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The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

... other-blaming, perception of injustice and antagonistic tendencies make humiliation similar to anger. Whereas people feel anger when ... E. R. (2000). Intergroup emotions: explaining offensive action tendencies in an intergroup context.   Journal of Personality ... / more

General action and inaction goals: Definitions & effects

... how unrelated these behaviors might be. What Are General Action and Inaction Goals? Before addressing some of the origins and ... that action and inaction can truly be goals, not just tendencies, preferences, or automatic associations (e.g., someone seeing the ... / more

Are You a “Real Man”? How Men Earn and Prove Manhood Status

... but instead is seen as a status that must be earned via action. By “tenuous,” we mean that manhood status, once earned, can be lost ... aggression, including biological factors, socialization tendencies, and other situational pressures. Nonetheless, reminders that their ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... is most likely a set of inner capabilities for controlling action. It is the inner faculty that makes choices. Freedom means the ability ... here-and-now impulses and their prepotent behavioral tendencies in order to decide one’s behavior flexibly on the pursuit of ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... an individual, then certainly his or her thoughts, feelings, tendencies, and behavior must be characteristic of that individual. Right? ... and interest. Hence, any thought, feeling , tendency, or action derives from, or is based in, their  self-perception  as a unique ... / more

Exposing an Armed Criminal: What Can We Learn from Psychology and the Police?

... (e.g. gait or changing of posture) might reflect relevant action tendencies that are closely linked with emotional states (Montepare, ... / more

The Night of Nancy: Social Psychology and Football

... on emotions explain how individuals initiate actions ( action tendencies , e.g.  Frijda , 1993) after experiencing and appraising an ... / more

Not Again! I’m Looking for a Job but I Don’t Know Why It Is Taking So Long!

... As well, it is a purposive, volitional pattern of action that begins with the identification and commitment of pursuing an ... domain that show the effects of dispositional tendencies on self-regulated job behaviors (e.g.  Barrick, Mount, & Strauss ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... judgments. Psychologists often measure people’s moral tendencies by having them judge hypothetical moral dilemmas such as the trolley ... off a bridge to save five people, compared to when the action is less personal (i.e. when no physical contact is involved). This is in ... / more

Influence: Science and Practice (5th ed)

... Subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) cues can elicit fixed-action patterns , or what the author refers to as “click-whirr” responses. ... compliance behavior. The next principle refers to the dual tendencies of staying the path once we have committed to a course of action, ... / more