40 research outputs found
Intersections of intergroup communication research
No full textIn this prologue to a special issue on intergroup communication, we highlight areas of intersection across its field. To start, we provide a brief history of the field, simultaneously highlighting 6 central principles guiding the work in this area. We then review 4 key themes-areas of intersection uniting the contributions in this special issue: (a) a sustained interest in canonical intergroup theories and topics; (b) the notion that there are various conceptualizations of intergroup communication, both linguistic and nonlinguistic; (c) scholars' strong interest in intercultural communication processes; and (d) the cross-disciplinary nature of intergroup communication scholarship. Thereafter, we present a 2-path model of inter- and intragroup communication that integrates interpersonal, media, and intergroup communication and overviews other contributions to this special issue
Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: distinguishing hard from soft news
No full textThe literature presents two contrasting accounts on how cognitive reflection (overriding intuition with deliberation) influences susceptibility to political misinformation. According to the classical reasoning account, predominantly rooted in research of soft news, cognitive reflection improves discernment of true from false information. According to the motivated reasoning account, rooted in research on hard (policy-related) issues, individuals prone to cognitive reflection display stronger political bias and fall for politically-congruent misinformation. We integrate these accounts by examining how the soft-hard distinction interacts with individuals’ reasoning style to shape truth discernment and susceptibility to political bias. An integrative data analysis (IDA) combined data from 18 political misinformation studies (N = 41,289) with independent soft-hard news ratings. Additionally, two experiments (N = 666), in the U.S. and Greece, exposed participants to either soft or hard news. Across all datasets, participants prone to cognitive reflection displayed stronger political bias, but only when evaluating hard news. Cognitive reflection was associated with improved truth discernment for soft and hard news in the IDA, but not consistently so in the experiments. Our findings reconcile discrepancies in misinformation research and demonstrate that cognitive reflection is not a one-size-fits-all solution to political misinformation as it can exacerbate bias in policy-related issues
Mind over Matter: Target states, not simulus characteristics, determine information processing in minority influence
No full textMajority and minority influence : societal meaning and cognitive elaborationN
I Think Therefore I Am (Influenced): Perceptions of Social Influence on Self and Others
No full textThis research focuses on people’s perceptions and explanations of majority and minority influence, and on the socio-cognitive processes that underlie them. Two experimental studies (Ns = 89, 139) examined the effects of source status (majority vs. minority) and message quality (strong vs. weak arguments) on perceptions of influence on self and others, explanations for this influence and message elaboration. An estimation of potential (and actual) influence on self and other recipients was examined and an expected bias in perception was evident, others were thought to be influenced more than the self (i.e. a third-person perception). These perceptions depended on the greater message elaboration instigated by a minority (vs. majority) source. The reasons people offer about the potential (or actual) influence were also examined – in particular, people’s thoughts about the influential message and source’s status (i.e. the information that they receive a message by a majority or a minority influence). Results showed that thinking as an explanation of influence is more important for a majority (vs. a minority) message and this does not depend on actual cognitive elaboration but rather on self-serving processes. Overall, the results show that thinking as an underlying process of, or as an account for, influence is differentially connected with majority and minority source. These findings contribute to our understanding of perceptions and explanations of social influence and of their underlying socio-cognitive processes
Ideological religious nationalism: measurement, construct validity, and cross-cultural comparisons
No full textIdeological religious nationalism (IRN) is a worldview that advocates the
integration of religious beliefs with national policy and laws and the religious
moralization of politics. However, the psychological mechanisms, individual
differences, and socio-political consequences related to IRN are unclear.
Across five studies (NTotal = 1,349), we established construct validity for
a novel scale assessing IRN that is adaptable across different contexts.
Results showed that stronger IRN relates to distinct psychological motives,
domains of religiosity, and views of one’s nation. Results also showed that
stronger IRN relates to supporting policies that promote religious-national
integration and support of political violence. Lastly, results show that this
novel IRN scale can be used across different contexts and has incremental
validity beyond similar but distinct measures of religious nationalism. Overall,
results showed that IRN can successfully capture people’s integration of their
religious beliefs with their views about their nation’s identity
Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook
No full textThe current study examined social networking sites, specifically Twitter and Facebook, as spaces for intergroup communication and contact between members of two national groups, Germans and Greeks, during the turbulent times of the Greek economic crisis. A cross-sectional study on Twitter and a longitudinal study on Facebook were conducted. We examined how social psychological variables (such as prior and extended contact, friendship, intergroup anxiety, national identification) and variables specific to the communication context (such as perceived quality of contact, vicarious contact quality, perceived anonymity, self-disclosure) relate to intergroup attitudes. Both social psychological and communication-relevant variables statistically significantly and independently predicted intergroup attitudes. Moreover, the longitudinal study showed that online contact improved intergroup attitudes and reduced intergroup anxiety. Findings suggest that intergroup contact via social networking sites can have positive effects on intergroup attitudes and that both social psychological and communication-related variables are important in understanding these effects
The psychology of misinformation: Acceptance and correction
No full textΗ παρούσα ανασκόπηση συζητά τα πρόσφατα δεδομένα της ψυχολογικής έρευνας σχετικά με το ζήτημα της παραπληροφόρησης. Εστιάζει στους ψυχολογικούς μηχανισμούς οι οποίοι εξηγούν το γιατί οι άνθρωποι αποδέχονται την παραπληροφόρηση και το πώς μπορεί να αντιμετωπιστεί. Σχετικά με τους παράγοντες αποδοχής, η σχετική έρευνα οργανώνεται γύρω από τρεις διαφορετικές θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις, τη γνωσιοκεντρική (η παραπληροφόρηση ως αποτέλεσμα νωθρής ατομικής σκέψης), την κινητηριακή (η παραπληροφόρηση ως αποτέλεσμα παρακινούμενης νόησης που μεροληπτεί υπέρ των ταυτοτήτων του ατόμου), και την ιδεολογική (η παραπληροφόρηση ως κομμάτι της κοινωνικής σκέψης και ιδεολογίας). Οι στρατηγικές αντιμετώπισης κατηγοριοποιούνται ανάλογα με το εάν αυτές εφαρμόζονται πριν (προ-κατάρριψη) ή μετά (μετα-κατάρριψη) την έκθεση στην παραπληροφόρηση.This review discusses empirical evidence from recent psychological research on misinformation. It focuses on the psychological processes underlying why people accept misinformation and how it can be resisted. Regarding the factors facilitating acceptance, the relative research is organized around three general theoretical approaches, the cognitive-centered (misinformation as the result of lazy individual thinking), the motivation-centered (misinformation as the result of motivated reasoning in favor of people’s identities), and the ideology-centered (misinformation as part of social thought and ideology). The correction strategies are categorized depending on whether correction is introduced before (prebunking) or after (debunking) exposure to misinformation
‘Rock music for myself and justice to the world!’: Musical identity, values, and music preferences
No full text The present study examined the relationship between music preferences, values, and musical identities in a sample of 606 Greek college students. Students indicated the importance of music in defining and evaluating themselves and their values on an abbreviated version of the Schwartz Value Survey ( Schwartz, 1992 ). A typology of music preferences was revealed, with five factors: sophisticated and complex (e.g., jazz); native-Greek traditional (e.g., ‘rebetika’); sentimental and sensational (e.g., pop); established rebellious (e.g., rock); and non-mainstream dissonant (e.g., punk). Hierarchical regression analyses showed that values and perceived importance of music to self-definition (i.e., musical identities) contribute differentially in predicting the music preference structures, for example self-transcendence predicted established rebellious and conservation predicted sentimental and sensational; also musical identity was positively related to established rebellious and negatively to sentimental and sensational. These findings are discussed and interpreted within a psychological, as well as an interdisciplinary, theoretical framework. </jats:p
