Recently added articles from The Journal of Social Psychology:

Competitive versus cooperative attitudes in crossed categorization effects: testing the category dominance and equivalence models.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Singh, Ramadhar ... <Pre> Outside the laboratory, one categorization tends to be primary whenever research relies on real social categorizations that have historical, cultural, socio-economic and affective significance. Thus, the category dominance model appears to reflect reality in multigroup ...

Social reactions to adult crying: the help-soliciting function of tears.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Hendriks, Michelle C.P. ... CRYING IS ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING AND PERVASIVE forms of human emotional expression (Cornelius, 1982). However, it is still largely unknown why adults cry and what purposes their crying serves. To gain better insight into the functions of adult crying, we studied social reactions to it ....

Political identification and the Defining Issues Test: reevaluating an old hypothesis.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Crowson, H. Michael ... THE FIELD OF MORAL PSYCHOLOGY has largely been dominated by Kohlberg's (1976; see also Kohlberg & Kramer, 1969) developmental approach ever since researchers began scientifically studying the moral judgments that people make (Emler, 1987). According to this view, moral judgments are a ...

To whom does voice in groups matter? Effects of voice on affect and procedural fairness judgments as a function of social dominance orientation.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; De Cremer, David ... SINCE THIBAUT AND WALKER'S (1975) seminal work on procedural justice, researchers have consistently found that people's fairness judgments, reactions, and attitudes within groups are influenced not only by their perceptions of how fair are the outcomes they receive (distributive justice) ...

Judging a group by sampling members: how the subdivision of a minority affects its perceived size and influence.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Hofmann, Wilhelm ... WHEN EVALUATING A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE or proposal, observers may try to determine the proportions of people who support and oppose it. All else being equal, when more people are for a proposal than against it, the numeric majority (i.e., the "for" group) is perceived to have the upper hand ...