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You should go for diversity, but I'd rather stay with similar others: Social distance modulates the preference for diversity
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Mariela E. Jaffé, Selma C. Rudert, Rainer GreifenederAbstractOrganizations often state that they value diversity. The workforce, however, is often quite homogeneous, reflecting a striking mismatch between aspirations and reality. Based on the distinction between desirability and feasibility concerns, we provide a psychological argument for this mismatch. We hypothesize that social distance influences individuals' choices regarding diversity. When being socially more distant, individuals prefer to assemble a diverse team, ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sensory preconditioning of evaluation requires accurate memory of the co-occurrence between the neutral stimuli
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Yael Ecker, Yoav Bar-AnanAbstractNeutral “conditioned” stimuli (CS) acquire the valence of valent “unconditioned” stimuli (US) after the stimuli are paired. This effect has often been attributed to a low-level mechanism that occurs automatically, even without awareness of the CS-US pairing. However, recent research has failed to support this assumption. In three experiments (N = 1541), we tested the possibility of attitude formation without awareness of pairing with a US using a sensory preconditioning paradigm...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Revisiting embodied approach and avoidance effects on behavior: The influence of sitting posture on purchases of rewarding foods
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Dario Krpan, Barbara FasoloAbstractThe body is central to theoretical understanding of approach and avoidance, but previous research comprehensively investigated the embodiment of the two motivational orientations only in relation to basic motor reactions such as push and pull, and psychological processes such as attitudes. Our research addresses the neglected impact on more sophisticated behaviors that go beyond psychological processes or basic motor responses. Specifically, in the present research we probed how leaning (...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Beauty in the eyes and the hand of the beholder: Eye and hand movements' differential responses to facial attractiveness
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Natalie T. Faust, Anjan Chatterjee, George I. ChristopoulosAbstractFaces carry significant social information and, as such, humans need to allocate attention to them. In particular, facial attractiveness is an important dimension that considerably influences social judgment. The allocation of attentional resources to facial attractiveness has been widely examined in social psychology, however mostly by measures of eye movement. While this literature demonstrates the influence of facial attractiveness on overt attention, ho...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Liberals perceive more racism than conservatives when police shoot Black men—But, reading about White privilege increases perceived racism, and shifts attributions of guilt, regardless of political ideology
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Erin Cooley, Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, D'Jonita CottrellAbstractAcross two studies, we examined how ideological differences in perceptions of racism influenced non-Black people's perceptions of violent encounters between police officers and Black men. In Study 1, social liberals perceived more racism when a Black man was shot by police than did social conservatives. However, a lesson about White privilege increased perceived racism in these events, regardless of political ideology. In Study 2, we replicated these effects and ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Acting by a deadline: The interplay between deadline distance and movement induced goals
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Duo Jiang, Dolores AlbarracínAbstractHuman awareness of the passing of time leads to psychological processes designed to handle these inherent temporal limitations. Deadlines serve to energize desired courses of action and are likely to exert effects by leveraging general goals. Movement (e.g., walking, running) and stasis (e.g., standing, sitting), for example, may elicit general action and inaction goals that affect unrelated, time-constrained decisions. Across one field experiment and three lab experiments, prior movem...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): (Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Steven G. Young, Ryan E. Tracy, John Paul Wilson, Robert J. Rydell, Kurt HugenbergAbstractThe human face conveys a wealth of information, including traits, states, and intentions. Just as fundamentally, the face also signals the humanity of a person. In the current research we report two experiments providing evidence that disruptions of configural face encoding affect the temporal dynamics of categorization during attempts to distinguish human from non-human faces. Specifically, the present experiments utilize mouse-track...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The impact of imagined contact in the realm of human-animal relations: Investigating a superordinate generalization effect involving both valued and devalued animals
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Béatrice Auger, Catherine E. AmiotAbstractThe generalization of positive attitudes is a key consequence of intergroup contact. In this research, we examine how imagined contact with a specific individual animal (i.e., dog, cow) impacts on participants' positive attitudes toward this individual's animal subgroup (i.e., pets, farm animals) and also toward a more superordinate group (i.e., animals in general). We also investigate two potential moderators of these effects: social dominance orientation (SDO) and prior contact ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Mina Cikara, Jim SidaniusAbstractThe capacity to empathize with others facilitates prosocial behavior. People's willingness and capacity to empathize, however, is often contingent upon the target's group membership – people are less empathic towards those they categorize as out-group members. In competitive or threatening intergroup contexts, people may even feel pleasure (counter-empathy) in response to out-group members' misfortunes. Social dominance orientation (SDO), or the extent to wh...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Unhealthy and unaware? Misjudging social comparative standing for health-relevant behavior
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Jane E. Miller, Paul D. Windschitl, Teresa A. Treat, Aaron M. SchererAbstractPeople sometimes modify their behavior based on whether they believe they do more or less of that behavior than others. But are people's perceptions of their social-comparative status for behaviors generally accurate? The current research assessed accuracy and bias in perceived social-comparative status for a number of health-related behaviors. In two studies, participants estimated their social-comparative percentile regarding behavior frequency ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Loss framing increases self-serving mistakes (but does not alter attention)
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Margarita Leib, Andrea Pittarello, Tom Gordon-Hecker, Shaul Shalvi, Marieke RoskesAbstractIn ambiguous settings, people are tempted to make self-serving mistakes. Here, we assess whether people make more self-serving mistakes to minimize losses compared with maximize gains. Results reveal that participants are twice as likely to make self-serving mistakes to reduce losses compared to increase gains. We further trace participants' eye movements to gain insight into the process underlying self-serving mistakes in losses and ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Protecting an important goal: When prior self-control increases motivation for active goal pursuit
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Lile Jia, Edward R. Hirt, Ayelet FishbachAbstractThe recent debate in the study of ego depletion casts doubt on the assumption that self-control has a limited capacity. Adopting a revisionist perspective, we assume that people manage self-control exertion efficiently and ask what psychological mechanism would counteract motivational withdrawal following initial exertion in order to sustain an important goal pursuit. We predicted and found that prior self-control increased students' motivation for active pursuit of the acad...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multiculturalism in classically liberal societies: Group membership and compatibility between individual and collective justice
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Jessica Gale, Christian StaerkléAbstractThe degree to which classical liberal, individualist principles of Western societies are seen as (in)compatible with multiculturalism and minority rights is a key issue in diverse societies. Classical liberalism is grounded in individual justice principles, suggesting that individuals are responsible for their own fate and should be treated according to their personal characteristics, regardless of group membership. Multiculturalism, in turn, is grounded in collective justice princi...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Tribalism can corrupt: Why people denounce or protect immoral group members
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 85Author(s): Ashwini Ashokkumar, Meredith Galaif, William B. SwannAbstractWhen ingroup members behave immorally, what determines whether other group members denounce vs. protect them? We asked if concerns for group reputation might determine how people respond to the moral indiscretions of group members. In four studies, participants read about an immoral act committed by a member of their political party. The act was either publicly known to people outside of the participant's political party (i.e., “public transgression”) or hidd...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - August 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research