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{"title":"Why Don't We Care About Others? A Closer Look at Indifference Through the Lens of the Dual Process Model and Moral Foundations Theory","authors":"Alessio Tesi,&nbsp;Stefano Passini","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13096","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Building on the dual-process motivational model and moral foundations theory, we tested whether indifference (i.e., not caring about arbitrary policies affecting low-status groups), as well as right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), is driven by dangerous worldview beliefs (i.e., a threatening environment) resulting in greater adherence to issues pertaining to an in-group binding morality (i.e., in-group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity). In parallel, we tested whether indifference, as well as social dominance orientation, is motivated by competitive worldview beliefs (i.e., zero-sum competition), resulting in lower endorsement of an individualizing morality (i.e., harm/care and fairness/reciprocity) in favor of self-enhancement. We recruited 241 participants who voluntarily completed an anonymous questionnaire. Path analysis revealed that the positive association between a dangerous worldview and binding morality was mediated by RWA but not by indifference, whereas the negative association between a competitive worldview and individualizing morality was mediated by social dominance orientation and indifference. These results revealed that indifferent people, like those higher in the social dominance orientation, are driven by a competitive and socially dominant worldview that includes less emphasis on principles of not harming individuals and protecting their autonomy. In contrast to RWA, indifference is not driven by beliefs about a dangerous worldview and shows no proximity to a group-preserving morality that prioritizes group cohesion and respect for traditions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 5","pages":"359-370"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905340","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":"Belief in a Norm-Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non-Normative Collective Action","authors":"Lotte Pummerer,&nbsp;Lara Ditrich,&nbsp;Kevin Winter,&nbsp;Kai Sassenberg","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non-normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non-normative. Alternatively, it might be the case that non-normative action appears justified based on what conspiracy theories alleging harm to a personally relevant group due to powerholders’ secret actions imply about social reality. To test this assumption, we focus on the belief in a norm-consistent (i.e., popular and plausible) climate policy conspiracy theory alleging that powerful groups (i.e., politicians and the business sector) act without public oversight, leading to climate policies that suit their interests but are harmful to the public. Across three studies—one using a quota-based German sample and two preregistered replications (<i>N</i>_total = 1257)—we investigate how the belief in such a theory relates to the endorsement of non-normative collective action, and test whether this relationship also emerges for the belief in a norm-inconsistent (i.e., implausible and unpopular) climate policy conspiracy theory suggesting a similar social reality (Study 3). Our data show that beliefs in both norm-consistent and norm-inconsistent climate policy conspiracy theories correlate positively with support for non-normative collective action, while only the belief in a norm-consistent climate policy conspiracy theory was related to normative collective action. In contrast, a stronger predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories (i.e., conspiracy mentality), albeit positively correlated with belief in a norm-consistent climate policy conspiracy theory, was related to lower support for non-normative collective action serving climate protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 5","pages":"343-358"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905407","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":"The Effects of Political Exclusion: Threatened Needs and Decreased Affiliation With Increased Anger and Antisocial Inclinations","authors":"Katarina E. AuBuchon,&nbsp;Michelle L. Stock,&nbsp;Emily Raibley,&nbsp;Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell,&nbsp;Paul J. Poppen","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13092","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Social exclusion threatens psychological needs satisfaction, increases anger, and can contribute to group polarization. In two studies, we explored how &lt;i&gt;political&lt;/i&gt; exclusion (vs. inclusion) influenced American voters' polarization. In Study 1 (&lt;i&gt;N&lt;/i&gt; = 135, 60.7% Female, 61.5% White; Age &lt;i&gt;M&lt;/i&gt; = 19.63), young adults were included or excluded in Cyberball from their political outgroup. In Study 2 (&lt;i&gt;N&lt;/i&gt; = 316, 72.5% Female, 63.0% White; Age &lt;i&gt;M&lt;/i&gt; = 19.03), Biden and Trump supporters were excluded or included in Cyberball from their political ingroup or outgroup during the 2020 election. Participants excluded (vs. included) from the political outgroup reported lower needs satisfaction (Study 1: &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;η&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; = 0.29, Study 2: &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;η&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; = 0.35), more anger (Study 2: &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;η&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; = 0.04), less interest in outgroup affiliation (Study 1: &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;η&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; = 0.03) and increased interest in outgroup antisociality (Study 2: &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msubsup&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;η&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 5","pages":"305-321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905384","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":"Barriers and Bootstraps? The Role of Attributions for Social Mobility Success and Failure in Policy Support and Faith in the American Dream","authors":"Erin Shanahan,&nbsp;Anne E. Wilson","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite rising inequality making upward social mobility difficult, faith in the American Dream persists. Americans are often exposed to narratives where hard work leads to upward social mobility but are less likely to hear about the numerous instances where the same efforts don't pay off. Across three pre-registered studies, we examined responses to identical narratives of social mobility effort that either ended in success or failure. Despite equal efforts, a target was viewed as less hardworking and competent and worse at managing their time and money when they failed versus succeeded to be upwardly mobile. Liberals and conservatives made equally strong internal explanations for social mobility successes. However, conservatives explained failures with more internal and less societal attributions than liberals. These attributions were found to have important implications for faith in the American Dream and support for policies to promote equality. Moreover, experimentally inducing a focus on societal barriers to upward mobility (vs. internal factors) increased support for policies to reduce these barriers, and reduced faith in the American Dream, particularly among conservatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 5","pages":"322-342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905383","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":"The Psychological Threat of Being Declared Nonessential During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Professional Identification","authors":"Ruth van Veelen,&nbsp;Johanna S. W. Kruger,&nbsp;Belle Derks,&nbsp;Francesca Manzi,&nbsp;Melissa Vink,&nbsp;Mara A. Yerkes","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research applies a social identity lens to show that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the classification of occupations and labor market sectors as <i>essential</i> versus <i>nonessential</i> negatively affected the professional identity of those categorized as nonessential workers. We hypothesized that nonessential workers would report lower professional identification (PI) during the pandemic relative to essential workers; explored whether this was partially due to mandatory shifts to working from home and working fewer hours; whether gender differences would emerge in the impact of (non)essential categorization on PI; and if lower PI would negatively relate to work productivity and performance during the pandemic. Empirical evidence based on three datasets sampled among the Dutch working population during two peak waves of COVID-19 infections and national lockdowns (May/June 2020; Study 1: <i>N</i> = 371; November/December 2020, Study 2: <i>N</i> = 467; Study 3 = 735) confirmed nonessential workers' lower PI relative to essential workers. During the first peak wave (Study 1), nonessential workers' lower PI was partially explained by being home-bound by reduced work hours. As the pandemic continued (second peak wave; Studies 2 and 3), gender differences emerged, with more negative consequences of being classified as nonessential for women than men. Nonessential workers' lower PI levels were associated with lower work productivity and performance. These findings underscore the importance of understanding social identity processes during the pandemic. We discuss the sociopsychological ramifications of government regulations to control health crises, given how these may inadvertently undermine the professional identity of over half a working population in society.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 4","pages":"258-277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741226","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":"Meeting the Other: Changing Attitudes Despite Intractable Conflicts—A Meta-Analysis","authors":"Rahel Geppert,&nbsp;Rainer Leonhart,&nbsp;Jürgen Maes","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With rising numbers and increasing complexity of long-living conflicts, the effect of contact interventions is tested in that context. This meta-analysis investigated the effect contact interventions have on outgroup-attitudes in the context of a highly intractable conflict. Publications were included, if they quantitatively assessed a contact intervention with samples collected in the context of a highly intractable conflict, either still active or politically resolved, and assessed attitude toward the outgroup they met as a dependent variable. With these criteria, 38 publications with 57 samples and 143 outcomes were included. The influence methodological rigorousness has on the effect sizes in the primary studies is low. The present results suggest that contact interventions are associated with improved attitude toward the outgroup; however, this result is accompanied by high heterogeneity, suggesting high degree of uncertainty in the estimation of the main effect. Further, the mix of correlational and experimental studies makes causal inferences difficult.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 4","pages":"278-288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741578","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":"Shaping Immigration Explicit and Implicit Attitudes With Framing: The Role of Self-Reported Political Orientation, RWA, and SDO","authors":"Alessia Valmori,&nbsp;Luciana Carraro,&nbsp;Luigi Castelli","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13091","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Immigration is a complex phenomenon that significantly involves most Western countries. Political parties often hold divergent views on immigration, which deeply influence their supporters and contribute to societal polarization. To address this divide, moral framing—a technique proven effective in other contexts, such as environmental issues—could offer a promising solution. However, there has been little research on how this approach is influenced by specific aspect of the political ideology, such as Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), or its impact on implicit attitude changes. The present study (<i>N</i> = 230) explored the effectiveness of moral framing in bridging the gap between conservative and liberal individuals in their explicit and implicit attitudes towards immigration. Participants in two experimental groups were presented with a video that ended with either a binding or individualizing moral message in which two immigrants described their positive experiences. A video about unrelated issues was presented in the control condition. Findings showed that conservative individuals expressed less negative explicit and implicit attitudes toward immigration when exposed to the binding moral framing compared to the control group. However, no significant differences emerged between participants exposed to the binding versus individualizing frames. Overall, results indicated that moral framing had a limited effect, but exposure to exemplars of positive integration was effective in shifting both the explicit and implicit attitudes of more conservative individuals, thereby fostering greater consensus across the political spectrum.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 5","pages":"293-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905395","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":"Non-Indigenous Canadians’ Attitudes Toward Renaming or Removing Statues as a Reconciliation Strategy","authors":"John Shayegh,&nbsp;Becky Choma,&nbsp;Jorida Cila,&nbsp;Jaiden Herkimer","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples has been a named priority for many post-colonial societies. In this context, in August 2018, Victoria City Hall in Canada removed the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, from its grounds; similar events followed across Canada. Research on this issue is lacking but can offer useful insights to researchers and policymakers. To understand how non-Indigenous Canadians respond to renaming or removing statues in the name of reconciliation, we qualitatively analysed online comments posted under news articles reporting the removal of Macdonald's statue (Study 1). Two narratives aimed at delegitimising renaming/removing emerged: depicting the actions as excessive ‘political correctness’ (PC) that represented the values of a powerful, but minority, outgroup of ‘liberal elites’; and depicting the actions as a symbolic threat to the ingroup through notions of ‘rewriting history’. In Study 2, with a Canadian community sample, we investigated anti-PC attitudes and symbolic intergroup threat via rewriting history as predictors of support for reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Given the central role of ideological beliefs in intergroup attitudes, we examined RWA and SDO as predictors of anti-PC attitudes, symbolic threat in the form of rewriting history, and support for reconciliation. Path analysis results showed that RWA and SDO indirectly predicted lower support for renaming/removing via higher anti-PC attitudes and higher symbolic threat. Collectively, this research provides evidence that anti-PC and symbolic threat are important constructs in relation to responses to reconciliation proposals in Canada with potential implications for other post-colonial societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 4","pages":"242-257"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741390","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":"Affective-Motivational States Link Threat Experience and Defensive Reactions During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Chiara Annika Jutzi,&nbsp;Julius Möller,&nbsp;Johannes Klackl,&nbsp;Tom Rosenzweig,&nbsp;Stefan Reiss,&nbsp;Vittoria Franchina,&nbsp;Eva Jonas","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The pandemic changed people's lives and came with enormous restrictions on personal freedom, greatly restricting people's sense of agency. In response, people oscillated between fear and anger. We show (<i>N</i> = 2125) the ways in which people restored their perceived agency that was taken away by restrictions and that affective reactions to the pandemic may have guided people's pandemic behavior. In Study 1 (<i>n</i> = 276), <i>psychological</i> threat elicited by the pandemic predicted anxiety and was, in turn, related to reactance. While anxiety positively predicted reactions increasing the success of pandemic management, reactance was related to non-facilitating reactions such as belief in conspiracies and vaccine distrust. In Study 2 (<i>n</i> = 354), reading about a conspiracy myth as one form of defense increased positive affect. In Study 3 (<i>n</i> = 213) and Study 4 (<i>n</i> = 1282), we replicated findings from Study 1, extending the focus to belief in conspiracies and fake news, anti-vaccination attitudes, national trust, solidarity, and mainstream media mistrust. Interestingly, in Study 4, defensive reactions were associated with more perceived agency, indicating that defensive reactions may be tools to manage pandemic-induced affect. This study series shows that a threat and defense perspective may be a useful angle to understand human behavior in times of crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 4","pages":"224-241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741123","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":"Deep Listening Training to Bridge Divides: Fostering Attitudinal Change through Intimacy and Self-Insight","authors":"F. K. Tia Moin,&nbsp;Guy Itzchakov,&nbsp;Emily Kasriel,&nbsp;Netta Weinstein","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deep, high-quality listening that offers a nonjudgmental approach, understanding, and careful attention when speakers share disparate views can have the power to bridge divides and change speakers' attitudes. However, can people be trained to provide such listening while disagreeing with what they hear, and if so, are the effects of the listening training sufficient for creating perceptible change during disagreements? This study, conducted with delegates (<i>N</i> = 320) representing 86 countries experimentally tested a “deep” (otherwise termed “high quality“) listening training against a randomly assigned subgroup of attendees who served as a “waitlist” control. During a conversation with another participant on a subject about which they strongly disagreed, participants who had completed a 6-h training over 3 weeks in high-quality listening demonstrated improvements in their observed listening behaviors, reported higher levels of interactional intimacy with conversation partners, appeared to increase their self-insight and subsequently, showed evidence of attitude change. Among the first studies to test semi-causal outcomes of high-quality listening training between attendees with diverse and contrary attitudes in a real-world, cross-national setting; we discuss the potential and limitations for listening training to support positive relations and an open mind in the context of discourse, disagreement and polarization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 4","pages":"211-223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741122","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}