The Journal of Social Psychology back issues from April 2008:
Personality and culture: a comparison of Francophones and Anglophones in Quebec.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ALTHOUGH THE MAIN GOAL OF PERSONALITY THEORY and research has been to describe and explain individual differences from one person to another, researchers in this field have also expressed interest in group differences. Such researchers have explored whether personality varies ...
Rewarding seniority: exploring cultural and organizational predictors of seniority allocations.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ORGANIZATIONS ARE OPEN SYSTEMS (Katz & Kahn, 1978) that are characterized by numerous conflicts among their subsystems and operating parts. To manage and control conflicts, organizations need to establish both formal and informal rules. One of the most effective ways of managing and ...
The impact of relational demographics on perceived managerial trustworthiness: similarity or norms?(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... EMPLOYEES' TRUST IN THEIR LEADERS has been found to have important benefits to organizations, such as improving organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior (e.g., Dirks & Ferrin, 2002), team performance (Dirks, 2000), and organizational performance (Davis, Schoorman, ...
The hidden impact of conspiracy theories: perceived and actual influence of theories surrounding the death of Princess Diana.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1997, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, shocked the world. Almost immediately after the event, people began to question the circumstances surrounding the accident that killed her and her partner, Dodi Fayed. Was the limousine driver, Henri Paul, drunk, and, if ...
Effects of social value orientations on fairness judgments.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... HOW DO PEOPLE DETERMINE THE FAIRNESS of an event? Two factors that may be considered in forming fairness judgments are the outcome received and the procedures used to arrive at that outcome (Hamilton, 2006). These are referred to as distributive justice and procedural justice, ...
Reduced constituent category application in surprising combinations.(Replications and Refinements)(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... SURPRISING CATEGORY COMBINATIONS are composed more of emergent attributes--those independent of the constituents--and less of constituent attributes-those common to the constituents and the combination--than are unsurprising combinations (Hutter & Crisp, 2005). This finding makes intuitive ...
The relative effects of competence and likability on interpersonal attraction.(Current Problems and Resolutions)(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... PEOPLE ADMIRE AND LIKE OTHERS, and the loci of naive admiration and liking, argued Heider (1958), are in the head and the heart, respectively. Research on person cognition has further confirmed two such dimensions (e.g., Judd, James-Hawkins, Yzerbyt, & Kashima, 2005; Singh, Ho, Tan, & ...