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The importance of feeling above-average morally versus agentically 感觉自己在道德上高于平均水平与行为上的重要性

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104815

Yujing Liang , Sara D. Hodges , Vera Hoorens

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On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report 无聊与社会行为的关系：一篇注册报告

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104804

Thekla Müller-Boysen , Sergio Pirla , Stefan Pfattheicher

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The do-gooder dilemma: A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds 行善者困境：自我报告善行的感知情感成本中的自我/他人不对称

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104808

Jerry Richardson , Paul Bloom , Shaun Nichols , David Pizarro

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Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs 规范增强的主动开放思维的预掩蔽间接提高了错误信息的识别，减少了阴谋信念

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104818

Mikey Biddlestone , Carolin-Theresa Ziemer , Rakoen Maertens , Jon Roozenbeek , Sander van der Linden

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Are you still one of us? When living abroad undermines perceived home country identification and trust from compatriots 你还是我们中的一员吗？当生活在国外削弱了同胞对祖国的认同和信任

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104819

Zhu Feng (Cynthia) , Jin Wook Chang , Daniel A. Newark

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Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure 为什么有些人拒绝在政治化的做法上妥协？需要关闭的作用

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104816

Namrata Goyal , Krishna Savani , Michael W. Morris

{"title":"Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure","authors":"Namrata Goyal , Krishna Savani , Michael W. Morris","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104816","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104816","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People's stances on politicized practices, such as abortion and gun ownership, are increasingly resistant to compromise, making dialogue between opposing sides difficult. Why are some people more prone to refusing to compromise on their stances on politicized practices than others? Five studies (<em>N</em> <em>=</em> 1377) found that high need for closure (NFC) is an antecedent of refusal to compromise. Study 1 found that people scoring higher on dispositional NFC were unwilling to compromise on their stances on gun ownership, hunting, marijuana consumption, and euthanasia, even after controlling for the extremity, importance, intensity, and centrality of each of these attitudes. Study 2 focused on abortion, a practice that is highly politicized in the US. Under time pressure, which reliably heightens NFC, both pro-life and pro-choice participants became more unwilling to compromise on their respective positions on abortion. Study 3 found that the relationship between NFC and refusal to compromise on one's position on several politicized practices was stronger among individuals who prioritized binding moral foundations (which emphasize group cohesion) rather than individualizing moral foundations (which emphasize personal autonomy). Studies 4–5 examined the underlying mechanism using the experimental causal chain method. Time pressure, which reliably heightens NFC, increased people's tendency to use deontological reasoning, a cognitive style that emphasizes rule-based over outcome-based judgments (Study 4), and inducing deontological reasoning heightened resistance to compromising one's positions on several politicized practices (Study 5). Together, these studies uncover a potential psychological mechanism behind political polarization, a highly divisive phenomenon, and identify pathways that could inform efforts to reduce intergroup conflict</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 104816"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830501","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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Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions 群体的自我锚定塑造了群体间互动中群体间态度的变化

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104817

Yatian Lei , Fangfang Wen , Bin Zuo

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Does protection come at a cost? A random stimuli approach to investigating the (side-)effects of misinformation inoculations 保护是有代价的吗？一个随机刺激的方法来调查误传接种的（副作用）

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104806

Teodora Spiridonova , Olga Stavrova , Ilja van Beest

{"title":"Does protection come at a cost? A random stimuli approach to investigating the (side-)effects of misinformation inoculations","authors":"Teodora Spiridonova , Olga Stavrova , Ilja van Beest","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inoculation – an intervention aimed at informing people of the threat of misinformation and the strategies used to spread it – is an increasingly popular approach for fighting fake news. While studies have shown inoculation to be effective in reducing the credibility of fake news, the evidence on whether it might also lead to undesirable side-effects, such as reduced credibility of true news, is mixed. Further, existing research has only rarely tested inoculation using real-life news, has not accounted for the potential issue of biased stimulus selection, and has not tested the assumed mechanism behind the inoculation's effectiveness: the higher presence of misinformation strategies in fake vs. true news. The present research was designed to fill these gaps. Using a random stimuli approach and a dataset of real-life true and fake news headlines, Study 1 showed that inoculation decreased perceived accuracy (but not trustworthiness) of fake news (without changing the perceived accuracy of true news), and did not render people more cynical. Additionally, Study 2 showed that fake news contained more misinformation strategies than true news, and Study 3 found that the inoculation worked better on headlines that used more (vs. fewer) misinformation strategies. In sum, our findings suggest that inoculation is unlikely to have side effects, yet its effectiveness might be more limited than previously assumed. We thus contribute to the broader literature on reducing misinformation, and research on the effectiveness of the inoculation approach in particular.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 104806"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144813917","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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When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations 当盟友加入战斗：联合集体行动如何塑造社会变革和群体间关系

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104811

Feiteng Long , Zi Ye , Lijuan Luo

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Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress 权力作为道德放大镜：当权贵越轨时，道德义愤会被放大

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104813

Rachel C. Forbes, Robb Willer, Jennifer E. Stellar

{"title":"Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress","authors":"Rachel C. Forbes, Robb Willer, Jennifer E. Stellar","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104813","url":null,"abstract":"Moral outrage in response to scandals involving powerful figures has become commonplace in modern life. These instances suggest that moral outrage may be disproportionately directed upward toward those with power over others. However, it remains unclear whether this tendency simply reflects the greater incidence and prominence of immoral acts committed by individuals with power or whether it indicates a deeper tendency for powerful perpetrators to elicit greater outrage in observers. In a series of studies, we investigated whether observers' moral outrage was influenced by a perpetrator's power within a social hierarchy. Participants read hypothetical scenarios (Study 1; <ce:italic>N</ce:italic> = 481), recalled actual transgressions (Study 2; <ce:italic>N</ce:italic> = 351), witnessed selfish economic behaviour (Study 3; <ce:italic>N</ce:italic> = 1012), and observed bullying in person (Study 4; <ce:italic>N</ce:italic> = 177) committed by either more or less powerful perpetrators. Participants consistently experienced greater moral outrage and delivered more severe (anonymous) punishment to powerful perpetrators. Greater reactivity to powerful perpetrators was confined to the domain of morality and specific to the transgressor’s power, rather than their status. This work highlights the importance of social contextual factors like a perpetrators power within a hierarchy when studying moral judgment.","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901370","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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