{"title":"Original sin or natural order: Dialogical construction of social knowledge of animal production","authors":"Timo Häkli, Eemeli Hakoköngäs","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research examines the public discussion around animal production in Finland. Applying a dialogical approach to social representations theory, we elucidate the hotly debated nature of animal production by analysing news articles (<i>N</i> = 50) and the related reader-produced comments (<i>N</i> = 1501) in Finnish newspapers. We employed qualitative methods for analysing multivoicedness and dialogue to identify ego–alter pairs constructed in the material in relation to the object of animal production. Four prevalent ego–alter pairs were identified: advocates for animal rights–animal production defenders, producers–consumers, orthodox–unorthodox Christians and provincials–urban dwellers. The study contributes to the study of everyday knowledge by showing how various contradictory understandings of the same topic are generated in public discourse. The research also demonstrates how the theoretical concept of ego–alter embedded in the social representations theory can be empirically utilised in analysing debates in contemporary media environments and to shed light on the dialogical dynamics around the discussions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"577-591"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589734","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}
Ruri Takizawa, Vincenzo Iacoviello, Michelle K. Ryan, Clara Kulich
{"title":"Gender stereotypes may not influence the choice of female leaders: Experimental evidence from a crisis framed as social or economic during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Ruri Takizawa, Vincenzo Iacoviello, Michelle K. Ryan, Clara Kulich","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3023","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research examined whether female (vs. male) leaders are preferred during a pandemic when stereotypically feminine leadership is deemed useful. We hypothesized that citizens prefer female (vs. male) politicians when the crisis is framed as a social (vs. economic) crisis because they believe it requires feminine (vs. masculine) leadership. In a pilot study and three online experiments with US residents (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 1675), we manipulated crisis type or a leadership candidate's gender for a task force. While participants indicated that a crisis framed as social (vs. economic) required more feminine leadership, they did not appoint a woman more or rated her as more suitable for the social crisis (vs. economic crisis or a no-crisis situation). Furthermore, the female (vs. male) candidate was not perceived to possess more feminine leadership traits. Overall, participants did not rely on gender stereotypes when explicitly evaluating politicians. We discuss potential explanations for these unexpected results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"558-576"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589713","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}
Nina M. Junker, Louisa Theisges, Lorenzo Avanzi, Rolf van Dick, Antonia J. Kaluza
{"title":"The link between workaholism and well-being via self-care and the moderating role of group identification","authors":"Nina M. Junker, Louisa Theisges, Lorenzo Avanzi, Rolf van Dick, Antonia J. Kaluza","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3031","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although the negative consequences of workaholism for well-being are well-known, research on its underlying processes and potential boundary conditions is scarce. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we propose that self-care mediates the negative association between workaholism and well-being, such that workaholism decreases self-care, which, in turn, increases well-being. Building on the social identity approach, we further argue that group identification moderates the workaholism–self-care-link, such that the more individuals identify with their groups, the stronger the negative indirect association. We tested our assumptions in a longitudinal three-wave study among students (Study 1, <i>N</i><sub>T1</sub> = 300, <i>N</i><sub>T2</sub> = 211, <i>N</i><sub>T3</sub> = 164), in which we found that the indirect association between workaholism and well-being via self-care was only significant for those students who more highly identified with their group. We replicated this contingency of the workaholism–self-care association on group identification in a two-wave time-lagged study among employees (Study 2, <i>N</i><sub>T1</sub> = 335, <i>N</i><sub>T2</sub> = 134). Taken together, these findings help gain a deeper understanding of why and when workaholism decreases well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"545-557"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515631","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 added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions","authors":"Sari Mentser, Adi Amit","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3034","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Personal values have been widely recognized as important determinants of individuals’ behaviour. But can behaviour be shaped by the values one attributes to others? Focusing on interdependent interactions, this research integrates literature on personal values and the role of expectations in social dilemmas to investigate the overlooked effect of value perceptions on people's choices. In Study 1, players in a prisoner's dilemma (a game capturing cooperation vs. competition) who were informed that their partner prioritized self-transcendence values tended to cooperate more than players informed that the partner prioritized self-enhancement values. In Study 2, players in the same game who assumed their partner was higher in self-transcendence values and lower in self-enhancement values were more likely to opt for the cooperative choice. In Study 3, players in a chicken game (a game capturing risk-taking vs. risk-avoidance) who assumed their partner was higher in conservation values and lower in openness-to-change values were more likely to opt for the riskier choice in the game. Study 4 indicated that the effect of perceived values on behaviour is mediated by assumptions regarding the partner's choice. Perceived values of the other side predicted behaviour beyond the perceiver's own values. We discuss the relationships between own and perceived values and our contributions to the values literature and conflict research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"513-528"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139496487","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}
Erdem Yılmaz, Karen Phalet, Jozefien De Leersnyder
{"title":"Acculturation of self-construal: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK","authors":"Erdem Yılmaz, Karen Phalet, Jozefien De Leersnyder","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There are systematic cultural differences in people's self-construal – their typical ways of being and relating – that are in line with the meanings and practices of the sociocultural context in which they were socialised. Given increasing globalisation and ethnocultural diversity, immigrant minorities may experience some ‘misfits’ with common self-construal patterns in host majority groups. Bridging perspectives from cultural psychology with acculturation psychology, we expect that minorities’ engagement in the host culture is positively associated with self-construal fit. In the current research, we calculated to what extent the average patterns of self of Turkish Belgian (Study 1), Chinese British (Study 2) and representative samples of Turkish and Moroccan Belgian minorities (Study 3) ‘fit’ with those of the respective host-cultural (majority Belgian or British) and heritage-cultural (Turkish in Turkey or Chinese in China or Turkish and Moroccan minority) groups. Across studies, we replicated meaningful cultural group differences in self-construal fit in line with minorities’ acculturation towards host-cultural patterns of self. Furthermore, in partial support of the role of host culture engagement, social contact with the majority group predicted self-construal fit within a specific relationship context of self-construal. Thus, (high-quality) contact with friends (Study 1) and teachers (Study 3) predicted the fit of minorities’ self-construal in the respective relationship contexts. No consistent associations emerged between self-construal fit and acculturation attitudes. Taken together, our findings highlight the malleability of selves in cultural and relational contexts and provide initial evidence for the acculturation of self in immigrant minorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"529-544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139616721","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":"Mobilization of shared victimhood in the radical right populist Finns Party supporters’ identity work: A narrative–discursive approach to populist support","authors":"Helena Rovamo, Inari Sakki","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the 21st century, populist leaders have created and shaped narratives of threatened nations to foster a sense of shared victimhood and increase electoral appeal. However, an intriguing question has emerged: What roles do these outlined populist discourses of a threatened nation and shared victimhood play in the identity work of populist supporters? This study employs a narrative–discursive approach to analyse 25 in-depth interviews with radical right populist Finns Party supporters. We investigate how the supporters construct and utilize populist discourses and narratives of lived experiences to legitimize their political support for the Finns Party. Furthermore, we illustrate how the related subject positions enable populist supporters to reproduce and enhance the populist discourse of ‘people's’ victimhood through the actions of ‘others’. This study contributes to the field by demonstrating how populist discourses and narratives of lived experiences can be mobilized into political support for the Finns Party.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"495-512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139462369","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":"Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude","authors":"Ying Yang, Wenqi Li, Kennon M. Sheldon, Yu Kou","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3026","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Four studies investigated the impact of a recipient's perception of a helper's motivation (autonomous vs. controlled) on the recipient's subsequent prosocial intentions, alongside testing a mediational mechanism. Study 1 employed a questionnaire method to assess the relationships between participants’ lay theories of helper's prosocial motivations (i.e., the degree of autonomy), their dispositional gratitude and their prosocial tendencies. Studies 2–4 manipulated a helper's autonomous versus controlled motivation within hypothetical scenarios (Studies 2 and 3) and within recalled events (Study 4), testing the effect of the helper's motivation on the recipient's prosocial intentions towards the helper (Studies 2–4), a bystander (Study 3) and others in general (Study 4) as well as the mediating role of gratitude. The findings consistently demonstrated that perceiving helpers as having autonomous motivation led to heightened intentions among recipients to engage in prosocial behaviour, which was mediated by increased feelings of gratitude. These effects remained robust after controlling for relevant factors including participants’ demographic information, social desirability bias and perceptions of egoism within helpers. Our findings highlight the role of perceived helper's autonomous motivation on recipient's prosocial behaviours, which enhances the knowledge regarding reciprocity and pay-it-forward behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"465-477"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441276","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}
Tessa M. van de Rozenberg, Lotte D. van der Pol, Stefanie van Esveld, Marleen G. Groeneveld, Antointette D. A. Kroes, Judi Mesman
{"title":"The role of parents in predicting gender-stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender-stereotypic interest in these careers","authors":"Tessa M. van de Rozenberg, Lotte D. van der Pol, Stefanie van Esveld, Marleen G. Groeneveld, Antointette D. A. Kroes, Judi Mesman","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3029","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined adolescents’ gender-stereotypic attitudes towards HEED (Health care, Early Education, Domestic) occupations and gender-stereotypic interest in HEED careers and the role of parental gender-stereotypic attitudes, role model behaviour and socialization values. We used questionnaire data from 501 White Dutch families. Our results showed that adolescents’ gender-stereotypic attitudes towards HEED predicted their stereotypic interest in these careers. Further, parental gender-stereotypic attitudes, stereotypical role model behaviour and socializing values of self-expression predicted adolescents’ gender-stereotypic attitudes towards HEED. From these parental characteristics, only a stereotypic division of household tasks predicted boys’ lower interest in HEED careers. In conclusion, reducing gender-stereotypic attitudes and, for boys, encouraging self-expression seems important in fostering more male representation in HEED occupations and deserves more attention from policymakers, educators and parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"478-494"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139422723","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}
Emanuele Castano, Sabina Čehajić-Clancy, Bernhard Leidner, Anna Baumert, Mengyao Li
{"title":"Out-group help in the time of Covid-19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans","authors":"Emanuele Castano, Sabina Čehajić-Clancy, Bernhard Leidner, Anna Baumert, Mengyao Li","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3024","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In March 2021, Serbia made the unprecedented announcement to offer free Covid-19 vaccination to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and notably to Bosniaks, against whom three decades earlier Serbia had waged a bloody war. How was this policy appraised and, most importantly, did the policy appraisal impact reconciliation? We report here the results of a longitudinal investigation amid a representative sample of Bosniak youth (<i>N</i> = 450). Results suggest that a positive appraisal of this actual, state-level policy, predicted improvement on a series of intergroup reconciliation indicators (e.g., trust in the out-group, forgiveness for past violence, hope for future relationship), particularly so amid those who are strongly attached to their Bosniak in-group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 5","pages":"1099-1109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139413506","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}
Adrian Lüders, Mike Quayle, Paul Maher, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Pádraig MacCarron
{"title":"Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change","authors":"Adrian Lüders, Mike Quayle, Paul Maher, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Pádraig MacCarron","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3022","url":null,"abstract":"Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation. However, this shaping of change is seldom harmonious; instead, it is often characterized by dissent and conflict. This special section gathers a collection of articles concerned with the role of attitude–identity dynamics in contexts of contemporary conflict and change. The corpus of research that builds this special section describes mutual impacts of attitudes and identities, explores different actors in social debates and covers a wide range of both established and innovative research methodology. This introduction summarizes and synthesizes the various contributions and offers insights into future research directions.","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375821","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}