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Our graduate program is founded on a vision of social psychology as the core discipline of human affairs. It represents an integration of psychological and sociological scholarship with a bio-psycho-social foundation, grounded in culture and gender, to form an interdisciplinary, contextualized perspective for the investigation of personal and social life.
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The closed-mindedness that wasn't: need for structure and expectancy-inconsistent information
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2015)Social-cognitive researchers have typically assumed that individuals high in need for structure or need for closure tend to be closed-minded: they are motivated to resist or ignore information that is inconsistent with ... -
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They should have known: Hindsight and outcome biases in child abduction cases
(2019)Child abductions have received wide spread public attention, much of which is sensationalized. In response, the AMBER Alert system was created.This system was designed to inform the public of information about the child ... -
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Private Self-Consciousness as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Value Orientations and Attitudes
(2001)The author examined implications of private self-consciousness (PrivSC; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) for the relationships between social values and issue attitudes. Indeed, the author expected that the value ... -
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Inept Reasoners or Pragmatic Virtuosos? Relevance and the Deontic Selection Task
(2001)Most individuals fail the selection task, selecting P and Q cases, when they have to test descriptive rules of the form “If P, then Q”. But they solve it, selecting P and not-Q cases, when they have to test deontic rules ... -
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A Preliminary Examination of Burnout among Counselor Trainees Treating Clients with Recent Suicidal Ideation and Borderline Traits
(2011)Treating suicidal clients with borderline traits can be conducive to burnout. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may assuage this burnout in counselors. As part of a DBT treatment outcome study, 6 counselors in training ... -
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How Voluntariness of Apologies Affects Actual and Hypothetical Victims' Perceptions of the Offender
(2012)Apologies are important in social interactions. Study 1 investigated participants’ reactions after being insulted by a confederate and receiving no apology, a voluntary apology, a coerced apology with consequences (i.e., ... -
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Life Task Pursuit in Social Groups: Balancing Self-Exploration and Social Integration
(2002)Personal well-being and resilience are contingent on the ability to negotiate and successfully pursue personal goals through life tasks and opportunities afforded by one's social environment. Our research addresses these ... -
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Rethinking Individualism and Collectivism: Evaluation of Theoretical Assumptions and Meta-Analyses
(2002)Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups? The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL), meta-analyze cross-national and ... -
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Cultural Psychology, A New Look: Reply to Bond (2002), Fiske (2002), Kitayama (2002), and Miller (2002)
(2002)M. H. Bond (2002) (see record 2002-00183-002), A. P. Fiske (2002) (see record 2002-00183-003), S. Kitayama (2002) (see record 2002-00183-004), and J. G. Miller (2002) (see record 2002-00183-005) joined D. Oyserman, H. M. ... -
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What Research Participants Learn from Rewards: A Conversational Logic Analysis of Rewarding Reasoning Performance
(2004)Based on a conversational logic framework (Grice, 1975), we examined the implications of rewarding performance on a reasoning task. We argued that, in the interaction between experimenter and participant, financial incentives ... -
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Culture as Process: The Dynamics of Cultural Stability and Change
(2012)This special issue brings together contemporary research and theories that advance our understanding of culture as a process. The papers are loosely grouped by the types of cultural processes they address. Overall, the ... -
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Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas
(2003)Racial-ethnic minorities are at risk of academic disengagement: pulling back effort in school. Our model focuses on implications of content of racial-ethnic self-schemas (RES) for disengagement. We postulate that risk ... -
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Telling What They Want to Know A Replication and Extension
(2014)According to a conversational approach, survey respondents provide answers they believe to be relevant to an interaction. Norenzayan and Schwarz (1999) demonstrated that participants provide dispositional accounts for an ... -
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Need for Closure and Political Orientation Among German University Students
(1997)EVER SINCE THE PUBLICATION of The Authoritarian Penalty by Adorno, Frenckel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford (1950), there has been a debate over whether general political orientation is associated with differences ... -
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Effects of Islamist Terror in Muslim Students: Evidence from Turkey in the Wake of the November 2003 Attacks
(2009)Following the November 2003 attacks in Turkey by Turkish Islamist extremists, we designed an experiment to assess the religious identification of Turkish Muslim students using the inclusion/exclusion model of social judgment ... -
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Can Deception Be Desirable?
(2017)Critics of deception in research allege harm to society, the discipline of psychology, the researchers and participants. However neither empirical findings nor a ‘reasonable-person’ test seem to support those allegations. ... -
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Authoritarianism and Candidate Support in the U.S. Presidential Elections of 1996 and 2000
(2004)Kemmelmeier sought to replicate and extend the findings of a link between a person's candidate preference and the degree of his or her authoritarianism in the US presidential elections of 1996 and 2000. The findings confirm ... -
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Obituaries: Carl Ward Backman (1923-2008)
(2009)An obituary for university professor Carl Ward Backman, who died on Feb 16, 2008 at the age of 84, is presented. Following college, Carl earned a doctorate in sociology at Indiana University, and after four years at the ... -
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