{"title":"We're Not That Choosy: Emerging Evidence of a Progression Bias in Romantic Relationships.","authors":"Samantha Joel, Geoff MacDonald","doi":"10.1177/10888683211025860","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10888683211025860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dating is widely thought of as a test phase for romantic relationships, during which new romantic partners carefully evaluate each other for long-term fit. However, this cultural narrative assumes that people are well equipped to reject poorly suited partners. In this article, we argue that humans are biased toward pro-relationship decisions-decisions that favor the initiation, advancement, and maintenance of romantic relationships. We first review evidence for a progression bias in the context of relationship initiation, investment, and breakup decisions. We next consider possible theoretical underpinnings-both evolutionary and cultural-that may explain why getting into a relationship is often easier than getting out of one, and why being in a less desirable relationship is often preferred over being in no relationship at all. We discuss potential boundary conditions that the phenomenon may have, as well as its implications for existing theoretical models of mate selection and relationship development.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 4","pages":"317-343"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5e/89/10.1177_10888683211025860.PMC8597186.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39172953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Do Values Affect Behavior? Let Me Count the Ways.","authors":"Lilach Sagiv, Sonia Roccas","doi":"10.1177/10888683211015975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683211015975","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The impact of personal values on preferences, choices, and behaviors has evoked much interest. Relatively little is known, however, about the processes through which values impact behavior. In this conceptual article, we consider both the content and the structural aspects of the relationships between values and behavior. We point to unique features of values that have implications to their relationships with behavior and build on these features to review past research. We then propose a conceptual model that presents three organizing principles: accessibility, interpretation, and control. For each principle, we identify mechanisms through which values and behavior are connected. Some of these mechanisms have been exemplified in past research and are reviewed; others call for future research. Integrating the knowledge on the multiple ways in which values impact behavior deepens our understanding of the complex ways through which cognition is translated into action.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 4","pages":"295-316"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/10888683211015975","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38947200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Couple Simulation: A Novel Approach for Evaluating Models of Human Mate Choice.","authors":"Daniel Conroy-Beam","doi":"10.1177/1088868320971258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320971258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Choosing a mate is perhaps the most important decision a sexually reproducing organism makes in its lifetime. And yet, psychologists lack a precise description of human mate choice, despite sustained attention from several theoretical perspectives. Here, I argue this limited progress owes to the complexity of mate choice and describe a new modeling approach, called \"couple simulation,\" designed to compare models of mate choice by challenging them to reproduce real couples within simulated mating markets. I present proof-of-concept simulations that demonstrate couple simulation can identify a population's true model of mate choice. Furthermore, I apply couple simulation to two samples of real couples and find that the method (a) successfully reconstructs real-world couples, (b) discriminates between models of mate choice, and (c) predicts a wide range of dimensions of relationship quality. Collectively, these results provide evidence that couple simulation offers a framework useful for evaluating theories of human mate choice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"191-228"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1088868320971258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39141520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katy Y Y Tam, Wijnand A P van Tilburg, Christian S Chan, Eric R Igou, Hakwan Lau
{"title":"Attention Drifting In and Out: The Boredom Feedback Model.","authors":"Katy Y Y Tam, Wijnand A P van Tilburg, Christian S Chan, Eric R Igou, Hakwan Lau","doi":"10.1177/10888683211010297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683211010297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We synthesize established and emerging research to propose a feedback process model that explicates key antecedents, experiences, and consequences of the emotion boredom. The proposed Boredom Feedback Model posits that the dynamic process of boredom resembles a feedback loop that centers on attention shifts instigated by inadequate attentional engagement. Inadequate attentional engagement is a discrepancy between desired and actual levels of attentional engagement and is a product of external and internal influences, reflected in objective resources and cognitive appraisals. The model sheds light on several essential yet unresolved puzzles in the literature, including how people learn to cope with boredom, how to understand the relation between self-control and boredom, how the roles of attention and meaning in boredom can be integrated, why boredom is associated with both high- and low-arousal negative emotions, and what contributes to chronic boredom. The model offers testable hypotheses for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"251-272"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/10888683211010297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38932197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Undermining Your Case to Enhance Your Impact: A Framework for Understanding the Effects of Acts of Receptiveness in Persuasion.","authors":"Mohamed A Hussein, Zakary L Tormala","doi":"10.1177/10888683211001269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683211001269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Past research has uncovered actions that would seem to undermine but in fact frequently enhance persuasion. For example, expressing doubt about one's view or presenting arguments against it would seem to weaken one's case, but can sometimes promote it. We propose a framework for understanding these findings. We posit that these actions constitute <i>acts of receptiveness</i>-behaviors that signal openness to new information and opposing viewpoints. We review four classes of acts of receptiveness: conveying uncertainty, acknowledging mistakes, highlighting drawbacks, and asking questions. We identify conditions under which and mechanisms through which these actions boost persuasion. Acts of receptiveness appear to be more persuasive when they come from expert or high-status sources, rather than non-expert or low-status sources, and to operate through two primary mechanisms: increased involvement and enhanced source perceptions. Following a review of this work, we delineate potentially novel acts of receptiveness and outline directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"229-250"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/10888683211001269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25567863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Beyond Two Goals: An Integrative Review and Framework for the Study of Multiple Goals.","authors":"Franki Y H Kung, Abigail A Scholer","doi":"10.1177/1088868320985810","DOIUrl":"10.1177/1088868320985810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Historically, the study of multiple goals has focused on the dynamics between two goals as the prototypical example of multiple goals. This focus on dyadic relations means that many issues central to the psychology of <i>more than two goals</i> are still unexplored. We argue that a deeper understanding of multiple-goal issues involves moving beyond two goals. Doing so not only reveals new insights about goal relations (e.g., how one dyadic relation affects another) but also introduces goal structure (how goals and goal relations are positioned relative to each other) as a variable in its own right worthy of study. In our review, we discuss current knowledge gaps, review methodologies both in terms of existing techniques and novel techniques we propose, and highlight new directions from moving beyond two goals-what new questions emerge and what dynamics, including intersectional issues (e.g., between goal properties and goal structure), become possible to explore.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 2","pages":"130-158"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25330011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Belief System Networks as a Theory of Political Belief System Dynamics.","authors":"Mark J Brandt, Willem W A Sleegers","doi":"10.1177/1088868321993751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868321993751","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A theory of political belief system dynamics should incorporate causal connections between elements of the belief system and the possibility that belief systems are influenced by exogenous factors. These necessary components can be satisfied by conceptualizing an individual's belief system as a network of causally connected attitudes and identities which, via the interactions between the elements and the push of exogenous influences, produces the disparate phenomena in the belief systems literature. We implement this belief systems as networks theory in a dynamic Ising model and demonstrate that the theory can integrate at least six otherwise unrelated phenomenon in the political belief systems literature, including work on attitude consistency, cross-pressures, spillover effects, partisan cues, and ideological differences in attitude consensus. Our findings suggest that belief systems are not just one thing, but emerge from the interactions between the attitudes and identities in the belief system. All code is available: https://osf.io/aswy8/?view_only=99aff77909094bddabb5d382f6db2622.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 2","pages":"159-185"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1088868321993751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25431351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shailee R Woodard, Linus Chan, Lucian Gideon Conway
{"title":"In Search of the Cognitively Complex Person: Is There a Meaningful Trait Component of Cognitive Complexity?","authors":"Shailee R Woodard, Linus Chan, Lucian Gideon Conway","doi":"10.1177/1088868320972299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320972299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have long assumed that complex thinking is determined by both situational factors and stable, trait-based differences. However, although situational influences on complexity have been discussed at length in the literature, there is still no comprehensive integration of evidence regarding the theorized trait component of cognitive complexity. To fill this gap, we evaluate the degree that cognitive complexity is attributable to trait variance. Specifically, we review two domains of evidence pertaining to (a) the generalizability of individuals' complex thinking across domains and the temporal stability of individuals' complex thinking and (b) the relationship of complex thinking with conceptually related traits. Cumulatively, the literature suggests that persons' cognitive complexity at any point in time results partially from a stable and generalizable trait component that accounts for a small-to-moderate amount of variance. It further suggests that cognitively complex persons are characterized by chronic trait-based differences in <i>motivation</i> and <i>ability</i> to think complexly.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 2","pages":"95-129"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1088868320972299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38823819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Makes Things Funny? An Integrative Review of the Antecedents of Laughter and Amusement.","authors":"Caleb Warren, Adam Barsky, A Peter McGraw","doi":"10.1177/1088868320961909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320961909","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the broad importance of humor, psychologists do not agree on the basic elements that cause people to experience laughter, amusement, and the perception that something is funny. There are more than 20 distinct psychological theories that propose appraisals that characterize humor appreciation. Most of these theories leverage a subset of five potential antecedents of humor appreciation: surprise, simultaneity, superiority, a violation appraisal, and conditions that facilitate a benign appraisal. We evaluate each antecedent against the existing empirical evidence and find that simultaneity, violation, and benign appraisals all help distinguish humorous from nonhumorous experiences, but surprise and superiority do not. Our review helps organize a disconnected literature, dispel popular but inaccurate ideas, offers a framework for future research, and helps answer three long-standing questions about humor: what conditions predict laughter and amusement, what are the adaptive benefits of humor, and why do different people think vastly different things are humorous?</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"41-65"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1088868320961909","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38729785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loosening the GRIP (Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality) to Promote Gender Equality.","authors":"Alyssa Croft, Ciara Atkinson, Gillian Sandstrom, Sheina Orbell, Lara Aknin","doi":"10.1177/1088868320964615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320964615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prosociality is an ideal context to begin shifting traditional gender role stereotypes and promoting equality. Men and women both help others frequently, but assistance often follows traditional gender role expectations, which further reinforces restrictive gender stereotypes in other domains. We propose an integrative process model of gender roles inhibiting prosociality (GRIP) to explain why and how this occurs. We argue that prosociality provides a unique entry point for change because it is (a) immediately rewarding (which cultivates positive attitude formation), (b) less likely to threaten the gender status hierarchy, and therefore less susceptible to social backlash (which translates into less restrictive social norms), and (c) a skill that can be learned (which leads to stronger beliefs in one's own ability to help). Using the GRIP model, we derive a series of hypothesized interventions to interrupt the self-reinforcing cycle of gender role stereotyping and facilitate progress toward broader gender equality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48386,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"66-92"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1088868320964615","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38804336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}