{"title":"The meaning of seeking help: The effects of ascribed and achieved status of the help-seeker on observer attributions, expectations, and willingness to offer help","authors":"Samer Halabi, Lily Chernyak-Hai, Arie Nadler","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13055","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research indicates that sometimes people rely on limited sources of information when judging a person or group. Unable to see the “whole picture,” they, usually unconsciously, often fill in missing pieces of information themselves. Ascribed and achieved status dimensions assist in the process of social perception. Drawing on recent research on intergroup helping and focusing on evaluations of potential helpers, this research investigates inferences and attributions made by observers and their willingness to offer help while considering the effects of <i>ascribed</i> and <i>achieved</i> status dimensions of the help-seeker. We conducted a pilot study and two additional studies exploring the implications of this link in real-life settings. Our findings indicate that seeking help may be viewed as a sign of insufficient effort, particularly for individuals characterized by low ascribed and achieved status dimensions, and, thus, as <i>stigma-consistent behavior</i>. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569548","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":"Sociopolitical ideologies as predictors of collective action across liberal and conservative domains: Injustice-based anger, efficacy, and empathy as mediators","authors":"Becky L. Choma, David Sumantry, Leen Nasser","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13054","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social change can be spurred by collective action. Yet not all forms of collective action are in the name of social progress. People seeking to advance or oppose social progress can be ideologically driven to organize and push their agendas. In exploring psychological reasons for collective action, social scientists have focused mostly on social identity. Researchers have begun to study sociopolitical ideologies as another key motivator of collective action. Drawing on both collective action and sociopolitical ideology literatures, we investigate sociopolitical ideologies (right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation) as predictors of collective action across politically liberal (MeToo movement, Climate Change) and conservative (Anti-Abortion, Illegal Immigration) domains. Results from two American samples (<i>n</i> = 681; <i>n</i> = 359) show that right-wing ideologies relate to more collective action in politically conservative domains and less collective action in politically liberal domains. Between-person differences in empathy, injustice-based anger, and efficacy explain these associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547782","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}
Vanessa Burke, Alicia A. Grandey, Robert C. Melloy, Lance Ferris, Katelyn England
{"title":"Are women penalized for showing pride at work? Gender disparities in the competence-warmth tradeoff","authors":"Vanessa Burke, Alicia A. Grandey, Robert C. Melloy, Lance Ferris, Katelyn England","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Showing pride at work clearly communicates personal success (i.e., high competence) and boosts status; yet some evidence suggests it can also signal self-focus and insensitivity to others (i.e., low warmth). Prior scholars have proposed gender differences explain mixed findings, but with limited support. We propose that the benefit-cost tradeoff depends on the displayer's gender in conjunction with the social context of the display. We test the contextualized dual-signaling model of employee pride displays, uniquely assessing how the signaler's gender and receiver's social motives (between-person comparisons) change first-impressions of competence and warmth after one or repeated exposures (i.e., within-person comparisons). Study 1 was a 2 (signaler gender) by 2 (signal context) design obtaining judgments before and after seeing a dynamic pride display. Pride displays increased <i>competence</i> similarly across employee gender, but women saw significantly greater costs to <i>warmth</i> when displays were public (i.e., coworkers present), a violation of gender norms. In Study 2, we replicate this finding regardless of whether coworkers were collaborators or competitors (between-person), and found repeated displays increase the warmth cost for women and the competence gains for men. In Study 3, we compare the costs for women of confirming gender norms for warmth (i.e., happiness display) or violating gender norms for warmth but conforming to leader norms for competence (i.e., pride display). Results suggest “happy” women are preferred as leaders over “proud” women despite higher competence. We clarify mixed findings and confirm the need for contextualized theory to understand gender differences in pride displays and career trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501865","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}
Georgia Capewell, Rakoen Maertens, Miriam Remshard, Sander van der Linden, Josh Compton, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jon Roozenbeek
{"title":"Misinformation interventions decay rapidly without an immediate posttest","authors":"Georgia Capewell, Rakoen Maertens, Miriam Remshard, Sander van der Linden, Josh Compton, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jon Roozenbeek","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, many kinds of interventions have been developed that seek to reduce susceptibility to misinformation. In two preregistered longitudinal studies (<i>N</i><sub>1</sub> = 503, <i>N</i><sub>2</sub> = 673), we leverage two previously validated “inoculation” interventions (a video and a game) to address two important questions in misinformation interventions research: (1) whether displaying additional stimuli (such as videos unrelated to misinformation) alongside an intervention interferes with its effectiveness, and (2) whether administering an immediate posttest (in the form of a social media post evaluation task after the intervention) plays a role in the longevity of the intervention. We find no evidence that other stimuli interfere with intervention efficacy, but strong evidence that immediate posttests strengthen the learnings from the intervention. In study 1, we find that 48 h after watching a video, participants who received an immediate posttest continued to be significantly better at discerning untrustworthy social media posts from neutral ones than the control group (<i>d</i> = 0.416, <i>p</i> = .007), whereas participants who only received a posttest 48 h later showed no differences with a control (<i>d</i> = 0.010, <i>p</i> = .854). In study 2, we observe highly similar results for a gamified intervention, and provide evidence for a causal mechanism: immediate posttests help strengthen people's memory of the lessons learned in the intervention. We argue that the active rehearsal and application of relevant information are therefore requirements for the longevity of learning-based misinformation interventions, which has substantial implications for their scalability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501866","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":"Was this part of the plan? Examining self-control, planning, and interruptions","authors":"Dominic J. Fedele, Patrick D. Converse","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Interruptions are a common and consequential issue for many individuals in organizational settings. Limited preliminary work suggests that certain individuals may be more susceptible to workplace interruptions but little is known about the nature and implications of these linkages with individual differences. This study examines dispositional self-control as a predictor of workplace intrusions, focusing on (a) both intrusion frequency and severity, (b) planning as a potential mechanism, and (c) implications for task performance and work-related stress. Participants (<i>N</i> = 164) first completed a measure of dispositional self-control and then completed daily surveys for one workweek measuring planning, frequency and severity of intrusions, task performance, and work-related stress. Results indicated that self-control predicted both intrusion frequency and severity. In addition, both intrusion frequency and severity were found to be related to performance and stress. However, no indirect effects involving planning were found. These findings support the notion that individual differences in self-control predict the experience of workplace intrusions; indicate that more-conscious/effortful mechanisms (e.g., planning) may not play a prevalent role in this relationship, indirectly suggesting that less-conscious/effortful mechanisms (e.g., habits) could be more relevant; and demonstrate that intrusion severity may be just as detrimental as intrusion frequency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488504","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":"Empathy helps, dehumanization harms: Beliefs about the causes of homelessness are (in)directly related to intentions to help and harm those who are unhoused","authors":"Brittany M. Tausen, Jessica Fossum","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13050","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Homelessness is a complex social issue that can be attributed to a constellation of dispositional, situational, and health-related causes. The extent to which these causal attributions are associated with the treatment of individuals experiencing homelessness, however, is not well understood. The current study addressed this gap by exploring the extent to which individual beliefs about the causes of homelessness were associated with intentions to help as well as endorsements of restrictions and legalistic harm aimed at those who are unhoused. Results demonstrated that structural and dispositional, but not health, attributions were associated with helpful and hurtful behaviors. Further, a structural equation model revealed that these effects were explained, in part, by empathy for and the dehumanization of individuals experiencing homelessness. Attributions were most clearly associated with intentions to help via empathy and endorsements of harm via distinct forms (animalistic and mechanistic) of dehumanization. Theoretical implications pertaining to Attribution Theory of Emotion and Motivation and the practical implications for improving the treatment of and support for individuals experiencing homelessness are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141362900","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":"Social group membership and biomarkers of health","authors":"Grace McMahon, Siobhán Howard, Efisio Manunta, Siobhán Griffin, Daragh Bradshaw, Alastair Nightingale, Orla T. Muldoon","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13048","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The benefits of group membership for self-reported measures of health are well documented; however, the processes by which they can influence biological health outcomes via cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to stress, remains under explored. In the present study, we aim to address this gap by examining if belonging to a social group affects cardiovascular (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate) and cortisol reactivity to stress. Using secondary data from the Pittsburgh Cold Study, 213 healthy adults (123 men, 90 women; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 30.13, SD = 10.85) underwent a standardized laboratory stress-testing session. During the 2.25 h session, participants completed psychometric measures including the Social Network Index (Cohen, 1997), while biological measurements were assessed noninvasively using the Critikon Dynamap Monitor. Results showed that participants who belonged to a social group demonstrated enhanced patterns of cardiovascular adaptation to stress (i.e., peak responding at initial stress exposure, then gradual decline). This suggests that those who belong to a group have greater physiological stress tolerance, thus indicating the benefits of group membership for biomarkers of health in the long term.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195740","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":"Impression formation of majority and minority applicants during resume screening—Does processing more information reduce prejudice?","authors":"Tobias Sachs, Astrid C. Homan, Bram Lancee","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While previous research has consistently found evidence for ethnic discrimination after resume screening, the majority of those studies focused on outcomes of evaluating job applications. Therefore, we know little about what happens <i>during</i> resume screening. In the present study (<i>N</i> = 402), we tested whether impressions of majority and minority applicants are formed differently while processing separate snippets from job applications. While majority impressions were significantly more positive than minority impressions after the third snippet was processed, impressions did not differ anymore after four or more snippets. In specific, minority impressions improved significantly more in response to the fourth snippet, which provided information on a volunteering role. Furthermore, we found that negative information similarly harmed majority and minority impressions. Our findings suggest that minority applicants might suffer from prejudice if only little information from resumes is being processed. Thus, organizations might be able to prevent discriminatory outcomes by avoiding superficial resume screening.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195743","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}
Tamar Avichail, Anat Ruhrman, Noa Cohen Eick, Roi Estlein, Eran Halperin
{"title":"Promoting solidarity based collective action through increasing hope using nonviolent communication intervention","authors":"Tamar Avichail, Anat Ruhrman, Noa Cohen Eick, Roi Estlein, Eran Halperin","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study explores the impact of nonviolent communication (NVC) intervention on advantaged group members’ actual participation in collective action on behalf of disadvantaged outgroups, also known as solidarity-based collective action (SBCA). It also examines the mediating role of hope and empathy in this process. Using an experimental longitudinal field study in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Jewish Israelis (<i>N</i> = 220) were randomly assigned either to an NVC or to a control condition. Results indicated that, relative to the control, participants in the NVC condition showed an increased tendency to engage in activities that are considered part of SBCA 6 weeks after the intervention. Furthermore, the NVC intervention affected both hope and empathy by maintaining higher levels of hope 6 weeks after intervention and by increasing empathy immediately after intervention. Yet hope, but not empathy, mediated the effect of the NVC intervention on participation in SBCA. Theoretical and applicable implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jasp.13033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975296","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":"Questioning the potential of tourism-related imagined contact in improving interethnic relations in Türkiye","authors":"Emine Yücel, Hatice Ekici, Sevim Cesur","doi":"10.1111/jasp.13034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jasp.13034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With three experimental studies, we used the imagined contact hypothesis to investigate the efficiency of tourist-host contacts in promoting positive interethnic attitudes in Türkiye. Participants (ethnic Turks) were asked to envision themselves as tourists, interacting with a local minority member (either a Kurd or an Armenian) in the imagined destination place. We manipulated three variables: contact type (standard vs. friendship-fostering contact), tourism form (domestic vs. international), and tourist-host hierarchy. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 261) and Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 284) examined attitudes toward Kurds, whereas Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 324) focused on views toward Armenians. An imagined interethnic contact with friendship potential in the domestic tourism setting (compared to an imagined trip without contact) produced higher approach intentions toward Kurds and Armenians, greater support for multiculturalism, and more positive affect toward Armenians. Surprisingly, when tourism-related imagined interactions were hierarchical (i.e., tourist-service personnel interaction) rather than egalitarian (i.e., tourist–resident interaction), they elicited more support for multiculturalism and higher approach intentions toward Kurds. Based on our findings, we propose tourism-based imagined contact as a novel intervention technique for promoting more harmonious interethnic relations, particularly by incorporating friendship potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":48404,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140979590","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}