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Consumers who desire to be ‘rational’ tend to rely on reason and resist affective influences and thus choose objective options that are superior on quantifiable and measurable attributes but inferior on subjective and malleable attributes. Existing research reveals that consumers experience intrapersonal benefits from choosing objective options. Beyond these benefits, this study reveals the novel and interpersonal curse of choosing objective options that hinders consumers from receiving help. Six studies found that, compared to subjective-option choosers, objective-option choosers were considered less warm and received less help. Moreover, this social curse was attenuated when consumers’ choices did not reflect their own preferences. The current research contributes to the literature on objectivity–subjectivity trade-offs by extending it from the intrapersonal to the interpersonal perspective, and to the literature on helping by revealing how consumption reduces future help received in irrelevant contexts beyond current consumption.

The reverse correlation is an innovative method to capture visual representations (i.e., classification images, CIs) of social targets. However, this method necessitates many trials to compute high-quality CIs, which poses important practical and economic challenges. We introduce a new version of the reverse correlation method, namely, the Brief-RC. By increasing the number of stimuli (i.e., noisy faces) presented at each trial, the Brief-RC improves the quality of individual (and average) CIs and lowers the overall task length. In two experiments, assessments by external judges confirmed that the new method delivers equally good (Experiment 1) or higher-quality (Experiment 2) outcomes than the traditional method for the same number of trials, time length and number of stimuli. The informational values of CIs were also compared using a more objective metric (infoVal). Because the Brief-RC facilitates the production of higher-quality individual CIs, social psychology researchers may more easily address a series of relevant research questions.

The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.

Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs

Liora Morhayim, Linda R. Tropp, Edona Maloku

Pages: 48–65; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2986

The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.

Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person-centred approach

Kaja Warnke, Borja Martinović, Nimrod Rosler

Pages: 31–47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2993

The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue on ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies, was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 54, Issue 1. This article should be cited as shown below.

The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia

Laura Fonseca, Sandra Jovchelovitch

Pages: 1–16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2967

Shared reality—the experience of sharing common inner states (e.g. feelings, beliefs) with other people about a given topic or target—is a ubiquitous human experience. With research on the construct of shared reality burgeoning in various domains, we examined a fundamental, yet understudied topic: the role of experiencing shared reality about a target in real-time conversations and real-world contexts. Across five studies conducted in various contexts (total N = 973), we developed a measure of target-specific shared reality (SR-T) and examined its role in interpersonal interactions and protective health behaviours. In our initial Studies (1a-2), we developed a measure of SR-T and establish psychometric, construct and criterion validity. In Study 3, we established predictive validity by investigating the link between SR-T and important interpersonal interaction constructs (e.g. interpersonal rapport and epistemic trust in the partner). In Study 4 (preregistered), SR-T moderated the effect of close others’ attitudes on vaccination and precautionary behaviours against COVID-19 during the Omicron-variant peak (2022). Our findings suggest that the experience of SR-T, assessed with a valid measure, is linked to important dimensions of interpersonal interactions and health decisions in the real world.

While, by default, people tend to believe communicated content, it is also possible that they become more vigilant when personal stakes increase. A lab (N = 72) and an online (N = 284) experiment show that people make judgements affected by explicitly tagged false information and that they misremember such information as true – a phenomenon dubbed the ‘truth bias’. However, both experiments show that this bias is significantly reduced when personal stakes – instantiated here as a financial incentive – become high. Experiment 2 also shows that personal stakes mitigate the truth bias when they are high at the moment of false information processing, but they cannot reduce belief in false information a posteriori, that is once participants have already processed false information. Experiment 2 also suggests that high stakes reduce belief in false information whether participants’ focus is directed towards making accurate judgements or correctly remembering information truthfulness. We discuss the implications of our findings for models of information validation and interventions against real-world misinformation.

Conspiracy beliefs entail a scapegoating function by attributing the consequences of crises, such as economic downturns, to the secret action of outgroups. While conspiracy beliefs have been described as reactions to economic threats, we argue that this factor alone is not sufficient. Rather, perceiving one's ingroup as unfairly deprived compared to other groups (i.e., group relative deprivation) might be key to explaining the situation in terms of secret, intentional wrongdoings. Furthermore, individuals high in national narcissism (i.e., a perceived lack of recognition of the ingroup's greatness), may be especially sensitive to this dynamic. Three pilot studies (N = 1237) attested the robustness of the link between group relative deprivation and conspiracy beliefs. Then, Study 1 (N = 812) revealed that the effect of group relative deprivation on conspiracy beliefs was moderated by national narcissism. In Study 2 (N = 728), we found effects of induced national narcissism and group relative deprivation on conspiracy beliefs in a fictitious setting. Study 3 (N = 846) replicated the moderation of national narcissism on the link between group relative deprivation and conspiracy beliefs at the cross-sectional level. Overall, these studies provide evidence that conspiracy beliefs in reaction to group relative deprivation are especially likely among collective narcissists. We discuss the scapegoating function of conspiracy beliefs during crises.

Organisations seeking to enhance their reputation increasingly depend on social network messages—for instance, from employees—instead of being able to control this through their formal communications. The present research aimed to examine how employees’ willingness to share positive messages about their organisation on their social network sites (SNS) relates to organisational features and activities. Specifically, we examined whether employee ambassadorship on SNS relates to two key dimensions of social evaluation: perceived organisational morality and competence. Results of three studies suggest that organisational features can motivate employees to support their organisation online. Across different samples and measures, employee evaluations of organisational morality were a stronger statistical predictor of online ambassadorship than their evaluations of organisational competence. Organisational identification, not external prestige, mediated the effect of organisational morality on online ambassadorship. This suggests that perceived organisational morality relates to intrinsic motives of employees to support their organisation on SNS.