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Authoritarianism and American Students' Attitudes about the Gulf War, 1990-1996
(1997)Studies show a consistent set of relationships between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and aggressive support for U.S. policy during the Persian Gulf crisis and Gulf War. Before the war, high-RWA scorers endorsed more ... -
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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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Long-Term Psychological Consequences in Women of Witnessing Parental Physical Conflict and Experiencing Abuse in Childhood
(1998)Exposure to parental domestic violence in childhood is associated with long-term psychological maladjustment. Although previous studies controlled for childhood physical abuse, it is unclear how the coexisting risk factors ... -
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Explaining Asymmetric Intergroup Judgments through Differential Aggregation: Computer Simulations and Some New Evidence
(1999)Outgroups are often judged to be less differentiated, more homogeneous, and more polarized than ingroups. Theoretical accounts of this outgroup homogeneity effect (OHE) emphasize impoverished knowledge of outgroups, ... -
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Individualism and Authoritarianism Shape Attitudes Toward Physician?Assisted Suicide
(1999)We investigated the relation between value orientations and attitudes toward physician‐assisted suicide (PAS) in 267 United States college students. We predicted that individualistic values, especially those having to do ... -
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Parental Sociopathy as a Predictor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(1999)Research on childhood sexual abuse has often examined, in isolation of one another, such highly correlated risk factors as parental substance abuse, domestic violence, and pathological family functioning. Investigating ... -
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Putting Threat into Perspective: Experimental Studies on Perceptual Distortion in International Conflict
(2000)Conflicts are often accompanied by mutually distorted perceptions such that threat exerted by the adversary is exaggerated, whereas threat by one’s own side is minimized. The authors investigated the effects of perspective-taking ... -
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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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Gendered Influence of Downward Social Comparisons on Current and Possible Selves
(2001)Because men and women differ with regard to independent and interdependent self‐construals, we propose that downward comparisons are more likely to lower women's achievement‐related self‐evaluations compared to men's. We ... -
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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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Cultural Orientations in the United States: (Re)Examining Differences among Ethnic Groups
(2001)The authors investigate differences in individualism and collectivism between the four largest ethnic groups in the United States (African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and European Americans). It has been ... -
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The Ups and Downs of Thinking About a Successful Other: Self Construals and the Consequences of Social Comparisons
(2001)We hypothesized that the consequences of upward social comparisons are mediated by independent versus interdependent content of self‐construals. Independent self‐construals emphasize personal uniqueness; thus comparison ... -
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Child Sexual Abuse, Peer Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Assault in Adulthood: A Multi-Risk Model of Revictimization
(2001)This study explored the predictors and consequences of sexual assault occurring after the age of 16 years in a nonclinical sample of women. Child sexual abuse occurring before the age of 16 years was the only predictor of ... -
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Values, Economics, and Proenvironmental Attitudes in 22 Societies
(2002)Using data provided by the 1983 International Social Survey Programme, Kemmelmeier et al examined the relationship between economic factors, values and environmental attitudes both at the societal level and the individual ... -
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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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Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City
(2002)"Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City" by Claire Jean Kim is reviewed. -
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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. ...
