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Does ego depletion reduce judgment adjustment for both internally and externally generated anchors?
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Lukas Röseler, Astrid Schütz, Roy F. Baumeister, Ulrike StarkerAbstractEgo depletion is a state in which people prefer to avoid mental effort, therefore possibly leading to increased reliance on heuristics. Effortful thinking has been shown to help reduce anchoring effects, in which people form social judgments by adjusting from an initial value (the anchor). We therefore predicted that ego depletion would reduce the amount of adjustment from an initial anchor, leaving the final judgment relatively close to the anchor value...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Conspicuous gifting: When and why women (do not) appreciate men's romantic luxury gifts
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): William Ding, Mario Pandelaere, Hendrik Slabbinck, David E. SprottAbstractWhile research suggests that conspicuously displaying luxury goods can help men signal desirable qualities such as high earning capacity and social status, little is known about how women evaluate and interpret luxury items given as romantic gifts by men. The current research explores this under-researched question and reveals that women do not always react favorably to luxury gifts. Instead, women are wary that accepting luxury gifts may lead to relati...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Too close to call: Spatial distance between options influences choice difficulty
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Iris K. Schneider, Julia Stapels, Sander L. Koole, Norbert SchwarzAbstractIn language, people often refer to decision difficulty in terms of spatial distance. Specifically, decision-difficulty is expressed as proximity, for instance when people say that a decision was “too close to call”. Although these expressions are metaphorical, we argue, in line with research on conceptual metaphor theory, that they reflect how people think about difficult decisions. Thus, here we examine whether close spatial distance can actually m...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Win-win in distributive negotiations: The economic and relational benefits of strategic offer framing
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Michael Schaerer, Martin Schweinsberg, Nico Thornley, Roderick I. SwaabAbstractIn distributive negotiations, people often feel that they have to choose between maximizing their economic outcomes (claiming more value) or improving their relational outcomes (having a satisfied opponent). The present research proposes a conversational strategy that can help negotiators achieve both. Specifically, we show that using an offer framing strategy that shifts offer recipients' attention to their reservation price (e.g., “How does my ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Defending victims of bullying in the classroom: The role of moral responsibility and social costs” [J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. (2019), 84, 10383]
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): J. Loes Pouwels, Tirza H.J. van Noorden, Simona C.S. Caravita (Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Unpacking stereotype influences on source-monitoring processes: What mouse tracking can tell us
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Liliane Wulff, Sophie E. ScharfAbstractThe goal of this study was to understand the cognitive dynamics of stereotype influences on source monitoring employing mouse tracking. By continuously recording cursor movements, we examined how stereotypical knowledge influences decision uncertainty when processing and later remembering stereotype-consistent and -inconsistent exemplars of the age categories of “young” and “old”. In a source-monitoring task, participants (N = 60) learned age-stereotype consistent or -inconsist...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reinforcement learning in social interaction: The distinguishing role of trait inference
Publication date: May 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 88Author(s): Leor M. Hackel, Peter Mende-Siedlecki, David M. AmodioAbstractPeople learn about the world by making choices and experiencing feedback—a process characterized by models of reinforcement learning in which people learn to associate their actions with rewarding outcomes. Although reinforcement models provide compelling accounts of feedback-based learning in nonsocial contexts, social interactions typically involve inferences of others' trait characteristics, which may be independent of their reward value. As a result, people may...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Get out or stay out: How the social exclusion process affects actors, but not targets
Publication date: May 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 88Author(s): Frank T. Doolaard, Gert-Jan Lelieveld, Marret K. Noordewier, Ilja van Beest, Eric van DijkAbstractIt is well documented that when people (targets) are socially excluded by others (actors) they feel hurt. To understand social exclusion, however, we argue it is crucial to look not only at the end state of exclusion (do targets end up excluded or included?) but also at the process (how are targets excluded?). In four studies we differentiated between two processes of exclusion: being removed from a group and being denied access in...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Re-assessing the incremental predictive validity of Implicit Association Tests
Publication date: May 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 88Author(s): Nicholas Buttrick, Jordan Axt, Charles R. Ebersole, Jacalyn HubandAbstractIndirect measures of attitudes or stereotypes, such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT), assess associations that are relatively automatic, unintentional, or uncontrollable. A primary argument for the IAT's use is that it can predict relevant outcomes beyond parallel direct measures, such as self-report (a claim referred to as demonstrating incremental predictive validity). Prior work on this issue relied primarily on least squares linear regression an...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Donald Trump and vaccination: The effect of political identity, conspiracist ideation and presidential tweets on vaccine hesitancy
Publication date: May 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 88Author(s): Matthew J. Hornsey, Matthew Finlayson, Gabrielle Chatwood, Christopher T. BegenyAbstractDonald Trump is the first U.S. President to be on the record as having anti-vaccination attitudes. Given his enormous reach and influence, it is worthwhile examining the extent to which allegiance to Trump is associated with the public's perceptions of vaccine safety and efficacy. In both Study 1 (N = 518) and Study 2 (N = 316), Trump voters were significantly more concerned about vaccines than other Americans. This tendency was reduced ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cue masking and cultural signals: Testing context-specific preferences for bald(ing) leaders
Publication date: May 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 88Author(s): Nancy M. Blaker, Brian R. Spisak, Joshua M. Tybur, Michal Kandrik, Richard D. ArveyAbstractAndrogenic Alopecia affects the majority of aging men and consequently a substantial number of leaders. Yet, there is little research on how male pattern baldness (MPB) influences leader perceptions, and no research on context-specific leader preferences for bald men. Across three studies, we add to this sparse literature by investigating a) how baldness as a biological cue for age (i.e. MPB) affects various trait perceptions, as opposed ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - January 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): (Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - December 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dealing with government dysfunction: Perceived electoral system brokenness explains the effects of high and low perceived polarization on support for fixes
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Gabrielle Pogge, Colin Tucker SmithAbstractIn five pre-registered experiments, we demonstrate causal effects of perceptions of political polarization and, especially, electoral system brokenness on desire for inclusion of a third party candidate and support for potential fixes to the electoral system. We first manipulated perceived issue polarization between two candidates in a fictional election to be high, medium, or low and showed that the high and low polarization conditions, compared to the medium condition, evoked great...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What's in a shape? Evidence of gender category associations with basic forms
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 87Author(s): Steven J. Stroessner, Jonathan Benitez, Michael A. Perez, Alisa B. Wyman, Colleen M. Carpinella, Kerri L. JohnsonAbstractFive experiments tested the possibility that basic shapes – squares, circles, and equilateral triangles – are gendered. Based on morphological, evolutionary, and socialization considerations, we hypothesized that square shapes would be associated with the male gender category and circles with the female gender category. Results on both direct (self-report) and indirect (IAT, priming) measures were consi...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An association between biased impression updating and relationship facilitation: A behavioral and fMRI investigation
We examined the link between biased impression updating for ingroup members (i.e., friends) and relationship maintenance, as measured by the number of friends participants reported having (Studies 1 and 2). We also investigated the underlying neural basis of this possible effect, focusing on activity in the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ), a region of the social brain involved in moral updating (Study 2). Specifically, we tested whether selectively discounting negative information about close others, manifested in reduced impression updating, and indexed by reduced RTPJ activity, is related to maintaining close rela...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research