Social Psychological Bulletin

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📊 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. 4/5

📜 The authors expanded on the idea, testing whether the perceived ease of recalling the pairs would also influence evaluations. They manipulated the ease of recall by varying the number of items participants had to recall before making evaluations of made-up brands. 3/5

🧠 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. 2/5

⭐ 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.

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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). 🏆

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🔍 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. 4/5

✍🏽 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. 3/5

👔 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. 2/5

📊 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. spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

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⛏️ The authors suggest that the shared normative climate within a field has an important role in understanding how female students experience #discrimination. 4/5

👩🏿‍🔧 According to the results, female students reported experiencing and anticpating discrimination more often than male students, especially in fields where the culture emphasizes traditional masculine ideals and upholds unequal status for women. 3/5

🧰 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. 2/5

👷 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 #masculinity in shaping students’ experiences of gender discrimination. spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

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🟡 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. 4/5

📝 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. 3/5

📟 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. 2/5

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).

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🪪 Contrary to the predictions, Honesty-Humility were associated with internal (vs. external) whistleblowing, and with whistleblowing in general (via moral wrongfulness judgements). 4/5

📜 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. 3/5

🌁 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. 2/5

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]

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