Experiments with people: revelations from social psychology [illustrated edition] 0805828966, 9780805828962, 9781410609274, 0805828974

Table of contents :
Experiments With People
Revelations From Social Psychology......Page 1
Experiments With People
Revelations From Social Psychology......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 12
1 Strangers to Ourselves: The Shortcomings
of Introspection Nisbett, R. E., & Bellows, N. (1977). Verbal reports about causal
influences on social judgments: Private access versus public theories.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 613-624.......Page 16
2 Mythical Memories: Reconstructing the Past in the Present McFarland, C, Ross, M., & DeCourville, N. (1993). Women's theories
of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1093-1104.......Page 29
3 Tahing the Edge Off Adversity: The Psychological
Immune System Gilbert, D. T., Pinel, E. C., Wilson, T. D., Blumberg, S. J., &
Wheatley, T P. (1998). Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in
affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
75, 617-638.......Page 44
4 Believing Is Seeing: Partisan Perceptions of Media Bias Vallone, R. P., Ross, L, & Lepper, M. R. (1985). The hostile media
phenomenon: Biased perception and perceptions of media bias
coverage of the "Beirut Massacre." Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 49, 577-585.......Page 56
5 Frames of Mind: Taking Risks or Playing Safe? Rothman, A. J., Martino, S. C., Bedell, B. T, Detweiler, J. B.,
& Salovey, R (1999). The systematic influence of gain- and loss- framed
messages on interest in and use of different types of health behavior.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1355-1369.......Page 67
6 Clashing Cognitions: When Actions Prompt Attitudes Festinger, L, & Carlsmith, J. (1959). Cognitive consequences of
forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,
58, 203-10.......Page 79
7 Baptism of Fire: When Suffering Leads to Liking Aronson, E., & Mills, J. (1959). The effect of severity of initiation
on liking for a group. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,
59, 177-181.......Page 94
8 Taking the Magic Out of the Markers: The Hidden Cost
of Rewards Lepper, M., Greene, D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1973). Undermining
children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the
'overjustification' hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 28, 129-137.......Page 105
9 The Calvinisms Conundrum: Unconsciously Engineering
Good Omens Quattrone, G. A., & Tversky, A. (1980). Causal versus diagnostic
reasoning: On self-deception and the voter's illusion. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 237-248.......Page 118
10 Pitfalls of Purpose: Ironic Processes in Mood Control Wegner, D., Erber, R., &Zanakos, S. (1993). Ironic Processes in
the mental control of mood and mood-related thought. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1093-1104.......Page 129
11 Familiarity Breeds Liking: The Positive Effects of Mere
Exposure Mita, T. H., Dermer, M., & Knight, J. (1977). Reversed facial images
and the mere-exposure hypothesis. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 35, 597-601.......Page 142
12 Beneath the Mask: Tools for Detecting Hidden Prejudice Dovidio, J. F., Kawakami, K., Johnson, C, Johnson, B., & Howard,
A. (1997). On the nature of prejudice: Automatic and controlled
processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33,
510-540.......Page 152
13 I Think, Therefore I Act: Priming Intelligence With Social Stereotypes Dijksterhuis, A., &van Knippenberg, A. (1998). The relation between
perception and behavior, or how to win a game of Trivial Pursuit.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 865-877.......Page 166
14 What Did You Expect?: The Behavioral Confirmation
of the Physical Attractiveness Stereotype......Page 177
15 Good Vibes: Insights Into Belief in Mental Telepathy Ayeroff, F., & Abelson, R. P. (1976). ESP and ESB: Belief in personal
success at mental telepathy. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 36, 240-247.......Page 189
16 The Eye Is Quicker Than the Mind: Believing Precedes Unbelieving Gilbert, D. T., Tafarodi, R. W, &Malone, P. S. (1993). You can't not
believe everything you read. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 65, 221-233.......Page 201
17 Going Along to Get Along: Conformity to Group Morms Asch, S. E. (1955, November). Opinions and social pressure.
Scientific American, 31-35.......Page 214
18 The Unhurried Samaritan: When Context Determines
Character Darley, J. M., & Batson, C. D. (1973). "From Jerusalem to Jericho": A
study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27, 100-108.......Page 227
19 Who, Me?: The Failure of Bystanders to Intervene
in Emergencies Darley, J. M., & Latane, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in
emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 8, 377-383.......Page 237
20 Love Thy Neighbor or Thyself?: Empathy as a Source
of Altruism Batson, C., Dyck, J., Brandt, J. R., Batson, J., Powell, A., McMaster,
M. R., & Griffitt, C. (1988). Five studies testing two new egoistic
alternatives to the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 52-77.......Page 248
21 Just Following Orders: A Shocking Demonstration
of Obedience to Authority Milgram, S. (1963). The behavioral study of obedience. Journal
of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371-378.......Page 260
22 Hooded Hoodlums: The Role of Deindividuation
in Antisocial Behavior Diener, E., Fraser, S. C., Beaman, A. L, & Kelem, R. T. (1976).
Effects of deindividuation variables on stealing among Halloween
trick- or-treaters. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33,
178-183.......Page 274
23 The Burglar's Situation: Actor-Observer Differences
in Explaining Behavior West, S. G., Gunn, S. R, & Chernicky, P. (1975). Ubiquitous
Watergate: An attributional analysis. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 32, 55-65.......Page 283
24 Of Cockroaches and Men: Social Enhancement
and Inhibition of Performance Zajonc, R. B., Heingarter, A., & Herman, E. M. (1969). Social
enhancement and impairment of performance in the cockroach.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 83-92.......Page 295
25 "We're Number One!": Basking in Others' Glory Cialdini, R. B., Borden, R. J., Thome, A., Walker, M. R., Freeman, S.,
& Sloan, L. R. (1976). Basking in reflected glory: Three (football)
field studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34,
366-375.......Page 304
26 Ackmians Are From Mars, Orinthians Are From Venus:
Gender Stereotypes as Role Rationalizations Hoffman, C., & Hurst, N. (1990). Gender stereotypes: Perception or
rationalization? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58,
197-208.......Page 315
27 When Two Become One: Expanding the Self to Include
the Other Aron, A., Aron, E. N., Tudor, M., & Nelson, G. (1991). Close
relationships as including other in the self. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 60, 241-253.......Page 328
28 The Wrath of the Rejected: Being Shut Out Makes One
Lash Out Twenge, J. M., Baumeister, R. F., Tice, D. M., & Stucke, T. S. (2001).
If you can't join them, beat them: The effects of social exclusions on
aggressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
81, 1058-1069.......Page 341
Revelations......Page 354
Author Index......Page 358
Subject Index......Page 368