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Can't wait to pay: The desire for goal closure increases impatience for costs
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 14. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000367. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe explore whether the desire to achieve psychological closure on a goal creates impatience. If so, people should choose an earlier (vs. later) option, even when it does not deliver a reward. For example, they may prefer to pay money or complete work earlier rather than later. A choice to incur earlier costs seems to violate the preference for positive discounting (indeed, it may appear like negative time discounting), unless people value earlier goal closure. Across seven studies, we consistently find that people preferred to pay more...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - December 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annabelle R Roberts Alex Imas Ayelet Fishbach Source Type: research

Intergroup time bias and aversive racism in the medical context
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 14. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000446. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTime is fundamental to organizing all aspects of human life. When invested in relationships, it has a psychological meaning as it indicates how much individuals value others and their interest in maintaining social relationships. Previous research has identified an intergroup time bias (ITB) in racialized social relations, defined as a discriminatory behavior in which White individuals invest more time in evaluating White than Black individuals. This research proposes an aversive racism explanation for the ITB effect and examines its c...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - December 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emerson Ara újo Do Bú Filipa Madeira Cicero Roberto Pereira Nao Hagiwara Jorge Vala Source Type: research

Saying no: The negative ramifications from invitation declines are less severe than we think
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 11. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000443. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople are frequently invited to join others for fun social activities. They may be invited to lunch, to attend a sporting event, to watch the season finale of a television show, and so forth. Invitees-those who are on the receiving ends of invitations-sometimes accept invitations from inviters-those who extend invitations-but other times, invitees decline. Unfortunately, saying no can be hard, leading invitees to accept invitations when they would rather not. The present work sheds light on one factor that makes it so hard to decline ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - December 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julian Givi Colleen P Kirk Source Type: research

Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 7. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000445. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResearch examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. Self-reported emotions and attention from thirty-six participants were assessed when foregrou...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adam W Qureshi Rebecca L Monk Shelby Quinn Bethan Gannon Kayleigh McNally Derek Heim Source Type: research

Testing the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory: Examining within-subject variation in attachment security
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 7. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000488. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccording to the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory (Bowlby, 1973), people's trajectories of attachment security should become increasingly stable and buffered against external pressures as their relationships progress. The present study aimed to examine this hypothesis within the context of romantic relationships. We analyzed longitudinal data collected from 1,741 adults who completed between three and 24 survey assessments (average number of waves analyzed = 6.79, SD = 5.31; median test-retest interval = 35 days). We modeled...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Keely A Dugan R Chris Fraley Omri Gillath Pascal R Deboeck Source Type: research