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{"title":"Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa","authors":"Maho Aikawa,&nbsp;Andrew L. Stewart","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current research focused on how competing narratives (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives) are endorsed among low-status group members, through the case of the US military base issue in Okinawa, Japan. Specifically, we explored patterns of Okinawans’ narrative endorsement (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives surrounding the presence of US military in Okinawa), as well as their behavioural responses (e.g., resistance and compliance) using survey responses of Okinawan participants (<i>N</i> = 172). Following the identification of factors in narrative endorsement and behavioural responses through exploratory factor analyses, we identified narrative profiles of participants through a latent profile analysis. Then, we mapped narrative profiles, behavioural responses and social positions (i.e., gender, age and educational background) in understanding the relationship among these constructs. The results revealed that participants’ narrative endorsement was often ambivalent, as many of them endorsed both dominant and resistance narratives to some degree. The results also showed that participants’ narrative profile was significantly related to their behavioural responses. Implications regarding the conceptualization of narrative endorsement and its behavioural consequences are further discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"659-673"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148154272","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":"Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy","authors":"Joseph Mumbanza Ngeke,&nbsp;Laurent Licata,&nbsp;Claudia Toma","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Belief in gender discrimination is a key predictor of employees’ attitudes toward gender equality policies in organizations. We hypothesized that this belief increases men's support for gender equality policies but decreases women's support due to the perception of organizational hypocrisy. Across three studies—two correlational (<i>N</i> = 420; <i>N</i> = 669) and one experimental (<i>N</i> = 420)—we found evidence for a dual pathway: Among men, stronger belief in gender discrimination was associated with greater support for gender equality policies; among women, the same belief was associated with increased perception of organizational hypocrisy, which, in turn, reduced their support. These findings highlight the importance of fostering men's awareness of gender discrimination while ensuring that organizational efforts are perceived as authentic to maintain women's support.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"641-658"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153644","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":"Shared Identity, Shared Experience, Social Mobilisation: A Social Identity Approach to Collective Action Among War-Affected People","authors":"Magdalena Skrodzka,&nbsp;Elaine M. Smith,&nbsp;Aoife-Marie Foran,&nbsp;Catriona Shelly,&nbsp;Kristine Brance,&nbsp;Orla T. Muldoon","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Crises have the potential to transform social identities and foster collective action, yet little is known about how new identities emerge and how a sense of shared experience (SSE) sustains mobilisation beyond immediate group contexts. The present research investigated these processes among 495 displaced Ukrainians with 107 participants completing a follow-up 3 years later. It focused on identification and SSE with war-affected people and intentions to engage in collective action, including support for human rights and advocacy of refugees from other conflict-affected regions. Cross-sectional analyses indicated that identification indirectly predicted collective action intentions through an SSE. Longitudinal analyses confirmed that identification predicted an SSE over time, relating to refugee advocacy, whereas broader human rights intentions declined. The results suggest that fostering shared experiences and identification with affected groups can sustain collective mobilisation even under prolonged and discouraging conflict conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"726-736"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153229","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":"What Could Have Been: Predicted and Actual Exclusion by Potential Romantic Partners and Platonic Friends","authors":"Natasha R. Wood,&nbsp;Sydney G. Wicks,&nbsp;Adam J. Beam,&nbsp;Elijah P. Mudryk,&nbsp;Ellie Bray,&nbsp;Andrew H. Hales","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Romantic partners are instrumental to more goals than friends, and therefore, people have more to lose when denied a romantic relationship than a friendship. We explored people's forecasted and experienced rejection by a potential romantic partner or friend. In Study 1, participants (<i>N</i> = 1500) reported their lay beliefs about which experience would hurt more. Twice as many people indicated that potential romantic (vs. friend) rejection would be worse. In Studies 2 and 3, participants (<i>N</i> = 934, 477 respectively) were accepted or rejected by potential romantic partners or friends. The source of the exclusion did not impact participants’ forecasted or experienced affect or needs satisfaction. However, participants overestimated the pain of exclusion. Despite believing romantic rejection would hurt more when directly comparing it to platonic rejection and forecasting an exaggeration of this hurt, exclusion appears universally painful, and the potential relationship between the source and target matters little.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"674-690"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153454","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, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity-Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts","authors":"Islam Borinca,&nbsp;Esra Yalçın Tankır,&nbsp;Furat Barqa,&nbsp;Huseyin Cakal","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war-related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed. This research examines the emotional and cognitive mechanisms underlying solidarity among observers who have not directly experienced these conflicts as combatants, refugees or residents of conflict zones, focusing on the Ukrainian–Russian and Israeli–Palestinian conflicts. Across four experiments, we tested whether exposure to civilian suffering elicits empathy, perceived injustice and solidarity-based action intentions. Experiments 1 (<i>N</i> = 225, Irish participants) and 2 (<i>N</i> = 425, diverse European participants) demonstrated that exposure to Ukrainian suffering, relative to a control condition, increased empathy and interpersonal solidarity-based action, with empathy mediating these effects even when controlling for political ideology and European identity. Experiment 3 (<i>N</i> = 496, UK participants) introduced a Palestinian suffering condition and collective solidarity-based action measures, showing that exposure increased empathy and support for the target group, with stronger effects for Ukrainians. In this experiment, relative empathy mediated these effects. Experiment 4 (<i>N</i> = 349, UK participants, preregistered) employed a fully crossed 2 × 2 design including all four groups, Ukrainians, Russians, Palestinians and Israelis, and introduced perceived injustice. Exposure to civilian suffering increased empathy, perceived injustice and collective action, with stronger effects for Palestinian, relative to Israeli, suffering. Cross-conflict interactions further showed that viewing Palestinian suffering increased empathy for Ukrainians, and vice versa. Serial mediation analyses confirmed that perceived injustice and empathy jointly explained support for these groups. Taken together, these findings clarify how observers without direct conflict experience emotionally and cognitively respond to armed conflicts and why some conflicts elicit greater public solidarity than others.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"691-712"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153551","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":"Allyship Motives and Their Differential Associations With Identity and Collective Action","authors":"Lea Hartwich,&nbsp;Julia C. Becker","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Across three studies (<i>N</i> = 785) in the context of anti-racist collective action in the United States and Germany, we empirically validate a theoretical framework of four motives for advantaged group allyship: outgroup-focused, ingroup-focused, personal and morality. We investigate the types of identification these motives stem from and how they contribute to collective action engagement on behalf of disadvantaged groups. In line with expectations, we show that outgroup-focused and morality motives are predicted by politicized identification and linked to stronger commitment to collective action on behalf of the disadvantaged group, though only outgroup-focused motive predicted more costly actions. On the other hand, ingroup-focused motive was predicted by ingroup identification and personal motive by narcissism. Neither predicted future collective action intentions. This research provides empirical evidence that advantaged group allies participate in collective action out of very heterogeneous motives, not all of which contribute to sustained engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"737-754"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153230","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":"How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?","authors":"Petr Houdek,&nbsp;Štěpán Bahník,&nbsp;Marek Vranka,&nbsp;Martin Zielina","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>When wrongdoing is committed by a powerful superior, victims face a strategic dilemma: punish (e.g., confront and report), avoid or forgive. Moral-repair and restorative-justice perspectives suggest that conciliatory responses can elicit guilt and restore cooperation, whereas punitive responses may deter misconduct but risk backlash, especially in situations of power asymmetry. Across four studies, we examined both sides of this dyadic process: how victims select response strategies and how powerful transgressors subsequently react. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 1003) showed that observers expected more punishment for more severe supervisor transgressions, yet also anticipated that punished superiors would respond more unkindly than forgiven superiors. Two incentivized laboratory studies modelling asymmetric appropriation (Study 2a: <i>N</i> = 503; Study 2b: <i>N</i> = 487) replicated the severity–response gradient; however, the subsequent behaviour of powerful transgressors was largely unresponsive to either punishment or forgiveness. A retrospective incident survey of recent supervisor misconduct (Study 3; <i>N</i> = 395) revealed that avoidance was the most common response; higher perceived severity predicted punishment, and punishment was associated with greater supervisor retaliation and lower reconciliation. Across methods, we document an expectation–outcome gap as responses that are normatively endorsed and intuitively appealing often fail to induce moral repair when the transgressor is insulated by power.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 4","pages":"755-773"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148153582","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":"The Effects of Arabic Gendered Language in Job Advertisements on Recruiters’ Evaluation of Job Applicants—A Hiring-Simulation Experiment","authors":"Farida Soliman,&nbsp;Sabine Sczesny","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70055","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research investigated the impact of grammatically gendered language in Arabic job advertisements on recruiters’ evaluation of applicants’ job fit, wage allocation, and hireability. In a between-participants hiring-simulation experiment, Arabic-speaking recruiters from local companies in Egypt (<i>N</i> = 181) evaluated either a woman or a man applying for a job advertised in gender inclusive language (grammatically gendered role pairs in the order feminine/masculine; e.g., <i>مسؤولة/مسؤول</i>; sales officer [+fem]/sales officer [+masc]) or solely masculine language (<i>مسؤول</i>; <i>sales officer</i> [+masc]). The results revealed that in the masculine language condition, the woman was rated as less fitting, received lower wage allocations, and was less likely recommended to be hired than the man, whereas in the gender inclusive language condition, the woman and the man were evaluated comparably. Furthermore, the woman in the gender inclusive language condition was evaluated as better fit for the job, received higher wage allocations, and was more likely recommended to be hired, in comparison to the woman in the masculine language condition. Overall, these findings highlight the need to promote gender-inclusive language in recruitment practices in Arabic to reduce discrimination against women in these settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 3","pages":"507-520"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683358","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":"Reclaimed Homophobic Hate Speech Backfires: Desensitization and Mood Deterioration","authors":"Dominik Puchała,&nbsp;Michał Bilewicz,&nbsp;Aleksandra Świderska","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70056","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reclaimed hate speech is generally seen as a positive phenomenon by minority groups and, to some degree, by majority groups. However, previous research has not examined whether it might produce harmful effects similar to traditional hate speech. In three experimental studies (<i>n</i> = 489; <i>n</i> = 242; <i>n</i> = 181), we found that reclaimed homophobic hate speech does bear negative consequences. Specifically, exposure to reclaimed homophobic hate speech leads majority-group members to become desensitized to traditional hate speech, which, in turn, worsens their attitudes toward gay people. This effect, however, has only been observed among conservative and moderate individuals. Moreover, exposure to reclaimed homophobic hate speech worsens the mood of gay people without reducing the negative impact of traditional hate speech. Overall, our findings indicate that the negative side effects of reclaimed homophobic language may outweigh its benefits and that the associated costs may be unacceptable.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 3","pages":"521-536"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683500","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":"Strong Leaders, Not Strongmen: How Concern for Polarization and Collective Nostalgia Shape Leader Preference","authors":"Michael J. A. Wohl,&nbsp;Anna Stefaniak,&nbsp;Nick D. Ungson,&nbsp;Dominic Packer","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.70063","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Political polarization is widely seen as a growing threat to democratic cohesion, yet little is known about how concern about polarization shapes citizens’ preferences for political leadership. Across four studies in the United States and Canada, we examined whether concern about polarization predicts support for strong leaders, and whether this association is mediated by the <i>content</i> of collective nostalgia (i.e., what aspect of the national past people long for). Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 366), conducted shortly after the January 6th Capitol insurrection, showed that concern about polarization predicted support for a generic strong leader via civic-focused (but not homogeneity-focused) nostalgia. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 332 cross-sectional) and Studies 3–4 (pre–post the 2024 US and 2025 Canadian elections), we distinguished three types of strong leaders: authoritarian, unifying and beloved hero. Concern about polarization consistently predicted support for unifying and heroic leaders through civic nostalgia, whereas homogeneity-focused nostalgia predicted support for authoritarian leaders but was not itself driven by polarization concern. In Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 282), but not Study 4 (<i>N</i> = 264), these pathways were moderated by vote choice, with stronger effects among those whose candidate lost. Together, the findings highlight collective nostalgia as a motivational mechanism linking polarization anxiety to divergent leadership preferences and demonstrate that support for strong leaders does not always reflect authoritarian motives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"56 3","pages":"601-621"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682919","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}