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You're not so bad after all: Apologies and guilt promote perceptions of moral restoration after wrongdoing 你其实并没有那么坏：道歉和内疚促进了人们在做错事后的道德恢复

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104879

Emily P. Bosche, Justin M. Ludwig, Karina Schumann

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Proximity to whiteness and the racial position of multiracial people in the United States 接近白人与美国多种族人群的种族地位

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104884

A. Chyei Vinluan , Maria G. Garay , Jennifer M. Perry , Linda X. Zou , Keith B. Maddox , Jessica D. Remedios

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Dominance through the lens of a competitive worldview: The role of relationship expectancies 竞争世界观下的支配地位：关系期望的作用

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104881

Dean Baltiansky, Daniel R. Ames

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Status decoded: How actors and observers shape the meaning of stealth symbols 身份解码：演员和观察者如何塑造隐形符号的意义

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104883

Jesse D'Agostino, Derek D. Rucker

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Toward a predictive model of moral concern 走向道德关怀的预测模型

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104880

Bastian Jaeger , Matti Wilks , Caspar van Lissa

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The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism: A preregistered replication of Wolsko et al. (2016) 促进环境保护主义的道德框架的限制：预先注册的复制

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104871

Marlene Voit, Mathias Twardawski, Moritz Fischer

{"title":"The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism: A preregistered replication of Wolsko et al. (2016)","authors":"Marlene Voit, Mathias Twardawski, Moritz Fischer","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research consistently finds that conservatives express less concern about anthropogenic climate change and engage in fewer environmentally friendly behaviors compared to liberals. One potential reason for this gap is that climate communication often emphasizes values aligned with liberal ideologies, such as harm/care and fairness/reciprocity, while neglecting values that resonate more with conservatives, such as purity, authority, and loyalty. Previous studies have shown that framing pro-environmental messages to address these “conservative values” reduces the gap between liberals and conservatives in pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. However, the literature on this framing effect is rather mixed, as other studies have failed to show corresponding results. This raises concerns about the robustness of framing as a tool to reduce political differences in pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Herein, we report the results of a conceptual replication in Germany (<em>N</em> = 269) and a direct replication in the U.S. (<em>N</em> = 743) of a previously successful framing intervention proposed by <span><span>Wolsko et al. (2016, Experiment 3)</span></span>. Across both studies, presenting pro-environmental appeals in terms of conservative values did not bridge the divide between liberals and conservatives regarding their pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 104871"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145995353","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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Corrigendum to “A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 115 (2024) 104656] “信任接种以保护公众对政府强制减缓气候变化行动的支持”的更正[实验社会心理学杂志115 (2024)104656]

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104914

Tobia Spampatti, Tobias Brosch, Evelina Trutnevyte, Ulf J.J. Hahnel

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Attitudes guiding social behavior as a function of perceived knowledge: The moderating role of epistemic vs. hedonic mindsets 态度作为感知知识的功能引导社会行为：认知与享乐心态的调节作用

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104857

Borja Paredes , Pablo Briñol , David Santos , Lorena Moreno , Joshua J. Guyer , Richard E. Petty

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Social identity transition promotes trust toward strangers and unrelated outgroups 社会身份的转变促进了对陌生人和不相关的外部群体的信任

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104853

Huiwen Xiao, Ziqiang Xin, Luxiao Wang, Xin Sun, Can Tao

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Registered report stage I: Is it unpleasant to predict kindergarten teacher = man? Testing the emotional response to the anticipation of confirmation or violation of gendered stereotypes 注册报告第一阶段：预测幼儿园老师=男人不愉快吗？测试对确认或违反性别刻板印象的预期的情绪反应

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104854

Rotem Berkovich , Niv Reggev

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