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Can approach-avoidance instructions influence facial representations? A distinction between past- and future-oriented inferences 趋近回避指令会影响面部表征吗？以过去和未来为导向的推论之间的区别

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104756

Marine Rougier , Pieter Van Dessel , Tal Moran , Colin Tucker Smith

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Task affordances affect partner preferences 任务支持影响伴侣偏好

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104751

Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic , Aria Li , Magnus Boop , Yingling Li , Daniel Balliet

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On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception 关于受奖励的行动和逃避惩罚的不行动：人脸感知中行动与价值的不对称

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104754

Tjits van Lent , Gijsbert Bijlstra , Rob W. Holland , Erik Bijleveld , Harm Veling

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When everything is at stake: Understanding support for radical collective actions and collective victimhood through anger in a post-conflict setting 当一切都危在旦夕时：了解在冲突后的环境中，对激进集体行动和通过愤怒而成为集体受害者的支持

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104752

Islam Borinca, Russell Spears

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Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment 探讨性别在刻板印象、认知和治疗中的关联

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104755

Elisabeth Irvine, William Li, Jordan Axt

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Undoing harm: The communicative content of action-oriented and person-oriented punishment 解除伤害：以行动为导向和以人为导向的惩罚的交际内容

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104749

Christian Mott, Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

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Effects of moral stereotypes on the formation and persistence of group preferences 道德刻板印象对群体偏好形成和持续的影响

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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

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Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups 感知外群体实体对群体间接触的中介作用强于少数群体

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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

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The plurality effect: People are more dishonest toward group than individual targets 多元效应：人们对群体比对个人目标更不诚实

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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

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The role of just-world beliefs, victim identifiability, and the salience of an alternative target for victim blaming 公正世界信念的作用，受害者的可识别性，以及受害者指责的另一个目标的突出性

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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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