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Social Psychology Quarterly
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ISSN (Print) 0190-2725 - ISSN (Online) 1939-8999
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  • Nature and/or Nurture: Causal Attributions of Mental Illness and Stigma

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      Authors: Marta Elliott, James M. Ragsdale
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Most medical researchers and social scientists concur that mental illness is caused by “nature” and “nurture,” yet efforts to reduce stigma tend to focus on biomedical causes. This study analyzed original survey data collected from 1,849 respondents in 2021–2022 who were randomly assigned to 16 experimental vignette conditions. Each vignette portrayed a man and varied according to which psychiatric diagnosis his situation resembled (alcohol dependence, depression, or schizophrenia) and what caused it: genetics (nature), environmental stress (nurture), or both. Control conditions included subclinical distress and no explanation. Exposure to the environmental explanation (vs. no explanation) predicted identifying mental illness, reduced expectation of violence toward others, increased willingness to socially interact, and optimism for recovery with treatment. Exposure to the nature and nurture explanation (vs. no explanation) predicted reduced desire for social distance. Implications of these findings for future research and for contact-based anti-stigma efforts are presented.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T06:27:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231175279
       
  • The Managed Response: Digital Emotional Labor in Navigating Intersectional
           Cyber Aggression

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      Authors: Paulina d. C. Inara Rodis
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Researchers find abundant racism and sexism online; for many, such harassment is a feature of their everyday experience. Drawing on interviews with Black and Asian women, I investigate the ways individuals negotiate whether and how to respond to cyber aggression. While social media affords users novel resources for responding to hostility, being online does not remove the social expectations imposed. Balancing (sometimes unconsciously) the desire to confront racism/sexism with the digital emotional labor undertaken in responding, women describe how they choose to present themselves and determine when responses are worthwhile. Often, they respond online where in person they would not have been comfortable, while at other times, they choose nonreaction to protect their personal well-being. Elucidating the individual burden that Black and Asian women navigate in response to cyber aggression and the toll that comes from implementing their idealized responses is essential to comprehend the experiences and consequences of modern racism/sexism.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-05-16T10:03:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231166377
       
  • Doing Gender, Avoiding Crime: The Gendered Meaning of Criminal Behavior
           and the Gender Gap in Offending in the United States

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      Authors: Kaitlin M. Boyle
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Men are overrepresented in criminal offending, arrest, and incarceration rates, resulting in a gender gap in crime data. I use the mathematical structure and propositions of affect control theory to understand how the symbolic meanings society holds for gender and crime relate to this observed difference in women’s and men’s offending. While criminal behaviors are deviant for both men and women, I hypothesize that they produce even more deflection when enacted by a woman actor than by a man actor in computer simulations. This first hypothesis is supported in a dataset containing 109 criminal behaviors drawn from three affect control theory dictionaries collected in English in the United States in 1998, 2002 to 2004, and 2012 to 2014. Second, I hypothesize that when a crime produces a greater gender gap in deflection in simulations, there will be a greater observed gender gap in alleged offending. I test this hypothesis using four sources of crime data: victim self-reports, police reports, arrest data, and juvenile court statistics. I find hypothesis support using all data sources except victim self-reports. Affect control theory provides an explicit social psychological understanding of how gendered meanings of behavior translate into criminal behavior as recorded in offending data (e.g., Uniform Crime Report).
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-05-16T09:57:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231167845
       
  • Educational Expectation-Attainment Gaps and Mental Health over the Early
           Adult Life Course

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      Authors: Eun Hye Lee, Jane D. McLeod
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      We advance research on the association of educational expectation–attainment gaps with mental health by asking two questions that derive from the stress process and life course frameworks: (1) How does the association change over the early adult life course' and (2) To what extent is the association attributable to adult social roles and socioeconomic attainment' Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we find that close to the time when the expectation would have been realized, educational attainment is associated with mental health but expectations and the interaction between expectations and attainments are not, independent of selection factors. As respondents age, expectations themselves become more consistently associated with mental health. Adult social roles and socioeconomic status contribute little to explaining these associations. We discuss the implications for the stress process framework and life course research.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-04-08T08:27:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231161072
       
  • Do Experiences of Success and Failure Influence Beliefs about Inequality'
           Evidence from Selective University Admission

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      Authors: Rebecca Wetter, Claudia Finger
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Previous research suggests that beliefs about inequality are often biased in ways that serve people’s own interests. By contrast, people might uphold system-justifying beliefs, such as meritocratic beliefs. We test these assumptions against real-life experience of highly selective university admission. Using panel data on German medical school applicants allows us to measure belief changes through experiences of success or failure in admission. We find support that self-serving bias in beliefs outweighs the motivation for system justification: success strengthens the belief that admission depends on effort, while failure reinforces the belief that admission depends on luck. These patterns partly manifest themselves in beliefs about societal inequality. Additionally, we argue that previous experiences (long-term experiences of social upbringing and short-term experiences in university admissions) provide a frame for new experiences, examine respective effect heterogeneity, and discuss implications of our findings of diverging paths in inequality beliefs of winners and losers for the persistence of inequality.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-04-07T09:25:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231165031
       
  • Pathways to Legitimacy for Black and White Authorities: Impressions of
           Competence and Warmth

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      Authors: Kate Hawks, Karen A. Hegtvedt, Ryan Gibson, Cathryn Johnson, Jamica Zion
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Legitimacy is crucial for the effectiveness of leaders in the workplace. We investigate pathways by which authorities in the workplace gain legitimacy and how they differ by authority race. In addition to leaders’ behaviors, subordinates’ impressions of leaders’ competence and warmth, stemming from those behaviors, impact their views of leader legitimacy. We further assess how the role of mediating impressions depends on the race of the authority enacting the behaviors. In an experimental vignette study, we manipulate the authority’s actions (use of fair procedures and power benevolently) and race (Black/white) and measure perceived competence, warmth, and legitimacy. Results indicate that the effects of leader behaviors on legitimacy operate through impressions of competence and warmth. Moreover, authority race alters this pathway; behaviors operate through competence impressions for white managers and through warmth impressions for Black managers. Our study illuminates how leaders gain legitimacy at work and how this process is racialized.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-04-05T06:24:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231162068
       
  • Trust and Strength of Family Ties: New Experimental Evidence

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      Authors: John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Sergio Lo Iacono, Burak Sonmez
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      We provide a conceptual replication of an experimental study that uncovered a robust correlation between the strength of individuals’ family ties and their distrust of strangers, striving to establish whether the link is causal. Using a different subjects pool and an online setting, we repeat the binary trust-game experiment from Ermisch and Gambetta and enrich it by manipulating the payoffs to create a low-trust and high-trust environment. The key finding is corroborated, but as expected, only in the high-trust environment. The two environments further allow us to impose a diff-and-diff design on the data, which rules out selection of low-trusting individuals into strong-tied families and gives us indirect evidence of causation, namely, that having strong family ties stunts the development of trust in strangers. Our findings support the emancipatory theory of trust proposed by Toshio Yamagishi and could be interpreted as uncovering the micro foundations of classic ethnographic studies, such as that by Edward Banfield, which described how subcultures fostering tight bonds within families or small groups make cooperation harder to be achieved.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-04-01T06:56:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231162074
       
  • How Do Nominal Characteristics Lose Status Value' Asymmetry in Status
           Deconstruction

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      Authors: David Melamed, Oneya Okuwobi, Leanne Barry
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Existing theories explain how the states of nominal characteristics acquire status value and the implications of status characteristics for the distribution of rewards, honor, and esteem in groups. It is less clear how characteristics lose status value. In this article, we combine the logic of status construction theory with loss aversion from decision theory to develop novel predictions about status loss. We predict that removing the mechanism of status construction theory will result in fading consensual status beliefs and that this will occur faster for low status actors. This results in a period of conflicting or asymmetric status beliefs between groups. Results from a six-condition controlled experiment support key predictions of consensual status loss, with low status actors viewing a gain in their status faster than high status actors view a loss to theirs. We discuss ways to extend and refine the work and the implications of our theory for racial and gender status-based inequalities.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-04-01T06:56:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231162351
       
  • Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Black Women’s Sleep Health

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      Authors: Christy L. Erving, Rachel Zajdel, Izraelle I. McKinnon, Miriam E. Van Dyke, Raphiel J. Murden, Dayna A. Johnson, Reneé H. Moore, Tené T. Lewis
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Gendered racial microaggressions reflect historical and contemporary gendered racism that Black women encounter. Although gendered racial microaggressions are related to psychological outcomes, it is unclear if such experiences are related to sleep health. Moreover, the health effects of gendered racial microaggressions dimensions are rarely investigated. Using a cohort of Black women (N = 400), this study employs an intracategorical intersectional approach to (1) investigate the association between gendered racial microaggressions and sleep health, (2) assess whether gendered racial microaggressions dimensions are related to sleep health, and (3) examine whether the gendered racial microaggressions–sleep health association persists after accounting for depressive symptoms and worry. Gendered racial microaggressions were associated with poor sleep quality overall and four specific domains: subjective sleep quality, latency, disturbance, and daytime sleepiness. Two gendered racial microaggressions dimensions were especially detrimental for sleep: assumptions of beauty/sexual objectification and feeling silenced and marginalized. After accounting for mental health, the effect of gendered racial microaggressions on sleep was reduced by 47 percent. Future research implications are discussed.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-03-17T12:19:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221136139
       
  • Stereotype Content of North African Men and Women in France and Its
           Relation to Aggression

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      Authors: Lisa Fourgassie, Baptiste Subra, Rasyid Bo Sanitioso
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      The present research examines the stereotypes held about North Africans in French society today. Extending past works, we included gender and separately studied the stereotypes of North African men and women. Using three techniques, namely, spontaneous generation, attribute rating, and pathfinder analysis, our results revealed distinct stereotypes of North African men and women in French society. North African men are ascribed more antisocial traits. Traits associated with North African women are related to submissiveness and domestic chores. This suggests that stereotypes revealed in past studies concerned mainly the men of the group. The results underscore the need to consider gender when studying stereotypes of ethnic and minority groups.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-03-17T12:15:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231159938
       
  • Contesting Reports of Racism, Contesting the Rights to Assess

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      Authors: Tianhao Zhang
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Analyzing a thread of online interaction, I apply conversation analysis and discursive psychology methods to explicate how experiences of racism are reported and contested by participants in interaction. The person reporting their experience of racism (the reporter) applies commonsense knowledge to assess the perpetrator's racist intent. Recipients of the report contest the reporter's rights to assess the perpetrator's intent while managing their lack of independent access to the reported encounter. In milder contestations, they cast doubt while avoiding assessing the situation themselves, which leads to negotiations over the accusation without contesting the correctness of the reporter's assessment. In aggravated contestations, recipients explicitly contest the reporter's assessment of the perpetrator, which leads to interactional breakdowns where moral culpabilities of both sides are implicated. Implications for understanding the moral difficulties involved in accusing racism, the interactional contingencies involved in responding to and contesting such accusations, and members’ understandings of racism are discussed.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-03-15T12:53:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221117834
       
  • Mapping the Content of Asian Stereotypes in the United States:
           Intersections with Ethnicity, Gender, Income, and Birthplace

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      Authors: Stephen Benard, Bianca Manago, Anna Acosta Russian, Youngjoo Cha
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      How are people of Asian origin perceived in contemporary U.S. culture' While often depicted as a “model minority”—competent and hardworking but also quiet, unsociable, or cold—little work measures whether and how these stereotypes vary for Asians in different social locations. We use a large (n ≈ 4,700) quota sample of the United States, matched to key U.S. demographics, to map the content of Asian stereotypes across ethnicity, gender, income, and birthplace. We find that some stereotypes are largely consistent across subgroups—such as the perception that Asians lack sociability, but not warmth, relative to White Americans—while others vary substantially. Perceptions of dominance vary by income, while perceptions of competence are moderated by income and ethnicity in complex ways. Stereotypes have important consequences, ranging from everyday frustrations to depressive symptoms and employment discrimination. Our work provides a detailed picture of how stereotypes vary across social locations.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-03-11T06:25:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221126188
       
  • Gender and the Disparate Payoffs of Overwork

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      Authors: Christin L. Munsch, Lindsey T. O'Connor, Susan R. Fisk
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      This article presents results from an experimental study of workers tasked with evaluating professionals with identical workplace performances who differed with respect to hours worked and gender, isolating two mechanisms through which overwork leads to workplace inequality. Evaluators allocated greater organizational rewards to overworkers and perceived overworkers more favorably compared to full-time workers who performed similarly in less time, a practice that disproportionately rewards men over equivalently performing, more efficient women. Additionally, the magnitude of the overwork premium is greater for men than for women. We then use path analyses to explore the processes by which evaluators make assumptions about worker characteristics. We find overwork leads to greater organizational rewards primarily because employees who overwork are perceived as more committed—and, to a lesser extent, more competent—than full-time workers, although women’s overwork does not signal commitment or competence to the same extent as men’s overwork.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T01:22:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221141059
       
  • The Multiple Meanings of Discrimination

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      Authors: Catherine E. Harnois
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Discrimination is one of the most important concepts for understanding, analyzing, and addressing social inequality. It is a term with many meanings, however, and existing research tells us little about how people understand and use the term. This study analyzes data from interviews with 38 English-speaking adults in the southeastern United States to examine how people use and make sense of the term discrimination. In structured interviews, participants described their experiences of mistreatment, reflected on whether their experiences were instances of discrimination, and explained their reasoning. Many participants expressed uncertainty about the meaning of discrimination and were unsure if it applied to particular situations. When asked to explain why they thought particular situations were or were not instances of discrimination, some participants relied on a legalistic framework, drawing from knowledge they had gained in their formal educational and training. Others foregrounded issues of inequality and social justice, explicitly invoking racism, sexism, and social class when explaining why something was or was not discrimination. A third group of participants, disproportionately but not exclusively White and non-Latinx, considered discrimination to be synonymous with “differential treatment” and unrelated to social inequality. Analyses suggest that these interpretive frameworks reflect participants’ legal consciousness, political consciousness, and their ability to read particular situations as connected to specific systems of inequality—that is, their literacies of particular inequalities.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-01-10T02:46:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221134266
       
  • Cooperation in Networked Collective-Action Groups: Information Access and
           Norm Enforcement in Groups of Different Sizes

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      Authors: Ashley Harrell, Tom Wolff
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Norms, typically enforced via sanctions, are key to resolving collective-action problems. But it is often impossible to know what each individual member is contributing to group efforts and enforce cooperation accordingly. Especially as group size increases, people commonly have access to the behaviors of—and can sanction—only those to whom they are tied in a broader network. Here we integrate two streams of research: one conceptualizing ties in networked collective-action groups as access to information about what others are doing and a second where ties represent information plus opportunities to enforce cooperation via punishment. While both have pointed to the cooperation benefits of more ties in the network, we argue that these benefits will depend on group size and whether ties provide access to information about what others are doing or whether they also entail opportunities for norm enforcement. Our experiment demonstrates that densely tied information networks facilitate cooperation but only when the group size is small. When people can also enforce their ties’ cooperation, however, densely tied networks particularly benefit larger groups. The results demonstrate how network-level properties and individual-level tie patterns intersect to promote contributions in small and large collective-action groups.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-01-10T01:12:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221132517
       
  • Demonstrating Anticipatory Deflection and a Preemptive Measure to Manage
           It: An Extension of Affect Control Theory

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      Authors: Victoria Money
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      When people visualize a potential for deflection in future interactions, will they lie to prevent it' Affect control theory emphasizes the salience of deflection management in everyday life, otherwise known as an attempted realignment of experiences and expectations in the face of situational incongruency. Traditionally, deflection management is measured post hoc in an individual who, often disconnected from and unassociated with the situation, reconfigures the experience. This does not, however, speak to deflection management during an active interaction or how an individual might change things in anticipation of deflection. Prior to, or during, an active interaction, individuals have a unique opportunity to preemptively alter the definition of the situation based on anticipated sentiments. In essence, they can foresee oncoming deflection and act to avoid it. Using a vignette experiment, I extend affect control theory by highlighting deflection that is anticipated but not yet experienced. I also show that participants have higher odds of lying in interactions where an honest retelling would incur high deflection. To further inform this cognitive process, I present qualitative explanations from participants on why they chose their responses and how the dynamics of their relationship mattered.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-01-10T01:10:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221132508
       
  • Introduction to Jane McLeod, 2022 Recipient of the Cooley Mead Award

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      Authors: Kathryn J. Lively
      First page: 1
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T06:09:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231153308
       
  • Invisible Disabilities and Inequality

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      Authors: Jane D. McLeod
      First page: 6
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      In this address, I consider the realized and potential contributions of sociological social psychology to research on inequality based on invisible disabilities and the challenges that invisible disabilities pose to current social psychological theories. Drawing from the social structure and personality framework, I advance the general notion of invisible disability as a dimension of inequality, consider how four basic social psychological processes (social categorization, identity, status, and stigmatization) have and can help us understand how invisible disabilities shape outcomes over the life course, and suggest new lines of research social psychologists could pursue. I close with brief comments about the benefits of such an agenda for sociological social psychology as well as how these lines of research can inform theories of stratification.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-02-08T08:41:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231153307
       
  • Pay Justice and Pay Satisfaction: The Influence of Reciprocity, Social
           Comparisons, and Standard of Living

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      Authors: Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Cristóbal Moya
      First page: 95
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      This study compares two pay evaluations: pay justice and pay satisfaction. Conceptually, pay justice entails a moral assessment and is more specific to work, whereas pay satisfaction is a broader attitude that includes non-work-related factors. We analyzed German employee data and found overall similarity in determinants but differences in proximity to work contexts. Pay satisfaction was more strongly associated with private pay comparisons and standard of living, whereas pay justice was more strongly associated with reciprocity in the employer-employee relationship through working hours and comparisons at work. The results therefore suggest that employers can influence pay justice more easily than pay satisfaction by means of addressing imbalances in the employer-employee exchange and within organizational pay structures.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2023-02-04T07:54:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725231151671
       
  • Colorism in the Rental Housing Market: Field Experimental Evidence of
           Discrimination by Skin Color

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      Authors: Amelia R. Branigan, Matthew Hall
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Although sociological research on colorism has affirmed an association between lighter skin and socioeconomic advantage, causal estimates of discrimination are challenging to generate outside of experimental contexts. Using data from an audit study conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, we present field experimental evidence of colorism in the rental housing market for Black and Hispanic Americans, demonstrating variation in discrimination by the race of the agent, race of the renter, and the outcome in question. Our findings suggest that a macrosocial preference for lighter skin has the potential to translate into microsocial interactions in more complicated ways than a consistent light-skin privilege, emphasizing the need to better understand how color-based discrimination operates in the lived contexts where interventions might be possible. Results also suggest that discrimination by skin color may reflect varied processes by race and ethnicity, necessitating an understanding of colorism as inherently intersectional.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2022-11-04T04:28:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221129624
       
  • A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination
           and Daily Emotion Dynamics

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      Authors: Faith M. Deckard, Andrew Messamore, Bridget J. Goosby, Jacob E. Cheadle
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      This article is temporarily under embargo.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2022-10-15T12:29:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221123577
       
  • Can Customers Affect Racial Discrimination in Hiring'

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      Authors: David S. Pedulla, Sophie Allen, Livia Baer-Bositis
      First page: 30
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      While significant scholarship has documented the prevalence of racial discrimination in hiring, less is known about the forces that exacerbate or mitigate it. In this article, we develop a theoretical argument about the ability of customers to influence racial discrimination in hiring, highlighting the role of direct customer communication and its intersection with online review systems. We deploy a novel method to test our argument. Specifically, we draw on original data from a two-part field experiment that first randomly assigned restaurants to receive one of three different email messages from customers and then audited the restaurants to test for racial discrimination in hiring. While our data collection effort was cut short and disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, making our findings more exploratory than initially anticipated, our data provide evidence that customer communication can reduce racial discrimination under certain conditions. We discuss the implications of these findings for scholarship on organizational decision-making, discrimination, and methodological approaches for studying these topics.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2022-09-21T11:02:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221109533
       
  • Keeping Apart on the Playground: Construction of Informal Segregation on
           Public Playgrounds in Multiethnic Neighborhoods

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      Authors: Paula Paajanen, Tuija Seppälä, Clifford Stevenson, Reetta Riikonen, Eerika Finell
      First page: 53
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      Informal segregation has been widely studied in various public settings but not on public playgrounds. Drawing on an 11-month ethnography among mothers of young children, we examine how informal segregation is (re)produced on public playgrounds in two ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Finland. Our findings reveal different normative practices. First, normative rhythms and parenting practices structure playground activities by limiting opportunities for contact between ethnic minority and majority groups and producing exclusive spaces. Second, group norms and the seeking of ethnic/racial ingroup members together regulate mothers’ interaction with outgroup mothers on playgrounds; mothers are inclined toward their ingroup while outgroup mothers are often ignored, resulting in only illusory contact. Based on our analysis, we argue that by better understanding the normative roots of segregation, more comprehensive and effective interventions can be designed to facilitate positive contact in this population.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2022-09-02T09:38:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221116632
       
  • Constructing Childhood in Social Interaction: How Parents Assert Epistemic
           Primacy over Their Children

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      Authors: Ruey-Ying Liu
      First page: 74
      Abstract: Social Psychology Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
      While people are generally considered as having primary rights to know and describe themselves, in parent–child interaction, young children are not always treated as having primary access to and sole authority over matters within their own domain. Drawing on naturally occurring parent–child interactional data, this conversation analytic study shows how parents claim epistemic primacy over young children with respect to matters that, based on norms of adult interaction, should be unequivocally presupposed within children's primary epistemic domain. Two forms of evidence are provided: (1) parents confirm or disconfirm children's asserted claims about their own sensations, thoughts, or experiences; and (2) parents use test questions to request information within children's domain and then evaluate their answers as correct or incorrect. These practices indicate an orientation to young children's reduced rights to claim epistemic autonomy. I argue that this is one way through which childhood is constructed in social interaction.
      Citation: Social Psychology Quarterly
      PubDate: 2022-12-14T05:28:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/01902725221130751
       
 
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