Social Psychological Bulletin

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Social Psychological Bulletin

SPB is an peer-reviewed journal of the Polish Social Psychological Society, published by . It is free for readers and authors.

11/03/2026

🧠 Nguyen et al. (2026) examined the profound impact that COVID-19-related discrimination has had on the identities and well-being of Asian Americans.

📢 Across three studies—including both correlational and experimental designs—the researchers uncovered a unique and troubling trend in how this community responds to prejudice:

A National Disconnection: Perceived discrimination was directly associated with a significant decrease in how much participants identified as "American".

No Ethnic Buffer: Unlike other minority groups that often turn toward their racial identity for support during times of rejection, Asian Americans in this study did not increase their identification as "Asian" or with their specific ethnicity.

Well-Being at Risk: The loss of a positive "American" identity—without a compensatory increase in another protective identity—was linked to higher levels of stress and anxiety.

📊 Overall, the project suggests that Asian Americans are experiencing a "net negative" impact on their well-being, losing an important national identity while remaining vulnerable to the harmful effects of discrimination.

🔗 Access the full article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/15377/15377.pdf

04/02/2026

🧠 Knöchelmann et al. (2026) investigated the best ways to measure intellectual humility (IH)—the recognition that our own knowledge and beliefs have limitations.

📢 To move research beyond primarily Anglophone contexts, the team validated and compared four established IH scales (CIHS, SIHS, LIHS, and IHS) using a sample representative of the German population (N = 698).

🔍 Here are the key takeaways from the paper:

Proven Tools: Three translated scales (CIHS, LIHS, and SIHS) proved to be as reliable as their original English versions, making them excellent choices for international research.

Cultural Nuance Matters: The Swiss-German IHS did not replicate perfectly in the German context, suggesting that even small cultural and linguistic differences can impact how we measure personality.

Bridging Political Divides: The topic-specific scale (SIHS) was the strongest predictor of lower affective polarization. People with higher intellectual humility were less likely to view political opponents with hostility.

🤝 Ultimately, the study suggests that recognizing our own intellectual blind spots could be a powerful tool for reducing societal conflict and improving intergroup relations.

🔗 Access the full article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12465/12465.pdf

31/10/2025

🟤 Binder et al. (2025) tested whether three types of altruistic behavior (helping others, punishing peers, and showing moral courage) respond differently depending on the social distance within and between groups.

📢 The paper contains some surprising findings. For instance, people were significantly less likely to engage in the described helping behavior when it involved a close (low-distance) in-group member than when it involved an out-group member.

👫 More expectedly, people were more willing to show moral courage toward closer in-group members than toward out-group members. Finally, peer punishment proved stable across distances.

🦸‍♀️ Overall, the project suggests that the usual expectation (“we help our own more”) might not work as well for moral courage (e.g., speaking up for what is right and being willing to risk yourself to benefit others).

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/14139/14139.pdf

26/09/2025

⭐ Have you ever disliked something more, the easier it was to recall the terrible day you bought it? Ingendahl et al. (2025) investigated links between evaluative conditioning and ease of memory retrieval across two experiments.

🧠 Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a change in liking something that occurs after pairing it with positive or negative stimuli, and being able to recall the pairings makes the effect stronger.

📜 The authors expanded on the idea, testing whether the perceived ease of recalling the pairs would also influence evaluations. In the experiments, they manipulated the ease of memory retrieval by varying the number of items participants had to recall before making evaluations.

📊 While the experimental manipulation altered how easy the recall felt, it did not directly cause stronger EC. Still, the perceived ease was associated with stronger EC effects.

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/15567/15567.pdf

12/09/2025

We are thrilled to announce that Karolina Dyduch-Hazar has received the Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for her outstanding work, "Feeling Bad About Feeling Good? How Avengers and Observers Evaluate the Hedonic Pleasure of Taking Revenge" (co-author: Mario Gollwitzer). 🏆

✨ Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! Watch the recipient of the prize herself summarize the key findings of the awarded paper below.

🔗 You can also access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12477/12477.pdf

▶ To learn more about the Solomon Asch Prize and its previous winners, visit: https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/solomon-asch-prize

31/08/2025

📊 Would you rather make risky decisions for yourself or for others? Which one would turn a possible loss into a much bigger issue than potential gains? Mayiwar (2025) tested groups of professional decision-makers, giving them hypothetical risky-choice tasks.

👔 In each of the experiments, participants (e.g., financial advisors at a trade union) faced a decision-making problem that matched the context of their job. They could choose either a safe but small gain or a risky chance at more, but with the risk of total loss.

✍🏽 Participants made the decisions either for themselves or for others. Results indicated that the effect of self vs. other risk preference did not receive enough support from the data.

🔍 However, across all experiments, participants displayed stronger risk-seeking tendencies when choices were framed as potential losses compared to when they were framed as potential gains.

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/16619/16619.pdf

25/08/2025

👷How would it feel to be a woman in a male-dominated vocational school? Blondé et al. (2025) analyzed the role of overall climate in fields of varying degrees of reinforcing dominant in shaping students’ experiences of gender discrimination.

[https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/14229]

🧰 The authors recruited 1200+ first-year students from vocational schools in Switzerland. Participants studying to become tilers and house painters were among those scoring the highest on hegemonic masculinity.

👩🏿‍🔧 According to the results, female students reported experiencing it more often than male students, especially in fields where the culture emphasizes traditional masculine ideals and upholds unequal status for women.

⛏️ Authors suggest that the shared normative climate within a field has an important role in understanding how female students experience .

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/14229/14229.pdf

13/08/2025

Have you ever had to act together with others to challenge unfair decisions made by someone in power? Gordon and Puurtinen (2025) tested how ease of collective action affected decisions made by those with (Proposers) and without power (Responders). [https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/11607]

📟 They used a multiplayer version of the Ultimatum Game, in which offer rejection is a group effort instead of an individual choice, making rejecting unfair offers more complicated and risky.

📝 The powerful ones shared resources more fairly when a successful collective action was expected from those without power. When collective action was harder, those without power became more involved in rejecting proposals, but also more accepting of unfair offers over time.

🟡 Overall, the results suggest that the easier it is for people to act together, the fairer behavior from those in power, and also the lower tolerance for inequality in those without power.

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/11607/11607.pdf

07/08/2025

🟡 We are delighted to share that Social Psychological Bulletin has Impact Factor of 2.0!

🏅 Another big milestone for the once small and locally published journal - with more to come in the future.

04/08/2025

What personality traits are associated with internal (reporting only to the company’s leadership) vs. external (going to the media) whistleblowing decisions? Fischer and Gollwitzer (2025) addressed these issues in a recent paper. [https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12243]

🌁 The study is based on the HEXACO model of personality, focusing on two traits, Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, assuming that both will be linked to a decision to blow the whistle.

📜 Moreover, the authors investigated the associations between the HEXACO traits and the likelihood of internal vs. external whistleblowing. The former might be interpreted as maintaining loyalty towards one’s organization.

🪪 Contrary to the predictions, Honesty-Humility were associated with internal (vs. external) whistleblowing, and with whistleblowing in general (via moral wrongfulness judgements).

🔗 Access the article here:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12243/12243.pdf

20/06/2025

What nonverbal behaviors would make you trust someone? Does every trust-based profession prioritize the same ones? To find the answer, Montoya & Porter (2025) reviewed 86 textbooks for future professionals across eight disciplines. [https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12663]

👔 The chosen disciplines were medicine, law, sales, therapy (clinicians), athletic coaching, business, education, and leadership – each pointing to their domain-fitting behaviors.

🪄 For example, medical textbooks underlined the importance of head nodding, whereas smiling was mentioned extensively in sales and education textbooks.

👄 Overall, the most critical behaviors for building interpersonal trust were mimicry, eye contact, physical distance, head nod, laughter, physical touch, and body rotation.

👶 Importantly, these behaviors were consistent with the ones mentioned in psychological literature, some of which resembled parent-infant interactions. Read the full OA article:https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/12663/12663.pdf

02/06/2025

🆕 It is finally here – our new Special Topic “Gendered Language (R)Evolution: New Insights Into the Ever-Evolving Interaction Between Gender and Language” sheds new (interdisciplinary) light on the inextricably intertwined ways we think about gender(s) and language(s). The special topic, guest-edited by Carmen Cervone, Jennifer Lewendon, and Anne Maass, is openly available on the SPB’s website: https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/issue/view/601

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