{"title":"“You're leaving us?” Feeling ostracized when a group member leaves","authors":"James H. Wirth , Andrew H. Hales","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104708","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People leave groups. We examined the psychological consequences for the remaining group members; specifically, whether the departure of a member can produce feelings of ostracism (being excluded and ignored). We manipulated systematically the number of group members who left (zero, one, or two out of the two other group members) during a get to know you interaction (Study 1), a word creativity task (Study 2), and a virtual ball-toss game (Cyberball; Study 3). We measured participants' feelings of ostracism and associated outcomes overall and based on the relationships with each group member. Overall, participants felt worse when two group members left compared to one or no group members leaving. At the individual relationship level, we found evidence of partial ostracism as participants felt negative when evaluating their interaction with a group member who left. By using a multi-level approach, we found the everyday experience of a group member leaving produces a void, harming those left behind. We considered how this void could have implications for group dynamics theory and organizational practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990229","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}
{"title":"Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice","authors":"Laurence Ashworth , Suzanne Rath , Nicole Robitaille","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gifts are one important way in which individuals come to own and consume the products that they do. The current work investigates a novel consequence of acquiring and consuming items in this way—recipients draw inferences about givers' views of them (reflected appraisals) which, in turn, can influence related aspects of recipients' identity. We report five studies that test our predictions, distinguish gifts' effects from acquisition alone, and test moderators designed to shed light on the predicted process and scope of gifts' influence on reflected appraisals and reflected appraisals influence on identity. We find evidence that gifts impact reflected appraisals across a range of gifts and identities, using both scenario-based studies and studies involving real gifts. We also provide evidence about when these reflected appraisals can influence recipients' identity and how this affects subsequent choice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104717"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990230","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}
{"title":"When does an extinction procedure lead to mere exposure effects and extinction of evaluative conditioning?","authors":"Jasmin Richter , Jan R. Landwehr , Rolf Reber","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104715","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Repeatedly presenting a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus, CS) together with a positive or negative stimulus (unconditioned stimulus, US) typically changes liking of the CS. An important question is whether a subsequent extinction phase where the CS is presented without the US extinguishes such evaluative conditioning (EC) effects. In this regard, it is crucial to consider that an extinction procedure involves repeated exposure to the CS that is known to influence evaluations due to exposure-induced increases in processing fluency. However, it is unclear whether exposure-induced changes in CS liking occur during extinction and hence bias observed extinction effects. In three experiments (<em>N</em><sub>Experiment1</sub> = 301, <em>N</em><sub>Experiment2</sub> = 296, <em>N</em><sub>Experiment3</sub> = 560), with pictures and words as stimuli, we observed that repeated CS-only presentations after conditioning increased CS processing fluency. Moreover, CS-only presentations also increased CS liking, but only when participants had previously evaluated stimulus fluency. When controlling for mere exposure effects on liking, we observed extinction of EC only when participants evaluated the CSs both post-conditioning and post-extinction, replicating previous findings. We outline implications for EC methodology and applied research and discuss the findings in terms of memory-based judgment processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104715"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990265","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}
Mathias Van der Biest , Sam Verschooren , Frederick Verbruggen , Marcel Brass
{"title":"Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making","authors":"Mathias Van der Biest , Sam Verschooren , Frederick Verbruggen , Marcel Brass","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Trustworthiness is crucial in social interactions that depend on other's information. For example, an interaction partner's trustworthiness determines whose advice we act on in learning contexts, whom we choose to invest in during economic decisions, or even whom we decide to cooperate with. However, how perceived trustworthiness influences advice following in value-based decision-making when the trustworthiness manipulation is independent of the quality of the advice remains poorly understood. In two experiments, participants played a modified version of The Door Game, selecting one out of two doors to find a reward based on advisor's advice. The advisors were computer-generated faces categorised as trustworthy or untrustworthy, with identical advice validity (66 %). In Experiment 1 (<em>N</em> = 124), participants initially followed advice from perceived trustworthy advisors more frequently, but this effect disappeared by the end of the experiment. In our preregistered replication (Experiment 2, <em>N</em> = 300), we observed a similar pattern, confirming the findings of Experiment 1. In a third preregistered experiment (<em>N</em> = 85), participants rated the trustworthiness of each face. We used these ratings as an independent variable to reanalyse the advice following rates from Experiments 1 and 2. The results were identical as with our categorical analyses. Moreover, a mediation analysis revealed that trustworthiness ratings mediated the relationship between perceived trustworthiness and advice following. Overall, our findings underscore the importance of social information such as perceived trustworthiness in value-based decision-making and its dynamic nature, which is potentially explained by changes in the decision-making strategy, or by rapid adjustments of our trust beliefs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104719"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990264","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}
Liat Levontin , Zohar Gilad , Elizabeth Durango-Cohen , Pablo Durango-Cohen
{"title":"The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations","authors":"Liat Levontin , Zohar Gilad , Elizabeth Durango-Cohen , Pablo Durango-Cohen","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104720","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research examined the utility of providing people with information about the actual impact of their donations. Results of a field survey (<em>N</em> = 1062) and three controlled experiments (<em>N</em> = 881) reveal the importance of actual impact information in promoting repeated donations and retaining repeated donors. Exposing participants to information about the actual impact of their donations—compared with exposing participants to anticipated impact information or no information—increased their perceived donation efficacy, which increased their willingness to give a repeated donation, as well as their repeated donation amounts. Notably, donors exposed to actual impact information tended to retain their contribution amounts, whereas donors in other conditions decreased their contribution amounts. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104720"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968135","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}
{"title":"Empathic listening satisfies speakers' psychological needs and well-being, but doesn't directly deepen solitude experiences: A registered report","authors":"Netta Weinstein , Guy Itzchakov","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A live discussion experiment was designed to test the effects of highly empathic (vs. moderately empathic) listening on solitude experiences. Participants were assigned to three conditions in which they: 1) Discussed a negative personal experience with a confederate (ostensibly another participant) exhibiting highly empathic listening; 2) Discussed an experience with a confederate exhibiting moderately empathic listening; or, 3) Engaged in a positive reframing exercise. Building on previous listening theory (<span><span>Weinstein et al., 2022</span></span>) and research (<span><span>Itzchakov & Weinstein, 2021</span></span>; <span><span>Itzchakov, Weinstein, et al., 2022</span></span>). We then assessed the two posited mechanisms of autonomy and relatedness and tested the expectations to be in solitude. All participants were instructed to spend ten minutes alone, phones off, and distractions stored away. While highly empathic listening enhanced participants' (i.e. speakers) autonomy and relatedness need satisfaction compared to the other two conditions and predicted initial increases in self- and social-connection, it did not subsequently improve solitude experiences, with no direct effects found predicting self-connection, peaceful affect, loneliness, or self-insight. Indirect effects linked empathic listening to self-connection and self-insight through autonomy satisfaction. While empathic listening fosters immediate psychological need satisfaction in social contexts, deeper listening interventions may be necessary to improve subsequent solitude periods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104716"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929232","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}
Kevin Vezirian , Elisa Sarda , Laurent Bègue , Pierre-Jean Laine , Hans IJzerman
{"title":"“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Zarkadi and Schnall’s (2013) Study 1","authors":"Kevin Vezirian , Elisa Sarda , Laurent Bègue , Pierre-Jean Laine , Hans IJzerman","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104712","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104712","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Does a black-and-white contrast background lead to more extreme moral judgments? Zarkadi and Schnall (2013) found in their Study 1 (<em>N</em> = 111) that, indeed, exposing English-speaking participants to a black-and-white (versus two other-colored conditions) background polarized participants' judgments in a moral dilemma task. This study supported a moral intuitionist model of moral judgment, lent further support to so-called Conceptual Metaphor Theories (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), and provided evidence that not only the colors “black” and “white” influence our moral perception, but that the metaphorical associations with the combination of those two colors (i.e., “black-and-white thinking”, Yin-Yang) led people to have more extreme moral judgments. Due to the striking nature of this finding, yet given various factors that undermine confidence in its veracity, we have decided to re-examine the question. A first study conducted on a large French-speaking sample (<em>N</em> = 8602), and two subsequent direct replications conducted on English-speaking samples (<em>N</em> = 365 and <em>N</em> = 215), failed to reveal any influence of background color on the evaluation of a moral dilemma. Numerous exploratory and supplementary analyses, including controlling for relevant covariates associated with variations in morality (e.g., age, gender), did not account for our consistent inability to replicate the original findings. This research suggests that age may influence perceived morality, with older participants (at least in Study 1) viewing Heinz's behavior as more wrong. Overall, this research suggests that it is doubtful that the evaluation of the Heinz's dilemma can be influenced by a subtle black-and-white visual priming.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104712"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929233","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}
Alex Koch , Ron Dotsch , Roland Imhoff , Christian Unkelbach , Hans Alves
{"title":"Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration behavior","authors":"Alex Koch , Ron Dotsch , Roland Imhoff , Christian Unkelbach , Hans Alves","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We argue that one reason why people consider others' ideological beliefs (i.e., progressive vs. conservative) is that people profit by predicting others' exploration behavior from their beliefs. Eight experiments confirmed that people more readily invested in progressives when switching to novel options (i.e., <em>exploration</em>) was more profitable than staying with valuable resources (i.e., <em>exploitation</em>). In contrast, people more readily invested in conservatives when exploitation was more profitable than exploration. Thus, considering others' beliefs may be one means to navigate ecologies with different reward structures, a task that has remained relevant throughout human history and across cultures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104718"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929235","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}
Usman Liaquat , Madeline E. Heilman , Rachel D. Godsil , Emily Balcetis
{"title":"Women underrepresented or men overrepresented? Framing influences women's affective and behavioral responses to gender gap in political leadership","authors":"Usman Liaquat , Madeline E. Heilman , Rachel D. Godsil , Emily Balcetis","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to promote women in leadership have led to some high profile successes, yet unequal representation of women and men in such positions persists. The media often portrays the gap as women's underrepresentation. We examine whether reframing this gap as men's overrepresentation elicits greater anger and increases intentions and behaviors to remediate the disparity. In a meta-analysis of three pilot experiments (Studies 1a-1c), framing the gap as men's overrepresentation in political (but not business) leadership elicits more anger at the disparity among women perceivers (but not men) and increases perceptions that the gap is unjust. Moreover, we find that anger at the disparity predicts stronger intentions and numerous behaviors to redress the inequality, such as reading more on how change the status quo (Study 1a), writing stronger letters supporting proposed legislation addressing gender disparity (Study 1b), and stronger desire to donate to gender bias reduction programs (Study 1a-1c). In a registered experiment (Study 2) we replicated these findings: men's overrepresentation framing increases women's anger at the gender gap in political leadership and mediates the association between framing and collective action supporting gender parity. We also find only weak evidence that a change in framing elicits a backlash anger response at the rhetorical framing itself. Moreover, making salient the ways in which the social climate is either hostile or sympathetic to women's causes does not moderate the framing effect. Overall, this work suggests that demographic framing influences emotional and behavioral responses to the gender gap in political leadership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889355","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}
Hairu Wu , Chenjing Wu , Jun Zhang , Yuanxin Hu , Fuqun Liang , Xianyou He
{"title":"Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others","authors":"Hairu Wu , Chenjing Wu , Jun Zhang , Yuanxin Hu , Fuqun Liang , Xianyou He","doi":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food anthropomorphism, a prevalent and effective marketing tactic, can positively influence consumer perception and purchasing behavior. However, recent scholarly attention has been drawn to the potential negative consequences of consuming anthropomorphized food. The current research focused on how and why food anthropomorphism affected the dehumanization of unfamiliar others and the negative downstream consequences. Five studies (<em>N</em> = 848) were conducted to investigate the impact of both imagined and actual consumption of anthropomorphic food on dehumanizing unfamiliar others. The results showed that food anthropomorphism induced the dehumanization of strangers, a process mediated by the state empathy. Furthermore, the dehumanization caused by eating anthropomorphic food increased the endorsement of harm for murderers. These findings contribute to the current understanding of food anthropomorphism and dehumanization and provide insights for future anthropomorphism strategy management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48441,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Social Psychology","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104710"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889354","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}