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When skeptical, stick with the norm: Low dilemma plausibility increases deontological moral judgments
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Anita Körner, Susann Joffe, Roland DeutschAbstractIn moral psychology, typically used dilemmas contrast options where deontology and utilitarianism demand mutually exclusive actions. However, these dilemmas are usually unrealistic thought experiments, with implausibly few options and implausible statements about the consequences of these options. The present research examines whether variations in dilemma plausibility influence moral judgments. This influence might result from two psychological factors—cost–benefit c...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The utilitarian scientist: The humanization of scientists in moral dilemmas
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Nicholas Sosa, Kimberly RiosAbstractPrior research suggests that people perceive scientists as having both humanizing (e.g., trustworthy, rational) and dehumanizing (e.g., robotic, emotionless) qualities. The present research examined if cultural stereotypes of scientists as utilitarian decision-makers predicts evaluations of scientists' humanness. In a series of studies, participants (U.S. Mechanical Turk workers; N = 783) evaluated how they believed scientists and other target groups would resolve different moral di...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Men over women: The social transmission of gender stereotypes through spatial elevation
We examined the cultural implications of such associations for gender stereotypes. Specifically, we hypothesized that people would make location-based attributions of power and dominance when targets are situated in noisy, real-world environments (i.e., magazine pages; Study 1); that men generally appear higher than women across print media (Study 2: Content Analysis); and that this gender-location association would ultimately cause perceivers to think that men (in general) are more powerful and dominant people than are women (Study 3; meta-analysis). Results supported hypotheses and indicate that exposure to this cultural...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

On the external validity of evaluative conditioning: Evaluative responses generalize to modified instances of conditioned stimuli
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Mandy Hütter, David TiggesAbstractEvaluative conditioning (EC) is a social-cognitive research paradigm that is claimed to serve as an experimental analogue for the acquisition of attitudes towards individuals and groups. Previous research has challenged this claim by showing that the EC effect in facial stimuli is disrupted when a single feature of a face is altered. As the external validity of research paradigms is vital when generalizing findings from an experiment to the social world, the present research reconsiders ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perceived to feel less: Intensity bias in interethnic emotion perception
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Pum Kommattam, Kai J. Jonas, Agneta H. FischerAbstractThe quality of interactions between individuals from different ethnic groups partly depends on how emotions of individual ethnic group members are interpreted. Previous research has found that facial expressions of emotions of a different ethnic group are recognized less accurately than facial expressions of members of the same ethnic group. The current research focuses on a bias in intensity perception and tests the hypothesis that individuals perceive facial expressi...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cultural fluency means all is okay, cultural disfluency implies otherwise
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Ying Lin, Sharon Arieli, Daphna OysermanAbstractBeing part of a culture means knowing what to expect in most everyday situations –with the implication that something may be awry if unfolding situation mismatches culture-based expectation. We tested the prediction that culture-based mismatches challenge people's sense that current patterns (e.g. the color of money, the taste of toothpaste) represent a natural order, calling into question whether social categories have stable essences. To do so, we asked people in China, ...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Similar but unequal: Political polarization in the effects of perceived social similarity on support for redistribution
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Nailya OrdabayevaAbstractThe inequality of wealth in the United States has reached record high levels in recent years. Although many people agree that the current level of inequality is extreme, public support for redistributive measures designed to reduce inequality is divided. Prior work predicts that perceiving high similarity can potentially boost individuals' support for redistribution. However, the present research proposes that the effect of social similarity on redistribution support may be more complex. Whereas h...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The dynamic nature of social norms: New perspectives on norm development, impact, violation, and enforcement
Publication date: Available online 27 June 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social PsychologyAuthor(s): Gerben A. van Kleef, Michele J. Gelfand, Jolanda JettenAbstractSocial norms are a key feature of human sociality. By clarifying expectations and facilitating coordination, social norms serve as the cornerstones of well-functioning collectives. Reflecting their pivotal role in sustaining the smooth operation of groups and communities, research on social norms in psychology and adjacent disciplines is flourishing. Nevertheless, several critical questions have only recently begun to attract scholarly attention. Here we h...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Who encourages Latina women to feel a sense of identity-safety in STEM environments?
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Evava S. Pietri, Montana L. Drawbaugh, Arielle N. Lewis, India R. JohnsonAbstractLatinas are among the least represented groups in STEM and, thus, may have concerns about not belonging or feeling welcome in STEM environments. Identity-safe cues (i.e., scientists with shared identities), may address this issue and encourage Latinas' belonging and interest in STEM. To examine this possibility, in the first study, we presented Latina women with a fictional STEM company and a scientist working at the company who was either La...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Egocentric foundations of trust
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Ann-Christin Posten, Thomas MussweilerAbstractTrusting the trustworthy brings benefits whereas trusting the untrustworthy brings harm. Discriminating between the two is key to every social encounter. We propose that humans turn to internal information, namely the self, when judging the trustworthiness of others. Simulating how oneself would behave in situations that involve trust helps to predict how a counterpart may behave. Importantly, using the same self as a basis for judgments about others may result in diverging ou...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “The woman who wasn't there: Converging evidence that subliminal social comparison affects self-evaluation” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73(2017), 1–13]
Publication date: Available online 24 June 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social PsychologyAuthor(s): Armand Chatard, Yvana Bocage-Barthélémy, Leila Selimbegović, Serge Guimond (Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An experimental study of the formation of collective memories in social networks
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Andra Geana, Ajua Duker, Alin ComanAbstractThe psychological research on the formation of collective memories has explored how individuals come to hold similar memories following conversational interactions in social networks. These collective memories are dependent on both individual-level cognitive mechanisms as well as on the social influence exerted during people's conversations. Building on this work, we investigate the impact of the network structure of conversational interactions on the formation of collective memo...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Folk moral objectivism and its measurement
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 84Author(s): Lieuwe ZijlstraAbstractExperimental philosophers and psychologists investigate whether people perceive moral judgments to be objectively true or false. Existing research focuses on a single dimension of ‘perceived objectivity’. The present research examines whether multiple dimensions of folk moral objectivity underlie moral judgments. It also examines whether such dimensions relate to perceived objectivity, tolerance, and people's behavioral intentions to punish norm-violators. Exploratory factor analysis on twenty e...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - June 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: July 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 83Author(s): (Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An old task in new clothes: A preregistered direct replication attempt of enclothed cognition effects on Stroop performance
Publication date: July 2019Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 83Author(s): Devin M. Burns, Elizabeth L. Fox, Michael Greenstein, Gayla Olbright, DeMaris MontgomeryAbstractAdam and Galinsky (2012) motivated their theory of enclothed cognition using experimental results showing that wearing a doctor's coat improved selective attention by reducing errors on incongruent Stroop trials. While many other studies have pursued extensions of this idea, there have been no published replications of this influence on the Stroop effect. This preregistered, direct replication attempt uses equivalence testing and th...
Source: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research