Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2023-03-07
Abstract： Pro-environmental behavior, such as saving energy and taking public transportation, is beneficial to protecting the environment. Previous studies suggested that personality traits, environmentalrelated values, beliefs, affect and norms are antecedents of pro-environmental behavior. However, protecting the environment is also rooted in motivation for happiness and well-being. Generally speaking, there are three different types of well-being in positive psychology, namely hedonic, eudaimonic, and psychological richness. Based on different conceptions of well-being, research has shown that hedonic value was negatively related to pro-environmental behavior. Eudaimonic value was related to environmental values but it cannot directly predict pro-environmental behavior. Given it’s a new conception, the relationship between psychological richness and pro-environmental behavior is still absent. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring how psychological richness would influence pro-environmental behavior as well as its underlying mechanism and boundary conditions. To reach the goals, we conducted ten studies with different experimental manipulations of psychological richness, multi-source participants, and various assessments of pro-environmental behavior. In correlational study 1.1, we tested the link between psychological richness and proenvironmental behavior. In experimental study 1.2–1.4, we manipulated psychological richness by recalling past memory and making the perspective change to explore its potential influence on proenvironmental behavior. In study 2.1–2.4, the measurement-of-mediation design and experimentalcausal-chain design were used to examine the mediating role of self-expansion. Based on the crosssectional study 2.1, in study 2.2 we randomly assigned participants to the psychological richness condition and control condition to complete the task, and investigated whether psychological richness affected personal self-expansion. In study 2.3, self-expansion was manipulated to explore its effect on pro-environmental behavior. To support our model, study 2.4 was conducted to test whether psychological richness facilitates pro-environmental behavior through self-expansion. To investigate the moderating effect of nature-self size, we manipulated psychological richness in study 3.1 and conducted a cross-sectional survey in 3.2. As predicted, the present study found that both psychologically rich life and state psychological richness were positively related to pro-environmental behavior. Results indicated that psychological richness motivates people to behave in an environmentally friendly. The increased self-expansion was the reason why people experiencing psychological richness were more willing to protect the environment. Lastly, the results also demonstrated the moderating effect of nature-self size on the association of self-expansion and pro-environmental behavior. Overall, the results extend the research on the effects of psychological richness on personal growth and sustainable social development. First, the research suggested that pursuing well-being and behaving pro-environmentally were not in conflict. By taking the newly constructed psychological richness, living a good life motivates people to protect the environment. Second, message framing promoting psychological richness could be used to encourage individuals from engaging in environmentally friendly activities.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-03-04
Abstract： With buzzwords such as "tool man", "laborer" and “corporate slave” sweeping the workplace, workplace objectification has become an urgent topic to be discussed. With the increasing use of artificial intelligence, especially robots in the workplace, the workplace effects produced by robots are also worth paying attention to. Therefore, the present paper aims to explore whether people’s perception of robots’ threat to them will produce or aggravate workplace objectification. On the basis of reviewing the related research on workplace objectification and robot workforce, and combined with intergroup threat theory, this paper elaborates the realistic threat to human employment and security caused by robot workforce, as well as the identity threat to human identity and uniqueness. From the perspective of compensatory control theory, this paper proposes the deep mechanisms and boundary conditions of that perceiving robot threat will reduce people's sense of control, thereby stimulating the control compensation mechanism, which in turn leads to workplace objectification. This research is composed of eight studies. The first study includes two sub-studies, which investigate the relationship between perceived robot threat and workplace objectification through questionnaires and online experiments. This study tries to find a positive correlation and a causal association between perceived robot threat and workplace objectification. The second study includes three sub-studies, which explore why perceived robot threat increases workplace objectification. This study tries to verify the mediating effect of control compensation (sense of control), to explain the psychological mechanism behind the effect of perceived robot threat on workplace objectification, and to repeatedly verify it through different research methods. The third study includes three sub-studies. Based on the three compensatory control strategies proposed by the control compensation theory in addition to affirming nonspecific structure, this study tries to further explore the moderating effect of personal agency, external agency, and specific structure. The main findings of this paper are as follows. First, perceived robot threat will increase workplace objectification, and perceived robot identity threat has a stronger effect. Second, the sense of control plays a mediating role in the effect of perceived robot threat (mainly identity threat) on workplace objectification. Specifically, the higher the perceived robot identity threat, the lower the sense of control, and the more serious the workplace objectification. Third, the other three strategies proposed by compensatory control theory, namely strengthening personal agency, supporting external agency and affirming specific structure, can moderate the effect of perceived robot threat on workplace objectification. The main theoretical contributions of this paper are as follows. First, it reveals the negative influence of robots on interpersonal relationships and their psychological mechanism. Second, it extends the explanatory boundary of compensatory control theory to the field of artificial intelligence, proposing and verifying that perceived robot threat increases workplace objectification through compensatory control. Third, the relationship between different compensation control strategies is discussed, and the moderating model of perceived robot threat affecting workplace objectification is proposed and verified. The main practical contributions are: first, to provide reference for the anthropomorphic design of robots; second, it helps to better understand, warn and deal with the negative social impact of robots.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2022-02-07
Abstract：算法歧视屡见不鲜，人们对其有何反应值得关注。六个递进实验比较了不同类型歧视情境下人们对算法歧视和人类歧视的道德惩罚欲，并探讨其潜在机制和边界条件。结果发现：相对于人类歧视，人们对算法歧视的道德惩罚欲更少（实验1~6），潜在机制是人们认为算法（与人类相比）更缺乏自由意志（实验2~4），且个体拟人化倾向越强或者算法越拟人化，人们对算法的道德惩罚欲越强（实验5~6）。研究结果有助于更好地理解人们对算法歧视的反应，并为算法犯错后的道德惩罚提供启示。
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Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2022-01-17
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