But rather than simply promoting cognitively efficient processing, we argue that the benefits of practice on a difficult, cognitively demanding task like the FPST rely, at least in part, on resource-intensive, cognitively effortful processing. If practice-based improvements require cognitive resources, then cognitive load should compromise the value of practice by depriving trained participants of the cognitive resources on which they depend. This experiment shows that inducing cognitive load eliminates the benefits of training, leading to an increase in racial bias, as predicted.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44287148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balbir Singh, Jordan R. Axt, Sean M. Hudson, Christopher Mellinger, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll
{"title":"When Practice Fails to Reduce Racial Bias on the Decision to Shoot: The Case of Cognitive Load.","authors":"Balbir Singh, Jordan R. Axt, Sean M. Hudson, Christopher Mellinger, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll","doi":"10.17605/OSF.IO/MWYDV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MWYDV","url":null,"abstract":"Practice improves performance on a first-person shooter task (FPST), increasing accuracy and decreasing racial bias. But rather than simply promoting cognitively efficient processing, we argue that the benefits of practice on a difficult, cognitively demanding task like the FPST rely, at least in part, on resource-intensive, cognitively effortful processing. If practice-based improvements require cognitive resources, then cognitive load should compromise the value of practice by depriving trained participants of the cognitive resources on which they depend. This experiment shows that inducing cognitive load eliminates the benefits of training, leading to an increase in racial bias, as predicted.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"38 1","pages":"555-570"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46159377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social CognitionPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.521
Laura Quinten, Anja Carina Murmann, Hanna A. Genau, R. Warkentin, R. Banse
{"title":"Letters to our Future Selves? High-Powered Replication Attempts Question Effects on Future Orientation, Delinquent Decisions, and Risky Investments","authors":"Laura Quinten, Anja Carina Murmann, Hanna A. Genau, R. Warkentin, R. Banse","doi":"10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/SOCO.2020.38.6.521","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancing people's future orientation, in particular continuity with their future selves, has been proposed as promising to mitigate self-control–related problem behavior. In two pre-registered, direct replication studies, we tested a subtle manipulation, that is, writing a letter to one's future self, in order to reduce delinquent decisions (van Gelder et al., 2013, Study 1) and risky investments (Monroe et al., 2017, Study 1). With samples of n = 314 and n = 463, which is 2.5 times the original studies' sample sizes, the results suggested that the expected effects are either non-existent or smaller than originally reported, and/or dependent on factors not examined. Vividness of the future self was successfully manipulated in Study 2, but manipulation checks overall indicated that the letter task is not reliable to alter future orientation. We discuss ideas to integrate self-affirmation approaches and to test less subtle manipulations in samples with substantial, myopia-related self-control deficits.","PeriodicalId":48050,"journal":{"name":"Social Cognition","volume":"38 1","pages":"521-554"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47999902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}