{"title":"Psychological entitlement and conspiracy beliefs: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Lukas Neville, Glenda M Fisk, Katarina Ens","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2023.2292626","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00224545.2023.2292626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological entitlement describes the dispositional tendency to claim excessive and unearned rewards and resources, and to demand undeserved special treatment. In one experiment, one cross-sectional survey, and one time-separated survey (total <i>n</i> = 721), we show that psychological entitlement is associated with general conspiracy theory endorsement, COVID-19 specific conspiracy theory endorsement, and conspiracy theorizing as an overarching cognitive style. We find those high in entitlement are more likely to report having made discretionary visits to non-essential venues and services (e.g. buffets, spas, casinos) during the pandemic, and that these risky public health behaviors are mediated through beliefs in conspiracy theories. We identify consequences for public health behavior and conclude with a research agenda for better understanding the underlying mechanisms linking entitlement and conspiracy beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"65-87"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139075556","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":"Leveraging regulatory fit to enhance engagement: a public-sector study in South Korea.","authors":"Seon Ah Lee, Jae Hyeung Kang, Shannon Flumerfelt","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2448439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2448439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study extends the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model by incorporating regulatory focus (promotion vs. prevention) as a moderator, examining its impact on job engagement among public sector employees (<i>n</i> = 306). The results show that employees with a promotion focus are more likely to experience increased engagement when facing challenge stressors, as they perceive such stressors as growth opportunities. Conversely, employees with a prevention focus show reduced negative effects from hindrance stressors, as they seek stability and are more focused on avoiding risks. The findings highlight the importance of regulatory fit in job design, suggesting that aligning job demands with individual motivational tendencies can improve engagement. Promotion-focused employees benefit from opportunities for leadership and innovation, while prevention-focused employees thrive in structured environments prioritizing risk management. Tailored training programs in areas like stress management and communication can further support these employees, enhancing engagement and overall organizational performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014169","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}
Joseph A Wagoner, Sucharita Belavadi, Antonis Gardikiotis, Barbara Barbieri, Matteo Antonini
{"title":"Ideological religious nationalism: measurement, construct validity, and cross-cultural comparisons.","authors":"Joseph A Wagoner, Sucharita Belavadi, Antonis Gardikiotis, Barbara Barbieri, Matteo Antonini","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2441312","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2441312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ideological religious nationalism (IRN) is a worldview that advocates the integration of religious beliefs with national policy and laws and the religious moralization of politics. However, the psychological mechanisms, individual differences, and socio-political consequences related to IRN are unclear. Across five studies (<i>N</i><sub>Total</sub> = 1,349), we established construct validity for a novel scale assessing IRN that is adaptable across different contexts. Results showed that stronger IRN relates to distinct psychological motives, domains of religiosity, and views of one's nation. Results also showed that stronger IRN relates to supporting policies that promote religious-national integration and support of political violence. Lastly, results show that this novel IRN scale can be used across different contexts and has incremental validity beyond similar but distinct measures of religious nationalism. Overall, results showed that IRN can successfully capture people's integration of their religious beliefs with their views about their nation's identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142903925","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":"Fighting the beat and winning: stereotype threat and White people's rhythmic performance.","authors":"Simon Howard, Alex M Borgella","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2442029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2442029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A commonly held stereotype about White people in the United States is that they do not have rhythm. Stereotype threat posits that targets in stereotyped domains run the risk of confirming stereotypes in contexts in which they may be evaluated. We examined whether White people experience stereotype threat in domains diagnostic of rhythmic ability. We predicted White people under stereotype threat would perform worse on a rhythm task and have higher domain disengagement relative to White participants in the control condition. White Americans (<i>N</i> =118, 81 women, <i>M</i><sub><i>age</i></sub> = 18.81, <i>SD</i> = 1.06) were either told a rhythmic video game task was diagnostic of their rhythmic ability or told the game was to help future game development (i.e. non-diagnostic of ability). We found that White people in the stereotype threat condition performed more poorly on the game than those in the control condition. Furthermore, they also had higher domain disengagement than those in control. Stereotype threat may impede White individuals' ability to perform actions requiring rhythmic ability (e.g. clapping on beat, dancing).</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142899172","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}
Zi-Han Wei, Xing-Lan Yang, Xiang-Qin Liu, Hong-Zhi Liu
{"title":"Bidirectional embodied association between debt and physical burden.","authors":"Zi-Han Wei, Xing-Lan Yang, Xiang-Qin Liu, Hong-Zhi Liu","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2441313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2441313","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a Chinese proverb saying that \"when the debts are paid, the body feels light.\" From the perspective of embodied cognition, there may be a connection between indebtedness and the sensation of physical burden. However, the relationship between the two aspects has not been fully examined. The present research investigated the bidirectionality between indebtedness and physical burden through two studies. In Study 1, we examined the effect of the manipulation of indebtedness on the judgment of a hill slant, which varies by physical burden. Results revealed that participants in the indebted condition judged the hill as steeper than those in the control condition, while repaying the debt eliminated this effect. In Study 2, we found that physical burden enhanced the participants' perception of debt. Consistent with an embodied perspective on cognition, findings suggested the bidirectionality between indebtedness and physical burden and supported embodied simulation theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830407","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":"Gender differences in receptivity to sexual invitations: two naturalistic replication studies.","authors":"Sascha Kunz, Tobias Greitemeyer","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2439950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2439950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a seminal study, Clark and Hatfield (1989) found that men were more willing than women to accept casual sexual invitations, whereas no significant gender differences were observed in responses to propositions for non-committal social activities. The present research comprises two preregistered naturalistic replication studies (total <i>N</i> = 240). Study 1 serves as a direct replication, while Study 2 additionally tests whether differences in sociosexuality account for why men are more willing than women to accept casual sexual offers. In both studies, men more readily than women accepted a sexual invitation from a stranger of the opposite gender. In contrast to the original study, the gender difference was independent of the type of proposition. Individual differences in sociosexuality did not account for the observed gender differences. In summary, gender differences in the willingness to accept casual sexual invitations persist to this day, over 40 years after the initial Clark and Hatfield study.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142808173","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}
Raimundo Salas-Schweikart, Margaret J Hendricks, Melanie Boychuck, Fathali M Moghaddam
{"title":"Similarity-attraction across ethnic, religious, and political groups: does celebrating differences or similarities make a difference?","authors":"Raimundo Salas-Schweikart, Margaret J Hendricks, Melanie Boychuck, Fathali M Moghaddam","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2427834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2427834","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extensive research supports a positive association between similarity and attraction at the inter-personal level; the very limited research at the intergroup level is also supportive. In the context of increasing diversity in major societies, alternative diversity management approaches give priority to celebrating differences versus celebrating similarities. We tested to see if similarity-attraction at the intergroup level remains robust in conditions of celebrating differences versus similarities in four studies with ethnic (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 231; Study 2, <i>N</i> = 823), religious (Study 3, <i>N</i> = 1,004), and political (Study 4, <i>N</i> = 606) groups. Study 1 confirmed that participants wanted closer contact with others who they see as more similar. Studies 2, 3, and 4 largely replicated this pattern and found no differences across conditions celebrating differences or similarities between groups. In line with similarity-attraction theory, most group members preferred contact with similar others, both when intergroup differences and similarities were celebrated. The findings are discussed in the context of debates about diversity management policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142710828","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":"How does contact valence and group salience affect outgroup attitudes in asynchronous computer mediated contact? Experiments on intergroup contact via social media posts.","authors":"Sramana Majumdar, Vedika Puri, Saransh Ahuja, Anasha Kannan Poyil, Archisha Wadhwa","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2420036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2420036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prejudice reduction potential of face-to-face intergroup contact is widely established, but we know much less about computer-mediated intergroup contact (online contact) specifically via social media where interactions are less controlled and mostly asynchronous. Additionally, much of the work on online contact has focused on positive, controlled contact, neglecting the effect of negative contact. We examined the effects of mediated contact via online posts with differing valence (positive, negative, and neutral) in three experimental studies, in an imaginary scenario (Study 1: <i>N</i> = 120) and a real intergroup scenario with South and North Indians (Study 2: <i>N</i> = 296, Study 3: <i>N</i> = 336). Main effects of One way and factorial ANOVA showed that contact valence significantly affected outgroup attitudes in Study 1 & 2 but was not replicated in Study 3, where quality and quantity of past contact and status differences emerged as significant predictors of attitudes. Multiple mediation analysis revealed that intergroup anxiety and quality of contact explained changes in attitudes, which was less affected by valence and more by regional identity and history of contact. Findings are discussed in light of the possibilities and limitations of asynchronous mediated contact on social media.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629910","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":"Neurolinguistic Priming and Gender Stereotype Effects in the Ratings of Justice vs. Authority Moral Violations: Republicans and Democrats.","authors":"Brandon L Bretl, Christopher L Thomas","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2427012","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00224545.2024.2427012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An experimental method for assessing gender biases was used to compare Republicans' and Democrats' ratings of moral violations in the domains of justice vs. respect for authority. Four experimental conditions of a text-based survey instrument manipulated the gender of the protagonist and the location of the first instance of gender information in single-sentence moral violation vignettes. Results were consistent with the theoretical time course of neurolinguistic gender priming and the hypothesized influence of implicit stereotypes on moral judgments. Republicans demonstrated a gender bias in ratings of authority violations by rating violations committed by girls and women as worse when compared to a pronoun only condition. Democrats demonstrated the opposite bias by rating authority violations committed by boys and men as worse when compared to violations committed by girls and women. No significant bias was found for any of the justice violation conditions for either Republicans or Democrats.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629918","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}
Michael J Platow, Isadora Strong, Diana M Grace, Clinton G Knight, Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar-Tal, Russell Spears, Dirk Van Rooy
{"title":"Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true.","authors":"Michael J Platow, Isadora Strong, Diana M Grace, Clinton G Knight, Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar-Tal, Russell Spears, Dirk Van Rooy","doi":"10.1080/00224545.2023.2228996","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00224545.2023.2228996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social influence processes by which women come to judge a hostile sexist attitude as relatively true and unprejudiced were examined. Based upon status characteristics theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a man's than a woman's interpretation of the sexist attitude as true or prejudiced. Based upon self-categorization theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced by a woman's than a man's interpretation. Support was primarily observed for the self-categorization theory prediction. This effect, however, was initially suppressed by participants' acceptance of the legitimacy of gender status differences. A post-hoc mediational analysis revealed two pathways by which in-group social influence affected women's acceptance the relative veracity of negative claims about their own group: a direct path from shared in-group membership with the influencing agent, and an indirect path through their acceptance of the legitimacy of gender status differences. The research highlights how women's endorsement of sexist views can have the capacity to minimize other women's challenges of these views as prejudice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"995-1007"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9686688","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}