Article
Psychology, Social
Andrea Pereira, Elizabeth Harris, Jay J. Van Bavel
Summary: The study tests three competing theoretical accounts to explain the rise and spread of political (mis)information. Findings suggest that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to believe news related to their own ingroup's value or to the outgroup's undermining behavior, consistent with the political identity hypothesis. Belief is positively correlated with willingness to share on social media in all conditions, but Republicans are more likely to believe and share apolitical fake news.
GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Pawel Lowicki, Marta Marchlewska, Zuzanna Molenda, Adam Karakula, Dagmara Szczepanska
Summary: There is an increasing interest in the relationship between religion and psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent findings suggest that religious fundamentalism is positively related to coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, which then lead to socially maladaptive behavior.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Kwok Kuen Tsang, Yixuan Du, Yuan Teng
Summary: This study examined the relationships between teacher burnout, transformational leadership, and psychological empowerment among primary and secondary school teachers in China. The results showed that transformational leadership and psychological empowerment negatively predicted teacher burnout, and the relationship between transformational leadership and teacher burnout was mediated by psychological empowerment, specifically the dimensions of meaning, self-determination, and competence. Thus, transformational leadership can alleviate teacher burnout by enhancing teachers' sense of work meaningfulness, self-determination, and competence.
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Pamela Parada-Fernandez, David Herrero-Fernandez, Richard Jorge, Patricia Comesana
Summary: The study found that wearing a mask impacts emotion recognition, but enhances the perception of attractiveness towards individuals wearing a mask. However, emotion recognition when wearing a mask performed worse than when not wearing a mask.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Marta Marchlewska, Ricky Green, Aleksandra Cichocka, Zuzanna Molenda, Karen M. Douglas
Summary: This research found that using maladaptive coping strategies, particularly avoidance coping, may be closely associated with belief in conspiracy theories. Through experiments and surveys with British participants, it was discovered that activating avoidance coping significantly increased belief in conspiracy theories.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Kaylene J. McClanahan, Jon K. Maner, Joey T. Cheng
Summary: The dual-strategies theory suggests that both dominance and prestige can be effective strategies for gaining social rank in groups, with prestige being more effective in maintaining social rank over time. A longitudinal study of MBA project groups found that both dominance and prestige predicted gains in social rank over 4 weeks, but prestige led to social rank through willingly given deference from group members.
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Family Studies
T. D. O. Oliveira, D. S. Costa, A. Alvim-Soares, J. J. de Paula, I. Kestelman, A. G. Silva, L. F. Malloy-Diniz, D. M. Miranda
Summary: This study investigated the differences among children raised by negative and positive parenting families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that parents' frequent use of negative strategies was associated with negative outcomes related to mental health, games, sleep, and children's behavior. The study suggests that training parents in parenting styles and strategies is crucial for managing children and avoiding negative consequences during stressful times.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2022)
Article
Political Science
Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Talia Cohen Rodrigues, Carlotta Bunzel, Oana Georgescu, Daniel Komaromy, Andre P. M. Krouwel
Summary: This research examines the relationship between populist attitudes and beliefs in unsubstantiated epistemic claims, finding that populist attitudes are associated with conspiracy mentality, increased credulity of nonpolitical news items, receptivity to bullshit statements, and supernatural beliefs. These findings may be mediated by increased faith in intuition.
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Caterina Suitner, Jolanda Jetten
Summary: The study explores the relationship between economic inequality and the proliferation of conspiracy beliefs. Both objective and perceived economic inequality were found to be associated with greater conspiracy beliefs. High economic inequality can lead to conspiratorial thinking, which may be a response to the perception of society breaking down, aiming to regain a sense of order and control.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Social Issues
Devin G. Atallah, Urmitapa Dutta
Summary: The text discusses the influence of colonialism and coloniality on modernity, as well as the importance of decolonial movements in redefining the meaning of humanity by Global South peoples. It emphasizes the need for transnational efforts to decenter Whitestream academic institutions as hubs of knowledge production, and discusses decolonial work in Palestine and India.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Timothy F. Bainbridge, Steven G. Ludeke, Luke D. Smillie
Summary: This study empirically examined whether the Big Five can serve as an organizing framework for psychological trait scales and found that a majority of stand-alone psychological trait scales can be closely related to the Big Five framework, with some scales reasonably labeled as facets of the Big Five. By adopting an integrative pluralism approach, construct proliferation can be reduced and findings from disparate fields can be more easily integrated.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Johanna Hartung, Martina Bader, Morten Moshagen, Oliver Wilhelm
Summary: The study found that the D factor and its themes were invariant across age and gender, despite potential differences in dark personality traits among different sexes and within 35 age groups. Men exhibited consistently higher latent means than women, while all latent means decreased with age.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Balbir Singh, Christopher Mellinger, Holly A. Earls, Janis Tran, Brighid Bardsley, Joshua Correll
Summary: Contact with racial outgroups can reduce the cross-race recognition deficit, with childhood contact potentially being more effective. The nature of the relationship may be influenced by the operationalization of contact, but there seems to be no difference in measures of holistic/configural processing compared with normal processing.
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had negative effects on mental health, but nostalgia can help in responding to adversity and bring positive benefits. This study reviews the utility of nostalgia in vulnerable populations such as sojourners, immigrants, civil war refugees, bereaved individuals, individuals facing limited time horizons, and those living with dementia. The study also presents findings from randomized nostalgia interventions in the workplace, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and at university, highlighting the impacts over time. Evidence-based recommendations for future interventions are provided, emphasizing the importance of optimal person-activity fit, diversity of content, and accessibility of delivery mechanisms.
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Christopher J. Soto, Christopher M. Napolitano, Madison N. Sewell, Hee J. Yoon, Brent W. Roberts
Summary: In this study, the researchers explored the nature, structure, assessment, and outcomes of social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills. They defined SEB skills as the capacity to think, feel, and behave according to the situation, in contrast to traits which represent patterns averaged across situations. They found that specific SEB skills can be organized within five major domains and developed a tool called the BESSI to measure these skills. The study also showed significant relationships between SEB skills and various socioemotional competencies, developmental strengths, and personality traits, as well as consequential outcomes such as academic achievement and well-being.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Social
Brenda K. Wiederhold
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
(2022)
Review
Family Studies
Sam Collins, Sarah Dash, Steven Allender, Felice Jacka, Erin Hoare
Summary: This systematic review examined the associations between diet quality and common mental disorders in emerging adulthood. The findings indicated that emerging adulthood is a critical period for both diet quality and mental health, with moderate support for associations with depression, anxiety, positive/negative affect, suicide ideation, and psychological health. However, the overall methodological quality of the included studies was weak, highlighting the need for further research to better understand the relationship between diet and mental health among emerging adults.
EMERGING ADULTHOOD
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Alexander Scott English, Yang Yang, Rachael C. Marshall, Benjamin H. Nam
Summary: This study investigated the emotional challenges faced by international students during the 76-day lockdown in Wuhan at the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in China. The research examined the psychological symptoms of stress, fear, and uncertainty and explored the coping mechanisms used by international students. The findings highlight the importance of social support from various sources and provide insights for administrative practice in international higher education and student migration.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Ross David Stewart, Rene Mottus, Anne Seeboth, Christopher John Soto, Wendy Johnson
Summary: Recent research suggests that associations between personality traits and life outcomes are often driven by narrow personality nuances reflected in the specific items used to measure these traits. Facets of personality traits better predict outcomes than domains, but the items themselves provide the most accurate predictions, indicating that outcome-related information is often in the unique variances of the items.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Youngju Kim, Nicolas Sommet, Jinkyung Na, Dario Spini
Summary: Trust is crucial for a healthy society, and research indicates that social class, rather than income inequality, is a better predictor of trust.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
(2022)
