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The Night of Nancy: Social Psychology and Football

... turns into a fighting machine in a football stadium. Social psychology might provide an explanation: it might well be the connection ... connection to one’s group has been explained in Social Identity Theory (SIT, e.g.  Tajfel , 1978;  Tajfel & Turner , 1979). ... / more

Sense-making through science

... Callan, & Laurin, 2008; Lerner, 1980), our world and our social environment are far from perfectly orderly and controlled. Life in ... An additional study showed that stage theories about identity development and musical development are seen as more orderly and ... / more

After Trayvon: The science of protecting innocent black men

... of stereotypes may take hold extremely early on in the social interactions that people engage in. These reactions can have lethal ... rooms (Shook & Fazio, 2008).  The Common In-group Identity Model, developed by Samuel L. Gaertner of the University of Delaware, ... / more

Are voters rational?

... There is, unfortunately, no easy answer to the question. Social psychological science, like all science, is a quest for knowledge in a ... affiliation has become an important part of one’s identity, changes in the Republican Party’s agenda may be ignored when ... / more

Fifty Shades of arousal misattribution and cognitive associations: How Christian Grey is making us believe that women find BDSM “hot”

... 2013).  It is likely that the film will further spread the social belief that women find it arousing to feel pain as a “submissive” ... & Walton, N.L. (2013). “Double crap” abuse and harmed identity in Fifty Shades of Grey , Journal of Women's Health , 22 (9), ... / more

Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions

... of many other things that concern people, such as their social standing, their moral obligations, and their descendants. Social ... Skitka, L. J. (2003). Of different minds: An accessible identity model of justice reasoning.  Personality and Social Psychology ... / more

Is banning bossy enough to enact real social change? Celebrity activism and the “Ban Bossy” campaign

... in the classroom and in life. In this blog I highlight the social value of celebrity activism and I highlight important caveats of ... consider how well the leader represents them.  Social identity research on leadership indicates that when a group is important to a ... / more

Sticks and stones and breaking bones: Social psychology and school aggression

... at school aggression from the perspective of contemporary social psychology. Although, as a discipline, social psychology has studied ... findings above are in line with a framework called Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), which says that group members are ... / more

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

... few decades. As some evidence of this, data from the General Social Survey reveals that among college students surveyed between 1988 and ... adults, persons of any age, gender , and sexual identity can have a FWB. People define the term “friends with benefits” ... / more

Keeping the spark alive: The role of sexual communal motivation

... during sex and sexual satisfaction. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ,   30, 270-292. ... M., Maitland, S. B., & Milhausen, R. R. (2010). Sexual identity and  sexual well-being in female heterosexual university students. ... / more