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Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 5. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12738. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe vicious cycle of educational inequality may be maintained and perpetuated by teachers' lack of desire to work in socioeconomically deprived communities. Across two studies (Ntotal = 606), we experimentally investigated whether teachers' aversions to such settings could be mitigated by contact experiences with (a) people experiencing financial hardship and (b) children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Trainee teachers rated their levels of desire to work in schools that varied in terms of the socioeconomic backgrounds and diversity of th...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - March 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lewis Doyle Matthew J Easterbrook Linda R Tropp Source Type: research

Exploring the origins of identity fusion: Shared emotional experience activates fusion with the group over time
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12723. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIdentity fusion is a visceral feeling of oneness with a group, known to strongly motivate extreme pro-group behaviour. However, the evidence on its causes is currently limited, primarily due to the prevalence of cross-sectional research. To address this gap, this study analysed the evolution of fusion in response to a massive collective ritual, Korrika-a race in support of the Basque language-, over three time periods: before (n = 748) and immediately following participation (n = 402), and 7 weeks thereafter (n = 273). Furthermore, we expl...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - March 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jon Zabala Alexandra V ázquez Susana Conejero Aitziber Pascual Source Type: research

Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual-based approach to belief revision
We examined whether the character virtue of intellectual humility (IH)-an appreciation of one's intellectual boundaries-encourages revising one's false beliefs in response to counter-information. Our research produced encouraging but also mixed findings. Among participants who held false beliefs about the risks of vaccines (Study 1) and the 2020 US Election being rigged (Study 2), those with higher IH explored more information opposing these false beliefs. This exploration of opposing information, in turn, predicted updating away from these inaccurate health and political beliefs. IH did not directly predict updating away ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anton Gollwitzer Evelina Bao Gabriele Oettingen Source Type: research

Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 26. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12731. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough global warming is a serious problem that influences numerous people worldwide, individuals are still reluctant to change their behaviours. The present research investigates how local hot temperatures affect climate action in non-Western groups. In Study 1, an analysis of temperature and information acquisition by Shanghai residents in 122 days found that heat increased attention and awareness of climate change. In Study 2 and Study 3, participants who were primed with heat-related perceptions were more likely to take climate acti...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xinni Wei Feng Yu Kaiping Peng Source Type: research

Shame in social interaction: Descriptions of experiences of shame by participants with high or low levels of narcissistic traits
In this study, we investigate how personal experiences about shameful events are described in face-to-face social interaction, and how these stories differ between participants who have either high or low levels of narcissistic personality traits. The dataset consists of 22 dyadic conversations where the participants describe events where they felt ashamed of themselves. We found the narratives to vary in terms of five dimensions. With narcissistic individuals, the default narrative tended to exhibit a cluster of characteristics that gather at one end of these dimensions: (1) weak expressions of shame; (2) located in the s...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emmi Koskinen Pentti Henttonen Sanna Kie Kettunen Sanna Pesonen Matias Piispanen Liisa Voutilainen Mariel Wuolio Anssi Per äkylä Source Type: research

Beyond normative and non-normative: A systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action
We examined 37 social and political psychology studies published after 2010 and identified five recurring themes: identity, efficacy, injustice, emotions and norms. Findings exhibited significant overlaps with those predictors associated with normative collective action. Thus, a reconceptualization is needed to undermine the rigid boundaries between these action types, highlighting the intricate interplay of factors that transcend the conventional binary. Aiming to avoid conceptual ambiguity and challenge the perspective that associating particular collective actions with unwarranted violence using social norms as fixed an...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mete Sefa Uysal Patricio Saavedra John Drury Source Type: research