Current research in ecological and social psychology最新文献

{"title":"Bleeding cultures a cross-cultural exploration into the behavioral outcomes of tight and loose cultural contact zones","authors":"Feryl Badiani ,&nbsp;Aiyana Willard ,&nbsp;Rita McNamara","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the era of increasing global interconnectedness and decreasing cultural insularity, investigating how individuals navigate conflicting cultural norms and behavioral choices is increasingly important. This paper focuses on the impact of the contact between religiously tight cultures and industrialized, liberalized loose cultures on menstruation-related practices and traditions. In-depth interviews conducted in Jerusalem and Mumbai revealed that the nature of contact between these two conflicting ecologies impacted which traditions are adopted and how they are molded. Diffused contact, as was witnessed in Jerusalem, leads to more hybridized behaviors, and religious and non-religious practices are performed simultaneously. Whereas a more concentrated contact, as was seen in Mumbai, leads to the performance of religious norms only in situations where figures of authority can issue sanctions. Moreover, it was also found that individuals used considerable self-reflection to decide how and which practices to adopt. These findings imply that individuals are agentic operators, and that they exert considerable influence on their environment and how they adopt the cultural norms that surround them. This paper leaves scope for further research on the nature of cultural contact zones and the role of self-reflection in the collaborative co-construction of cultural norms. This paper also hopes to provide insight towards helping resolve intra-group conflict.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49212480","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":"When religious fundamentalists feel privileged: Findings from a representative study in contemporary Turkey","authors":"Sarah Demmrich ,&nbsp;Paul H.P. Hanel","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research established that people who are or feel more privileged tend to be less religiously fundamentalist. However, in the present research we predicted this association to be reversed when political leaders such as governments are promoting and incentivizing (religious) fundamentalism. Using Turkey as an example, we found support for our hypothesis in a Muslim sample (<em>N</em> = 736) representative for age, gender, education-level ethnicities, and urbanicity: Individuals, who feel more privileged – i.e., less deprived – were <em>more</em> fundamentalist, even after controlling for a range of other variables that were previously associated with fundamentalism including conspiracy beliefs, personality, and sociodemographic variables. This negative association between deprivation and religious fundamentalism was not mediated by conspiracy beliefs. Interestingly, the associations of the control variables such as authoritarianism and conspiracy beliefs with religious fundamentalism mostly replicated previous research. Implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770246","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":"I Am Not a Full Person: Perceiving threat of COVID-19 leads to self-dehumanization","authors":"Jiaxin Shi ,&nbsp;Jingyu Zhang ,&nbsp;Sham Wai Lun ,&nbsp;Xijing Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a worldwide pandemic, COVID-19 has affected billions of people's lives. The disease threatens people's health, wrecks the global economy, and triggers social problems. Beyond doubt, people feel threatened by the pandemic. We hypothesized that people would dehumanize themselves when faced with the threat of COVID-19. The current three studies confirmed our hypothesis (<em>N</em>_total = 2301). Specifically, we found that the threat of COVID-19 was positively related to self-dehumanization (Study 1). In Study 2, the manipulation of the threat of COVID-19 further indicated its causal effect on self-dehumanization. Moreover, we also examined the adverse consequence of self-dehumanization. People in Study 3a experienced poor psychological well-being when they were threatened by COVID-19, which was mediated by stronger self-dehumanization. Moreover, we identified the causal relationship between self-dehumanization and poor psychological well-being in Study 3b. In sum, our findings suggest the negative effect of the perceived threat of COVID-19 on self-perception and psychological health. We also discussed the theoretical and practical implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622723000746/pdfft?md5=3b299b538a5ad5e9ce3de2b5b2ed9686&pid=1-s2.0-S2666622723000746-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92065186","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":"Dehumanizing disability: Evidence for subtle and blatant dehumanization of people with physical disabilities","authors":"Jason Sitruk ,&nbsp;Kevin M. Summers ,&nbsp;E. Paige Lloyd","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Extensive research has examined the dehumanization, or perception of others as less than human, of various stigmatized/minoritized groups. Previous literature investigating dehumanization of groups often considers dehumanization along a single dimension (e.g., denial of human emotions, denial of mind), despite the existence of many different models of dehumanization. In the current work, we integrate four popular models of dehumanization (i.e., infrahumanization, dual model of dehumanization, mind perception, and blatant dehumanization). Here, we focus on dehumanization of people with physical disabilities, a stigmatized group often overlooked in the dehumanization literature. In this work, we examined whether people with physical disabilities (i.e., paralysis from a spinal cord injury) are dehumanized relative to people without physical disabilities. Across 2 samples (<em>N</em> = 405), we found that participants dehumanized people with (relative to people without) physical disabilities on the dual model of dehumanization, mind perception, and blatant dehumanization measures. However, we observed the opposite pattern for infrahumanization whereby participants dehumanized people without physical disabilities relative to people with physical disabilities. This research extends dehumanization research first by integrating four popular models of dehumanization and second by considering an overlooked population (i.e., people with physical disabilities) in the literature. Further, this work may aid in informing future intervention approaches aimed at decreasing dehumanization of people with physical disabilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622723000758/pdfft?md5=060bfdf054811c8eba48e8e52cd0550b&pid=1-s2.0-S2666622723000758-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92067653","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":"Board gender diversity and organizational environmental performance: An international perspective","authors":"Yilei Wang ,&nbsp;Deniz S. Ones ,&nbsp;Yagizhan Yazar ,&nbsp;Ipek Mete","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organizations can play a significant role in advancing gender equality and environmental sustainability. Increasing the number of women on corporate boards has been offered as a means to increase organizational environmental sustainability. We examined relations between board gender diversity and organizational environmental performance in two studies. The first study examined board gender diversity's relations to corporate environmental sustainability initiatives for 79 largest Turkish organizations. Even though only a small proportion of directors among Turkish organizations are women, the results linked their representation on corporate boards to better environmental performance for all categories of environmental sustainability. The second study examined board gender diversity-corporate environmental performance relations using a sample of 1,776 organizations from 45 countries and representing 8 cultural clusters, greatly expanding the cross-cultural scope of our research. Board gender diversity correlated positively with overall environmental performance (<em>r</em> = 0.26), however there was much variability by country. Gender gap/parity at the national level did not appreciably influence board gender diversity-environmental performance associations. However, there were systematic differences between cultural clusters countries belonged to. Associations were positive and sizable for Anglo, Latin Europe, and Middle Eastern cultural clusters, negligible for Nordic Europe, Eastern Europe, and Confucian Asia cultural clusters, or mostly negligible with great variability for the Southern Asian cultural cluster. Findings highlight the important role that national context and culture play in how women's representation on corporate boards translates or fails to translate into organizational environmental sustainability performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622723000771/pdfft?md5=b67c773275bfa81172e036f7b4f2d4a3&pid=1-s2.0-S2666622723000771-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92067654","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":"Assessing levels of knowledge, compliance with preventive measures and behavioral adjustments to the ‘new normal’ of COVID-19: Empirical evidence from Ghana","authors":"Elias Kodjo Kekesi ,&nbsp;Collins Badu Agyemang ,&nbsp;David Lackland Sam","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Countries have managed COVID-19 infection and mortality differently. Ghana, a resource-constrained country, with a poorer healthcare system, had fewer infections and more recoveries than high-income countries. Although an acculturation framework is commonly discussed in relation to individuals adapting to a new society, we used it to understand how people adapt to rapid changes orchestrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. From pre-pandemic to post-pandemic era, we see a change from the ‘old normal’ to the ‘new normal’. Thus, we sought to understand how people were living their lives under the ‘new normal’. Data was gathered from 416 adults on their attitudes towards obedience to authority, compliance with COVID-19-related activities, and changes in the extent of carrying out these activities three and nine months into the pandemic. COVID-19 acculturation strategies were also assessed. Descriptive and inferential analyses showed that most Ghanaians obeyed authorities and followed the preventive measures. However, after five months of the peak period, compliance dropped, and behavioral fatigue increased significantly. Regarding the acculturation strategies integration, which involves keeping old health care practices and adopting new ones, improved behavioral adjustment the most followed by separation (i.e., rejecting the new health care practices and holding on strongly to the old ones) and assimilation (i.e., rejecting old health care practices and adopting new ones). Marginalization which encompasses rejecting both old and new health care practices was the least. These results suggest that integration strategy had a significant positive impact on behavioral adjustment compared to assimilation and separation strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622723000813/pdfft?md5=2b2bc0832f144bc4070f065b29639ac5&pid=1-s2.0-S2666622723000813-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138436315","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":"Panic internally, act sustainably: Climate change distress predicts pro-environmental behavior in a modified work for environmental protection task and a dictator game","authors":"Jana Urbild ,&nbsp;Kathrin Zauner ,&nbsp;Johanna Hepp","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The negative impact of climate change on mental health has gained increased attention in recent years, with studies documenting elevated rates of mental disorders in areas affected by natural disasters. At the same time, distress over climate change has been described as a natural response to an existential threat that is not per se pathological. Climate change distress (CCD) may even be a motivating force for pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and ultimately help mitigate the effects of climate change. In the present study, we tested a number of pre-registered hypotheses (<span>https://osf.io/jqb58</span><svg><path></path></svg><u>)</u> on the association between CCD and PEB and investigated age and gender differences in self-reported CCD and climate change-associated impairment (CCI). We recruited an online sample of 550 German-speaking participants and assessed PEB at a behavioral level using a modified work-for-environmental-protection-task and a modified dictator game. We observed that CCD was associated with a higher level of PEB in both paradigms. Results from a logistic regression model showed that individuals who were more distressed were more likely to complete all items of a working memory task to generate donations for the environment (work-for-environmental-protection-task). Higher CCD was also associated with a higher likelihood of sacrificing one's entire payoff in the dictator game to donate to environmental protection organizations. As predicted, younger individuals and women (vs. men) experienced higher levels of both CCD and CCI. We discuss the high prevalence of CCD in the sample and lay out directions for future work to assess avenues for increasing PEB whilst protecting climate-related mental health. Data and code for all main and supplemental analyses are available at <span>https://osf.io/eprdw/</span><svg><path></path></svg>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100099"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42418368","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":"Happiness and sense of community belonging in the world value survey","authors":"Kenneth M. Cramer,&nbsp;Hailey Pawsey","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>People derive considerable social benefits from interacting with others that they encounter across a host of environmental domains: their city, region, country, continent, and even the world at large. We explore the extent to which perceived happiness hinges on one's sense of connection within each domain, drawing upon a large international sample of 120k respondents from 74 nations in the World Value Survey (2017–2020). This large battery of social and political attitudes includes items that ask: “tell me how close you feel to…” followed by each of city, region, country, continent, and the world. Options ranged from ‘very close’ to ‘not very close at all.’ Perceived happiness was scored on a 4-option item asking: “taking all things together, would you say you are…” with options ranging from ‘very happy’ to ‘not at all happy.’ After accounting for various demographic variables like age, sex, education, urban/rural environment, and income, results from a stepwise ordinal logistic regression analysis showed that one's perceived happiness was predicted by feeling connected to almost all domains; and the more connected one felt, the happier they were. One's connection however to region was not significant, wherein we suspect the item was too ambiguous for a clear response. Implications for overall wellbeing are discussed, as are directions for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44648449","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":"Between Lynn White and Big Gods – religious sources of pro-environmental attitudes – cross-cultural test of Lynn White's Hypothesis","authors":"Adrian Dominik Wojcik","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the connection between religious beliefs and pro-environmental attitudes using data from three waves of the World Values Survey (WVS) conducted in 1989, 1999, and 2009. The findings reveal a paradoxical relationship between religion and environmental attitudes. While respondents who identified with a specific religious denomination tended to have lower pro-environmental attitudes than those without a religious affiliation, individuals who placed high personal importance on their religiosity and participated in religious practices were more likely to have pro-environmental attitudes. This relationship was moderated by the religious denomination. However, the effects were minimal, explaining only 0.4% of the variance, and were only detected due to the analysis's high statistical power.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41510315","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":"An integrated psychology of (animalistic) dehumanization requires a focus on human-animal relations","authors":"Gordon Hodson ,&nbsp;Kristof Dhont","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49749213","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}