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Backlash towards male versus female leaders' interpersonal emotion management strategy use: The role of followers' gender‐based leadership stereotypes Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Mahmut Bayazit, Gergely Czukor, Uzay Dural Şenoğuz, İlknur Özalp Türetgen
Research on the backlash effect predominantly investigated penalties men and women incurred when they violate gender norms in the domain of achievement‐oriented aggressiveness. We investigated backlash reactions towards female versus male leaders' attempts to manage follower emotions using one of two gender‐stereotypic interpersonal emotion management strategies, cognitive change or expression suppression
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A dual‐angle exploration towards understanding lapses in COVID‐19 social responsibility Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sean T. H. Lee, Jerome J. X. Mah, Angela K.‐y. Leung
Breaking infection chains requires not just behaviours that allow individuals to stay healthy and uninfected (i.e. health protective behaviours) but also for those who are possibly infected to protect others from their harboured infection risk (i.e. socially responsible behaviours). However, socially responsible behaviours entail costs without clear, immediate benefits to the individual, such that
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Do good relationships contribute to innovative behaviour? A study of relationship conflict affecting team innovative behaviour Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Po-Chien Chang, Xun Xu, Xiaoxiao Gao, Amber Yun-Ping Lee
This study examines the relationship between relationship conflict and cross-functional team innovative behaviour with transactive memory system (TMS) as a mediator and team-oriented leadership as a moderator. Adopting a two-wave data collection procedure, 584 team members and 113 team leaders from 20 organizations participated in this study. The PROCESS macro for SPSS was used to test the hypothesized
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Not all hands get hot: Success rates and hot-hand predictions Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 João Niza Braga, Sofia Jacinto
When predicting someone's performance, people expect that short runs of consistent successful outcomes will continue—the hot-hand. This tendency has been shown in contexts where athletes show a local performance streak, but no other information about their performance is provided. In real-life settings, performance predictions often use global-performance records like success-rate probabilities, although
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The social evaluation of accents and perceived social influence in Singapore: A comparison of American and Singaporean English accents Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Matthew H. S. Ng, Chi-Ying Cheng
Accents are an important differentiator between groups which influence social perception and interaction, especially in a diverse country like Singapore. Social identity theory suggests that individuals would exhibit favoritism towards their own accents. However, the accent prestige theory demonstrates instances whereby foreign accents are perceived as more prestigious than one's own accent and are
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Non-negligible levels of implicit skin tone bias among Australian healthcare workers between 2007 and 2022: Analysis of subgroups and trends over time based on Project Implicit data Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Anastasia Ejova, Natasha R. van Antwerpen, Carolyn Semmler, Christopher G. Bean, Deanne M. Green
Implicit (i.e. unconscious) racial biases held by health professionals negatively affect patient–practitioner communication and health outcomes. Implicit biases are typically assessed through implicit association tests (IATs). We extracted cross-sectional IAT data originating in Australia from two large publicly available data sets hosted by Project Implicit. In total, IATs were available from 1956
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High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Guillermo B. Willis, Yukiko Uchida, Juan Diego García-Castro, Kosuke Takemura
In this paper, we argue that one of the variables that may influence perceived inequality in everyday life is cultural differences in relational mobility. We examined this research question across two cross-cultural studies in Japan (Study 1, N = 196; Study 2, N = 214) and Spain (Study 1, N = 199; Study 2, 199), two countries that differ in their relational mobility levels. In Study 1, we contrasted
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Money or health? The effect of pathogen avoidance motives and life history strategies on health-economic trade-offs during the COVID-19 pandemic Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Qingyi Ma, Tingting Ji, Yongyu Guo
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused governments and individuals to face important but difficult trade-offs between health and the economy. How do individuals choose between health and economic outcomes during the pandemic? Based on the behavioural immune system (BIS) theory and the life history (LH) theory, the present study examined the effects of individual differences in pathogen disgust sensitivity
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The violent turn in non-violent collective action: What happens? Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Sik Hung Ng, Michael J. Platow
Collective actions (e.g., protest marches, social movements) that begin peacefully sometimes turn into violent clashes between demonstrators and police, with alarming consequences. Research on the violent turn, informed by intergroup social psychology and micro-sociology, has made significant but separate advances. We review them jointly to form an integrated, fuller understanding of the violent turn
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The relationship among cultural variables and weight issues for Asian American women Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Megan Tsutakawa, Glenn Gamst, Jerry L. Kernes, Aghop Der Karabetian
The present study investigated whether multicultural variables derived from the Multicultural Assessment-Intervention Process model (shifting, gender roles, acculturation, perceived discrimination) could predict levels of internalized weight bias (IWB) or disordered eating behaviours in 429 Asian American adult women. A facet of shifting, White beauty conformity and mainstream acculturation were the
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She wants the best: Maximizing tendency, work-to-family enrichment and female employee adaptivity Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Huiyuan Jia, Mushi Li
Stereotypes often link female employees with increased family–work conflicts and low work outcomes. Nevertheless, female employees may excel in both home and work environments. This study aimed to examine the effect of maximizing tendency on female employees' family-to-work enrichment and adaptivity. A three-wave survey involving 1074 female employees was conducted. Results indicated that maximizing
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Time Perception Scale: Measurement invariance between the United States and Japan Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Syamil Yakin, Yu Niiya
The Time Perception Scale (Niiya, 2019, Journal of Happiness Studies) measures people's perception of time as zero-sum (i.e., the perception that they are taking time away from others, that they are offering time to others, or that others are taking away time from them) and nonzero-sum (i.e., the perception that time spent on others is time spent on themselves). This scale was validated in Japan, but
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Climate change perception scale: Adaptation and psychometric properties in the Indonesian context Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Bartolomeus Yofana Adiwena, Maria Bramanwidyantari
One of the crucial factors in changing behaviour towards pro-environmental actions is climate change perception. The latest measurement tool for assessing this variable is the Climate Change Perception Scale (CCPS). However, CCPS has not gained widespread adoption and usage across different cultures, including Indonesia, and no analyses have been conducted to adapt and validate CCPS in the Indonesian
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Skin tone-based stereotyping with Asian targets: Exploring possible mechanisms Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Chang Hyun Ha, Sang Hee Park
Research on skin tone bias (i.e., bias against members of the same racial group with different skin tones) has been conducted mostly with Black/White targets. We tested skin tone bias with East Asian (Korean) targets and investigated its possible mechanisms. In Study 1, comparisons of impressions between targets with different skin tones (darker-, medium-, and lighter-skinned) showed statistically
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Effects of cost and praise-seeking need on motive inference for those who engage in helping behaviours Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Keisuke Yamamoto, Tomoko Ikegami, Hiroshi Yama
This study revealed determinants that influence motive inference toward helpers who engage in lifesaving. The costly signalling theory contends that higher costs associated with helping behaviour will promote one's inference of altruistic motives toward a helper. We examined how costs affect third parties' motive inference when controlling for benefits to recipients. In addition, in terms of projection
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Formal versus informal supervisor socio-emotional support behaviours and employee trust: The role of cultural power distance Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jaee Cho, S. Arzu Wasti, Krishna Savani, Hwee Hoon Tan, Michael W. Morris
This research investigates how formal versus informal supervisor support behaviours shape employees' affect- and cognition-based trust across cultures of varying power distance. Using data from in-depth interviews, Study 1 found that trust-enhancing supervisor behaviours were more formal, status conscious and imposing in India (a high power distance culture) than in the Netherlands (a low power distance
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Comparing self-esteem discrepancies in Pakistan and Canada Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Thomas I. Vaughan-Johnston, Faizan Imtiaz, Li-Jun Ji, Rubina Hanif, Devin I. Fowlie, Jill A. Jacobson
The cross-cultural universality of people's pursuit of positive self-esteem is frequently disputed. Most research in this area has contrasted cultures of dignity (Western) and face cultures (East Asian), but less attention has been given to other cultures' views of self-esteem. In the present work, we examined Pakistan as uniquely influenced by honour culture and South Asian argumentation culture principles
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Under what conditions do gender differences exist in power and achievement values? The moderating role of gender ideology Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Gabriele Prati, Serena Stefani
Previous studies revealed differences between men and women in value priorities. It has been asserted that men do inherently attribute more importance than women to power and achievement values. Our study brings a sociocultural lens into account employing gender ideology as a moderator of the gender differences in these values. Specifically, we hypothesized that internalization and endorsement of gender
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Ecological worldview moderates the mediation of implementation-intentions found in the relationship between ecological concerns and pro-environmental behaviour Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Navneet Mishra, Ankita Mishra, Parwinder Singh
Even after adopting various measures, recent years have witnessed a surge in environment-related issues such as pollution and climate change. These issues have been considered anthropogenic, and it is a well-received notion that changing human behaviour is crucial for sustainable development. Promoting pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) requires understanding of associations among relevant factors;
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Do you trust the rumors? Examining the determinants of health-related misinformation in India Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Hansika Kapoor, Swanaya Gurjar, Hreem Mahadeshwar, Nikita Mehta, Arathy Puthillam
Rumors, conspiracies, and health-related misinformation have gone hand-in-hand with the global COVID-19 pandemic, making it hard to obtain reliable and accurate information. Against this background, this study examined the different psychosocial predictors of believing in conspiratorial information related to general health in India. Indian participants (N = 826) responded to measures related to conspiratorial
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An adaptationist model of selfhood: Examining the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the scales of dual independence and interdependence Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Shinobu Suzuki
This study revisits the concepts and measurement scales of Hashimoto and Yamagishi's (Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2016, 19, 286) adaptationist model of self-construals, which provides a promising framework for intercultural and cross-cultural research. Responding to a call for the establishment of measurement invariance of the scales across cultures, this study revised the scales and conducted
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Impact of social support on life satisfaction in older adults: Considering socioeconomic status as moderator Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Soowon Park
This study examined the associations between changes in different types of social support and change in life satisfaction in retired older adults, and the moderating role of socioeconomic status (education and income). Data were extracted from a nationally representative sample of 2837 older adults taken from the survey of the 7th (2018) and 8th (2020) waves of the Korean Retirement and Income Study
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Dispositional authenticity, facilitativeness, femininity ideology, and dyadic relationship functioning in opposite-gender couples: Actor-partner interdependence analysis Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Shun Chen, David Murphy, Stephen Joseph
This prospective study examined (a) the mediating roles of Carl Rogers' facilitative interpersonal conditions (i.e., genuineness, empathic understanding, and unconditional positive regard) and (b) the moderating roles of femininity ideology in the association between dispositional authenticity and dyadic relationship functioning using a dyadic approach. Participants, 239 opposite-gender couples, completed
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A socio-ecological context moderates the association between communication skills and friendship satisfaction: Possible role of relational mobility Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Ken Fujiwara, Kosuke Takemura
Good communication skills facilitate successful interpersonal relationships. However, the specific communication skills (encoding and decoding) required for establishing friendships can vary depending on aspects of the social context. We conducted a two-wave longitudinal study in Japan to investigate the adaptive value of communication skills in different socio-ecological contexts (i.e., different
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What is the good life and how do individuals attain it? Meaning of happiness, its assessment, and pathways Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Palakshi Sarmah, Damodar Suar, Priyadarshi Patnaik
This research investigates the contents, antecedents, and mediators of happiness in the Indian state of Assam. The first study examines the content and meanings of happiness in Assamese culture. Posing exploratory questions, a thematic analysis of the narrations of 53 participants revealed 18 themes, grouped into intrinsic or content and extrinsic or context factors of happiness. The content and meanings
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The market mindset erodes social mindfulness Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Huiwen Xiao, Ziqiang Xin
Previous studies have mainly explored the impacts of social mindfulness on social behaviours (e.g., cooperation), little is known about crucial macro social environment factors that affect social mindfulness, like the market economy. With the development of the market economy, people typically acquire the self-centred and rational market mindset which may suppress social mindfulness. Therefore, the
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Improving intergroup relation through humanization: The moderating role of negative direct contact and the mediating role of intergroup affect Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Islam Borinca, Alan McAuliffe, Alastair Nightingale
Research on the interplay between negative direct intergroup contact frequency and outgroup humanization in intergroup relations is limited. Thus, across two different intergroup settings (i.e., Switzerland and Kosovo; N = 435), we examined individuals' positive behavioural intentions towards outgroup members (i.e., immigrants in Study 1 and the Roma in Study 2) as a function of both negative direct
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Worldviews about change: Their structure and their implications for understanding responses to sustainability, technology, and political change Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Paul G. Bain, Renata Bongiorno, Kellie Tinson, Alanna Heanue, Ángel Gómez, Yanjun Guan, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Emiko Kashima, Roberto González, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Sheyla Blumen, Yoshihisa Kashima
People hold different perspectives about how they think the world is changing or should change. We examined five of these “worldviews” about change: Progress, Golden Age, Endless Cycle, Maintenance, and Balance. In Studies 1–4 (total N = 2733) we established reliable measures of each change worldview, and showed how these help explain when people will support or oppose social change in contexts spanning
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Development and initial validation of the Multidimensional Empathy Scale for Adolescents Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Sujong Jung, Eunha Kim
Adolescence is a transitional phase in psychosocial development in which individuals learn to navigate their social worlds. The need to socialize, connect with, and empathize with others is especially pronounced in this phase. This study aimed to develop and validate a self-report empathy measure for adolescents, the Multidimensional Empathy Scale for Adolescents (MESA). Based on the theories and research
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Understanding the positive and negative outcomes of developmental challenges on the social psychology of female executives in top management teams Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Sana Mumtaz
Drawing on social identity theory, this conceptual article proposes how working in a male-dominated top management team (TMT) leads to changes in the social psychology of female executives over time. Further, it simultaneously incorporates the role of various factors to develop a comprehensive understanding of positive as well as negative change experiences of female executives. Based on thorough review
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Individualism–collectivism and organ donation intentions Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Jianbiao Li, Ruqian Zang, Xiaofei Niu
This article investigates the impact of individualism–collectivism on a person's willingness to donate organs. In Study 1, an online survey showed that individualism–collectivism was significantly and positively associated with participants' willingness to register as organ donors while perceived benefit mediated this relationship. Study 2 demonstrated the causal effect of individualism–collectivism
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The Children's Dual Emotion Regulation Strategy scale: An integrated perspective of Western and East Asian cultures Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Li-fei Wang, Meifen Wei, Jen-Ho Chang, Hung Chiao
The literature on emotion regulation in general lacks cultural and contextual sensitivity and is mainly focused on adult participants. Therefore, we developed the Children's Dual Emotion Regulation Strategy (CDERS) scale as a scenario-based measurement that integrates Western and East Asian cultural perspectives. In Study 1 (N = 1120), six interpersonal conflict scenarios were generated, and each scenario
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Ordinance influences individuals' perceptions towards prospects of social circumstance but not the status quo: An experimental field study on sexual minorities issues in Japan Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Takeru Miyajima, Yo Nakawake, Xianwei Meng, Ryunosuke Sudo
Scientific evidence shows that institutional decisions can change individuals' private attitudes towards relevant issues. However, little is known about their effect on individuals' perceptions of social norms. This intriguing question has gained the attention of scholars. Nonetheless, the findings are primarily observed only in samples of the Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic
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Effects of mask use and other-race on face perception, emotion recognition, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Evrim Gülbetekin, Arda Fidancı, Enes Altun, Muhammed Nurullah Er, Esin Gürcan
We tested the effect of mask use and other-race effect on (a) face recognition, (b) recognition of facial expressions, and (c) social distance. Caucasian subjects were tested in a matching-to-sample paradigm with either masked or unmasked Caucasian and Asian faces. The participants exhibited the best performance in recognizing an unmasked face condition and the poorest to recognize a masked face that
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Preferences for facial sexual dimorphism is related to frequency of pornography consumption among heterosexual-identifying men and homosexual-identifying men: A mediating role of sociosexuality Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Lijun Chen, Hongyan Yang, Xiaoliu Jiang, Youjuan Hong, Marc N. Potenza
Frequent consumption of sexually explicit material (SEM) on the internet may influence attitudes toward sex (e.g., sociosexuality), and sociosexuality may influence people's preferences for potential partners' facial dimorphism. However, few studies have focused on the association between dimorphism preference and pornography consumption, and fewer have examined it in heterosexual-identifying and
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Normative information can induce biased choice toward delayed larger rewards in adulthood Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Takayuki Goto
Previous research has revealed that observing or learning about others' choices can change individuals' choice of delayed rewards. To extend these findings, the present research investigated whether normative information can change the choice for delayed rewards in adulthood. Participants completed a questionnaire consisting of 27 intertemporal conflicts after they had read a description about normative
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“Celebrities to lean on!” Perceived celebrity support across two cultures—Iran and the United States Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Reza Shabahang, Mara S. Aruguete, Hyejin Shim, Ho Phi Huynh, Benyamin Mokhtari Chirani
Though many people loathe celebrities and their lifestyles, celebrities can also be perceived as being available to provide community support. The purpose of this study was to establish the psychometric properties of the Perceived Celebrity Support Inventory. The scale was developed to capture three aspects of perceived celebrity support to the community: instrumental (i.e., providing tangible and
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“You're overreacting!”: The ambiguity of Asian American microaggressions delegitimizes collective action Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Timothy Lee, Ludwin E. Molina
Asian Americans are lauded as the model minority who are intelligent and industrious. Simultaneously, they are deemed as perpetual foreigners. The current research examines how racial microaggressions expressed by a White American source toward an Asian American target affect perceptions of the perpetrator and target. White Americans and Asian Americans read about an interaction between two college
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Cultural psychological processes underlying workplace remuneration in Japanese and European American contexts Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Aya Uchida, Masataka Nakayama, Yukiko Uchida
Japan's remuneration systems are moving away from seniority-based pay towards individual performance-based pay. We tested how the latter system works within the Japanese cultural context and whether the operation and functioning of the system reflects general psychological tendencies found in Japan. Japanese (Study 1 n = 197; Study 2 n = 235) and European American (Study 1 n = 201; Study 2 n = 186)
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Apology mismatch: An experimental approach to Japan's apologies to Korea Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Roman David
Since 1965, Japan has issued numerous apologies to Korea, which however failed to resonate with the Korean public. To investigate this puzzle, this paper analyses the structure of these apologies and empirically examines their reception in Korea. Blatz et al.'s (Political Psychology, 2009, 30, 219) classification of components of political apologies was applied to conduct a qualitative analysis of
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Stereotype content of players of violent and non-violent games Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Upekha Pathumi Miriyagalla, Emiko S. Kashima, Arthur Stukas
Since the introduction of commercial video games in the 1970s, video game players have attracted the perhaps undeserving but negative stereotype of being unpopular and socially dysfunctional. However, with gamers increasing in numbers that now reach billions worldwide, the contents of gamer stereotypes may be in flux. The current study investigated the content of gamer stereotypes along the dimensions
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The adjustment of social trust and Internet use on cognitive bias in social status: Perspective of performance perception Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Mengfan Li
People in different social statuses have different perceptions due to differences in cognition. Combined with the characteristics of public behaviour and cognition, this study examined the impact of the widespread cognitive biases in social status on performance perception. This study used the ordinary least squares model to verify that the cognitive bias in social status has a significant positive
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Roles of fundamentalism and authoritarianism in relations between religiosity and civil liberties among Muslims Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Üzeyir Ok
Two cross-sectional studies were conducted with undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 22 years) in two university campuses in different regions of Turkey to investigate confrontations between conservative religious people and secular-liberal people and the roles of fundamentalism and authoritarianism for these groups. Study 1 investigated the connections between traditional religiosity and
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Parent-like spokesperson for campaigning an anti-plastic straw movement to young adults: Is it effective? Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Afred Suci, Hui Chih Wang, Her Sen Doong
Parental communication is still relatively meaningful in Asian families with hierarchical, vertical, and authoritative relationships. Meanwhile, children's pro-environmental behaviour in emerging Asian nations tends to be passive, leading to a need for intervention from the closest parties, often the parent, whose familial role in green communication has not been examined. This study uses social learning
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Self-transcendent emotions and their influence on organizational effectiveness: A literature review and synthesis Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Eugene Y.J. Tee, Raja Intan Arifah binti Raja Reza Shah
Self-transcendent emotions are positive emotions that arise out of other-focused appraisals. These emotions shift attention from the self to the needs and concerns of others. Limited work, however, focuses on self-transcendent emotions and the underlying cognitive and behavioural mechanisms by which they benefit organizations. We review the disparate streams of research on self-transcendent emotions
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You can't reason with them: Dismissing religious defectors as irrational Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Abdo Elnakouri, Ian McGregor
Millions of people leave their religion every year. Such defection often results in religious persecution, ostracism, and heightened intergroup conflict. Yet little is known about the underlying perceptions of religious defectors and what intergroup processes predict hostility toward them. In two pre-registered studies (N = 512), we investigated how religious group members' thoughts and feelings about
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Taking control of violence against doctors Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Qian Yang, Shi S. Liu, Daniel Sullivan, Adam D. Galinsky
Violence against healthcare professionals is a serious but understudied global problem and one that lacks evidence-based solutions. The current research offers a novel explanation and intervention for addressing this issue: We propose that low feelings of control among patients and their family members play an important role in shaping doctor-patient relationships. To regain a sense of control, we
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Moral bias toward different social classes Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Ming Jiang, Xiaoqiang Yao, Yiwen Wang
The influence of social class on prosocial behaviour has long been a focus of intense research interest. The present research involved four studies that covered four moral exemplars (villains, victims, heroes, and beneficiaries) to test whether people of different social classes are treated equally in moral judgements. We described moral events experienced by different agents of varying social classes
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Perception of emotional tears with body postures, visual scenes, and written scenarios Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Kenichi Ito, Chew Wei Ong
Emotional tears tend to increase perceived sadness in facial expressions. However, it is unclear whether tears would still be seen as an indicator of sadness when a tearful face is observed in an emotional context (e.g., a touching moment during a wedding ceremony). We examine the influence of context on the sadness enhancement effect of tears in three studies. In Study 1, participants evaluated tearful
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Fragile promise: The role of justification in promise-breaking Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 He Chen, Yuxuan Dong, Shaohan Jiang, Zenghui Li, Frank Krueger, Yan Wu
People who consider themselves moral sometimes use self-serving justifications to rationalize their selfish behaviours. Previous studies have tested the role of ambiguity in justifying wrongdoings, but it remains unclear whether ambiguity also plays a role in justifying promise-breaking behaviour and whether heterogeneity exists. To investigate justification in promise-breaking, we introduced a new
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Is empathy associated with more prosocial behaviour? A meta-analysis Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Yingying Yin, Yong Wang
Empathy is an important prerequisite for prosocial behaviour (PB). However, different concepts and methodological tools have been used in research on the relationship between empathy and PB, leading to ambiguous results. This study used a meta-analysis to explore this relationship and to identify the moderating variables. After a literature search, 62 studies and 146 samples with 71,310 participants
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It's a guy thing: Sex as a moderator of the relationship between social anxiety and perception of interpersonal warmth in initial heterosexual interactions Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Pei Hwa Goh, Jonathan Z. Ong
Social anxiety or the fear of being evaluated by others in social settings has been shown to contribute to impairments in interpersonal functioning. One way in which such impairments may arise is through biased perceptions of others during social interactions. The present study examined how social anxiety relates to the perception of interpersonal warmth from others within a relationship initiation
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Social media addiction and personality: A meta-analysis Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Chiungjung Huang
This meta-analysis examines the relations between social media addiction and Big Five traits, together with moderating effects on the associations. Sixty-three studies comprising 74 samples (N = 32,032) were identified. The correlations between social media addiction and neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness are r¯ = .17, .03, −.03, −.07 and −.15, respectively. The
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Toxic effect of fear of losing out on self-esteem: A moderated mediation model of conformity and need for cognitive closure in Singapore Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Sheila X. R. Wee, Chi-Ying Cheng, Haelim Choi, Ciping Goh
Kiasu (fear of losing out, FoLO) is considered the single most defining adjective that captures Singapore identity, and it is well-observed in other Asian cultures as well. Despite the widespread endorsement of kiasu in Singapore, there is limited empirical research on the theoretical conception of kiasu as a psychological construct. To empirically investigate kiasu, we validated the construct and
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Is “thank you” effective even in Japan where “sorry” may be preferred? Toward extending the Find-Remind-and-Bind theory Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Tatsuya Imai
The core idea of the find-remind-and-bind theory articulated by (Algoe, 2012, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 455) is that receiving expressed gratitude facilitates positive attitudes toward the expressor such as increased prosocial behaviour. The current study tries to observe the phenomena in Japan where apologies are sometimes used when people express gratitude. In this experimental
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Mechanisms linking emotional labour and emotional exhaustion: Combining two different perspectives Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Kyunguk Yang, Heeeun Jang
Although many studies have been conducted on emotional labour, the empirical evidence regarding the effect of deep acting on employees' emotional exhaustion remains mixed. Scholars adopting the person-focused approach have supposed that deep acting is beneficial for employees' well-being because it reduces the discrepancy between felt and expressed emotions—emotional dissonance. However, the mixed
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Trait self-control is associated with lower positive affective instability: Findings from an experience sampling survey Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Michihiro Kaneko, Takayuki Goto, Yuka Ozaki, Takumi Kuraya, Gaku Kutsuzawa
Several studies have shown that trait self-control predicts affective instability: higher self-control is related to lower affective instability (or higher stability). However, these studies have not discriminated between positive and negative affective instability. In this study, we investigated whether self-control is related to positive and/or negative affective instability. We conducted an experience
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Authoritarian attitudes in Russia: Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in the modern Russian context Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-02-19 Dmitry Grigoryev, Anastasia Batkhina, Lucian Gideon Conway, Alivia Zubrod
The study of authoritarianism has a long history in the field of psychology; however, much of this research focuses on Western countries, especially the United States. In effort to better understand authoritarianism cross-culturally, we explore the current state of authoritarianism in an important cultural context: Russia. Thus, the current paper reports on large-scale research of right-wing authoritarianism
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Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Michael J. Platow, Dirk Van Rooy, Chris Wang, Lara Ollis, Clinton G. Knight, Parker Blakey, Pablo Calaby, Haejung Cho, Jeongin Kim, Hayden Naar, Jordan Veng Thang Oh, Corinne Stoney, Kate Wilson-Woolley, Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar Tal, Russell Spears
We propose that part of the problem in combatting prejudice lies in people's dynamic understandings of what prejudice is. To examine this, we asked participants to rate the degree to which they perceived specific group-relevant attitudes as prejudice. In Study 1, White participants perceived the attitudes as more prejudiced when the attitudes were targeted at Asian people than at White people and when
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The interactive effect between self social class and target social class on moral judgements Asian Journal of Social Psychology (IF 2.144) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Jianfeng Yang, Xue Peng, Yanhui Hou, Nicholas Chima
The gap between the rich and the poor is growing, and moral judgements between the rich and the poor will greatly affect their interaction and social stability. Based on subjective group dynamics theory, the current research leveraged two studies to test the interactive effect between self social class and target social class on moral judgements, and explored one important boundary of this interactive