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Objectification, treating others merely as things or tools while denying their personhood, results in severe consequences. While prior research predominantly focused on the triggers of objectification, we aimed to investigate a possible intervention. We hypothesized that gratitude could reduce objectification toward general others (i.e., people who are not the benefactors). Across three studies (N = 1007), our hypothesis was supported. Study 1 showed that dispositional gratitude negatively predicted trait objectification. Studies 2 and 3 further found a causal relationship. Specifically, after heightening participants' state of gratitude, participants showed a lower level of objectification towards others (Study 2). Using a scenario study that described a working context, we further showed the alleviating effect of gratitude on objectification toward a group of factory workers, targets often suffering from objectification (Study 3). Our reported effect is prevalent, such that it is observed across samples from two countries (i.e., the United States and China). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments (N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (Study 5), we showed that participants, as observing third parties, were more likely to morally permit and engage in the same negative act once they knew about previous maltreatment of the perpetrator. This belief occurred even when the content of received and paid‐forward maltreatment was non‐identical (Study 2), when the negative treatment was received from a non‐human target (Study 3) and when the maltreatment was intangible (e.g. material loss) or relational (e.g. social exclusion; Study 5). Perceived required compensation mediated the effect of previous maltreatment on moral permission (Studies 4 and 5). The results consistently suggest that people's moral permission of immoral behaviours is influenced by perpetrator's previous mistreatment, contributing to a better understanding of the nature and nuances of our sense of fairness and contextualized moral judgement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the stability and reliability of energy supply, distinct from the time‐varying and uncertainty of energy harvesting systems, adopting mobile vehicles to replenish energy of sensors has become a research hotspot. While some existing studies on the mobile recharging problem ignored the limited energy capacity carried by mobile vehicle and the difference in energy consumption rates of sensors, in this work, we propose an adaptive real‐time on‐demand charging scheduling scheme that maximizes energy efficiency (CSS‐MEE) for Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks. In CSS‐MEE, we aim to achieve a compromise between maximizing charging energy efficiency and maximizing charging throughput for solving the on‐demand mobile charging problem. Due to the limited energy capacity of the mobile charger, CSS‐MEE uses both full‐charge mode and adaptive charging mode, depending on the number of charging requests. It combines charging node selection with dispatch path feasibility determination, which takes into account the location‐generated charging cost and energy‐driven charging priority, to ensure the charging efficiency. Extensive simulations are conducted to demonstrate the advantages of CSS‐MEE. Compared with existing approaches, simulation results show that CSS‐MEE achieves better performance in terms of charging throughput, average charging latency, charge scheduling times, and charging efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We conducted six studies to test our hypotheses that ostracism disrupts self-continuity and that self-affirmation counters ostracism's negative influence on self-continuity. Participants who experienced more ostracism in their daily lives (Study 1), imagined being ostracized (Studies 2 and 5), recalled a past ostracism experience (Studies 3 and 6), and were ostracized in a ball-tossing game (Study 4) reported lower levels of self-continuity than their counterparts. Moreover, neither violations of expectation nor negativity of the experience was sufficient in decreasing self-continuity (Study 5). Finally, self-affirmation weakened the negative effect of ostracism on self-continuity (Study 6). Taken together, our findings provide converging causal evidence for our hypotheses and provide novel insights for the literature on how daily interpersonal interactions influence individuals' sense of an enduring self. In addition, the moderation of self-affirmation reported in our research indicates an effective approach to diminishing the negative influence of ostracism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]