Recently added articles from The Journal of Social Psychology:
Career success implications of political skill.(ARTICLES)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ********** THE TOPIC OF CAREER SUCCESS HAS ATTRACTED considerable attention in the organizational sciences, with many scholars attempting to uncover individual and organizational predictors. In a recent meta-analysis, researchers were able to condense the predictors of career ...
"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 ...