The British Journal of Social Psychology This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Greater expectations or less sugar-coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Feb 21. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12634. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn order to clarify the perceptual underpinnings of critical national attachment, we examined the links between constructive (critical) and conventional patriotism, and evaluations of the actual and ideal representations of the country. Across four studies conducted on US and Polish samples (total N = 3457), perception of a discrepancy between the actual and the ideal representations of the country was positively linked to constructive but negatively to conventional patriotism. Moreover, constructive patriotism was linked positively and c...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maciej Sekerdej Mirjana Rupar Katarzyna Jamr óz-Dolińska Maryna Ko łeczek Source Type: research

The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta-analysis
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Feb 16. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12626. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResearch from the social sciences suggests an association between higher temperatures and increases in antisocial behaviours, including aggressive, violent, or sabotaging behaviours, and represents a heat-facilitates-aggression perspective. More recently, studies have shown that higher temperature experiences may also be linked to increases in prosocial behaviours, such as altruistic, sharing, or cooperative behaviours, representing a warmth-primes-prosociality view. However, across both literatures, there have been inconsistent findings ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dermot Lynott Katherine Corker Louise Connell Kerry O'Brien Source Type: research

The reciprocal relationship between social identity and adherence to group norms
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Feb 14. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12635. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research has focused on how social identification influences people's adherence to group norms, but has rarely considered how norm adherence might in turn influence how strongly people identify with the group. We proposed a reciprocal relationship between social identification and norm adherence that is shaped by the salience of the social identity in question. Drawing on data from a longitudinal field study of young people attending a mass gathering (N = 661, 1239 unique observations), we used cross-lagged panel modelling across...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joanne A Rathbone Tegan Cruwys Mark Stevens Laura J Ferris Katherine J Reynolds Source Type: research

Constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity: Ideological dilemmas, antiracism and implications for identity
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Feb 9. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12631. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDilemmas around differences among people may encapsulate ideological assumptions deep-rooted in modernity, according to work on ideological dilemmas. In this article, we suggest that ideological struggles such as the one between racism and antiracism may further ingrain ideological dilemmas around difference and put certain identities at stake. In a qualitative study addressing constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity, lay people in Greece argued about the meaningfulness, value, and public character of difference, deploying ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tilemachos Iatridis Irini Kadianaki Source Type: research