Showing papers in "Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the anchor-based method is used to quantify the smallest subjectively experienced difference, i.e., the smallest change in an outcome measure that individuals consider to be meaningful enough in their subjective experience such that they are willing to rate themselves as feeling different.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether racial codeswitching enhances perceived professionalism for Black employees and found that employees who engage in codedwitching are consistently perceived as more professional by both Black and white participants compared to employees who do not codeswitch.

TL;DR: The authors examined how group identity and protection of group interests shape morality judgments and found that actions serving ingroup interests are more likely to be judged as moral (or less immoral) than the same actions that do not serve ingroup interest.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that people with conspiracy beliefs are better at detecting actual threat, worse at detecting the absence of threat, or simply trust less, irrespective of any social cue.

TL;DR: The authors found that participants who trust science are more likely to believe and disseminate false claims that contain scientific references, whereas those that do not, and pointed out that reminding participants of the value of critical evaluation reduces belief in false claims.

TL;DR: Reducing or eliminating C19 have become moralized, generating asymmetries in evaluations of human suffering, and questioning elimination approaches is morally condemned, a similar response to that found when sacred values are questioned.

TL;DR: This paper found that a brief experimental paradigm guiding students to reflect on their background-specific strengths leads lower-SES college students, as well as Black and Latinx middle school students from lower SES backgrounds, to endorse the idea that they are assets to their schools and society because of their backgrounds and increase their inclinations to persist in the face of academic difficulty.

TL;DR: Only for those who most strongly recognized the negative impact of COVID-19 did changes in poverty attributions translate to decreased support for inequality, and increased support for government intervention to help the poor.

TL;DR: This paper explored how local racial diversity affects Whites' efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact and found that Whites choose greater racial segregation around more (vs. less) self-relevant landmarks (e.g., their workplace and children's school).

TL;DR: In this paper, two experiments tested an intervention designed to convince people that their individual actions spread and multiply, causing larger changes in interconnected systems (also known as ripple or butterfly effects).

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of collective existential threat (i.e., a perception that the ingroup will cease to exist), along with three alternative/competing intergroup threats: status threat, symbolic threat, and prototypicality threat.

TL;DR: The authors found that deontological agents are no longer morally preferred when the actions of utilitarian agents are made to seem more predictable, and that people's lay theory of predictability is flexible and multi-faceted but nevertheless understood and used holistically in assessing the moral character of others.

TL;DR: This article showed that the very same emotion can influence information processing and persuasion depending on the appraisal of the emotion that is highlighted, and the effect of emotion on information processing was mediated by changes in thought favorability, and led to behavioral consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated biases in assumptions about pain sensitivity as an explanation for pain treatment disparities across socioeconomic status (SES) and found that lower-SES individuals are believed to feel less pain than higher-SE individuals, and this effect persists across target demographics including race and gender.

TL;DR: The authors compared the Implicit Puritanism account of intuitive work and sex morality to theories positing regional, religious, and social class differences; explicit rather than implicit cultural differences in values; self-expression vs. survival values as a key cultural fault line; the general moralization of work; and false positive effects.

TL;DR: The authors found that people reported greater empathy for groups depicted in the shows, held opinions that were more consistent with socio-political issues highlighted in the plays, and donated more money to charities related to the shows.

TL;DR: This paper showed that training inward or outward words increases fluency and liking for trained grammar, but these effects do not generalize to in-out movements, and that training effects on liking reflect a structural mere-exposure effect rather than a change in liking for inout motor movements.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that seeing a tearful individual elicits the intention to support, d = 0.49 [0.43, 0.55] and the effect was moderated by the situational valence and trait empathic concern.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report three experiments and an internal meta-analysis that examined whether the presence of an employee's gender pronouns (i.e., personal pronouns reflecting one's gender identity) in an employee biography, acts as an identity-safety cue for sexual and gender minorities.

TL;DR: This article investigated if disillusioned people could rely on nostalgic reverie to bolster, or reestablish, diminished perceptions of meaning, in three experiments and found that disillusioned individuals can replenish and reaffirm meaning in thoughts of past fondness and glory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of playing a video game with a sexualized versus a non-sexualized character on women's experiences of self-objectification and body satisfaction was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically test the AIA theory using a mix of survey, experimental, and experience-sampling methods and demonstrate that power fluctuation is associated with reduced well-being at work.

TL;DR: The Swiss cheese model of deception as discussed by the authors proposes that deception should be subtle yet elaborate, such as fake mistakes, planted assumptions, and convincers. But it does not consider the effects of deception on participants' perception of reality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the first experimental studies to assess the effects of violent and non-violent immersive immersive virtual reality games on affect, aggressive cognition, and behavior, and show that the relationship between aggressive cognitions, behavior and hostile affect was virtually nil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effects of 969 face-to-face discussions on the judgment accuracy of 211 teams facing a range of numeric estimation problems from geographic distances to historical dates to stock prices.

TL;DR: In this paper, three studies conducted in France and Romania tested the hypotheses that collective action is partly driven by conformity, as people follow what they perceive as normative in the social context, and hypothesized that contemporaneous affirmation of group identity would amplify such conformity.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that men expressed more public discomfort and anger following a gender threat (vs. assurance), as well as more shame and guilt when their masculinity was threatened than when their masculinities were assured, but these effects were not specific to gender threats.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors found that culture tightness (vs. looseness) triggers a desire for physical formidability (being big and muscular), and interpersonal dominance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated kinship and its relation to morality and found that social interaction inference differences were always more strongly correlated with obligation judgment differences than relatedness judgment differences, whereas endorsement of family values and ingroup-loyalty correlated positively with obligations toward family.

TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits of moral elevation on prosocial intentions extend to the context of intractable intergroup conflict, by testing whether moral elevation increases support for outgroup-favorable policies.