{"title":"Examining the Effects of Different Gender Awareness-Raising Frames on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality","authors":"Andreea A. Constantin, Isabel Cuadrado","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to recent research, the impact of awareness-raising interventions about gender (in)equality depends on how messages are framed. Extending previous work, we conducted an experimental study (<i>N</i> = 1093; 50% women) to examine whether the combination of two frames about gender (in)equality (emphasizing the achievement of gender equality and the persistence of gender inequality) had more positive effects on attitudes toward women and gender equality of women and men than each framing individually. Additionally, we considered the mediating role of identity threat and cognitive unfreezing, and the moderating role of participants’ neosexism and feminist identification. The results showed that the combined frame, compared to the gender inequality persistence-frame, reduced identity threat and improved attitudes toward women and gender equality solely among women. We also found that the combined framing, compared to the equality framing, increased cognitive unfreezing and improved women's and non-sexist men's attitudes toward women and gender equality. However, for non-sexist women, this framing was less beneficial than the inequality framing. In conclusion, the present study highlights the need to examine both the possible mechanisms involved and the gender ideology of individuals whenever interventions targeting gender equality are designed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"832-841"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Win, Win, Win: Framing Feedback for Better Giver and Receiver Outcomes","authors":"Elizabeth T. Welsh, Kevin E. Henderson","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>According to research, approximately one-third of the time constructive feedback is given, it is not successful—leading to a decline in performance. This is problematic because employees (and all humans) need feedback to develop and succeed. While many studies have examined options for making performance feedback more effective, there is a gap in simultaneously understanding the giver's and receiver's perspectives, including affective mechanisms at play. This study examines whether a simple addition to performance feedback—starting feedback with a statement that frames the feedback as helpful to the recipient can improve outcomes for both parties. To investigate this, student samples were used to understand the receiver's perspective, while an adult MTurk sample was used to understand the giver's perspective. For more subjective feedback, framing it in a performance-oriented, helping-focused way led to positive outcomes, including improved feedback perceptions, positive affect, and motivation to act upon the feedback for recipients; with givers reporting better perceived management fit, higher positive affect, and lower negative affect, effort, and perceived risk. Interestingly, givers preferred gain-focused framing, while recipients did not significantly favor gain over loss framing. For both parties, mediators were found. Theoretically, this study supports an affective events view of feedback. Practically, it suggests that framing feedback in a gain-focused, performance-oriented, cognitively positive way can improve outcomes for the giver, the receiver, and, ultimately, the organization. Win. Win. Win.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"817-831"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fredy S. Monge-Rodríguez, Andy Alvarado Yepez, Mark Conner
{"title":"Predicting Water Conservation in Communities Around Mountains: Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior and Past Experience Variables","authors":"Fredy S. Monge-Rodríguez, Andy Alvarado Yepez, Mark Conner","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The theory of planned behavior (TPB) plus experience with extreme weather events (EWE) was used to predict water conservation intention and behavior in understudied communities living near glaciers. The sample included 2026 participants from communities in southern Peru. The results show that TBP + EWE explained 23.4% of the total variance of the intentions to conserve water (age, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, EWE significant predictors). EWE significantly moderated the effect of attitude on intention, with attitudes only significantly predicting intention at moderate and higher levels of EWE. TBP + EWE explained 10.2% of the variance in self-reported water conservation behavior (gender, age, intentions, attitudes, subjective norms significant predictors). EWE did not significantly moderate the effects of any predictors on behavior. Implications of the findings on community water conservation intentions and behavior, as well as future lines of research, are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"783-792"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Skylar Powell, Panagiotis Rentzelas, Maria Kambouri
{"title":"It Depends on Who I Am! Self-Construals, Attention to Comparative Feedback, and Self-Assessments of Performance","authors":"K. Skylar Powell, Panagiotis Rentzelas, Maria Kambouri","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Feedback and self-assessment can improve awareness and enhance training or learning processes. This study explores whether self-construals correspond to relative attention paid to either social- or temporal-comparative feedback, and self-assessments of performance following feedback. We distinguish between independent and interdependent self-construal differences. A total of 214 undergraduate participants in Korea (<i>n</i> = 109) and the United States (<i>n</i> = 105) completed multiple rounds of a task and simultaneously received manipulated temporal- and social-comparative feedback on performance following each round. Participants with independent self-construals were more attentive to temporal-comparative feedback, while those with interdependent self-construals were more attentive to social-comparative feedback. More positive combinations of comparative feedback led to more positive self-assessments, while more negative combinations of comparative feedback had the opposite relationship, and all relationships between feedback combinations and self-assessments were positively moderated when participants had more independent self-construals. These results highlight the importance of providing multiple types of comparative feedback to ensure that individuals have access to self-relevant feedback that matches their self-construal orientation. Additionally, efforts to assess training or educational programs/processes need to collect objective measures of performance, such as accuracy of tasks, alongside self-assessed performance, because self-assessments may be subject to self-construal related biases.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"802-816"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nyx Robey, Cheryl L. Dickter, Adrian J. Bravo, Kimberly E. Chaney
{"title":"The Effects of an Online Training on Cultural Competence, Acknowledgment of White Privilege, Ethnocultural Empathy, and Racial Attitudes in White College Students","authors":"Nyx Robey, Cheryl L. Dickter, Adrian J. Bravo, Kimberly E. Chaney","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study examined the short- and long-term efficacy of a cultural competence training aimed to help White college students understand structural discrimination, acknowledge their racial privilege, and understand and accept others' viewpoints and experiences. White students at a predominantly White US university (<i>n</i> = 112) completed a 3-h online cultural competence training, or a control exercise administered over a 3-week period. The training provided information about constructs related to prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination; promoted awareness of privilege and oppression; and provided skills for effective cross-racial interactions. Results showed the cultural competence training afforded short-term improvement in participants' cultural competence, increases in their acknowledgment of White privilege, and increases in ethnocultural empathy for participants in the experimental condition. Latent linear growth models demonstrated improvements in cultural competence and acknowledgment of White privilege through two follow-up posttests. There were no changes in explicit and implicit racial attitudes. Implications of these findings for the future design and application of these types of training programs are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 9","pages":"720-730"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individuals With Upward Social Mobility Show Greater Prosocial Willingness and Behavior","authors":"Yanping Qin, Xiaoyan Wang","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the relationship between social mobility and prosocial behavior through two empirical studies. A survey (<i>N</i> = 348) in Study 1 found that individuals experiencing upward social mobility (i.e., objective income upward mobility) exhibited a heightened willingness to engage in prosocial behaviors. Furthermore, the pursuit of authenticity self was identified as a mediating factor in the relationship between upward social mobility and prosocial willingness. In Study 2, a laboratory experiment (<i>N</i> = 159) manipulated perceptions of social mobility and utilized a money allocation task to assess prosocial behavior. The findings showed that individuals who perceived upward social mobility allocated significantly more money to others than those in stationary high or low positions, with no significant difference in allocations between the stationary high and low groups. Collectively, these studies suggest a consistent pattern in which individuals experiencing upward social mobility are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"793-801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittany M. Tausen, Kylie Alder, Bee Asfaw, Talia Parlane, Michelle Ma
{"title":"Buffered From the Dehumanizing Effects of Negative Interactions With Individuals Experiencing Homelessness? Exploring the Role of Social Justice Motivations and Education","authors":"Brittany M. Tausen, Kylie Alder, Bee Asfaw, Talia Parlane, Michelle Ma","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Positive interactions with individuals experiencing homelessness precipitate positive attitudes and a willingness to help those who are unhoused. Importantly, however, not all intergroup interactions are positive. Research exploring factors that buffer individuals from changes to outgroup attitudes when negative encounters do occur remains a critical area for research. In three studies, we explored whether social justice motivations (Study 1 and Study 2) and a novel social justice education intervention (Study 3) mitigate the cognitive and behavioral consequences of imaginary intergroup interactions. Findings from all three studies demonstrated that negative (vs. positive) interactions reliably enhanced the dehumanization of individuals experiencing homelessness, whereas impacts on intentions to help were more variable. Individual differences in and manipulations of intrinsic social justice motivations and education failed to moderate the relationship between interaction valence and outcomes, though they remained significant predictors of attitudes about and intended treatment of individuals experiencing homelessness. Together, these findings emphasize that while social justice motivations—particularly when they are intrinsic in nature—and education are important to consider in the context of rising homelessness, they do not appear to buffer individuals from the interpersonal consequences of negative interactions with those who are unhoused. Put simply, negative intergroup interactions harm outgroup attitudes even for people who might think that they are immune to, or less likely to be influenced by such encounters. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 10","pages":"763-782"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expansion of the Psychological Contract: Unlocking the Code of Innovation Behavior in Open Innovation Community","authors":"Jingkun Bai, Xiaotong Sun","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Companies are increasingly building open innovation communities to take advantage of user innovation. However, research on the factors that drive users' innovation behavior is still lacking. Based on the self-determination theory, we focus on the impact of different types of psychological contracts on users' innovation behavior, as well as the interactions between different types of psychological contracts. Using a questionnaire method, 385 valid questionnaires were collected from four Chinese open innovation communities, with the empirical results found: Transactional psychological contracts significantly negatively affect users' innovation behavior; relational psychological contracts and ideology-infused psychological contracts have a significant positive effect; transactional psychological contracts negatively moderate the relationship between ideology-infused psychological contracts and users' innovation behavior, while relational psychological contracts positively moderate this relationship. This study enriches and expands the research on psychological contract and users' innovation behavior, providing a reference for managing users' innovation behavior in the open innovation community context.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 9","pages":"744-758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pauline Rasset, Maëlle Fleury, Nicolas Cabé, Jessica Mange
{"title":"So Much More Than That: Enhancing the Rehumanization Effect of Multiple Categorization on People With Alcohol Use Disorder","authors":"Pauline Rasset, Maëlle Fleury, Nicolas Cabé, Jessica Mange","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multiple categorization (MC) occurs when individuals are described using several different social categories. MC has been shown to be an effective strategy for combating public stigma and improving social judgments. However, the conditions that optimize its effectiveness remain insufficiently understood. To address the severe public stigma of alcohol use disorder (AUD), this study investigated the moderating impact of the social categories used in MC, by manipulating first the number (Pre-registered Study 1), and then the valence (Pre-registered Study 2) of these categories. Results of Pre-registered Study 1 indicate that the benefits of MC begin to emerge with the inclusion of three categories, including the stigmatized one. These benefits are further enhanced when a total of five categories are included, whereas adding additional categories does not yield further advantages. Results of Pre-registered Study 2 indicate that even negatively valenced categories can improve the way people form impressions of individuals with AUD. More generally, the valence of the categories influenced the magnitude of the effect. From a theoretical perspective, these findings demonstrate the benefits of multiple categorization in humanizing individuals and reducing stigma. Additionally, they highlight that the characteristics of the selected categories can influence the magnitude of the effects, opening up the possibility of optimizing the strategy. In terms of application, these studies illustrate the critical importance, particularly in clinical settings, of taking into account the psychosocial processes involved in the care and management of stigmatized populations, such as individuals suffering from AUD.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 9","pages":"708-719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ownership Feelings Toward Green and Blue Nature Spaces: Outcomes and Mechanisms","authors":"Xiongzhi Wang, Kelly S. Fielding, Angela J. Dean","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychological ownership has been increasingly examined in relation to the natural environment, with literature showing that ownership feelings of natural areas are positively related to pro-environmental intentions or behaviours. However, there remains limited understanding of the mediating factors behind this psychological ownership of nature effect, the potential for negative consequences, and whether the effect differs by type of natural spaces. We addressed these gaps via a pre-registered 2 (individual psychological ownership: high vs low) × 2 (nature-type: terrestrial green vs coastal blue) between-subjects experiment within the Australian community (<i>N</i> = 407). Our results showed that eliciting psychological ownership of a natural area led to pro-environmental outcomes (e.g., volunteering intentions and donation behaviours). Perceived responsibility consistently mediated these relationships, while alternative mediators (i.e., place attachment and self-efficacy) varied depending on the specific outcome considered. Notably, while elicited psychological ownership of nature engendered entitlement feelings, it did not evoke territorial defence. Exploratory analyses indicated that the psychological ownership effect and mediating mechanisms were similar across both green and blue nature spaces. Overall, our study offers a nuanced understanding of how psychological ownership shapes nature conservation outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 9","pages":"731-743"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}