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IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI:10.1037/xge0001722

Veronica Derricks, Eva S Pietri, India R Johnson, Daniela Gonzalez

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美国黑人在组织中的代表性仍然不足。尽管大量研究表明，代表性不足会破坏包容性，但很少有研究对产生这种关系的心理过程进行评估。通过三个在线实验，我们研究了社会比较感知--对于被外部观察者同化或被比作另一个内群体成员的担忧--作为美国黑人在组织中的包容度降低的潜在机制所起的作用。此外，我们还研究了具有多重边缘化身份的个体（黑人妇女）的社会比较感知动态。在各项研究中，黑人成年人（研究 1）和黑人女性（研究 2 和研究 3）想象自己是一家公司的两名（双重身份）或多名（非双重身份）黑人员工之一，并阅读关于一名在工作任务中表现不佳的黑人男性或白人女性同事的报道。研究结果表明，具有双重身份（与非双重身份）的黑人报告了更强烈的社会比较感知和更糟糕的组织结果（例如，身份安全感降低，或认为自己的身份在某种环境中受到重视）。此外，社会比较感知也是导致组织结果变差的潜在机制。在研究 2 和研究 3 中，拥有二人身份（相对于非二人身份）的黑人女性在面对与她们同样被边缘化的身份（黑人男性或白人女性）的目标时，社会比较感知会增加。研究 3 表明，谴责陈规定型观念的组织线索能显著减少对社会比较感知的担忧，并改善组织结果。总之，这项研究阐明了代表性不足会破坏黑人成年人融入社会的心理过程、这一过程对具有多重边缘化身份者的动态影响，以及一种可以破坏这一过程的干预措施。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，保留所有权利）。

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Examining the role of social comparison perceptions on identity-safety for Black Americans in organizations.

Black Americans remain underrepresented in organizations. Although extensive research demonstrates that inadequate representation undermines inclusion, few studies have assessed the psychological processes through which this relationship emerges. Across three online experiments, we investigate the role of social comparison perceptions-concerns about being assimilated, or likened, to another ingroup member by external observers-as a mechanism underlying reduced inclusion for Black Americans in organizations. Moreover, we examine the dynamics of social comparison perceptions for individuals who have multiple marginalized identities (Black women). Across studies, Black adults (Study 1) and Black women (Studies 2 and 3) imagined that they were one of two (duo status) or many (nonduo status) Black employees at a company and read about a Black male or White female colleague who performed poorly on a work task. Findings showed that Black individuals with duo (vs. nonduo) status reported stronger social comparison perceptions and worse organizational outcomes (e.g., decreased identity-safety, or beliefs that one's identity is valued in a setting). Moreover, social comparison perceptions served as a mechanism underlying worse organizational outcomes. In Studies 2 and 3, Black women who had duo (vs. nonduo) status reported increased social comparison perceptions in response to a target who shared either of their marginalized identities (a Black man or White woman). Study 3 showed that organizational cues which condemned stereotypes significantly reduced concerns about social comparison perceptions and improved organizational outcomes. Collectively, this work elucidates a psychological process through which underrepresentation can undermine inclusion for Black adults, the dynamics of this process for persons with multiple marginalized identities, and an intervention that can disrupt this process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

4.90%

发文量

300

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.