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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11031-024-10058-1/) Seizing and freezing to life outcomes: Need for cognitive closure intensifies affective reactions to major events
Apr 9th 2024, 15:44

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Research shows that significant well-being disparities emerge between individuals who experience major negative events and those who undergo major positive events. However, such differences may vary among individuals. Drawing from the theory of the need for cognitive closure (NFC), we theorize and test whether NFC, which captures seizing and freezing on salient information to reach a fast conclusion, intensifies the differences in affective well-being between those who experience negative or positive events. Across three studies (total N = 2,399), we provide converging evidence that supports our theoretical claim. We first found that participants with high (vs. low) NFC show a greater affective well-being gap between those who recalled their past negative and positive major events (Study 1). We also discovered consistent patterns when participants were provided with negative or positive major event scenarios (Study 2). Lastly, we further substantiated our findings by utilizing a longitudinal study of the 20th presidential election in South Korea (Study 3). Over a 6-week period, the well-being gaps between the supporters of the election winner and the runner-up were more pronounced among individuals with higher NFC. Overall, our findings have implications for identifying a novel psychological trait that influences the affective well-being gaps following significant events in one’s life.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/the-right-is-prepared-for-this-moment-are-we/) The Right is Prepared For This Moment. Are We?
Apr 9th 2024, 15:42

So what do we do? How do we fight back? We asked some of the smartest people we know.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/a-deep-dive-into-the-genetics-of-alcohol-consumption/) A deep dive into the genetics of alcohol consumption
Apr 9th 2024, 15:14

She said their study opens numerous doors for future research, chasing down possible connections between the alcohol-protective alleles and conditions that have no apparent connection with alcohol consumption. “Understanding the underlying mechanisms of these effects could have implications for treatments and preventative medicine,” Sanchez-Roige noted.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s12310-024-09640-2/) School Absenteeism and Child Mental Health: A Mixed-Methods Study of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
Apr 9th 2024, 14:57

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School absenteeism among children and adolescents has been associated with a myriad of adverse outcomes. Despite a substantial amount of research on school attendance, our understanding of absenteeism in elementary-aged children with mental health difficulties is limited. The current study used a mixed-method sequential explanatory design to gain a better understanding of the links between children’s mental health symptoms, age, gender and school absenteeism. The study included two phases: Phase I presented a quantitative investigation of the links between absenteeism and mental health symptoms in a large sample (N = 750) of primarily White (74%) clinic-referred children aged 5–12 years. Phase II used a participant selection model and chart review design to garner a deeper understanding of how school absenteeism presents in children with mental health problems in the elementary years. Results suggested that internalizing symptoms were significantly related to school attendance problems, and this association worsens as children age and as internalizing symptoms increase in severity. Externalizing symptoms were associated with absenteeism as well, but these findings showed that school attendance problems were worse for younger children with low to moderate levels of externalizing symptoms. The qualitative chart review illustrates the complex interplay of school absenteeism and child mental health, particularly for children experiencing co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems. Children often struggled academically and socially, with some exhibiting increasing levels of school refusal and truancy and others displaying aggressive behaviors resulting in suspensions. Future studies that examine additional contextual factors, such as school and family variables, with longitudinal cross-lagged models and diverse families are needed to develop a comprehensive understanding of causal associations and their impact on children’s school attendance across children’s development.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11199-024-01452-7/) Masculinity and Condom Use: Using a Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Understand Women’s Condom Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Sexual Encounters
Apr 9th 2024, 13:56

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Previous research has linked the masculine gender role with negative attitudes towards condoms and a lower likelihood of condom use. Expanding the construct of sexual rejection sensitivity, we propose that men’s greater precarious manhood beliefs will lead to greater condom rejection sensitivity, or anxiety about interpersonal rejection when negotiating condom use. Across two studies utilizing an undergraduate (Study 1; N = 382) and an online adult sample (Study 2; N = 347), cisgender men and women reported their precarious manhood beliefs (for women, their perception of their male partner’s precarious manhood beliefs), condom rejection sensitivity, sexual rejection sensitivity, condom use, and sexual satisfaction in their most recent mixed-gender sexual encounter. We examined the associations between these variables using path analyses separated by gender. Across both studies, we found that, for women, greater perceived precarious manhood beliefs about their partner significantly predicted greater condom rejection sensitivity, which predicted a lower likelihood of condom use. For men, greater endorsement of precarious manhood beliefs significantly predicted greater sexual rejection sensitivity, which predicted lower sexual satisfaction. For men, greater condom rejection sensitivity also predicted a lower likelihood of condom use. These findings add to the literature on the role of masculine gender role ideology in men’s and women’s sexual, romantic, and health outcomes, with particular importance for women’s condom negotiation and sexual health.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/e42310/) Development of a Virtual Human for Supporting Tobacco Cessation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 9th 2024, 13:13

People who consume tobacco are at greater risk of developing severe COVID-19. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the accessibility of tobacco cessation services as a result of necessary social restrictions. Innovations were urgently needed to support tobacco cessation during the pandemic. Virtual humans are artificially intelligent computer agents with a realistic, humanlike appearance. Virtual humans could be a scalable and engaging way to deliver tobacco cessation information and support. Florence, a virtual human health worker, was developed in collaboration with the World Health Organization to remotely support people toward tobacco cessation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Florence delivers evidence-based information, assists with making quit plans, and directs people to World Health Organization–recommended cessation services in their country. In this viewpoint, we describe the process of developing Florence. The development was influenced by a formative evaluation of data from 115 early users of Florence from 49 countries. In general, Florence was positively perceived; however, changes were requested to aspects of her design and content. In addition, areas for new content were identified (eg, for nonsmoker support persons). Virtual health workers could expand the reach of evidence-based tobacco cessation information and personalized support. However, as they are a new innovation in tobacco cessation, their efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability in this application needs to be evaluated, including in diverse populations.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/policy-opportunities-to-expand-equitable-access-to-telehealth-across-new-york-state/) Policy Opportunities to Expand Equitable Access to Telehealth Across New York State
Apr 9th 2024, 12:39

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/bul0000416/) A meta-analytic review of the associations of personality, intelligence, and physical size with social status.
Apr 9th 2024, 12:08

Psychological Bulletin, Vol 150(3), Mar 2024, 253-283; doi:10.1037/bul0000416
Theories have proposed diverse reasons for why individual differences such as personality traits lead to social status attainment in face-to-face groups. We integrated these different theoretical standpoints into a model with four paths from individual differences to status: a dominance, a competence, a virtue, and a micropolitics path. To investigate these paths, we meta-analyzed over 100 years of research on bivariate associations of personality traits, cognitive abilities, and physical size with the attainment of status-related outcomes in face-to-face groups (1,064 effects from 276 samples including 56,153 participants). The status-related outcome variables were admiring respect, social influence, popularity (i.e., being liked by others), leadership emergence, and a mixture of outcome variables. The meta-analytic correlations we found were largely in line with the micropolitics path, tentatively in line with the competence and virtue paths, and only partly in line with the dominance path. These findings suggest that status attainment depends not only on the competence and virtue of an individual but also on how individuals can enhance their apparent competence or virtue by behaving assertively, by being extraverted, or through self-monitoring. We also investigated how the relations between individual differences and status-related outcomes were moderated by kind of status-related outcome, nature of the group task, culture (collectivism/individualism), and length of acquaintance. The moderation analysis yielded mixed and inconclusive results. The review ends with directions for research, such as the need to separately assess and study the different status-related outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/the-tensions-of-algorithmic-thinking-automation-intelligence-and-the-politics-of-knowing/) The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing
Apr 9th 2024, 12:04

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11199-024-01456-3/) Intersex in the USA’s Best-Selling Undergraduate Psychology Textbooks: Uneven Critique in an Ongoing Scientific and Ethical Crisis
Apr 9th 2024, 11:56

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The field of intersex studies is advancing and requires scholars to update their knowledge and representation of people with intersex variations. To examine how psychology students are taught about people with intersex variations, we reviewed best-selling USA psychology textbooks in introductory psychology (n = 8), psychology of women and gender (n = 5), human sexuality (n = 4), and biological psychology (n = 3). All textbooks indexed intersex or cognate terms, with alternative terms (e.g., disorders of sex development) indexed less frequently. Intersex variations were described as emerging during the stages of sex development, and as challenging binary categories for sex. Several specific variations were commonly described as syndromes with little reference to psychological research or lived experiences. Women and girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) were most clearly framed as “natural experiments” about how nature and nurture intersect. Diverse sex development involving 46 XY genotypes tended to be described as difference from norms for male endosex development. However, two textbooks included lengthy narratives of people’s lived experiences as intersex, and photographs of intersex-identified individuals were common. Photo images of the South African athlete Caster Semenya depicted more of her body than did the photo images of other intersex-identified individuals. The textbooks generally included critical reflection on the assumptions of a gender binary, and on the attribution of ambiguity to others’ bodies, genetic determinism, the medical gaze, and the sex testing of athletes. We consider how information in these textbooks can shape the representation of intersex among psychology students, and how it may be used to develop more humanizing representations of intersex across all psychology textbooks.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/funding/how-to-enter-for-the-nomis-science-young-explorer-award-deadlines-may-15/) How to Enter for the NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award (Deadlines: May 15)
Apr 9th 2024, 10:48

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/academic-webinar-complex-humanitarian-emergencies/) Academic Webinar: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Apr 9th 2024, 10:24

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/repealing-missouri-ban-on-food-stamps-for-people-with-drug-felonies-would-improve-public-safety/) Repealing Missouri ban on food stamps for people with drug felonies would improve public safety
Apr 9th 2024, 10:09

People with drug felonies on their criminal record are uniquely excluded from receiving benefits in Missouri from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, after they are released from prison. This deprivation of SNAP benefits is solely because of their categorization as a former drug felon. This treatment of people charged with drug crimes — and not people with any other type of criminal record — is inconsistent with other ways in which Missouri promotes public safety in aiming to reduce recidivism post-incarceration. 
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/how-is-nice-guideline-214-relevant-to-my-role-in-clinical-practice/) How is NICE guideline 214 relevant to my role in clinical practice?
Apr 9th 2024, 10:06

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s10862-024-10128-1/) Do Coping Self-Efficacy, Coping Flexibility, and Substance Use Coping Mediate the Connection from PTSD Symptoms to Problematic Alcohol Use Behaviors?
Apr 9th 2024, 09:56

Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol misuse frequently co-occur following trauma exposure, with individuals often experiencing detrimental outcomes. The self-medication hypothesis postulates that those with posttraumatic stress symptoms are more likely to develop problematic drinking behaviors due to reliance on alcohol use to cope with trauma symptoms. This study aimed to identify if coping meta-skills – trauma coping self-efficacy and coping flexibility – as well as substance use (SU) coping mediated the pathways from PTSD symptoms to alcohol use using structural equation modeling. The sample of 336 trauma-exposed respondents was drawn from the general population and university undergraduates (70% women, 80% White). Participants completed online survey measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. A confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model each produced satisfactory fit indices. Tests of indirect effects for the structural equation model demonstrated that PTSD symptoms had a significant indirect effect on problematic alcohol use behaviors via trauma coping self-efficacy and substance use coping (β = 0.15, 95% CI [0.10, 0.23], p < .001). These novel findings help to identify critical factors within the comorbid PTSD-alcohol use connection that may serve as intervention targets.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/guidelines-plus/facts-about-teen-drinking/) Facts about teen drinking
Apr 9th 2024, 09:41

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/dq240221d-eng-htm-2/) Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada’s long-term care and seniors’ home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 9th 2024, 09:31

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/new-federal-12-month-continuous-eligibility-expansion-over-17-million-children-could-gain-new-protections-from-coverage-disruptions/) New Federal 12-Month Continuous Eligibility Expansion: Over 17 Million Children Could Gain New Protections from Coverage Disruptions
Apr 9th 2024, 08:43

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s12966-024-01562-1/) The current state of complex systems research on socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behavior—a systematic scoping review
Apr 9th 2024, 08:16

Interest in applying a complex systems approach to understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health is growing, but an overview of existing research on this topic is lacking. In this systematic scoping revie…
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s10862-024-10126-3/) Ecological Momentary Assessment of Positive and Negative Affect in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Apr 9th 2024, 07:56

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Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by negative affect (NA), much less is known about daily fluctuations in positive affect (PA) and its association with NA in PTSD. In the present study, participants with sexual assault-related PTSD (n = 19), a sexual assault experience without PTSD (n = 20), and healthy controls (n = 21) completed an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) where they reported positive and negative affect in the morning, afternoon, and evening for one week. The results showed that those with PTSD reported less daily positive affect independent of momentary negative affect and more daily negative affect independent of momentary positive affect than controls. Examination of directional affective valence (positive affect minus negative affect) also indicated overall more negative affect among those with PTSD compared to controls. However, those who experienced sexual assault without PTSD did not differ from controls in daily positive affect, daily negative affect, or directional affective valence. Although there was no evidence of differences in daily levels of positive and negative affect as a function of time of day among those with PTSD, decreased positive affect was observed in the evening among those who experienced sexual assault without PTSD. These findings suggest that PTSD is characterized by independent momentary increases in negative affect as well as independent momentary decreases in positive affect, both of which should be addressed during the course of evidence-based treatment.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/azerbaijans-mine-problem-discussed-at-ifsw-meeting/) Azerbaijan’s mine problem discussed at IFSW meeting
Apr 9th 2024, 07:41

At the general assembly of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) held in Panama, Azerbaijan’s mine problem was brought to the agenda… Representatives from 153 countries participated in the hybrid event.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/ifsw-europe-elects-dr-ruth-allen-as-new-president/) IFSW Europe elects Dr Ruth Allen as new president
Apr 9th 2024, 07:22

Ruth brings a distinguished background to her new role as president. After a long career in social work practice, development and leadership, Ruth joined the British Association of Social Workers as Chief Executive. She is a member of the Executive committee of IFSW Europe and has a long commitment to IFSW and international social work. She brings commitment to our principles of social justice, transparency, accountability, responsibility, participation, responsiveness and inclusion in all we do.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s12310-024-09644-y/) A Survey of Educator’s Mental Health Literacy in Nova Scotia, Canada: Identifying Patterns by Training and Experience
Apr 9th 2024, 06:57

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The purpose of this provincial cross-sectional survey (N = 254) was to explore the mental health literacy (MHL) of educators, and particularly, if training and experience explains differences in MHL. There were meaningful differences based on MHL training and between educators of different division levels. Those who completed graduate degrees or took Learn or Teach MHL training modules clearly had stronger MHL knowledge and abilities to accurately discriminate mental health needs on a vignette measure. Pre-primary educators had the lowest MHL knowledge and ability to discriminate mental health needs on a vignette measure. Our findings evidence current disparities in, as well pathways towards, improving MHL training for pre- and in-service educators, including pre-primary educators. Significant relationships observed between measures of MHL, and vignette discrimination accuracy suggest MHL training for educators may strengthen help-seeking pathways through the timely identification of students experiencing mental disorders and the judicious provision of mental health resources for these students.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s10862-023-10095-z/) Applying Quantitative Analyses to Qualitative Data: Investigating Latent Topics and Their Clinical Correlates in Treatment-Seeking Youth’s Top Problems
Apr 9th 2024, 05:56

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Idiographic measures, such as the Top Problems Assessment (TPA), offer great utility over nomothetic measures as they can be used to characterize participants in a person-centered manner. Despite such utility, idiographic measures rely on heuristic coding systems, which limit their applicability as a research tool. To address such concerns, the present study utilized Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to model the latent topics in youth- and parent-reported concerns identified by the TPA in a sample of 172 treatment-seeking youth. Clinical and demographic correlates associated with the identified topics were assessed using general linear models. Topic modeling identified four latent topics in youth-reported concerns that were characterized by Emotional Reactivity, Worry, Avoidance, and Contexts and six latent topics in the parent-reported concerns, Worry, Avoidance, Emotional Reactivity, Negative-Valenced Emotions, Parent–Child Interactions, and Other Maladaptive Behavioral Response. Certain latent topics were significantly associated with standardized measures of anxiety, avoidance, age and reported sex. Results serve as a proof of concept for applying topic modeling to the TPA and further contribute to efforts that characterize domains of impairment in youth with psychopathology. Results of the present study and subsequent discussion of important methodological and conceptual considerations may guide the use of similar research in leveraging data-driven modeling to elucidate latent topics underlying qualitative clinical data.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/quarterly-carers-statistics-for-northern-ireland-december-2023/) Quarterly Carers Statistics for Northern Ireland (December 2023)
Apr 9th 2024, 05:24

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s12963-024-00323-3/) The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy across socioeconomic groups in Denmark
Apr 9th 2024, 04:54

Denmark was one of the few countries that experienced an increase in life expectancy in 2020, and one of the few to see a decrease in 2021. Because COVID-19 mortality is associated with socioeconomic status (S…
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/1704564/) Carers threatened with prosecution over minor breaches of UK benefit rules
Apr 9th 2024, 04:09

DWP is forcing tens of thousands of people looking after relatives to repay huge sums after buildup of erroneous overpayments. MPs have called for an overhaul of the carer’s allowance, saying it was wrong that carers were being treated like fraudsters for mostly inadvertent errors.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s40309-023-00224-y/) Farmers’ futures: an application of the Delphi method in the context of Finnish agriculture
Apr 9th 2024, 03:53

In Finland, agriculture is practiced in variable growing conditions that are further challenged by climate change and under external pressure caused by international competition, changing consumer preferences …
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s40711-024-00208-w/) Social and psychological implications of actual and defacto childlessness among older persons in East and Southeast Asia
Apr 9th 2024, 01:54

We examine how ageing without children is linked to older adults’ social participation and psychological distress in selected East and Southeast Asian countries (South Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myan…
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11199-024-01444-7/) Acknowledging that Men are Moral and Harmed by Gender Stereotypes Increases Men’s Willingness to Engage in Collective Action on Behalf of Women
Apr 9th 2024, 00:52

Abstract
The rise of far-right parties with antifeminist sentiments constitutes a new challenge in the path to gender equality. Here, we aim to identify strategies to promote men’s acceptance of social change towards equality. Thus, we first examined key concerns about gender equality held by far-right supporters through a discourse analysis of 120 men. The findings revealed a focus on male victimhood, the negation and only partial recognition of inequality, and the delegitimization of feminism. Given the centrality of victimhood in the discourse of far-right male supporters and its social relevance, we developed several non-confrontational strategies based on men’s suffering and supposed (im)morality, and then compared the effectiveness of these strategies for getting men to commit more to gender equality. Two experimental studies (n = 417 and 428 men) revealed that recognizing that men are generally moral or that they also suffer because of gender stereotypes led participants to increase their willingness to participate in collective action for women’s rights. In contrast, questioning their morality by denouncing men’s violence against women had no impact on their intentions. We conclude that non-confrontational strategies that address men’s concerns about feminist advancement can prevent potential defensive reactions and make them more receptive to social change towards gender equality.
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