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Comparing imagined contact approaches to reducing prejudice and anxiety towards Black people. 比较想象中的接触方式减少对黑人的偏见和焦虑。

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British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70076

Jennifer F Beatty-Wright,Patrick L Hill

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Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution 对社会失范的认知塑造了对财富再分配的支持

IF 5.4 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70067

Kelly Kirkland, Christoph Klebl, Christian T. Elbæk, Jolanda Jetten

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Deconstructing the moral circle: Obligations as the driver of moral expansion 解构道德圈：义务作为道德扩张的驱动力

IF 5.4 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-28 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70073

Charlie R. Crimston, Joshua Rottman, Karri Neldner, Matti Wilks, Tarli Young

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Re-imagining space: Conceptualizing new psychological interventions against segregationist attitudes and behaviours 重新想象空间：对种族隔离态度和行为的新心理干预的概念化。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70066

Maria Ioannou

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A longitudinal multilevel analysis of individual- and contextual-level predictors of cross-ethnic friendships in the UK 英国跨种族友谊的个体和情境水平预测因素的纵向多水平分析。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70068

Rose Meleady, Hannah K. Peetz, Shelley McKeown, George Leckie, Jo Broadwood

{"title":"A longitudinal multilevel analysis of individual- and contextual-level predictors of cross-ethnic friendships in the UK","authors":"Rose Meleady, Hannah K. Peetz, Shelley McKeown, George Leckie, Jo Broadwood","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70068","url":null,"abstract":"Intergroup contact plays a central role in fostering positive intergroup attitudes; yet, factors promoting intergroup contact are less understood. Using three waves of data from a nationally representative UK household panel study (N = 18,807), we applied longitudinal multilevel models to examine how individual- and objective neighbourhood-level indicators jointly predict cross-ethnic friendships. At the individual level, higher openness and agreeableness, stronger neighbourhood belonging and a left-leaning political orientation were associated with more cross-ethnic friendships. At the contextual level, intergroup friendships were more common in neighbourhoods with more structural opportunity for contact (i.e., areas with a lower proportion of same-ethnic residents), and in areas with lower anti-immigration norms (as indicated by local Brexit ‘Leave’ vote share). Crucially, cross-level interactions highlighted the interplay of person and place: neighbourhood diversity fostered more cross-ethnic friendships, especially among those with strong neighbourhood belonging, suggesting that people who feel embedded in their community are more likely to translate diverse surroundings into meaningful intergroup ties. Differences between the ethnic majority and minority groups also emerged. For example, higher objective area-level racial hate crime incidence predicted more intergroup friendships among majority members, suggesting a possible repair response, but showed no association for minority members. Findings underscore the multilevel and group-specific pathways to sustained intergroup friendships.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147471741","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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Emotional synchrony predicts social cohesion effects following costly rituals 情感同步性预测了昂贵仪式后的社会凝聚力效应。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-15 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70064

Pierre Bouchat, José J. Pizarro, Jon Zabala, Darío Páez, Bernard Rimé

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‘They're eating our pets!’: When disgust and perceived cruelty combine to heighten prejudice “他们在吃我们的宠物！”：当厌恶和感知到的残忍结合在一起，加剧了偏见。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-13 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70063

Sasha Y. Kimel, Jonas R. Kunst, Fatih Uenal, Viridiana Kim

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Crowd psychology and the politics of co-production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory 群体心理与合作生产的政治：社会控制、民主秩序及其理论后果。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70065

Clifford Stott

{"title":"Crowd psychology and the politics of co-production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory","authors":"Clifford Stott","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70065","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70065","url":null,"abstract":"Social psychology has long claimed neutrality in its explanations of collective behaviour, yet its foundational theories of crowds have repeatedly been co-produced with institutions of authority and mobilized in the reactionary governance of social order. This article challenges the discipline's familiar origin myth—centred on benign laboratory demonstrations of social influence—by re-situating crowd psychology as one of social psychology's earliest and most politically consequential points of emergence. From nineteenth-century crowd theory, through mid-twentieth-century de-individuation research, to contemporary public-order doctrine, assumptions about the inherent irrationality and danger of collective action have been repeatedly reformulated in scientific form, their persistence reflecting institutional and ideological fit rather than explanatory adequacy. Against this background, the article repositions the Social Identity Approach and the Elaborated Social Identity Model (ESIM) not merely as theoretical corrections, but as a reorientation of how psychological knowledge is produced, authorized and used. Drawing on ethnographic participatory action research and sustained engagement with policing institutions in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, it conceptualizes collective behaviour as interactional and normatively organized, with policing practices constitutive of crowd dynamics rather than external to them. The article argues that co-production is not a methodological innovation but a historically persistent condition of social psychology and that the ESIM represents a distinctive attempt to govern this condition reflexively by redirecting psychological knowledge towards legitimacy, restraint and the facilitation of democratic rights. The broader implication is that social psychology cannot plausibly claim political neutrality: its concepts travel into institutions and practices, shaping how collective action is anticipated, governed and policed.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147439903","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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Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat-related conflicts across dietary behaviours 解开肉类悖论：跨饮食行为的肉类相关冲突的比较回顾。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70062

Benjamin Buttlar, Shiva Pauer

{"title":"Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat-related conflicts across dietary behaviours","authors":"Benjamin Buttlar, Shiva Pauer","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70062","url":null,"abstract":"A growing field of research examines how people experience and resolve cognitive conflicts in their behaviours, particularly in relation to meat consumption. Despite the alleged importance of conflict in behaviour change, most research focuses on how conflict motivates individuals to change or maintain their conflicted behaviour but disregards that conflict may persist even after successful behaviour change. This oversight has contributed to seemingly contradictory conclusions by conflating different kinds of conflicts and has arguably constrained theory development. Our review thus delineates (a) how people with different dietary patterns in meat consumption are affected by meat-related ambivalence and dissonance, (b) differences in the characteristics (magnitude, frequency, moralization) of these conflicts, (c) boundary conditions of why conflict experiences arise, and (d) how these factors determine the downstream consequences of conflict. This allows us to derive several novel predictions, ranging from why conflict avoidance strategies may sometimes paradoxically increase the likelihood of experiencing conflict to the distinct roles of capability, opportunity, and motivation in shaping the behavioural consequences of conflict. By re-evaluating prevailing assertions in the literature on meat-related conflict, we offer numerous theoretical and practical implications regarding cognitive conflict and the psychology of meat consumption and avoidance.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147394029","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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Why might members of racially minoritized groups seek anonymity when interacting with White people online? Codeswitching, emotional labour and burnout 为什么少数种族群体的成员在网上与白人互动时会寻求匿名？代码转换、情绪劳动和倦怠。

IF 3 2区心理学

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-08 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.70060

Lewis Nitschinsk, Melinda Hewett, Audree Grand'Pierre, Michael Thai, Fiona Kate Barlow

{"title":"Why might members of racially minoritized groups seek anonymity when interacting with White people online? Codeswitching, emotional labour and burnout","authors":"Lewis Nitschinsk, Melinda Hewett, Audree Grand'Pierre, Michael Thai, Fiona Kate Barlow","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70060","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70060","url":null,"abstract":"People can alter the nature of online intergroup interactions by becoming anonymous. Across three studies (N = 1107), we surveyed Black (Studies 1–3) and White (Study 2) participants in majority-White nations. We argue that Black people living in these countries face substantial pressures in interracial interactions, and that responses associated with the performative pressures of contact might predict a desire for anonymity in interracial settings online. We operationalized these responses in three distinct yet related ways: codeswitching (adjusting language or behaviour), emotional labour (suppressing negative and displaying positive emotions) and experiencing burnout from intergroup contact. As proposed: (1) Black participants who engaged in more codeswitching and emotional labour, and who felt more burned out when interacting with White people, were more likely to seek anonymity in an interracial interaction; (2) Black participants were more likely than White participants to engage in codeswitching and emotional labour, to feel burned out from interracial contact, and, in turn, to seek anonymity in interracial interactions; and (3) stigma consciousness and perceived discrimination partly explained the relationship between codeswitching, emotional labour, and burnout and seeking anonymity. Our findings elucidate how group processes might affect whether members of racially minoritised groups might seek anonymity online.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374274","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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