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Addressing the Maternal Mental Health Crisis Through a Novel Tech-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Driven Perinatal Collaborative Care Model

Addressing the Maternal Mental Health Crisis Through a Novel Tech-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Driven Perinatal Collaborative Care Model

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Journal of Applied Social PsychologyVolume 53, Issue 3 p. 270-270 ERRATUMFree Access Erratum This article corrects the following: Development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A multidimensional nonstigmatizing measure of contemporary attitudes toward fatness and fat people Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue, Graeme Ditchburn, Volume 52Issue 12Journal of Applied Social Psychology pages: 1121-1145 First Published online: May 31, 2022 First published: 23 February 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12966AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat The article listed below, intended for publication in Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 53, Issue 3, a special issue entitled “Current Advances in the Study of Weight Stigma: Applied and Intersectional Lenses” was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 52, Issue 12. The article should be cited as shown below. Development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A multidimensional nonstigmatizing measure of contemporary attitudes toward fatness and fat people. Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue, Graeme Ditchburn Pages: 1121–1145. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12882 REFERENCE Cain, P., Donaghue, N., & Ditchburn, G. (2022). Development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A multidimensional nonstigmatizing measure of contemporary attitudes toward fatness and fat people. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52, 1121– 1145. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12882 Volume53, Issue3Special Issue: Current Advances in the Study of Weight Stigma: Applied and Intersectional LensesMarch 2023Pages 270-270 ReferencesRelatedInformation

How sport teaches values? The specific ability of intense bodily commitment to enhance norm adherence

How sport teaches values? The specific ability of intense bodily commitment to enhance norm adherence

Inferential misconceptions and replication crisis

Misinterpretations of the p value and the introduction of bias through arbitrary analytical choices have been discussed in the literature for decades. Nonetheless, they seem to have persisted in empirical research, and criticisms of p value misuses have increased in the recent past due to the non-replicability of many studies. Unfortunately, the critical concerns that have been raised in the literature are scattered over many disciplines, often linguistically confusing, and differing in their main reasons for criticisms. Misuses and misinterpretations of the p value are currently being discussed intensely under the label “replication crisis” in many academic disciplines and journals, ranging from specialized scientific journals to Nature and Science. In a drastic response to the crisis, the editors of the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology even decided to ban the use of p values from future publications at the beginning of 2015, a fact that has certainly added fuel to the discussions in the relevant scientific forums. Finally, in early March, the American Statistical Association released a brief formal statement on p values that explicitly addresses misuses and misinterpretations. In this context, we systematize the most serious flaws related to the p value and discuss suggestions of how to prevent them and reduce the rate of false discoveries in the future.

Launching a new journal: Fifty years of the journal of applied social psychology

AbstractThis paper describes the background and the process leading to the 1970–1971 launch of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. In the late 1960s, founding editor Dr. Siegfried Streufert had a deep belief in the need to create an outlet for excellent research addressing applications of social psychology to “real‐world” problems. He looked forward to marking this milestone year of publication of JASP with this article. Sadly, Siegfried passed away in April 2019, 50 years after developing and implementing the concept for the journal. We present the history as he wrote it, with some editing, in his honor.

Memoriam: Lynn C. Westney (1947-2021)

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“Indigenous” Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020)

“Indigenous” Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020)

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology Call for Special Issue Proposals

<i>Journal of Community &amp; Applied Social Psychology</i> Call for Special Issue Proposals

Call for Papers: Special issue on “Community psychology in the era of COVID‐19: How the pandemic has influenced communities and communities’ reactions”

The Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology is inviting papers for a special issue on “Community psychology in the era of COVID-19: How the pandemic has influenced communities and communities” reactions’. The pandemic is by no doubt an exceptional event, a challenge on a global scale with which modern societies have been forced to cope. It is common experience that this emergency has deeply affected human communities at all levels. Although there is still uncertainty about the future of the pandemic, communities need to react immediately in order to prevent the diffusion of the virus. This implies a deep modification in community lifestyle all around the world, that is going to change the very nature of social relations. In such panorama, studying the impact of Covid-19 at the interpersonal, social and intergroup levels is of paramount importance. In this regard, social and community psychology can play a central role, by improving our understanding of the social psychological processes that characterize communities’ reactions to the pandemic. Since community responses varied greatly across world countries, we are interested in the impact of the pandemic in the different countries all around the world. The special issue focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, how it is affecting communities at all levels, how communities are reacting or might react, also considering how the pandemic is dynamically evolving all around the world. We welcome papers addressing broad topics in the context of COVID-19 related to communities. In particular, we welcome empirical articles, but also review articles related to this emergency (also presenting theoretical models of how communities can deal with/react to the pandemic), commentaries, and praxis reports. Interdisciplinary papers that extend beyond social, political and community psychology are also encouraged under this call. Authors are invited to read the Author Guidelines for submission guidance.

Competitive victimhood as a lens to reconciliation: An analysis of the black lives matter and blue lives matter movements

AbstractLiterature on intergroup conflict and identity is well established; this literature includes work on competitive victimhood—the process by which groups attempt to establish that they have suffered more than opposing groups (Noor et al., Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2012, 16(4), 351–374) to restore feelings of moral identity, or cache often for use in a political context (Sullivan et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012, 102(4), 778). Within prior work on competitive victimhood, models of reconciliation based on the particular needs and identities established within the competitive victimhood dynamic have also been posited (SimanTov‐Nachlieli et al., European Journal of Social Psychology, 2015, 45(2), 139–145; Shnabel et al., Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013, 49(5), 867–877). While competitive victimhood theory has been applied in prior work to several cross‐national settings, there exist other important areas of intergroup tension that have not been explored. We propose that the concept of competitive victimhood can be fruitfully used to understand movement‐countermovement dynamics, including those related to conflictual race relations in the United States. Specifically, this article will examine the dynamic between the movements “Black Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” as a salient paired research case of a movement and countermovement for investigating identity and victimhood. In our present article, we map the discourse of the Black and Blue Lives Matter movements as illustrations of collective victimhood (Schori‐Eyal et al., Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2014, 44(12), 778–794) and competitive victimhood (Noor et al., Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2012, 16(4), 351–374). We find that while both movements demonstrate competitive victimhood, they are also qualitatively different. Due to differences in threat, power, and history of those the movements advocate for, each movement demonstrates different needs (Burton, Conflict: Human needs theory, Springer, 1990). We posit that the identity dynamics of competitive victimhood within social movements specifically lead to important and different identity needs for agency and morality (Shnabel &amp; Noor, in Restoring civil societies: The psychology of intervention and engagement following crisis (pp. 192–207), Wiley‐Blackwell, Chichester, England, 2012). We examine what these differences would mean in these particular movements, as well as for potential avenues of community building based on addressing these needs. In all cases, we aim to show that what has largely been considered a criminal justice phenomenon in the United States is fundamentally political, with roots and possible solutions in intergroup identity dynamics that can be fruitfully explored within political psychology.

Assessing the Statistical Analyses Used in Basic and Applied Social Psychology After Their p-Value Ban

ABSTRACT In this article, we assess the 31 articles published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) in 2016, which is one full year after the BASP editors banned the use of inferential statistics. We discuss how the authors collected their data, how they reported and summarized their data, and how they used their data to reach conclusions. We found multiple instances of authors overstating conclusions beyond what the data would support if statistical significance had been considered. Readers would be largely unable to recognize this because the necessary information to do so was not readily available.

A Proposed Hybrid Effect Size Plus p-Value Criterion: Empirical Evidence Supporting its Use

ABSTRACT When the editors of Basic and Applied Social Psychology effectively banned the use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) from articles published in their journal, it set off a fire-storm of discussions both supporting the decision and defending the utility of NHST in scientific research. At the heart of NHST is the p-value which is the probability of obtaining an effect equal to or more extreme than the one observed in the sample data, given the null hypothesis and other model assumptions. Although this is conceptually different from the probability of the null hypothesis being true, given the sample, p-values nonetheless can provide evidential information, toward making an inference about a parameter. Applying a 10,000-case simulation described in this article, the authors found that p-values’ inferential signals to either reject or not reject a null hypothesis about the mean (α = 0.05) were consistent for almost 70% of the cases with the parameter’s true location for the sampled-from population. Success increases if a hybrid decision criterion, minimum effect size plus p-value (MESP), is used. Here, rejecting the null also requires the difference of the observed statistic from the exact null to be meaningfully large or practically significant, in the researcher’s judgment and experience. The simulation compares performances of several methods: from p-value and/or effect size-based, to confidence-interval based, under various conditions of true location of the mean, test power, and comparative sizes of the meaningful distance and population variability. For any inference procedure that outputs a binary indicator, like flagging whether a p-value is significant, the output of one single experiment is not sufficient evidence for a definitive conclusion. Yet, if a tool like MESP generates a relatively reliable signal and is used knowledgeably as part of a research process, it can provide useful information.

Imagining violent criminals: an experimental investigation of music stereotypes and character judgments

In criminal cases, prosecutors treat defendant-authored rap lyrics as an admission of guilt rather than as art or entertainment. Do negative stereotypes about rap music shape jurors’ attitudes about the defendant, unfairly influencing outcomes? Replicating and extending previous research (Fischoff Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29(4), 795–805, 1999; Fried Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(23), 2135–2146, 1996; Dunbar et al. Public Policy, and Law, 22(3), 280–292, 2016), the current study begins to address these questions. Using an experimental approach, participants were presented with music lyrics and asked to make judgments about the person who wrote the lyrics. All participants read the same lyrics but were told they were from a country, heavy metal, or rap song, depending upon the condition into which they were randomly assigned. Again using random assignment, participants were provided with information about the race of the songwriter in a photo of a young man. Finally, participants were tasked with judging the character of the songwriter, including traits such as his violent nature and criminal disposition. We find that writers of violent “rap” lyrics are perceived more negatively than writers who pen identical country and heavy metal lyrics. We also find that songwriter race matters; no differences in judgments were detected between the White and Black songwriters; however, when race information was not provided, participants who inferred the songwriter was Black judged him more negatively than participants who inferred he was White. These findings have implications for racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Perception of self-handicapping behavior in the workplace: Not that great

Previous studies that have examined the effectiveness of self-handicapping behavior as an impression management strategy have shown different results between students and workers. In order to generalize the results among workers, the present study examined the perception of self-handicapping behavior in the workplace by replicating and extending Park and Brown’s study (Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44(2), 124–132, 2014) to workers in South Korea. To this end, 252 workers evaluated a target whose behavior (self-handicapping vs. control) and outcome (success vs. failure) were manipulated. Participants assessed the target in terms of attributions (to ability, effort, external factors, and luck) and their willingness to socialize and collaborate with the target. Results revealed that workers generally evaluated self-handicapping targets more negatively than control targets.

Sites of Protest: Rethinking Everyday Spaces as Sites for Protesting the Marginalisation of Difference

Sites of Protest: Rethinking Everyday Spaces as Sites for Protesting the Marginalisation of Difference

Do We Really like Helpful Liars? Apparently not Everywhere

In the American study by Pontari and Schlenker (Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 177-183, 2006), individuals who lied in order to help a friend were rated as less respectable, but more likeable than unhelpful truth tellers. The objective for this study was to find out whether the same effect could be demonstrated in a culture where norms regarding deceit are more rigid. Capitalizing on the existing research (Szarota et al. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 46, 181–185, 2015; Wierzbicka 1994, 1999), we hypothesized that the Polish preoccupation with sincerity might result in a negative judgment of any behavior that is classified as lying, regardless of the liar’s intentions. Eighty students (40 women) participated in the study. Participants read stories that depicted either truthful or deceptive, yet helpful behavior towards a friend. They then rated how much they liked and respected the protagonists and if they perceived them as good friends. Results show that in Poland (the same as in the US) helpful liars were judged as less respectable than unhelpful truth tellers. Additionally, they were also perceived as worse friends. However, there was no significant difference between ratings of likeability between these two groups, so the results of the American study were only partially replicated. It seems that in Poland lying for the benefit of others is not socially desirable.

The Facet Satisfaction Scale: an Effective Affective Measure of Job Satisfaction Facets

Job satisfaction facets are theoretically and practically important variables. Most existing facet satisfaction scales, however, have two noteworthy limitations—they often do not clearly assess affective content, and they use non-parallel items. In the current paper, we examined the measurement qualities of the Facet Satisfaction Scale (FSS; [Beehr et al. (Journal of Applied Social Psychology 36:1523–1547, 2006)], a measure that may address the limitations of existing facet satisfaction measures. We conducted four studies to examine the measurement qualities of the FSS: (a) Study 1 examined the FSS’s factor structure, (b) Study 2 examined its test-retest reliability and construct validity, (c) Study 3 further examined its construct validity, and (d) Study 4 examined the extent to which the FSS assesses the affective and cognitive components of job satisfaction. We found that the FSS produced the hypothesized five-factor structure and that the FSS subscales each yielded high levels of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. We also found evidence of the construct validity of the FSS subscales, and we found that the FSS subscales are generally effective measures of the affective component of their respective job satisfaction facets. As a result of the current findings, we recommend the FSS when researchers wish to measure the affective component of job satisfaction facets. Little previous research has examined the FSS’s measurement qualities. The current studies address this gap by providing evidence for the reliability and validity of the FSS. This is of value because the FSS addresses some limitations inherent to other facet satisfaction measures.

“Racial bias in mock juror decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment”: Correction to Mitchell et al. (2005).

Reports an error in "Racial Bias in Mock Juror Decision-Making: A Meta-Analytic Review of Defendant Treatment" by Tara L. Mitchell, Ryann M. Haw, Jeffrey E. Pfeifer and Christian A. Meissner (Law and Human Behavior, 2005[Dec], Vol 29[6], 621-637). In the article, all of the numbers in Appendix A were correct, but the signs were reversed for z' in a number of studies, which are listed. Also, in Appendix B, some values were incorrect, some signs were reversed, and some values were missing. The corrected appendix is included. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2006-00971-001.) Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendants, exists in jury decision-making, with Black defendants being treated more harshly by jurors than White defendants. The empirical research, however, is inconsistent--some studies show racial bias while others do not. Two previous meta-analyses have found conflicting results regarding the existence of racial bias in juror decision-making (Mazzella & Feingold, 1994, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 1315-1344; Sweeney & Haney, 1992, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 10, 179-195). This research takes a meta-analytic approach to further investigate the inconsistencies within the empirical literature on racial bias in juror decision-making by defining racial bias as disparate treatment of racial out-groups (rather than focusing upon the minority group alone). Our results suggest that a small, yet significant, effect of racial bias in decision-making is present across studies, but that the effect becomes more pronounced when certain moderators are considered. The state of the research will be discussed in light of these findings. (PsycINFO Database Record

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber

Reviewed by: The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber Sandra D. Shattuck The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2016. 128 pp. As soon as I saw the title of Berg and Seeber's book, I breathed out, as if I were finishing a session of meditation. How wonderful would it be if I could slow my teaching life down? Not obsess over the pile of papers waiting to be responded to and graded. Not worry that my annual self-evaluation would ever get written. To actually read something for pleasure, something that caught my fancy and not something that had to be assessed, deadline attached. What kind of life would that be? A balanced one. A sane one. The truth is that many academics in the twenty-first century function on the edge of crazy. But our work-induced desperation is not a topic any of us broaches. Thus, in order to write this book, Berg and Seeber had to push beyond two boundaries: one was the complicit silence muffling the topic, and the other was disciplinary. As Berg and Seeber point out in their introduction, discussing mental health is taboo, even though a large body of research proves that faculty incur increasing stress and work-life imbalance as they take on more and more tasks to fulfill the mandates of the corporate university. Moreover, as Berg and Seeber state, the traditional profile of an academic, which includes "the ideals of mastery, self-sufficient individualism, and rationalism" (12), mitigates against speaking up or collective action. As they state, What began simply as helping each other became a sustained investigation of academia. We see our book as uncovering the secret life of the academic, revealing not only her pains but also her pleasures. Writing this book provoked the anxiety of speaking what is habitually left unspoken, and we continually needed to remind ourselves that the oscillation between private shame and the political landscape would prove fruitful. (12) [End Page 80] The corporatization of one's workplace and craft; the loss of health, collegiality, and pleasure in one's work; the increasing isolation of a digitally managed life—these are all big concerns we can discuss in any profession, but Berg and Seeber invite us to focus these concerns on the university. The authors' significant innovation is to apply principles of the Slow movement to academia. In fact, the title of Berg and Seeber's book pays homage to Carl Honoré's seminal text, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed. But to effect this application, Berg and Seeber had to move beyond their disciplinary boundary as literary critics—they're both professors in departments of English language and literature in Canadian universities—and engage interdisciplinary research and thinking in fields such as psychology, sociology, and management, represented by academic journal titles in the Works Cited pages such as Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, and Administrative Science Quarterly, among others. Offering a succinct assessment of their project and the research required, Berg and Seeber state that "our book is more optimistic than works on the corporate university, more political and historicized than self-help, and more academically focused than those on stress and the Slow movement" (vii). Stepping out of one's disciplinary comfort zone is no little feat in a business that evaluates its employees on what they know rather on investigating what they don't know. And Berg and Seeber point to this shame and discomfort: "Ironically, our feelings of lack of productivity and not measuring up have not led us until now to 'read' the institution; our self-blame has played into corporate values" (12–13). Their project was not without pushback from colleagues, some of whom told Berg and Seeber "to wake up and get with the program" and that they were "simply too busy to slow down" (11). Berg and Seeber's diagnosis of the problem in their introduction is well worth the read. "Corporatization" is the villain, and the authors summarize the...

Exposing Students to Environmental Sustainability in Accounting: An Analysis of Its Impacts in a US Setting

ABSTRACTIn this study, we examine whether the introduction of two different forms of an environmental sustainability intervention into differing sections of an introductory-level managerial accounting course at a US university induces changes in students’ environmental intentions and behaviors. Based on attributes from Ajzen’s [1991. “The Theory of Planned Behavior.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 50: 179–211; 2002. “Perceived Behavioral Control, Self-efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior.” Journal of Applied Social Psychology 32 (4): 665–683] theory of planned behaviour, results show that, in comparison to a control group with no intervention, students exhibited higher levels of attitude, perceived behavioural control, intentions, and behaviour following the interventions. However, the positive results were limited to students undergoing an experiential learning assignment beyond the basic reading, lecture, and discussion intervention. The findings provide some support for claims that bringing sustainability issues into the accounting curriculum can lead to positive student outcomes. But, given the increased efforts necessary to find and use experiential projects, they also suggest that inducing accounting faculty, at least in the US, to pursue such pedagogical approaches will require that more be done by those organisations calling for such efforts in terms of support, materials, and reward structures.