Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin articles from November 1997

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin archives from November 1997

Reactance and though suppression.
November 1, 1997... People who are disturbed by an unwanted, intrusive thought are often told just to forget about it. However, the fact that as many as 40 million Americans report having recurring problems with negative thoughts and emotions (Regier et al.,...

Authoritarianism and American students' attitudes about the Gulf War, 1990-1996.
November 1, 1997... In this article, we present the results of several studies of American college students to explore the relationship between authoritarianism and attitudes toward the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis and Gulf War, from the time of the crisis...

Happy faces elicit heuristic processing in a televised impression formation task: a cognitive tuning account.
November 1, 1997... When a teacher elucidates course material that requires systematic scrutiny, a neutral or serious facial expression typically accompanies the verbal communication. When a mother wants her child to carefully attend to her verbal...

The construction of victim and perpetrator memories: accuracy and distortion in role-based accounts.
November 1, 1997... From everyday gossip to the autobiographies of public figures, the telling of stories about one's own experiences is a central, integral part of the social construction of reality. juries, journalists, jilted lovers, and jaundiced...

Accuracy of the five-factor model in predicting perceptions of daily social interactions.
November 1, 1997... The five-factor model (FFM) describes personality along the dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience (e.g., John, 1990; McCrae & Costa, 1990; McCrae & John, 1992) and provides...

Field experiments examining the culture of honor: the role of institutions in perpetuating norms about violence.
November 1, 1997... The standard view of the Old South and West is that these regions accepted, and even glorified, certain types of violence. In these frontier areas where the law was weak, where one's wealth could be rustled away instantly, and where...

The psychometric location of wisdom-related performance: intelligence, personality, and more?
November 1, 1997... During the past decade, there have been repeated calls for a stronger consideration of psychological phenomena and processes located at the interface between personality, cognitive, and social functioning (e.g., Cantor & Kihlstrom,...

Can the jury disregard that information? The use of suspicion to reduce the prejudicial effects of pretrial publicity and inadmissible testimony.
November 1, 1997... Jurors are often faced with a set of social-cognitive challenges that, if not unique, are uniquely magnified. Placed into a cauldron of causal attributional issues, jurors must process large amounts of information that varies greatly in...