Kunalan Manokara, Matthew J. Hornsey, Jolanda Jetten
{"title":"The Elite Global Citizen: How Wealth Shapes Cosmopolitan Identity and Charitable Intentions","authors":"Kunalan Manokara, Matthew J. Hornsey, Jolanda Jetten","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In four studies, we provide the first empirical examination of how wealth relates to cosmopolitan identity and its consequences for charitable intentions. Study 1 demonstrated that wealth positively predicted cosmopolitan identity in a 60-nation dataset (<i>n</i> = 90,350). Study 2 replicated this finding with multi-item measures in the United States, India and Australia (total <i>n</i> = 861); self-esteem and self-efficacy accounted for this association. Study 3 demonstrated the mediating role of cosmopolitan identity in explaining the link between wealth and charitable intentions (<i>n</i> = 351). Study 4 provided causal evidence for these relationships by experimentally manipulating wealth perceptions in the United States and India (total <i>n</i> = 537). People who were made to feel wealthy (as opposed to poor) reported greater self-esteem and self-efficacy, which flowed through to heightened cosmopolitan identification, and finally to increased charitable intentions. Together, these studies suggest that structural economic realities may impose psychological barriers to cultivating global citizenship, hence implicating prosocial downstream consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"99-118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404385","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}
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Marylisa Sara Alemi, Federica Spaccatini, Ilaria Giovannelli, Ayse K. Uskul, Stefano Pagliaro
{"title":"Bystanders’ Reactions to a Woman Victim of Sextortion: Moral Outrage, Victim Blaming and Reputational Damage","authors":"Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Marylisa Sara Alemi, Federica Spaccatini, Ilaria Giovannelli, Ayse K. Uskul, Stefano Pagliaro","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sextortion is a scantly investigated crime in which entrusted authority is abused to obtain sex in exchange for a service or benefit. Based on the literature on gender violence, in the present research, we examined the role of moral evaluations of the victims in predicting potential bystanders’ attitudes and behavioural intentions towards a woman who is a victim of a sextortion incident. In three experimental studies conducted with Italian participants (Study 1: <i>n</i> = 291; Study 2: <i>n</i> = 288; Study 3: <i>n</i> = 331), participants read a scenario describing a woman victim of sextortion and then rated the victim on moral outrage, moral evaluation, blame attribution, perceived reputational damage, and indicated their willingness to help her. The results highlighted that the victim was always perceived as less moral and more blameworthy when she caved into sextortion (vs. not). Furthermore, a sequential mediation model showed that, across all studies, caving into (vs. resisting) sextortion elicited stronger feelings of moral outrage towards the victim, as well as the perception of lower morality, which, in turn, reduced the willingness to offer help. In Study 3, this pattern was significant only when the woman reported the incident 1 year later (vs. 1 week). Current findings show that the peculiar transactional nature of sexual abuse makes sextortion victims appear to be complicit in the act. Thus, recognising the power dynamics through which sextortion can be used to exploit and abuse individuals is paramount to avoid secondary victimisation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"532-546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778201","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":"(Mis)Matching Expectations: The Effects of Claimant Gender Identity and Harassment Form on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Claims","authors":"Jennifer L. Mezzapelle, Anna-Kaisa Reiman","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3122","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Laypeople often assume a typical sexual harassment incident involves a cisgender man directing sexual advances toward a cisgender woman. Alternatively, when people learn that a transgender woman was sexually harassed, they tend to assume she experienced gender harassment. How are harassment claims that do not match these expectations evaluated? In two preregistered studies, participants (<i>N</i> = 630 and 638) read a social media post from a transgender or assumed cisgender woman who experienced unwanted sexual attention or gender harassment at work. Regardless of harassment form, transgender (vs. assumed cisgender) women were more likely to be rated as complainers and as overreacting (Studies 1 and 2) and elicited less empathy (Study 2). Additionally, participants in both studies were less likely to label gender harassment (vs. unwanted sexual attention) as sexual harassment. How sexual harassment claims are evaluated may have serious consequences for the (lack of) support claimants receive when speaking up about harassment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"83-98"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404594","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}
Kangning Du, John A. Hunter, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Damian Scarf, Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle, Ted Ruffman
{"title":"Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members","authors":"Kangning Du, John A. Hunter, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Damian Scarf, Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle, Ted Ruffman","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3111","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Laypeople reason that different races share 68% of their genes. In fact, the Human Genome Project indicates that humans, regardless of race, share 99.9% of our genetic material and that only 1/200th of 1% has been used to group people into the five classically conceived races. We reasoned that information about shared genetics might compel participants to extend their ingroup to include those formerly in the outgroup. In three studies, we showed participants an 11-min video with this information and compared this to a music video. In Study 1, we examined 123 European New Zealanders and found that attitudes towards individuals in other countries (measured by questions such as How much do you believe in being loyal to all mankind?) improved significantly from pre- to post-test compared to a music video detailing the effect of music on a child's brain. In Study 2, we replicated this effect with a group of 93 European participants in the United Kingdom. In Study 3, we replicated this effect again with a group of 150 participants from the United Kingdom and showed that the effect is independent of age, political orientation, need for cognitive control and submissiveness.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"70-82"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404411","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}
Joana Quarenta, Tomás A. Palma, Joshua Correll, Ana Sofia Santos, Balbir Singh
{"title":"Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit","authors":"Joana Quarenta, Tomás A. Palma, Joshua Correll, Ana Sofia Santos, Balbir Singh","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3115","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The cross-race recognition deficit (CRD) involves poorer recognition of faces perceived as cross-race compared to faces perceived as the same race. In this literature, research has examined social and perceptual encoding in the CRD separately. Recent research comparing these strategies shows that encoding faces based on social information (personality traits) enhances face recognition relative to encoding faces based on perceptual information (facial features), with a similar effect for both same-race and cross-race faces. Expanding on this research, we conducted three experiments (one pre-registered), manipulating the perception of face race within participants and using different social and perceptual encoding questions to examine their impacts on the CRD. Results showed that social encoding equally facilitated the recognition of faces perceived as same-race and cross-race replicating previous research (Experiment 1). However, perceptual encoding divergently impacted face recognition, improving cross-race but disrupting same-race (Experiment 2) or having comparable effects to standard encoding (Experiment 3). We discuss these findings and their implications for existing CRD theories.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"37-53"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404624","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}
Antonio Aquino, Lara Fontanella, Mirella Walker, Geoffrey Haddock, Francesca Romana Alparone
{"title":"What Your Face Says: How Signals of Communion and Agency Inform First Impressions and Behavioural Intentions","authors":"Antonio Aquino, Lara Fontanella, Mirella Walker, Geoffrey Haddock, Francesca Romana Alparone","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two studies investigated how facial signals of communion and agency intersect to shape first impressions. Study 1 primarily investigated how enhancing or reducing facial signals of communion or agency affected impressions of these dimensions. Results demonstrated that the manipulation of facial signals of communion affected impressions of both communion and agency, whereas the manipulation of facial signals of agency affected only impressions of agency. Secondly, data from Study 1 were used to categorize the Basel Face Database stimuli into the four cells of the stereotype content model (SCM). Study 2 investigated how combined facial signals of communion and agency impact individuals’ evaluations, emotions and behavioural intentions towards targets. Results showed that communion signals in faces have a stronger impact on overall evaluations and behavioural intentions compared to agency signals. Furthermore, in line with the SCM, specific combinations of communion and agency evoked distinct emotions: admiration (high communion–high agency), pity (high communion–low agency) and contempt (low communion–low agency). Together, the research emphasizes the primary role of communion in social perception, highlighting theoretical and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"54-69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404625","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}
Federico Contu, Arie W. Kruglanski, Molly Ellenberg, Huixian Yu, Edward P. Lemay Jr., Antonio Pierro
{"title":"Romantic Relationships as a Source of Significance","authors":"Federico Contu, Arie W. Kruglanski, Molly Ellenberg, Huixian Yu, Edward P. Lemay Jr., Antonio Pierro","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on significance quest theory and its derived model of romantic relationships, we demonstrated that perceiving romantic partners as having socially valued qualities (partners’ merit) and as admiring and caring (partners’ appreciation) enhanced actors’ significance gained through the romantic relationship which, in turn, increased the likelihood to enter (Studies 1A and 1B) and maintain (Study 2) romantic relationships. Further, Study 3 demonstrated that significance gained through romantic relationships and inclusion of the other in the self were independently associated with romantic partners’ merit and appreciation and the likelihood of maintaining romantic relationships. Finally, Study 4 showed that people experiencing feelings of significance loss were more sensitive to their partners’ merit and appreciation features. Findings are compared with the rich social psychological literature on romantic relationships and future directions are outlined.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"17-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404686","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":"Beyond Being Beneficiaries: Two Mechanisms Explain Why Women Have More Favourable Attitudes Towards Gender Quotas Than Men","authors":"Miriam K. Zehnter, Christa Nater","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research identified two mechanisms that explain gender differences in attitudes towards gender quotas. Using a multi-method approach, we assessed attitudes as self-reported support for gender quotas and rater-coded valence of participants’ free associations with gender quotas. Study 1 examined quotas for university professorship positions (<i>N</i> = 237) and Study 2 quotas for corporate leadership positions (<i>N</i> = 587). Supporting the first mechanism, women's greater perceptions of discrimination against women related to greater perceived necessity of gender quotas, which related to more favourable attitudes. Supporting the second mechanism, men's greater concerns that quotas discriminate against men related to greater concerns that quotas stigmatize women as incompetent, which related to less favourable attitudes. By advancing the understanding of key mechanisms behind attitudes towards gender quotas, this research contributes to effectively designing and successfully implementing hard affirmative action policies aimed at overcoming women's underrepresentation in leading academic and corporate positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404791","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}
Keven Joyal-Desmarais, Hyun Euh, Alexandra Scharmer, Mark Snyder
{"title":"Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self-focused and other-focused motivational orientations","authors":"Keven Joyal-Desmarais, Hyun Euh, Alexandra Scharmer, Mark Snyder","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine how individual differences in self-focused and other-focused orientations relate to prosocial (e.g., helping, volunteerism) and antisocial (e.g., theft, violence) behaviours/attitudes. Using four datasets (total <i>N</i> = 176,216; across 78 countries), we find that other-focused orientations (e.g., socially focused values, intimacy motivation, compassionate/communal traits) generally relate positively to prosocial outcomes and negatively to antisocial outcomes. These effects are highly consistent cross-nationally and across multiple ways of operationalizing constructs. In contrast, self-focused orientations (e.g., personally focused values, power motivation, assertive/agentic traits) tend to relate positively to both antisocial and prosocial outcomes. However, associations with prosocial outcomes vary substantially across nations and construct operationalizations. Overall, the effects of other-focused orientations are consistently larger than those of self-focused orientations. We discuss the implications of these findings for interventions that target self-focused and other-focused motivations to influence prosocial and antisocial outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1610-1643"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868962","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}
Zahra Khosrowtaj, Sarah Teige-Mocigemba, Vincent Yzerbyt
{"title":"‘(N)One of us but all of them!’ Ingroup favouritism on individual and group levels in the context of deviant behaviour","authors":"Zahra Khosrowtaj, Sarah Teige-Mocigemba, Vincent Yzerbyt","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past research hints both at more extreme judgements of ingroup deviants and at attributional biases in the case of Muslims, immigrants and refugees. We examined two recently observed patterns in the context of intergroup violence: harsher judgements on the individual level (black sheep effect) and milder judgements on the cultural level when a perpetrator stems from the ingroup. We further investigated whether these patterns were affected by (a) the outgroup being salient (Experiment 1), (b) the comparison context (Experiments 2–3) and (c) participants perceiving the ingroup as high versus low in entitativity (Experiment 3). Experiments 1 (<i>N</i> = 437), 2 (<i>N</i> = 283) and 3 (<i>N</i> = 703) revealed the presence of robust effects on cultural level with participants treating the ingroup culture more leniently than the outgroup culture. Moreover, on the individual level, Experiments 2 and 3 found an overall black sheep effect that was especially prevalent in an intergroup context. Outgroup salience and ingroup entitativity did not affect participants’ judgements on individual and cultural levels. This protection of the ingroup both on an individual and on a cultural level may hint at a derogation of the outgroup. We discuss implications and insights for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 7","pages":"1593-1609"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142266206","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}