Advances in experimental social psychology. Volume fifty nine / edited by James M. Olsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olsen, James M., editor.

Series:

Advances in experimental social psychology ; Volume 59.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology ; Volume 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Social psychology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 233 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]

Summary:

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 59, the latest release in this highly cited series in the field, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest that represent the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology. This serial is part of the Social Sciences package on Science Direct, and is available online beginning with Volume 31. Topics in this updated release include Women and Men, Moms and Dads: Leveraging Social Role Change to Promote Gender Equality, The Dynamics of Belonging Regulation, and Inter-object and Inter-individual Differences in Attitude Content, amongst other interesting topics.- Provides one of the most cited series in the field of experimental social psychology- Contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest- Represents the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology

Contents:

Front Cover

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Chapter One: Women and men, moms and dads: Leveraging social role change to promote gender equality

1. Social change, but also enduring gender inequalities

2. Identity construction and the social self

3. Cultural scripts and identity representation

3.1. The social role mom is more tightly connected to women than the role dad is to men

3.1.1. Implicit category associations

3.1.2. Overlap in trait content

3.2. The social roles of dad and professional are more congruent than mom and professional

3.2.1. Implicit category associations

3.2.2. Overlap in trait content

3.3. Moms as a category are perceived as having more essentialist properties than dads

3.4. Summary

4. Consequences of cultural scripts and conflicting identities

4.1. Consequences in the judgments of others

4.1.1. Women are expected to do it all

4.1.2. Women are expected to prioritize family, men to prioritize work

4.1.3. Essentialism differences predict greater judged difficulty of women succeeding as both a mother and a professional

4.2. Consequences for the self

4.2.1. Heightened expected role conflict for women

4.2.2. Women experience shifting identities, men experience stable identities

4.2.3. Behavioral responses to identity conflict

4.3. Broader consequences for women in science

4.4. Summary

5. Leveraging social role change to promote equality

5.1. Alter the strength of the tie between the parent role and the gender group

5.1.1. Decreasing the mother-father difference in essentialism

5.1.2. Increasing overlap in the trait content of the dad role and men

5.2. Changing the content of the social roles

5.3. Summary

6. Conclusions

Funding

References.

Chapter Two: Inter-individual differences in attitude content: Cognition, affect, and attitudes

1. Overview

2. What do we mean by attitude content?

2.1. The synergistic relation among attitudinal components

3. Conceptualizing the study of inter-individual differences in attitude content

3.1. Some background on inter-individual differences in attitude content

3.2. Measuring inter-individual differences in attitude content

3.2.1. Measures based on the structural properties of attitudes

3.2.2. The meta-bases approach

3.2.3. The trait approach

3.3. Relations among the structural, meta-bases, and trait approaches

4. Implications of inter-individual differences in attitude content

4.1. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and attitude change

4.2. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and narrative appeals

4.3. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and attitude strength

4.4. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and perceptions of individuals and groups

4.5. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and political/legal judgments

4.6. A quick summary of findings of extant research on inter-individual differences in attitude content

5. New horizons

5.1. The measurement of inter-individual differences in attitude content

5.2. Spontaneous versus deliberative person-based judgments

5.3. Are inter-individual differences in attitude content linked with different patterns of neural activity during evalua ...

5.4. Inter-individual differences in attitude content, links between cognition and affect, and information processing

5.5. What other constructs are related to inter-individual differences in attitude content?

5.6. Inter-individual differences in attitude content and tailored messaging

5.7. What about the role of behavior?.

6. Conclusion

References

Chapter Three: Anger and its consequences for judgment and behavior: Recent developments in social and political psychology

1. Introduction

2. An initial note about terminology

3. Part I: On the measurement of anger

3.1. Some initial considerations about language

3.2. Lumping vs. splitting

3.3. The case for lumping

3.4. The ``independence´´ critique

3.5. On the misuse of broad-band affective indices in experimental research

3.5.1. Emotion-specific manipulations warrant emotion-specific measures

3.6. Other reasons for splitting anger from other negative emotions

4. Part II: The downsides-and upsides-of anger as a social emotion

4.1. Anger as an adaptive and socially desirable emotion

4.2. Anger and the dynamics of perceived justice

4.3. Relevant insights from the social neuroscience area

5. Part III: The ``functional perspective´´ and its relation to anger

5.1. Extensions of Frijda´s work

5.2. Does the ``function´´ of an emotion depend on context?

5.3. Does context matter in terms of how emotions are immediately experienced and processed by the individual?

5.4. Does context matter in considering downstream consequences for judgment and behavior?

5.4.1. The question of context, redux

6. Part IV: Revenge and the dynamics of anger

6.1. On the perceived vs. actual consequences of taking revenge

6.2. Perceptual biases in tracking very recent changes in anger

6.3. Our initial research into the revenge killing of Osama bin Laden

6.4. On the bittersweet consequences of revenge

6.4.1. Beyond mood: Expanding our understanding of the affective consequences of revenge

6.4.2. A consideration of two hypotheses

6.4.3. Summary

7. Part V: On the nature of affordances

7.1. Threats represent problems that need fixing.

7.2. Perceived affordances in politics

7.3. Hawkishness as a perceived affordance in the fight against terrorism

7.4. Implications for anger

8. Part VI: Threat, anger, and political attitudes

8.1. Experimental studies of the impact of the 9/11 attacks on political attitudes

8.1.1. On the independence of threat-driven changes apart from individual differences

8.1.2. Consideration of affective mediation

8.1.3. Questions raised by the Lambert et al. (2010) research

8.1.4. A note on sadness and fear

8.1.5. Eadeh et al. (2018

Experiment 1)

8.1.6. Eadeh et al. (2018

Experiment 2)

8.1.7. Eadeh et al. (2018

Experiment 3)

8.1.7.1. Summary

8.1.8. Eadeh et al. (2018

Experiment 4)

8.1.9. Eadeh et al. (2018

Experiment 5)

8.2. Are the political effects of anger consistent for all types of threat?

8.3. Further evidence for context specificity: Anger-driven shifts to the political left

8.3.1. A note on the construction of our mood indices

8.3.2. Summary of main findings

8.3.3. Summary

9. Part VII: On the relation of our affordance model to extant models of threat

9.1. What kinds of threat are being considered?

9.2. Are threat-driven ideological shifts relatively broad or narrow?

9.3. What is the role of affect/emotion?

9.4. On the gap between theory and method

10. Part VIII: Anger vs. disgust: How and when are they distinct?

10.1. Two illustrative findings from our own work

10.2. CODA

Further reading

Chapter Four: Cultural inertia, identity, and intergroup dynamics in a changing context

2. Overview of cultural inertia theory

3. Cultures at rest tend to stay at rest

3.1. Stable identities are sources of strength and resilience

3.2. Unstable or threatened identities are sources of stress.

3.3. Protecting identity in the face of change: Assimilation vs. multiculturalism

3.4. Group and societal level strategies to protect ingroup identity

3.4.1. Prejudice and discrimination as tools for resisting identity threat

3.4.2. Policy support and opposition

4. Cultures in motion continue in motion

5. Psychological anchors for identity

5.1. Identity strength, centrality and importance

5.2. Individual differences and personality anchors

5.3. Nostalgia

6. Psychological propellers for change

6.1. Openness to experience

7. Identities in conflict

7.1. Internal conflicts and the case of biculturalism

7.1.1. Biculturalism-Conflict within

7.2. External conflicts and the (mis)weighing of identity

7.3. Intergroup conflict and threats to identity

8. Threats to identity: For every action there is an opposite reaction

8.1. Identity misattribution, dilution, and negation

8.2. Identity, ideological conflict, and the ubiquity of prejudice

8.3. Collective angst

9. Cultural inertia in action: The case of immigration and the rise of White nationalism

9.1. Aggrieved whiteness and the rise of White nationalism

9.2. Threat of change on an international level

10. Summary and future directions

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-12-817168-5

0-12-817167-7