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New research: Impacts of #GunViolence on Individual and Population Well-Being doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New Methodology and Research Practice Perspective/Opinion: Lay Beliefs About Artificial Versus Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Theory of Machine doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New in Clinical Psychology: Navigating Analytical Challenges in Clinical Trials Using the Multiverse Approach doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Revisiting Stigma Attributions and Reactions to Stigma: #Replication #RegisteredReport of Weiner et al. (1988) With Extensions Examining New Stigmas and Stigma Origin Categorization, with @giladfeldman doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Does Expressive Freedom Facilitate Accuracy?: Comment Boxes and the Classification of Misleading Speech doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New in Organizational Behavior: Person-Group Political Orientation Fit: Relations With Workplace Friendships, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Identification, and Turnover Intentions doi.org/10.1525/collab…

How does the use of emojis in communications at work affect perceptions of the sender’s competence and the appropriateness of the communication? New social psychology research @ernlgh doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Increased Third-Person Mental Imagery and Focus on Identity-Expressiveness of Future Events When Anticipating Intervening Self-Change doi.org/10.1525/collab…

#RegisteredReport While conceptual fear generalization relates to typicality gradients, the asymmetry effect is neither as robust nor as universal as originally proposed doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New Developmental Psychology Commentary from @TobiasGrossman3: Reconsidering the Ontogeny of the Self-Reference Effect doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New in Social Psychology: Mapping Generation Z’s Stereotypes on Mental Disorders: Insights From Psychological Network Analysis doi.org/10.1525/collab…

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1/ Breaking down the "Trilingual Gender Stereotypes Database" (TGSD)—a new, validated resource for understanding how gender stereotypes work across English, Hebrew, and Arabic. #SocialPsych #Stereotypes

New paper out, co-authored by our professor Alejandro Erut! Using latent profile analysis, we examine how people across countries explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2—and how these explanation patterns relate to behaviors like vaccination and mask-wearing. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

Effects of Emotion Naming on Emotion Regulation in Younger and Older Adults: A Replication and Extension Study - a new #RegisteredReport from @theWolfeofpsych, Shreya Bhalla, and Derek Isaacowitz doi.org/10.1525/collab…

“To Be” or “I Am Someone Who Tends to Be”: Does the Wording of Personality Items Matter? New social psychology #RegisteredReport from @cameronskay, @saraweston09, and @DMCpersonality doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New in Methodology and Research Practice: Reducing Assessment Time w/o Sacrificing Content Validity in Short-Form Development: An Illustration Through the Revised 20-Item Short Version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS-P-20-R) #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/collab…

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Another influential finding in social psychology, stating that consumers from lower social classes are more likely to follow the shopping habits of the majority, goes down in failed, elaborate replication attempts. Na et al. introduced consumers’ social class as a moderator of majority influence on purchase decisions. Using U.S. student samples, their research showed that individuals from lower social class expressed a larger tendency to adapt their product choice to a majority preference compared to those from higher social class. The paper, published in a prestigious social psychological journal, holds significance as it is frequently cited in articles focusing on the psychological foundations of social class and applied studies on environmentally conscious consumer behavior. This recognition is reflected in its placement within the top 25% of research outputs tracked by Altmetric. This report presents three preregistered replication studies on the role of social class in the tendency to align one’s product choices with those of others. Across three replication studies (two with German samples, one with a U.S. sample), we did not find support for the notion that people of lower social class show a higher level of conformity with a majority in product choices. None of the studies were able to replicate the negative relationship between social class and the tendency to adjust one’s product choices to the preferences of the majority. The relationship was not significant in the German samples and it even pointed in the opposite direction as expected in the U.S. sample. The present research adds to recent attempts to assess the generalizability of social class effects and underscores the need to further clarify under which conditions class-based differences in conformity and self-construal can be found..