Recently added articles from The Journal of Social Psychology:
"Deal justly with them ...": (in)justice in polygyny--the male perspective.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** TO FACILITATE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING and respect of the religiously and culturally shaped form of polygynous marriage practiced in the Arabian Gulf and other parts of the world, awareness and knowledge need to be spread, especially in the West. In marital systems, ...
How do you feel? Affective forecasting and the impact bias in track athletics.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** ONE OF THE ATTRACTIVE PROPERTIES OF COMPETITIVE sports is its ability to evoke strong emotions. Athletes' motivation to train hard is, at least partly, based on the prediction that success in sports will make them happy, whereas failure will bitterly disappoint them ....
Giving off a rosy glow: the manipulation of an optimistic orientation.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** OPTIMISM IS A CONSTRUCT that can be related to nearly every aspect of people's lives. Researchers have associated optimism with a host of ecologically and theoretically significant variables, including job retention, academic role transitions, therapeutic success, ...
Does the DOG scale measure dogmatism? Another look at construct validity.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, Rokeach's (1960) conceptualization of the open versus closed mind has guided research on dogmatism. According to his theory, one's beliefs and disbeliefs are organized into a belief--disbelief system that is composed of propositions one ...
Distancing from a target person with cancer: the role of empathy-inducing instructions and family history of cancer.(REPLICATIONS AND REFINEMENTS)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** PYSZCZYNSKI ET AL. (1995) PROPOSED that people may distance themselves less from a person with cancer the more that they become conscious or aware of that person's illness. Distancing is evidenced by people rating their own personalities as dissimilar from that of a ...
The impact of deservingness on schadenfreude and sympathy: further evidence.(REPLICATIONS AND REFINEMENTS)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** WHEN PEOPLE LEARN OF THE ADVERSITIES of high achievers, they usually find it hard to resist a little smile; this pleasure derived from another's misfortune is referred to by the German word schadenfreude. Research on schadenfreude has shown this malicious joy to be ...
Intergroup threat and experienced affect: the distinct roles of causal attributions and in-group identification.(REPLICATIONS AND REFINEMENTS)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** FROM A SOCIAL IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), researchers could argue that people for whom a group is important (i.e., high[er in-group] identifiers) experience emotions deriving from their group membership more strongly than do people for whom their ...
Chronic procrastination among Turkish adults: exploring decisional, avoidant, and arousal styles.(CROSS-CULTURAL NOTES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** PROCRASTINATION IS A TENDENCY TO DELAY an intended action or decision (Ferrari, Johnson, & McCown, 1995). Ferrari and colleagues (e.g., Ferrari, O'Callaghan, & Newbegin, 2005) identified three forms of chronic procrastination: decisional (inability to make a decision ...
Relational-interdependent self-construal as a predictor of relationship quality: the mediating roles of one's own behaviors and perceptions of the fulfillment of friendship functions.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... INDIVIDUALS ARE MOTIVATED TO ESTABLISH and maintain intimate attachments with others (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). Why some attachments are more satisfying than others is an important question as satisfying relationships are significant sources of social support and well-being (Berscheid & ...