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Motivated by identity: A social identity analysis of why people become foster carers 身份激励：为什么人们成为寄养照顾者的社会身份分析

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70134

Kathy Phelan, Aisling T. O'Donnell, Sarah Jay, Lorraine O. B. Madden

{"title":"Motivated by identity: A social identity analysis of why people become foster carers","authors":"Kathy Phelan, Aisling T. O'Donnell, Sarah Jay, Lorraine O. B. Madden","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70134","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70134","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding why individuals are motivated to take on new identities, particularly why people choose to become foster carers, is critical to addressing persistent shortages in foster care systems. Despite policy consensus that foster care is the preferred alternative when children cannot remain with birth families, shortages persist across many countries. Research has traditionally emphasised individualistic motivations, such as altruism, neglecting broader social and identity-based factors. This study applies a Social Identity Approach, drawing on the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC), to explore how social identities shape motivation to foster during life change. Semi-structured interviews with foster carers (n = 11) were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Three themes were identified. First, fostering aligned with pre-existing role identities, particularly parental and caregiving roles, allowing participants to maintain continuity and purpose during life transitions such as “empty nest” or infertility. Second, altruistic motivations were expressed within a collective framework, with participants perceiving themselves capable of providing support to children and families. Third, fostering was influenced by role models and normative practices, framing it as a shared, socially endorsed activity. Findings demonstrate fostering motivations are a dynamic identity process shaped by continuity, gain, and extension of valued social identities, offering the first application of SIMIC to identity-related motivations.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148973479","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}

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The effect of social identity on objective and perceived social support in groups 社会认同对群体客观社会支持和感知社会支持的影响

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70130

Julia Heimrich, Diana Usmanova, Nina Mareen Junker, Rolf van Dick, Jan Alexander Häusser

{"title":"The effect of social identity on objective and perceived social support in groups","authors":"Julia Heimrich, Diana Usmanova, Nina Mareen Junker, Rolf van Dick, Jan Alexander Häusser","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70130","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70130","url":null,"abstract":"The social identity approach posits that social identity fosters mutual social support within groups. However, prior research has relied almost exclusively on individual-level self-report measures, neglecting the mutuality of support and the group as a unit of analysis. This pre-registered one-factorial online experiment with three-person groups (N = 306 group members; N = 102 groups) examined how social identity shapes objective mutual support, perceived provided and received support and the perceived benevolence of received support. Following a pre-tested identity manipulation (N = 120), groups completed a video-recorded workplace simulation. Transcripts were blind-coded. Groups in the social identity condition engaged in significantly more objective mutual social support than participants in the personal identity condition. Social identity (vs. personal identity) did not affect perceived support but increased perceived benevolence, in terms of assuming underlying motives. These findings highlight the importance of distinguishing among objective mutual social support at the group-level, perceived social support and the interpretation of social support to understand how shared social identity shapes the social support process.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909316","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}

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The longitudinal interplay between acculturation and intergroup contact in adolescence 青少年文化适应与群体间接触的纵向相互作用。

IF 3.8 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70129

Lucia Jochym Illy, Beatrice Bobba, Francesca Prati, Monica Rubini, Elisabetta Crocetti

{"title":"The longitudinal interplay between acculturation and intergroup contact in adolescence","authors":"Lucia Jochym Illy, Beatrice Bobba, Francesca Prati, Monica Rubini, Elisabetta Crocetti","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70129","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70129","url":null,"abstract":"In current multicultural societies, mutual adjustment of majority and ethnic minority groups is a crucial issue shaped by groups' acculturation preferences and their encounters. These aspects are particularly relevant in adolescence when young people extend their social relationships and develop attitudes towards others. However, the association between acculturation preferences across domains and the quantity and quality of intergroup contact in adolescence remains underexplored. Thus, we conducted a three-wave longitudinal study with majority (N = 740; 64.73% female; Mage = 14.58) and ethnic minority (N = 244; 56.56% female; Mage = 14.91) adolescents to examine these links. Results of random-intercept cross-lagged models showed that among majority adolescents, at the between-person level, their preferences for minority acculturation were mainly associated with contact quality in and out-of-school, with preference for heritage culture maintenance linked to more positive contact and preference for adoption linked to more negative contact. Within-person increases in positive contact in school were followed by decreases in adoption preference. Among ethnic minority adolescents, at the between-person level, their adoption preference was related to more frequent and positive contact across contexts, with additional within-person associations. Overall, the findings emphasize the context-specific and asymmetrical interplay between acculturation and intergroup contact in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13536516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148876310","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}

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Heterogeneity in stereotypes of depression and schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of warmth and competence evaluations 抑郁症和精神分裂症刻板印象的异质性：温暖和能力评估的meta分析

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70128

Diogo C. da Silva, Teresa Garcia-Marques

{"title":"Heterogeneity in stereotypes of depression and schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of warmth and competence evaluations","authors":"Diogo C. da Silva, Teresa Garcia-Marques","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70128","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70128","url":null,"abstract":"Stereotypes about mental illness (MI) are not necessarily context-free or stably localized within the stereotype content model (SCM). Studies using different comparison sets are expected to produce different relationships between the two SCM dimensions, meaning that placements derived from visual maps, cluster solutions or quadrant descriptions should not be interpreted as fixed properties of social categories. Drawing on a PRISMA-guided meta-analysis, we synthesize SCM ratings of depression and schizophrenia and demonstrate substantial heterogeneity across studies, both in pooled mean estimates for each diagnosis-by-dimension combination and in contrasts between diagnostic categories. Analyses used random-intercept and random-slope meta-analytic models, with heterogeneity assessed through I2, τ and Cochran's Q. Across 17 studies, results showed considerable heterogeneity in evaluations of both diagnoses on both SCM dimensions. Although comparative analyses also showed high heterogeneity, findings consistently indicated that schizophrenia is rated as less warm than depression, whereas both diagnoses receive similar competence evaluations. These findings support the theoretical and methodological claim that SCM research should avoid treating depression and schizophrenia stereotypes as stable diagnosis-specific placements. We discuss how a diagnostic approach can be developed within a contextual framework using standardized procedures for data collection and analysis.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148858849","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}

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Severity over source: Understanding transgressors' motive attributions of punishment 严重于源：理解违法者惩罚的动机归因

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70118

Mathias Twardawski, Dorothee Mischkowski, Stefanie Hechler

{"title":"Severity over source: Understanding transgressors' motive attributions of punishment","authors":"Mathias Twardawski, Dorothee Mischkowski, Stefanie Hechler","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70118","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70118","url":null,"abstract":"Punishment conveys social information to transgressors, who attribute motives to punishers. Drawing on the motive-attribution framework, we examined whether transgressors' attributions to competitive (i.e. harming transgressors), individualistic (i.e. managing one's own interests) and prosocial (i.e. healing relationships) motives differ depending on whether punishment is administered by victims (second-party punishment) or uninvolved observers (third-party punishment), and how these attributions relate to downstream affective, relational and behavioural outcomes. In an incentivized Stealing Game, participants could steal valuable points and were punished either by the victim or an observer. Subsequently, transgressors reported their motive attributions, affect and willingness to reconcile and completed a measure of prosocial behaviour towards an unrelated other. Contrary to predictions, motive attributions did not systematically differ between second- and third-party punishment, except that third-party punishment was more strongly attributed to reputational concerns (i.e. a subdimension of individualistic motive attribution). Punishment severity emerged as an important predictor, with harsher sanctions linked to stronger competitive and individualistic attributions. Competitive motive attribution, in turn, was associated with higher negative affect and lower positive affect, willingness to reconcile and prosocial behaviour. Overall, transgressors' responses to punishment were less clearly shaped by who punished and more closely linked to punishment severity and motive attribution.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148842945","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}

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How does collective punishment work? The role of anticipated negative intragroup reactions 集体惩罚是如何起作用的？预期的消极群体内部反应的作用

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-24 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70126

Peter Kardos, Bernhard Leidner, Adrienn Král, Ádám Kun

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Rejecting conspiracies doesn't necessarily mean that you're smart: The relationship between conspiracy discrimination and reasoning ability 拒绝阴谋论并不一定意味着你很聪明：阴谋论歧视与推理能力之间的关系。

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-23 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70117

Samuel G. Robson, Kristy A. Martire, Samuel Pearson, Tylor J. Cosgrove, Jolanda Jetten, Kate Faasse, Matthew J. Hornsey

{"title":"Rejecting conspiracies doesn't necessarily mean that you're smart: The relationship between conspiracy discrimination and reasoning ability","authors":"Samuel G. Robson, Kristy A. Martire, Samuel Pearson, Tylor J. Cosgrove, Jolanda Jetten, Kate Faasse, Matthew J. Hornsey","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70117","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70117","url":null,"abstract":"Research examining the psychological predictors of conspiracy belief has overwhelmingly examined conspiracies that are unverified and/or implausible. Doing so potentially conflates ‘rational’ thinking with the tendency to heuristically reject conspiracist explanations. In three studies, we take a different approach, examining the predictors of the accuracy with which people can discriminate between unverified conspiracy theories and verified conspiracies (i.e. conspiracies that form part of the official record). The ability to discriminate between unverified and verified conspiracies was consistently higher among those with greater cognitive sophistication, as well as among political liberals, those lower in conspiracy mentality, and those with higher trust in experts, whereas associations with demographic variables were mixed. Conspiracy discrimination was also a much stronger predictor of cognitive sophistication than heuristic acceptance of conspiracy claims (response bias). In fact, good discriminators outperformed those who heuristically reject conspiracies (‘Indiscriminate Sceptics’) and those who heuristically endorse conspiracies (‘Indiscriminate Believers’) on each measure of cognitive sophistication. These findings challenge the idea that rejecting conspiracies is necessarily a sign of superior reasoning.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13500205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809208","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}

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Predictors of affect across social contexts: An integration of existing diary datasets 跨社会背景的影响预测：现有日记数据集的集成

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-14 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70124

Anna Tovmasyan, Denethri Gamagedara, Kou Murayama, Julie Bowker, Robert Coplan, Jennifer Lay, Thuy-vy Nguyen, Dongning Ren, Olga Stavrova, Virginia Thomas, Dwight Tse, Netta Weinstein

{"title":"Predictors of affect across social contexts: An integration of existing diary datasets","authors":"Anna Tovmasyan, Denethri Gamagedara, Kou Murayama, Julie Bowker, Robert Coplan, Jennifer Lay, Thuy-vy Nguyen, Dongning Ren, Olga Stavrova, Virginia Thomas, Dwight Tse, Netta Weinstein","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70124","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70124","url":null,"abstract":"Daily life is characterized by periods of complete and public solitude, face-to-face interactions and digitally mediated interactions when alone or with others, all of which elicit varying degrees and different types of affect. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of affect during these distinct everyday contexts. By combining data from 11 distinct datasets, we examined how time spent in complete solitude (not interacting and with no-one around), digitally mediated interactions when alone, public solitude (not interacting but with others present), interacting face-to-face and digitally mediated interactions when with others, as well as individual differences in age and extraversion, were associated with four types of affect distinguished on two dimensions (arousal and valence) and loneliness. Results showed that prior face-to-face interactions were associated with increased high-arousal positive affect and decreased low-arousal positive affect. This research offers nuanced insights into how social and solitary contexts, personality and age contribute to everyday affective experiences.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148727902","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}

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Escaping Russia, trapped by identity: National identity negotiation in light of ingroup wrongdoing 逃离被身份困住的俄罗斯：基于内部不法行为的国家身份谈判

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70125

Elena Mikhina, Xenia Daniela Poslon, Barbara Lášticová

{"title":"Escaping Russia, trapped by identity: National identity negotiation in light of ingroup wrongdoing","authors":"Elena Mikhina, Xenia Daniela Poslon, Barbara Lášticová","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70125","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70125","url":null,"abstract":"The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a wave of emigration, with vast numbers of people fleeing Russia due to political persecution or safety concerns. The study explored how anti-war Russian emigrants negotiate their national identity and moral responsibility amid ingroup wrongdoing. Previous research has shown that having a stigmatized identity can lead to self-group distancing. Yet those studies concerned groups that can be characterized as victims of violence or discrimination, and there is a lack of research on identity performance and negotiation of people who represent perpetrator groups. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with Russian emigrants (N = 12) in two rounds between March 2023 and early 2024. We analysed data using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Participants described feelings of collective guilt and fear from identity disclosure, accompanied by a sense of vigilance in how they perform their identity in interactions. To avoid any implication that they supported the State's actions, participants tended to mitigate potential moral judgement by positioning themselves as morally aware yet lacking agency. Although participants actively disidentified from Russian identity, they still emphasized struggling with navigating collective responsibility and guilt. We discuss the implications of our findings for the potential resistance and future post-conflict reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148709600","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}

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Entity morality beliefs increase prosocial behaviours: A self-attribution perspective 个体道德信念增加亲社会行为：自我归因视角

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70122

Zhixuan Lin, Jing Lin, Yu Kou, Helene H. Fung

{"title":"Entity morality beliefs increase prosocial behaviours: A self-attribution perspective","authors":"Zhixuan Lin, Jing Lin, Yu Kou, Helene H. Fung","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70122","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70122","url":null,"abstract":"Incremental/entity beliefs refer to individuals' views on whether traits are malleable/static. Previous research, mostly from a target attribution perspective, identified a positive relationship between entity beliefs and harsh moral judgements towards moral transgressors. Little research has examined the relationships between entity beliefs and positive moral behaviours (e.g., prosocial behaviours) from a self-attribution perspective. The current study filled this gap. Two correlational studies, Studies 1a (N = 1229) and 1b (N = 328), revealed positive correlations between entity beliefs, prosocial behaviours and the tendency to attribute behaviours to one's own traits. In Study 2 (N = 167), beliefs were manipulated. Entity theorists exhibited higher levels of helping intentions and self-trait attribution than incremental theorists. Studies 3a (N = 1737) and 3b (N = 183) further explored the moderating effects of prosocial cost and helping efficacy and found that by holding a strong connection between one's own traits and behaviour, entity theorists were less influenced by increased prosocial costs and reduced helping efficacy compared to incremental theorists. These findings establish a more grounded and dialectical understanding of entity and incremental beliefs.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148709610","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}

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