Happy thoughts: The role of communion in accepting and sharing (mis)beliefs
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- Sacha Altay
- Département d'études Cognitives, Institut Jean Nicod ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS Paris France
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- Yoshimasa Majima
- Department of Psychology for Well‐being, School of Social Welfare Hokusei Gakuen University Sapporo Japan
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- Hugo Mercier
- Département d'études Cognitives, Institut Jean Nicod ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS Paris France
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2023-05-21
- 資源種別
- journal article
- 権利情報
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1111/bjso.12650
- 10.31234/osf.io/3s4nr
- 10.5167/uzh-251752
- 公開者
- Wiley
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説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> The negativity bias favours the cultural diffusion of negative beliefs, yet many common (mis)beliefs—naturopathy works, there's a heaven—are positive. Why? People might share ‘happy thoughts’—beliefs that might make others happy—to display their kindness. Five experiments conducted among Japanese and English‐speaking participants ( <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 2412) show that: (i) people higher on communion are more likely to believe and share happier beliefs, by contrast with people higher in competence and dominance; (ii) when they want to appear nice and kind, rather than competent and dominant, people avoid sharing sad beliefs, and instead prefer sharing happy beliefs; (iii) sharing happier beliefs instead of sad beliefs leads to being perceived as nicer and kinder; and (iv) sharing happy beliefs instead of sad beliefs fleads to being perceived as less dominant. Happy beliefs could spread, despite a general negativity bias, because they allow their senders to signal kindness. </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- British Journal of Social Psychology
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British Journal of Social Psychology 62 (4), 1672-1692, 2023-05-21
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