{"title":"Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter? Exploring the Role of Intergroup Contact Valence and Intergroup Threat in Supporting the Two Movements.","authors":"Sofia Stathi, Vanessa Fortune, Rebecca Smith","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2746745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2746745","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is often referred to as the civil rights movement of our time. With the rise of BLM, the alternative movement of All Lives Matter (ALM) developed as a counterforce. This study examined the role of the valence of intergroup contact and of perceived realistic and symbolic threat in supporting BLM and ALM. A correlational study was carried out (<i>N</i> = 375) with predominantly British participants who self-identified as White. The results showed that support for the two movements was negatively related to one another. Positive contact with Black people was negatively associated with support for ALM over BLM; negative contact was associated positively with support for ALM over BLM. Both symbolic and realistic threat correlated with support for ALM over BLM. However, only symbolic threat emerged as a mediator explaining the relationship between contact and ALM over BLM support. This pattern of results remained even when controlling for political orientation. The results are discussed in the context of solidarity-based collective action and current approaches to understanding allyship.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149197110","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}
Xianwei Meng, Shaojun Huang, Yuka Mizuno, Akira Ono
{"title":"Less Care, More Respect: Low Concern About Social Evaluation Signals Competence.","authors":"Xianwei Meng, Shaojun Huang, Yuka Mizuno, Akira Ono","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2743912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2743912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concern about social evaluation motivates impression management, yet how observers judge people who appear more or less concerned remains unclear. We propose that appearing less concerned about social evaluation consequences can elicit greater respect by functioning as a signal of competence. In a preregistered study (<i>N</i> = 360), participants evaluated targets described as having either higher or lower concern about social evaluation. Targets who appeared less concerned were judged as more competent and, in turn, more deserving of respect, with perceived competence mediating this effect. A second preregistered study (<i>N</i> = 367) showed that this pattern did not extend to targets who displayed indifference to financial loss, suggesting that the effect is specific to concern about social evaluation rather than general nonchalance. These findings highlight stances toward social evaluation as a consequential cue for competence inference.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169346","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}
Christiane M Büttner, Elianne A Albath, Natalia Bogatyreva, Rainer Greifeneder
{"title":"The Social Cost of Inequality: Financial Ostracism Experiences Lower Satisfaction with the National Economy Across Eleven Countries.","authors":"Christiane M Büttner, Elianne A Albath, Natalia Bogatyreva, Rainer Greifeneder","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2714767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2714767","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As economic inequality rises, the experience of being left out and ignored due to financial disadvantages may critically shape attitudes toward the economy. This study introduces the concept of financial ostracism (i.e. the sense of being avoided due to being less financially well-off) and examines its link to (dis)satisfaction with the economy across eleven European countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, and the UK; <i>N</i> = 5,765). In Bayesian multilevel analyses, financial ostracism is a credible predictor of dissatisfaction with the economy's current state, even when controlling for demographic variables, general ostracism experiences, and country-level wealth inequality. Alongside household income, financial ostracism emerges as the strongest predictor of economic dissatisfaction. In conclusion, as societies grapple with simultaneously growing economic and social divides, addressing financial ostracism as an interpersonal facet of inequality may be essential for restoring confidence in economic systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149012869","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}
Marie R Lindegaard, Lasse S Liebst, Wim Bernasco, Richard Philpot, Jo Thomas, Peter Ejbye-Ernst
{"title":"The High Bystander Helping Rate for Public Assaults Does Not Generalize to Commercial Robberies: A Video Observational Study.","authors":"Marie R Lindegaard, Lasse S Liebst, Wim Bernasco, Richard Philpot, Jo Thomas, Peter Ejbye-Ernst","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2729059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2729059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The largest systematic study of bystander intervention in real-life public assaults revealed that victims of aggression receive help from bystanders in 90.9% of assaults. Using the same measurement instrument and similar kinds of video data, we examine the generalizability of this study in another dangerous violent emergency context involving fewer bystanders and more weapons: commercial robberies. We analyzed 43 CCTV-observed robbery incidents in commercial settings and found that bystanders took action to help the victim in 35% of the events, a frequency substantially lower than in public assaults. While the number of bystanders present was positively associated with bystander helping behavior in public assaults, this was not the case in the context of commercial robberies. Our findings suggest that researchers should be wary of generalizing bystander intervention rates across emergency types. We discuss the theoretical implications of these findings and advocate further research examining the likelihood of bystander helping across naturalistic settings and diverse emergency and violence types.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148971710","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":"Prosocial Paradox: How Financial Constraints Amplify Strategic Donation Choices.","authors":"Shichang Liang, Xuanyu Chen, Ting Yao, Wanshan Deng, Linghong Gan, Yizheng Zhou, Tingting Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2730401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2730401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In times of financial hardship, how do individuals navigate prosocial decisions such as charitable giving? While prior research has focused on how scarcity reduces generosity or limits decision-making, this paper examines how it may instead shape strategic preferences in donation choice architecture. Building on Impression Management Theory and Costly Signaling Theory, we investigate how perceived financial constraints influence preferences for single-category versus multi-category donation choices. Across three experiments, we show that individuals experiencing financial constraints are more likely to prefer multiple (vs. single) donation choices. This preference is mediated by face consciousness, reflecting concerns about maintaining social image under economic stress. Self-construal further moderates this effect: individuals with an independent self-construal prefer single donation choices, whereas those with an interdependent self-construal prefer multiple donation choices under financial constraints. These findings advance research on financial scarcity and prosocial behavior by shifting the focus from whether individuals donate to how they strategically choose among donation choices, and offer important implications for structuring donation choice architecture to enhance perceived social value.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913996","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}
Libbi A Geoghagan, Bailey Cremeans, Jonathan M Golding, Jeffrey S Neuschatz, Kelly C Burke
{"title":"Perceptions of Non-Sexual Workplace Harassment.","authors":"Libbi A Geoghagan, Bailey Cremeans, Jonathan M Golding, Jeffrey S Neuschatz, Kelly C Burke","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2722677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2722677","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-sexual workplace harassment (NSWH) is a prevalent issue, yet there is limited experimental research investigating how this harassment is perceived. In the present study, male and female participants (<i>N</i> = 242) read eight vignettes in which a supervisor insulted an employee. Participants then rated the extent to which each vignette involved harassment, as well as reactions to the employee (e.g. sympathy toward employee) and supervisor (e.g. anger toward supervisor). The supervisor's gender (man or woman), employee's gender (man or woman), and the type of verbal insult (regarding the employee's weight or intelligence) were varied. Results indicated higher ratings when vignettes involved (a) a supervisor and employee of different genders (vs same-gender dyads); (b) weight (vs intelligence) comments, especially made by a male supervisor; and (c) a female employee who received a weight comment (vs other employee gender, comment type combinations). In addition, female (vs male) participants returned higher ratings of reactions to the employee and supervisor, but not attributions of harassment. These findings indicated that not all contexts of NSWH are perceived as equally severe.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889157","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":"The Serial Mediating Role of Modern Prejudice and Competitive Victimhood in the Relationship Between Ethnic Ingroup Identification and Subjective Evaluation of Past Violence.","authors":"Özge Ünal-Koçaslan, Zafer Güney Çağış","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2724522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2724522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Group members may resort to subjective evaluations of their ingroup's past harm-doing against the outgroup, and this poses a challenge for intergroup reconciliation in a society. Past research has shown a link between ingroup identification and subjective evaluation of the past violence against an outgroup in intergroup contexts. In this study, we aimed to test the serial mediating effect of prejudice and competitive victimhood beliefs in the relationship between ingroup identification and subjective evaluation of the past. Two hundred eighty-nine participants (170 Turks and 119 Kurds) completed measures of Ingroup Identification, Modern Prejudice, Competitive Victimhood, and Subjective Evaluation of Past Violence. After controlling for age, gender, and ethnic group, results showed that prejudice and competitive victimhood sequentially mediated the relationship between ingroup identification and subjective evaluation of past violence. Overall, these findings suggest that both Turks and Kurds hold legitimizing attitudes toward ingroup harmdoings, and that ethnic identification, prejudice, and competitive victimhood operate together in shaping such attitudes, carrying important implications for policymaking aimed at intergroup reconciliation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867320","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}
Brianna Davison, C Ward Struthers, Jingyuan Sophie Li, Amy Muise
{"title":"The Association Between Victims' Anxious Attachment and Transgressors' Nonapology on Conflict Resolution in Romantic Relationships.","authors":"Brianna Davison, C Ward Struthers, Jingyuan Sophie Li, Amy Muise","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2724518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2724518","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Relational transgressions are inevitable in romantic relationships. When a partner transgresses against the other partner, a victim's response may be motivated by their attachment style and their partner's post-transgression responses. In the current research, we tested whether victims higher in attachment anxiety would use more destructive responses, and whether this effect differed by romantic partners' nonapologetic response (e.g. lashing out). We also tested whether these associations were accounted for by lower perceived partner availability and responsiveness. Across three studies using correlational and experimental methods, victims high in attachment anxiety reported more destructive responses when they perceived their offending partner as nonapologetic. Study 3 findings showed that this moderated association was not accounted for by lower perceived partner availability and responsiveness. However, Study 3 shows a negative association between victims' attachment anxiety and their perceptions of their partner's availability and responsiveness when their partner does not respond, compared to when their partner responds nonapologetically, which may explain their destructive responses. These findings suggest that offending partners' responses play a role in motivating anxiously attached victims' responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857777","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}
Yuan Cheng, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Kathleen Otto, Gabriel Nudelman
{"title":"Just World Belief and Job Insecurity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy and Organizational Justice Perceptions.","authors":"Yuan Cheng, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Kathleen Otto, Gabriel Nudelman","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2718200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2718200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The factors related to job insecurity have been the focus of increasing academic and popular attention. In this study, based on the conservation of resources perspective of job insecurity, we focus on the association of employees' belief in a just world and their perceived job insecurity in the context of Africa. As expected, we found that employees' just world belief was negatively associated with their perceived qualitative and quantitative job insecurity via the statistically mediating roles of self-efficacy and organizational justice. This research may enlighten our understanding of the psychological factors related to job insecurity, and also provide support for both job insecurity and justice belief literature in a more extended cultural domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799786","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}
Chiara Pecini, Alessandra Sacino, Bianca Tallone, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo, Luca Andrighetto
{"title":"Objects and Agents? Social Perception of OnlyFans Content Creators.","authors":"Chiara Pecini, Alessandra Sacino, Bianca Tallone, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo, Luca Andrighetto","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2026.2704551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2704551","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research suggests that sexually objectified women - that is, women evaluated primarily based on their physical appearance - are often perceived as less than fully human and denied agency, such as the capacity to plan and exert control over their actions. In this research we investigated whether such an assumption holds for female OnlyFans content creators. Across four experimental studies (<i>N</i><sub><i>total</i></sub> = 984), we found that male participants objectified creators more than other female targets (i.e., non-OnlyFans creators and umbrella girls), yet did not deny them agency (Study 1) and even attributed more free will to them than to other targets (Study 2), regardless of sexualized appearance (Studies 2-3). Contrary to our expectations, creators' income (high vs. low) did not affect perceived free will in Study 3, but did influence self-determination in Study 4. Additionally, intrinsic (vs. extrinsic) motivation to join OnlyFans increased perceptions of creators' self-determination (Study 4). Regarding participants' gender, one motivation-related interaction emerged: Women (but not men) attributed greater self-determination to intrinsically (vs. extrinsically) motivated creators. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148580666","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}