Edited by David De Cremer, J. Keith Murnighan and Rolf van Dick. This book will be one of the first to provide an overview of recent developments in social psychological theory as it applies to organizational issues. It brings together outstanding scholars whose research touches the interfaces of social psychology , IO psychology and organizational behavior.…ISBN: 9781848728561Publ
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August 17, 2010
Social Psychology and Organizations
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July 21, 2010
Rediscovering Social Identity
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Edited by Tom Postmes, and Nyla R. Branscombe. This reader brings together the founding texts of the "Social Identity Approach" - a set of concepts, ideas, and principles contained in Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization Theory. This approach originated in social psychology and is increasingly part of the standard curriculum in…ISBN: 9781841694924Published May 2
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June 26, 2010
Why Red Ink and Rain Can Ruin Your Grade
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One of the eerier themes in psychology papers is the extreme susceptibility of people's thoughts and acts to incidental details in their surroundings. For instance, this paper from a recent European Journal of Social Psychology (I was led to it by this recent news story), in which people some paragraphs, supposedly from a student essay. Those who used red ink found more errors, and gave lower gr
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February 10, 2010
Is the Evolution Debate Over?
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... Sedikides, C. (2009) Why Does Religiosity Persist?. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(1), 3-6. DOI: 10.1177/1088868309352323 Why Does Religiosity Persist?
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February 1, 2010
Facial Expressions And The Way We Feel And Understand
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Your facial expression may tell the world what you are thinking or feeling. But it also affects your ability to understand written language related to emotions, according to research that was presented to the Society for Personal and Social Psychology in Las Vegas, and will be published in the journal Psychological Science...
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November 26, 2009
Basking in Reflected Glory
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Classic social psychology study explores our yearning to bask in the reflected glory of successful others.Here in England we have a strange tradition called 'test cricket'. It's a ridiculous game that goes on for five days, stops for tea and bad light, has impenetrable rules, weird names for fielding positions like 'silly-mid-on' and 'short-backward-leg' and [...]» Try the latest happiness-
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November 25, 2009
Going underground
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Slate has a great article discussing how psychologists have used the subway as a natural laboratory to study the social psychology of humans forced to interact in strange and unusual ways during their travels across the city.I never knew before, but it turns out there's been quite a bit of research on the subways, metros and undergrounds of the world.Spend enough time riding the New York City sub
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June 23, 2009
Determinism Is Not Just Causality
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(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The Co-Editor, Hart Blanton, requested that we not post the entry until the newsletter appeared, which he estimated would be around July 1. I post it now because colleagues have begun to receive the newsletter. In the next few days, I shall post
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May 16, 2009
Can science be effective when the researcher has prior ethical commitments about their subject matter?
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I originally wrote this short essay to answer an exam question in social psychology, but I think that the topic is important and interesting beyond the small realm of an exam. In other words, I am sufficiently fond of this essay to 'publish' it here. Social psychological research is often motivated by particular values, as in the study of equity, or prejudice and stereotyping. Is this good or bad
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April 23, 2009
Taking pride in your posture
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A simple but elegant study just published in the European Journal of Social Psychology found that getting people to generate words about pride caused them to unknowingly raise their posture, while asking them to generate words about disappointment led to an involuntary slouch.The research team, led by psychologist Suzanne Oosterwijk, asked people to list words related to 'pride' and 'disappointme
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