In a groundbreaking study from 2017, Chatard et al found social comparison to be subliminal.
In the study women were shown images of thin women or heavy women at sub-conscious threshold viewing times of less than 20 milliseconds.
Even when they consciously didn’t register seeing them and weren’t able to make the comparison, the study found feeling good or bad about their bodies still consistently affected.
The social psychology of card reader location. Local buses in most parts of the country have their card readers on the opposite side of the aisle from the driver.
But in Canterbury they're located next to the driver. Which means even though the driver doesn't have to do anything to receive payment, they're more likely to have interactions with passengers.
Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions.
#Labour MP Naz Shah received a wave of hatred and abuse after resigning as one of Keir Starmer's Shadow Ministers over the issue of a ceasefire in #Palestine
In the age of misinformation & instantaneous news cycles, we must double down on verifying the sources from which we get our information & share to build peace, not hatred and division.
Leyendo ahora mismo:
Stereotypes as justifications of prejudice
En tres experimentos, usan condicionamiento evaluativo para generar nuevos prejuicios y después miden la adhesión a los estereotipos coherentes con esos prejuicios.
Curioso. Si la misma comida se etiqueta en el menú como "vegana" o "vegetariana", es menos probable que la gente la pida que si no lleva etiquetado. 🤔 #socialpsychology#biases
Pues ya sabéis que preparando clases me toca leer cosas interesantes: ¿recordáis la idea de la "difusión de la responsabilidad" que explica la inacción en la conducta de ayuda? Aquí lo aplican al discurso de odio en internet: https://psyarxiv.com/e7q5n/
"... five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary political event: authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact... This paper describes the supporting data for this statement and demonstrates the close parallels between these American results and those of research on far-right European supporters."
EASP MEETING ON EMOTIONAL CRYING in LODZ, POLAND 💧 April 24-26, 2024. We invite researchers representing diverse theoretical approaches, methodologies, and disciplines. Details: https://emotionalcrying.weebly.com/ Please share! @socialpsych#socialpsychology
New study (N = 896) suggests that white-collar workers may remain silent in the face of abusive supervision practices because they’re more concerned about losing their status and privileges relative to blue-collar workers.
In a #fedicamp workshop convened by @mro, @wuffel just said psychologists should study how we can wean off people from #GAFAM products such as WhatsApp. I think there is some promising literature out there – you just have to know where to look.
New social psychology research finds conservatives’ beliefs that immigrants aren’t supporting the American system enough explains their bias against immigrants and supports a new “Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Prejudice”.
New social psychology studies find people’s motive to conform to their group’s norms predicts both their ingroup love and, to a lesser extent, their outgroup hate.
Does a good social psychology paper need a path diagram? A mathematical model? A well-understood measurement procedure? A coherent, unified theory?
Corinne Moss-Racusin and I recently co-edited a special issue of JASP, and it provided an opportunity for us to share some thoughts about the role of theory in psychological science. (I've been mulling over these ideas for many years, and I weave them into my research methods courses, so I really appreciated the excuse to write about them.)
The gist: our field attaches too much prestige and credibility to big formalized theories. We need more patience for incremental advances in reasoning about phenomena.
This commentary is open access thanks to an agreement between Syracuse University Libraries and Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13001
#AI#GenerativeAI#Misinformation#Disinformation#SocialPsychology: "The nascent stage of this technology offers a transient opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary studies that measure the impact of generative models on human beliefs and biases. This opportunity rapidly diminishes once these systems are more widely adopted and more deeply embedded into other everyday technologies. Research on how generative AI models affect children's beliefs is an especially high priority. Children are more vulnerable to belief distortion because of their increased tendencies to anthropomorphize technology and their more nascent, influenceable knowledge states.
Independent audits must include not only assessments of fabrication and bias but also measurements of how knowledgeable users rate systems to be and how much they trust the outputs. These data could be used to estimate both the rate of problematic model outputs to users and how severely these outputs influence human beliefs in advance of actual transmission. The fields of psychology and machine learning could unite to turn their attention, collaborative capacities, and resources to doing this work.
Studies and subsequent interventions would be most effectively focused on impacts on marginalized populations who are disproportionately affected by both fabrications and negative stereotypes in model outputs."
"The research project...underscores the political danger of romanticizing the past. Aspiring despots can and do prey upon declinist nostalgia, and the citizenry appears ready to squander precious resources on it."
Our new work investigates the effect of varying the labels used to describe immigrants.
Across nine countries (N = 2,844), we found that “participants perceived ‘migrants’ as bringing more benefits to their countries than both ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’, which translated into more positive attitudes towards immigrants.”
“Research shows that women and people from ethnic minorities are more likely to be chosen to lead a company, sports team, or even country when it is in crisis mode.”