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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

The Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale: A valid tool with greater predictive utility than income
This article introduces the Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale (PESS), a novel instrument measuring the subjective evaluation and experience of economic scarcity (the feeling of having insufficient financial resources to meet one's needs). We conducted three high-powered preregistered studies (total N = 1900) to rigorously evaluate the PESS's psychometric properties. In Study 1, we generated a pool of items and used both Principal Component Analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis to select the most appropriate items. In Study 2, we examined the PESS's construct validity, demonstrating that it measures a distinct construct ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Victor Auger Nicolas Sommet Alice Normand Source Type: research

A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 2. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12713. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThroughout the course of scholarly history, some concepts have been notoriously hard to define. The 'common good' is one such concept. While the common good has a long and contested scholarly history, social psychology research on folk theories - lay beliefs that represent an individual's informal and subjective understanding of the world - may provide a key for unlocking this nebulous concept. In the current paper, we analysed lay definitions of the common good using the linguistic inquiry and word count's meaning extraction method. From ...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melissa A Wheeler Samuel G Wilson Naomi Baes Vlad Demsar Source Type: research

Human aggression in everyday life: An empirical test of the general aggression model
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 3. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12718. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWith the general aggression model (GAM), Anderson and Bushman (2002) provided an integrative framework to explain the complex nature of aggression. Based on the GAM, we examined whether personological and situational factors (interactively) have an impact on the person's internal state (consisting of aggressive cognition, affect, and physiological arousal), which in turn is assumed to lead to aggressive behaviour. In a large-scale experience sampling study, 403 participants answered 7558 questionnaires over a period of 2 weeks. As hypothes...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Riccarda Kersten Tobias Greitemeyer Source Type: research

Toleration, discrimination, or acceptance? How majorities interpret and legitimize minority toleration depends on outgroup threat
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 30. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12715. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe notion of tolerance is widely embraced in plural contexts, but little is known about how majority members interpret the toleration of minorities. With four studies, we investigated majority group members' interpretations of a minority toleration situation (compared to full acceptance and discrimination situations) as a function of outgroup threat. Study 1 (N = 214) showed that higher perception of threat from Syrian refugees was associated with Turkish natives' stronger likelihood of interpreting a refugee toleration situation as 'acc...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Berfin Acar Sabahat Cigdem Bagci Maykel Verkuyten Source Type: research