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Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

... of contact that drives modern school exchanges and cross-group buddy schemes. In the years since Allport’s initial intergroup ... positive contact experiences have been shown to reduce self-reported prejudice (the most common way of assessing intergroup ... / more

Death and deities: A social cognitive perspective

... of religious belief, such as for health (Bulbulia, 2004), group flourishing (Wilson, 2002), and mating (Bering, 2011). However, much ... identifications and achievements, and the increased self-esteem they engender (e.g., Dechesne, Pyszczynski, Arndt, Ransom, ... / more

Honor in the Past: The Case of Mexico

... to present themselves to the world, in other words, their self-identity. In addition, honor ranked everyone within social hierarchies and ... gradations of rank, but they did so within their small elite group (Cañeque, 2004). Those individuals born into high-ranking families ... / more

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

... of your first cousin, or when a member of a religious group with which you strongly identify (e.g., Catholic) has been publicly ... only because of the pain it causes with regard to one’s self-esteem , but also because of the implications for in-group ... / more

Family Honour and the Purity of the Family’s Essence: A Relational Models Approach

... social image and reputation, which reflects back on the self-image (Rodriguez Mosquera, Fischer, Manstead, & Zaalberg, 2008). ... How are honour concerns related to the protection of the group? Why should a culture of honour develop based on protection? We suggest ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... such as expectations, motivations, prejudices, and self-concepts. They manage their behavior so as to set and reach goals within ... of one’s needs and wants while contributing enough to the group to keep the system going. One must be able to overcome here-and-now ... / more

Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

... Kingdom or the United States, the dominant model of the self is an independent self characterized by self-defining attributes ... by social, mutual obligations and the fulfilment of in-group expectations (e.g.,  Hofstede , 1980;  Oyserman et al. , 2002;  ... / more

Human, or Less than Human?

... a dimension of " agency " (i.e., rationality, self-control , morality) distinguishes humans from animals, whereas a ... humans from robots and inanimate entities. Humanness in Group Perception The relevance of this simple model to social ... / more

Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

... fate for us, instilled as we are not only with drives toward self-preservation (we seek food when hungry, react quickly to external ... management: Effects of mortality salience on in-group bias, out-group aggression, and politics To understand the ... / more

‘The Vision Thing’

... practices that advance the interests and outcomes of the group as a whole. 1. Leaders need to be ‘one of us’ A key plank in ... thus gaining their commitment to a sense of self from which they would derive meaning, purpose and value" (p.223)  In ... / more