{"title":"Brexit and Wellbeing: Strained Intergroup Relations and Positive Intergroup Contact Predict Wellbeing of Remainers and Leavers Post Brexit","authors":"Michèle D. Birtel, Nicole Tausch","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Britain's exit from the European Union has divided the public, making it crucial to understand its implications for wellbeing. In two survey studies (<i>N</i> = 280, April 2020; <i>N</i> = 575, Nov 2020–July 2021) we examined how subjective wellbeing (mental wellbeing, MW; life satisfaction, LS) is predicted by Brexit attitudes and strained intergroup relations between UK Remainers and Leavers. We further tested whether positive intergroup contact is associated with wellbeing outcomes, via intergroup anxiety. Wellbeing was higher among Leavers than Remainers in Study 2. Negative intergroup emotions predicted lower MW for Remainers (Study 1). Perceived outgroup respect predicted higher MW for both groups, more so for Leavers (Study 2). Brexit identity negatively predicted wellbeing (Study 2), while contact quality positively predicted wellbeing (MW, Studies 1 and 2; LS, Study 2), via intergroup anxiety. Positive Brexit attitudes predicted greater wellbeing, especially for Leavers (Study 2). Greater wellbeing among Leavers may be attributed to the congruence between personal and perceived environmental values in the aftermath of Brexit. Strained intergroup relations were linked with lower wellbeing and positive contact was associated with higher wellbeing, via intergroup anxiety. Our research offers insights for interventions aimed at promoting wellbeing in polarized contexts by considering intergroup dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 2","pages":"131-144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146136333","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}
Jinyoung Park, Christine Lathren, Mark Leary, John M. Davis, Mark Weiser, Ayala Sophia Magidovich, Rick Hoyle
{"title":"Bridging Divides: Intellectual Humility's Role in Peaceful Resolution","authors":"Jinyoung Park, Christine Lathren, Mark Leary, John M. Davis, Mark Weiser, Ayala Sophia Magidovich, Rick Hoyle","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Intractable intergroup conflicts are often sustained by ingroup-biased cognition and outgroup derogation, which perpetuate cycles of retaliation and violence. This study examined how intellectual humility (IH)—the recognition of the limits and potential fallibility of one's knowledge—relates to factors that promote healthier intergroup relations during periods of conflict. Amid an acute escalation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 158 Jewish Israeli participants completed measures of IH, empathy toward and identification with both Israelis and Palestinians, perceptions of collective victimhood, and support for peaceful conflict resolution. Higher IH was indirectly associated with stronger support for peaceful conflict resolution and lower collective victimhood through greater inclusive empathy that extended beyond group boundaries and broader group identification (mutuality). These findings suggest that IH is linked to lower ingroup favoritism, more balanced and humane appraisals of the conflict, and a greater willingness to pursue nonviolent solutions during acute intergroup conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 2","pages":"145-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146136076","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}
Lena Rieder, Madelijn Strick, Vincent Buskens, Naomi Ellemers
{"title":"Challenge Appraisals as Key Predictors of Immediate and Long-Term Behavior Change: Evidence From Real-Life Group Contexts","authors":"Lena Rieder, Madelijn Strick, Vincent Buskens, Naomi Ellemers","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Engaging in behavior to facilitate personal growth or collective change is a form of “positive risk-taking.” Going against the status quo entails a risk of social disapproval and can raise discomfort. When will this impede or benefit the achievement of behavioral change? Across two studies, we investigated responses during and after group sessions with a motivational speaker, in which behavioral exercises encouraged positive risk-taking behavior. In Study 1, we investigated the moderating role of challenge and threat appraisals on the relationship between discomfort and positive risk-taking intentions among 133 employees of 3 organizations. We hypothesized that the relationship between experienced discomfort and positive risk-taking intentions would be positive (negative), if the discomfort was evaluated as a challenge (threat). In Study 2, we experimentally manipulated the type of discomfort (“control,” “self-experienced discomfort,” “observed discomfort”) and measured positive risk-taking behavior before, immediately after, and 3 weeks after the event among 146 university students. Results revealed that challenge appraisals significantly predicted positive risk-taking intentions and long-term behaviors. Notably, these effects were obtained regardless of whether discomfort was experienced personally or observed in others. Our research highlights the importance of challenge appraisals in motivating immediate and long-term positive risk-taking in group contexts. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 2","pages":"113-130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146129976","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}
Hilary B. Bergsieker, Jessica Trickey, Erik J. Jansen, Alex C. Huynh, Toni Schmader
{"title":"Focusing on Inclusion (vs. Leadership) Boosts Gender Bias Recognition and Intended Action","authors":"Hilary B. Bergsieker, Jessica Trickey, Erik J. Jansen, Alex C. Huynh, Toni Schmader","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When gender bias arises at work, inaction all too often follows. Can simple prompts to consider inclusion or leadership orient observers toward combatting bias? Four experiments using six samples (three preregistered; <i>N</i> = 4712) tested effects of a focus manipulation among people observing workplace sexism. Before viewing a video of a sexist episode, participants were randomly assigned via a one-sentence instruction (Studies 1 and 2) or questions about their workplace (Studies 3 and 4) to focus on inclusion, leadership, or no specific focus (control). In mega-analyses across studies, focusing on inclusion (vs. leadership) led participants to perceive more gender bias in the situation, blame the target of sexism less, and spontaneously express target support intentions. Focusing on inclusion (vs. leadership) improved impressions (Studies 1–3), affiliation (Studies 2 and 3), and pay allocation (Study 4) for the target relative to the perpetrator. We discuss implications for fostering more inclusive workplace environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"85-107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887315","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":"A Different Kind of Trust: Cross-Cultural Evidence of Trust Through Self-Expansion","authors":"Saïd Shafa, Jimena Ramirez-Marin","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Extending prior research on cultural differences in interpersonal trust, we propose that the relationship between culture and trust is influenced by self-expansion relative to the trust target. Across three studies with mixed methodologies, we assessed cultural differences in how the nature of the relationship between individuals shapes self-expansion and interpersonal trust. In Study 1, building on the framework of cultural logics associated with honor, dignity, and face, our analysis of data from the World Values Survey showed that trust varies across cultures depending on the social relationship between trustor and a trustee (<i>N</i> = 64,167). In Study 2, we demonstrate that cultures differ in the extent to which they report self-expansion with targets to which they hold different levels of social relationships and that these differences closely match the trust patterns established in Study 1. Finally, in a pre-registered experimental study, we tie these findings together by showing that cultural norms predict levels of trust through the amount of self-expansion people report with the trust target in a Trust game. Our research qualifies previous findings on cultural differences in interpersonal trust, especially in so-called “low trust societies,” and contributes to our understanding of the role of self-expansion in trust across cultures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"70-84"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887120","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":"Hearing Gossip and Age-Based Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence From China and the United States","authors":"Yinqi Shen, Kim Peters, Yi Cai, Jixia Wu","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Age-based intergroup relationships have received increasing scholarly attention in the context of aging societies, emphasizing the importance of identifying factors that shape attitudes toward different age groups. The present study conceptualized hearing gossip about outgroup members as a novel form of indirect contact and employed a comprehensive measure encompassing nine distinct gossip themes—both positive and negative in valence—to examine their associations with age-based intergroup attitudes across two cultural contexts: China and the United States. A total of 468 participants (245 Americans, 223 Chinese) completed the survey. Across both samples, gossip-hearing experiences were significantly associated with intergroup attitudes, with positive gossip-hearing experiences demonstrating a stronger association than negative ones. Further analyzes revealed that these associations were mediated by intergroup anxiety and perceived ingroup norms. Notably, the mediation pathways varied by cultural context and by the specific dimensions of intergroup attitudes assessed. Although the correlational design precludes causal inference, the findings advance understanding of how informal social information, such as gossip, may contribute to the formation of intergroup attitudes in culturally distinct aging societies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"55-69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887415","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}
Simon Liegl, Thomas Maran, Marco Furtner, Pierre Sachse
{"title":"Eyes on the Leader: Gaze Behavior as a Cue for Follower Conscientiousness","authors":"Simon Liegl, Thomas Maran, Marco Furtner, Pierre Sachse","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A key to a leader's effectiveness lies in their ability to convey information about their traits and abilities to their followers by means of charismatic signaling. The traits followers might signal in turn have, however, not yet been observed. Focusing on one of the most salient and potent nonverbal behaviors and the most valued follower trait in the organizational context, we investigated the potential of eye-directed gaze behavior to signal follower conscientiousness. Using mobile eye-tracking we unobtrusively measured participants' gaze behavior in a naturalistic yet standardized leader-follower interaction. Our findings indicate conscientiousness to shape followers' eye-directed gaze behavior which, in turn, affects observers' impressions of conscientiousness. While other traits were also related to gaze behavior, they were not inferred from gaze. Importantly, more conscientious followers appear to specifically instrumentalize their gaze when speaking and direct it at the leader to support their own arguments. Thus, this study underscores the importance of investigating followers' signaling of their traits and abilities, identifies eye-directed gaze as a potential signal of conscientiousness, and further emphasizes the significance of gaze behavior as a particularly potent social cue in the organizational context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"43-54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891116","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":"A Suppression-Justification Approach to Prejudice in Resume Screening: The Role of Time Pressure and Organizational Diversity Climate","authors":"Tobias Sachs, Astrid C. Homan, Bram Lancee","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Even though ethnic discrimination after resume screening has received much research attention, it is not well understood under which conditions it is particularly likely to occur. Biased resume screening is often based on prejudice. However, prejudice does not always translate into discriminatory behavior. Building on the Justification-Suppression Model of Prejudice, we examine two moderating factors of the relationship between prejudice and biased evaluations of job applicants. First, we propose that making selection decisions under time pressure hinders the suppression of prejudice. Second, we propose that a diversity-unfriendly organizational climate acts as a justification for prejudice expression. We conducted two studies to test these expectations. In the first study, 482 Dutch participants evaluated a resume of a Dutch-Moroccan or Dutch job applicant while we experimentally manipulated time pressure. We then assessed participants' prejudice towards Moroccans or Dutch and their current organizations' diversity climate. For Dutch-Moroccan applicants, we found that more prejudice was associated with a lower self-reported invitation likelihood only under high time pressure or in a climate that is relatively diversity-unfriendly. For Dutch applicants, we found no association between prejudice and invitation likelihood. Unfortunately, data from the second study (<i>n</i> = 255) failed to replicate these results. While the replication study indicates that more research is needed, the results of study one suggest that organizations might be able to prevent biased resume screening of minority applicants by creating an environment that supports prejudice suppression and removes opportunities for prejudice justification.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"18-42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891675","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}
Tania Garau, Calogero Lo Destro, Marika Rullo, Stylianos Syropoulos, Francesca Prati, Emilio Paolo Visintin
{"title":"Cultural Humility: A Catalyst for Increasing Future Contact Intentions","authors":"Tania Garau, Calogero Lo Destro, Marika Rullo, Stylianos Syropoulos, Francesca Prati, Emilio Paolo Visintin","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cultural humility, that is an interpersonal stance characterized by openness and self-reflection towards different cultural backgrounds and awareness of status and power imbalances, has become increasingly important in promoting positive and egalitarian intergroup relations. In three studies, we tested whether cultural humility could promote higher intentions of future contact with outgroup members, and the mechanisms underlying this association (i.e., intergroup anxiety, perceived threat, empathy). In (cross-sectional) Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 390), we found that participants' self-reported cultural humility was associated with higher levels of future contact intention and that intergroup anxiety mediated such association. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 312) and Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 274), we experimentally induced cultural humility. In both studies participants in the cultural humility induction condition reported significantly higher intentions of future intergroup contact compared to those in the control condition, but such effect was not mediated by intergroup anxiety. In contrast, in Study 3, cultural humility decreased perceived threat, which mediated the relationship between cultural humility and future contact intentions. No mediation by empathy emerged. Overall, these findings support the growing literature emphasizing the potential of cultural humility in promoting positive intergroup relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"5-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891426","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 Social Reinforcement of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes: How Perceived Support Strengthens Vaccine Hesitancy Through Group Identity Processes","authors":"Emma A. Renström, Hanna Bäck, Amanda Remsö","doi":"10.1111/jasp.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination attitudes are becoming increasingly problematic in several Western countries where diseases that were nearly extinct are coming back. We here explore the role of perceived social support in understanding anti-vaccination attitudes. We argue that perceptions about having social support for one′s position may influence anti-vaccination attitudes among some social groups. More specifically, we argue that individuals who identify as vaccine hesitant and perceive to have high social support will likely be strengthened in their anti-vaccination attitudes. In a representative survey (<i>N</i> = 1660) performed among Swedish citizens, we find that stronger identification as vaccine-hesitant is associated with a biased perception that social support for one′s position is stronger than it is. In an experiment (<i>N</i> = 794), we manipulate social support for vaccine hesitants, such that participants are informed that an increasing part of the population is becoming more negative to vaccines and vaccinations. We find that social support leads to positive emotions among individuals who identify as vaccine hesitants, which in turn is associated with increased anti-vaccination attitudes. The results have important implications for how anti-vaccination attitudes may spread and cement among the public based in identity concerns as well as cognitive biases.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":"55 12","pages":"1079-1090"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145666250","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}