Amanda K. Sesko, Béatrice Sternberg, Monica Biernat, Alexandra N. Fisher, Zaher Kmail
{"title":"Not heard or remembered: A daily assessment of experienced intersectional invisibility","authors":"Amanda K. Sesko, Béatrice Sternberg, Monica Biernat, Alexandra N. Fisher, Zaher Kmail","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70140","url":null,"abstract":"Intersectional invisibility is the experience of not being remembered, attended to, differentiated, or given credit for contributions, and is most likely to be experienced by people with multiple stigmatized identities. In the present study, we used a smartphone‐based longitudinal daily diary design to examine the frequency and downstream consequences of experienced invisibility as they unfold in daily life. Over the course of 10 days, 301 participants reported their daily experiences of invisibility, sleep quality and positive affect, and pre‐ and post‐diary measures of well‐being and academic outcomes. As predicted, number of stigmatized identities positively predicted daily experiences of invisibility. For each additional stigmatized identity, the odds of reporting any instance of invisibility on any given day increased by 18%. Daily experienced invisibility was associated with poor outcomes, especially for those with multiple stigmatized identities, including reductions in daily positive affect and sleep quality, and pre‐ to post‐diary decreases in well‐being and academic outcomes. There was also evidence of cumulative effects on a short timescale: experienced invisibility from the previous 3 days predicted lower positive affect and worse sleep on the present day. This research suggests invisibility is a chronic experience with negative consequences, experienced by people with multiple stigmatized identities.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial categories and visual descriptions in police emergency calls.","authors":"Paige Winthrop, Emma Tennent","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70137","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Taken-for-granted presumptions about race are incorporated into the operating logic of many institutions. In emergency police calls, racialization is routinely used to accomplish visual descriptions of persons of interest. This use of racial categories relies on and reproduces inferences about race as visually discernible. These inferences are bound up in colonial histories and ongoing racist violence and discrimination. Our discursive psychology study documents how participants make links between racial category membership and visual appearance and orient to racialization as a delicate but necessary part of an emergency call. We thus show how examining racialization can illustrate the workings of racial inferences even in the absence of overt orientations to prejudice. Understanding how racialization is built into the institutional infrastructure provides an important 'upstream' perspective on issues of racialized policing and is a necessary first step in moves towards social justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":"e70137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13615327/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qingzhou Sun, Hongjin Zhu, Shizhou Xue, Qiang Xu, Jiajue Wang
{"title":"When does socioeconomic status promote or inhibit donation behaviour? The joint influence of donation visibility and incentives.","authors":"Qingzhou Sun, Hongjin Zhu, Shizhou Xue, Qiang Xu, Jiajue Wang","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70139","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What shapes the socioeconomic status-donation behaviour relationship? While research has identified donation visibility and incentives as important contextual factors, their joint effects remain relatively unclear. Across four studies, we examined how the combination of donation visibility (public versus private) and incentives (incentivized versus non-incentivized) influences the aforementioned relationship. We found that socioeconomic status negatively predicted donation behaviour in private non-incentivized and public incentivized contexts, but positively predicted donation behaviour in private incentivized and public non-incentivized contexts. A real charitable donation experiment replicated these findings and demonstrated their validity. These joint effects were driven by two forms of impure altruistic motives. In private contexts, incentives reduced lower- (vs. higher-) socioeconomic-status individuals' motivation to donate for psychological benefits. In public contexts, incentives reduced higher- (vs. lower-) socioeconomic-status individuals' motivation to donate for social recognition. The findings provide a novel framework for understanding the variability in the relationship between socioeconomic status and donation behaviour and important implications for charitable donation appeals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":"e70139"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fractures from the inside out: The antagonistic impacts of economic inequality on attitudes towards foreign entities.","authors":"Cong Wei, Chutian Liu, Lingling Huang, Ning He","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70138","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extensive research has documented that domestic economic inequality erodes social bonds and cohesion within nations. Yet, it remains unclear whether this inequality-driven fragmentation spills over to shape individuals' attitudes towards foreign entities. Drawing on a social identity perspective, we proposed two asymmetrically opposing pathways: domestic economic inequality primarily impairs attitudes towards foreign entities by weakening identification with all humanity (IWAH), while attenuated national identification provides a modest buffer. Analyses of a nationally representative survey (N = 9881) supported this dual-pathway model, revealing opposing indirect effects of perceived economic inequality on attitudes towards foreigners via national identification and IWAH. Two subsequent experiments (ΣN = 1761) using measurement-of-mediation and experimental-mediation designs established the model's causal validity and extended the findings to behavioural tendencies and foreign policy preferences. A final study (N = 560) explored the model's predictive power for cooperation in both gain- and loss-framed international settings. Collectively, economic inequality not only erodes intra-societal cohesion but also deepens inter-societal rifts, providing key insights into the psychological underpinnings of growing anti-globalization sentiments and unilateralist practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":"e70138"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Lacko, Anna Kubelková, Simona Oľhová, Adam Klocek, Sylvie Graf
{"title":"Measuring prejudice and stereotypes: A systematic review of psychometric quality and conceptual foundations.","authors":"David Lacko, Anna Kubelková, Simona Oľhová, Adam Klocek, Sylvie Graf","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70136","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prejudice and stereotypes are central constructs in social psychology, yet instruments used to measure them vary in conceptual clarity and psychometric evidence. This preregistered systematic review provides a comprehensive, cross-method synthesis of the psychometric properties and theoretical foundations of measures assessing racial and ethnic prejudice and stereotypes. Following PRISMA and COSMIN guidelines, we screened 13,363 records and included 263 studies published between 1951 and 2024. We evaluated reliability, validity, factor structure, measurement invariance and conceptual alignment across explicit, implicit and behavioural instruments. Findings indicate a methodologically diverse but psychometrically fragile field. Most measures were developed with US samples, rarely assessed temporal stability or predictive validity, and often provided limited evidence of theoretical-empirical coherence. Only 4% of instruments reached high-quality evidence under the GRADE framework, while most showed substantial inconsistency and risk of bias in the available evidence. Conceptually, only one-third of studies clearly defined prejudice, and most operationalized it narrowly at the cognitive, individual level, with less attention to affective and behavioural dimensions. Overall, conceptual ambiguity and uneven validation evidence complicate cumulative interpretation. We call for clearer definitions, multimethod integration and transparent practices to develop psychometrically rigorous, theoretically coherent and culturally sensitive tools for capturing prejudice as a dynamic, multidimensional phenomenon.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":"e70136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148983987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enacting desired change in the present: Explaining prefigurative collective action during Chile's 2019 social explosion.","authors":"David Clarke, John Drury","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70133","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many contemporary movements confront existing power structures while experimenting with alternative social relations-a dynamic often discussed as prefigurative politics. Yet social psychology has prioritized explaining why people participate over examining what unfolds through collective action. This study examines how 16 participants made sense of their participation in Chile's 2019 social explosion. Using reflexive thematic analysis of in-depth interviews, informed by the elaborated social identity model, we examine whether aspects of their involvement were understood in prefigurative terms and, if so, whether this was rooted in prior commitments, or shaped through participation, or both. Our analysis developed four interrelated themes: discovering a shared struggle, organizing and relating differently, experiencing alternatives as feasible and desirable and, for most, understanding their involvement as partially enacting the change they sought-a process we term prefigurative realization. Although all had prior political experience, these accounts suggest that participation-not prior commitments alone-contributed to prefigurative understandings, as existing commitments were validated and reconfigured through collective practice. These findings support for social psychology to approach collective action as a potentially transformative practice, where action is not only a means of pursuing social change but a site where change may begin to take shape.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":"e70133"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13612935/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grievance fuels aggressive intergroup inclinations and justification of political violence through hatred rather than anger","authors":"Beatriz Alba, Alexandra Vázquez","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70135","url":null,"abstract":"Grievance—the feeling of being or having been collectively wronged by an outgroup—has gained attention in majority groups facing perceived status threats or norm transgressions. Although grievance can elicit negative emotions, its role in shaping violence‐related tendencies remains unclear. This research examines the emotional pathways linking grievance to violence justification and aggressive intergroup inclinations among majority group members. Across three studies (correlational, field‐based with active protesters and experimental) within the Catalonia‐Spanish State conflict, we explore whether grievance is associated with anger, hatred (Studies 1–3), humiliation and contempt (Study 3), in relation to violence and aggression‐related tendencies. Study 1 ( <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 365) showed that grievance was associated with aggressive outcomes, and Study 2 ( <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 185) reaffirmed these findings, with hatred showing more consistent associations than anger. Study 3 ( <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 377) provided experimental evidence that grievance increases negative emotional responses, particularly hatred, which in turn led to violence justification and aggressive inclinations. Indirect associations through other emotions were weak or non‐significant. Results highlight the role of multiple emotional pathways through which grievance may relate to violence‐related responses among majority groups in polarized intergroup conflicts, with hatred emerging as a consistent emotional pathway.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149010085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Barbara Valcke, Thomas Boularbah, Hilde Depauw, Dries H. Bostyn, Jasper Van Assche
{"title":"When diversity fails to engage: An investigation into the attitudinal, behavioural and physiological correlates of intercultural apathy","authors":"Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Barbara Valcke, Thomas Boularbah, Hilde Depauw, Dries H. Bostyn, Jasper Van Assche","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70132","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the rapid ethnic-cultural diversification of present-day societies, research shows that in everyday life, interethnic intergroup encounters are rather scarce. In the present contribution, we considered the concept of intercultural apathy to help explain why increased societal diversity does not necessarily go hand-in-hand with a rise in interethnic mixing. Intercultural apathy was defined as a cognitive, motivational and affective detachment from ethnic outgroups, both at the personal level and at the broader level of society. In four studies (total <i>N</i> = 879), we investigated the role of intercultural apathy in self-reports of intergroup contact (avoidance). Specifically, in survey Studies 1a-1b-2, we showed that interindividual differences in intercultural apathy are associated with lower frequencies of self-reported intergroup contact and stronger contact avoidance and segregation preferences. Importantly, these associations persisted after controlling for general apathy and prejudice, and they emerged among majorities <i>and</i> minorities. Furthermore, in experimental Study 3, we examined physiological intercultural apathy correlates. Our Bayesian results revealed preliminary evidence that intercultural apathy is related to lower physiological engagement (reduced heartrate variability) in response to outgroup – but not ingroup – stimuli in pain. Taken together, our results highlight that intercultural apathy may be germane to our understanding of 21st–century intergroup relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is a newcomer to the town accepted less than a local? The role of autochthony belief and place attachment","authors":"Sabina Toruńczyk-Ruiz, Borja Martinović, Tom Nijs","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70131","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In many Western European communities, distinctions between newcomers and established residents shape perceptions of who truly belongs. We investigated whether people in the Netherlands are more willing to include a male co-resident in local participation if he is born in the same town, and how this interacts with ethnicity. We hypothesized that reactions to the protagonist would depend on two orientations towards place: endorsement of autochthony belief—the idea that places belong to firstcomers—and place attachment. In two vignette experiments, native Dutch participants (<i>N</i><sub>1</sub> = 599; <i>N</i><sub>2</sub> = 455) evaluated a description of a fictitious resident whose place of origin and ethnicity varied, while his involvement in community life was held constant. Participants were equally accepting of locals and co-ethnics. However, those with strong autochthony beliefs were less accepting of newcomers than of locals (both studies) and of ethnic minority members than of co-ethnics (Study 1). Place attachment was positively related to acceptance of the protagonist regardless of his place of birth and ethnicity. These findings suggest that exclusionary responses are linked primarily to endorsement of autochthony beliefs rather than newcomer status itself, highlighting the importance of distinguishing autochthony belief as an exclusive and place attachment as an inclusive lens.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Objectification and facial emotion recognition: The moderating roles of loneliness and depression","authors":"Toshiki Saito, Katsumi Watanabe","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70127","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70127","url":null,"abstract":"<p>People are occasionally regarded or treated in ways similar to tools or objects (objectification). Previous research shows that experiencing objectification leads to detrimental interpersonal and psychological consequences. However, it remains unclear whether objectification influences a core interpersonal ability, facial emotion recognition. We conducted two preregistered studies to examine the relationship between objectification and emotion recognition accuracy. In Study 1, 265 participants completed a facial emotion recognition task and well-validated measures of daily objectification experiences, as well as depression and loneliness. Results revealed that daily objectification experiences were negatively associated with emotion recognition accuracy. Depression and loneliness moderated this relationship. Individuals with higher depressive symptoms exhibited a stronger negative association between objectification and emotion recognition accuracy. In contrast, individuals with higher loneliness showed increased emotion recognition accuracy as objectification increased, whereas those with lower loneliness showed decreased accuracy. In Study 2, 188 participants' situational feelings of objectification were experimentally manipulated. The manipulation successfully increased self-reported feelings of objectification, but the results did not provide evidence for the predicted causal effect of objectification on emotion recognition accuracy, nor for the predicted moderating effects of loneliness and depression. Taken together, these findings provide correlational but not causal support for the hypothesized relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148983941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}