Influence of social context on the relationship between guilt and prosocial behaviour
While some previous researchers have found that guilt encourages prosocial behaviour towards a victim at the expense of other people, others have found the opposite, that is, people allocate resources at the expense of themselves. The present research used a hypothetical scenario method to determine which of these patterns would be replicated in the collectivistic context of Japanese society. In addition, we separated the cause of feelings of guilt into having caused harm and being at fault, and examined in more detail the effect of guilt on prosocial behaviour. Our results show that, in line with the second set of previou...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoshiya Furukawa, Ken'ichiro Nakashima, Yasuko Morinaga Tags: Special Issue Article Source Type: research
Descriptive norms influence reactions to anger‐related moral events
Based on recent theories of normative influence, we hypothesize that knowing how most people in the community view a certain moral event would shift individuals’ emotional reactions to the event in the direction of the descriptive norms. We conducted two studies to test this hypothesis. The participants in these studies were asked to indicate their moral judgement or emotional reactions to ambiguous events that could be construed as violations of justice‐/harm‐related morality, loyalty‐/authority‐related morality or purity‐related morality. In Study 1, after the participants had indicated their emotional reacti...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wenjun Gao, Manqi Chen, Yuan Li Tags: Special Issue Article Source Type: research
Indebtedness in cultural context: The role of culture in the felt obligation to reciprocate
Based on findings that East Asians report more intensely felt indebtedness than North Americans in response to situations in which they receive everyday help, the intensity of indebtedness was compared across Japanese and North American students using descriptions of indebtedness situations (Study 1) and scenarios (Study 2) in order to examine the cultural processes and meanings of indebtedness. In Study 1, felt intensity of indebtedness in 120 everyday societal situations revealed significantly stronger indebtedness among Japanese than Americans, and when Japanese rated on collectivistic daily situations. In Study 2, scen...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hidefumi Hitokoto Tags: Special Issue Article Source Type: research
Anger and perception of unfairness and harm: Cultural differences in normative processes that justify sanction assignment
Drawing on moral foundation theory, the author found that in response to an infringement of intellectual property rights, both US and Chinese samples reported anger and evaluated the infringement negatively. The results also highlight the importance of considering cultural factors in moral decision‐making. Apparently, in Chinese culture, moral decisions tend to be norm‐based, even when people are assigning sanction to a transgression of the ethics of autonomy. In contrast, in American culture, moral decisions tend to be preference‐based. Furthermore, although people tend to express their anger through punishment and ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - November 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Letty Yan‐Yee Kwan Tags: Special Issue Article Source Type: research
The effect of geographic indication in advertising background pictures on product evaluation: The moderating role of familiarity
This study investigates whether geographic indications in the backgrounds of advertising pictures might affect the viewer's evaluation of a product. The findings reveal that participants in the proximal geographic indication evaluated the product more favourably than those in the distal geographic indication when they were exposed to feasibility‐related information. By contrast, participants in the distal geographic indication evaluated the product more favourably than those in the proximal geographic indication when they were exposed to desirability‐related information. However, familiarity with geographic indications...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - October 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yeung‐Jo Kim, Sie‐Yeoun Song, Junsang Yeo Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Reexamining the linear and U‐shaped relationships between self‐control and emotional and behavioural problems
Previous studies have demonstrated a linear relationship between self‐control and emotional and behavioural problems. However, some scholars have assumed that both under‐control and over‐control may result in undesired problems, which implies a U‐shaped relationship between them. This issue was reexamined in three Chinese samples in the present study. Self‐report measures that conceptually assessed self‐control and emotional (i.e. depression and negative emotion) and behavioural (i.e. rule‐breaking behaviour, aggression and counterproductive work behaviour) problems were administered to adolescents (N = 8...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Qiao‐Min Situ, Jian‐Bin Li, Kai Dou Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
From self‐disclosure to prosocial behaviour: Feedback as a moderator
Prosocial behaviours and their correlates have been extensively studied; however, few studies have examined the linkage between self‐disclosure and prosocial behaviours. Three studies were conducted aimed at examining the relationship between self‐disclosure and prosocial tendencies, as well as the moderating role of feedback from the help provider's perspective. We hypothesized that participants' self‐disclosure was positively associated with his/her prosocial tendencies and that this association would be moderated by feedback received. The results generally support our hypotheses, and reveal that participants with ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Xuan Song, Xin Zhang, Robert Melloy, Fei Wang, Hongliu Zhan, Lei Wang Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Cultural worldviews and climate change: A view from China
We investigated the association between cultural worldviews and climate change risk perceptions, support for climate friendly policies and climate change mitigation behaviours in a large Chinese sample. Items from Dake's cultural theory scales and Kahan's cultural cognition scale were presented to a Qualtrics online panel consisting of 515 Mandarin‐speaking residents of Beijing. A series of factor analyses revealed that the combined item sets were best represented by four‐dimensions: hierarchism, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Mediation analysis revealed that respondents with egalitarian and non‐fatalist...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wen Xue, Donald W. Hine, Anthony D. G. Marks, Wendy J. Phillips, Shouying Zhao Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
The relationship between autonomous motivation and goal pursuit: A cross‐cultural perspective
People pursue their goals for different reasons, and previous research has distinguished two types of autonomous reason: relationally autonomous reasons (RARs) and personally autonomous reasons (PARs). The present study examines how RARs and PARs predict goal performance and well‐being differently for people in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Participants included 250 American and 246 Chinese undergraduate students. They listed two of the most important goals they were currently pursuing, and completed survey measures to assess their RARs, PARs, goal effort and progress, and personal and collective self‐es...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tao Jiang, Jonathan S. Gore Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Individual social capital and the implementation of entrepreneurial intentions: The case of Russia
The current research hypothesized that individual social capital facilitates the implementation of one's intention to start a business. The research samples were drawn from a sample of 2061 adult respondents: a sub‐sample of 269 adults who stated their intention to start their own business during the next two years (‘intenders’) and a matching sub‐sample of 270 who said they did not intend to do so (‘non‐intenders’). The study shows that the ‘intenders’ possessed greater individual social capital. These resources had a positive indirect impact (through increased perceived behavioural control and attitude)...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alexander Tatarko, Peter Schmidt Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Fairness‐related behaviour modulation by friendship is moderated by American primes in Chinese participants
This study used the cultural priming paradigm and the Ultimatum Game (UG) to explore whether cultural primes could moderate the relationship effect on fairness‐related decision making. We primed Chinese participants with either Chinese cultural symbols or American cultural symbols and asked them to play as responders with friends or strangers in the two‐party UG (experiment 1) or in the three‐party UG (experiment 2). Results from the two experiments confirm that Chinese participants accepted unfair offers more often when the offers were made by friends than when the offers were made by strangers. However, the relatio...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yan Wu, Mengyuan Zhang, Chi Zhang, Xuehong Tian Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
The rise and fall of the Pacquiao Effect: Contrastive priming and national identification
We demonstrate in a series of field and controlled experiments that assimilative and contrastive priming effects can be observed in the pattern of self‐concept change in response to a major cultural event. Study 1 used the brief implicit association test (BIAT) to measure national identification of Filipinos online across a period of time that encompassed a national sporting event. The pattern of scores support the hypothesis that while people who were ambivalent about identifying with Filipino concepts exhibited an assimilation effect (i.e. a slight rise in identification after the fight), people who already highly iden...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Adrianne John R. Galang, Diwa Malaya A. Quiñones, Jeremiah Adriano, Paolo Martin G. Portillo, Michael Erick D. Carvajal Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Monarchism, national identity and social representations of history in Indonesia: Intersections of the local and national in the sultanates of Yogyakarta and Surakarta
In the young state of Indonesia, old local authorities like sultanates have reasserted themselves. This reemergence of localized authority does not necessarily conflict with nation building. Survey research among adult samples (N = 399) in the neighbouring sultanates of Yogyakarta and Surakarta found that social representations of history were implicated in the relationship between monarchism and national identity. In Yogyakarta (but not Surakarta), a positive intersection between local and national representations of history was found: events and people associated with the sultanate were also regarded as instrumental ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 13, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Moh Abdul Hakim, James H. Liu, Laina Isler, Mark R. Woodward Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Does content matter? The effect of remorseful tone on length of prison sentence
This study explores this phenomenon by contrasting the impact of exercising remorse solely in words or through emotional tone. Remorse consists of guilt, shame and sorrow. This study examines the contribution of each of these emotions to judgements about prison sentences, which is an area seldom explored in the literature. It is shown that regardless of the gender of the offender, participants censured a significantly more severe punishment for the offender who expressed a sense of remorse using words rather than tone. In addition, only shame was a significant predictor of the severity of punishment. These findings are con...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lap Yan Lo, On Na Au‐Yeung, Muriel Lin Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Belief in a just world lowers bribery intention
Corruption is rampant around the world and can be detrimental to social justice. We aim to understand whether and how belief in a just world to self (BJW‐self) influences individuals' intentions to become involved in bribery. We measured bribery intention using hypothetical scenarios. In Study 1 and Study 2, we consistently found that BJW‐self negatively predicted bribery intention, and this pattern was mediated by perceived punishment of getting involved in bribery. We further demonstrated the causal effect of BJW‐self on bribery intention in an experiment (Study 3). These results indicate that BJW as one lay belief...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 15, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Bao‐yu Bai, Xiao‐xiao Liu, Yu Kou Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
