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{"title":"The ‘twin pandemics’? modelling and predicting the trajectories of IPV perpetration during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia","authors":"Gery C. Karantzas,&nbsp;Daniel A. Romano,&nbsp;Susan Chesterman,&nbsp;Emma M. Marshall,&nbsp;Laura Knox,&nbsp;Ellie R. Mullins,&nbsp;Nicholas Lawless,&nbsp;Elizabeth Ferguson,&nbsp;Peter G. Miller,&nbsp;Christopher I. Eckhardt,&nbsp;Pam Pilkington,&nbsp;Anshu Patel,&nbsp;Jeffry A. Simpson","doi":"10.1111/bjso.12911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12911","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Initial research suggested that intimate partner violence (IPV) increased over COVID-19 due to social restrictions. This IPV increase during COVID-19 has been termed the ‘twin pandemics’. Closer inspection of the evidence, however, challenges this notion. In this study, Australian residents (<i>N</i> = 608) who were either exposed to strict, prolonged lockdown orders (Victorian residents) or not (non-Victorian residents) completed 10 waves of IPV perpetration assessment online over five months and baseline assessments of instigating factors (situational factors that increase IPV perpetration), impelling factors (personal characteristics that increase IPV perpetration) and inhibiting factors (personal and situational factors that diminish IPV perpetration). Latent profile analysis and conditional latent growth curve modelling revealed that lockdown alone did not predict IPV trajectories. However, individuals whose profiles evidenced higher instigating and impelling factors and lower inhibiting factors (i.e. perfect storm profile) demonstrated elevated physical and psychological IPV over time compared to those whose profiles evidenced lower instigating and impelling factors and higher inhibiting factors (i.e. low-risk profile). Those with a perfect storm profile also evidenced steeper acceleration in physical and psychological IPV over time. The findings call into question the ‘twin pandemics’ notion and suggest that IPV over COVID-19 is best predicted by a specific risk profile.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.12911","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681204","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":"A badge, a part of my history and also a root: A longitudinal qualitative exploration of the social identity model of identity change in retired elite athletes","authors":"Ye Zhang,&nbsp;S. Alexander Haslam,&nbsp;Catherine Haslam,&nbsp;Niklas K. Steffens","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Athlete retirement involves substantial identity changes and psychological challenges. This longitudinal qualitative study explored the experiences of 16 recently retired elite Chinese athletes using the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC). Semi-structured interviews were conducted within 3 months of retirement (T1) and 1 year later (T2), with reflexive thematic analysis applied to examine the dynamic relationship between social identity change and adjustment. Key themes highlighted the processes related to SIMIC in sports retirement: (a) identity loss impacting adaptation to new roles, (b) identity continuity achieved through identity remigration (strengthening connection with past group identity) and identity remooring (forming new identities related to previous ones), (c) challenges and advantages of identity gain, (d) the impact of identity aspiration to gain or maintain group membership and (e) ways in which similarity in group contexts increases group compatibility. Findings revealed that while athletes experienced distress from identity loss at T1, social support from existing group memberships mitigated these effects through identity remigration. By T2, identity continuity and compatibility between old and new group memberships, supported by group context similarity, became critical to adjustment to new roles. These findings extend SIMIC in novel ways and can inform support programmes for retiring athletes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624656","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":"Who values competent minds and who likes warm hearts? The role of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in shaping voter preferences for political candidates","authors":"Feiteng Long,&nbsp;Zi Ye","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Decades of research have recognized political candidates' competence and warmth as predictors of voter preferences, but to whom these distinct personalities are most appealing remains unclear. In the current research, we investigated how voters' Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) influenced their preferences for highly competent or warm political candidates. In two studies, we experimentally manipulated candidate competence (Study 1) and warmth (Study 2) and measured voter preferences using overall evaluations, the feeling thermometer, and the likelihood-of-voting rating. We also measured perceived ability to clean up danger, perceived ability to win competitions, and perceived caring about people as potential mediators. The results suggested that a candidate's high competence (vs. neutral traits) increased preferences for the candidate among voters high in RWA more than those low in RWA. However, despite some indication, the effect that a candidate's high warmth (vs. neutral traits) increased such preferences among voters low in RWA more than those high in RWA lacked robustness across different voting preference measures. Additionally, the moderating effects of SDO on the relationships between candidate traits and voter preferences were not significant. Neither RWA nor SDO moderated the indirect effects of candidate competence and warmth through the proposed mediators.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144568445","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":"Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro-environmental behavioural intentions","authors":"Aitor Larzabal-Fernandez,&nbsp;Angela Castrechini Trotta,&nbsp;Alexandra Vázquez","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is a significant and urgent challenge faced by humanity, yet the widespread dissemination of misinformation hampers progress in combating it. While previous research shows that false information about the scientific consensus on climate change can shape beliefs and attitudes, its effect on behavioural intentions remains less understood. To examine this, two experiments in Spain (<i>n</i> = 673) and Ecuador (<i>n</i> = 365) tested the impact of denialist versus confirmatory or neutral messages about the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change on the intention to take pro-environmental actions. Moreover, we explored the moderating roles of gender and ideological orientation, which are key factors in climate scepticism. In both countries, right-wing men who received consensus-denying messages showed fewer intentions to perform pro-environmental behaviours compared to those who received consensus-confirming messages. Consensus misinformation did not appear to have a consistent impact on women across ideological lines or on left-wing men. These findings highlight the urgent need to develop communication interventions targeted at specific demographic subgroups to counteract climate misinformation and promote pro-environmental actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520098","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":"Lay representations of social class: A mixed methods approach to wealth-based group perceptions and stereotypes","authors":"Ángel del Fresno-Díaz,&nbsp;Efraín García-Sánchez,&nbsp;Elena Padial-Rojas,&nbsp;Guillermo B. Willis,&nbsp;Soledad de Lemus","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>People's perceptions of social classes may differ from scholars' definitions. We used a mixed method, sensitive to context, to examine lay perceptions of social classes in Spain. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 90), we conducted qualitative interviews to examine how people spontaneously characterize wealth-based groups. Participants identified between two and seven groups. We grouped these into five main analytical categories for analytical purposes: poor, lower and working classes, middle classes, upper classes and rich and beyond. These groups were described based on material characteristics, traits and culture. Positive traits were mainly associated with non-wealthy groups, especially the lower and working classes, while negative traits were associated with wealthy groups. In Studies 2 (<i>N</i> = 251) and 3 (<i>N</i> = 190), we extended these findings quantitatively, showing that positive stereotypes were associated with non-wealthy groups, whereas negative stereotypes were associated with wealthy groups. Using psychometric networks, non-wealthy groups were ascribed more positive traits—with some ambivalences—while wealthy groups were mainly described using negative traits. We confirmed this pattern of results through meta-analyses. These findings highlight the importance of lay perspectives in theoretical frameworks and the need for context-sensitive approaches in analysing social class representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503152","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":"Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non-forgiveness","authors":"Blake Quinney,&nbsp;Michael Wenzel,&nbsp;Michael Thai,&nbsp;Tyler Okimoto,&nbsp;Lydia Woodyatt","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Victims have the prerogative to withhold forgiveness. However, offenders who apologize may believe that they have acted correctly and can feel wronged by victims who refuse to forgive in return. Indeed, apologetic offenders can perceive victims' non-forgiveness as violating an apology-forgiveness reciprocity norm and as a threat to their own sense of status/power, which makes offenders perceive themselves as victims, and less willing to engage in further reconciliatory behaviour. The present research investigates whether offenders' trait empathy can qualify these destructive responses to non-forgiveness. We originally theorized that a greater capacity to empathize with victims may help offenders better understand victims' non-forgiveness and react less negatively to it. Across three studies (combined <i>N</i> = 1000), we find evidence of the contrary—offenders who have high trait empathy tend to react more negatively to non-forgiving victims. Our findings suggest this is because empathic offenders believe that victims should reciprocate their reparatory action with an empathic response. This presents a conundrum for repair processes that promote empathy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144367513","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":"Paths to peaceful and violent action: Identity fusion and group identification","authors":"Zafer Ozkan,&nbsp;Sofián El-Astal,&nbsp;Huseyin Cakal","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Across three studies, we examined the associations between group identification, identity fusion and pro-group action in national (Study 1: Palestinians), religious (Study 2: Muslims in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks) and non-political (Study 3: football fandom) contexts. We first tested models in which group identification was related to pro-in-group outcomes, followed by models incorporating identity fusion to assess its additional associations. Group identification was consistently associated with peaceful pro-group action, while identity fusion was more strongly linked to violent pro-group action across all contexts. In Study 1, identity fusion was negatively associated with endorsement of a peaceful solution, a pattern not observed in the other studies. In the football fandom context, identity fusion was positively associated with both peaceful and violent pro-group action, with a stronger association with peaceful action. These findings suggest that identity fusion and group identification, while related, capture different psychological processes relevant to collective action. The study extends research on identity fusion to new cultural contexts and highlights the importance of examining identification processes in diverse real-world contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144332031","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":"From who we are to what we are willing to do for social change: The action-bound role of efficacy perceptions","authors":"Alice Lucarini,&nbsp;Veronica Margherita Cocco,&nbsp;Loris Vezzali,&nbsp;Terri Mannarini,&nbsp;Huseyin Çakal","doi":"10.1111/bjso.12910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12910","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two cross-sectional studies conducted in Chile (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 587) and Italy (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 438) investigated the action-bound role of perceived efficacy in explaining the association between politicized (Studies 1 and 2) and non-politicized identity (Study 2) with normative and non-normative collective action (CA) intentions. We comparatively explored different efficacy perceptions: internal locus of control (i.e., individual agency), group efficacy (i.e., ingroup agency), normative and non-normative collective action efficacy (i.e., action efficacy). Both identity types were positively associated with normative CA intentions via increased perceptions of group and normative CA efficacy (Studies 1–2). Regarding non-normative CA intentions, beyond observing positive associations with politicized identity via increased group (Study 1) and non-normative CA efficacy (Study 1–2), we also found a negative indirect effect of politicized identity via increased normative CA efficacy (Study 1) and a negative indirect effect of non-politicized identity via decreased non-normative CA efficacy (Study 2). These findings highlight the key role of efficacy perceptions in translating identity into action, emphasizing both group agency and the perceived efficacy of specific forms of action. Moreover, they suggest that the type of social identity can promote or inhibit more radical forms of CA, shaping pathways to social change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.12910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292632","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":"Where you live matters more than who you know: Context-level contact as a stronger predictor of post-war reconciliation than individual-level contact","authors":"Sabina Čehajić-Clancy,&nbsp;Clemens Lindner,&nbsp;Pascal Gelfort,&nbsp;Julia Elad-Strenger,&nbsp;Thomas Kessler","doi":"10.1111/bjso.12913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12913","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Intergroup contact theory and research argue and demonstrate that intergroup relations, even in post-war societies, could be improved by individuals' positive contact experiences with outgroup members. This study extends this argument by investigating whether post-war reconciliation is determined by the amount and quality of individuals' <i>personal contact</i> experiences with members of former adversary groups (individual-level contact) <i>and/or</i> by the amount and quality of contact that occurs within the context in which they live (<i>context-level contact</i>). Using multilevel analyses among large representative youth samples from ethnic majorities (<i>N</i> = 2758) and minorities (<i>N</i> = 1751) nested across 40 administrative regions in five post-war countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina; North Macedonia; Kosova; Montenegro; Serbia), we provide substantive evidence that context-level contact is a stronger determinant of reconciliation, surpassing the influence of individual-level contact. Evidence from this research demonstrates the critical influence of the social context, particularly the amount and quality of intergroup contact that occurs within individuals' immediate surroundings, on post-war reconciliation, and provides important guidelines for policies and interventions fostering positive intergroup relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.12913","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273428","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":"Correction to Majority group belonging without minority group distancing? Minority experiences of intergroup contact and inequality","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/bjso.12912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12912","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Kende, J., Baysu, G., Van Laar, C., &amp; Phalet, K. (2021), Majority group belonging without minority group distancing? Minority experiences of intergroup contact and inequality. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60: 121–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12382&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Figures 1–3 were presented in the wrong order in the original publication. The labels and captions in the figures are correct, and so is the description of the results, but the description of the results does not correspond to the numbering of the figures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results illustrated in Figure 1 on p. 12 (&lt;i&gt;Attitudes towards the minority group at low and high individual perceptions of unfair treatment and low and high majority contact&lt;/i&gt;) are described in the text on p. 13 (&lt;i&gt;Examining this interaction further (see Figure 2), more majority contact predicted significantly less positive attitudes towards the minority group at higher levels of perceived unfairness (p = .003), yet minority attitudes were unrelated to majority contact when minority youth perceived less unfair treatment (p = .526). Likewise, when minority youth perceived more unfair treatment, their attitudes were significantly less positive only at higher levels of majority contact (p = .003), yet at lower levels of majority contact minority attitudes were unrelated to perceived unfair treatment (p = .649)&lt;/i&gt;, as being illustrated in Figure 2. Correctly, it should be described as illustrated Figure 1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the results illustrated in Figure 2 on p. 13 (&lt;i&gt;Minority identification at low and high perceptions of unfair treatment and low and high majority contact&lt;/i&gt;) are described in the text on p. 14. (&lt;i&gt;The same interaction was also significant on strength of minority identification (see Table 2). As Figure 3 shows, more majority contact was significantly related to weaker minority identification at higher levels of perceived unfair treatment in school (p &lt; .001), yet majority contact was unrelated to minority identification when minority students perceived less unfairness (p = .182). Also, at high levels of majority contact, majority contact was related to weaker minority identification, although this association did not quite reach significance (p = .070&lt;/i&gt;).as being illustrated in Figure 3 instead of Figure 1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the results illustrated in Figure 3 on p. 14 &lt;i&gt;(Attitudes towards the minority group at low and high individual experiences of discrimination and low and high majority contact)&lt;/i&gt; are described in the text on p. 12. &lt;i&gt;Moreover, in line with H2 on minority group distancing, there was a significant two-way interaction of positive majority contact with individual discrimination experiences on attitudes towards the minority group (see Table S3 in Appendix S1). To interpret the interaction, we tested simple effects of majority contact at high versus low levels of experienced discrimination, and of discrimination at high versus low levels of contact (-1 SD) with the Wald te","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.12912","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273427","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}