{"title":"The social life of digital methods in psychology: Situating digital methods in the new data politics","authors":"Jeffery Yen","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12923","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I present some preliminary analyses of what is at stake in the growing use of digital methods in psychology. Their exponential rise in the discipline has scientific consequences, because such methods embody unarticulated assumptions that derive from their cultural, technical, or commercial origins. Such methods also rearticulate researcher-participant relations in new ways, and reframe what it means to take part in psychological research. Additionally, strong calls for psychologists to exploit the potentials of Big Data to analyze and influence human action in real time signal the growing entanglement of psychology, computer science, and the accumulative tactics of the digital economy. As part of a larger project to trace the <i>social life of digital methods</i> in psychology, my aim here is to link disparate literature in psychology, science and technology studies, and critical data studies, to situate such methods in the broader context of technologically afforded shifts in modes of economic and knowledge production. I argue that digital methods are in urgent need of analysis, not only in terms of the interpretive frames, modes of participation, and courses of action they afford, but as research <i>media</i> that circulate in a larger digital and political economic ecosystem, and with associations that span multiple sociotechnical assemblages.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"21 4-5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513128","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}
Megan L. Robbins, Pavani Jonnalagadda, Chandler M. Spahr
{"title":"Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation","authors":"Megan L. Robbins, Pavani Jonnalagadda, Chandler M. Spahr","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12917","url":null,"abstract":"Though naturalistic observation methods are lauded for their utility, they are often neglected in social and personality psychology research. This paper describes evidence of the absence of naturalistic observation methods in our field, and some historical roots of this methodological imbalance in social/personality (SP) psychology. The paper then provides an overview of existing naturalistic observation methods relevant to SP psychology, describes various types of barriers to conducting such research, and concludes with recommendations for overcoming these barriers to produce a more well‐rounded science. It is time to rebalance SP psychological methods by valuing and investing in naturalistic observation research.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513118","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 neurobiology of political ideology: Theories, findings, and future directions","authors":"Adam Panish, H. Hannah Nam","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12916","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social scientists are increasingly interested in studying the psychological bases of political preferences. Research at the interface of neuroscience and political psychology is uniquely positioned to test theories that link political attitudes to cognitive, affective, perceptual, and motivational processes in the brain. In this article, we review existing theories and evaluate findings from the growing field of political neuroscience with an emphasis on four brain regions that have emerged as important neural substrates of political ideology: the amygdala, the insular cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the prefrontal cortex. We conclude by discussing current methodological and theoretical limitations before setting out an agenda for future research.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"18 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135773685","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}
Albert Lee, Cheryl Mei Yen Cheng, Liang Ying Lee, Gianluca Esposito, Bobby Kyungbeom Cheon
{"title":"Thanking in the Times of the Plague: The Role of Holistic Thinking in Meaning-making and Gratitude.","authors":"Albert Lee, Cheryl Mei Yen Cheng, Liang Ying Lee, Gianluca Esposito, Bobby Kyungbeom Cheon","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12854","DOIUrl":"10.1111/spc3.12854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two studies examined the role of holistic thinking in meaning-making and gratitude during the COVID-19 pandemic. Correlational and mediational evidence showed that participants with high holistic thinking tended to construct more meaning from the pandemic and feel grateful, compared to participants with low holistic thinking (Study 1). Experimental manipulation of holistic thinking elicited behavioral choice for books on life meaning, which predicted gratitude (Study 2). These results cannot be explained by individual differences in the perception of threat (Study 1) or distress (Studies 1-2) associated with the pandemic. They cannot be explained by demographic factors such as age or gender, or cultural constructs such as ethnicity, educational level, or religiosity (Studies 1-2). These findings push understanding forward. They strengthen interdisciplinary links, fusing positive psychology with the social cognition of thinking styles. We discuss promising directions for future research with cross-cultural implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13313592/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75345080","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}
Natalia Van Doren, Christa T Mahlobo, Brian M Galla, Blake A Colaianne, Matthew J Hirshberg, Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Robert W Roeser
{"title":"The role of mindfulness and compassion in early adults' subsequent mental health, coping and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study.","authors":"Natalia Van Doren, Christa T Mahlobo, Brian M Galla, Blake A Colaianne, Matthew J Hirshberg, Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Robert W Roeser","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12870","DOIUrl":"10.1111/spc3.12870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study explored prospective links between trait mindfulness and compassion on subsequent coping and compliance with Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines and indirect effects via well-being and internalized distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study included <i>N</i> = 736 US college students who participated in a three-wave longitudinal study across a single academic year. The first two assessment waves took place in 2018 and 2019, respectively, while the third wave took place in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants completed self-report measures of trait mindfulness, compassion, well-being, internalized distress, coping, and compliance with CDC health guidelines. Results of a series of autoregressive, cross-lagged panel models revealed that trait mindfulness was associated with better coping via indirect effects of greater well-being and lower internalized distress. Greater compassion was linked with greater adherence to CDC guidelines. Findings suggest that trait mindfulness and compassion may play a role in college students' coping and compliance during the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12492823/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90842351","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":"Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad","authors":"Daniel W. Noon","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12915","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Martin Luther King Jr. appealed for social scientists to reflect on the normative questions of what morality ought to be and what the aims of science ought to be. To avoid rendering social science irrelevant, 1960s moral psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg agreed with King when he argued that morality should be based on a philosophical ideal rather than an adjustment to society. Kohlberg's definition of morality meant that Black protesters could be exemplary. By the 1970s, Kohlberg worked in schools to promote children's knowledge of racial justice and achieve institutional reform, such as integration and affirmative action. Subsequent work challenged Kohlberg's definition of morality and instead claimed morality meant adhering to group‐defined standards. Rather than being seen as more moral and mature, Black civil rights activists came to be seen as possessing a different morality of care that refused to assimilate to White American moral norms. Later, Haidt claimed that a “great synthesis” of empirical work led to a definition of morality as adherence to cultural standards. This definition of morality led Haidt to describe the morality of Black protesters as deficient and mentally ill. The latter approach assumed science aims to achieve racial harmony and spoke against affirmative action. The change in the description of civil rights protesters as exceptional, different, and then mad results in a change in normative assumptions rather than a new synthesis of empirical findings.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"111 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136022813","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":"A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men","authors":"Nicolette M. Dakin, Flávio Azevedo, John T. Jost","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12913","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the U.S. and other Western nations, one demographic group is most likely to downplay anthropogenic climate change and its consequences, to embrace the “discourse of delay,” and to resist pro‐environmental policies: conservative white men. In this article, we bring together critical, feminist perspectives on masculinity and environmental dominance and social psychological insights from system justification theory to hypothesize that identity‐protective cognition, material interests, and ideological legitimation processes combine and reinforce one another to motivate obstructionism when it comes to taking climate action. Our hope is that by integrating critical and empirical approaches to social science—and illuminating individual and group psychological factors that are embedded in specific historical and political settings—it will be possible to increase solidarity among environmental scholars and activists and forge a shared vision of climate justice across disciplines.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"27 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136158465","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}
Sondra M. Stegenga, Crystal N. Steltenpohl, Hilary Lustick, Melanie S. Meyer, Rachel Renbarger, Laurel Standiford Reyes, Lindsay Ellis Lee
{"title":"Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations","authors":"Sondra M. Stegenga, Crystal N. Steltenpohl, Hilary Lustick, Melanie S. Meyer, Rachel Renbarger, Laurel Standiford Reyes, Lindsay Ellis Lee","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12912","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Open science practices are quickly being scaled up with publishers, grant‐makers, and Institutional Review Boards implementing new open policies, including requirements for increased data sharing across all types of research. Prior open science guidelines have focused mostly on issues relevant to quantitative, lab‐based, experimental research. Qualitative and other research traditions must be considered in the further development and implementation of these guidelines to ensure ethical practices in a new era where data is plentiful and being leveraged for research and other means. This article includes a discussion of why we must consider new research ethics in this era of big data and what steps can be taken to improve research practices through a systems change framework, The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136234793","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}
Sascha Schwarz, Lisa Klümper, Markus Thomas Jansen, Maria Agthe
{"title":"Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions","authors":"Sascha Schwarz, Lisa Klümper, Markus Thomas Jansen, Maria Agthe","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12914","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Violations against mitigation actions to prevent the spreading of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus causing COVID‐19, such as not wearing a mask or not practicing social distancing, were seen as immoral and could also increase the likelihood of spreading the virus. In two studies ( N 1 = 318, N 2 = 293), we found that moral and pathogen disgust sensitivity differentially predicted perceptions of such COVID‐19 violations against mitigation actions, framed as a moral, pathogen, or on a good‐bad dimension, albeit in a less specific way than initially hypothesized (e.g., regarding the pathogenic framed violations, not only pathogen but also moral disgust was associated with higher perceptions of infectiousness). These results suggest that individual differences, especially in pathogen disgust (and, more inconsistently, moral disgust), are important when evaluating violations against mitigation actions. Further research on the role of moral disgust is needed.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"15 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134973363","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}
Alexander Scott English, Junjie Sun, Shuhong Xu, Lu Zheng, Qionghan Zhang, Thomas Talhelm
{"title":"COVID‐19 non‐death loss and acceptance coping: A 3‐wave cross‐lagged panel analysis","authors":"Alexander Scott English, Junjie Sun, Shuhong Xu, Lu Zheng, Qionghan Zhang, Thomas Talhelm","doi":"10.1111/spc3.12911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12911","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Numerous individuals have lost loved ones during the COVID‐19 pandemic while millions of others have also experienced ongoing pervasive non‐death loss. The understanding of how people deal with non‐death loss is still relatively limited. Incorporating theory of coping and loss, this study examines the reciprocal relationship between non‐death loss and acceptance coping. Based on the results of a cross‐lagged panel model involving 314 participants in China, we found that before the end of the zero‐Covid policy, non‐death loss at Time 1 predicted less acceptance coping at Time 2, but in the opening up stage in late 2022, non‐death loss at time 2 did not predict acceptance coping at time 3. The findings have significant implications for understanding the interplay between non‐death loss and acceptance coping and highlights abrupt psychological changes during the COVID‐19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":53583,"journal":{"name":"Social and Personality Psychology Compass","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883579","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}