Latest posts tagged with #SocPsych on Bluesky
From the abstract: "[...] Our results failed to replicate the impact of co-opetition on flexibility, suggesting that conflicting demands might facilitate cognitive flexibility only in case of other types of intraindividual conflict."
#replication #socpsych #psychology
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#CulturalPsych #SocPsych #CulturalEvolution #SocialChange #Forecasting #Methods #LLMs
Not quite sure how to announce this :-) — but after four years since its acceptance, our paper on political identification has finally appeared in print! #socpsych
You can access 50 free e-prints here:
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Feel the need to make others collapse-aware? Should you wake them? Spoiler: You may be hurting more than helping. The urge to ring the bell reveals uncomfortable truths about our motives and unintended consequences. 💛
#climatechange #collapse #socpsych #wasf
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The online dating effect:
Folks report marriages from online dating are slightly less satisfying & stable than those from offline introductions—mainly due to greater social and geographic pressures. Overall marital quality was high in both groups. #onlinedating #marriage #socpsych
Delayism links to lower climate anxiety and higher denial, posing a subtle but rising barrier as outright denial is low in both countries. Study conducted with Taciano Milfont and Michal Glowczewski. #socpsych #socialpsychology #environmentalpsychology
Our latest - The role of self-efficacy and social belonging in Norwegian upper secondary students’ interest in gendered occupations.
Self-efficacy and expected social belonging predicted their vocational interests, but differed between girls and boys. #SocPsych #EduSky #PsychSciSky #PsychSci
🙌 Congrats to lab members @chrbuettner.bsky.social, @ealbath.bsky.social & Rainer Greifeneder + @selmarudert.bsky.social & coauthors on this new JPSP publication 👏👏. It has EVERYTHING you need to know about #narcissism and #ostracism! Check it out 👇
#socpsych
Lab member Melissa Jauch @melissajauch.bsky.social has made it to Bluesky! 👋 Give her a follow and discover her research on social exclusion and connection, in politics and everyday relationships #socpsych #socialpsychology
Screenshot of paper title which reads "Conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding: Longitudinal effects of election conspiracy beliefs on criticism of democracy and support for authoritarianism during political contests". Paper abstract that reads, "There are widespread concerns that conspiracy theories undermine democracies. But do conspiracy beliefs increase criticism of democracy and/or support for authoritarianism? Or are antidemocratic people more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs? To answer these important questions, we collected longitudinal data during two concurrent democratic elections—the 2020 US Presidential Election (N = 609) and the 2020 General Election in New Zealand (N = 603). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models tested whether conspiracy beliefs affect criticism of democracy in general, as well as support for authoritarianism, and both direct and representative democracy, specifically. There was little evidence that conspiracy beliefs temporally preceded changes in attitudes toward democracy or support for any specific form of government. Instead, people who supported authoritarianism more subsequently endorsed stronger conspiracy beliefs. The results suggested that, in the context of electoral contests (e.g., elections), antidemocratic people are more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs rather than conspiracy beliefs fostering antidemocratic views."
Over the 2020 US and NZ elections, antidemocratic attitudes preceded conspiracy beliefs, rather than conspiracy beliefs fostering antidemocratic attitudes
by @lindaskitka.bsky.social & many others in @ispp-pops.bsky.social #socpsych #polisky #polpsych
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I just completed my first focus group discussion for my study about refugees' psychology and sociocultural adaptation in their receiving country.
The participants were all exhausted in the end. I can't help but feel that I did it incorrectly.
Is this normal?
#phdlife #socpsych
Abstract that reads The main theories explaining electoral backlash against immigration focus on citizens’ cultural, economic, and security concerns. We test these predictions in Switzerland, which opened its labor market to neighboring countries in the 2000s. Employing a difference-in-differences design, we document a substantial rise in immigrant workers in Swiss border municipalities after the border opened. This was accompanied by a 6-percentage-point (95% confidence interval 2–10) increase in support for anti-immigrant parties, equivalent to a 32% rise at the mean. However, we find no adverse effects on citizens’ employment, wages, or subjective perceptions of economic, cultural, or security threats. Instead, we describe how far-right parties introduced novel narratives related to overcrowding to advance hostility toward immigrants. We provide evidence that this rhetoric targeted border municipalities, where it had the greatest impact on voters susceptible to political persuasion. Together, these findings suggest that elites can play a role in driving anti-immigrant votes.
The rise in immigrant workers in Swiss border municipalities increased support for anti-immigrant parties despite the fact that the rise did not harm citizens' employment or perceptions of threat
#polisky #prejudice #polpsych #socpsych
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Abstract that reads, Why do people spread false misinformation online? Previous studies have linked affective polar- ization with misinformation sharing and belief. Contrary to these largely observational findings, however, we show that experimentally improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans (ver- sus members of their own party) has no measurable effect on people’s intentions to share true news, false news, or the difference between them, known as discernment. By contrast, we find evidence that a reminder of accuracy can modestly improve truth discernment among people who report sharing political news. These results suggest the need for a reexamination of the role of affective polarization in the dissemination of misinformation online.
Experimentally improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans does not improve truth discernment of news
An accuracy prompt did a bit better, especially for people low in need for chaos
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#polisky #polpsych #socpsych
Abstract of a paper that reads What explains the gender gap in support for the protection and advancement of women's rights? We argue that because boys receive less and more delayed information outside the home about gender inequality than girls, the cues boys receive inside the home play an outsized role in their adult attitudes about women's rights. Using a large national survey, we demonstrate that men's attitudes toward women's rights are, in fact, more heavily influenced by the perceived attitudinal norms within their family than are women's. Through a follow-up survey experiment with a national sample of U.S. teenagers, we explore this further and illustrate that one-time statements from a single family member shift support for women's rights among young men, but not young women. Importantly, statements from other authority figures do not impact attitudes. Our findings highlight the gendered manner in which familial socialization shapes the gendered attitudes that frame women's lives.
Men's and teenage boy's attitudes toward women's rights are more heavily influenced by their family norms, than are women's and teenage girls' attitudes
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#polisky #polpsych #socpsych
Text from the linked website. The text reads, How to Nominate: Nominees must be current ISPP members and within 10 years of having received their PhD. All nominations must include the following: An argument as to why he/she deserves the award and a CV of the nominee. To complete a nomination, simply send these materials to the Committee Chair by the deadline. The award recipient will be strongly encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting and Awards Reception. 2025 Award Committee: Chair: Mark Brandt (Michigan State University) Email Committee: Lene Aaroe (Aarhus University), Angel Saavedra Cisneros (Bowdoin College) THE NOMINATION PROCESS FOR 2025 NOW OPEN. The deadline for nominations is 15 January 2025. Winners will be notified by early April 2025.
I'm chairing the ISPP award committee for the Jim Sidanius Early Career Award
The deadline for nominations is 15 January 2025
To nominate someone, simple email me argument as to why they deserve the award and a CV of the nominee
ispp.org/awards/sidan...
#polisky #polpsych #prejudice #socpsych
Abstract that reads How different racial minorities experience racism differently remains underexplored in existing research. Here, we show that Asian and Black people are often dehumanized differently. Twelve studies spotlight a racial asymmetry in dehumanization using a wide array of methods (experimental, archival, and computational) and data sources (online samples, word embeddings, and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data): Whereas Black people are more often subjected to animalistic dehumanization, Asian people are predominantly subjected to mechanistic dehumanization. We demonstrate this asymmetry from the vantage point of victims (Studies 1a and 1b) and perpetrators (Studies 2a–2d). We further document the prevalence of this asymmetry across diverse domains, from everyday language (Study 3) to perceptions in the realms of romantic relationships (Study 4a), crime rates (Study 4b), and business skills (Study 4c). Finally, we demonstrate the asymmetry’s real-world consequences in labor market segregation (Studies 5 and 6). Our findings shed light on the distinct experiences of racism encountered by different racial groups and, more critically, introduce a framework that unifies and integrates scattered empirical observations on perceptions of Asian people.
Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal
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#prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky
Abstract that reads Psychological inoculation is a promising and potentially scalable approach to counter misinformation. The goal of inoculation is to teach people to recognize manipulation techniques, such as emotional language, commonly found in misinformation online. While there is substantial evidence that inoculation increases technique recognition when directly assessed, it is not clear if this effect transfers to spontaneous detection of techniques and disengagement with the associated content in real-life contexts. In particular, emotional appeals are abundant on social media and known drivers of attention and engagement. Therefore, we examined the effects of emotional language and emotional manipulation inoculation on attention and engagement in a simulated social media feed environment. Through five pre-registered studies, we found that inoculation only decreased engagement with emotionally presented content when we solely presented synthetic content relevant to the task of identifying emotional manipulation. Any addition of real tweets or even synthetic tweets containing other manipulation techniques (e.g., ad hominem attacks) into the feed appeared to nullify the effect. Our results highlight the importance of assessing misinformation interventions in ecologically-valid contexts to estimate real-world effects.
Figure showing regression coefficients of key interaction tests. International are not significant, in general. But there are some hints for those representing synthetic posts
Psychological inoculation against misinformation does not appear to transfer to real posts or synthetic posts using other misinformation techniques
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#polisky #polpsych #socpsych #misinformation
Effect of Moderate vs. Stereotypical Exemplars on Perceptions of Out-Party Ideology. Two Coefficient Plots showing the effect of treatments for Republicans perceptions of Democrats’ ideology and Democrats’ perceptions of Republicans’ ideology. Moderate exemplars moved Republicans’ perceptions in a moderate direction on all issues; this effect was statistically significant for all issues except for taxes. Moderate exemplars moved Democrats’ perceptions in a moderate direction on all issues except taxes; this effect was only statistically significant for perceived position on abortion
Effect of Moderate vs. Stereotypical Exemplars on Affect Towards Out-Party. Two Coefficient Plots showing the effect of treatments for Republicans affect towards Democrats and Democrats’ affect towards Republicans. Moderate exemplars moved Republicans’ affect in a positive direction for all measures of affect; this effect was statistically significant for the overall affect index and the trust index. Moderate exemplars moved Democrats’ perceptions in a positive direction for the overall affect index and the trust index; the effect was statistically significant for the trust index. Moderate exemplars moved Democrats’ affect in a negative direction on the feeling thermometer and social distance index, though neither of these effects were statistically significant
Exposure to counter-stereotypical exemplars of the out-party can improve affect towards the out-party
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#socpsych #psychscisky #polpsy
title page for paper: Socioeconomic status self- deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies
Socioeconomic status self-deception - "motivated tendency to perceive oneself as having a higher subjective status than would correspond to objective conditions" - predicts lower redistribution support , status anxiety & relative deprivation
#socpsych
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title page for paper: Angry allies and fearful protesters: Communicating the right emotion during non-normative non-violent protests increases support for concessions among resistant high-status group members
Bar graph showing that communicating fear by LGBTQ+ leads to more support for concessions than anger or control when the audience is high in resistance to change
Bar graph showing that communicating anger by LGBTQ+ allies leads to more support for concessions than fear or control when the audience is high in resistance to change
Communicating actions out of fear by LGBTQ+ protesters increased support for concessions, but for allies communicating actions out of anger worked better. These emotion difs mattered most for high resistant to change audiences
#socpsych #polisky
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paper title: A cross-cultural test of competing hypotheses about system justification using data from 42 nations abstract: System justification theory (SJT) is a thriving field of research, wherein the primary questions revolve around why individuals and groups are motivated to see the systems they depend on as just, fair, and legitimate. This article seeks to answer how accurate the postulates of SJT are when compared to competing self-interest claims of social identity and social dominance theory. We addressed the ongoing debates among proponents of each theory by identifying who, when, and why individuals decide to system-justify. We used data comprised of 24,009 participants nested within 42 countries. Multilevel models largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over SJT. The most robust findings were: (1) greater objective socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with greater system justification; (2) the consistent positive ...
line plot of a cross-over interaction showing that people on the left and right system justify more when people who share their views are in power.
Across 42 countries, objective status is associated with system justification and people system justify more when their party is in power.
Authors suggest that SIT and SDI make more accurate predictions than SJT
#socpsych #polisky
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Paper title: Beyond victimhood and perpetration: Reconstruction of the ingroup's historical role in eight Eastern and Western European countries under Nazi occupation Abstract: The Nazi regime's aggressive expansion across Europe during WWII created a landscape of suffering, resistance, and collaboration. How do lay Europeans today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation, and how do different role representations relate to defensive responses aimed at protecting the ingroup from threat? We tested two theoretical predictions: Following the identity threat prediction, we expected that denying culpability but endorsing morally favorable group representations (e.g., victim-heroism) would represent an ingroup-defensive strategy, correlating with other defensive responses, such as victim-directed negativity or victim-blaming. Following the identity management prediction, we expected that precisely accepting culpability and acknowledging threatening representations...
image summarizing the complex web of predictions
How do Euros today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation? In 6/9 samples, representations as willing collaborators was related to historically defensive responses (by @rolandimhoff.bsky.social & co)
#socpsych #polisky
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Abstract of the paper: Although scholars have long understood the importance of psychology in international affairs, morality has often been overlooked as a factor in world leaders' decision- making. This article seeks to fill this gap by introducing a new analytical tool: the moral portrait, a descriptive sum- mary of a leader's moral values. The tool is built on the five cross- cultural values of Moral Foundations Theory (Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity) and the methodological approach of operational code. As a case study, the moral portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin is inferred from his rhetoric, policies, and decisions. Putin's moral portrait, specifically his interpretations of the Fairness, Loyalty, and Authority values, can help ex- plain many of his views and actions, including his decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Highlight of the article. Morality likely plays a role in guiding world leaders' behavior, so enhancing our un- derstanding of moral values could help scholars understand (and potentially predict) leaders' decisions. • Built on the findings of Moral Foundations Theory and the methodology of opera- tional code, moral portraits are a proposed method for inferring how leaders' weigh and express five cross- cultural moral values. • A case study of Russian President Vladimir Putin demonstrates how moral portraits can describe the causes of major world events, such as the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. • Policy makers and practitioners stand to benefit from moral portraits in a range of domains, such as developing strategies of deterrence and negotiation.
The operational code requires you answer two questions. 1. How does the leader weigh each value relative to the others (i.e., high, medium, or low importance)? 2. How is each value expressed?
Using operational code as a method for identifying leaders' moral foundations (with an application to Putin)
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#socpsych #polisky #PsychSciSky
abstract of the paper, "Gender on the mind? Gender heuristics and rationalizations in candidate evaluations". Abstract reads, "As more women enter politics, public and scholarly nar- ratives about the extent and nature of gender bias in me- diated campaigning environments diversify. Yet there is still little understanding of how voters substantively think about gender in their evaluations of women and men can- didates and how voters' thoughts are affected by different types of media coverage. Drawing on literature on gender stereotyping and rationalization, this paper distinguishes two roles in which gender manifests in the candidate evaluation process—as a heuristic and as a rationaliza- tion. We empirically investigate these different ways in which gender affects voters' thoughts following neutral and contextually rich candidate stimuli by means of a mixed methods think aloud study. The results show that voters think less—but more positively—about substan- tive aspects of women's pol
Overview of the different parts of the think aloud design and example stimuli seen by one participant.
Overview of the qualitative analysis of gender rationalizations.. Shows a first impression and vote decision task.
The ex post communality boost for women is most notice- able in images where the candidates are depicted alongside their family, which is illustrated by the thoughts of this 22-year old man: I would vote for her because she strikes me as more liberal, like me. Her smile is more genuine. You can tell by the way she acts with her family that she has a lot of empathy. She probably campaigns for better childcare and similar issues.
A mixed methods think aloud study finds that "that
voters think less—but more positively—about substantive aspects of women's political profiles."
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#socpsych #polisky #PsychSciSky
Experiments in Germany, Greece, Ireland, and Poland finds that prebunks and debunks both help reduce belief in and sharing misinformation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#socpsych PoliPsy #polisky
Fear, group identity and a need for order fuel movements such as the AfD. My latest article explores how these factors may have shaped the recent German elections.
#Psychology #VotingTrends #AfD #PoliSky #SocPsych #PoliPsy #SocPsy
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