Journal of Experimental Social Psychology This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Making the right first impression: Sexual priming encourages attitude change and self-presentation lies during encounters with potential partners
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Gurit E. Birnbaum, Mor Iluz, Harry T. ReisAbstractRecent studies have shown that activation of the sexual system encourages enactment of relationship-initiating behaviors (Birnbaum et al., 2017). In four studies, we expand on this work to explore whether people are more inclined to lie to impress a potential partner following sexual priming. In all studies, participants were exposed to sexual stimuli (versus non-sexual stimuli) and then interacted with an opposite-sex stranger. In Study 1, unacquainted participants resolved...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Delay discounting in dyads and small groups: Group leadership, status information, and actor-partner interdependence
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Michael T. Bixter, Christian C. LuhmannAbstractDelay discounting is usually studied at the individual level, though there exist many situations where dyads and small groups have to make intertemporal decisions about delayed rewards. In the current study, we investigated the social dynamics in collective intertemporal decision making by experimentally manipulating group leadership and status differentials among dyad and group members. Participants in all experiments completed three phases of an intertemporal decision-making ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Understanding cognitive and affective mechanisms in social psychology through eye-tracking
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Rima-Maria Rahal, Susann FiedlerAbstractSocial psychological research is increasingly interested in the cognitive and affective processes underlying human behavior in social environments. To match this emerging interest, social psychology is embracing new methodological approaches. We identify eye-tracking as an unobtrusive, direct and fine-grained process tracing technique with promising implications for these new developments. In particular, eye-tracking helps researchers avoid relying on self-report measures alone and o...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

‘That's not funny!’ Standing up against disparaging humor
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Emma F. Thomas, Craig McGarty, Russell Spears, Andrew G. Livingstone, Michael J. Platow, Girish Lala, Kenneth MavorAbstractThe current article addresses bystander action to confront disparaging humor as a form of moral courage. We ask: When is disparaging humor seen as harmless fun or as a pernicious form of prejudice? What are the social and psychological processes through which bystanders confront, evade, or collaborate in disparaging humor? Three experiments (Ns = 95, 213, 220), involving a novel paradigm (‘the sha...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effects of social value orientation (SVO) and decision mode on controlled information acquisition—A Mouselab perspective
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Maik Bieleke, David Dohmen, Peter M. GollwitzerAbstractInsights into the processes underlying observed decisions are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of behavior. We investigate how individual social value orientation (SVO) relates to controlled information acquisition and how this relationship may be governed by intuitive versus reflective decision modes. We measure controlled information acquisition with the process tracing tool Mouselab and demonstrate its potential for advancing research on social decision-maki...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - November 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

One of a kind: The strong and complex preference for unique treatment from romantic partners
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Lalin Anik, Ryan HauserAbstractIndividuals prefer romantic partners who universally treat others well (i.e., partners who exhibit trait-level generosity) and also prefer partners who treat them uniquely. Previous work supports both preferences, yet the literature has largely ignored what happens when these preferences conflict. In the present work, we compare these two preferences in romantic relationships by pitting people's preference for trait-level generosity from their partner against their preference for unique treatm...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - October 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A dynamic analysis of the effect of alcohol consumption on humor enjoyment in a social context
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Catharine E. Fairbairn, Brynne A. Velia, Kasey G. Creswell, Michael A. SayetteAbstractMany social interactions involve alcohol consumption, and drinking alcohol can lead to powerful increases in enjoyment in these social contexts. Yet we know almost nothing of the means by which alcohol enhances social experience. Importantly, since individuals in social contexts not only respond to environmental conditions, but can also actively generate these conditions, understanding alcohol's social enhancement within wholly unstructure...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - October 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Messaging organizational change: How regulatory fit relates to openness to change through fairness perceptions
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Marta Roczniewska, E. Tory HigginsAbstractRegulatory fit theory predicts that matching a message to individuals' motivational orientation feels right, thereby enhancing fairness perceptions. In two studies we tested whether, through fairness perceptions, regulatory fit relates to greater openness to change, especially when that change has negative consequences for its recipients. Study 1 was a field experiment conducted among primary and middle school teachers who, respectively, expected positive versus negative outcomes f...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - October 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Good intentions aren't good enough: Moral courage in opposing sexual harassment
Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 86Author(s): Rachael Goodwin, Jesse Graham, Kristina A. DiekmannAbstractPeople may intend to call out or report sexual harassment but fail to do so when actually encountering it. In one exploratory study and one preregistered confirmatory study, more participants intended to take action against harassing behavior they encountered online than actually did so. Informed by Halmburger, Baumert, and Schmitt's (2016) integrative model of moral courage, we examined several individual difference variables (gender, trait moral courage, narcissis...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - October 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attitudes and attention
In this study we investigated these questions using eye-tracking and a two alternative forced food-choice task after measuring subjective values (attitude extremity) and their accompanying accessibility, certainty, and stability. Understanding this basic decision-making process is key if we are to gain insight on how to combat societal problems like obesity and other issues related to diet. We found that participants allocated more attention to items with lower attitude accessibility, but tended to choose items with higher attitude accessibility. Higher attitude certainty and stability had no effects on attention, but led ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Unite against: A common threat invokes spontaneous decategorization between social categories
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Felicitas Flade, Yechiel Klar, Roland ImhoffAbstractA frequent rhetoric in the political arena calls members of larger groups like nations to lay aside all dividing differences and unite in face of a common threat. In the present research we sought to test whether such a unifying effect of external threat already manifests in such basic cognitive processes as automatic categorization even for such strong schisms as the ones between black and white Americans or Israeli Jews and Arabs. In Studies 1 & 2 (N = 183/144, USA)...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Hard to disrupt: Categorization and enumeration by gender and race from mixed displays
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Xin Yang, Yarrow DunhamAbstractWhile much research has focused on the ways in which stereotyping and prejudice follow from category-based perception of others, less work has examined how and when category-based perception emerges in the first place. Here we adopt a number estimation task to explore perceivers' ability to estimate the number of individuals belonging to a given social category (race or gender) from briefly presented arrays of faces. We also investigate facial features that are crucial for this ability. Acros...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Don't remind me: When explicit and implicit moral reminders enhance dishonesty
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Jun Zhao, Zhiqiang Dong, Rongjun YuAbstractMoral reminders influence cheating behavior by increasing the saliency of moral values and standards that people adhere to. Previous studies on implicit and explicit moral reminders indicate that the presence of these moral reminders tends to reduce dishonesty in people. Results from our three experiments (n = 395) challenge these findings by demonstrating that exposure to explicit moral reminders consistently led to significant cheating in a dice-rolling experiment. Cheating ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Pushing up daisies: Goal orientations, death awareness, and satisfaction with life
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Kenneth E. Vail, Dylan E. Horner, Brett Waggoner, Joseph P. ContiAbstractThe present research built on terror management theory and self-determination theory to test whether heightened death awareness might undermine satisfaction with life among people oriented toward extrinsic goals (wealth, fame, attractiveness), yet lead people with stronger intrinsic goal orientations (personal growth, warm social connections) to reflect on life with greater satisfaction. In Study 1 (n = 263), participants indicated their relative ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“You” and “I” in a foreign land: The persuasive force of generic-you
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Ariana Orvell, Ethan Kross, Susan A. GelmanAbstractNorms help people navigate their social lives, dictating what behaviors are typical, expected, or valued in a given context. Here we suggest that a subtle linguistic cue—the generic usage of the word “you” (i.e., “you” that refers to people in general rather than to one or more specific individuals) carries persuasive force, influencing how people discern unfamiliar norms. Across five experiments (N = 800), people endorsed unfamiliar behaviors described with ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research