Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin articles from July 1997

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin archives from July 1997

Professionally responsible communication with the public: giving psychology a way.
July 1, 1997... The larger society, which has paid for social science, deserves a fuller and more meaningful exposure to what social scientists have learned with its money. Moreover, social science would benefit in financial support and prestige from such...

When bad things happen to good feedback: exacerbating the need for self-justification with self-affirmations.
July 1, 1997... In numerous self-affirmation studies, Claude Steele and colleagues have demonstrated that self-affirmations reduce the need to justify dissonant behavior even when the affirmation is unrelated to the dissonance-evoking action. However, research...

Social ostracism by coworkers: does rejection lead to loafing or compensation?
July 1, 1997... A new theoretical model and research paradigm are introduced to investigate the phenomenon of social ostracism--being ignored by others who are in one's presence. The authors examined the effects of social ostracism on individuals' subsequent...

Eminence rankings of personality psychologists as a reflection of the field.
July 1, 1997... The eminence of scholars within a given field can reveal which conceptual work and scientific methods in the field are most prized and valued. The authors follow procedures employed in other disciplines to calculate the eminence of personality...

Individual differences in need for precision.
July 1, 1997... This article develops and validates a measure of the construct of need for precision (NFP), defined as a preference for engaging in a relatively fine-gained mode of processing, and studies its relationship to several constructs. NFP is argued...

Implicit self-esteem in Japan: name letters and birthday numbers.
July 1, 1997... Japanese studies have repeatedly failed to obtain any explicit tendency to enhance self-esteem. In two studies, the authors attempted an implicit assessment of positive feelings attached to Japanese selves and found evidence for such feelings....

A generalized personal/group discrepancy: testing the domain specificity of a perceived higher effect of events on one's group than on oneself.
July 1, 1997... Studies on the personal/group discrimination discrepancy show individuals to perceive higher levels of discrimination directed at their group as a whole than at themselves personally. The authors hypothesized that the discrepancy is not...

Perspective taking: imagining how another feels versus imagining how you would feel.
July 1, 1997... Although often confused, imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel are two distinct forms of perspective taking with different emotional consequences. The former evokes empathy; the latter, both empathy and distress. To test...

Gender differences in verbal presumptuousness and attentiveness.
July 1, 1997... Men's and women's verbal presumptuousness and attentiveness were measured by verbal response mode coding of laboratory conversations in five studies. The data were used to assess implications of two common assumptions about gender roles in...

The representation of women in management: the more, the merrier?
July 1, 1997... The purpose of the present study is to examine how the numerical restructuring of the workforce affects the experiences of women within management. Research suggests that when considering numerical restructuring, a distinction should be made...

Erratum. (correction to 'Behavioral Consensus Information Affects People's Inferences About Population Traits,' Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 2, Feb. 1997)
July 1, 1997... In "Behavioral Consensus Information Affects People's Inferences About Population Traits" by Paul D. Windschitl and Gary L. Wells (Vol. 23, No. 2, February 1997), the first equation on page 150 was incorrect. The correct equation is shown...