Leon Festinger
... more basic, purely cognitive level, the origin of such pressures. In essence, dissonance theory was startlingly simple. The key hypothesis is that when incompatibilities exist between two or more ideas or cognitions, pressures will arise to reduce the discrepancy. This was hardly a new idea and, in ...
... more basic, purely cognitive level, the origin of such pressures. In essence, dissonance theory was startlingly simple. The key hypothesis is that when incompatibilities exist between two or more ideas or cognitions, pressures will arise to reduce the discrepancy. This was hardly a new idea and, in ...
NOT THE FINAL VERSION
... black faces, white faces, good words, bad words) are presented on the screen one at a time and the items are categorized into groups with two keys on the keyboard. There are two important conditions in the IAT. In one condition, every time a black face or a good word appears, the respondent hits one ...
... black faces, white faces, good words, bad words) are presented on the screen one at a time and the items are categorized into groups with two keys on the keyboard. There are two important conditions in the IAT. In one condition, every time a black face or a good word appears, the respondent hits one ...
CHAPTER 15 Social Psychology 1
... • How would you have behaved if you were a “teacher” in Milgram’s obedience studies? Would you have given the highest level of shocks? What about your best friend or parents? Would their behavior differ from yours? Why & how? ...
... • How would you have behaved if you were a “teacher” in Milgram’s obedience studies? Would you have given the highest level of shocks? What about your best friend or parents? Would their behavior differ from yours? Why & how? ...
Implicit Association Test - Faculty Directory | Berkeley-Haas
... Background and Definition of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Psychologists have long suspected the existence of thoughts and feelings that are not accessible by simply asking a person to report them. It may be that people are unwilling to report what they think and feel. Or, even more likely, pe ...
... Background and Definition of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Psychologists have long suspected the existence of thoughts and feelings that are not accessible by simply asking a person to report them. It may be that people are unwilling to report what they think and feel. Or, even more likely, pe ...
Social Science and Social Psychology: The
... been severely criticized for trying to apply laboratory bargaining studies performed with individuals to real-world conflict among nationstates (e.g., see Pepitone, 1976, 1981). Social psychology wanted to help out, to change the world, but did not have the tools to do so. When social psychologists' ...
... been severely criticized for trying to apply laboratory bargaining studies performed with individuals to real-world conflict among nationstates (e.g., see Pepitone, 1976, 1981). Social psychology wanted to help out, to change the world, but did not have the tools to do so. When social psychologists' ...
Immigration from the perspective of hosts and immigrants: Roles of
... Brock Bastian and Nick Haslam Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...
... Brock Bastian and Nick Haslam Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...
Norms
... attitudes. Newcomb noted that even though most of the students who entered the college where he taught came from politically conservative families, the upperclassmen tended to express more liberal attitudes. Newcomb, after examining students attitudes over a four-year period, concluded that students ...
... attitudes. Newcomb noted that even though most of the students who entered the college where he taught came from politically conservative families, the upperclassmen tended to express more liberal attitudes. Newcomb, after examining students attitudes over a four-year period, concluded that students ...
Self-Enhancement - University of Southampton
... in domains that do matter rather than in those that do not (Crocker, 2002; Sedikides, Gaertner, & Toguchi, 2003). As William James (1890/1950) put it, ‘‘I, who for the time have staked my all on being a psychologist, am mortified if others know much more psychology than I. But I am contented to wall ...
... in domains that do matter rather than in those that do not (Crocker, 2002; Sedikides, Gaertner, & Toguchi, 2003). As William James (1890/1950) put it, ‘‘I, who for the time have staked my all on being a psychologist, am mortified if others know much more psychology than I. But I am contented to wall ...
Sources of Implicit Attitudes
... implicit attitudes toward their habit covaried with their earliest experiences with smoking, which were mainly unpleasant (e.g., aversion to tobacco smoke and nausea from their first cigarettes). Thus, automatic attitudes were negative if early experiences were unpleasant. By contrast, smokers’ expl ...
... implicit attitudes toward their habit covaried with their earliest experiences with smoking, which were mainly unpleasant (e.g., aversion to tobacco smoke and nausea from their first cigarettes). Thus, automatic attitudes were negative if early experiences were unpleasant. By contrast, smokers’ expl ...
EFFECTS OF EPISTEMIC AND TELEOLOGIC ATTITUDE CHANGE
... focusing on desirable attributes instead. Considering the previous example, getting sweaty, individuals using teleologic strategies would try to not think about how exercise involves sweating, or, they may think instead about how they’ll look if they stick with their exercise goals instead. The next ...
... focusing on desirable attributes instead. Considering the previous example, getting sweaty, individuals using teleologic strategies would try to not think about how exercise involves sweating, or, they may think instead about how they’ll look if they stick with their exercise goals instead. The next ...
2017_Foster_Stephen_Thesis
... comparison to whites are nonexistent or non-influential (Henry & Sears, 2002). As aptly summarized by Mellor and colleagues (2001), whites may have nonracist, egalitarian “racial consciousness”, but due to long-existing societal structures, this is “underpinned by a broader racist framework that is ...
... comparison to whites are nonexistent or non-influential (Henry & Sears, 2002). As aptly summarized by Mellor and colleagues (2001), whites may have nonracist, egalitarian “racial consciousness”, but due to long-existing societal structures, this is “underpinned by a broader racist framework that is ...
attitudes toward traditional and nontraditional parents
... Participants Seventy-three adults (44 males and 29 females) between the ages of 17 and 79 years (M = 31.33, SD = 16.64) were recruited from a public park in Connecticut. Seventy-seven percent of the sample was European American. The remaining 23% were African American, Asian, and Hispanic. Participa ...
... Participants Seventy-three adults (44 males and 29 females) between the ages of 17 and 79 years (M = 31.33, SD = 16.64) were recruited from a public park in Connecticut. Seventy-seven percent of the sample was European American. The remaining 23% were African American, Asian, and Hispanic. Participa ...
Brescoll and Uhlmann 2005
... Participants Seventy-three adults (44 males and 29 females) between the ages of 17 and 79 years (M = 31.33, SD = 16.64) were recruited from a public park in Connecticut. Seventy-seven percent of the sample was European American. The remaining 23% were African American, Asian, and Hispanic. Participa ...
... Participants Seventy-three adults (44 males and 29 females) between the ages of 17 and 79 years (M = 31.33, SD = 16.64) were recruited from a public park in Connecticut. Seventy-seven percent of the sample was European American. The remaining 23% were African American, Asian, and Hispanic. Participa ...
The Effects of Persuasion on Implicit and Explicit
... teacher, Jane Elliot, announced that they were not all alike. Some had blue eyes and others had brown eyes, and they were not equal.2 Elliot explained that the blue-eyed boys and girls were nicer, smarter, neater, and generally better than the brown-eyed children, and to help distinguish them, blue- ...
... teacher, Jane Elliot, announced that they were not all alike. Some had blue eyes and others had brown eyes, and they were not equal.2 Elliot explained that the blue-eyed boys and girls were nicer, smarter, neater, and generally better than the brown-eyed children, and to help distinguish them, blue- ...
Fundamental Processes Leading to Attitude Change
... people are to think about a message, the more their attitudes are determined by their issue-relevant thoughts in response to the message (Petty, Ostrom, & Brock, 1981). In a persuasion context, issue-relevant elaboration typically involves accessing relevant information from both external and intern ...
... people are to think about a message, the more their attitudes are determined by their issue-relevant thoughts in response to the message (Petty, Ostrom, & Brock, 1981). In a persuasion context, issue-relevant elaboration typically involves accessing relevant information from both external and intern ...
Attribution
... Psychology, Fourth Edition, AP Edition Saundra K. Ciccarelli • J. Noland White © 2015, 2012, 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
... Psychology, Fourth Edition, AP Edition Saundra K. Ciccarelli • J. Noland White © 2015, 2012, 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
Controlling Prejudice and Stereotyping
... endorsement of prejudice or derogatory stereotypes. To judge by the flurry of apologies that typically follow such incidents, it seems reasonable to infer that the people involved would have wished that they could have stopped themselves from making the remarks they made, not only because it landed ...
... endorsement of prejudice or derogatory stereotypes. To judge by the flurry of apologies that typically follow such incidents, it seems reasonable to infer that the people involved would have wished that they could have stopped themselves from making the remarks they made, not only because it landed ...
Controlling Prejudice and Stereotyping
... endorsement of prejudice or derogatory stereotypes. To judge by the flurry of apologies that typically follow such incidents, it seems reasonable to infer that the people involved would have wished that they could have stopped themselves from making the remarks they made, not only because it landed ...
... endorsement of prejudice or derogatory stereotypes. To judge by the flurry of apologies that typically follow such incidents, it seems reasonable to infer that the people involved would have wished that they could have stopped themselves from making the remarks they made, not only because it landed ...
Prejudice Against Fat People: Ideology and Self-Interest
... Many Whites hold Blacks accountable for their relatively poor economic status (Ryan, 1971). The belief that individuals in disadvantaged groups are responsible for any negative aspects of their situation is known as the "ultimate attribution error" (Pettigrew, 1979). Several researchers have shown r ...
... Many Whites hold Blacks accountable for their relatively poor economic status (Ryan, 1971). The belief that individuals in disadvantaged groups are responsible for any negative aspects of their situation is known as the "ultimate attribution error" (Pettigrew, 1979). Several researchers have shown r ...
attitudes
... lasting, general evaluation of people (including oneself), objects, advertisements, or issues. These evaluations can be positive or negative. A functional theory of attitudes (developed by Daniel Katz) indicates that attitudes have the following functions: utilitarian, value-expressive, ego-defensiv ...
... lasting, general evaluation of people (including oneself), objects, advertisements, or issues. These evaluations can be positive or negative. A functional theory of attitudes (developed by Daniel Katz) indicates that attitudes have the following functions: utilitarian, value-expressive, ego-defensiv ...
Likes and dislikes: A social cognitive perspective on attitudes
... Allport, 1935; Doob, 1947; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957; Sarnoff, 1960; M. B. Smith, Bruner, & White, 1956; Thurstone, 1931). In the 1950’s and 60’s, researchers argued that attitudes should be understood in terms of the tripartite model, whereby an attitude consists of affect toward the stimuli ...
... Allport, 1935; Doob, 1947; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957; Sarnoff, 1960; M. B. Smith, Bruner, & White, 1956; Thurstone, 1931). In the 1950’s and 60’s, researchers argued that attitudes should be understood in terms of the tripartite model, whereby an attitude consists of affect toward the stimuli ...
Author`s personal copy - Labs
... We report the results of three experiments that examine the effect of time on attitude change processes. In each experiment, participants were presented with messages that emphasized high- vs. low-level features of temporally near vs. distant attitude objects. Different aspects of high- vs. ...
... We report the results of three experiments that examine the effect of time on attitude change processes. In each experiment, participants were presented with messages that emphasized high- vs. low-level features of temporally near vs. distant attitude objects. Different aspects of high- vs. ...
Influencing attitudes toward near and distant objects
... We report the results of three experiments that examine the effect of time on attitude change processes. In each experiment, participants were presented with messages that emphasized high- vs. low-level features of temporally near vs. distant attitude objects. Different aspects of high- vs. ...
... We report the results of three experiments that examine the effect of time on attitude change processes. In each experiment, participants were presented with messages that emphasized high- vs. low-level features of temporally near vs. distant attitude objects. Different aspects of high- vs. ...
Chapter 15: Social Psychology SW
... Janis, I. L. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston, MA: Houghton Mi in. Jones, E. E., & Nisbett, R. E. (1971). The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. New York: General Learning Press. Jost, J. T., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2004). A decade of system justi ca ...
... Janis, I. L. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston, MA: Houghton Mi in. Jones, E. E., & Nisbett, R. E. (1971). The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. New York: General Learning Press. Jost, J. T., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2004). A decade of system justi ca ...