Robert Körner, Astrid Schütz, Lars-Eric Petersen, Marine Groulon, Serena Chen
{"title":"The Power to Care for Oneself: Power Increases Self-Compassion","authors":"Robert Körner, Astrid Schütz, Lars-Eric Petersen, Marine Groulon, Serena Chen","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sense of power and self-compassion both impact important intrapsychic and interpersonal outcomes. However, how powerholders treat themselves when experiencing failure or personal setbacks is unclear. We propose that powerholders are more apt than their lower-power counterparts to exhibit self-compassion when faced with difficulties. Across six main studies (and four supplemental studies) using experimental, correlational and real-world designs (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 3325), converging support was found for a positive link between power and self-compassion. This held for experimentally-induced, self- and peer-reported and structural power, and for direct and indirect self-compassion measures. Further, as power means reduced dependence and increased security, we theorized and found that power enhances authenticity, which explained powerholders’ greater self-compassion. These findings advance theory in suggesting that power is linked to adaptively dealing with personal adversities, carry implications for organizational politics and HR practices and suggest that self-compassion interventions for low-power individuals may be useful.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1022-1038"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219584","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}
Aidan Campbell, Elizabeth W. Chan, Kenith Chan, Daniel J. Chiacchia, Ashley K. Dhillon, McLean Morgan, Evi Myftaraj, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Vadym Vasiutynskyi, Felix Cheung
{"title":"Euromaidan and Ukrainian Subjective Well-Being","authors":"Aidan Campbell, Elizabeth W. Chan, Kenith Chan, Daniel J. Chiacchia, Ashley K. Dhillon, McLean Morgan, Evi Myftaraj, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Vadym Vasiutynskyi, Felix Cheung","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2013–2014 Euromaidan in Ukraine was the largest series of pro-European protests in history. Peaceful civilian protests were met with state violence, resulting in widespread civil unrest, over 100 deaths, and nearly 2000 injuries. The Russo-Ukrainian War broke out shortly after. We examined the <i>immediate</i> and <i>long-term</i> changes in Ukrainians’ subjective well-being (e.g., life evaluation, hope, positive affect, negative affect) during the Euromaidan using serial cross-sectional data from the Gallup World Poll. Probability samples collected from 2006 to 2021 of 16,404 Ukrainians revealed that subjective well-being declined substantially during the Euromaidan but increased beyond pre-Euromaidan levels in the following years. Ukrainians’ approval of Russian leadership drastically dropped during the Euromaidan and remained low in the years after. Comparing across 118 countries from 2014 to 2021, the post-Euromaidan increase in life evaluation in Ukraine ranked 14th globally despite the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War following the Euromaidan. Our findings underscore the initial detrimental association with population well-being, and more importantly, highlight Ukrainians’ historical resilience in subsequent years despite major social upheaval and political strife.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1114-1128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219523","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":"Stabilising Repair in Psychological Science","authors":"Kevin Durrheim","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychological science has responded to the WEIRD critique through a broad agenda of inclusion, expanding the diversity of research participants, international collaborations and systems of scholarly recognition. While these reforms have generated important gains, concerns about epistemic inequality persist. This article argues that many contemporary reforms function as forms of <i>stabilising repair</i>: institutional responses that absorb critique by broadening participation and visibility while leaving underlying distributions of epistemic authority largely unchanged. Drawing on debates in decolonial scholarship, I show how inclusion can become a substitute for transformation when critique is translated into administratively manageable questions of representation. The result is a discipline that becomes superficially inclusive without necessarily becoming more diverse. I then review emerging proposals for institutional capacity building and epistemic reconstitution, arguing that a genuinely global psychology requires <i>infrastructural pluralisation</i>: the development of multiple centres, networks and knowledge infrastructures through which psychological theory, methods and research agendas can be produced, sustained and recognised.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1000-1005"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219543","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}
Anna Louise Z. Malfilâtre, Rachele Mazzini, Lau Lilleholt, Ingo Zettler, Séamus A. Power
{"title":"Honesty in Difficult Conversations: Insights From Healthcare Professionals","authors":"Anna Louise Z. Malfilâtre, Rachele Mazzini, Lau Lilleholt, Ingo Zettler, Séamus A. Power","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When being honest is expected to cause emotional distress to those it concerns, it can be difficult to practice. This study examines how honesty is understood and accounted for in situations of emotional, moral and relational complexity. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 16 Danish healthcare professionals (8 doctors and 8 nurses), we analyse accounts of engaging in difficult conversations with patients and relatives. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we identify two overarching themes comprising five subthemes. The first theme examines how communicative decisions are interpreted through different meanings of care, including concerns of preserving hope while fostering preparedness, establishing shared understanding and addressing avoided realities. The second theme describes how the professional role is invoked as a frame that makes engaging in difficult conversations both professionally legitimized and emotionally manageable. Together, the findings contribute an empirical account of how honesty is made sense of within interpersonal interactions perceived as potentially difficult.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1147-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219545","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 Meta-Analysis of Self–Other Differences in Prejudice","authors":"Sofia Narciso, Cristina Mendonça, André Mata","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this meta-analysis, we assessed self–other differences in prejudice: the extent to which people think that other people harbour more negative attitudes (or more stereotypical beliefs) about members of certain social groups than they themselves do. We found an average medium-to-large effect, <i>d</i> = 0.71, and evidence supporting dual-process accounts. However, we also found extreme heterogeneity. Some moderators modulate the effect (e.g., the self–other asymmetry is larger for judgements related to race/ethnicity and sexual orientation), but the heterogeneity remained high even when considering these moderators, suggesting that further research is needed to make sense of these self–other asymmetries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1039-1057"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219559","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":"What Would Grandma Think? Social Projection Onto Dead People","authors":"André Mata, Francisco Cruz, Rosário Ferreira","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores how the mental states and processes of the living influence how they think of the dead. In two studies (<i>N</i> = 300), we manipulated participants’ attitudes towards certain topics and tested whether they projected their attitudes onto the minds of dead people they knew. Indeed, participants who were prompted to think favourably or unfavourably about a certain topic imagined that the other (dead) person would share their attitude. Implications are discussed in terms of how people use similar social cognition tools to think about the living and the dead and of how people's mental representations of the dead are malleable and sensitive to context. Finally, possibilities are laid out for further research on the social psychology of thinking about dead people.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1176-1184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219526","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}
Yannik A. Escher, Hannes M. Petrowsky, Lea Boecker, Kathi Diel, Paweł Muniak, Meikel Neumann, Danna Oomen, Leonie Schwarz, Annik Strauch, Marcel Weber, Malte Friese, Oliver Genschow, S. Alexander Haslam, David D. Loschelder
{"title":"National Football Teams’ Performance Predicts Spectators’ Identities, Affect and Sociopolitical Attitudes: An Investigation During the 2024 EURO Tournament","authors":"Yannik A. Escher, Hannes M. Petrowsky, Lea Boecker, Kathi Diel, Paweł Muniak, Meikel Neumann, Danna Oomen, Leonie Schwarz, Annik Strauch, Marcel Weber, Malte Friese, Oliver Genschow, S. Alexander Haslam, David D. Loschelder","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On the basis of two social-affective frameworks, we posited that national football team performance (winning vs. losing) would impact spectators’ identities, affect and sociopolitical attitudes—including their intergroup attitudes (i.e., in-group favouritism and multiculturalism) and societal perceptions (i.e., national optimism, perceived crisis severity, political trust and perceived racism). During the UEFA EURO 2024 tournament in Germany, we assessed residents (<i>N</i> = 1012) from five participating countries before the tournament (baseline) and after each game. Confirming our preregistered hypotheses, national team wins led to stronger national identification, which, in turn, predicted more in-group favouritism and less support for multiculturalism. Wins also predicted more positive affect, which then coincided with stronger national optimism. Contrary to our hypotheses, however, no direct effects emerged for spectators’ political trust, nor their perceptions of crisis severity and racism. These findings highlight ways in which national sports experiences can predict spectators’ collective identities, emotions and selected sociopolitical attitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1160-1175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219527","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":"Populism and the Pandemic: How the Covid-Sceptic Movement Mobilised Opposition to Covid Measures","authors":"Yasemin Uluşahin, Stephen Reicher","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Covid-19 pandemic constituted a radically new social reality in which people were asked to observe an unprecedented set of regulations. This paper uses a Structural Analysis of Group Arguments (SAGA) framework of the speeches and campaign materials of the Covid-Sceptic movement to demonstrate how the movement provided a way for people to make sense of this new reality. We provide an explanation drawing on social representations theory, the social identity approach, and identity leadership perspectives on collective mobilisation. Specifically, we show that the Covid-Sceptic movement used populist social representations that framed the pandemic as a tool of elite domination over ‘the people’. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the dynamics of social mobilisation, the construction of social representations, and the role of populism as a collective process for making sense of new realities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1099-1113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219530","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":"Reducing Intergroup Bias Towards Stigmatised Groups: How Intersectionality Models Advance Beyond Traditional Models of Social Categorisation","authors":"Béatrice Sternberg, Constantina Badea","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Traditional models of social categorisation focus on singular identity dimensions or shared identities between targets and perceivers. Intersectionality models, by contrast, emphasise how multiple stigmatised identities interact to produce unique forms of bias. Few efforts have systematically compared these approaches, and none have articulated how intersectionality advances beyond them. In this article, we argue that the key contribution of the intersectional approach lies in its attention to social category interactions and the broader normative context that shapes them. Unlike prior social categorisation models, which tend to treat identities additively or in isolation, intersectionality accounts for the distinct bias that emerges at the intersection of multiple marginalised identities. To demonstrate this added value, we present a comparative framework outlining each model's distinctive features and predictions regarding bias towards stigmatised individuals. This perspective offers new directions for understanding when intersectional versus traditional categorisation models may be most appropriate, guiding the development of interventions that target the unique biases emerging at the intersection of multiple stigmatised identities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"981-991"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219583","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":"Short Replies as Partial Ostracism: How Receiving Bare-Minimum Engagement Threatens Basic Needs","authors":"Sarah Mohammadi, Andrew H. Hales","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Conversation is a shared activity that requires both people to stay engaged. If one person replies with unexpectedly short answers, that mutual engagement can break down, making the interaction feel less inclusive. We propose that receiving these short replies can be experienced as a form of partial ostracism and threaten basic psychological needs. Across three studies, short replies consistently reduced need satisfaction: even when delivered in a warm tone (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 441), even when they came from an acquaintance or a close other (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 444), and even when an external reason for brevity was available (Study 3, <i>N</i> = 740). This effect was mediated by perceived relational devaluation. These findings suggest that unexpectedly short replies can function as a subtle yet robustly hurtful form of ostracism and may be difficult to confront, given that sources can easily deny engaging in fully exclusionary behaviour.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 6","pages":"1185-1201"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219551","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}