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On being unpredictable and winning
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):369-389. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000378.ABSTRACTIn theory, it can be strategically advantageous for competitors to make themselves unpredictable to their opponents, for example, by variably mixing hostility and friendliness. Empirically, it remains open whether and how competitors make themselves unpredictable, why they do so, and how this conditions conflict dynamics and outcomes. We examine these questions in interactive attacker-defender contests, in which attackers invest to capture resources held and defended by their opponent. Study 1, a reanalysis of nine (un)published experiments (tota...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carsten K W De Dreu J örg Gross Andrea Arciniegas Laura C Hoenig Michael Rojek-Giffin Daan T Scheepers Source Type: research

Intergroup processes and the happy face advantage: How social categories influence emotion categorization
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):390-412. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000386.ABSTRACTThere is abundant evidence that emotion categorization is influenced by the social category membership of target faces, with target sex and target race modulating the ease with which perceivers can categorize happy and angry emotional expressions. However, theoretical interpretation of these findings is constrained by gender and race imbalances in both the participant samples and target faces typically used when demonstrating these effects (e.g., most participants have been White women and most Black targets have been men). Across seven experimen...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Douglas Martin Jacqui Hutchison Agnieszka E Konopka Carolyn J Dallimore Gillian Slessor Rachel Swainson Source Type: research

Perceiving greater variety among past conflicts with a focal goal reduces expected goal conflict
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):413-430. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000387.ABSTRACTMany important personal goals, such as health, career, finances, and social relationships, entail repeatedly performing the same (or similar) actions over time (e.g., to exercise daily or save money weekly). When pursuing such ongoing goals, people are likely to accumulate multiple experiences of goal conflict (e.g., multiple occasions when one failed to exercise or save as intended). How might these past experiences of goal conflict inform expectations about future goal pursuit? This research examines how the perceived relationship among past co...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Luis Abreu Sarah A Memmi Jordan Etkin Source Type: research

Using risk of crime detection to study change in mechanisms of decision making
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):477-491. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000493.ABSTRACTPerceptions of crime detection risk (e.g., risk of arrest) play an integral role in the criminal decision-making process. Yet, the sources of variation in those perceptions are not well understood. Do individuals respond to changes in legal policy or is perception of detection risk shaped like other perceptions-by experience, heuristics, and with biases? We applied a developmental perspective to study self-reported perception of detection risk. We test four hypotheses against data from the Dunedin Longitudinal Study (analytic sample of N = 985 Ne...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J C Barnes Terrie E Moffitt Peter T Tanksley Shahin Tasharrofi Richie Poulton Avshalom Caspi Source Type: research

Correction to "What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology" by Clarke et al. (2023)
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):389. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000502.ABSTRACTReports an error in "What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology" by Beth Clarke, Sarah Schiavone and Simine Vazire (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023[Oct], Vol 125[4], 874-901). The following article is being corrected: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000458. The percentages in the seventh sentence in the abstract now appear as 41% and 20%, respectively. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2023-58369-001.) Ever...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Authors reported slightly more limitations over time. Despite the extensive attention paid to statistical conclusion validity in the scientific discourse throughout psychology's credibility revolution, our results suggest that concerns about statistics-re Source Type: research

Correction to "Digital traces of offline mobilization" by Smith et al. (2023)
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar;126(3):460. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000390.ABSTRACTReports an error in "Digital traces of offline mobilization" by Laura G. E. Smith, Lukasz Piwek, Joanne Hinds, Olivia Brown and Adam Joinson (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023[Sep], Vol 125[3], 496-518). The following article is being corrected: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000338. Cangxiong Chen is added as the fifth author in the byline and author note. Cangxiong Chen's ORCID ID is now included in the author note. The CRediT paragraph in the author note now includes Cangxiong Chen's supporting role for the article. The first senten...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Interpersonal supports for basic psychological needs and their relations with motivation, well-being, and performance: A meta-analysis
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000459. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople's motivational processes, well-being, and performance are likely to be facilitated through the support of others. Self-determination theory argues that interpersonal supports for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are crucial to achieve these outcomes. In the present study, we provide a comprehensive examination of this formulation based on a meta-analytic database consisting of 4,561 effect sizes from 881 independent samples (N = 443,556). Our results indicate that supports for autonomy, competence, and relatedness were stro...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gavin R Slemp James G Field Richard M Ryan Vivien W Forner Anja Van den Broeck Kelsey J Lewis Source Type: research

How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000498. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPolitical orientation reflects beliefs, opinions, and values that are, at least in part, rooted in stable interindividual differences. Whereas evidence has accumulated with regard to the relevance of basic personality dimensions, especially concerning the sociocultural dimension of political ideology, less attention has been paid to the more specific dispositional tendency to assign a higher weight to one's own utility above others' (i.e., socially aversive personality), which is likely to play a pivotal role concerning the economic di...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Morten Moshagen Benjamin E Hilbig Ingo Zettler Source Type: research

Going beyond the "self" in self-control: Interpersonal consequences of commitment strategies
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000385. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCommitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and two supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy choice and use. In Study 1, using an incentivized trust game, we demonstrate that individuals trust people who choose to use a commitment strategy less than those who choose to use willpower to achieve their goals. Study 2 shows this relationship holds across four domains and for integrity-based trust in partic...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ariella S Kristal Julian J Zlatev Source Type: research

Life goal development, educational attainment, and occupational outcomes: A 12-year, multisample longitudinal study
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000499. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLife goals play a major role in shaping people's lives and careers. Although life goals have prior documented associations with occupational and other life outcomes, no prior studies have investigated associations between life goal development and occupational outcomes. Using two representative samples of Icelandic youth (Sample 1: n = 485, Sample 2: n = 1,339), followed across 12 years from adolescence to young adulthood, we examined life goal development and associations with educational attainment and a wide range of occupational ou...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andreea Sutu Kevin A Hoff Chu Chu Sif Einarsd óttir James Rounds Rodica Ioana Damian Source Type: research