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Correction to Hsee et al. (2023)
Discussion section of Study 1 now appear as M: - $42.17; Mdn: -$39. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2023-90026-001.) Many real-life examples-from interpersonal rivalries to international conflicts-suggest that people actively engage in competitive behavior even when it is negative sum (benefiting the self at a greater cost to others). This often leads to loss spirals where everyone-including the winner-ends up losing. Our research seeks to understand the psychology of such negative-sum competition in a controlled setting. To do so, we...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How perceived polarization predicts attitude moralization (and vice versa): A four-wave longitudinal study during the 2020 U.S. election
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 22. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWithin structurally polarized and dynamic contexts, such as the U.S. 2020 presidential elections, the moralization of individuals' attitudes on a specific topic (e.g., climate policy) can dangerously escalate disagreements between groups into zero-sum conflict. However, limited knowledge exists regarding the factors that influence individuals' tendency to moralize their attitudes over time, and what the role of structural polarization is in this psychological process. Our objective is to test a theoretically integrative model of when a...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chantal D'Amore Martijn van Zomeren Namkje Koudenburg Source Type: research

Inaugural editorial
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan;126(1):1-4. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000376.ABSTRACTThe commencement of a new editorial tenure within the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition (JPSP: ASC) provides an opportunity for reflection regarding the journal's core mission. The editors recognize that social psychology is at a crossroads due to competing demands that may have led to reduced submissions and posed challenges for previous editors in filling the journal's pages. Now, JPSP: ASC has been allotted more pages to allow for growth during this editorial term. Although this is desirable for the field...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dolores Albarracin Paul Conway Sean Laurent Kristin Laurin Francesca Manzi John V Petrocelli Aneeta Rattan Cristina E Salvador Chadly Stern Andrew Todd Maferima Tour é-Tillery Cheryl Wakslak Xi Zou Source Type: research

When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000452. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGroups have committed historical wrongs (e.g., genocide, slavery). We investigated why people blame current groups who were not involved in the original historical wrong for the actions of their predecessors who committed these wrongs and are no longer alive. Current models of individual and group blame overlook the dimension of time and therefore have difficulty explaining this phenomenon using their existing criteria like causality, intentionality, or preventability. We hypothesized that factors that help psychologically bridge the p...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shree Vallabha Jonathan E Doriscar Mark J Brandt Source Type: research

Living while fat: Development and validation of the Fat Microaggressions Scale
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000450. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFat microaggressions are microlevel social practices in the form of commonplace everyday indignities that insult fat people and have been documented anecdotally and qualitatively. However, no psychometrically validated scale exists for measuring fat microaggressions, despite decades of microaggression research demonstrating their negative health associations. This research describes the development and construct validation of the Fat Microaggressions Scale across four studies. Study 1 focused on item development through a systematic re...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Megan R Lindloff Angela Meadows Rachel M Calogero Source Type: research

Narcissists' affective well-being: Associations of grandiose narcissism with state affect level and variability
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000495. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhereas grandiose narcissism has generally been found to be related to adaptive affective experiences (i.e., positive affective states), many theoretical conceptualizations have emphasized its associations with characteristics of low affective well-being (i.e., unstable, highly variable affective states). Empirical research on the association of grandiose narcissism with the mean level of and variability in affective states has been inconclusive, as studies have differed considerably in their conceptualizations and measurement of narci...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julian Scharbert Lisa M Dein Lara Kroencke Steffen Nestler Mitja D Back Katharina Utesch Source Type: research

The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000382. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHow do people select targets when tasked with persuading a group of people? One approach would be to prioritize getting people in support of the persuader's position to hold relatively extreme attitudes-an extremity strategy. An alternative approach would be to prioritize getting as many people as possible to support the persuader's position, regardless of how extreme they are-a consensus strategy. Although some situations might allow persuaders to combine these strategies, the present work examines how people select targets and strate...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Derek D Rucker Jesse D'Agostino Mark Dyer Zakary L Tormala Source Type: research