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The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames 不同报酬结构和框架下社会身份复杂性对群体间狭隘合作和普遍合作的影响

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104681

Feifei Lu , Jin Yang , Xiaoqiang Yao , Yibo Song , Duo Chen , Ting Zhang , Fenghua Zhang

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Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition 祝福她以关心为措辞的流言在雌性内部竞争中具有优势

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104670

Tania A. Reynolds , Jon K. Maner , Roy F. Baumeister

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Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?” 重新审视道德预测错误--"我们比我们想象的更有道德吗？"的预登记复制和扩展

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104662

Simen Bø, Hallgeir Sjåstad

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Fairness revisionism: Reducing discrimination for the future reduces perceived unfairness in the past 公平修正主义：减少对未来的歧视，减少过去的不公平感

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104671

Tito L.H. Grillo , Shuhan Yang , Adrian F. Ward

{"title":"Fairness revisionism: Reducing discrimination for the future reduces perceived unfairness in the past","authors":"Tito L.H. Grillo , Shuhan Yang , Adrian F. Ward","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Marginalized groups may face systemic discrimination for generations until concrete advancements in society finally ensure fairer treatment for their members. Although fairness advancements may benefit these groups in the present and future, they do not change the past; they cannot undo the discrimination already experienced by previous generations. However, five studies (<em>N</em> = 1672) suggest that fairness advancements that benefit a marginalized group may change how its members perceive their own prior experiences with discrimination, leading them to see these experiences as having been fairer compared to when there are no such advancements. We find evidence of this revisionism of unfair past experiences in different historically marginalized groups (women and immigrants) and cultural contexts (U.S., U.K., and China). Critically, fairness revisionism arises even when fairness advancements have no objective impact on individuals themselves, as long as there are benefits for current and future members of their social group. Fairness revisionism does not arise, however, in response to gains for marginalized groups to which one does not belong, nor when individuals assess fairness in other groups' past experiences from an outsider's perspective. Overall, this phenomenon may be a double-edged sword: it may provide peace of mind for those treated unfairly by assuaging the memory of adverse experiences, but may also make discrimination issues in society seem less pressing based on the perspective of victims themselves.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104671"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103124000842/pdfft?md5=ce114b4e5b6fac58c6e7e545293abd21&pid=1-s2.0-S0022103124000842-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142096565","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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Race in the eye of the beholder: Decomposing perceiver- and target-level variation in perceived racial prototypicality 观察者眼中的种族：分解感知种族原型性中感知者和目标层面的差异

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104667

Jasmine B. Norman , Daphne Castro Lingl , Eric Hehman , Jacqueline M. Chen

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Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders 基于榜样的内群投射：上位国家类别与内群政治领导人的联系比与外群政治领导人的联系更紧密

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104669

Adi Amit , Ido Liviatan , Sari Mentser , Eitan Venzhik , Yuval Karmel , Tal Moran

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Intergroup bias in perceived trustworthiness among few or many minimal groups 少数或多数最小群体在感知可信度方面的群体间偏差

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104668

Johanna Woitzel, Moritz Ingendahl, Hans Alves

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The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication 恐惧诉求对气候变化传播中反应的影响

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104666

Laura Bilfinger, Benjamin Brummernhenrich, Regina Jucks

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Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation 劳动剥削背景下动物性非人化与机械性非人化之间的分离

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104665

Matthew L. Stanley , Aaron C. Kay

{"title":"Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation","authors":"Matthew L. Stanley , Aaron C. Kay","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104665","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104665","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Across eight studies (and two additional supplemental studies), we investigate possible bidirectional causal links between dehumanization and exploitation (total <em>N</em> = 5923). Participants were less opposed to the exploitation of mechanistically dehumanized workers – i.e., workers perceived to lack traits central to human nature like emotionality and warmth – than other workers (Studies 1–5). The effects of mechanistic dehumanization on exploitation judgments were statistically explained by perceptions that mechanistically dehumanized workers are more capable of enduring experiences that typically elicit suffering and hardship (Studies 2–4). We also found evidence against several other possible explanations for the effects of mechanistic dehumanization on exploitation judgments (i.e., competence, dependability, likeability; Studies 2–4). In addition, we found consistent evidence for the reverse causal pathway: Workers who are exploited – relative to workers who are not exploited – are more likely to be attributed qualities indicative of mechanistic dehumanization (Studies 6–8; Supplemental Studies 1–2). The effects across studies were invariant to job type, the perceived race/ethnicity and gender of the target worker, and the specific case of exploitation. In addition, the relationships between dehumanization and exploitation judgments were specific to the mechanistic form of dehumanization and not the animalistic form – i.e., perceiving others as lacking traits that distinguish humans from animals like self-control, rationality, civility. These bidirectional causal relations between mechanistic dehumanization and exploitation have the potential to create a vicious cycle of suffering and unfair treatment for certain workers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104665"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141915314","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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Moral decay in investment 投资中的道德败坏

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104664

Paweł Niszczota , Paul Conway , Michał Białek

{"title":"Moral decay in investment","authors":"Paweł Niszczota , Paul Conway , Michał Białek","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How strongly do higher investment premiums tempt people to invest in unethical assets, such as harmful ‘sin stocks’? We present two experimental studies (<em>N</em><sub>total</sub> = 1260) examining baseline willingness to invest in ‘sin stocks’ (without a premium), changes in investments as premiums increase, and how individual differences in deontological and utilitarian inclinations and dark personality traits impact baseline and changes to investments. We compare results to hypothetical models of sensitivity to higher returns: a) full resilience (to moral decay), where people increase investment in regular but not sin stocks with increasing premiums, b) partial resilience, where increasing premiums increases investment more slowly for sin than regular stocks, c) sin deduction: a flat baseline penalty for sin versus regular stocks resulting in similar sensitivity to increasing premiums, and d) decay, where investment differences in sin versus regular stocks reduce as premiums increase. On average, responses aligned best with the partial resilience model. Individual differences in morally-relevant traits moderated effects: most notably, people with higher deontological inclinations and lower dark traits showed greater resilience. However, 21–33% of participants exhibited full resilience, refusing to invest more in sin stocks even as premiums increased, which was more common in people with higher deontological inclinations and lower dark traits. These findings suggest that decisions to invest in sin stocks reflect the sensitivity to the sinfulness of the stock, which remains strong even after unethical investments are made more attractive. We conclude that increasing the economic reward of unethical investments does not crowd out moral concerns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141915315","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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