{"title":"Do reconciliation events serve as a conciliatory signal?","authors":"Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Toshiyuki Himichi, Kazunori Inamasu, Shoko Kohama, Nobuhiro Mifune, Atsushi Tago","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3028","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A set of four vignette studies (total <i>N</i> = 1600) examined whether voluntariness, novelty, vulnerability and irrevocability of reconciliation events serve as conciliatory signals that communicate serious intentions for improved relations. Studies 1 and 2 manipulated the presence of the four factors in the reconciliation event initiated by the political leader of a country in a relatively disadvantageous (Study 1) or advantageous (Study 2) position. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that the presence of substantial concession (‘public announcement of abandonment of disputed region’ in Study 1 and ‘demolition of a military facility in the disputed region’ in Study 2) enhanced signal effectiveness (participants perceived these concessions reflecting the political leader's serious conciliatory intention). Follow-up studies (Studies 3A and 3B), which manipulated the level of concession (high vs. intermediate vs. low), confirmed the main result: High and intermediate levels of concession enhanced signal effectiveness compared to low concession.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 5","pages":"1111-1126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065184","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}
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Richard G. Cowden, Kaye V. Cook, Piotr Bialowolski, Andrea Ortega Bechara, Zhuo Job Chen, Ni Made Taganing Kurniati, Christiany Suwartono, Eileen McNeely, Tyler J. VanderWeele
{"title":"Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well-being: Multi-study evidence from three non-Western Longitudinal samples","authors":"Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Richard G. Cowden, Kaye V. Cook, Piotr Bialowolski, Andrea Ortega Bechara, Zhuo Job Chen, Ni Made Taganing Kurniati, Christiany Suwartono, Eileen McNeely, Tyler J. VanderWeele","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3027","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine whether an orientation to promote good serves as a potential buffer against distress and facilitator of well-being outcomes in three non-Western samples with a recent history of conflict (Indonesia, Colombia, Mexico) and across three different time frames (1, 4 and 12 months). Longitudinal surveys provided data for cross-lagged panel modelling. A series of sensitivity analyses provided evidence for the robustness of results. Persons with an orientation to promote good reported greater well-being 1 month and 4 months post-assessment and reduced distress 1 month and 4 months post-assessment. The effects, with larger effect sizes, were also found for reverse associations. We did not find evidence of associations assessed at the 12-month interval with the exception of a negative association between an orientation to promote good and subsequent life satisfaction and happiness. Orientation to promote good may be relevant for population's mental health and well-being over the short- and medium-term.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"449-464"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065514","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":"Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed-method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans","authors":"Sarah Y. Choi, James H. Liu","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3025","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do lay individuals reconstruct, appropriate or resist culturally sanctioned narratives about their nation's past? The current study examined this question through an open-ended survey administered to a US sample, stratified by age and gender (N = 399). We identified three major historical narratives that were popular among Americans. Specifically, we identified positive narratives of the nation's <i>progress</i> over time and <i>glorifying</i> narratives of American exceptionalism, alongside a popular counter-narrative that was <i>critical</i> of the nation as reproducing ongoing cycles of injustice. Representations of national origins were significantly more salient for the narratives of Progress and Glorification, while more recent and lived events were salient for Critical narratives. Progress and Critical narratives were both associated with a constructive orientation to national identity, while Glorifying narratives were associated with blind patriotism. Critical and Glorifying narratives were consistently opposed in their associated political attitudes and in their patterns of endorsement across party affiliations. Overall, it appeared that narratives of progress were most popular and least polarised. We discuss the implications of these findings through the perspective that narratives provide dynamic content for identity construction as well as the means for articulating resistance to hegemony within specific historical and political contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"431-448"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065520","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":"Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia","authors":"Dereje Adefris, Kuany Gatbel, Sigrun Marie Moss","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3020","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public space is a possible site for grounding a social psychology of citizenship. Locational citizenship speaks to the right to have a place in public space. Certain groups are however often excluded. Drawing on individual interviews and focus group discussions with street children in Gambella Town, Ethiopia, this study explores how street children talk about their lives on the street. The results demonstrate the children's lack of inclusion in locational citizenship, and how public space becomes contested space when different groups use these places in ways that clash. The children also speak to processes of inclusion, both among groups of street children, and kindness from individual adults in their environment. These children's their stories of both exclusion and inclusion are crucial to the developing social psychology of citizenship. The study emphasizes exclusion and inclusion as processes, and the children's active handling of their street life. We also problematizes the division between private and public space when the former is often no longer an available space for these children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"415-430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036799","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":"Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization","authors":"Thomas Ian Vaughan-Johnston","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3018","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers and philosophers have debated what leads people to judge others as being hypocritical. Some research has shown that perceivers consider targets to be more hypocritical when those targets contradict attitudes that are strongly (e.g., moralized and/or certain) rather than weakly held by the target. In the present work, I attempt to advance this research in several respects. First, I integrate these findings with research on the dimensions of attitude strength (i.e., commitment, embeddedness) to provide a more structured analysis of these claims. I show that characterizing a target's views as embedded <i>and</i> committed has many of the same hypocrisy-related effects as labelling those views as moral, and affect (negative) evaluations of targets through similar mechanisms. However, in Experiment 3, I show that moral attitudes are, nonetheless, perceived as distinct from classic strength dimensions in one crucial respect: the presumption that the target would impose them on other people. Furthermore, whereas judgements of hypocrisy relating to embedded/committed attitudes can be mitigated when perceivers engage in situational attribution, perceivers rendering judgements of hypocrisy relating to moral attitudes resist situational counter-explanations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 2","pages":"397-414"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686573","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}
Christopher G. Davis, George P. Wright, Cassandra McMillan
{"title":"When secrets come to mind: Preoccupation, suppression and engagement","authors":"Christopher G. Davis, George P. Wright, Cassandra McMillan","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3019","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When secrets come to mind, do people try to suppress them or do they engage with them? Whereas earlier research suggested that people try to suppress secrets, recent work suggests that people often engage with their secrets. Although thought suppression tends to be associated with greater distress, engagement may be ameliorative. In two longitudinal studies of 653 adults (55% women; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 41.3, <i>SD</i> = 12.4) keeping a secret from their partner, we show that engagement with and suppression of secrets are highly positively related. Like suppression, the more people engage with secrets, the more negative affect and guilt they report feeling. Longitudinal analyses indicate that whereas changes over time in engagement and suppression both predicted reduced secret preoccupation, reductions in suppression (but not engagement) mediated reductions in guilt and negative affect. These results indicate that suppression and engagement are more intimately connected than previously thought. We found no evidence that engagement was ameliorative.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":"380-395"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686569","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":"Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes","authors":"Marine Rougier, Jan De Houwer","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3017","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the attractiveness halo effect, a single known piece of information about a target stimulus (attractiveness of a person) influences assumptions about a host of other attributes about that target (e.g. this person is socially competent or vain). We examined for the first time whether this effect can be updated, that is, whether new information about physical attractiveness (e.g. that someone is not as attractive as initially thought) can undo the effects of earlier information. Across three preregistered experiments (<i>n</i> = 1131), we obtained evidence of a halo-update effect and showed that updating depended on the extent to which personality traits are stereotypically related to attractiveness (i.e. updating was larger for the traits that are typically influenced by attractiveness information). We also explored potential mediators of the halo-update effect. By shedding new light on the malleability of stereotypical attributions, our work has both theoretical and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":"364-379"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138580745","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}
Niklas K. Steffens, Katharine H. Greenaway, Sam Moore, Katie A. Munt, Felix Grundmann, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tom Postmes, Daniel P. Skorich, Srinivasan Tatachari
{"title":"Meta-identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life","authors":"Niklas K. Steffens, Katharine H. Greenaway, Sam Moore, Katie A. Munt, Felix Grundmann, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tom Postmes, Daniel P. Skorich, Srinivasan Tatachari","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3014","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the present research, we introduce and develop the concept of <i>meta-identification</i> – perceptions of others’ identification with a group – and examine its capacity to shape group life. Across two cross-sectional studies and three experiments (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 3992), we investigate the relationship between participants’ meta-identification in an intragroup context and their group meaningfulness, collective self-efficacy, organisational citizenship behaviour and (perceived and behavioural) performance. Results indicate that perceiving other group members to be highly identified with a group promotes perceptions of group meaningfulness and collective self-efficacy, promotes organisational citizenship behaviour and enhances perceived, and in some contexts actual, group performance. Furthermore, results show that individuals’ meta-identification makes a unique contribution to outcomes above and beyond their social identification. We discuss implications for social identity theorising and the role of meta-identification in supporting meaningful and functional group life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":"341-363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138572371","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":"Too little money or time? Using justifications to maintain a positive image after self-control failure","authors":"Janina Steinmetz","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3010","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research has shown that people frequently fail at exerting self-control. Yet, having good self-control is essential for being trusted and relied on. In this research, I test which common and frequent excuses for self-control failures (i.e., resulting from lack of time vs. money) allow people to maintain an image of good self-control despite failure. In six studies (five pre-registered), using different types of self-control domains, I show that participants perceived someone who failed at a resolution to nevertheless have good self-control if they failed because they lacked money (vs. time) to follow through (Study 1). This effect was due to the mediated (Study 2a) and manipulated (Study 2b) perceived controllability of the excuse. This effect had downstream consequences for participants’ hypothetical and real behaviour toward the individual when their outcomes were interdependent (Studies 3 and 4). Finally, participants lacked insight into these patterns when communicating their own self-control failures, which they attributed to a lack of time over money (Study 5).</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":"332-340"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138545779","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}
Carla Anne Roos, Sonja Utz, Namkje Koudenburg, Tom Postmes
{"title":"Diplomacy online: A case of mistaking broadcasting for dialogue","authors":"Carla Anne Roos, Sonja Utz, Namkje Koudenburg, Tom Postmes","doi":"10.1002/ejsp.3015","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ejsp.3015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Online discussions can fuel perceptions of misalignment, disagreement, conflict or even polarization. In this study, we look at everyday diplomatic expressions that could buffer this. We use automated and manual coding to analyze diplomatic behaviour in online discussions and its consequences for discussion sentiment. We analyze Reddit forums with differing norms: civil (<i>N</i> = 4594 comments), incivil (<i>N</i> = 2126) and social support subreddits (<i>N</i> = 1401). The automated content analysis shows that diplomatic behaviour occurs but does not affect the subsequent discussion. The manual analysis reveals why: discussions consist of disjointed statements rather than dialogue, making diplomacy inconsequential. These results have consequences for the field. First, what appears to be an escalating dialogue might actually be a string of personal attitudes broadcasted in a shared space. Second, the usefulness of automated content analysis in studying interaction dynamics is limited because of difficulties distinguishing broadcasting from dialogue.</p>","PeriodicalId":48377,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":"314-331"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.3015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540135","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}