Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin articles from August 1998

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin archives from August 1998

Motivations for unreciprocated love.
August 1, 1998... Unreciprocated love, loving someone who does not love you, is important both as a phenomenon in its own right and because its existence represents a motivational paradox of more general importance to social and personality psychologists...

The smell of bias: what instigates correction processes in social judgments?
August 1, 1998... In the course of a normal day, people are likely to make numerous evaluations. For example, they may hire someone based on an evaluation of the candidate's research ability, teaching effectiveness, or interpersonal skills; they may decide on...

The influence of group variability and processing goals o the ease of making judgements about social categories.
August 1, 1998... Research and theory on social categorization has shown that people store information not only about the average or prototypical features of the category (central tendency information) but the variation of its members as well (Hamilton &...

Group status and attributions to discrimination: are low-or high-status group members more likely to blame their failure on discrimination?
August 1, 1998... Members of many groups in society, such as women and people of color, live with the possibility that they may be a target for discrimination because of their group membership (Crocker & Major, 1989). In some cases, it will be clear to them...

What determines behavioral decisions? comparing the role of covariation information and attributions.
August 1, 1998... Attribution research has developed within two separate subfields. On one hand, attribution theories deal with mechanisms of causal inference and so-called attributional theories; on the other hand, attribution theories are concerned with...

Eliciting affect using the international affective picture system: trajectories through evaluative space.
August 1, 1998... The assumption that positive and negative valent processes are reciprocally related has long been a dominant theme in psychological theory and methods. With notable exceptions (e.g., Bradburn, 1969), valent processes have been represented...

Depressive symptoms and accuracy in the prediction of future events.
August 1, 1998... Negative future expectations have frequently been recognized as an important component of depression (Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974; Minkoff, Bergman, Beck, & Beck, 1973). The hopelessness theory of depression enhances their...

Unknown words in self-reported personality: lethargic and provincial in Texas.
August 1, 1998... In an apparently emerging consensus, personality psychologists are assigning a top priority to the establishment of a language for describing the basic structure of personality (Digman, 1990; Digman & Inouye, 1986; Goldberg & Rosolack, 1994;...