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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

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

Achieving social influence across gender and time: Are dominance and prestige equally viable for men and women?
This study investigates the viability of dominance or prestige in contributing to an individual's social influence, conditional on their gender and across time. Using a stereotype-neutral context of an online social network, I unobtrusively tracked individuals' changes in social influence among their network members on Twitter. By analyzing almost 230,000 tweets, it was found that men's influence increased with greater dominance, whereas women's decreased. At the same time, women's influence increased with greater prestige, whereas men's decreased. Network centrality (in-degree centrality) explained this differential inter...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - February 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hemant Kakkar Source Type: research

Self-control signals and affords power
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000457. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhom do we perceive as more powerful and prefer to give power to: Those who have self-control or those who lack it? Past theory and research provide divergent predictions. Low self-control can be seen as a form of disinhibition, and disinhibition has been associated with greater power. However, high self-control can be seen as a form of agency, which is associated with greater power. Across seven studies, we found that individuals who exhibited high self-control were seen as more powerful, and given more power, than individuals who exh...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shuang Wu Rachel Smallman Pamela K Smith Source Type: research

Expressing the good in bad times: Examining whether and why positive expressivity in negative contexts affects romantic partners' responsive support provision
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 22. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000449. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTReceiving high-quality, responsive support in times of distress is critical but difficult. In a theoretical review, we previously proposed a process model that explains why support-seekers' positive expressivity can elicit-but may sometimes suppress-supportive responses from partners (providers) within distress-related contexts. In the current work, we aimed to test direct and indirect pathways linking seeker's positive expressivity in negative disclosures to provider's support while addressing notable gaps in the existing literature. ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca M Walsh Amanda L Forest Source Type: research

Perilous and unaccountable: The positive relationship between dominance and moral hazard behaviors
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 18. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000448. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMoral hazard involves a context where decision-makers engage in behaviors that prioritize self-interest while allowing the associated risk to be primarily borne by others. Such decision making can lead to catastrophic consequences, as seen in the 2008 global financial crisis after hedge fund managers indiscriminately invested their clients' money in subprime mortgages. This research examines which decision-makers are most likely to engage in moral hazard decision making and the psychological mechanism driving this behavior. Drawing on ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Garrett L Brady Hemant Kakkar Niro Sivanathan Source Type: research

The dual-process approach to human sociality: Meta-analytic evidence for a theory of internalized heuristics for self-preservation
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 15. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000375. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhich social decisions are influenced by intuitive processes? Which by deliberative processes? The dual-process approach to human sociality has emerged in the last decades as a vibrant and exciting area of research. Yet a perspective that integrates empirical and theoretical work is lacking. This review and meta-analysis synthesizes the existing literature on the cognitive basis of cooperation, altruism, truth telling, positive and negative reciprocity, and deontology and develops a framework that organizes the experimental regularitie...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Valerio Capraro Source Type: research