Is research in social psychology politically biased? Systematic empirical tests and a forecasting survey to address the controversy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.06.004
Abstract: Abstract The present investigation provides the first systematic empirical tests for the role of politics in academic research. In a large sample of scientific abstracts from the field of social psychology, we find both evaluative… read more here.
Keywords: research; forecasting survey; social psychology; systematic empirical ... See more keywords
Understanding cognitive and affective mechanisms in social psychology through eye-tracking
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103842
Abstract: Abstract Social psychological research is increasingly interested in the cognitive and affective processes underlying human behavior in social environments. To match this emerging interest, social psychology is embracing new methodological approaches. We identify eye-tracking as… read more here.
Keywords: cognitive affective; psychology; social psychology; eye tracking ... See more keywords
Listening to People: Using Social Psychology to Spotlight an Overlooked Virtue
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DOI: 10.1017/s0031819118000529
Abstract: Abstract I offer a novel interdisciplinary approach to understanding the communicative task of listening, which is under-theorised compared to its more conspicuous counterpart, speech. By correlating a Rylean view of mental actions with a virtue… read more here.
Keywords: using social; psychology; social psychology; listening people ... See more keywords
Reply to the commentaries: A radical revision of experimental social psychology is still needed
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21002405
Abstract: Abstract Are the landscapes of real-world decisions adequately represented in our laboratory tasks? Are the goals and expertise of experimental participants the same as real-world decision-makers? Are we neglecting crucial forces that lead to group… read more here.
Keywords: experimental social; group; social psychology; psychology ... See more keywords
Does social psychology persist over half a century? A direct replication of Cialdini et al.'s (1975) classic door-in-the-face technique.
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DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000261
Abstract: Many failed replications in social psychology have cast doubt on the validity of the field. Most of these replication attempts have focused on findings published from the 1990s on, ignoring a large body of older… read more here.
Keywords: technique; request; social psychology; cialdini 1975 ... See more keywords
What is social psychology? The construal principle.
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DOI: 10.1037/rev0000373
Abstract: Standard definitions of social psychology, such as "the study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people" (Aronson et al., 2019, p.… read more here.
Keywords: construal principle; psychology construal; psychology; social psychology ... See more keywords
Social psychology: Love thy stranger as thyself
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0108
Abstract: Extraordinary altruists risk their own health and life to help anonymous strangers. A study now shows that extraordinary altruists are motivated to do good to distant others not because they feel socially closer to them,… read more here.
Keywords: thy stranger; psychology love; social psychology; love thy ... See more keywords
Group Dynamics and the New Heroism: The Ethical Alternative to the Stanford Prison Experiment
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DOI: 10.1080/00207284.2017.1375348
Abstract: A s our species evolved over the millennia, given the intense pressures for survival, we humans have focused on pathology. What is “wrong,” “threatening,” “problematic?” We attend to threat and consequent fear before heeding other… read more here.
Keywords: group psychotherapy; group; social psychology; group dynamics ... See more keywords
Toward a social psychology of survey methodology: An application of the approach and directions for the future
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DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12491
Abstract: Survey methodology is a relatively new academic discipline focused on understanding sources of survey errors. As an interdisciplinary field, survey methodology borrows theoretical approaches from other disciplines and applies them to understand how survey respondents… read more here.
Keywords: methodology; survey methodology; social psychology; psychology survey ... See more keywords
Effective Strategies to Promote the Cultivation of Public Legal Consciousness from the Perspective of Social Psychology
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/8275938
Abstract: In order to build a harmonious economic society, show the legal function in the society, enable people to live and work in a better environment, and increase people's practicality in the legal society, it needs… read more here.
Keywords: public legal; perspective social; cultivation public; social psychology ... See more keywords
The MTurkification of Social and Personality Psychology
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DOI: 10.1177/0146167218798821
Abstract: The potential role of brief online studies in changing the types of research and theories likely to evolve is examined in the context of earlier changes in theory and methods in social and personality psychology,… read more here.
Keywords: personality social; social personality; social psychology; personality psychology ... See more keywords