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Effects of moral stereotypes on the formation and persistence of group preferences

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104750

Inga K. Rösler , Isabel Kerber , David M. Amodio

{"title":"Effects of moral stereotypes on the formation and persistence of group preferences","authors":"Inga K. Rösler , Isabel Kerber , David M. Amodio","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104750","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104750","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do stereotypes have a stronger and more persistent effect on impressions when they are moral in tone? In two experiments (<em>N</em> = 187), participants interacted with members of two groups in an interactive social decision game, modeled on a reward reinforcement task, in which they formed impressions of players based on their feedback. Prior to the task, participants were exposed to positive or negative group stereotypes that were moral or nonmoral in content. Although players from each group were, on average, equally likely to provide reward feedback, participants formed behavioral choice preferences for players from positively-stereotyped groups over negatively-stereotyped groups. Importantly, this effect was moderated by the moral content of the stereotypes: in the moral stereotype condition, participants formed more extreme initial expectancies for players' feedback and showed more resistance to updating in response to stereotype-disconfirming feedback, whereas in the nonmoral stereotype condition, initial expectancies were weaker and preferences were updated over time to match players' actual feedback. Study 2 replicated this effect and additionally showed that moral stereotypes generalize more strongly to impressions of novel group members compared with nonmoral stereotypes. Computational modeling suggests this moral stereotype effect is due to extreme initial expectancies combined with group-based updating of member impressions. Together, these studies demonstrate that moral stereotypes have a stronger influence on person impressions than nonmoral stereotypes, and that they do so by inducing stronger expectancies for a group member's behavior while impairing individuated updating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104750"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104748

Sybille Neji , Miles Hewstone , Chloe Bracegirdle , Oliver Christ

{"title":"Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups","authors":"Sybille Neji , Miles Hewstone , Chloe Bracegirdle , Oliver Christ","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104748","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104748","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Positive intergroup contact reduces prejudice. However, the strength of intergroup contact effects is typically weaker for members of minority as compared to majority groups. Research on perceived outgroup entitativity (i.e., the extent to which an aggregate of people is perceived as a unified whole) has shown that minority group members perceive the majority outgroup as less entitative, while majority group members perceive the outgroup minority as comparatively more entitative. Moreover, there is evidence that people generalize the effects of intergroup contact from a single outgroup member to the outgroup as a whole more strongly when they perceive outgroups as more (versus less) entitative. We integrate these different lines of research and propose that the difference in the strength of intergroup contact effects between numerical majorities and minorities may be explained, in part, by differences in perceived outgroup entitativity. We conducted two preregistered experiments using a minimal group paradigm (<em>N</em><sub>1</sub> = 347, <em>N</em><sub>2</sub> = 396) in which we manipulated numerical majority-minority group status (Study 1 and 2) as well as outgroup entitativity (Study 2). In Study 2, we applied a parallel design combining measurement of the mediation and manipulation of the mediator to provide stronger evidence for a causal process. The results were in line with our hypotheses: perceived outgroup entitativity mediated the differential effect of intergroup contact for numerical majority versus minority groups. Implications for future research are discussed, including the need to investigate whether entitativity explains differences in intergroup contact effects among various real-life groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104748"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The plurality effect: People are more dishonest toward group than individual targets

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104746

Hsuan-Che (Brad) Huang , Ruodan Shao , Ann E. Tenbrunsel , Kristina A. Diekmann , Daniel P. Skarlicki

{"title":"The plurality effect: People are more dishonest toward group than individual targets","authors":"Hsuan-Che (Brad) Huang , Ruodan Shao , Ann E. Tenbrunsel , Kristina A. Diekmann , Daniel P. Skarlicki","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prior research on the relationship between group versus individual targets and unethical behavior directed toward those targets is incomplete. Extending this line of research, the present paper examines whether individuals engage in more dishonest behaviors when interacting with a group (vs. an individual). Across six experiments and three supplemental studies (<em>N</em> = 2376), we found that individuals demonstrated more dishonesty toward groups as opposed to individual targets, which we label the <em>plurality effect</em>. This effect was observed across a variety of situations (both low-stakes and high-stakes contexts with real monetary payouts), including when providing advice to others with an incentive to be dishonest, in employment interviews, and in negotiations. Mediation tests revealed that participants experienced lower moral concern when the target was a group versus an individual, and this finding held after testing for alternative explanations. Group membership and collectivism jointly moderated the effect, such that the plurality effect was stronger for targets who are members of the decision makers outgroup (vs. ingroup) among decision makers with high (vs. low) collectivistic values.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104746"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of just-world beliefs, victim identifiability, and the salience of an alternative target for victim blaming

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104721

Mathias Twardawski , Moritz Fischer , Philipp Agostini , Johannes Schwabe , Mario Gollwitzer

{"title":"The role of just-world beliefs, victim identifiability, and the salience of an alternative target for victim blaming","authors":"Mathias Twardawski , Moritz Fischer , Philipp Agostini , Johannes Schwabe , Mario Gollwitzer","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104721","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104721","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Victim blaming—the tendency to attribute responsibility and blame to innocent victims—is associated with people's belief that the world is a just place where everybody gets what they deserve and deserves what they get. In the present research, we examine the extent to which the relationship between just-world beliefs and victim blaming depends on (a) whether or not the victim is identifiable and (b) whether or not another involved person is salient (e.g., an offender). Results from a pre-registered pilot experiment (Study 1; <em>N</em> = 363) suggest that, in the absence of a salient offender, identifying information about the victim (vs. no information) increased the relationship between just-world beliefs and victim blaming. In contrast, when there was a salient offender, identifying information about the victim (vs. no information) decreased this relationship. We attempted to replicate these findings in a pre-registered experiment (Study 2; <em>N</em> = 1143), implementing several changes to the design to address some limitations of Study 1. Here, we only found main effects of just-world beliefs and the salience of a second person, but none of the hypothesized interaction effects. Possible explanations and implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104721"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Closets breed suspicion: Environments that stigmatize concealable identities cast doubt on claims to non-stigmatized identities

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104736

Harrison Oakes , Richard P. Eibach, Hilary B. Bergsieker

{"title":"Closets breed suspicion: Environments that stigmatize concealable identities cast doubt on claims to non-stigmatized identities","authors":"Harrison Oakes , Richard P. Eibach, Hilary B. Bergsieker","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social environments that stigmatize concealable identities increase observers' suspicion that an individual's claimed identity is not their “true” identity. Identity-stigmatizing environments incentivize “closeting” (i.e., concealing) targeted identities, rendering claims to contrasting non-stigmatized identities ambiguous (e.g., self-protective? self-expressive?). Such ambiguity fosters <em>identity suspicion</em>. In three experimental studies with nine adult American samples (<em>N</em> = 3148), participants expressed more suspicion about an individual's claim to a non-stigmatized concealable identity within an environment that stigmatized (vs. affirmed) the contrasting concealable sexual (<em>d</em> = 0.40) or religious (<em>d</em> = 0.70) identity. Identity suspicion was strongest for individuals with attributes stereotypically associated with the stigmatized identity but persisted even for individuals with attributes stereotypically associated with the <em>non-stigmatized</em> identity (Study 2). Observers' perceived likelihood of identity suspicion predicted their perceived incentive for individuals to conceal attributes stereotypically associated with the stigmatized identity, even to the point of incurring personal costs (Study 1f).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104736"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104698

Janis H. Zickfeld, Ana Sofía Ramirez Gonzalez, Panagiotis Mitkidis

{"title":"Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors","authors":"Janis H. Zickfeld, Ana Sofía Ramirez Gonzalez, Panagiotis Mitkidis","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dishonest behavior is a prevalent phenomenon, and recent studies have suggested that seemingly trivial factors, such as the time of the day, can influence individuals' propensity to act dishonestly. Specifically, research has identified a phenomenon known as the <em>Morning Morality Effect</em>, where participants exhibit greater dishonesty during the afternoon or evening than in the morning. However, recent investigations have questioned the validity of this effect and its theoretical basis, with limited high-powered replications to support its existence. This conceptual replication revisited the morning morality effect and its possible mediating factors, including self-control and subjective sleepiness, and moderating factors, including chronotype, unhealthy sleep, age, caffeine intake, and honesty-humility. We conducted an online study across <em>N</em> = 1006 UK-based participants who were randomly allocated to perform a repeated die roll task during morning or evening hours, while also controlling for their chronotypes. Our study revealed the absence of evidence for a morning morality effect (<em>OR</em> = 1.04 [95 % CI 0.93, 1.17]) when testing it against a practically meaningful effect, which was also supported when meta-analyzing the current and previous studies (<em>d =</em> 0.04 [−0.01, 0.10]). We did not observe significant effects for any of the proposed mediators or moderators. Exploration revealed some evidence that higher levels of self-control in the evening for evening chronotypes were associated with higher die roll reports. Altogether, the current study calls the morning morality effect further into question and appeals for more valid and concrete theorizing on the link among time of the day, self-control, and dishonesty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104698"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104734

Caitlyn Yantis , Dorainne Green , Valerie Jones Taylor

{"title":"The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions","authors":"Caitlyn Yantis , Dorainne Green , Valerie Jones Taylor","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Black Americans often expect conversations about race with White people to go poorly, with heightened concerns about being stereotyped, devalued, and misunderstood. We propose one reason for these patterns is Black individuals' belief that their understanding of race is distinct from that of White people–that is, they do not expect to have <em>racial shared reality</em> with White individuals. Across 3 studies (<em>N</em> = 836 Black Americans), we find that racial shared reality—perceived consensus with another person about race and racism—is an important predictor of Black Americans' expectations for identity-safety during race-relevant interactions with White people. Specifically, a race-conscious cue from a White person (i.e., acknowledging racial privilege or disadvantage) versus a colorblind cue (Studies 1–3) or no cue (Study 3) increased Black individuals' felt racial shared reality with their partner which, in turn, predicted greater anticipated identity-safety interacting with them (Studies 1–3), heightened allyship perceptions (Studies 2 & 3), and increased willingness to disclose an experience with racism (Study 3). Moreover, racial shared reality explains the effect of race-conscious cues (vs. colorblind cue or no cue) on these outcomes independently of perceived similarity (Study 1), feeling understood (Studies 1 & 2), and perceived partner prejudice (Study 3). Our findings highlight racial shared reality as a critical component of productive interracial conversations about race from Black Americans' perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104734"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The kernel of truth in gender stereotypes: Consider the avocado, not the apple

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104713

Alice H. Eagly , Judith A. Hall

{"title":"The kernel of truth in gender stereotypes: Consider the avocado, not the apple","authors":"Alice H. Eagly , Judith A. Hall","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social perception accuracy includes stereotype accuracy, defined as holding correct beliefs about social groups. The present article examines this type of accuracy in relation to gender stereotypes, defined by beliefs about differences between women and men. After locating all studies yielding comparisons between judges' stereotypes and relevant criterion data, we extracted their results and/or conducted original analyses of the raw data reported in the studies. Comparisons of judges' estimates to the criteria yielded high accuracy about the female versus male direction of differences, with 85% of 673 estimates of gender differences aligning with criteria. Consensual sensitivity correlations that assessed judges' collective awareness of the relative size and direction of the criterion differences also favored accuracy with a mean correlation of .77. Analysis of bias in these beliefs revealed both under- and overestimation of the differences, depending on the type of criterion. This review's finding of good evidence for gender stereotype accuracy is consistent with the extensive exposure men and women have to other men and women in daily life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104713"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143419640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104732

Feiteng Long , Zi Ye , Lijuan Luo

{"title":"Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report","authors":"Feiteng Long , Zi Ye , Lijuan Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past decade, a surge in protests and social movements worldwide has offered promise for positive social change while also introducing divisions and tensions into society. In the current research, we examined the impact of joint collective action involving both advantaged and disadvantaged group members, as well as collective action solely involving disadvantaged group members, on public support for social change and intergroup polarisation. Two experimental studies (Studies 1a and 1b; <em>N</em> = 575) provided initial insights, revealing that joint collective action (vs. collective action by the disadvantaged) facilitated support for social change and mitigated intergroup polarisation. Building upon these initial findings, we propose two studies (Studies 2 and 3; projected <em>N</em> ∼ 1132) in the form of a registered report, aiming to delve into the psychological mechanisms underlying the observed effects (i.e., morality threat and perceived respect) and replicate these findings in varied protest contexts (i.e., gender and race relations). Additionally, we aim to examine if the (leadership vs. supportive) role of advantaged allies in joint collective action would have different impacts on disadvantaged group members' responses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104732"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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More likely or more wrong? - Disentangling the prototype effect of discrimination perception

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104731

Paul-Michael Heineck, Roland Deutsch

{"title":"More likely or more wrong? - Disentangling the prototype effect of discrimination perception","authors":"Paul-Michael Heineck, Roland Deutsch","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive evidence suggests that perceptions of discrimination are influenced by a mental prototype of what constitutes discriminatory behavior, the so-called prototype effect of discrimination perception. However, the underlying psychological processes and thus the extent to which statistical expectations and moral evaluations contribute to this prototype effect remain underexplored. In a series of four experiments, we investigated how expectations about discrimination and moral judgments about the wrongness of discrimination modulate the prototype effect. Our findings suggest that statistical expectations strongly influence the prototype effect independently of moral wrongness. In contrast, moral wrongness, while theoretically plausible, had a much smaller empirical impact on the prototype effect under our experimental conditions. These results suggest that the prototype effect in discrimination perception is driven by expectations, while the role of moral evaluations is at least secondary and requires additional research. This insight has important implications for understanding discrimination perception and offers new directions for research into the cognitive processes underlying discrimination judgments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104731"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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