Elisabeth Höhne, Luise von Keyserlingk, Jannika Haase, Richard Arum, Lysann Zander
{"title":"Levels and facets of university students' stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the first two academic years in Germany and the U.S.","authors":"Elisabeth Höhne, Luise von Keyserlingk, Jannika Haase, Richard Arum, Lysann Zander","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12935","url":null,"abstract":"Following its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic had strong negative effects on university students' stress and mental health worldwide. Using two longitudinal datasets from Germany (<i>N</i> = 504) and the U.S. (<i>N</i> = 893), we investigated how students' stress developed over the first two academic years during the pandemic. In both studies, we found elevated levels of students' stress at the beginning of the pandemic. In Germany, we found a significant intraindividual decrease in students' general stress experiences even before universities had returned to in-person classes. When examining specific stress facets in the U.S., we found that students' academic stress increased during the first pandemic year with remote teaching and decreased significantly after the university resumed normal operations, that is, in-person classes and on-campus residence. Students' practical stress decreased towards all later time points compared to the onset of the pandemic, whereas health stress continuously increased until the university resumed normal operations. We report differences by students' demographic backgrounds (gender, college generation status, childcare status, ethnicity, academic year) and discuss our findings against the background of the course of the pandemic in the particular context in which both studies were conducted.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"242 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139968240","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":"Open science perspectives on machine learning for the identification of careless responding: A new hope or phantom menace?","authors":"Andreas Alfons, Max Welz","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12941","url":null,"abstract":"Powerful methods for identifying careless respondents in survey data are not just important to ensure the validity of subsequent data analyses, they are also instrumental for studying the psychological processes that drive humans to respond carelessly. Conversely, a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of careless responding enables the development of improved methods for the identification of careless respondents. While machine learning has gained substantial attention and popularity in many scientific fields, it is largely unexplored for the detection of careless responding. On the one hand, machine learning algorithms can be highly powerful tools due to their flexibility. On the other hand, science based on machine learning has been criticized in the literature for a lack of reproducibility. We assess the potential and the pitfalls of machine learning approaches for identifying careless respondents from an open science perspective. In particular, we discuss possible sources of reproducibility issues when applying machine learning in the context of careless responding, and we give practical guidelines on how to avoid them. Furthermore, we illustrate the high potential of an unsupervised machine learning method for the identification of careless respondents in a proof-of-concept simulation experiment. Finally, we stress the necessity of building an open data repository with labeled benchmark data sets, which would enable the evaluation of methods in a more realistic setting and make it possible to train supervised learning methods. Without such a data repository, the true potential of machine learning for the identification of careless responding may fail to be unlocked.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139923997","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":"Lifting the lid on manipulative website contents: A framework mapping contextual and informational feature combinations against associated social cognitive vulnerabilities","authors":"Piers MacLean, Marie Cahillane, Victoria Smy","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12947","url":null,"abstract":"Website contents can be designed to influence individual and group decision-making for social, political or financial gain. A novel working theoretical framework was developed to provide insights into where website contents have been designed to exploit common cognitive vulnerabilities (CVs) amongst audiences; a form of social cognitive hacking. A literature synthesis on CVs, website content design and credibility identified features on a context credibility (CC) dimension that were mapped against features on an information validity (IV) dimension. Alignment of CC and IV feature pairings with CVs enables evaluation and interpretation of nuanced website content for identification of attempted influence undetectable by machine algorithms. Subjective responses to prompts about features on each dimension generate pairs of numerical values. The value pairs indicate within a quad-graph the possible presence and extent of CV exploitation. Each value pair can be traced to the underlying CC-IV features and CVs being targeted. External prima facie assessment suggests the framework can form the basis for standardised human analysis of website contents. Application of the framework provides insights into what and how feature combinations may be manipulated for CV exploitation. It has potential for application in fields such as intelligence analysis, education, and marketing.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772157","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":"Identity development in the digital context","authors":"Serena Soh, Sanaz Talaifar, Gabriella M. Harari","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12940","url":null,"abstract":"Digital media is ubiquitous in adolescence and young adulthood. These are key developmental periods when people explore who they are and who they want to become. However, researchers have yet to fully understand digital media's role in shaping identity and its development. We build on prior work conceptualizing identity development as a contextually embedded process to describe how identity influences and is influenced by one's digital context. We propose a systematic framework for investigating the relationships between identity and digital environments (i.e., mediums and platforms, which vary according to their content and affordances) through four mechanisms: selection (i.e., choosing or avoiding digital environments), manipulation (i.e., intentionally altering or changing digital environments), evocation (i.e., unintentionally eliciting responses from digital environments), and application (i.e., integrating or applying experiences from digital environments). To conclude, we outline future directions for research that may clarify how identity development unfolds in the digital context.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773373","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":"Keeping and sharing secrets at the interpersonal level","authors":"Alisa Bedrov, Shelly L. Gable","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12942","url":null,"abstract":"Secrets are inherently social, for they are always kept from somebody else. Accordingly, keeping and sharing personal secrets not only has implications for one’s close relationships, but the individual experience of keeping and sharing secrets is also largely influenced by existing close relationship dynamics. Here, we extend prior discussions of secrecy by providing a theoretical discussion of the sociality of secrets and the potential mechanisms through which they could influence and be influenced by interpersonal relationships. We specifically focus on the mechanisms of shared reality, authenticity, trust, and rumination, and argue that keeping and sharing secrets can have considerable influence on close relationships, in ways that may be distinct from self-disclosure. This paper integrates individual-level concerns about keeping and sharing secrets with the dyadic implications of those decisions by considering both the secret-keeper and target (i.e., the person from whom the secret is kept or shared with). In turn, we offer novel predictions for future research regarding the interpersonal consequences of secrecy.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772180","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":"Withdrawal statement","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12946","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article from <i>Sociology Compass</i>, “Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?” by Kyle Dunn, published online on 03 August 2023 in Wiley Online Library (https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13129), has been withdrawn by agreement with the Journal Editor-in-Chief, and the author of the article.</p>","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772089","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":"Withdrawal statement","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12944","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article from <i>Sociology Compass</i>, “The politics of energy privatization in Latin America: Contours and directions” by Mario Venegas, published online on 15 September 2023 in Wiley Online Library (https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13147), has been withdrawn by agreement with the Journal Editor-in-Chief, and the author of the article.</p>","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772092","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":"Withdrawal statement","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12945","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article from <i>Sociology Compass</i>, “Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn” by Ricardo Mello Duarte, and Silvio Eduardo Alvarez Candido, published online on 20 September 2023 in Wiley Online Library (https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13149), has been withdrawn by agreement with the Journal Editor-in-Chief, and the authors of the article.</p>","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772154","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":"Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer","authors":"Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Annalisa Myer, Elyssa Christine Berney","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12939","url":null,"abstract":"The incorporation of intersectionality within social psychology is becoming an increasingly common practice. From the hypotheses we generate to the methods we employ, as well as the analyses we run and the theories we use, researchers are moving away from studying social identities in isolation. By studying the interactional and emergent properties of multiple identities that go beyond the sum of identities, as well as understanding the complex nature of power and privilege, social psychologists can better understand processes such as stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Yet it can be difficult for researchers to know exactly where to begin. This review serves as a primer for conducting intersectionally-informed research within social psychology, using the intersection of race and gender within the United States as a case study. We first describe the history of intersectional research in psychology, noting its barriers to implementation. Next, we review three classes of intersectionally-informed models — intersectional perception, experience, and treatment — and offer suggestions for future research as well as ways researchers can incorporate the model within their work.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583000","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":"The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret","authors":"Radomír Masaryk, Wendy Stainton Rogers","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12938","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the sustained flourishing—both in terms of quantity and quality—of qualitative research in psychology, psychology's establishment ‘gatekeepers’ seem to still be wedded to the dogma that only experimental research and quantitative data are sufficiently robust to be taken seriously. In this paper we make the case against this contempt and call for qualitative research and data to be recognized as valid and epistemologically sound in its own right. Given that its ontology is based upon constructionist assumptions about the nature of the social world, its power to provide nuanced insight into the complexity of humankind is not a problem, but its greatest strength. Our paper therefore starts with a brief review of the ontological and epistemological differences between the two approaches to demonstrate that they are complementary rather than competition. We then make our case, based on two key strategies: first by shedding light on the fact that many (perhaps even most) of psychology's classic experimental studies actually collected qualitative data (in the form of debriefing interviews and the like) and used it to understand what was going on; and then by recent studies that have expressly sought feedback about the hypothesis being purportedly tested. We then recognize the extent to which contemporary researchers are expressing their frustration at the way that they are being forced into a methodological straight jacket, by carrying out their research in ways they view as inauthentic. We end with a call to kerb the methodological dogma that has taken hold of psychology, and to move to a more inclusive approach.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139560356","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}