Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin articles from January 1997

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin archives from January 1997

Authoritarianism and mental rigidity: the Einstellung problem revisited.
January 1, 1997... Rokeach's (1948) article on ethnocentrism and mental rigidity(1) stimulated considerable psychological research, particularly after Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford (1950) made available a generalized measure of the prejudiced...

The effects of time pressure and task differences on influence modes and accuracy in decision-making groups.
January 1, 1997... Humans tend to organize themselves into small groups for work, leisure, and other social activities. Frequently, such groups are faced with deliberating and coming to a consensus on some decision. Some decisions may be relatively unimportant...

Attachment styles, self-esteem, and patterns of seeking feedback from romantic partners.
January 1, 1997... The idea that relationship experiences help foster self-esteem is widely held, but the processes whereby they do so are not as clearly understood. The current study was an attempt to clarify the association of self-esteem with adult romantic...

Are Americans more optimistic than the Chinese?
January 1, 1997... People constantly seek causal explanations for different events. That is, when something particularly good or bad happens, people attempt to determine the cause of these events. Explanatory style, which refers to one's habits of explaining...

Authoritarianism and gender roles: toward a psychological analysis of hegemonic relationships.
January 1, 1997... Over the past four decades, psychologists have developed a rich understanding of authoritarianism as a constellation of personality, attitudinal, and behavioral characteristics (Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, & Sanford, 1950; Brown,...

Postdecisional dissonance and the commodified self-concept: a cross-cultural examination.
January 1, 1997... What you wear shows a lot about what kind of person you are, you know, your personality for the day. --Anonymous undergraduate female Modern society is rife with consumer messages that suggest to the reader or viewer that the...

Sexual harassment: an experimental test of sex-role spillover theory.
January 1, 1997... As sexual harassment has become more widely recognized in the workplace and in the courts as a form of discrimination against women, research questions about the nature and causes of harassment have arisen (Fitzgerald, 1993). And, in searching...

Personality and judgement heuristics: contextual and individual difference interactions in social judgment.
January 1, 1997... Important aspects of social cognition can be understood from a judgment and heuristics perspective (e.g., Fiske & Taylor, 1991; Nisbett & Ross, 1980). Kahneman and Tversky (1972, 1982) have described a number of heuristics that are commonly...

Selective use of heuristic and systematic processing under defense motivation.
January 1, 1997... In considering an issue, people may be confronted with several sources of information that vary in the amount of judgmental confidence they are likely to confer. Often, the information that gives the most confidence also takes more effort to...