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Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12722. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research on group-based hope has predominantly focused on positive intergroup outcomes, such as peace and harmony. In this paper, we demonstrate that hope experienced towards group-centric political outcomes, such as a victory in a conflict and defeating the enemy, can be detrimental to peace. In Study 1, conducted among Israeli Jews, hope for victory over the Palestinians was uniquely associated with more support for extreme war policies, whereas hope for peace generally showed the opposite associations. In Study 2, we replicate...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maor Shani Jonas R Kunst Gulnaz Anjum Milan Obaidi Oded Adomi Leshem Roman Antonovsky Maarten van Zalk Eran Halperin Source Type: research

'Like we definitely have to go greener, but …': Analysing affective-discursive practices in populist environmental discourse
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12733. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious studies on environmental issues in right-wing populism have mostly focused on political actors and their argumentation. In contrast, this study examines environmental populist discourse from the perspective of laypeople in Finland. We used interviews (n = 25) to analyse affective-discursive practices in environmental talk, identifying four partly interrelated practices: belittling the 'annoying liberals', constructing the ordinary rural people as victims, externalizing blame to the 'real' polluters, and glorifying Finnish nature....
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helenor Tormis Katarina Pettersson Inari Sakki Source Type: research

Being pressed for time leads to treating others as things: Exploring the relationships among time scarcity, agentic and communal orientation and objectification
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 5. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12729. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTime scarcity has become one of the most ubiquitous phenomena in daily life worldwide. Five studies (total valid N = 1332) examined whether time scarcity elicits people's agentic orientation and dampens their communal orientation, thus increasing the likelihood of objectification towards others. Results suggested that people who perceived time scarcity were more likely to exhibit objectification towards others regardless of whether time scarcity was measured (Studies 1 and 3) or manipulated using either a scenario (Study 2a) or a recall ta...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xinying Jiang Nan Zhang Xiaomin Sun Zhenzhen Liu Yuqiao Lilly Wang Source Type: research

Do conspiracy beliefs fuel support for reactionary social movements? Effects of misbeliefs on actions to oppose lockdown and to "stop the steal"
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 5. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12727. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPundits have speculated that the spread of conspiracies and misinformation (termed "misbeliefs") is leading to a resurgence of right-wing, reactionary movements. However, the current empirical picture regarding the relationship between misbeliefs and collective action is mixed. We help clarify these associations by using two waves of data collected during the COVID-19 Pandemic (in Australia, N = 519, and the United States, N = 510) and democratic elections (in New Zealand N = 603, and the United States N = 609) to examine the effects of mi...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emma F Thomas Lucy Bird Alexander O'Donnell Danny Osborne Eliana Buonaiuto Lisette Yip Morgana Lizzio-Wilson Michael Wenzel Linda Skitka Source Type: research

Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 2. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12730. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn today's fast-paced world, increasing numbers of individuals face time poverty, i.e., having too much to do and not enough time. The current research conducted six studies (total valid N = 1307) examining whether time poverty influences individuals' construal levels and the moderating role of individuals' motivations towards what they do. The results consistently suggest that time poverty leads individuals to adopt more concrete construal regardless of whether time poverty was measured (Study 1) or manipulated either by a scenario (Studi...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - February 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yue Yuan Xiaomin Sun Source Type: research

Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 31. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12728. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCollective nostalgia is an emotion experienced when one sentimentally recalls events or things related to a particular social identity. We investigated the relationship between collective nostalgia about the United Kingdom (UK) and UK citizens' desire to leave the European Union (EU). We collected data of UK citizens twice prior to the UK's official withdrawal from the European Union (N = 347 and N = 240) and once afterwards (N = 236). Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, utilizing cross-lagged panel models, supported the hypothesis...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 31, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jack Loughnane Jenny Roth Wijnand van Tilburg Source Type: research

Popularity at first sight: Dominant behaviours mediate the link between extraversion and popularity in face-to-face and virtual group interactions
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12720. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough there is robust evidence that being more extraverted is related to higher popularity, only few studies have examined which actual behaviours (e.g., verbal content, body language) might explain this association. The current study examined whether observer-rated dominant behaviours (nonverbal, paraverbal, verbal, and general cues) mediate the relationship between self-rated extraversion and its facets (assertiveness, sociability, and activity) and other-rated popularity in zero-acquaintance settings. In two studies, we analysed dat...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 30, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martje Buss Jenny Wagner Eva Bleckmann Larissa L Wieczorek Source Type: research

The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam-Troian et al. (2023)
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12725. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe paper reports the results of registered conceptual replications of the indirect effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs (CB). The original study of Adam-Troian et al. (2023; British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(S1), 136-159) indicated that subjective appraisals of economic hardship are associated with lower trust in governments and institutions, which in turn is associated with stronger endorsement of CB. Our Studies 1 to 3 report a series of replications using ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Magdalena Adamus Eva Ballov á Mikušková Pavol Ka čmár Martin Guzi Matu š Adamkovič Maria Chayinska Jais Adam-Troian Source Type: research

Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion-secure base hypothesis
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12724. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIdentity fusion - a powerful form of group alignment - is a strong predictor of using violence to defend the ingroup. However, recent theorizing suggests, in the absence of outgroup threat, fusion may instead promote intergroup trust and cooperation. Across five studies we find evidence that fusion to a range of groups (e.g., country, football team) was consistently positively associated with a willingness to trust others generally, trust outgroup members, and social exploration. An internal meta-analysis indicated that fusion was more st...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jack W Klein Katharine H Greenaway Brock Bastian Source Type: research

Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks
We present an integrative research that assessed the relationships between performance quantification, metadehumanization, and on two of metadehumanization's consequences, that is, stress and disidentification, in three contexts, that is, organizations, sport, and social networks. In addition, we test the moderating roles of two individual variables, that is, competitiveness and tender-mindedness, in this model. In three samples (Ns = 204, 300, 297, for Samples A, B, and C, respectively), we show a mediation effect of metadehumanization on the links between performance quantification and stress and disidentification that h...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephanie Demoulin Florence Stinglhamber Source Type: research

Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis
In conclusion, our results highlight that our theoretical understanding of social influence can be expanded by integrating the social identity approach with a diffusion model analysis.PMID:38214413 | DOI:10.1111/bjso.12714 (Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology)
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vinzenz H Duderstadt Andreas Mojzisch Markus Germar Source Type: research