Moral Grandstanding in Public Discourse:  Status-seeking Motives as a Potential Explanatory Mechanism in Predicting Conflict

Grubbs, Joshua B.; Warmke, Brandon; Tosi, Justin; James, Alicia Shanti

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“…the Turkprime panel service (Litman, Robinson, & Abberbock, 2017). Portions of this dataset have been published previously in the following papers (Grubbs et al, 2020;Grubbs & Gola, 2019;Grubbs, Grant;Engelman, 2019a;Grubbs, Warmke, Tosi, James, & Campbell, 2019d); however, none of the studies focused on the structure or validity of the BPS.…”

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Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples

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Gola

Grubbs

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions

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Background and AimsTo address current gaps around screening for problematic pornography use (PPU), we initially developed and tested a six-item Brief Pornography Screen (BPS) that asked about PPU in the past six months.Methods and ParticipantsWe recruited five independent samples from the U.S. and Poland to evaluate the psychometric properties of the BPS. In Study 1, we evaluated the factor structure, reliability, and elements of validity using a sample of 224 U.S. veterans. One item from the BPS was dropped in Study 1 due to low item endorsement. In Studies 2 and 3, we further investigated the five-item the factor structure of the BPS and evaluated its reliability and validity in two national U.S. representative samples (N = 1,466, N = 1,063, respectively). In Study 4, we confirmed the factor structure and evaluated its validity and reliability using a sample of 703 Polish adults. In Study 5, we calculated the suggested cut-off score for the screen using a sample of 105 male patients seeking treatment for compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD).ResultsFindings from a principal components analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported a one-factor solution which yielded high internal consistency (α = 0.89–0.90), and analyses further supported elements of construct, convergent, criterion, and discriminant validity of the newly developed screen. Results from a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve suggested a cut-off score of four or higher for detecting possible PPU.ConclusionsThe BPS appears to be psychometrically sound, short, and easy to use in various settings with high potential for use in populations across international jurisdictions.

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Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions

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“…For this study, we analyzed data from a nationally representative sample recruited via YouGov opinion polling (https://yougov.com) matched to U.S. norms from the 2016 American Community Survey. These data were collected as part of a larger project involving a range of variables related to personality, well-being, and public discourse (Grubbs, Tosi, & Warmke, 2019). YouGov is widely recognized as a source of high-quality data that outperforms many traditional national probability sampling services and that consistently provides better quality data than other online polling firms.…”

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Addiction or Transgression? Moral Incongruence and Self-Reported Problematic Pornography Use in a Nationally Representative Sample

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Lee

Hoagland

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Clinical Psychological Science

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In the United States, pornography use is common, and it is increasingly a clinical concern under some circumstances. Excessive pornography use may qualify for the new diagnosis of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) in the forthcoming 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases. There is also evidence, however, that moral incongruence (i.e., a misalignment of moral beliefs about sexual behavior and actual sexual behavior) may inflate self-reports of problems associated with pornography use. Prior work suggests religiousness may drive such moral incongruence. Using a large sample matched to U.S. representative norms (total: N = 2,519; past-year pornography users: n = 1,424, 66.4% men), we examined the interaction between pornography use and religiousness in predicting self-reported addiction to pornography. Results indicated that religiousness moderated the association between pornography use and self-reported addiction so that, despite a negative association between religiousness and use, at higher levels of religiousness, pornography use was more strongly related to self-reports of addiction.

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“…. .motivated to a significant degree by a desire to enhance one’s status or ranking” (Grubbs et al, 2019, p. 3). Social media are replete with public presentations of self, deliberatively crafted to align with ingroup prototypes and with friends.…”

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Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years

Walther

Whitty

2020

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Research on the hyperpersonal model originally described how the substitution of language for nonverbal cues, necessitated by text-based computer-mediated communication systems, transforms users’ reception, self-presentation, composition, and reciprocal reinforcement of messages in ways that create socially desirable relationships online. This article reviews the model after 25 years. It explicates the original model and mentions a sample of illustrative findings. It reflects on the state of internet diffusion and research traditions in the 1990s that affected the model’s original focus, and how these conditions have changed. It enumerates contexts that continue to meet the model’s original boundary assumptions, and some boundary expansions. It explores ways in which the model’s principles extend into contemporary multi-modal social media. It illustrates the evolutionary applicability of the model through cases of deceptive online romances, including contemporary online romance scams. It concludes by suggesting future research examining how many contemporary social media performances and responses comport with and illustrate the model’s tenets, at scale.

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Moral Grandstanding in Public Discourse: Status-seeking Motives as a Potential Explanatory Mechanism in Predicting Conflict

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples

Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples

Addiction or Transgression? Moral Incongruence and Self-Reported Problematic Pornography Use in a Nationally Representative Sample

Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years

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