Intergroup retaliation and intra‐group praise gain: The effect of expected cooperation from the in‐group on intergroup vicarious retribution
This study examined the effect of expected cooperation from the in‐group on intergroup vicarious retribution through intra‐group reputation based on praise gain and exclusion avoidance. In the experiment, we conducted a one‐on‐one match in which, after participants learned that an out‐group member (as the winner) had imposed a fine on an in‐group member (as the loser) in a previous round, winning participants were allowed to impose an arbitrary fine on the other losing out‐group member. As a result, participants imposed a larger fine on their out‐group member opponent in retaliation when they were expected ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kengo Nawata, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Stressors and well‐being in low socio‐economic status Malaysian adolescents: The role of resilience resources
The present study examined the relationship between stressors, resilience resources, and well‐being in adolescents with low socio‐economic status in Malaysia. The specific aims were: (i) to differentiate between resilient and non‐resilient adolescents in terms of their resilience resources; and (ii) to examine the role of resilience resources on the relationship between stressors and well‐being. In a sample of 197 adolescents aged 12–16 years (mean = 13.77, sd = 1.49), results of the k‐mean clustering technique identified 37.5% of the adolescents as resilient (high stressor, high well‐being), 31.0% as...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Noraini M. Noor, Azlin Alwi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
A China–New Zealand comparison of forgiveness
The present study examined the practice of forgiveness among participants from China (N = 172) and New Zealand (N = 91). We tested a theoretical model describing the relationships between collectivism, individualism, and forgiveness. Participants from China were more collectivistic and less individualistic than were participants from New Zealand. Overall, participants from New Zealand were more forgiving than were participants from China. Collectivism was positively related to decisional forgiveness in Chinese participants. Decisional forgiveness independently predicted conciliatory behaviour among participants fro...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joshua N. Hook, Everett L. Worthington, Don E. Davis, David Watkins, Eadaoin Hui, Wenshu Luo, Hong Fu, Boaz Shulruf, Paul Morris, Samuel H. Reyna Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Socioeconomic status, perceived parental control, and authoritarianism: Development of authoritarianism in Iranian society
The purpose of the current study is to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status, parental control, and authoritarianism in Iran. A sample of 460 students was surveyed from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in Iran. Results demonstrated that subjective socioeconomic status, parental control, and parents' education have significant influence on authoritarianism. Further analysis showed that parental control partially mediates parents' education association with authoritarianism with a relatively high effect size. These findings highlight the importance of parental control and socioeconomic status in the develop...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Arash Heydari, Ali Teymoori, E. F. Haghish Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Hesitation in communication: Does minority status delay responses?
Past studies indicated that people in a minority (vs. majority) position are slower to express their public/political opinion, and the larger the difference between the size of the two positions, the slower the response. Bassili termed this the minority‐slowness effect (MSE). In the current study, two experiments were conducted to demonstrate that MSE extends to people's understanding of utterances and explored the cognitive basis for this. Participants were asked to judge if an utterance is a ‘direct’ or an ‘indirect’ expression. The results show that participants in the minority (vs. majority) took longer to re...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Ivy Yee Man Lau, Chi Yue Chiu Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Inglehart‐Welzel's Traditional vs. Rational index revisited: A comparison between China and the West
Inglehart‐Welzel's ‘Traditional‐Rational’ Index has been widely accepted as a way to summarize changes in values between agricultural and industrial societies. An empirical re‐examination of the Index using the most recent World Values Survey data, however, suggests that it fails to represent the value profiles of mainland Chinese. I introduce a five‐item measurement called ‘Confucian Index of interpersonal relations’. It aims to capture some salient values in Chinese culture and show that, in China, Confucian values that govern interpersonal relations within one's immediate social environment are not in co...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Man‐Li Gu Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Terrorism and jihad in Indonesia: Questions and possible ways forward
We critically examine the three papers on terrorism and jihad in Indonesia contained in this issue. First, we argue that thorough discussion and definition of key terms (including religious violence and jihad) would have led to a much stronger framework for understanding the voices of the activists and their supporters. Second, the authors could have engaged more systematically with the international literature on intergroup relations and conflict to discuss how psychological and social processes of radicalization are similar or different in the Indonesian context. Third, we highlight methodological and ethical shortcoming...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - May 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Charles Harb, Ronald Fischer Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Towards an indigenous psychology of religious terrorism with global implications: Introduction to AJSP's Special Issue on Islamist terrorism in Indonesia
While Islamist forms of terrorism have received a great deal of attention from scholars, insider accounts by indigenous scholars are still under‐represented. This Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology brings together three articles on religious terrorism and sacred violence in Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic state. They bring together qualitative methods, including interviews with terrorist members of KOMPAK and Jemaah Islamiyah (including the Bali Bombers), with quantitative methods using structural equation modelling to explain a national representative sample's attitudes towards sacred v...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - May 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James H. Liu, Mark Woodward Tags: INTRODUCTION Source Type: research
Psychological insights into Indonesian Islamic terrorism: The what, the how and the why of violent extremism
The three articles in this special section of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology illuminate several aspects of the psychology of Islamist Indonesian terrorists. This analysis partitions these into the contents (the what) of the terrorists' belief system, the motivational underpinnings (the why) of these beliefs, and the social process (the how), whereby motivational concerns are translated into ideological beliefs that, under conditions of utter commitment to ideological dictates, foster violent action. This discussion addresses the universal process of radicalization exemplified in the Indonesian case, and the unique ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Arie W. Kruglanski Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The effects of general trust on building new relationships after social exclusion: An examination of the ‘Settoku Nattoku Game’
This study used the ‘Settoku Nattoku Game’ (SNG) to examine the effect of general trust on the formation of new relationships after social exclusion. The SNG is a game in which half of the players (the Persuaders) must try to convince the other half (the Persuaded) that a statement is true during an initial session (S1). The two groups then switch roles in a second session (S2). Following the SNG protocol, our dependent variable was the number of people sought out as interaction partners during S2. The frequency of being selected as an interaction partner by others during S1 (i.e. having experienced social exclusion or...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kuniaki Yanagisawa, Takashi Nishimura, Kaichiro Furutani, Mitsuhiro Ura Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Predictors of intergroup concern for disaster victims of the Japan earthquake
The study examined the relationships between out‐group perception, perceived intergroup conflict, emotions, and concern for out‐group victims in the context of the Japanese earthquake of 2011. Six hundred and eighty‐six participants in China completed a questionnaire immediately after the earthquake. Results showed that the image of Japan and historical conflicts between the two nations significantly predicted intergroup emotions. A positive image of Japan enhanced Chinese respondents' perceived competence of the Japanese people, which, however, appeared to mitigate concern for the victims. Positive emotions increase...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Shaojing Sun, Hanna Zagefka, Robin Goodwin Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Two faces of interdependence: Harmony seeking and rejection avoidance
We argue that the current concept of interdependent self‐construal as ‘harmony seeking’ has overlooked a strategic aspect of interdependence, which we term ‘rejection avoidance’. Using newly constructed scales of interdependent self‐construal, one for harmony seeking and one for rejection avoidance, we find that Japanese respondents showed lower independence and higher rejection avoidance than Americans, while no cultural difference was found in harmony seeking. These findings explain why past efforts to demonstrate cultural differences in interdependent self‐construal using self‐report measures exclusively...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - March 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hirofumi Hashimoto, Toshio Yamagishi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The pan‐culturality of well‐being: but how does culture fit into the equation?
This essay addresses the question of how best to do culturally sensitive research on social processes. This research aims to assess models for individual outcomes that hold across cultural groups but are moderated by cultural factors. Such research requires that social scientists identify and metricize cultural factors, like socialization goals, that have a face‐valid connection to these social processes. Relevant indigenous constructs need to be operationalized and included in our models to ensure their widest possible applicability. I argue that well‐being is a pan‐culturally relevant and important outcome of scien...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - March 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michael Harris Bond Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The culture of the situation: The role of situational strength in cultural systems
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michele J. Gelfand, Janetta Lun Tags: COMMENTARIES ON LEAD ARTICLE Source Type: research
Situational challenges: Putting biology, resources and multi‐level constraints back into the picture
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ronald Fischer Tags: COMMENTARIES ON LEAD ARTICLE Source Type: research
