Current research in ecological and social psychology最新文献

{"title":"Building faith: the relationships between materials, form, and worship in pre-industrial religious architecture","authors":"Navdeep Kaur ,&nbsp;Joseph Watts ,&nbsp;Jamin Halberstadt","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Religious structures have traditionally been seen as reflections of beliefs and practices, yet their design may also shape religious behavior and thought. This study investigates how local materials are related to the architecture and associated practices of pre-industrial religious structures, using data from the Database of Religious History (DRH) and additional coding of 121 sites. Results reveal that malleable materials like plaster and clay are linked to curved roofs, while wood is associated with larger structures. Larger buildings were more likely to support communal worship, whereas curved roofs were negatively associated with individual worship. Path analyses suggest that the relationship between materials and religious practices is accounted for by the architectural features, such as size and roof type, that those materials afford. Though correlational in nature, the findings illustrate a potential role of material constraints in shaping religious architecture and practices, as well as the embeddedness of religious life in its material and spatial context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144556880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stigma against Cannabis and Tobacco Users by Nonusers in the U.S.: The Role of Culture and Honor Values","authors":"Ceren Günsoy,&nbsp;Sanah Feroz,&nbsp;Karen Kandalaft,&nbsp;Nicole H. Weiss","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People who strongly endorse honor values protect their reputation by avoiding and condemning potentially dishonorable behaviors. In this research, we examined whether honor values were associated with stigma against cannabis and tobacco users, as the use of stigmatized substances can damage one’s reputation. Participants were nonusers of cannabis or tobacco from South Asian American (<em>n</em> = 77; 44 women, 33 men) - an understudied honor culture - and European American background in the U.S. North (<em>n</em> = 140; 96 women, 41 men, 3 non-binary) - a dignity culture, in which honor values are less likely to shape people’s lives. They completed an online survey about their stigma against cannabis and tobacco users, endorsement of honor values, religiosity, and demographic background. Among South Asian American nonusers, cannabis stigma was positively associated with personal honor values and religiosity. Among European American nonusers, tobacco stigma was positively associated with family honor values. These findings show that honor values can play different roles in substance use stigma depending on people’s cultural background. Understanding the cultural factors behind substance use stigma is necessary to facilitate help seeking, especially in diverse societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144851815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to the special issue: Interdisciplinary insights to more fully grasp dehumanization","authors":"Alexander P. Landry ,&nbsp;Katrina Fincher","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2024.100209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2024.100209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do messages based on collective memory help to reduce anti-immigrant prejudice?","authors":"Omid Alizadeh Afrouzi ,&nbsp;Juan-José Igartua","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores anti-immigrant prejudice reduction through Collective Memory (CM). Drawing on mediated contact and narrative persuasion research, a narrative experiment (<em>N</em> = 260) with a two-group design tested the effectiveness of testimonial CM-based messages in the context of Venezuelan immigration to Colombia. Relevant moderator (xenophobia level) and mediators (identification and narrative transportation) were included in the model. Results showed no interaction effect between CM cue and xenophobia on mediating variables. However, serial mediation analysis revealed that the CM cue activated perceived past-remembering, increasing mediators and ultimately favorable outcome variables. Implications for prejudice reduction are discussed, enhancing our understanding of CM’s impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A meta-analysis and test of the overlap between honor concern, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation","authors":"Olivia K. Nop,&nbsp;Matthew D. Hammond","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Honor concern—an ideology describing the importance of maintaining reputation in culturally appropriate ways—are theorized to underlie people’s prejudice and violence. However, the domains of honor concern conceptually overlap with other sources of prejudice: right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). In Study 1, we tested the statistical overlap between honor concern domains with RWA and SDO using a meta-analysis (<em>k</em> = 16; <em>n</em> = 5053). Results identified group honor concern as the most distinct, sharing only moderate overlap with RWA; masculine and feminine honor concern were strongly positively correlated with RWA. Group honor was not correlated with SDO, while masculine and feminine honor concern were strongly and weakly positively correlated with SDO respectively. However, the original studies did not examine each as distinct predictors of prejudice-related outcomes (e.g., patriotism and trait aggression). In Study 2, data collected from online samples from USA and Italy (<em>n</em> = 298) addressed this gap. Latent variable models indicated that group honor concern positively predicted patriotism and negatively predicted general trait aggression, over and above RWA and SDO. Overall, these studies suggest that group honor concern, RWA, and SDO share conceptual similarities but are distinct. Further research is needed to examine the specific contexts in which group honor concern predicts heightened aggression and prejudice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144879928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking measurement invariance causally","authors":"Julia M. Rohrer ,&nbsp;Borysław Paulewicz","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measurement invariance, the analysis ends. Here, we introduce readers to an alternative perspective on measurement invariance that shifts the focus from statistical procedures to causality. From that angle, violations of measurement invariance imply that there are potentially interesting differences in the measurement process between the groups, which could warrant explanations in their own right. We illustrate this with hypothetical examples of substantively meaningful violations of metric, scalar, and residual invariance. At the same time, standard procedures to test for measurement invariance rest on strong causal assumptions about the data-generating process that researchers may often be unwilling to endorse in other contexts. We point out two very different ways forward. First, for researchers who want to commit to latent factor models, violations of measurement invariance can be followed up with investigations into <em>why</em> those violations occur, turning them from a dead end into new research questions. Second, for researchers who feel more ambivalent about latent factor models, alternatives may be considered, and group differences on sum scores and item scores may be reported anyway as interesting descriptive findings—but they should be followed up with discussions of various explanations that take into account their plausibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding climate change attitudes in Europe: A systematic review using social ecological framework","authors":"Ashling Bourke ,&nbsp;Salam Jabbour ,&nbsp;Aisling Martin ,&nbsp;Lauren Walsh ,&nbsp;Kristin Hadfield","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding climate change attitudes is key to addressing the most significant challenge of our time. This paper outlines a pre-registered systematic review (<span><span>https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/445108</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>) which uses Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Systems Theory to examine the academic literature on person-centred social influences of climate change attitudes in Europe. After screening 4554 articles from four databases, we identified and synthesised data from 93 studies conducted in Europe. Across Europe, there is a high level of concern and belief in climate change. While we found that there are factors at multiple levels which appear to influence attitudes toward climate change, many of the findings are mixed, and the quality of evidence is relatively weak. Most included studies used a cross-sectional survey design. The available evidence suggests that no single factor explains the diversity of views on this critical issue, and instead climate change attitudes result from a dynamic interplay between demographic factors, proximal influences, and broader socio political orientations. If we really want to understand what predicts attitudes toward climate change in Europe, there is a clear need for more rigorous, longitudinal research; such research would deepen our understanding of how climate change attitudes evolve over time and are influenced by changing political, social, and environmental conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100245"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145157606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is abortion policy the next catalyst for ideological migration? Dobbs v. Jackson and migration intentions across the United States","authors":"John C. Blanchar ,&nbsp;Catherine J. Norris","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100222","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100222","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The overturning of federal abortion protections by the U.S. Supreme Court in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</em> has shifted abortion regulation to state legislatures. This study investigates whether impending changes in state-level abortion policies could trigger ideological migration across the country, where individuals relocate to align with states that match their political and moral beliefs. We surveyed a sample of Americans (<em>N</em> = 743) two weeks after the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson</em> decision to investigate whether pro-choice and pro-life advocates experienced a diminished sense of belonging and stronger intentions to migrate when their state's anticipated abortion policy conflicted with their beliefs. The results provided support for the ideological migration hypothesis, showing that those in states expected to implement abortion laws contrary to their beliefs reported lower belonging and a heightened desire to relocate. They were also more likely to consider relocating to a state with abortion policies that better aligned with their ideological views. Our findings highlight how state-level abortion policy changes could amplify political polarization and contribute to increased regional ideological sorting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of apology beliefs for apology tendencies across cultures with varying honor norms","authors":"Alexander Kirchner-Häusler ,&nbsp;Ayse K. Uskul ,&nbsp;Michael J.A. Wohl ,&nbsp;Vivian L. Vignoles ,&nbsp;Susan E. Cross ,&nbsp;Rosa Rodriguez-Bailón ,&nbsp;Meral Gezici-Yalçın ,&nbsp;Charles Harb ,&nbsp;Shenel Husnu ,&nbsp;Konstantinos Kafetsios ,&nbsp;Evangelia Kateri ,&nbsp;Juan Matamoros-Lima ,&nbsp;Rania Miniesy ,&nbsp;Jinkyung Na ,&nbsp;Stefano Pagliaro ,&nbsp;Charis Psaltis ,&nbsp;Dina Rabie ,&nbsp;Manuel Teresi ,&nbsp;Yukiko Uchida","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Apologies serve as crucial tools for relationship repair, promoting reconciliation, and demonstrating accountability. However, beliefs about the morality, effectiveness, and responsibility-signaling nature of apologies may vary across cultures, particularly in contexts shaped by honor norms where apologies fit central cultural concerns for morality and strength in ambiguous ways. This study investigates the relation between apology beliefs and cultural honor norms across 14 Mediterranean, East Asian, and Anglo-Western samples (<em>N</em> = 5296). We assessed personal and normative beliefs about apologies and their alignment with apology tendencies (willingness to apologize and past offered apologies) as well as intersubjectively rated honor norms. Results revealed that stronger beliefs in the morality and effectiveness of apologies, as well as perceptions of apologies as admissions of responsibility, consistently predicted greater willingness to apologize across regions and past apologies offered. Against our expectations, honor norms moderated only a few of these relations, with significant interactions suggesting weaker links between apology beliefs and apology tendencies at stronger honor norms. Complementary analyses comparing regional categorizations (Anglo-West, East Asia, and MENA) further supported a picture of relative cultural similarities but also highlighted a wider array of relevant apology beliefs in the MENA region as well as a greater focus on personal morality beliefs in Anglo Western societies and personal effectiveness beliefs in East Asian societies. Our findings underscore the universal significance of apology beliefs in fostering reconciliation while also revealing some cultural variability in how personal beliefs and cultural norms may interact in shaping apology-related behaviors across diverse societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144605637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrating a positive effect of green exercise interventions on mental well-being","authors":"Marina Firnhaber ,&nbsp;Tugce Varol ,&nbsp;Nino Gugushvili ,&nbsp;Dominika Kwasnicka ,&nbsp;Paula Kleuters ,&nbsp;Jan Keller ,&nbsp;Karlijn Massar ,&nbsp;Iris de Visser ,&nbsp;Gill A. ten Hoor","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Both exposure to nature and physical exercise have been shown to have positive effects on mental well-being. We reviewed the <em>combined</em> effects of physical exercise in nature (i.e., ‘green exercise’) on mental well-being. A systematic review of the databases Ovid Medline, PubMed and PsycINFO resulted in a total of 57 included studies (of which 25were meta-analysed). All eligible studies compared a green exercise intervention with: (1) a no intervention control group, (2) indoor exercise, (3) urban exercise, or (4) other interventions to improve mental well-being. Studies without a comparison group were excluded. Our results show that green exercise interventions have a positive effects on mental well-being (0.478; <em>p</em> = 0.001; 95% CI = [0.191, 0.766]). Subgroup analyses revealed that green exercise interventions had more positive effects on mental well-being compared to no-intervention control groups (5 studies; 0.851, se = 0.248, <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001) and other mental well-being interventions (8 studies; 0.540, se = 0.188, <em>p</em> = 0.05), but not compared to indoor (5 studies; 0.04, se = 0.203, <em>p</em> = 0.819), or urban exercises (10 studies; 0.415, se = 0.268, <em>p</em> = 0.124). While green exercise clearly outperforms no activity and non-physical interventions in enhancing mental well-being, its benefits over other forms of physical activity may be more nuanced, potentially moderated by factors such as duration, environmental quality, and measurement sensitivity. Future interventions should explore what types of green exercise are the most beneficial, and which populations may benefit the most from participation in green exercise (e.g., clinical, youth, migrant communities).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100244"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}