Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin articles from March 1998

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin archives from March 1998

Matching Versus Mismatching Attitude Functions: Implications for Scrutiny of Persuasive Messages.
March 1, 1998... Consider attitudes about a political candidate. There are many qualifies of the candidate that might be relevant to citizens' views of the candidate such as his or her stand on domestic issues, a projected image of decisiveness and...

Affective Coloring of Personality from Young Adulthood to Midlife.
March 1, 1998... Affect is the color of personality. Bright primary hues are associated with kindergarten, gold with youth, gray with age (e.g., Whistler's Mother). But are these stereotypes? Do affective aspects of personality really change over the course...

Cultural Estrangement and Terror Management Theory.
March 1, 1998... Research on alienation has a long tradition in sociology and to some extent, psychology, although it has declined considerably in the past 20 years. One important but relatively neglected component of alienation is a sense of cultural...

Partner Selection for Personality Characteristics: A Couple-Centered Approach.
March 1, 1998... "Birds of a feather flock together" and "opposites attract" are familiar, centuries-old adages. Psychologists, no less than lay people, regularly invoke these two seemingly contradictory views to explain the nature of everyday interpersonal...

Relations Between Affect and Personality: Support for the Affect-Level and Affective-Reactivity Views.
March 1, 1998... It is a mark of our common humanity that we each experience emotions such as amusement, sadness, fear, and disgust. Yet, these pleasant and unpleasant emotions are not evenly distributed among us. Some individuals seem to be particularly...

Do Smiles Elicit More Inferences Than Do Frowns? The Effect of Emotional Valence on the Production of Spontaneous Inferences.
March 1, 1998... Suppose one learns that the new guard for the Highland Bulldogs basketball team performed very poorly in his opening game. Several plausible causes might come to mind. Perhaps he was nervous, perhaps he lacks talent, perhaps he failed to stay...

Emotional Distress and Disinhibited Eating: The Role of Self.
March 1, 1998... Emotional distress is a primary contributor to overeating and dietary collapse, especially for those who usually try to restrain food intake. Chronic dieters report that they often eat when they are upset, and laboratory studies have...

Situation-Specific Effects in Person Memory.
March 1, 1998... A large number of experiments (see Wyer & Srull, 1989, for a review) have been performed that employed variations on the following paradigm. First, participants are told about a target person and are led to believe that the target person has...

Perceptions of and by Lonely People in Initial Social Interaction.
March 1, 1998... Constructing our view of the world is an ongoing process in which objective information, input from others, and introspection provide information for effective social functioning (Festinger, 1954). People want information about themselves and...