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The effect of configural processing on mentalization
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 15. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000361. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEight studies (N = 2,561) reveal that how we perceptually process a person's face affects our capacity to understand their mind. Studies 1A and B indicate this relationship functions via two separate pathways: (a) indirectly by increasing our sensitivity to the cues of a mind in a face and (b) directly by changing the way we relate to the mind behind the face. Six additional studies adopt perspective taking paradigms to provide further support for a direct effect of configural processing on mentalization. Studies 2 and 3 find that proc...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katrina M Fincher Ting Zhang Asteya Percaya Adam Galinsky Michael W Morris Source Type: research

Relational attributions for one's own resilience predict compassion for others
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 11. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000438. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExisting work on attribution theory distinguishes between external and internal attributions (i.e., "I overcame adversity due to luck" vs. "my own effort"). We introduce the construct of relational resilience attributions (i.e., "due to help from other people") as a critical, but overlooked form of external attribution that predicts compassion toward others. We first document the presence of internal, relational (social external), and situational (nonsocial external) resilience attributions among people who have overcome unemployment, ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel L Ruttan Ting Zhang Sivahn B Barli Katherine A DeCelles Source Type: research

How relationship satisfaction changes within and across romantic relationships: Evidence from a large longitudinal study
Discussion addresses the possibility that couples tend to separate when relationship satisfaction falls below a critical value. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38206851 | DOI:10.1037/pspp0000492 (Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janina Larissa B ühler Ulrich Orth Source Type: research

Anticipated affect predicts moral praise and character judgments
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 11. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000377. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn four preregistered studies (total N = 5,067), we investigated whether people use their own anticipated affective responses to a situation to make judgments about the praiseworthiness of helping and the moral character of helpers. We found that helpers in more affectively arousing scenarios were seen as more morally motivated, received greater praise, and were seen as having more positive moral character, even when controlling for the perceived benefits of helping. Describing helpers as unemotional reduced the effect of observers' an...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - January 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paige Amormino Brett Mercier Yoel Inbar Source Type: research

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

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

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

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

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

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