European Journal of Social Psychology

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Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony

Lynden K. Miles, Jordan L. Griffiths, Michael J. Richardson, C. Neil Macrae

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 52 - 60

The temporal coupling of behavior serves as a foundation for effective social exchange with synchronized actions moderating core components of social‐cognitive functioning. Questions remain, however, regarding the precise conditions under which this form of behavioral coordination emerges. In particular, do social factors moderate the extent to which people synchronize their movements with others?...

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Shaping cooperation behavior: The role of accessibility experiences and uncertainty

Patrick A. Müller, Rainer Greifeneder, Dagmar Stahlberg, Kees van den Bos, more

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 178 - 187

The present research investigates the influence on cooperative behavior of accessibility experiences associated with the retrieval of fairness‐relevant information from memory. We argue that the decision whether to cooperate in negotiations depends not only on information about the appropriateness of the negotiation procedure, but also on the experience of how difficult or easy it is to come up with...

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The impact of exchange programs on the integration of the hostgroup into the self‐concept

Kai Sassenberg, Christina Matschke

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 148 - 159

Two studies analyzed the impact of international exchange programs on students' identity development. More precisely, the authors predict that exchange students integrate the host society (hostgroup) into their self‐concept during an exchange year. Study 1 found a stronger social identification with the hostgroup and higher commitment for former exchange students than for future exchange students...

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Cooling the heat of temptation: Mental self‐control and the automatic evaluation of tempting stimuli

Wilhelm Hofmann, Roland Deutsch, Katie Lancaster, Mahzarin R. Banaji

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 17 - 25

The present research investigated whether mental self‐control strategies can reduce the automatic positivity elicited by tempting stimuli. In two studies employing chocolate as the temptation of interest, we found that participants instructed to imagine a chocolate product in a nonconsummatory manner exhibited significantly less automatic positivity with regard to the product as compared to participants...

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Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction

Galen V. Bodenhausen

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 1 - 16

Social psychological research is increasingly coming to grips with the complexity of social identity within the individual, both from the perspective of perceivers trying to form impressions and make judgments about multiply categorizable targets, as well as from the perspective of actors using their different self‐aspects as a framework for guiding their interactions with the social world. I review...

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United we stand: Intergroup conflict moderates the intergroup sensitivity effect

Amarina Ariyanto, Matthew J. Hornsey, Cindy Gallois

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 169 - 177

Ingroup members who criticize their group face much less resistance than outgroup members who say the same thing (the intergroup sensitivity effect). In the context of intergroup conflict, however, it was predicted that treatment of ingroup critics would not be so generous. Muslim Indonesians read an extract from an interview in which the speaker criticized Muslims. The comments were attributed to...

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Ideological orientation and social context as moderators of the effect of terrorism: The case of Israeli‐Jewish public opinion regarding peace

Keren Sharvit, Daniel Bar‐Tal, Amiram Raviv, Alona Raviv, more

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 105 - 121

The study investigated the effect of severe terror attacks on Israeli‐Jewish public opinion regarding peace in a context of progress toward peace (1994–1997) compared to a context of conflict escalation (2001–2002). We hypothesized that ideological orientations supporting peace (doves) or opposing it (hawks), as well as the social context in which terror occurs, would moderate its effects. We used...

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Retributive versus compensatory justice: Observers' preference for punishing in response to criminal offenses

Jan‐Willem van Prooijen

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 72 - 85

In the current paper, the author examines whether independent observers of criminal offenses have a relative preference for either retributive justice (i.e., punishing the offender) or compensatory justice (i.e., compensating the victim for the harm done). In Study 1, results revealed that participants recommended higher sums of money if a financial transaction was framed as offender punishment (i...

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Using the self to change implicit attitudes

Andrew Prestwich, Marco Perugini, Robert Hurling, Juliette Richetin

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 61 - 71

Implicit attitudes are automatic evaluations that occur upon encountering an object. Pairing a particular object with one's self should lead to a positive implicit evaluation of that object as, on the whole, people evaluate themselves positively. Study 1 (N = 83) demonstrated that asking participants to associate themselves with a particular drink (A) and others with an alternative drink (B) was enough...

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When I and me are different: assimilation and contrast in temporal self‐comparisons

Karlene Hanko, Jan Crusius, Thomas Mussweiler

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 160 - 168

In two studies, we show that comparisons with past or possible future selves shape current self‐evaluation and that the direction of this influence is determined by one's current comparison focus. In Study 1, participants primed to focus on similarities versus dissimilarities were asked to remember an introverted or extraverted past self and then to evaluate their current level of extraversion. Participants...

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Who is watching over you? The role of shared identity in perceptions of surveillance

Aisling T. O'Donnell, Jolanda Jetten, Michelle K. Ryan

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 135 - 147

Two studies were conducted to investigate the role of social identity in appraisals of the purpose and acceptance of surveillance. In Study 1 (N = 112), a survey study demonstrated that there is a negative relationship between identification with one's city and the extent to which public closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance is perceived as an invasion of privacy. This relationship was mediated...

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The effects of psychological security and insecurity on political attitudes and leadership preferences

Omri Gillath, Joshua Hart

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 122 - 134

Recent research from different perspectives suggests that uncertainty, mortality salience (MS), and other fundamental threats that cause feelings of insecurity motivate people to adhere to specific kinds of anxiety‐reducing political attitudes and values. In the current studies, we examined a complementary prediction that providing people with an alternative source of security would reduce their need...

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Beyond the information given: The power of a belief in self‐interest

Joel H. K. Vuolevi, Paul A. M. Van Lange

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 26 - 34

How do we interpret other's behavior when we lack important pieces of information? Do we give the other the benefit of the doubt, believing that the other behaves in a fair manner? Or do we “fill in the blanks” with self‐interest? To address these questions, we designed a new method—the dice‐rolling paradigm—in which participants observed another person assigning outcomes by rolling two dice and allocating...

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Uncertainty and religious reactivity: Uncertainty compensation, repair, and inoculation

Aaron L. Wichman

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 35 - 42

Recent research conducted in Western, democratic societies indicates that temporary uncertainty inductions lead to intolerance of religious dissent, increased conviction in religious attitudes, and even increased support for holy war. Past and current conflicts based on religious ideology underscore the danger such responses to uncertainty can pose. This paper responds to the need to learn how to...

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The puzzle of joking: Disentangling the cognitive and affective components of humorous distraction

Madelijn Strick, Rob W. Holland, Rick B. van Baaren, Ad van Knippenberg

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 43 - 51

Studies in cognitive psychology, marketing, and education indicate that humor distracts attention from non‐humorous information presented at the same time. Two experiments investigated why humor distracts attention. The two basic components of humor comprise (1) incongruency resolution, which poses cognitive demands and (2) positive affect. We disentangled the contributions of cognitive demands and...

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Political groups in contact: The role of attributions for outgroup attitudes in reducing antipathy

Jason R. Popan, Jared B. Kenworthy, Mark C. Frame, Patricia A. Lyons, more

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 1 > 86 - 104

In two cross‐sectional surveys and one experiment, we tested the hypothesis that attributions for outgroup ideologies would mediate the relationship between quality of contact and reduced prejudice. In Study 1, a British sample (N = 85) rated their perceptions of, and attributions for, their political outgroup's (i.e., conservative or liberal) belief system. Supporting our hypothesis, the relationship...

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Picture‐IAT versus Word‐IAT: level of stimulus representation influences on the IAT

Francesco Foroni, Tarik Bel‐Bahar

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 2 > 321 - 337

The Implicit Association Test is a paradigm designed to assess individual differences in implicit cognition. The goal of this report was to examine the reasons for discrepant effect magnitudes obtained with two presumably interchangeable versions: Picture‐IAT (P‐IAT) and Word‐IAT (W‐IAT). We show that this discrepancy is due to the relation between stimuli and referent category: the level of representation...

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Rule transgressions in groups: The conditional nature of newcomers' willingness to confront deviance

Jolanda Jetten, Matthew J. Hornsey, Russell Spears, S. Alexander Haslam, more

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 2 > 338 - 348

We provide evidence that, compared to old‐timers, newcomers' intentions to confront deviants are more sensitive to the social context when confronted with rule‐violations. Female rugby players (N = 71) were asked for their disapproval of, and willingness to sanction, ingroup and outgroup members who broke important rules in rugby. We also manipulated the status of the audience and found that newcomers...

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The more (complex), the better? The influence of epistemic motivation on integrative bargaining in complex negotiation

Job van der Schalk, Bianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, Carsten K.W. De Dreu

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 2 > 355 - 365

Negotiating about a larger number of issues is often argued to enhance the potential for integrative bargaining. However, the enhanced complexity may also make negotiators more susceptible to bias, making it less likely for them to reach win–win agreements. We argue that epistemic motivation, the motivation to hold accurate perceptions of the world, provides a key to solve this paradox. In a negotiation...

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Quality, quantity, and impact in academic publication

Nick Haslam, Simon M. Laham

European Journal of Social Psychology > 40 > 2 > 216 - 220

Publication records of 85 social‐personality psychologists were tracked from the time of their doctoral studies until 10 years post‐PhD. Associations between publication quantity (number of articles), quality (mean journal impact factor and article influence score), and impact (citations, h‐index, g‐index, webpage visits) were examined. Publication quantity and quality were only modestly related,...

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European Journal of Social Psychology

Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony

Shaping cooperation behavior: The role of accessibility experiences and uncertainty

The impact of exchange programs on the integration of the hostgroup into the self‐concept

Cooling the heat of temptation: Mental self‐control and the automatic evaluation of tempting stimuli

Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction

United we stand: Intergroup conflict moderates the intergroup sensitivity effect

Ideological orientation and social context as moderators of the effect of terrorism: The case of Israeli‐Jewish public opinion regarding peace

Retributive versus compensatory justice: Observers' preference for punishing in response to criminal offenses

Using the self to change implicit attitudes

When I and me are different: assimilation and contrast in temporal self‐comparisons

Who is watching over you? The role of shared identity in perceptions of surveillance

The effects of psychological security and insecurity on political attitudes and leadership preferences

Beyond the information given: The power of a belief in self‐interest

Uncertainty and religious reactivity: Uncertainty compensation, repair, and inoculation

The puzzle of joking: Disentangling the cognitive and affective components of humorous distraction

Political groups in contact: The role of attributions for outgroup attitudes in reducing antipathy

Picture‐IAT versus Word‐IAT: level of stimulus representation influences on the IAT

Rule transgressions in groups: The conditional nature of newcomers' willingness to confront deviance

The more (complex), the better? The influence of epistemic motivation on integrative bargaining in complex negotiation

Quality, quantity, and impact in academic publication

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