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Social entrepreneurship, characterized by the development of innovative business solutions for sociocultural and environmental issues, has attracted the interest of psychologists in recent years. Previous work has highlighted the important role of personality and cognitive factors in understanding why individuals become social entrepreneurs. However, less attention has been dedicated to how different variables studied in the group processes literature relate to the formation of intentions toward social entrepreneurship. One possible approach to understanding psychological factors that correlate with social entrepreneurship intentions is the feeling of attachment to one's national group. Constructive patriotism, defined by the support for the ingroup through constructive criticism, shows stronger relations with progressivism and innovation than blind patriotism. We proposed that constructive patriotism, but not its blind counterpart, positively predicts social entrepreneurship intentions by increasing positive change collective action intentions. Two cross-sectional studies (N = 514) showed that constructive, but not blind patriotism, was positively related to social entrepreneurship intentions. Furthermore, constructive patriotism was related to social entrepreneurship intentions through greater levels of collective action intentions. The same mediational pattern did not hold when blind patriotism was considered a predictor of social entrepreneurship intentions. Specifically, being devoted to one's nation and questioning its harmful policies might predict social entrepreneurship intentions through stronger inclinations for social change actions. Highlights: Previous work studying social entrepreneurship at the individual level focused on specific personality and cognitive factors underlying social entrepreneurship intentions. The present work attempted to go beyond the social entrepreneur's personality and study how national identity processes, namely constructive and blind patriotism, relate to social entrepreneurship intentions. Two studies found that constructive patriotism, but not blind patriotism, was positively related to social entrepreneurship intentions through greater collective action intentions. To be willing to pursue social entrepreneurship, one should deeply love one's country and be able to assume a critical outlook toward its present state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interventions based on the goal-setting theory include a goal-setting situation and different feedback variations. Very few studies have compared the impact of different goal-setting interventions on young athletes' performance. This preliminary work aimed to examine the effectiveness of two interventions, goal-setting with private monitoring and goal-setting with public posting. In the study, young swimmers (N = 42) with a mean age of 10 (M = 9.88; SD = 1.88) were assigned to a public monitoring condition, a private monitoring condition, and a control condition. A difference was found in the attendance of training sessions, with the public posting group being superior to other groups. Controlling for baseline performance, participants in the public posting condition performed better than control participants. Public posting created conditions in which it was easier to accept set goals as focal and put greater effort into their attainment. The results contribute to a better understanding of how goal monitoring motivates behavior and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper was to examine the influence of goal setting interventions in combination with different kinds of feedback on swimming practice attendance. For this purpose, on a group od 16 respondents (swimmers), with the baseline period, two interventions were applied: goal setting with private feedback (first intervention) and goal setting with public posting (second intervention). By applying One - way repeated measures ANOVA and post hoc testing with Bonferroni correction it was found that the attendance in the second intervention (M = 9.75; SD = 2.08) was significantly higher than in the baseline period (M = 7.69; SD = 2.02); t = 2.06, p < .01. Furthermore, the second and first intervention ((M = 8.19; SD = 2.61) also significantly differ in favour of the second intervention, ; t = 0.56, p = .042. No significant differences were found between the first intervention and baseline period. The results were explained with the benefits of public posting. Public posting enabled easier understanding of the goal concept, continous feedback, social comparion and social facilitation. These conditions endabled that respondent perceive the goal as important, that they accept it and put in effort in its achievement. This paper's results have implications on coaching praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collective continuity, the perception of the ingroup as an enduring temporal entity, has been linked with ingroup favouritism, negative attitudes and prejudice towards the outgroups. However, previous studies focused mainly on the perceived connection between the past and present of the group. We proposed that the expectation of a strong similarity between the present and future of the national ingroup, future collective continuity (FCC), positively affects present intergroup relations construals. In line with the hypotheses, Study 1 (N = 202) showed a positive relation between FCC and prosocial outgroup beliefs (i.e., foreigner-related). Study 2 (N = 200) suggested that FCC negatively affects prejudice towards immigrants through lower levels of collective angst. Study 3 (N = 250; preregistered) provided experimental evidence that FCC decreased outgroup prejudice and anxiety and increased collective action intentions through collective angst. Furthermore, a moderated mediation model revealed that these effects held only for individuals who identified with their nation more. Our work suggests that believing that the ingroup will not significantly change in the future might make individuals more open towards outgroup members in the present., (© 2024 The Author(s). British Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society.)

The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals' well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one's own health. Instead, individuals are asked to adapt their behaviors to protect the community at large. This raises the question of which social concerns and moral principles make people willing to do so. We considered in 23 countries (N = 6948) individuals' willingness to engage in prescribed and discretionary behaviors, as well as country-level and individual-level factors that might drive such behavioral intentions. Results from multilevel multiple regressions, with country as the nesting variable, showed that publicized number of infections were not significantly related to individual intentions to comply with the prescribed measures and intentions to engage in discretionary prosocial behaviors. Instead, psychological differences in terms of trust in government, citizens, and in particular toward science predicted individuals' behavioral intentions across countries. The more people endorsed moral principles of fairness and care (vs. loyalty and authority), the more they were inclined to report trust in science, which, in turn, statistically predicted prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions. Results have implications for the type of intervention and public communication strategies that should be most effective to induce the behavioral changes that are needed to control the COVID-19 outbreak., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This research was supported by a “Covid-19 Grant” awarded from the European Association of Social Psychology to Stefano Pagliaro and by the Pomilio Blumm Communication Agency. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.