Katarina Pettersson, Mark Daniel Marveggio, Peta Callaghan, Martha Augoustinos
{"title":"Fatalism, Evolution, and Interpersonal Attractiveness: Psychological Theories and Emotions in Incels' Constructions of Ingroup Identity and Outgroup Hate","authors":"Katarina Pettersson, Mark Daniel Marveggio, Peta Callaghan, Martha Augoustinos","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3145","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The online communities of involuntary celibates, or incels, have garnered increased attention for their extreme misogyny and links to violent attacks against women. However, little is known about how (pseudo-)psychological theories are used among the incel community to construct their identities and justify a worldview that centres on hatred against women. This study uses a critical discursive psychological approach to examine identity constructions in discussions on the so-called blackpill worldview within the online community incels.is. Our analysis of more than 1000 discussion threads written in 2020 reveals three distinct incel identities: incels as victimised martyrs, incels as aggrieved masculine actors, and a divided identity negotiating the boundaries of ‘pure’ and ‘impure’ inceldom. These identities are constructed through psychological notions, specifically, fatalism, ‘just-world’ beliefs, evolutionary psychology, eugenics and theories of interpersonal attraction—that serve as interpretative repertoires expressed through a plethora of rhetorical strategies and affective–discursive practices. The study highlights the importance of understanding how psychological concepts are appropriated in the construction of ingroup identities and justifications of outgroup hate within misogynist online communities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"342-356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143536108","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":"Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non-Conspiracist Beliefs","authors":"Matthew S. Hall, Bradley Franks, Martin W. Bauer","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3120","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how people who believe in conspiracy theory (CT) hold those beliefs. It considers whether believing a conspiracist explanation of an issue or event permits or precludes also believing a non-conspiracist explanation—that is, the degree to which endorsing CTs can be dialogical. Dialogicality involves the coexistence of conspiracist and non-conspiracist beliefs in advancing claims and contrasts with the view that all conspiracist belief endorsement is monological or ‘closed’ from other explanations. Thematic analysis of 39 semi-structured interviews revealed five modalities of belief coexistence: <i>cognitive dissonance between beliefs</i>, <i>analogical beliefs</i>, <i>target-dependent beliefs</i>, <i>synthetic beliefs</i>, and <i>integrative beliefs</i>. This spanned beliefs about the self, ingroup, outgroup, reality, action and the future, on topics concerning science, religion, and politics and society. These findings challenge the view that all CTs are monological belief systems: CT believers recruit both conspiracist and non-conspiracist explanations in building their worldview. Several hypotheses for further research emerge from this challenge to the basic assumption of much research on CTs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"311-326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535865","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}
Lewis Doyle, Peter R. Harris, Matthew J. Easterbrook
{"title":"An Empathy Intervention Reduces the Gender Gap in School Discipline and Facilitates Belonging","authors":"Lewis Doyle, Peter R. Harris, Matthew J. Easterbrook","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>School disciplinary sanctions increase sharply during adolescence, with students from certain backgrounds disproportionately affected. Strong teacher–student relationships that cultivate trust, respect and empathy may be essential to buffer against these changes. This quasi-experimental longitudinal field study trialled a brief empathic mindset intervention with teachers in English secondary schools and examined its effect on their students’ (<i>N</i> = 1347) behaviour records and perceptions of schooling. The intervention was associated with a greater sense of school belonging and a reduction in sanctions (particularly for boys), thereby signalling the importance of making students feel heard and respected.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"327-341"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535862","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}
Inês Ascenso, Miguel R. Ramos, Marcelo Moriconi, Sibila Marques
{"title":"Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians","authors":"Inês Ascenso, Miguel R. Ramos, Marcelo Moriconi, Sibila Marques","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3143","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The ways in which politicians are stereotyped contribute to perceptions of the legitimacy of their power, status and leadership. In this research, we examined how corruption impacts the stereotypes of politicians. By examining stereotype content, we posited that corruption should elicit morality-related traits, while in contexts of no corruption, both morality and competence should emerge as key dimensions. With two experiments (<i>N</i><sub>combined</sub> = 272), participants were presented with either a corruption or no corruption condition and were asked to provide traits describing politicians. Results revealed that in the corruption conditions, (low) morality emerged as the key dimension explaining most variance. In the no-corruption conditions, (high) morality and (high) competence emerged as a single key dimension. Our findings reveal one of the multiple pathways by which corruption impacts society–perceiving politicians as having extremely low morality has implications for general trust and meritocracy, contributing to the erosion of democracy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"294-310"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143536017","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}
Claudia Baez Camargo, Violette Gadenne, Veronica Mkoji, Dilhan Perera, Ruth Persian, Richard Sambaiga, Tobias Stark
{"title":"Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania","authors":"Claudia Baez Camargo, Violette Gadenne, Veronica Mkoji, Dilhan Perera, Ruth Persian, Richard Sambaiga, Tobias Stark","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3140","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Practices of bribery in the delivery of public services become entrenched when they are driven by social norms of reciprocity. The resulting economies of favours, which are common across diverse geographical regions, are resilient to conventional anti-corruption measures because they are underpinned by strong social pressures. This article describes the results of a behaviour change intervention to address gift-giving as a form of bribery in a Tanzanian hospital. The intervention utilised environmental cues and a peer-led network approach to deliver messages aimed at disincentivising bribery. An exit survey of hospital users indicates a reduction of the ‘gift-offering propensity score’, capturing self-declared behaviour, from 23% before implementation of the intervention to 13% afterwards. We find similar changes in the enabling norms score. Semi-structured interviews with hospital users and health workers further support these findings. These results suggest that practices and norms around bribery might be changed through a multi-pronged approach that addresses both the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ side of bribery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"424-439"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778300","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}
Magali Beylat, Karl-Andrew Woltin, Julien Barbedor, Kai Sassenberg, Vincent Yzerbyt
{"title":"Followers’ Locomotion Mode Predicts Preferring Assertive Leaders: Regulatory Fit by Means of Valued Social Characteristics of Others","authors":"Magali Beylat, Karl-Andrew Woltin, Julien Barbedor, Kai Sassenberg, Vincent Yzerbyt","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3141","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Building on prior work on regulatory fit in leader–follower contexts, the present work investigated such fit regarding followers’ locomotion mode (the concern to move forward and maintain action flow) and leader assertiveness. In three studies, we recruited English-speaking employees online (<i>N</i><sub>total = </sub>948) and assessed their regulatory mode. In Study 1, we then measured participants’ preferences regarding characteristics their leaders ideally should have. In Study 2, participants reported perceived characteristics (ability/assertiveness/morality/friendliness) of their actual leader. In Study 3, we presented participants with a highly assertive versus highly able leader profile. Participants subsequently indicated their expected satisfaction with and motivation by these leaders. Across studies, the higher the followers’ locomotion mode, the more they valued their leader being assertive. These findings show that feelings of fit can also derive from an alignment with others’ characteristics and shed light on when leader assertiveness is appreciated.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"259-273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535778","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}
Rui Costa-Lopes, Emerson Araújo Do Bú, Filipa Madeira, Isabel R. Pinto
{"title":"The More I See It the Less I Want It: Sociotropic Corruption and (In)tolerance Towards Corruption in Contexts of Perceived Economic Crisis","authors":"Rui Costa-Lopes, Emerson Araújo Do Bú, Filipa Madeira, Isabel R. Pinto","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3138","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Whether the widespread perception of corruption is associated with lower or higher tolerance towards corrupt practices remains an important research question. Considering that, in economic downturns, citizens may become particularly sensitive to corruption, this paper goes further by exploring how the relationship between perceived sociotropic corruption and tolerance towards corruption may be moderated by perceptions of economic crisis. Findings from Study 1 with a representative sample of the Portuguese population (<i>N </i>= 1020) indicate that the higher the perceived sociotropic corruption, the lower the tolerance for corruption and that the negative relationship between sociotropic corruption and tolerance for corruption is strengthened by an economic crisis perception. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 120) experimentally explored these findings and provided preliminary evidence of greater intolerance towards corruption under high sociotropic corruption, especially when the economic crisis perception is salient. These results show how the salience of corruption practices might improve adherence to integrity normative expectations and how contextual factors might impact this process.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"490-500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778299","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":"Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long-Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities","authors":"Emily K. Hong, Jinhyung Kim, Incheol Choi","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3142","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Meaning and pleasure, albeit closely tied, are often distinguished in their temporality. The present research aims to deepen the understanding of temporality of meaning and pleasure by examining whether long-term orientation (LTO) positively predicts the preference for meaning-oriented behaviours but negatively predicts the preference for pleasure-oriented behaviours. Four studies (<i>N</i> = 1251) revealed supporting evidence for meaning but less consistent pattern for pleasure. Study 1 demonstrated that LTO was more consistently associated with the preference for meaningful activities (e.g., helping someone) than pleasurable activities (e.g., watching TV). Studies 2–3B further revealed that experimentally induced LTO increased the preference for meaningful activities while attenuating the preference for clearly pleasurable activities (e.g., getting drunk) only, indirectly through the LTO cultural values—tradition and planning. Our findings advance the understanding of how the pursuit of meaning and pleasure is mapped onto a wider scale of temporal orientation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"274-293"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535779","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":"Policing Corruption or Corrupted Policing? Social Norms and Policing in Ghana","authors":"Riccardo D'Emidio","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3137","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is a qualitative study of the relationship between social norms and corrupt behaviour in the Ghana Police Service. Although there is a growing body of literature exploring this nexus in very different settings, relatively less attention has been given to understanding the extent of the normative influence of social norms over corrupt behaviour. Social norms do not operate in a vacuum; therefore, to better understand their normative influence, it is critical to have analytical clarity of the broader social, economic and political settings in which they unfold. In order to so, this article deploys and adapts a set of analytical tools developed by Ben Cislaghi and Lori Heise, namely, the ‘dynamic framework for social change’ and the ‘theory of normative spectrum’ to map the different factors shaping corrupt behaviour and their interaction with relevant social norms. The data used for this analysis consist in 43 in person interviews with police officers and other anti-corruption stakeholders, collected in different rounds using semi-structured interviews and textual vignettes as eliciting tools. The findings of this research suggest that behavioural elements of sociality appear to be regulated by different enabling factors, which can impact the salience of the norm at play.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"440-456"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778466","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}
Thekla Morgenroth, they/them, Michelle K. Ryan, she/her, Madisyn F. Arnold, she/her, Nadira S. Faber
{"title":"The Moralization of Women's Bodies","authors":"Thekla Morgenroth, they/them, Michelle K. Ryan, she/her, Madisyn F. Arnold, she/her, Nadira S. Faber","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3136","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Women's bodies have long been subject to societal control. We examine a form of gender/sex bias that may be used to justify and maintain such control: the moralization of women's bodies. Across two studies with US samples (total <i>N</i> = 805), we show that people draw more strongly on morality when justifying their views about women's (vs. men's) autonomy over their bodies. Study 1 showed that a wide range of body-related behaviours were seen as more of a moral issue for women than for men—a pattern that was absent for behaviours unrelated to bodily autonomy. Study 2 focused on a context with more opposition to women's bodily autonomy (public toplessness) and showed that people drew more strongly on morality when justifying their opposition to women's, compared to men's, bodily autonomy. Exploratory analyses suggested that sexist beliefs may play an important role in such gendered moralization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"227-239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404743","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}