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Psychology | Social and Community Psychology | Social And Community Psychology | Environmental Politics | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Political Science
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Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Environmental Services | Communication not elsewhere classified |
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Bringing together humanistic and intergroup perspectives to build a model of internalisation of normative social harmdoing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2020
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2659
Perceived control qualifies the effects of threat on prejudice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12049
Abstract: People sometimes show a tendency to lash out in a prejudiced manner when they feel threatened. This research shows that the relationship between threat and prejudice is moderated by people's levels of perceived control: Threat leads to prejudice only when people feel concurrently low in control. In two studies, terrorist threat was associated with heightened prejudice among people who were low in perceived control over the threat (Study 1 N = 87) or over their lives in general (Study 2 N = 2,394), but was not associated with prejudice among people who were high in perceived control. Study 3 (N = 139) replicated this finding experimentally in the context of the Global Financial Crisis. The research identifies control as an important ingredient in threatening contexts that, if bolstered, can reduce general tendencies to lash out under threat.
Assessing the mobilization potential of environmental advocacy communication
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Introduction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2011
Abstract: The study of social influence is central to social psychology and to understanding group processes and intergroup relations. Social influence research covers a broad range of topics, from persuasion and attitude change, to compliance and conformity, to collective action and social change. This Special Issue presents eleven empirical articles that represent the ersity of current basic and applied research on social influence.
Collective action - And then what?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-11-2009
‘We are all in the same boat’: How societal discontent affects intention to help during the COVID ‐19 pandemic
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-10-2021
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2572
Abstract: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has caused a global health crisis. Consequently, many countries have adopted restrictive measures that caused a substantial change in society. Within this framework, it is reasonable to suppose that a sentiment of societal discontent, defined as generalized concern about the precarious state of society, has arisen. Literature shows that collectively experienced situations can motivate people to help each other. Since societal discontent is conceptualized as a collective phenomenon, we argue that it could influence intention to help others, particularly those who suffer from coronavirus. Thus, in the present study, we aimed (a) to explore the relationship between societal discontent and intention to help at the in idual level and (b) to investigate a possible moderating effect of societal discontent at the country level on this relationship. To fulfil our purposes, we used data collected in 42 countries ( N = 61,734) from the PsyCorona Survey, a cross‐national longitudinal study. Results of multilevel analysis showed that, when societal discontent is experienced by the entire community, in iduals dissatisfied with society are more prone to help others. Testing the model with longitudinal data ( N = 3,817) confirmed our results. Implications for those findings are discussed in relation to crisis management. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement .
When groups are wrong and deviants are right
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-11-2010
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.760
Concern with COVID-19 pandemic threat and attitudes towards immigrants: The mediating effect of the desire for tightness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Emotional anguish at work: The mediating role of perceived rejection on workgroup mistreatment and affective outcomes.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1037/A0013288
Abstract: In this study, the authors pay particular attention to mistreatment directed toward an organizational member from fellow workgroup members. The study contributes to the growing body of literature that examines the mistreatment of employees in the workplace. The authors propose that mistreatment by the workgroup would contribute to feelings of rejection, over and above mistreatment by the supervisor. In addition, the authors tested the mediating role of perceived rejection between workgroup mistreatment and affective outcomes such as depression and organization-based self-esteem. Part-time working participants (N = 142) took part in the study, which required them to complete a questionnaire on workplace behaviors. Results indicated that workgroup mistreatment contributed additional variance to perceived rejection over and above supervisory mistreatment when predicting depression and organization-based self-esteem. The results also indicated that perceived rejection mediates the relationship between mistreatment and affective outcomes. Results are discussed and implications for research and practice are considered.
Perceptions of the intergroup structure and anti-Asian prejudice among White Australians
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2005
Abstract: Subjective intergroup beliefs and authoritarianism were assessed in a field study ( N = 255) of White Australians’ anti-Asian stereotyping and prejudice. A social identity analysis of intergroup prejudice was adopted, such that perceptions of the intergroup structure (instability, permeability, legitimacy and higher ingroup status) were proposed as predictors of higher prejudice (blatant and covert) and less favorable stereotyping. Consistent with the social identity approach, both independent and interacting roles for sociostructural predictors of Anti-Asian bias were observed, even after demographic and personality variables were controlled. For ex le, perceived legitimacy was associated with higher prejudice when White Australians’ status position relative to Asian Australians was valued. Moreover, when participants evaluated Whites’ position as unstable and high status or legitimate, perceptions of permeable intergroup boundaries were associated with anti-Asian bias. The present findings demonstrate status protection responses in advantaged group members in a field setting, lending weight to the contention that perceptions of sociostructural threat interact to predict outgroup derogation. Implications for theories of intergroup relations are discussed.
Can Intergroup Behaviors Be Emitted Out of Self-Determined Reasons? Testing the Role of Group Norms and Behavioral Congruence in the Internalization of Discrimination and Parity Behaviors
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-11-2011
Abstract: Bringing self-determination theory to understand why intergroup behaviors are emitted, two studies were conducted to investigate how group norms and in iduals’ congruence with these norms predicted self-determination to pursue two types of intergroup behaviors (parity and discrimination). Experiment 1 ( N = 97) manipulated ingroup norms in favor of parity versus of discrimination and assessed the behavior participants displayed (congruent or incongruent with the norm) and their motivations for emitting this behavior. The manipulated norms significantly influenced group members’ behaviors. When the ingroup norm was parity, participants whose behavior was congruent with this norm reported more self-determination to emit this behavior. When the ingroup norm was prodiscrimination, participants whose behavior was congruent with this norm were less self-determined. Experiment 2 ( N = 139) replicated and extended these findings in a more conflictual intergroup setting. Results are discussed in light of motivational and intergroup theories.
A political experiment may have extracted Australia from the climate wars
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-07-2022
Individual differences in local gray matter density are associated with differences in affective and cognitive empathy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2015.05.038
Abstract: The understanding of empathy from a neuroscientific perspective has recently developed quickly, with numerous functional MRI studies associating different brain regions with different components of empathy. A recent meta-analysis across 40 fMRI studies revealed that affective empathy is most often associated with increased activity in the insula, whereas cognitive empathy is most often associated with activity in the midcingulate cortex and adjacent dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (MCC/dmPFC). To date, however, it remains unclear whether in idual differences in brain morphometry in these regions underlie different dispositions in affective and cognitive empathy. In order to test this hypothesis, voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to examine the extent to which gray matter density predicts scores from an established empathy measure (Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy QCAE). One hundred and seventy-six participants completed the QCAE and underwent MRI in order to acquire a high-resolution, three-dimensional T1-weighted structural scans. A factor analysis of the questionnaire scores revealed two distinct factors of empathy, affective and cognitive, which confirmed the validity of the QCAE. VBM results revealed gray matter density differences associated with the distinct components of empathy. Higher scores on affective empathy were associated with greater gray matter density in the insula cortex and higher scores of cognitive empathy were associated with greater gray matter density in the MCC/dmPFC. Taken together, these results provide validation for empathy being a multi-component construct, suggesting that affective and cognitive empathy are differentially represented in brain morphometry as well as providing convergent evidence for empathy being represented by different neural and structural correlates.
Intergroup Positioning and Power
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2008
In Small We Trust
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-07-2016
Abstract: Day-to-day interactions often involve in iduals interacting with groups, but little is known about the criteria that people use to decide which groups to approach or trust and which to avoid or distrust. Seven studies provide evidence for a “small = trustworthy” heuristic, such that people perceive numerically smaller groups as more benevolent in their character and intentions. As a result of this, in iduals in trust-sensitive contexts are more likely to approach and engage with groups that are relatively small than those that are relatively large. We provide evidence for this notion across a range of contexts, including analyses of social categories (Studies 1 and 2), ad hoc collections of in iduals (Study 3), interacting panels (Studies 4-6), and generalized, abstract judgments (Study 7). Findings suggest the existence of a general lay theory of group size that may influence how in iduals interact with groups.
Appealing to common humanity increases forgiveness but reduces collective action among victims of historical atrocities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-05-2011
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.802
Lay Understandings of the Structure of Intimate Partner Violence in Relationships: An Analysis of Behavioral Clustering Patterns.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-01-2022
Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is common and has a lasting negative impact on the health and well-being of victims and survivors. People's mental frameworks (schemas) of IPV are central in allowing them to identify and respond to IPV. Early recognition of IPV is essential to reducing the cumulative harm caused by repeated instances of abusive behaviors. In relationships with IPV, abuse typically starts with relatively less harmful behaviors, which may be ambiguous in isolation, and escalates. The present research examines the content of lay people's IPV schemas to gain insight into their understanding of the presentation and progression of IPV. Participants (
Pizza and Pop and the Student Identity: The Role of Referent Group Norms in Healthy and Unhealthy Eating
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2007
Increased Moral Sensitivity for Outgroup Perpetrators Harming Ingroup Members
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-09-2014
Abstract: From an evolutionary perspective, one should be more sensitive when outgroup members attack the ingroup but less so when ingroup or outgroup members fight among themselves. Indeed, previous behavioral and neuroimaging research demonstrated that people show greater sensitivity for the suffering of ingroup compared with outgroup members. However, the question still remains whether this is always the case regardless of who is the agent causing the harm. To examine the role of agency and group membership in perception of harm, 48 participants were scanned while viewing ingroup or outgroup perpetrators intentionally harming ingroup or outgroup members. Behavioral results showed greater moral sensitivity for ingroup versus outgroup victims, but only when the perpetrator was from the outgroup. In support of this finding, fMRI data showed greater activity in left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) for ingroup victims when they were harmed by outgroup in iduals. In addition, effective connectivity analyses documented an increased coupling between left OFC and left amygdala and insula for ingroup harm, when the perpetrator was from the outgroup. Together these results indicate that we are highly sensitive to harm perpetrated by outgroup members and that increased sensitivity for ingroup victims is dependent on who is the agent of the action.
Does it matter why we do restoration? Volunteers, offset markets and the need for full disclosure
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1111/EMR.12330
Normative influence and rational conflict decisions: Group norms and cost-benefit analyses for intergroup behavior
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2005
Abstract: The present paper articulates a model in which ingroup and outgroup norms inform ‘rational’ decision-making (cost-benefit analysis) for conflict behaviors. Norms influence perceptions of the consequences of the behavior, and in iduals may thus strategically conform to or violate norms in order to acquire benefits and avoid costs. Two studies demonstrate these processes in the context of conflict in Québec. In the first study, Anglophones’ perceptions of Francophone and Anglophone norms for pro-English behaviors predicted evaluations of the benefits and costs of the behaviors, and these cost-benefit evaluations in turn mediated the norm-intention links for both group norms. In the second study, a manipulated focus on supportive versus hostile ingroup and outgroup norms also predicted cost-benefit evaluations, which mediated the norm-intention relationships. The studies support a model of strategic conflict choices in which group norms inform, rather than suppress, rational expectancy-value processes. Implications for theories of decision-making and normative influence are discussed.
Applying the self‐determination theory continuum to unhealthy eating: Consequences on well‐being and behavioral frequency
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12667
Social movements and social transformation: Steps towards understanding the challenges and breakthroughs of social change
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1037/PAC0000309
Identifying (our) donors: Toward a social psychological understanding of charity selection in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-11-2018
DOI: 10.1002/MAR.21150
Teaching and learning guide for intergroup prosociality
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SPC3.12473
Conflicting Norms Highlight the Need for Action
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-09-2014
Abstract: Previous research has not addressed the possibility that people may face conflicting norms of pro-environmental behavior from their multiple in-groups. Across two studies, the authors test competing hypotheses: People may be demotivated by norm conflict, or conversely, norm conflict may motivate people to action. The results of both studies suggest a clearly motivating effect of conflict. Norm conflict was associated with decreased water usage (i.e., increased water conservation) in Study 1, and increased pro-environmental behavior intentions in Study 2. The effects of conflict were partially mediated by perceived effectiveness in Study 2. Although these initial findings indicate that conflict motivates rather than hinders behavioral engagement, future research should investigate whether the nature of the influence of norm conflict depends on factors such as issue importance.
Predictors of adherence to public health behaviors for fighting COVID-19 derived from longitudinal data
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-03-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-021-04703-9
Abstract: The present paper examines longitudinally how subjective perceptions about COVID-19, one’s community, and the government predict adherence to public health measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Using an international survey ( N = 3040), we test how infection risk perception, trust in the governmental response and communications about COVID-19, conspiracy beliefs, social norms on distancing, tightness of culture, and community punishment predict various containment-related attitudes and behavior. Autoregressive analyses indicate that, at the personal level, personal hygiene behavior was predicted by personal infection risk perception. At social level, social distancing behaviors such as abstaining from face-to-face contact were predicted by perceived social norms. Support for behavioral mandates was predicted by confidence in the government and cultural tightness, whereas support for anti-lockdown protests was predicted by (lower) perceived clarity of communication about the virus. Results are discussed in light of policy implications and creating effective interventions.
Uncovering hockey fans' motivations behind their derogatory behaviors and how these motives predict psychological well-being and quality of social identity
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Collective Self-Determination: How the Agent of Help Promotes Pride, Well-Being, and Support for Intergroup Helping
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-03-2017
Abstract: This research integrates self-determination theory and the social identity approach to investigate the notion of collective (group level) self-determination, and to test how the agent of intergroup help (helping initiated by a group representative versus group members) shapes group members’ motives and support for intergroup helping. Study 1 ( N = 432) demonstrates that collective self-determination predicts support for intergroup helping, group pride, and well-being, over and above in idual-level self-determined motivation. Study 2 ( N = 216) confirmed that helping by group members was seen as more collectively self-determined than helping by a group representative, producing effects on pride, well-being, and support. Study 3 ( N = 124) explores a qualifier of these effects: People who identify more strongly with the leader who is providing the help also experience representative helping as more collectively self-determined, thereby promoting well-being, group pride, and support. Findings highlight the value of integrating self-determination theory with intergroup theories to consider collective aspects of self-determination.
A Multidimensional Analysis of Religious Extremism
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 18-11-2019
Energizing and De-Motivating Effects of Norm-Conflict
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-10-2013
Abstract: Norms have a pervasive influence on behavior, yet previous research has not addressed that people often face conflicting norms from multiple ingroups. The current research addresses this gap in the context of proenvironmental behavior and demonstrates two effects predicted by the novel theoretical position we offer: People can be de-motivated by norm-conflict, or conversely, norm-conflict can encourage people to take action. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that norm-conflict is associated with increased perceived effectiveness for those with positive attitudes to the issue and reduced perceived effectiveness for those with moderate attitudes, and effectiveness perceptions mediated an indirect effect on behavioral intentions. Study 3 found that perceived effectiveness also moderates the effects of norm-conflict such that norm-conflict only influences intentions when perceived effectiveness is high. Norm-conflict is both positively and negatively related to behavioral decision making, suggesting additional considerations in the design of social norms-based interventions.
Seven sins when interpreting statistics in sports injury science.
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 20-12-2018
The Champion Effect in Peer-to-Peer Giving: Successful Campaigns Highlight Fundraisers More Than Causes
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-10-2018
Abstract: Online peer-to-peer giving is an emerging charity context that has rarely been investigated. Using a unique combination of survey and behavioral data from 1,647 online peer-to-peer fundraisers (whom we call “ch ions”), we tested empirically the influence of different best practices on fundraising success in this novel giving context. Across two s les, we found the fundraiser’s identification with the cause led them to engage in more best practice actions, which in turn led to greater fundraising success. However, not all actions were equally influential. Actions that made the ch ion salient—namely those relating to solicitation and those that signaled the fundraiser was highly invested in their c aign—were the strongest predictors of fundraising success, together explaining 28 times the variance accounted for by actions signaling charity efficacy. Thus, fundraisers will have more success by ch ioning themselves than by promoting the charity in question: a finding with important applied and theoretical implications.
Testing the direct, indirect, and interactive roles of referent group injunctive and descriptive norms for sun protection in relation to the theory of planned behavior
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-05-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12264
It’s About Time! Identifying and Explaining Unique Trajectories of Solidarity-Based Collective Action to Support People in Developing Countries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01461672211047083
Abstract: Social change occurs over years and decades, yet we know little about how people sustain, increase or diminish their actions over time, and why they do so. This article examines erging trajectories of solidarity-based collective action to support people in developing nations more than 5 years. We suggest that sustained, diminished, and/or increased action over time will be predicted by identification as a supporter, group efficacy beliefs, and discrete emotions about disadvantage. Latent Growth Mixture Models ( N = 483) revealed two trajectories with unique signatures: an activist supporter trajectory with a higher intercept and weakly declining action and a benevolent supporter trajectory with a lower intercept but weakly increasing action. The activist trajectory was predicted by social identification, outrage, and hope, whereas the benevolent supporter trajectory was predicted by sympathy. The results highlight the role of combinations of emotions and the need for person-centered longitudinal methods in collective action research.
Lockdown Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Inter-Relationships Among Feelings of Loneliness, Social Contacts, and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Early 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-08-2021
DOI: 10.1177/01461672211036602
Abstract: We examine how social contacts and feelings of solidarity shape experiences of loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. From the PsyCorona database, we obtained longitudinal data from 23 countries, collected between March and May 2020. The results demonstrated that although online contacts help to reduce feelings of loneliness, people who feel more lonely are less likely to use that strategy. Solidarity played only a small role in shaping feelings of loneliness during lockdown. Thus, it seems we must look beyond the current focus on online contact and solidarity to help people address feelings of loneliness during lockdown. Finally, online contacts did not function as a substitute for face-to-face contacts outside the home—in fact, more frequent online contact in earlier weeks predicted more frequent face-to-face contacts in later weeks. As such, this work provides relevant insights into how in iduals manage the impact of restrictions on their social lives.
Associations of risk perception of COVID-19 with emotion and mental health during the pandemic
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2021
Abstract: Extensive research has identified factors influencing collective-action participation. However, less is known about how collective-action outcomes (i.e., success and failure) shape engagement in social movements over time. Using data collected before and after the 2017 marriage-equality debate in Australia, we conducted a latent profile analysis that indicated that success unified supporters of change ( n = 420), whereas failure created subgroups among opponents ( n = 419), reflecting four ergent responses: disengagement (resigned acceptors), moderate disengagement and continued investment (moderates), and renewed commitment to the cause using similar strategies (stay-the-course opponents) or new strategies (innovators). Resigned acceptors were least inclined to act following failure, whereas innovators were generally more likely to engage in conventional action and justify using radical action relative to the other profiles. These ergent reactions were predicted by differing baseline levels of social identification, group efficacy, and anger. Collective-action outcomes dynamically shape participation in social movements this is an important direction for future research.
Feeling left out? The mediating role of perceived rejection on workgroup mistreatment and affective, behavioral, and organizational outcomes and the moderating role of organizational norms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-02-2013
Acting in Solidarity: Cross-Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOSI.12168
The Activist Identity and Activism across Domains: A Multiple Identities Analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOSI.12165
Social norms, social identities and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-04-2021
DOI: 10.1111/SPC3.12596
The Impact of Unpunished Hate Crimes: When Derogating the Victim Extends into Derogating the Group
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-05-2016
We Usually Give Like This: Social Norms Describe Typical Charitable Causes Supported by Group Members
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/08997640231160467
Abstract: Millions of nonprofits compete for a share of the billions of dollars donated to charity each year. Yet how donors select which charities to support remains relatively understudied. Social norms influence whether people give to charity at all, but no research has yet considered whether norms also communicate information about which causes group members typically support. To address this important question, we surveyed 1,735 people from 117 countries to understand whether they identified normative causes typically supported by their social groups. We found different normative giving profiles for men, women, older people, younger people, conservatives, progressives, religious, and nonreligious people, with varying degrees of consensus within each social group. Results demonstrate empirically—and for the first time—that social identities contain normative content about which charitable causes group members typically support. Some causes were relatively universally approved of or avoided. Results can inform nonprofit fundraising strategy around segmentation and targeting.
Identifying Nonphysical Intimate Partner Violence in Relationships: The Role of Beliefs and Schemas
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2020
Abstract: While substantial research has been conducted on intimate partner violence (IPV), comparatively little research has examined peoples’ perceptions of which behaviors comprise this form of abuse. Early identification of IPV is critical to ending abuse, however, forms of IPV that typically occur earlier in a relationship (e.g., nonphysical abuse) may not be core components of peoples’ mental frameworks (schemas) of IPV and may therefore be less commonly identified as abusive. To explore this, in Study 1 participants from an Australian University ( N = 86) separately described the relationships with IPV and nonphysical IPV. Analyses identified control, power imbalance, stereotypical gender dynamics (male perpetrator, female victim), physical abuse, and having a low socioeconomic status abuser as common components of participants’ IPV schema when not prompted with type of abuse. However, participants largely failed to describe nonphysical IPV behaviors, suggesting limited awareness of the specific behaviors that constitute abuse. To explore this in Study 2, participants from an Australian University ( N = 305) were asked to categorize a range of specific behaviors (including physically abusive, nonphysically abusive, and nonabusive behaviors) as definitely, maybe, or never abusive. Drawing on the known positive association between gender and romantic beliefs with the experience of abuse, we also assessed the relationship of identification of IPV behaviors to these beliefs. Moderated multilevel modeling showed that nonphysical IPV behaviors were generally perceived as less abusive than physical IPV behaviors. In addition, stronger endorsement of romantic jealousy was associated with evaluating nonphysical IPV as less abusive. However, romantic jealousy beliefs were not significantly associated with the perceived abusiveness of physical IPV behaviors. Findings support the conclusion that in iduals’ IPV schemas contribute to a failure to identify nonphysical IPV behaviors as abusive, and this is particularly true for people who more strongly endorse romantic jealousy.
An Extended Commentary on Post-Publication Peer Review In Organizational Neuroscience
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 03-10-2018
Abstract: Note: this manuscript has been peer reviewed and is published in Meta-Psychology. Please cite as: Prochilo, G. A., Louis, W. R., Bode, S., Zacher, H., & Molenberghs, P. (2019). An Extended Commentary on Post-publication Peer Review in Organizational Neuroscience. Meta-Psychology, 3. 0.15626/MP.2018.935 | While considerable progress has been made in organizational neuroscience over the past decade, we argue that critical evaluations of published empirical works are not being conducted carefully and consistently. In this extended commentary we take as an ex le Waldman and colleagues (2017): a major review work that evaluates the state-of-the-art of organizational neuroscience. In what should be an evaluation of the field’s empirical work, the authors uncritically summarize a series of studies that: (1) provide insufficient transparency to be clearly understood, evaluated, or replicated, and/or (2) which misuse inferential tests that lead to misleading conclusions, among other concerns. These concerns have been ignored across multiple major reviews and citing articles. We therefore provide a post-publication review (in two parts) of one-third of all studies evaluated in Waldman and colleague’s major review work. In Part I, we systematically evaluate the field’s two seminal works with respect to their methods, analytic strategy, results, and interpretation of findings. And in Part II, we provide focused reviews of secondary works that each center on a specific concern we suggest should be a point of discussion as the field moves forward. In doing so, we identify a series of practices we recommend will improve the state of the literature. This includes: (1) evaluating the transparency and completeness of an empirical article before accepting its claims, (2) becoming familiar with common misuses or misconceptions of statistical testing, and (3) interpreting results with an explicit reference to effect size magnitude, precision, and accuracy, among other recommendations. We suggest that adopting these practices will motivate the development of a more replicable, reliable, and trustworthy field of organizational neuroscience moving forward.
Social interaction and psychological pathways to political engagement and extremism
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-10-2014
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.1988
COVID-19 stressors and health behaviors: A multilevel longitudinal study across 86 countries
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Peace and conflict as group norms
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 05-2014
DOI: 10.1037/PAC0000018
Using machine learning to identify important predictors of COVID-19 infection prevention behaviors during the early phase of the pandemic
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Terrorism, Identity, and Conflict Management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2009
What makes stakeholder engagement in social licence “meaningful”? Practitioners’ conceptualisations of dialogue
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
The power of norms to sway fused group members
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001644
Abstract: Whitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.
Insights from fMRI studies into ingroup bias
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 10-2018
Atoning for Colonial Injustices: Group-Based Shame and Guilt Motivate Support for Reparation
Publisher: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4119/IJCV-2816
Mobilising Men: Ally Identities and Collective Action in Japan and the Philippines
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1017/PRP.2018.30
Abstract: Men have an important role as allies in reducing discrimination against women. Following the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA), we examined whether men's identification with women would predict their allied collective action, alongside moral convictions, efficacy, and anger. We also examined whether identification with their own ingroup would decrease their willingness to improve women's situation. We tested the SIMCA, extended to consider ingroup identification among men, in Japan ( N = 103) and the Philippines ( N = 131). Consistent with the SIMCA, moral convictions and group efficacy predicted men's willingness to engage in collective action to fight discrimination against women. However, anger was not significant, and identification with the advantaged and disadvantaged groups played different roles in the two countries. We discuss the possible role of norms and legitimacy in society in explaining the pattern of results.
Peace Interventions Tailored to Phases Within a Cycle of Intergroup Violence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 21-11-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199747672.013.0015
Abstract: This chapter discusses intervention strategies for intrastate violence with emphasis on preventing and mitigating cycles of organized violence. We distinguish three phases of a cycle of violence (intergroup conflict, organized violence, and postviolence), discuss characteristics of each phase, and suggest peace intervention strategies that are particularly well suited for each phase. When discussing the limitations of our perspective and future research directions, we point to the narrow focus of research and practice on peace interventions aimed at promoting the absence of organized violence (i.e., negative peace) without concomitant efforts to promote social justice (i.e., positive peace) and sustainable development. We maintain that durable forms of peace require the application of both negative and positive peace interventions.
Teaching psychology in Australia: Does class attendance matter for performance?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1111/AJPY.12088
Right-wing authoritarianism, fundamentalism and prejudice revisited: Removing suppression and statistical artefact
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2009
From passive acceptance to social disruption: Towards an understanding of behavioural responses to discrimination
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 1999
DOI: 10.1037/H0087070
Understanding the September 11 Terrorist Attack on America: The Role of Intergroup Theories of Normative Influence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2002
Social justice and psychology: What is, and what should be.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2014
DOI: 10.1037/A0033033
The buffering role of social norms for unhealthy eating before, during, and after the Christmas holidays: A longitudinal study.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 06-2023
DOI: 10.1037/GDN0000179
Only human: Hostile human norms can reduce legitimization of intergroup discrimination by perpetrators of historical atrocities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2010
Crowd Behaviour and Collective Action
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Culture meets collective action: Exciting synergies and some lessons to learn for the future
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2017
Abstract: In this introduction to the special issue of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations on “Culture and Collective Action” we emphasize the importance of the special issue topic for the development of the field. Specifically, we highlight the globalization of collective action and the internationalization of the social-psychological study of collective action, both of which point to culture as a missing link for this field. We thus propose that the next step is to move toward a proper cultural psychology of collective action—a social psychology in which culture is an integral part. This special issue provides a first step toward such a broad and integrative psychological understanding of collective action, but comes with promises as well as problems. We discuss both the exciting synergies and some lessons to learn for the future, and conclude that a focus on culture will facilitate the development of the rich and fascinating field of the social psychology of collective action.
Revisiting the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia: Civilians and Their Untold Memories
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-03-2022
DOI: 10.1177/18681034221084320
Abstract: This paper examines the recollections of civilians about the May 1998 riots in Indonesia, as told in an anonymous online survey. These riots caused the deaths of an estimated 1000 people and saw targeted attacks on Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community, including state-led mass sexual violence against Chinese-Indonesian women and girls. Despite their scale, there has never been any official redress for these riots and they remain a taboo topic in Indonesia, rarely discussed publicly. Little is known about how Indonesians remember these events, with research into the personal or collective memories about the riots challenging, given the public silencing by the government. Here, we present findings from an anonymous survey completed by 235 Indonesians in which they revealed sometimes deeply personal memories about the riots. Examined thematically, these memories both confirm general understandings of the riots and reveal novel information about how communities coped during the violence.
The Volatility of Collective Action
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2020
DOI: 10.1111/POPS.12671
Predicting Facebook Users’ Online Privacy Protection: Risk, Trust, Norm Focus Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-06-2014
DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2014.914881
Abstract: The present research adopts an extended theory of the planned behavior model that included descriptive norms, risk, and trust to investigate online privacy protection in Facebook users. Facebook users (N = 119) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitude, subjective injunctive norm, subjective descriptive norm, perceived behavioral control, implicit perceived risk, trust of other Facebook users, and intentions toward protecting their privacy online. Behavior was measured indirectly 2 weeks after the study. The data show partial support for the theory of planned behavior and strong support for the independence of subjective injunctive and descriptive norms. Risk also uniquely predicted intentions over and above the theory of planned behavior, but there were no unique effects of trust on intentions, nor of risk or trust on behavior. Implications are discussed.
Interaction Effects in the Theory of Planned Behavior: The Interplay of Self‐Identity and Past Behavior
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-10-2007
The Chilean Transition: Achievements, Shortcomings, and Consequences for the Current Democracy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Congruent or conflicted? The impact of injunctive and descriptive norms on environmental intentions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
Personal values about change and status quo influence outsiders' appraisals of intergroup conflict
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 10-12-2016
Abstract: In three studies, we build on Schwartz’s (1992, 1994) work on universal values to explore the content and structure of in iduals’ change and status quo values, to distinguish these values from other political ideologies and orientations, and to investigate the role of these values in shaping appraisals of intergroup conflict and collective action. In Study 1, we investigated the themes that underpin beliefs about change and the status quo. In Study 2, we created and validated separate measures to assess endorsement of change and status quo values, and show that they are distinct from related ideologies such as Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism. Study 3 demonstrated that change values—but not status quo values—influence the contextual appraisals that outsiders make when they encounter a hypothetical group conflict for the first time. Endorsing change leads to appraisals of the conflict that are supportive of a low-status citizen protestor group, and increases collective action intentions on behalf of this group. In addition, endorsing change leads to appraisals that are not supportive of a high-status government group in conflict, and decreases collective action intentions on behalf of this group.
When and how does normative feedback reduce intentions to drink irresponsibly? an experimental investigation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2018
Social norms, social identities and the COVID-19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 12-03-2021
Abstract: Sustained mass behaviour change is needed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, but many of the required changes run contrary to existing social norms (e.g., physical closeness with ingroup members). This paper explains how social norms and social identities are critical to explaining and changing public behaviour. Recommendations are presented for how to harness these social processes to maximise adherence to COVID-19 public health guidance. Specifically, we recommend that public health messages clearly define who the target group is, are framed as identity-affirming rather than identity-contradictory, include complementary injunctive and descriptive social norm information, are delivered by ingroup members and that support is provided to enable the public to perform the requested behaviours.
Rights and Duties as Group Norms: Implications of Intergroup Research for the Study of Rights and Responsibilities.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/10872-005
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/19485506211037296
Abstract: Most social movements will encounter setbacks in their pursuit of sociopolitical change. However, little is known about how movements are affected after protestors fail to achieve their aims. What are the effects of failure on subsequent engagement in various conventional and radical actions? Does failure promote ergent reactions among protestors and/or dissatisfaction with democracy? A meta-analysis of nine experiments ( N = 1,663) assessed the effects of one-off failure on protestors’ reactions, subsequent tactical choices, and support for democracy and iterative stochastic simulations modeled the effects of failure over multiple protests over time. Results indicated that initial failure gives rise to ergent, somewhat contradictory responses among protestors and that these responses are further influenced by the repeated failure (vs. success) over time. Further, the simulations identified “tipping points” in these responses that promote radicalization and undermine support for democracy.
Speaking Out on Immigration Policy in Australia: Identity Threat and the Interplay of Own Opinion and Public Opinion
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2010
If they’re not crazy, then what? The implications of social psychological approaches to terrorism for conflict management
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 18-06-2009
You did, so you can and you will: Self-efficacy as a mediator of spillover from easy to more difficult pro-environmental behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Resources that Help Sustain Environmental Volunteer Activist Leaders
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11266-023-00561-3
Abstract: Environmental activism organizations depend on recruiting and retaining in iduals willing to engage in leadership tasks on a voluntary basis. This study examined the resources which help or hinder sustained environmental volunteer activist leadership behaviors. Interviews with 21 environmental volunteer activist leaders were analyzed within a Resource Mobilization Theory framework. While six resources supporting sustained engagement in volunteer activist leadership behaviors were identified, only three were sought by all participants: time, community support, and social relationships. Money, volunteers and network connections were considered valuable resources, however their acquisition generated significant additional administrative burdens. Social relationships sustained volunteer activist leaders through fostering feelings of positive emotions connected with the group. We conclude with suggestions for organizations seeking to increase retention of activist volunteer leaders: namely larger organizations sharing their resources to reduce administrative demands on volunteer activist leaders in smaller organizations developing movement infrastructure groups to build and sustain networks and the prioritization of positive relationships within volunteer teams.
Nationality Versus Humanity? Personality, Identity, and Norms in Relation to Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers1
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-02-2008
The Characteristics, Activities and Goals of Environmental Organizations Engaged in Advocacy Within the Australian Environmental Movement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-12-2020
Attitudes Toward and Experience With Assisted-Death Services and Psychological Implications for Health Practitioners: A Narrative Systematic Review
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00302228221138997
Abstract: A narrative systematic review was conducted to review studies that examine mental health implications of involvement in assisted-death services among health practitioners. Qualitative and quantitative studies were included to understand health practitioners' attitudes and experiences with assisted dying services, as well as to identify the mental health consequences. We identified 18 articles from 1591 articles drawn from seven major scientific databases (i.e., PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus). Two raters independently evaluated the exclusion and inclusion decisions of the articles and examined methodological flaws in the selected articles. We found that engagement in assisted death services were not reliably associated with mental health outcomes such as anxiety and moral distress. Both positive and negative outcomes were reported, and psychological outcomes for practitioners were shown to vary based on factors including social support for health practitioners' views their perceived capacity to care for the patients and legislation.
Rage donations and mobilization
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-02-2022
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12522
Abstract: Advocacy is intended to change people's attitudes and behavior. Yet the psychological and behavioral consequences of advocacy have rarely been considered. Across 3 experiments (combined N = 934) in the contexts of debates around racial discrimination and abortion, we investigated if and how exposure to advocacy can influence collective giving responses: self‐reported willingness to make donations congruent with one's beliefs on the issue and actual giving behavior. Reading tweets from one's own side of a contentious debate sometimes indirectly mobilized collective giving responses by enhancing perceptions of efficacy and ensuring people empathized and identified with highlighted victim groups. Simultaneously, however, supporting advocacy sometimes inadvertently suppressed action by reducing anger and perceived injustice. Results therefore show that advocacy can simultaneously mobilize and demobilize support. However, effects were not found consistently across contexts and donation measures. Overall, mobilization pathways were stronger, especially on donation behavior and in the context of the abortion debate. Results suggest advocacy can work broadly as intended: by influencing the attitudes and behaviors of audience members. Online advocacy exposure in social media echo chambers may therefore be contributing to political polarization. Finally, results also demonstrate that charitable giving can be a form of collective action.
Are They Terrorist Sympathizers or do They Just Disagree with the War on Terror? A Comment on Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-08-2012
Personal/group discrimination discrepancy: Towards a two-factor explanation.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 07-1996
Terrorism and the quest for identity.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/10621-008
Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-04-2021
Abstract: Cross-societal differences in cooperation and trust among strangers in the provision of public goods may be key to understanding how societies are managing the COVID-19 pandemic. We report a survey conducted across 41 societies between March and May 2020 ( N = 34,526), and test pre-registered hypotheses about how cross-societal differences in cooperation and trust relate to prosocial COVID-19 responses (e.g., social distancing), stringency of policies, and support for behavioral regulations (e.g., mandatory quarantine). We further tested whether cross-societal variation in institutions and ecologies theorized to impact cooperation were associated with prosocial COVID-19 responses, including institutional quality, religiosity, and historical prevalence of pathogens. We found substantial variation across societies in prosocial COVID-19 responses, stringency of policies, and support for behavioral regulations. However, we found no consistent evidence to support the idea that cross-societal variation in cooperation and trust among strangers is associated with these outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These results were replicated with another independent cross-cultural COVID-19 dataset ( N = 112,136), and in both snowball and representative s les. We discuss implications of our results, including challenging the assumption that managing the COVID-19 pandemic across societies is best modeled as a public goods dilemma.
Group Norms and the Attitude-Behaviour Relationship
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2009
Using individual householder survey responses to predict household environmental outcomes: The cases of recycling and water conservation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Vegetarian, vegan, activist, radical: Using latent profile analysis to examine different forms of support for animal welfare
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2019
Abstract: There are many different ways that people can express their support for the animals that exist in factory farms. This study draws on insights from the social identity approach, and adopts novel methods (latent profile analysis [LPA]) to examine the qualitatively different subgroups or profiles that comprise broader community positions on this issue. North American participants ( N = 578) completed measures of the frequency with which they engaged in 18 different animal welfare actions. LPA identified 3 meaningful profiles: ambivalent omnivores ( n = 410 people who occasionally limited their consumption of meat/animal products), a lifestyle activist group ( n = 134 limited their consumption of animal/meat products and engaged in political actions), and a vegetarian radical group ( n = 34 strictly limited their consumption of animal/meat products and engaged in both political and radical actions). Membership of the 3 populations was predicted by different balances of social identities (supporter of animal welfare, vegan/vegetarian, solidarity with animals), and markers of politicization and/or radicalization. Results reveal the utility of adopting person-centred methods to study political engagement and extremism generally, and highlight heterogeneity in the ways that people respond to the harms perpetrated against animals.
MOBILISE: A Higher-Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-03-2022
DOI: 10.1111/POPS.12811
Abstract: The past decade has witnessed rapid growth in popular protest, alongside an upsurge in research on collective action. The proliferation of research has been both productive and fragmenting: We have an excellent understanding of the many factors that shape participation in collective action, but we lack a framework that explains how these factors fit together. The Model of Belonging, In idual differences, Life experience and Interaction Sustaining Engagement (MOBILISE) addresses this gap to explain when, why, how, and for whom, collective action manifests. MOBILISE suggests that participation in collective action is shaped by in idual differences (micro) and life experiences which, separately and in combination, lead to the formation of a group consciousness (meso) via the collectivization of grievance. Group consciousness is, in turn, the proximal predictor of collective action. Collective action itself has outcomes for people (dis/empowerment) and societies. These micro and meso processes occur in the context of macro societal factors relating to the cultural, political, and economic environment. MOBILISE highlights the transformational role of interaction in explaining the global reach and rapidity with which popular movements can form.
Rejected! Cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety as mediators of the impact of cross‐group friendships on prejudice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
Why do citizens want to keep refugees out? Threats, fairness and hostile norms in the treatment of asylum seekers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.329
Supportive contact and LGBT collective action: The moderating role of membership in specific groups
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2017
DOI: 10.1037/PAC0000240
Reflections on the Statistical Analysis of Personality and Norms in War, Peace, and Prejudice: Are Deviant Minorities the Problem?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2003
Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-12-2020
Conflicting social norms and community conservation compliance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Social trust, risk perceptions and public acceptance of recycled water: Testing a social-psychological model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2014.01.039
Abstract: Faced with a severe drought, the residents of the regional city of Toowoomba, in South East Queensland, Australia were asked to consider a potable wastewater reuse scheme to supplement drinking water supplies. As public risk perceptions and trust have been shown to be key factors in acceptance of potable reuse projects, this research developed and tested a social-psychological model of trust, risk perceptions and acceptance. Participants (N = 380) were surveyed a few weeks before a referendum was held in which residents voted against the controversial scheme. Analysis using structural equation modelling showed that the more community members perceived that the water authority used fair procedures (e.g., consulting with the community and providing accurate information), the greater their sense of shared identity with the water authority. Shared social identity in turn influenced trust via increased source credibility, that is, perceptions that the water authority is competent and has the community's interest at heart. The findings also support past research showing that higher levels of trust in the water authority were associated with lower perceptions of risk, which in turn were associated with higher levels of acceptance, and vice versa. The findings have a practical application for improving public acceptance of potable recycled water schemes.
How negative descriptive norms for healthy eating undermine the effects of positive injunctive norms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-01-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12223
Correction: Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 21-01-2022
Why do people engage in collective action? Revisiting the role of perceived effectiveness
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2006
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship in Consumer Conduct: The Role of Norms, Past Behavior, and Self-Identity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Cost-benefit analyses for your group and yourself: The rationality of decision-making in conflict
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-2004
DOI: 10.1108/EB022909
Abstract: Two studies in the context of English‐French relations in Québec suggest that in iduals who strongly identify with a group derive the in idual‐level costs and benefits that drive expectancy‐value processes (rational decision‐making) from group‐level costs and benefits. In Study 1, high identifiers linked group‐ and in idual‐level outcomes of conflict choices whereas low identifiers did not. Group‐level expectancy‐value processes, in Study 2, mediated the relationship between social identity and perceptions that collective action benefits the in idual actor and between social identity and intentions to act. These findings suggest the rational underpinnings of identity‐driven political behavior, a relationship sometimes obscured in intergroup theory that focuses on cognitive processes of self‐stereotyping. But the results also challenge the view that in iduals' cost‐benefit analyses are independent of identity processes. The findings suggest the importance of modeling the relationship of group and in idual levels of expectancy‐value processes as both hierarchical and contingent on social identity processes.
A systematic review of the outcomes of sustained environmental collective action
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
It's habit, not toxicity, driving hours spent in DOTA 2
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Religious norms, norm conflict, and religious identification.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 05-2023
DOI: 10.1037/REL0000428
The pathway to accepting derogatory ingroup norms: The roles of compartmentalization and legitimacy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Religion, Prejudice, and Authoritarianism: Is RWA a Boon or Bane to the Psychology of Religion?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2011
Loss of control stimulates approach motivation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
The Role of Religious Fundamentalism in the Intersection of National and Religious Identities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1017/PRP.2018.25
Abstract: Indonesia has seen recent expansions of fundamentalist movements mobilising members in support a change to the current constitution. Against this background, two studies were conducted. In Study 1, we explored the intersection of religious and national identity among Indonesian Muslims quantitatively, and in Study 2, we qualitatively examined religious and national identification among members of moderate and fundamentalist religious organisations. Specifically, Study 1 ( N = 178) assessed whether the association of religious and national identity was moderated by religious fundamentalism. Results showed that strength of religious identification was positively associated with strength of national identification for both those high and low in fundamentalism. Using structured interviews and focus group discussions, Study 2 ( N = 35) examined the way that self-alignment with religious and national groups develops among activists of religious movements in Indonesia. We found that while more fundamentalist activists attached greater importance to their religious identity than to any other identity (e.g., national and ethnic), more moderate activists represented their religious and national identities as more integrated and compatible. We conclude that for Indonesian Muslims higher in religious fundamentalism, religious and national identities appear to be less integrated and this is consequential for the way in which collective agendas are pursued.
Loss of Control Increases Belief in Precognition and Belief in Precognition Increases Control
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 07-08-2013
Cultural background and individualistic-collectivistic values in relation to similarity, perspective taking, and empathy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2009
What it Means to be American: Identity Inclusiveness/Exclusiveness and Support for Policies About Muslims among U.S.‐born Whites
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-10-2018
DOI: 10.1111/ASAP.12167
Abstract: Americans’ support for policies targeting Muslims was hotly debated during the 2016 presidential c aign. This study of U.S.‐born White Americans seeks to move beyond explanations of this political polarization as a matter of liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republicans by focusing on the content of the superordinate American identity, in terms of how inclusive versus exclusive it is. In line with the ingroup projection model, we expected that a more inclusive representation of the American identity would be related to support for more welcoming (rather than hostile) policies about Muslim people. White Americans ( N = 237) were recruited online during the 2016 U.S. presidential c aign (June 2016). Results supported our hypothesis and showed the independent associations of identity inclusiveness and exclusiveness with policy support. This study makes three important contributions to a growing literature on the relation between national identity representations and hostility toward immigrants and minorities: (1) directly and independently measuring inclusive and exclusive representations of the superordinate identity, alongside national identity, party affiliation, and political ideology (2) focusing on Muslims, an understudied group targeted by a great deal of isive political rhetoric in the 2016 c aign and (3) considering policy support rather than general attitudes.
Awareness of Common Humanity Reduces Empathy and Heightens Expectations of Forgiveness for Temporally Distant Wrongdoing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
Abstract: The present research identified why and under what conditions perpetrator groups expect forgiveness from victims when focused on common humanity. In Experiment 1 ( N = 41), thinking about victims as fellow humans increased expectations of forgiveness among perpetrator group members. Experiment 2 ( N = 74) revealed the important role of subjective temporal distance in qualifying the effect of appealing to common humanity. Forgiveness expectations increased when a transgression was perceived as temporally distant rather than close. Experiment 3 ( N = 70) found that expecting forgiveness was associated negatively with remorse for wrongdoing and revealed reduced empathy for victims as a mediator of the effect. Taken together, the findings reveal that factors shown to encourage forgiveness among victims can also create corresponding expectations among perpetrators. Unfortunately, this process is more likely to damage than repair intergroup relations.
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2022
Emerging research on intergroup prosociality: Group members' charitable giving, positive contact, allyship, and solidarity with others
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-02-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SPC3.12436
Conformity to descriptive norms
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Collective harmdoing: Developing the perspective of the perpetrator
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2015
DOI: 10.1037/PAC0000112
Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-05-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-021-88314-4
Abstract: This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative s les were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. In idual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support—and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified—both positive.
Promoting Spillover: How Past Behaviors Increase Environmental Intentions by Cueing Self-Perceptions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-11-2019
Abstract: Behavioral spillover theory has potential for promoting meaningful behavior change. Spillover occurs when engagement in environmental behaviors affects the adoption of other environmental behaviors. By testing a new experimental model of spillover, this article is the first to concurrently investigate three predicted mechanisms of spillover—self-identity, self-efficacy, and contribution ethic—on different types of environmental behavior. The experimental spillover model examined how triggering self-perceptions (i.e., self-identity, self-efficacy, and contribution ethic) may influence the likelihood of spillover to occur from engagement in household behaviors to intentions for other environmental behaviors. Triggering self-identity was associated with increased private- and public-sphere intentions. Contrary to expectations, contribution ethic was not associated with decreased intentions, and instead was associated with increased public-sphere intentions. Self-efficacy did not uniquely influence intentions. These findings demonstrate that everyday behaviors can provide an “entry point” for other behaviors, strengthening self-perceptions and generating positive spillover.
A co-designed tool to gather data from students with disability about their experiences in tertiary education: Insights from Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13582291231162217
Abstract: A small internal investigation by the University of Queensland (UQ) Union Disability Collective resulted in a student-led project supported by academics across three Australian universities. The project seeks to gain new insights into the experience of students with disabilities studying at Australian universities. Universities conduct disability surveys from time to time, but these tend to be forgotten as time passes and priorities change. This project involved the co-design and development of a survey, using qualitative and quantitative questions, to investigate students’ experiences, including of barriers to education and participation in the Australian tertiary (or post-secondary) sector. This is planned to be the first of several research projects to transparently and accountably track issues faced by disabled tertiary students, and what is working to improve education outcomes and reduce discrimination. The survey has been piloted with UQ students with a view to roll it out to other universities. This paper focuses on the survey instrument and describes the project’s formation and development. It also identifies challenges that have arisen in the process and future directions.
Introduction to the Australian Psychologist special section on Poverty and Poverty Reduction INTRODUCTION
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-02-2010
Can harmful intergroup behaviors truly represent the self?: The impact of harmful and prosocial normative behaviors on intra-individual conflict and compartmentalization
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-03-2017
Conceptualising the role of dialogue in social licence to operate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
The Effects of Exclusion and Reintegration on the Evaluation of Deviant Opinion Holders
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-10-2009
Abstract: It seems likely that treatment of deviants within a group will be determined not just by the nature of their deviance but also by the history of their treatment. In two experiments, participants read cases in which group members advocated for change in a way that was non-normative for the group and were marginalized as a result. Participants were further informed that either the deviant was psychologically reintegrated or remained marginalized. Results showed that when deviants were reintegrated group members were more negative toward the deviant the more they identified with the group. Where the deviant remained excluded, this effect either disappeared or reversed. These effects were mediated by participants’ perceptions of the destructiveness of the deviant’s message, suggesting that ongoing exclusion can defuse threat. Reintegration into the group can have ironic costs in a person’s ability to communicate a deviant opinion successfully.
The effect of images on community engagement with sustainable stormwater management: The role of integral disgust and sadness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Bias against foreign-born or foreign-trained doctors: Experimental evidence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-11-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2923.2010.03769.X
Abstract: Bias against foreign-born or -trained medical students and doctors is not well understood, despite its documented impact on recruitment, integration and retention. This research experimentally examines the interaction of location of medical education and nationality in evaluations of doctors' competence and trustworthiness. A convenience s le of prospective patients evaluated fictitious candidates for a position as a doctor in community practice at a new local health clinic. All applicants were described as having the same personality profile, legal qualifications to practise, a multi-degree education and relevant work experience. The location of medical education (the candidate's home country or the UK) and national background (Australia or Pakistan) of the applicants were independently experimentally manipulated. Consistent with previous research on skills discounting and bias, foreign-born candidates were evaluated less favourably than native-born candidates, despite their comparable education level, work experience and personality. However, overseas medical education obtained in the First World both boosted evaluations (of competence and trustworthiness) and attenuated bias based on nationality. The present findings demonstrate the selective discounting of foreign-born doctors' credentials. The data show an interaction of location of medical education and birth nationality in bias against foreign doctors. On an applied level, the data document that the benefits of medical education obtained in the First World can extend beyond its direct outcomes (high-quality training and institutional recognition) to the indirect benefit of the attenuation of patient bias based on nationality.
Measures of Coping for Psychological Well-Being
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Theory of planned behaviour, identity and intentions to engage in environmental activism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2008
Understanding the Outcomes of Climate Change Campaigns in the Australian Environmental Movement
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 31-12-2019
Abstract: Climate change is a global problem requiring a collective response. Grassroots advocacy has been an important element in propelling this collective response, often through the mechanism of c aigns. However, it is not clear whether the climate change c aigns organized by the environmental advocacy groups are successful in achieving their goals, nor the degree to which other benefits may accrue to groups who run them. To investigate this further, we report a case study of the Australian climate change advocacy sector. Three methods were used to gather data to inform this case study: content analysis of climate change organizations’ websites, analysis of website text relating to c aign outcomes, and interviews with climate change c aigners. Findings demonstrate that climate change advocacy is erse and achieving substantial successes such as the development of climate change-related legislation and estment commitments from a range of organizations. The data also highlights additional benefits of c aigning such as gaining access to political power and increasing groups’ financial and volunteer resources. The successful outcomes of c aigns were influenced by the ability of groups to sustain strong personal support networks, use skills and resources available across the wider environmental advocacy network, and form consensus around shared strategic values. Communicating the successes of climate change advocacy could help mobilize collective action to address climate change. As such, this case study of the Australian climate change movement is relevant for both academics focusing on social movements and collective action and advocacy-focused practitioners, philanthropists, and non-governmental organizations.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Outsiders' Responses to an External Group Conflict: Implications for Identification, Anger, and Collective Action
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-09-2015
DOI: 10.1111/ASAP.12081
Doing democracy: The social psychological mobilization and consequences of collective action
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2013
When Will Collective Action Be Effective? Violent and Non-Violent Protests Differentially Influence Perceptions of Legitimacy and Efficacy Among Sympathizers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-12-2014
Abstract: Collective action will be effective in achieving broader social change goals to the extent that it influences public opinion yet the degree to which collective action “works” in changing opinion is rarely studied. Experiment 1 ( n = 158) showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue and the efficacy of the group, thereby promoting support for future non-violent actions. Experiment 2 ( n = 139) explored the moderating role of allegations of corruption. A social context of corruption effectively undermined the efficacy and legitimacy of non-violent collective action, relative to support for violence, thereby promoting (indirectly) support for future extreme action. The implications of this research, for the logic of strategic non-violence and mobilizing supportive public opinion, are discussed.
The influence of group membership and individual differences in psychopathy and perspective taking on neural responses when punishing and rewarding others
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2014
DOI: 10.1002/HBM.22527
Abstract: Understanding how neural processes involved in punishing and rewarding others are altered by group membership and personality traits is critical in order to gain a better understanding of how socially important phenomena such as racial and group biases develop. Participants in an fMRI study ( n = 48) gave rewards (money) or punishments (electroshocks) to in‐group or out‐group members. The results show that when participants rewarded others, greater activation was found in regions typically associated with receiving rewards such as the striatum and medial orbitofrontal cortex, bilaterally. Activation in those regions increased when participants rewarded in‐group compared to out‐group members. Punishment led to increased activation in regions typically associated with Theory of Mind including the medial prefrontal cortex and posterior superior temporal sulcus, as well as regions typically associated with perceiving others in pain such as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula and lateral orbitofrontal cortex. Interestingly, in contrast to the findings regarding reward, activity in these regions was not moderated by whether the target of the punishment was an in‐ or out‐group member. Additional regression analysis revealed that participants who have low perspective taking skills and higher levels of psychopathy showed less activation in the brain regions identified when punishing others, especially when they were out‐group members. In sum, when an in idual is personally responsible for delivering rewards and punishments to others, in‐group bias is stronger for reward allocation than punishments, marking the first neuroscientific evidence of this dissociation. Hum Brain Mapp 35:4989–4999, 2014 . © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc .
Autonomous Motives Foster Sustained Commitment to Action: Integrating Self-Determination Theory and the Social Identity Approach
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-01-2023
DOI: 10.1177/01461672221148396
Abstract: Social change movements may take years or decades to achieve their goals and thus require ongoing efforts from their supporters. We apply the insights of self-determination theory to examine sustained collective action over time. We expected that autonomous motivation, but not controlled motivation, would predict sustained action. We also examine whether autonomous motivation shapes and is shaped by social identification as a supporter of the cause. Longitudinal data were collected from supporters of global poverty reduction ( N = 263) at two timepoints 1 year apart. Using latent change score modeling, we found that increases in autonomous motivation positively predicted increases in opinion-based group identification, which in turn predicted increases in self-reported collective action. Controlled motivation (Time 1) negatively predicted changes in action. We concluded that autonomous motivation predicts sustained action over time, while promoting controlled motives for action may backfire because it may undermine identification with the cause.
The Psychology of Effective Activism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 15-07-2021
Abstract: This Element reviews the social psychology of effective collective action, highlighting the importance of considering activists' goals, timeframes, and psychological perspectives in seeking to conceptualise this construct. A novel framework 'ABIASCA' maps effectiveness in relation to activists' goals for mobilisation and change (Awareness raising Building sympathy turning sympathy into Intentions turning intentions into Actions Sustaining groups over time Coalition-building and Avoiding opponents' counter-mobilisation). We also review the DIME model of Disidentification, Innovation, Moralization and Energization, which examines the effects of failure in creating trajectories of activists' disidentification from collective action innovation (including to radicalisation or deradicalisation) and increased moral conviction and energy. The social psychological drivers of effective collective action for four audiences are examined in detail, in four sections: for the self and supporters, bystanders, opponents, and for third parties. We conclude by highlighting an agenda for future research, and drawing out key messages for scholars.
The moderating role of different forms of empathy on the association between performing animal euthanasia and career sustainability
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-06-2023
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.13000
Abstract: Veterinarian work may take an emotional toll on practitioners and their mental health, potentially driving premature exit from the profession. Performing animal euthanasia is frequently identified as a potential risk factor for sustainable mental health. Yet, research has demonstrated mixed results between euthanasia performance and detrimental mental health outcomes, suggesting the potential for factors that moderate this association. In this three‐wave longitudinal survey study, including 110 currently practicing veterinarians (88% female), we examined whether the type of empathy experienced by these practitioners plays a role in the association between performing animal euthanasia and career sustainability. Two types of empathy, cognitive empathy (i.e., understanding the affective experience of another) and emotional empathy (i.e., experiencing another's emotional state) were assessed. Job disengagement at 12 months was predicted by the interaction between animal euthanasia frequency in the past 12 months and emotional empathy in the past 6 or 12 months. Perceived resilience at 12 months was predicted by the interaction between animal euthanasia frequency in the past 12 months and emotional empathy a year prior. For these outcomes, the effects of performing animal euthanasia on career sustainability were moderated by emotional empathy. Higher levels of emotional empathy were associated with worse outcomes. Veterinarians may seek to understand the affective experience of the client or patient and provide compassionate care in a sustainable way. However, they should do so while avoiding the costs of emotional empathy. This work has implications for veterinarian training to support career sustainability.
Power, participation, and exclusion through dialogue in the extractive industries: Who gets a seat at the table?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Do as we say and as we do: The interplay of descriptive and injunctive group norms in the attitude–behaviour relationship
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2008
Healthy eating: A beneficial role for perceived norm conflict?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-02-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12430
If it matters for the group then it matters to me: Collective action outcomes for seasoned activists
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-02-2012
DOI: 10.1111/J.2044-8309.2010.02001.X
Abstract: The present article reports a longitudinal study of the psychological antecedents for, and outcomes of, collective action for a community s le of activists. At Time 1, activist identification influenced intentions to engage in collective action behaviours protesting the Iraq war, both directly and indirectly via perceptions of the efficacy of these behaviours for achieving group goals, as well as perceptions of in idual-level benefits. At Time 2, identification was associated with differences in the dimensions on which the movement's success was evaluated. In the context of the movement's failure to achieve its stated objectives of troop withdrawal, those with strong activist identity placed less importance on influencing government decision making. The implications are discussed in terms of models of collective action and social identity, focusing on a dynamic model that relates identification with a group to evaluations of instrumentality at a group and in idual level and to beliefs about strategic responses to achieve group goals.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Outsiders' Responses to an External Group Conflict: Implications for Identification, Anger, and Collective Action
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 02-2015
Abstract: Members of groups in conflict may take collective action: actions to improve conditions for their group as a whole. The psychological antecedents of collective action for groups that are party to conflict and inequality are well-established. Comparatively little is known about how uninvolved outsiders respond to an external intergroup conflict. We investigate how personal ideological orientations of Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) shape outsiders’ willingness to take collective action in support of groups engaged in external conflict. In Study 1, US residents read about conflicts between disadvantaged citizens and an advantaged government in Greece and Russia. In Study 2, US residents read about a similar conflict in a fictional country, Silaria. Path analyses revealed that SDO and RWA shaped psychological appraisals of the conflict contexts, which predicted intentions to take collective action on behalf of either group. SDO and RWA were positively associated with advantaged group identification and anger at a disadvantaged group, and negatively associated with disadvantaged group identification and anger at an advantaged group. Group identification and anger predicted subsequent collective action intentions on behalf of either group. The sensitivity of outsiders’ appraisals to ideological orientations suggests strategies for both advantaged and disadvantaged groups to recruit outsiders as allies in group conflict.
Lateral orbitofrontal cortex activity is modulated by group membership in situations of justified and unjustified violence
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-10-2018
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2017.1392342
Abstract: The role of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in moral decision-making is well established. However, OFC activity is highly context dependent. It is affected by the extent to which choices are morally justified and whom they concern. In the current study, we specifically focus on contextual factors and investigate the differential role of the OFC during justified and unjustified violence towards ingroup versus outgroup members. Muslims were chosen as the outgroup, as they are currently stereotypically seen as an outgroup and a potential threat by some Non-Muslims. Importantly, we also introduce a context where participants are the actual agents responsible for doing harm. During fMRI scanning, Non-Muslim participants had to decide to either shoot a Non-Muslim (i.e., ingroup member) or Muslim (outgroup member) depending on whether they believed the target was holding a gun or an object. Neuroimaging results showed increased activation in the lateral OFC (lOFC) in the three contrasts that were distressing: 1) during unjustifiable killing 2) when being killed and 3) when confronted by an outgroup member with a gun. Together, these results provide important insights into the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in intergroup violence and highlight the critical role of the lOFC in context dependent social decision-making.
Prospective Passion and Social Capital within DotA 2 Players
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 29-09-2023
DOI: 10.1145/3611037
Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 20-10-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0256740
Abstract: During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative politicians and the media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended health behaviors. Health behavior theories suggest perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectiveness of recommended health-protective behaviors determine motivation to follow recommendations. Accordingly, we predicted that—as a result of politicization of the pandemic—politically conservative Americans would be less likely to enact recommended health-protective behaviors. In two longitudinal studies of U.S. residents, political conservatism was inversely associated with perceived health risk and adoption of health-protective behaviors over time. The effects of political orientation on health-protective behaviors were mediated by perceived risk of infection, perceived severity of infection, and perceived effectiveness of the health-protective behaviors. In a global cross-national analysis, effects were stronger in the U.S. ( N = 10,923) than in an international s le (total N = 51,986), highlighting the increased and overt politicization of health behaviors in the U.S.
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Understand Health Practitioners’ Attitudes Toward Voluntary Assisted Dying
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00302228221149453
Abstract: Prior work has documented considerable ersity among health practitioners regarding their support for voluntary assisted dying (VAD). We examined whether their attitudes are characterised by different combinations of personal support, normative support by other health practitioners, and whether they are predisposed to vicariously experience others’ emotions (i.e., empathy). We also examined whether these profiles experienced different mental health outcomes (i.e., burnout and posttraumatic stress) in relation to VAD. To test this, 104 Australian health practitioners were surveyed after VAD was legalised in Victoria, Australia in 2019. Results indicated that practitioners’ attitudes were characterised by three profiles: 1) strong personal and normative support (strong VAD supporters), 2) moderate personal and normative support (moderate VAD supporters), and 3) lower personal and normative support (apprehensive practitioners). However, each profile reported similar mental health outcomes. Findings suggest that the normative environments in which health practitioners operate may explain their erse attitudes on VAD.
The neural correlates of justified and unjustified killing
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-03-2015
DOI: 10.1093/SCAN/NSV027
National Identity, Australian Values and Outsiders
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 09-11-2011
Common and distinct neural networks involved in fMRI studies investigating morality: an ALE meta-analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-07-2018
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2017.1357657
Abstract: Morality is an important social construct necessary for understanding what is right and wrong. Neuroimaging studies investigating morality have used a wide variety of paradigms and implicated many different brain areas. Yet, it remains unclear whether differences amongst morality tasks are the cause for such heterogeneous findings. Therefore, in the present study, a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses were conducted on 123 datasets (inclusive of 1963 participants) to address this question. The ALE meta-analyses revealed a series of common brain areas associated with all moral tasks, including medial prefrontal cortex, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, temporoparietal junction, and precuneus. However, in idual and contrast analyses also revealed unique networks associated with each moral modality, suggesting that different moral tasks recruit specialised brain regions.
Environmentally active people: the role of autonomy, relatedness, competence and self-determined motivation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2016
The Whitewashing Effect
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-11-2015
Abstract: The present research examines whether people use racial contact to signal positive and negative social attributes. In two experiments, participants were instructed to fake good (trustworthy/competent) or fake bad (untrustworthy/incompetent) when reporting their amount of contact with a range of different racial groups. In Experiment 1 ( N = 364), participants faking good reported significantly more contact with White Americans than with non-White Americans, whereas participants faking bad did not. In Experiment 2 ( N = 1,056), this pattern was replicated and was found to be particularly pronounced among those with stronger pro-White bias. These findings suggest that in iduals may use racial contact as a social signal, effectively “whitewashing” their apparent contact and friendships when trying to present positively.
Uncertainty in transition: The influence of group cohesion on learning
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-02-2017
Predicting Facebook Users' Online Privacy Protection: Risk, Trust, Norm Focus Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 31-01-2019
Abstract: The present research adopts an extended theory of planned behavior model that included descriptive norms, risk, and trust to investigate online privacy protection in Facebook users. Facebook users (N=119) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitude, subjective injunctive norm, subjective descriptive norm, perceived behavioral control, implicit perceived risk, trust of other Facebook users, and intentions toward protecting their privacy online. Behavior was measured indirectly two weeks after the study. The data show partial support for the theory of planned behavior, and strong support for the independence of subjective injunctive and descriptive norms. Risk also uniquely predicted intentions over and above the theory of planned behavior, but were no unique effects of trust on intentions, or of risk or trust on behavior. Implications are discussed.
Choosing between conciliatory and oppositional leaders
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2249
Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
The role of contact partners’ gender in moderating the effect of positive contact on intergroup attitudes: A theoretical framework
Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology
Date: 06-10-2015
DOI: 10.7790/SA.V11I1.406
How normative and social identification processes predict self‐determination to engage in derogatory behaviours against outgroup hockey fans
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2006
Company-community dialogue builds relationships, fairness, and trust leading to social acceptance of Australian mining developments
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Stress and the theory of planned behavior: Understanding healthy and unhealthy eating intentions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2009
Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
National identification, perceived threat, and dehumanization as antecedents of negative attitudes toward immigrants in Australia and Canada
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-05-2013
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12044
The Neural Mechanisms of Threat and Reconciliation Efforts Between Muslims and Non-Muslims
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2020
Investigating the motivations underlying harmful social behaviors and the motivational nature of social norms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2013
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12167
The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-08-2020
Abstract: The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in conventional and radical collective action via injunctive family norms (perception that parents value such participation). Two unique data sets were used: dyads of activist parents and their adult children (Study 1, N = 100 dyads) and student activists who participated in a yearlong, three-wave longitudinal study (Study 2, Ns wave 1 = 1,221, Wave 2 = 960, and Wave 3 = 917). Parents’ past and current participation directly and indirectly predicted children’s protest participation in Study 1, while Study 2 showed a similar pattern longitudinally: Perceptions of parents’ participation (descriptive family norm) and approval (injunctive family norm) predicted change in collective action participation over time. Together, results highlight family environment as a critical setting for the intergenerational transmission of protest.
Why do people pirate? A neuroimaging investigation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2016
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1179671
Abstract: It is not uncommon for people to openly admit to pirating information from the internet despite the known legal consequences. Those same people are often less inclined to steal the same physical item from a shop. This raises the question, why do people have fewer reservations with stealing intangible items compared to tangible? Using questionnaires and fMRI we provide evidence across three studies as to the differences between tangible and intangible theft. In a questionnaire (Study 1), participants revealed that across different conditions they were more willing to steal intangible compared to tangible goods. Study 2a used fMRI to reveal that a network involved in imagining objects was more active when participants were representing intangible versus tangible objects, suggesting people have greater difficulty representing intangible items. Study 2b used fMRI to show that when stealing tangible objects versus intangible, participants had increased activation in left lateral orbitofrontal cortex, an area typically activated in response to morally laden situations. The findings from the current investigation provide novel insights into the higher prevalence of intangible theft and suggest that differential neural representation of tangible and intangible items may, in part, explain why people are more willing to steal intangible items.
Minority report: Social identity, cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety predicting prejudice from one racially marginalized group towards another
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2009
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.651
Intentions to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19: The Role of Prosociality and Conspiracy Beliefs across 20 Countries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-01-2022
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2021.2018179
Abstract: Understanding the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake is important to inform policy decisions and plan vaccination c aigns. The aims of this research were to: (1) explore the in idual- and country-level determinants of intentions to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and (2) examine worldwide variation in vaccination intentions. This cross-sectional online survey was conducted during the first wave of the pandemic, involving 6697 respondents across 20 countries. Results showed that 72.9% of participants reported positive intentions to be vaccinated against COVID-19, whereas 16.8% were undecided, and 10.3% reported they would not be vaccinated. At the in idual level, prosociality was a significant positive predictor of vaccination intentions, whereas generic beliefs in conspiracy theories and religiosity were negative predictors. Country-level determinants, including cultural dimensions of in idualism/collectivism and power distance, were not significant predictors of vaccination intentions. Altogether, this study identifies in idual-level predictors that are common across multiple countries, provides further evidence on the importance of combating conspiracy theories, involving religious institutions in vaccination c aigns, and stimulating prosocial motives to encourage vaccine uptake.
A bias-corrected exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of right-wing authoritarianism: Support for a three-factor structure
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
When the survival of a language is at stake: The future of inuttitut in arctic Québec
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2001
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X01020001006
Abstract: This article compares the functional roles of English, French, and Inuttitut in arctic Québec. In their concern with disadvantaged members of society and their focus on functional differences in language use, the authors draw on early research by Robinson concerning language and social behavior for working- and middle-class speakers. First, they present evidence concerning the importance of sustained heritage language (Inuttitut) development in second-language acquisition and address the implications of this finding in terms of additive versus subtractive bilingualism in the North. Second, they contrast the language proficiencies of children in the two dominant languages, English and French, exploring variations in status and their concomitant effects on language acquisition. Finally, they compare the conversational versus academic language proficiencies of Inuit children in the context of minority versus dominant language education and discuss implications for the debate on language deficits versus differences for disadvantaged children.
Identity centrality moderates the relationship between acceptance of group‐based stressors and well‐being
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-04-2018
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2367
Meaningful dialogue outcomes contribute to laying a foundation for social licence to operate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Renewed promise for positive cross-group contact: The role of supportive contact in empowering collective action.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1037/CBS0000058
Identity motives in charitable giving: Explanations for charity preferences from a global donor survey
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2020
DOI: 10.1002/MAR.21362
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