{"title":"‘Hunger happens elsewhere, here malnutrition results from lack of proper care’: Social representations of malnutrition and processes of Othering in the Nepalese press","authors":"Sabine Caillaud, Sofia Payotte","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3087","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Malnutrition gives rise to stigmatisation worldwide and is a pressing societal issue. Drawing on social representation theory and on the process of othering, a lexicometric analysis of Nepalese press articles (<i>N</i> = 440) was conducted to explore if, and how, Othering of the malnourished is at play and how articles (re)construct the threat of malnutrition. The results indicate that Othering takes different forms depending on the threat the malnourished represent: (a) the malnourished in foreign countries are perceived as suffering from hunger due to a lack of social development and democracy whereas (b) the malnourished in Nepal are perceived as being afflicted because they hold traditional beliefs. However, (c) when the threat can be attributed to natural disasters, no negative attributes were associated with the malnourished in Nepal. This suggests that Othering is neither systematic nor monolithic. These findings illustrate how social psychology can address urgent societal questions while equally offering an opportunity for new theoretical developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1280-1295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365516","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":"Perceived general similarity and relationship satisfaction: The role of attributional confidence","authors":"Ting Hin Lee, Ting Kin Ng","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3085","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Even though many studies have examined the link between individuals' perceived general similarity to their romantic partners and their own relationship satisfaction, there are not many studies focusing on the impact of perceived general similarity reported by the partner. The present work uncovers the potential mediating roles of one's and the partner's attributional confidence in the effects of one's and the partner's perceived general similarity on relationship satisfaction. To investigate the mechanisms, two studies were conducted at individual and dyadic levels. A total of 395 individuals (51.4% female) aged 17–67 (<i>M </i>= 22.06, <i>SD </i>= 4.68) in unmarried opposite-gender relationships were recruited in Study 1 and 227 unmarried opposite-gender couples were employed in Study 2. Across two studies, the indirect effect of perceived general similarity on relationship satisfaction via attributional confidence was significant. In particular, the actor effects of perceived general similarity on relationship satisfaction were mediated by the actor effects of attributional confidence. Moreover, the partner effects of perceived general similarity on relationship satisfaction were mediated by partner attributional confidence (i.e., one's partner's perceived general similarity on one's relationship satisfaction via one's partner's attributional confidence). The present findings shed light on the mechanisms through which perceived general similarity fosters relationship satisfaction among opposite-gender relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1266-1279"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141374463","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}
Charlotte Krahé, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Claudia Hammond, Michael J. Banissy, Athanasios Koukoutsakis, Paul M. Jenkinson
{"title":"The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch","authors":"Charlotte Krahé, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Claudia Hammond, Michael J. Banissy, Athanasios Koukoutsakis, Paul M. Jenkinson","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3076","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Touch is a key channel for conveying meaning in social interactions. The affective quality of touch and its effects on well-being are shaped by relational context (relationship between touch giver vs. recipient) and person variables (e.g. adult attachment style). Yet, such effects have not been explored in relation to the <i>meaning</i> ascribed to touch. We used data from the Touch Test, the world's largest touch survey, which included questions on the degree to which people felt and related specific emotions and intentions to imagined gentle stroking touch and hugs. In <i>N =</i> 23,428, we examined how relational context (imagined source of touch) and person variables (gender, recalled positive childhood touch and adult attachment style) were associated with positive (e.g. love, desire, support) and negative (e.g. fear, anger, warning) emotions and intentions related to imagined touch. Love, desire and support were endorsed more when participants had had their partner (vs. someone else) in mind, and women (vs. men) gave lower ratings for desire overall. Gentle stroking touch was most linked with arousal when participants had had their partner in mind. Further, more positive childhood touch and secure and anxious attachment scores were associated with more positive emotions and intentions, while the opposite was found for avoidant attachment scores. Lastly, positive childhood touch and higher anxious attachment scores were related to greater discrimination between distinct emotion and intention categories, while higher attachment avoidance was associated with reduced discriminability. Thus, contextual and person variables matter in shaping the meaning of social touch.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1247-1265"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386950","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}
Michael Thai, Michael Wenzel, Blake Quinney, Lydia Woodyatt, Tyler G. Okimoto
{"title":"Keeping score: Past victimization reduces offenders’ conciliatory sentiments for their present transgressions","authors":"Michael Thai, Michael Wenzel, Blake Quinney, Lydia Woodyatt, Tyler G. Okimoto","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3075","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many relationships within which interpersonal transgressions transpire often involve histories of reciprocal wrongdoing, where each party has occupied both the role of victim <i>and</i> offender. We investigate whether past incidents of being wronged by the victim of a present transgression may dampen offenders’ conciliatory sentiments for their present wrongdoing. Across four studies (combined <i>N</i> = 1037), we find evidence that past victimization experiences within the context of an interpersonal relationship can blur offenders’ construal of their role as offender and elicit feelings of victimhood, allowing them to exonerate themselves and feel less guilt for their present wrongdoing, display less empathy for the present victim, and reduce their willingness to reconcile with the present victim. These findings highlight the importance of taking into account historical transgressions within a relationship as a determinant of relationship repair in the aftermath of present wrongdoings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1228-1246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141148724","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":"Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring","authors":"Hualin Xiao, Antoine Marie, Brent Strickland","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3071","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exploring what modulates people's trust in evidence of hiring discrimination is crucial to the deployment of corrective policies. Here, we explore one powerful source of variation in such judgments: moral commitment to gender equality (MCGE), that is, perceptions of the issue as a moral imperative and as identity-defining. Across seven experiments (N = 3579), we examined folk evaluations of scientific reports of hiring discrimination in academia. Participants who were more morally committed to gender equality were more likely to trust rigorous, experimental evidence of gender discrimination against women. This association between moral commitment and research evaluations was not reducible to prior beliefs, and largely explained a sex difference in people's evaluations on the issue. On a darker note, however, MCGE was associated with increased chances of fallaciously inferring discrimination against women from contradictory evidence. Overall, our results suggest that moral convictions amplify people's myside bias, bringing about both benefits and costs in the public consumption of science.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1211-1227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141148743","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}
Yael Ecker, Alexandra W. Busch, Stefan Schreiber, Roland Imhoff
{"title":"From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor","authors":"Yael Ecker, Alexandra W. Busch, Stefan Schreiber, Roland Imhoff","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3074","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We identified and tested a novel aspect of human resilience: The daily pursuit of maintenance goals. Taking inspiration from archaeological records, which point at routinized cultural practices as a central resilience factor, we tested whether personal routine practices, governed by maintenance goals, serve a similar function to individuals as traditional practices do to societies. Namely, we hypothesized that maintenance striving increases individuals’ resilient responses to stressful events. Confirming this prediction, a longitudinal Study 1 showed that maintenance striving but not avoidance striving, predicted subsequent increases in well-being following the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Study 2 confirmed our predictions on trait resilience and maintenance versus avoidance motivations in the household and relationship life domains in cross-sectional data. These studies contribute to the understanding of resilience by demonstrating the benefits of maintenance goals for both situational and trait-level resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1198-1210"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969515","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}
Mathias Twardawski, Mario Gollwitzer, Marlene S. Altenmüller, Katja Bertsch, Jill Lobbestael, Antonia L. E. Philippi, Charlotte E. Wittekind
{"title":"Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting","authors":"Mathias Twardawski, Mario Gollwitzer, Marlene S. Altenmüller, Katja Bertsch, Jill Lobbestael, Antonia L. E. Philippi, Charlotte E. Wittekind","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3073","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Imagery rescripting (ImRs) is a prominent approach to help individuals alleviate the negative consequences following victimization. In two studies (total <i>N</i> = 641), participants experienced a victimization incident induced by a video. In subsequent audio-guided (ImRs or control) interventions, we examined the impact of imagined (i) victims' active or passive role, (ii) punishment for the offender (yes/no), and (iii) offender moral change (yes/no) on both psychological states and behavioural intentions. Specifically, after the ImRs, participants reported their feelings of empowerment, justice-related satisfaction, positive and negative affect, and intention to act after the intervention. Results revealed that ImRs significantly reduced negative consequences of victimization, with active ImRs surpassing passive ImRs in enhancing victims’ empowerment and positive affect. Notably, neither imagined offender punishment nor moral change affected the efficacy of ImRs. We discuss these findings in light of ImRs as an intervention to address victims’ threatened needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1182-1197"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140978616","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}
Juan Carlos Marulanda-Hernández, Alex Wiegmann, Michael R. Waldmann
{"title":"Camouflaged liability: How the distinction between civilians and soldiers influences moral judgement of permissible harm in war","authors":"Juan Carlos Marulanda-Hernández, Alex Wiegmann, Michael R. Waldmann","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3072","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research has shown that people judge sacrificing a few people to save a larger number to be morally permissible when the intervention targets the threat but not when it targets the victims. We investigated whether this distinction according to the locus of intervention influences people's evaluations of wartime scenarios and whether such evaluations vary according to different types of victims (e.g., civilians vs. soldiers). We observed a significant effect of locus of intervention in situations in which a smaller number of civilians were sacrificed to save a larger number of civilians (Study 1; <i>N </i>= 142). However, the effect of locus of intervention was less pronounced in scenarios in which soldiers were sacrificed to save civilians (Studies 2 and 3; <i>N </i>= 173 and <i>N </i>= 841). A fourth experiment (<i>N </i>= 477) explored why participants treated soldiers and civilians differently. Participants believed that it is more permissible to sacrifice soldiers because they consent to being harmed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1168-1181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140986428","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}
Namkje Koudenburg, Jolanda Jetten, Karalyn F. Enz, S. Alexander Haslam
{"title":"The social grounds of personal self: Interactions that build a sense of ‘we’ help clarify who ‘I’ am","authors":"Namkje Koudenburg, Jolanda Jetten, Karalyn F. Enz, S. Alexander Haslam","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3070","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many lay people believe that the best way to develop a clear sense of ‘who you are’ is to shut yourself off from others and engage in introspection. Increasingly, however, empirical evidence points to the social aspects of identities and identity development. Building on this, we argue that a strong sense of personal identity is more likely to be derived from meaningful social interaction. More specifically, we argue that when communication allows people to develop a sense of shared identity, it can also promote a sense of personal self. Consistent with this hypothesis, evidence from three experiments indicates that social interaction indirectly enhances people's self-concept clarity and personal identity strength, through an increased experience of shared identity and social validation. This suggests that a sense of ‘me’ is not formed independently of others but also through the experience of ‘we’ in interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1153-1167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140941285","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":"Changing perceptions of people wearing masks: Two years of living in a pandemic","authors":"Xia Fang, Kerry Kawakami","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3069","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the widespread use of face masks to combat COVID-19, little is known about their immediate and delayed social consequences. To understand short- and long-term effects of face masks on interpersonal perception, we measured the evaluation of faces with and without masks at four time points—June 2020, January 2021, September 2021 and June 2022—from the early months of the pandemic in North America to the more recent, and from the implementation of mask mandates to the end of these requirements. Surprisingly, we found that, in general, faces with masks were perceived as more competent, warm, trustworthy, considerate and attractive, but less dominant and anxious than faces without masks. Moreover, differences in attributions of dominance, trustworthiness and warmth between faces with and without masks increased in a linear trend from June 2020 to June 2022. Notably, the impact of masks on perceptions of competence, considerateness, attractiveness and anxiousness did not change over time. We discuss how mask mandates can alter people's social perceptions of others who wear masks compared to those who do not wear masks and how these mandates may influence attributions of some traits more than others through mere exposure and/or social norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 6","pages":"1141-1152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140658019","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}