{"title":"In control but uninspired: Displays of artist self-control undermine perceptions of creativity","authors":"Michail D. Kokkoris, Olga Stavrova","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research highlighted the interpersonal benefits of self-control in professional contexts: People prefer high self-control individuals as work or study partners and expect them to perform better than low self-control individuals. We show that these benefits of self-control reverse in the artistic domain. Results of one pilot study and five preregistered online experiments (<i>N</i> = 1644) reveal that artists with high (vs. low) self-control are perceived as less creative. This effect replicates across various artistic domains (visual art, music, poetry, screenwriting), holds for both male and female artists and can be explained by perceptions of lower experiential processing, which is considered indispensable for creativity. However, art created by high (vs. low) self-control artists is ascribed higher market value due to stronger attributions of productivity. These findings provide novel insights into the social perception of self-control and contribute to the understudied topic of the downsides of self-control as well as to the literature on lay theories of creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1531-1544"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178059","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":"The responsibility of setting a bad example: Models are blamed for their imitators’ behaviour","authors":"Peter Kardos, Bernhard Leidner, Brian Lickel","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3101","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Imitating each other is a central element of human nature and everyday life. Modelling – setting an example to others – and imitation – when the modelled behaviour is copied – are just as fundamental to learning as to maintaining and transmitting culture. Yet, the moral connotations of modelling and imitation are not well understood. Building on and extending the theoretical framework of vicarious responsibility, we investigate the imitated model's responsibility and the psychological processes underlying blame attribution to the model for their imitators’ behaviour. We argue that people understand that imitating a wrongdoing renders it potentially more consequential and that people account for these additional consequences in their appraisals of the original, modelled wrongdoing. Moreover, we hypothesized that models would be blamed for their imitators’ harmful behaviour to the extent that the observers copied the model's action. Five studies (<i>N<sub>total</sub></i> = 945) utilizing various contexts from animal mistreatment to online bullying, three of them preregistered, provide consistent support for our hypotheses and show that models are blamed for their imitators’ behaviour, that is, for setting a bad example for others. Extending present theories of vicarious responsibility, we demonstrate that shared group membership is not always a necessary requirement for vicarious blame attributions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1500-1514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178060","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}
Dermot Barr, John Drury, Linda Bell, Nils Devynck, Çağla Gayretli, Simran Lalli, Harry Linfield
{"title":"Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident","authors":"Dermot Barr, John Drury, Linda Bell, Nils Devynck, Çağla Gayretli, Simran Lalli, Harry Linfield","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 participants and analysed multiple secondary data sources from the 2017 false alarm in Oxford Street, UK, to develop a new explanation of this phenomenon. There was evidence that awareness of recent collectively self-relevant terrorist attacks lowered the threshold for interpreting ambiguous signals as signs of hostile threat. Interviewees also fled and hid after inferring threats from others’ fear and flight responses. Cooperative behaviour was sporadic and was associated with an emergent sense of groupness that occurred in limited locations. The analysis suggests that crowd behaviour in false alarms has more in common with the meaningful behaviour typically found in real emergencies than with the image of uncontrolled ‘mass panic’ portrayed in news media. These findings have implications for policy in preparing the public for terrorist attacks.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1515-1530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178061","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}
Cristina Mendonça, André Mata, Mário Boto Ferreira, Hans Alves
{"title":"The social amplification of illusory correlations","authors":"Cristina Mendonça, André Mata, Mário Boto Ferreira, Hans Alves","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3104","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Illusory correlations are thought to underlie many undesirable judgements and behaviours, such as those that result in out-group discrimination. In this research, illusory correlations are investigated in a dynamic fashion using the serial reproduction paradigm. Specifically, participants learned about members of certain groups and behaviours that they performed or attributes that they possessed. Afterwards, they were asked to recall that information and pass it on to other participants, such that whatever memory bias they produced was built into the information that was presented to others. Results revealed a weak tendency for the first participants to perceive an illusory correlation between certain groups and certain behaviours or attributes. More importantly, this pattern grew stronger as information was communicated across participants in a communication chain. That is, the illusory correlation became larger as the information passed from one participant to the next. These results show how biases can grow in society, such that what starts out as a very small misperception can acquire large proportions when incorrect information travels through different people.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1489-1499"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178062","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}
Joanna Grzymala-Moszczynska, Marta Maj, Marta Szastok, Arie Kruglanski, Katarzyna Jasko
{"title":"Motivational underpinnings of support for radical political leaders","authors":"Joanna Grzymala-Moszczynska, Marta Maj, Marta Szastok, Arie Kruglanski, Katarzyna Jasko","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3090","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present research examined the idea that followers are more strongly motivated by radical as opposed to moderate political leaders. We derived this idea from the significance quest theory that posits that a desire to feel important and meaningful is one of the fundamental human motives. We expected that voters would be more willing to support political actors when they perceived them as radical as opposed to moderate, because the goals of those radical actors would be more personally important for voters. Consequently, supporters would experience a greater sense of personal significance from supporting such goals, which would motivate them to get engaged on behalf of their candidates. In five studies (N = 2154), including two preregistered replications, spanning two US presidential elections (2016, 2020) and Polish parliamentary elections (2023), we found support for our predictions. The results showed that as followers perceived their candidates as more radical, they viewed the leaders' goals as more personally important, experienced a greater sense of personal significance, and expressed a higher willingness to make sacrifices for the candidates. These results contribute to the understanding of the appeal of radical political actors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1476-1488"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178063","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 curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help","authors":"Tian Qiu, Jingyi Lu","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumers who desire to be ‘rational’ tend to rely on reason and resist affective influences and thus choose objective options that are superior on quantifiable and measurable attributes but inferior on subjective and malleable attributes. Existing research reveals that consumers experience intrapersonal benefits from choosing objective options. Beyond these benefits, this study reveals the novel and interpersonal curse of choosing objective options that hinders consumers from receiving help. Six studies found that, compared to subjective-option choosers, objective-option choosers were considered less warm and received less help. Moreover, this social curse was attenuated when consumers’ choices did not reflect their own preferences. The current research contributes to the literature on objectivity–subjectivity trade-offs by extending it from the intrapersonal to the interpersonal perspective, and to the literature on helping by revealing how consumption reduces future help received in irrelevant contexts beyond current consumption.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1462-1475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868898","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":"Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations","authors":"Mathias Schmitz, Marine Rougier, Vincent Yzerbyt","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The reverse correlation is an innovative method to capture visual representations (i.e., classification images, CIs) of social targets. However, this method necessitates many trials to compute high-quality CIs, which poses important practical and economic challenges. We introduce a new version of the reverse correlation method, namely, the Brief-RC. By increasing the number of stimuli (i.e., noisy faces) presented at each trial, the Brief-RC improves the quality of individual (and average) CIs and lowers the overall task length. In two experiments, assessments by external judges confirmed that the new method delivers equally good (Experiment 1) or higher-quality (Experiment 2) outcomes than the traditional method for the same number of trials, time length and number of stimuli. The informational values of CIs were also compared using a more objective metric (infoVal). Because the Brief-RC facilitates the production of higher-quality individual CIs, social psychology researchers may more easily address a series of relevant research questions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1446-1461"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868897","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":"Correction to ‘Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs’","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.</p><p><b>Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs</b></p><p><i>Liora Morhayim, Linda R. Tropp, Edona Maloku</i></p><p>Pages: 48–65; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2986</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 5","pages":"1080"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980378","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":"Correction to ‘Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person-centred approach’","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.</p><p><b>Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person-centred approach</b></p><p><i>Kaja Warnke, Borja Martinović, Nimrod Rosler</i></p><p>Pages: 31–47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2993</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 5","pages":"1110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980381","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":"Correction to ‘The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia’","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.</p><p><b>The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia</b></p><p><i>Laura Fonseca, Sandra Jovchelovitch</i></p><p>Pages: 1–16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2967</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 5","pages":"1081"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980380","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}