Myriam N. Bechtoldt, Martina Testori, Bianca Beersma
{"title":"Do Words Matter? Evaluative Media Framing, Protest Actions, and Donations to Climate Action","authors":"Myriam N. Bechtoldt, Martina Testori, Bianca Beersma","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public support is essential to effective climate policies, yet responses to climate activism may depend on how protests are covered in the news. Building on research on activist tactics, media framing, and construal level theory, we examined whether the tone of media coverage (neutral vs. negative), the radicalness of activist tactics (moderate vs. radical), and abstract versus concrete reflection on activist behavior shape costly behavioral support for climate action. Two experiments employed news-style vignettes, a real-effort task, and an incentivized donation paradigm to assess actual financial contributions to a climate-related cause. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 555) validated the manipulations of activist behavior and media tone. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 1907), participants reflected either on why activists behaved as they did or on how they behaved, before deciding whether to donate part of their earnings to a climate charity. Negative framing was associated with lower donations than neutral framing, but this small effect did not reach conventional statistical significance with preregistered covariates (<i>p</i> = 0.052) or without covariates (<i>p</i> = 0.090). Exploratory moderated mediation analyses indicated conditional indirect associations. Under neutral framing, radical tactics were indirectly associated with lower donations through perceived acceptability and effectiveness. For moderate activist behavior, negative framing was indirectly associated with lower donations through perceived acceptability. The framing × tactic interaction was indirectly associated with donations through acceptability. These findings indicate that media framing and activist tactics are associated with evaluations of climate activism that, in turn, are associated with costly support for climate action.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 9","pages":"642-654"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859963","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}
Cheryl L. Dickter, Elyssa Kancherla, Hannah Y. Khan
{"title":"The Silent Strain: The Psychological Toll of Multiracial Microaggressions","authors":"Cheryl L. Dickter, Elyssa Kancherla, Hannah Y. Khan","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the United States, the Multiracial population is the fastest-growing racial identity, with projections suggesting that one in five people will be Multiracial by 2050. While research has begun to investigate the microaggressions that Multiracial Americans experience, less work has examined their potential psychological consequences. The current study sought to examine whether experiences with general racial microaggressions and microaggressions specific to Multiracial identity would predict psychological health outcomes. Multiracial adults in the U.S. (<i>n</i> = 98) completed a survey measuring experiences with general racial and ethnic microaggressions as well as a self-report measure assessing experiences with microaggressions specific to the Multiracial identity such as being asked “What are you?”. Self-reported self-esteem, anxiety, depression, stress, sense of belonging, and psychological well-being were also reported. Results revealed that more experiences with Multiracial-specific microaggressions were associated with a more negative sense of belonging, higher general anxiety, more depression, and higher perceived stress. The measure of microaggressions specific to Multiracial identity was associated with these psychological outcomes over and above a measure of general racial microaggressions. These findings suggest that researchers should study the unique experiences of Multiracial individuals as well as ways to prevent microaggressions for this growing population.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 9","pages":"655-667"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148860093","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":"Conspiracy Mentality, Conspiracy Beliefs, and the Four Socio-Psychological Levels of Analysis: A Latent Profile Moderation Analysis","authors":"Achilleas Piliousis, Antonis Gardikiotis","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between conspiracy mentality (CM) and belief in specific conspiracy theories (CBs) has been described as bidirectional, but it remains unclear under which socio-psychological conditions each direction of the relationship is reinforced. The present study combined Doise's four-level socio-psychological framework (i.e., intrapersonal, interpersonal, positional, and ideological levels) with latent profile moderation analysis, examining paranoid ideation, ostracism, national collective narcissism, and dangerous worldview beliefs as indicators that reflect different manifestations and processes of perceived threat at each level of social explanation. In a sample of 654 participants, latent profile analysis identified five distinct socio-psychological profiles, which differed in terms of the levels of the four variables under examination. Profile membership significantly moderated the relationship between conspiracy mentality and conspiracy beliefs in both theoretically proposed directions. Specifically, the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and conspiracy mentality (CBs → CM) was found to be more pronounced in the profile characterized by moderate levels of paranoid ideation, ostracism, collective narcissism, and perceptions of a dangerous world. Conversely, the relationship between conspiracy mentality and conspiracy beliefs (CM → CBs) was found to be more pronounced in the profile with higher levels of collective narcissism and perceptions of a dangerous world. The findings support the importance of a multi-level approach to understanding the relationship between conspiracy mentality and belief in specific conspiracy theories. They also highlight the usefulness of combining Doise's framework with person-centered analytical approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 9","pages":"668-682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148860094","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":"When Economic Incentives Undermine Prosocial Participation: The Role of External Symbolic Value","authors":"Jee Eun Lee, Kwanho Suk","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Prosocial campaigns frequently rely on the symbolic value of participation, particularly when actions are publicly observable and function as social signals of altruism and moral identity. Although organizations often introduce personal economic incentives to increase engagement, such incentives may change the anticipated social meaning of participation because they provide observers with a plausible self-interested explanation for the behavior. We propose that this change in anticipated social meaning reduces the perceived external symbolic value of participation, defined as the extent to which individuals believe that participating in the campaign will signal altruism to others, which in turn decreases willingness to participate. Across three studies, we show that adding a personal economic incentive reduces participation intentions by weakening perceived external symbolic value. Study 1 established this effect in a blood donation context and confirmed mediation through perceived external symbolic value. Study 2 provided process-consistent evidence by showing that the effect is stronger among individuals high in impression management motivation in a cause-linked consumption context. Study 3 replicated the effect in a green consumption context and showed that economic incentives reduced both external and internal symbolic value, but only the external pathway was amplified by impression management motivation. These findings show that economic incentives can undermine prosocial participation by changing the anticipated social meaning and weakening its external symbolic value.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 9","pages":"613-624"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859948","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":"Strict With Humans, Lenient With Machines? Differential Effects of Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Unfairness on Trust","authors":"Yang Luo, Yuxin Liu, Jianwei Zhang, Xuefei Wang","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Existing research has produced mixed findings regarding how individuals respond to unfair decisions enacted by AI versus human decision-makers. A key limitation of prior research is that studies rarely distinguish among different forms of unfairness and have largely focused on moral reactions. Drawing on expectancy violation theory and mind perception theory, we conducted six vignette-based experiments (<i>N</i> = 1299) to examine how trust responses differ when distributive, procedural, and interactional unfairness are enacted by AI versus humans. Results show that (1) under distributive unfairness, participants reported significantly lower cognitive trust toward AI than toward humans; (2) under procedural and interactional unfairness, participants reported significantly higher cognitive trust toward AI than toward humans; and (3) across all types of unfairness, humans consistently evoked lower affective trust than AI. Mediation analyses further indicate that perceived ability and perceived benevolence serve as key explanatory mechanisms for cognitive and affective trust, respectively.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 9","pages":"625-641"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859949","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":"Content Matters: A Multilevel Circumplex Approach to Work Value Congruence and Organizational Identification","authors":"Jannick Schneider, Marcel Kern, Timo Lorenz","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Shared values between employees and their organization constitute a central prerequisite of organizational identification. However, research on person-organization (PO) fit has largely relied on assumptions of uniformly beneficial value congruence. In the present study, we integrate the Circular Work Value Theory with PO fit research to examine how the motivational content of personal work values shapes organizational identification in interaction with organizational culture. Using cross-sectional data from 2151 employees nested within 54 organizations, we applied multilevel polynomial regression with response surface analysis to investigate value congruence between employees' higher-order work values and their organizations' culture for psychological empowerment. In addition, drawing on social identity theory, we examined identity leadership as a moderator influencing the relation between the level of value congruence and organizational identification. Results revealed systematic asymmetries and non-linear patterns across value domains. Whereas conservation and self-enhancement values show largely linear and positive associations with organizational identification in high-empowerment cultures, openness to change and self-transcendence exhibit curvilinear relations, indicating diminishing or even adverse effects at higher value levels. Moreover, when employees' leaders were high in identity leadership, individuals across a broader range of conservation and self-enhancement values showed higher organizational identification. Overall, this study advances PO fit theory by integrating a circumplex work-value framework with multilevel congruence modeling and identity-based leadership processes, offering actionable insights for organizations seeking to strengthen identification through value-sensitive culture design and leadership practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 8","pages":"545-565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783693","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":"Who Gets the Moral Credit? The Source of Moral Recognition Shapes Unethical Workplace Intentions Beyond Moral Justification","authors":"Costanza Scaffidi Abbate","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Moral licensing research suggests that prior moral behavior can sometimes relax self-regulation, increasing openness to subsequent misconduct. Yet moral recognition may also foster moral consistency, particularly when moral credit is clearly attributable to the self or conveyed through norm-relevant authority. In a controlled experimental study, we tested whether the <i>source</i> of moral recognition—individual, team-based, or leader-based—differentially predicts unethical workplace behavioral intentions and moral justification, and whether any effects on unethical intentions persist beyond moral justification. Overall, condition influenced both outcomes. Planned contrasts indicated lower unethical intentions following personal (individual) recognition compared to team-based recognition and a neutral control condition. Moral justification was positively associated with unethical intentions, consistent with moral disengagement accounts, but it did not mediate the effects of moral recognition cues. Multicategorical models further showed residual inhibitory effects of individual- and leader-based recognition on unethical intentions after controlling for moral justification. Together, these findings challenge a simple licensing interpretation and instead suggest that moral recognition tied to personal agency or authority-based norms may function as a self-regulatory cue, reducing unethical intentions through self-regulatory processes not fully captured by explicit moral justification. Implications for moral licensing theory and organizational recognition practices are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 8","pages":"586-594"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148785209","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":"Daily Workplace Anger and Same-Day Employee Attitudes: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Anger Coping","authors":"Robin Umbra, Ulrike Fasbender","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Workplace anger is a common and consequential affective experience. Although anger is negatively valenced, it is also associated with approach motivation, perceived agency, and readiness to act. Drawing on affective events theory and appraisal perspectives on emotion, this study examines how daily workplace anger relates to two same-day employee attitudes: helplessness and self-assurance. We further examine whether interpersonal anger coping, in the form of approach- and avoidance-oriented behavior, moderates these relationships. Using experience-sampling data from 220 full-time employees across 2,059 daily observations, we found that daily workplace anger was positively related to helplessness and negatively related to self-assurance. In analyses of observations for which coping was assessed, approach-oriented anger coping moderated the anger–self-assurance relationship: anger was negatively related to self-assurance when approach behavior was low, whereas this relationship was weaker when approach behavior was high. Approach behavior did not moderate the anger–helplessness relationship, and avoidance behavior did not moderate either relationship. These findings show that daily workplace anger is associated with same-day attitudinal strain, while also identifying approach-oriented coping as a boundary condition for the relationship between anger and self-assurance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 8","pages":"595-608"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148785208","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}
Orly Idan, Michal Reifen-Tagar, Boaz Hameiri, Eran Halperin, Einat Amir
{"title":"Mind the Cue: Subtle Linguistic Cues Influence Support for Anti-Refugee Policies","authors":"Orly Idan, Michal Reifen-Tagar, Boaz Hameiri, Eran Halperin, Einat Amir","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work drew on psycholinguistic research on the power of language in shaping emotions and policy preferences, exploring a subtle means of political persuasion. We proposed examining the impact of grammatical form in political communication—how hearing <i>others</i> assert their positions in verb versus noun form impacts the receiver's anger and policy support regarding anti-refugee policies. We tested whether participants responded differently to a person arguing against governmental policies benefitting refugees, depending on the grammatical form of her arguments. 575 Jewish-Israelis, assigned to either noun or verb condition, read a prompt containing information about the refugee issue and watched a 2-min video of a woman expressing anti-refugee policy positions. Findings revealed that anti-refugee policies phrased in verb versus noun form increased levels of anger toward the government and, correspondingly, support of anti-refugee policies (not pro-refugee), suggesting that the grammatical form in which policies are presented can impact political persuasion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 8","pages":"566-571"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784553","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":"Witnessing Racial Discrimination Mobilizes Intra-Minority Allyship: Egalitarian Beliefs, Not Identification With All Humanity, Shape Who Acts","authors":"Maria Chayinska, Yue Ting Woo, Özden Melis Uluğ, Tymofii Brik, Luca Caricati","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Witnessing racial discrimination can be a powerful moral encounter, yet little is known about how minority group members respond when the targets are other minorities, such as Black people. Across three studies, we examined when witnessing discrimination predicts intra-minority allyship with Black people. In Study 1a (<i>N</i> = 155 Ukrainians in the United States) and Study 1b (<i>N</i> = 251 Ukrainians in Italy), cross-sectional surveys showed that more frequent witnessing of racial discrimination was associated with stronger intentions to engage in intra-minority allyship, and that this association was stronger among participants with more pronounced egalitarian beliefs. In Study 2, a preregistered experiment with South Asian residents of the United Kingdom (<i>N</i> = 294) demonstrated that watching a video depicting racial discrimination increased intra-minority allyship intentions compared with a control video, even after controlling for ideological covariates. Across all studies, identification with all humanity was positively related to allyship intentions, but it did not reliably account for why witnessing discrimination predicted action. Taken together, the findings suggest that concrete egalitarian commitments, rather than abstract global identification, play a central role in determining when minority witnesses transform everyday encounters with injustice into collective action on behalf of other marginalized groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 8","pages":"572-585"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148785048","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}