{"title":"Daily Evaluation Threat and Instability in the Ability Self-Concept Among Stereotype-Aware Women","authors":"Iris Meinderts, Jenny Veldman, Colette Van Laar","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13085","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A clear and stable notion of one's abilities in a field is an important predictor of interest and motivation. The present study examines whether the development of this clear and stable ability self-concept is undermined for people facing negative stereotyping because of exposure to daily evaluation threats. As such, the present study examines a novel explanation for the leaky pipeline phenomenon that members of negatively stereotyped groups disproportionally opt out of fields. A daily diary study among 205 female psychology students (<i>N</i> = 1390 data points) showed that awareness of ingroup-stereotyping related to more daily fear that others negatively evaluate their statistical abilities. This daily evaluation threat related negatively, within and across days, to fluctuations in clarity and certainty of the ability self-concept—indicating that the ability self-concept is more unstable for people experiencing more daily evaluation-threat. Lower clarity and certainty of the ability self-concept was, in turn, related to lower statistics interest and motivation, speaking to the importance of a clear and stable ability self-concept for goal pursuit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"190-205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530307","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":"Indirect Contact and Knowledge Interventions to Improve Relations in the Disabled-Nondisabled Intergroup Context: A Systematic Review","authors":"Rebecca Jennie Dole, Lindsey Cameron, Kirsten Abbot-Smith","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stigma and prejudice towards individuals with disabilities is still prevalent in society today (Livneh, Chan, and Kaya 2014). Our aim was to evaluate the state of the research that tests interventions aiming to improve such attitudes, including uncovering which intervention methods can reduce this prejudice and identifying gaps in the research. Since a large proportion of nondisabled individuals will not have the opportunity for direct contact with disabled individuals, our systematic review focuses on non-direct-contact interventions, specifically knowledge-based and indirect contact techniques. Fifty-one studies published between 2001 and 2022 met all criteria, including the use of a comparison or control group. Overall, most studies did have a positive change on outcome measures, with some maintaining the effect weeks or months later. Despite intervention successes, trends indicating gaps in the research were uncovered including the focus on child and undergraduate student participants, and the lack of collaborative research with the disabled communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"171-189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530771","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":"Dragons in Action: Psychological Barriers as Mediators of the Relationship Between Environmental Value Orientation and Pro-Environmental Behaviour","authors":"Beáta Sobotová, Jakub Šrol, Magdalena Adamus","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13083","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates to what extent the ‘green gap,’ that is, the disconnection between environmental values and pro-environmental behaviour, can be explained by various perceived psychological barriers. A large representative sample of Slovak participants (<i>N</i> = 1233) filled in several measures of environmental value orientation, perceived psychological barriers and self-reported pro-environmental behaviour. The parallel mediation models revealed that environmental value orientation predicts engagement in pro-environmental behaviour, and this relationship is partially mediated by certain psychological barriers, yet the role of the specific barriers varied substantially with different types of behaviour. Overall, however, the explained variance in pro-environmental behaviour was relatively modest (up to 31%), suggesting the presence of other important social, psychological, and structural variables as predictors in this regard. Our findings emphasize the intricate role of psychological barriers and demographic factors in shaping environmental actions. Understanding these complexities can help design targeted interventions to bridge the ‘green gap’ effectively.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"156-170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530651","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}
Danica Kulibert, Aaron J. Moss, Jacob Appleby, Laurie T. O'Brien
{"title":"Perceptions of Political Deviants in the US Democrat and Republican Parties","authors":"Danica Kulibert, Aaron J. Moss, Jacob Appleby, Laurie T. O'Brien","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13079","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>People who deviate from group norms pose problems for their ingroup, but not all forms of deviance are equivalent. Six experiments (<i>N</i> = 1,653) investigated lay understandings of subjective group dynamics by assessing people's beliefs about how others would perceive two types of deviants within U.S. political parties—political moderates and extremes. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that participants thought Democrats and Republicans, respectively, would show less approval of a moderate ingroup political candidate than an extreme ingroup political candidate. Experiment 3 demonstrated that participants thought Democrats would show less approval of a moderate Democratic campaign volunteer than an extreme Democratic campaign volunteer. Experiments 4 and 5 replicated Experiments 1 and 2 in ideologically diverse samples. Experiment 6 extended these findings by demonstrating that people's expectation that Republicans will show less approval of moderate ingroup members than extreme ingroup members extends to rank-and-file party members. People intuitively understand subjective group dynamics and this understanding may have important consequences for political behavior and discourse.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"87-102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117474","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}
Anna Saelinger, Patrick D. Converse, Kauyer Lor, Sherif al-Qallawi
{"title":"Daily Work Characteristics: Implications for Interruptions and Goal Attainment","authors":"Anna Saelinger, Patrick D. Converse, Kauyer Lor, Sherif al-Qallawi","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13082","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Interruptions are a common and consequential issue for many workers. Although several studies have examined work interruptions, little research has explored work characteristics as potential antecedents of interruptions, particularly from a within-person perspective. The current study examined this issue by investigating how several prominent job characteristics relate to employee interruptions and goal attainment using a daily diary design. Specifically, 162 employed individuals completed daily measures of work characteristics (job autonomy, task variety, job complexity, and task interdependence), external interruption (intrusion) frequency, internal interruption (mind wandering) frequency, and goal attainment. Results from multilevel modeling analyses demonstrated links between work characteristics and intrusions and between mind wandering and goal attainment. These findings contribute to our understanding of both work interruptions and work design and may inform practical applications related to managing interruptions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 3","pages":"143-155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530583","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":"Exemplifying Procedural Justice While Strengthening Organizational Identification: The Complex Relationship Between Identity Leadership and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior","authors":"Patrizia Milesi","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) aims at advantaging the organization while transgressing relevant laws or widely held norms of ethical conduct. Across three studies (Study 1 <i>N</i> = 138; Study 2 <i>N</i> = 413; Study 3 <i>N</i> = 139), the paper examines whether identity leadership plays as an antecedent of employees' UPB intention based on two simultaneous processes: one process related to identity leaders being perceived as exemplary group members, who model and inspire given standards of behavior as a function of the procedural justice employees experience within their workgroup; the other process related to identity leaders strengthening employees' organizational identification. The obtained results provided consistent evidence that identity leadership is associated directly with employees’ UPB intention by interacting negatively with procedural justice and that, at the same time, it is associated with it indirectly, through the mediation of organizational identification. Discussion focuses on the complexity of both UPB, where an ethical and a pro-organizational dimensions are intertwined, and identity leadership, whose contents are conditional on the meanings employees associate with their group membership.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"103-122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120731","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}
Jeni L. Burnette, Whitney Becker, Crystal L. Hoyt, Nikolette P. Lipsey
{"title":"Mindsets of Parenting Ability: Coping With Challenges and Engaging in Parenting","authors":"Jeni L. Burnette, Whitney Becker, Crystal L. Hoyt, Nikolette P. Lipsey","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13081","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parenting can bring both joy and stress. Identifying factors that foster greater engagement and enjoyment while also helping parents cope with inevitable stressors is critical for healthy child development and parental wellbeing. In the current work, we build on growth mindset theory to explore individual differences in beliefs about the changeable nature of parenting ability. Specifically, across three correlational studies (<i>N</i> = 1170), we investigated if growth mindsets about parenting related to coping in the wake of parenting setbacks and to parental engagement. Growth mindsets predicted more positive expectations and less avoidant coping after parenting challenges, and these processes, and growth mindsets, correlated with parental engagement. Across the three studies, average links between growth mindsets and the two primary outcomes of interest—avoidant coping and engagement—were <i>r</i> = −0.31 and <i>r</i> = 0.20, respectively.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"123-137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119496","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":"Replicating What Motivates Conflicting Groups to Engage in Competitive Victimhood: The Roles of Need for Power and Need for Morality","authors":"Samer Halabi, Noor Masi, John F. Dovidio","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13078","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Because of the growing evidence pointing to the adverse impact of competitive victimhood on intergroup relations, research has focused on revealing what motivates conflicting groups to engage in competitive victimhood. Whereas Sullivan et al. showed that need for morality—that is, protecting ingroup's moral identity—predicted engagement in competitive victimhood, Kahalon et al. found that when considered simultaneously, need for power was the primary motivator of competitive victimhood. The main objective of the present research was to replicate Kahalon et al.'s Study 1 findings, testing the robustness of their results by conducting it in the context of a unique threat (i.e., COVID-19). Our results, involving a well-powered sample of Jews (<i>N</i> = 205) and Arabs (<i>N</i> = 152) living in Israel, demonstrated that while need for morality and need for power individually related to competitive victimhood, when included simultaneously in a regression need for power but not need morality predicted competitive victimhood among members of both a disadvantaged group (Arabs living in Israel) and an advantaged group (Jews living in Israel). Replicating the results from Kahalon et al. in the unique context of the COVID-19 indicates the persistent position that competitive victimhood plays in Arab-Jewish intergroup relations and helps to illuminate its underlying dynamics.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 2","pages":"75-86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115660","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":"The Proof is in the Pudding: Workers Care About Evidence-Based Diversity Cues","authors":"Valerie De Cock, Pinar Celik, Claudia Toma","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13076","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Organizations promote their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) while facing increasing public scrutiny concerning their progress in the domain. This research examined how value-based (i.e., DEI statements) and evidence-based (i.e., progress in minority representation) diversity cues, together or separately, influence workers' company perceptions (perceived corporate hypocrisy) and individual outcomes (inclusion, organizational commitment, person-organization fit, negative affect, and turnover intentions). The goal was to assess the relative importance of these cues. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 440), participants reacted to a hypothetical situation in a 2 (value-based cue: diversity talk present vs. absent) × 2 (evidence-based cue: diversity progress present vs. absent) experimental design. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 242), value-based and evidence-based cues were measured, and participants were reporting about their organization. Our results show that evidence-based diversity cues systematically influenced workers' perceptions of the organization and their work-related experiences, while the role of the value-based diversity cues remained ambiguous. Moreover, perceived corporate hypocrisy mediated the effect of evidence-based diversity cues on workers' experiences. Our research highlights the key, but often underestimated, role of evidence-based diversity cues for workers and raises questions about the conditions under which value-based diversity cues might be effective.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"52-70"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114259","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}
C. Y. Edwina Wong, Teri A. Kirby, Michelle K. Ryan, Floor Rink
{"title":"Overcoming or Removing Gendered Barriers? Support for Individualistic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Interventions Among Those in Power","authors":"C. Y. Edwina Wong, Teri A. Kirby, Michelle K. Ryan, Floor Rink","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Organizations are increasingly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. However, those who have the power to implement DEI interventions and those who ought to benefit from such interventions might have conflicting perspectives about their aims. In three studies, we investigate how those with high (vs. low) power endorse structural versus individualistic interventions for women. In Study 1 (<i>n</i> = 403), we focus on women's evaluation of the intervention. We find that they anticipate that structural interventions will be more successful at alleviating gender barriers at work than individualistic interventions. In Studies 2 (<i>n</i> = 500) and 3 (<i>n</i> = 319), we focus on men and women across different levels of power and find that individuals, regardless of their gender and their hierarchical position, prefer interventions that challenge organizational systems that maintain inequalities than those that support women in coping with DEI issues. However, individuals with stronger system-legitimacy beliefs showed just as much support for individualistic DEI interventions as for structural ones. The results suggest overall support for structural DEI interventions, but that ongoing meritocratic beliefs can detract from their actual implementation. We discuss how intervention research may benefit from focusing on interventions that target system-legitimacy beliefs to leverage more support and implementation of structural interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"22-37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112005","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}