Grand challenge: social psychology without hubris

Frontiers in Social Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 1

Опубликована: Янв. 5, 2024

In this editorial, the Founding Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Social Psychology expresses several ideas about past, present, and possible future social psychology, seeking to explain we need why a new journal what kind psychology need. The argues for rich, humanistic, interdisciplinary, philosophically informed devoted addressing problems illustrious traditions John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, Gordon Allport, Muzafer Sherif, Solomon Asch, Morton Deutsch, others. He suggests that disciplinary “crises” practicality, historicity, replicability may be more interconnected than is generally recognized. advocates non-hubristic, theory-driven, multi-leveled analysis human behavior attends both subjective objective aspects social, cultural, economic, political contexts. Editorial priorities include scientific rigor, relevance, intellectual humility.

Язык: Английский

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The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

European Journal of Social Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 54(3), С. 670 - 687

Опубликована: Фев. 5, 2024

Abstract Although the importance of temporal perspectives for understanding collective movements has been theoretically emphasised, they are rarely considered in research. Focusing on mass protests against COVID‐19 policies Germany, we investigated how protesters make use references their protest narratives. Results from 11 multi‐site observations and 31 interviews showed that participants (a) drew historical perpetrator victim analogies imagined a dystopian future, bolstering perceptions injustice, (b) resistance narratives ideal, utopian future society, increasing perceived efficacy (c) countered feelings insignificance by identifying with past heroes. Protesters living East Germany comparatively more than those West, who often likened complying to perpetrators national‐socialist communist dictatorships. The findings empirically underline integrating historical–cultural–future into models action.

Язык: Английский

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Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them

PLoS ONE, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(7), С. e0288451 - e0288451

Опубликована: Июль 26, 2023

In today's ideologically diverse world, it is pertinent to have a better understanding of how our beliefs the social world shape thinking and behaviour. The purpose this paper investigate key values that underlie particular sets beliefs, referred here as worldviews. Worldviews encompass one's outlook on life are, therefore, instrumental in providing meaning reality one fits it. They can be classified into five unique types, namely, Localised, Orthodox, Pragmatist, Reward, Survivor. we start by proposing theoretical relationship between five-factor typology values. Following this, present findings show worldviews may mapped onto two higher order value dimensions Openness Change versus Conservation, Self-transcendence Self-Enhancement. We conclude outlining implications these individual cognition society general.

Язык: Английский

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Emergent Prefigurative Politics and Social Psychological Processes: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Опубликована: Март 21, 2024

Prefigurative politics, the enactment of desired future social relations in present change practices, has become central contemporary political organizing. Protest movements like Arab Spring and recent Latin American uprisings illustrate prefiguration emerging through struggle rather than from a pre-existing programme. This paper reports systematic review empirical psychological literature on prefigurative politics. We analyse 19 studies, exploring key research questions, methodologies, contexts to provide critical overview existing research. Through thematic analysis processes described we identify three focuses: facilitating _emergence_ projects (e.g., empowerment), _outcomes_ participation sense community), role as actors face practical _challenges_ intra-group discussion). Our findings indicate that is socially embedded, dynamic, agentic process where grievances, needs, aspirations individuals groups within their context shape emergence, content, outcomes Building our review, propose agenda for ‘emergent politics’, methodological recommendations, highlight promise dynamic identity models collective action address challenges researching phenomena.

Язык: Английский

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Safety Listening in Organizations: An Integrated Conceptual Review

Organizational Psychology Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 13, 2024

Failures of listening to individuals raising concerns are often implicated in safety incidents. To better understand this and theorize the communicative processes by which voice averts harm, we undertook a conceptual review “safety listening” organizations: responses any that calls for action prevent harm. Synthesizing research from disparate fields, found 36 terms/definitions describing typically framed it terms listeners’ motivations. These motivational accounts, propose, by-product self-report methods used study (e.g., surveys, interviews), focus on perceptions rather than actual following speaking-up. In contrast, define as behavioral response organizational contexts harms. Influenced cognitive, interactional, environmental factors, may incidents through enabling cooperative sensemaking building shared awareness understanding risks hazards.

Язык: Английский

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The methods and principles of the natural sciences are not a diet we need to follow: A close look at the terms of the question

Theory & Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34(3), С. 311 - 327

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2024

In this article, I discuss each of the elements special issue’s question, that is, “should,” “psychology,” “follow,” “the methods and principles,” natural sciences,” first argue sciences are many diverse, choice to emulate them would still leave plenty room for variety. There are, moreover, good ontological reasons resist urge restrict what we call “psychology” study human life with “methods principles sciences.” Psychologists should feel free adopt adapt (rather than follow) has been developed in other fields research terms principles, methods, techniques, instruments. That includes those sciences.

Язык: Английский

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Experiencing death and grief at the border: a sociocultural psychological analysis of activists’ struggles at the European and Central-American border

Mental Health Religion & Culture, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 19

Опубликована: Авг. 20, 2024

Dramatic consequences related to borders, such as migrants' deaths, disappearances and human rights violations, have increased since the 1990s. Several migration policies contribute border violence, leading traumatic mental health effects on migrants, their families activists. The literature has overlooked psychological, cultural religious/spiritual experience of activists sharing burden migrants families' grief struggles. To explore experiences while in act, research adopted a sociocultural approach conducted twenty-five semi-structured interviews with qualitative thematic analysis revealed five themes, encompassing how dynamically make sense experiences: rehumanising vocation; endless feelings; empathic-epistemic experiential ambivalence; personal coping strategies liberation transformative actions. These themes offer transitional model, progressing from acknowledging States' responsibilities developing transnational, cross-cultural inter-faith forms solidarity. Finally, this model fuels ethically inspired community struggles towards social equality, justice transformation.

Язык: Английский

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Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation

British Journal of Social Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 64(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 14, 2024

Abstract The climate and ecological crisis poses an unprecedented challenge, with scientists playing a critical role in how society understands responds. This study examined 27 environmentally concerned from 11 countries construct the future context of change, applying discursive psychology analysis. degree to which is constructed as predetermined or transformable impacts both urgency scope proposed actions. Along temporal spectrum fixed inevitable contingent transformable, drew upon shared discourses social collapse. fixity openness scientists' talk about shaped range arguments available, demonstrating varying levels argumentative flexibility when framing solutions change. At end, was presented beyond human intervention, echoing doomist discourse. By contrast, more open framings collapse not but through agency. Here, were warnings, motivating that wide array strategies collective action technological innovation. These constructions highlight shaping societal discourse what actions are seen viable necessary address crisis.

Язык: Английский

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World‐making for a future with sentient AI

British Journal of Social Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 64(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 31, 2024

The ways people imagine possible futures with artificial intelligence (AI) affects future world-making-how the is produced through cultural propagation, design, engineering, policy, and social interaction-yet there has been little empirical study of everyday people's expectations for AI futures. We addressed this by analysing two waves (2021 2023) USA nationally representative data from Artificial Intelligence, Morality, Sentience (AIMS) survey on public's forecasts about an imagined world widespread sentience (total N = 2401). Average responses to six (exploiting labour, treating cruelly, using research subjects, welfare, rights advocacy, unhappiness reduction) showed mixed humanity's AI. Regressions these demographics such as age, year was collected, individual psychological differences (the tendency anthropomorphise, mind perception, techno-animist beliefs), attitudes towards current (perceived threat policy support) found significant effects all anthropomorphism, political orientation, five techno-animism. realized that comes pass will depend dynamic factors, consequent changes in expectations, how those shape acts world-making.

Язык: Английский

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The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept

Theory & Psychology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 34(1), С. 127 - 149

Опубликована: Дек. 29, 2023

Since the late 18th century, an organismic perspective has been contrasted with a mechanistic perspective. In former, whole dominates parts, while in latter, parts dominate whole. An further sees wholes as self-directed processes of progressive formation ( Bildung) rather than static configurations or forms Gestalten). sum, focuses on living, developing, and interconnected wholes, contrast to mechanical causality. This article explores roots Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s scientific work (esp., his morphology), follows its influence through 19th highlights intersections within 20th-century psychology, particularly Heinz Werner’s organismic–developmental theory. Some key commonalities are focus primacy whole, over products, genetic method, (dis)continuities transitions development, primordial unity senses, making developmental comparisons. The approach can be used today revitalize our understanding dynamic constitution culture mind.

Язык: Английский

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