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Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Sep 11. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12680. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAre we ever morally permitted to do what is morally wrong? It seems intuitive that we are, but evidence for dissociations among judgement of permissibility and wrongness is relatively scarce. Across four experiments (N = 1438), we show that people judge that some behaviours can be morally wrong and permissible. The dissociations arise because these judgements track different morally relevant aspects of everyday moral encounters. Judgements of individual rights predicted permissibility but not wrongness, while character assessment predicte...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Samuel Murray William Jim énez-Leal Santiago Amaya Source Type: research

The role of group memberships and school identification on student well-being
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Sep 11. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12685. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are widespread concerns about a decline in young people's mental health. One promising direction to address this issue involves group memberships and social identity processes. Despite progress, there are several issues in current theory and research including (1) whether the number of groups to which an individual belongs is related to more positive well-being, (2) better understanding the relationship between group memberships and social identification processes and (3) the need for more comprehensive longitudinal methods. The goa...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emma K Dunstone Katherine J Reynolds Diana C árdenas Source Type: research

Coping strategies and belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Sep 5. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12684. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConspiracy beliefs have been related to aversive emotional experiences often accompanying major world events and have also been linked to maladaptive ways of coping with stress. In this research, we examined how different coping strategies (i.e. self-sufficient, social-support, avoidance and religious) predicted the adoption of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. In two studies (Study 1, n = 1000 and Study 2, n = 616) conducted among Polish participants, we found that avoidance and religious coping were positively linked to COVID-19 conspiracy b...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - September 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zuzanna Molenda Marta Marchlewska Adam Karakula Dagmara Szczepa ńska Marta Rogoza Ricky Green Aleksandra Cislak Karen M Douglas Source Type: research

The role of identity-related beliefs in the appraisal and management of crowding: Insights from the Hajj
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Sep 4. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12682. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn crowds, to the degree one identifies with other crowd members one likely experiences a sense of common purpose, social connection and mutual support. Such is the psychological significance of these correlates of a shared identity that even others' close physical proximity can be pleasurable. However, such pleasure in others' proximity cannot be assumed: physical crowding can bring practical challenges and so potentially disturb the positive experience of crowd membership. In the research reported here, we explore crowd members' reports ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - September 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Enes Yalcin Nick Hopkins Source Type: research

Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming
We report five studies investigating whether women's clothing style and grooming behaviour change across the ovulatory cycle. All studies were large (with N = 157 in Study 1, N = 109 in Study 2, N = 257 in Studies 3-5), longitudinal studies with four testing sessions per participant. They involved salivary hormone samples and luteinizing hormone tests to validate conception risk estimates. Across all studies, our results suggest no compelling evidence for cycle shifts in clothing style and grooming. Rather, two studies suggest effects in the opposite direction as hypothesized, as women wore more skin-revealing clothes when...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - August 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julia Stern Sabine Ostermann Lars Penke Source Type: research