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Taking One for the Team, Even on Your Way Out of the Door

... on the notion of mutual rewards via the related processes of social exchange ( Blau , 1964) and reciprocity ( Gouldner , 1960). ... relationships on organizational citizenship behavior.  Group and Organization Management, 29, 219-247. Davis, M. H. (1983).  ... / more

Are Stereotypes True?

... that women are worse than men at math reflects true group differences, then women should always score worse than men on a math ... compared to when they were irrelevant.  Downward Social Comparison  , a process whereby people elevate their self-esteem ... / more

Creativity is More Than a Trait: It’s a Relation

... approach is based on the interaction between three social systems: the individual, the  field  and the  domain  (see ... field  represents a part of society, i.e. a social group in the position to decide how much impact individual creative output ... / more

The Media: Carriers of Contagious Information

... information about how people behave. And, the evidence from social science is clear that information about others’ behavior can have a ... Often, they began with a single person or group and then swept rapidly through whole populations. In epidemic fashion, ... / more

There’s Something About Zero

... Research has revealed many subtypes, even among this group. Dixon et al. (2004) suggested that among synaesthetes with a visual ... of synaesthesia research, but (as is appropriate for a social psychology magazine) I have chosen a final use that has social ... / more

The Double Edged Passion

... "those" -- every culture, pretty much, has had a different group in mind. But the singular fact of prejudice per se was as ... in 1975, witch hunts worldwide tend to follow closely after social turmoil. They peaked in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries when ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... and Stanford University, into a hell on earth for a group of college students that I imprisoned in a dramatic experiment, allow me ... what extent was their behavior shaped by the same kinds of social psychological forces that operated in the Stanford Prison Experiment, ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... a colleague put to me the question: Why are humans still social? That “still” was weighty with meaning—the idea of a primal ... to which humans might return, perhaps finally freed from group living by technological progress. I was dumbfounded. Humans have no ... / more

Five Social Psychology Essentials

Social psychology teaches critical thinking about social behavior, or at least that's what we teachers like to think. It's ... of this link, however, textbooks increasingly de-emphasize group activity and emphasize its drawbacks as they narrow their gaze toward the ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... act towards others as if they were members of a particular group and nothing more. The bases for such behaviors are stereotypes and ... J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype ... / more