Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Academic Press
Published on 5. November 1987
351 pages
978-0-08-056734-1 (ISBN)
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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
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Leonard Berkowitz
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology: v. 20
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11/1987
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- Front Cover
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 20
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Attitudes, Traits, and Actions: Dispositional Prediction of Behavior in Personality and Social Psychology
- I. Introduction
- II. Manifestation of Dispositions in Behavior
- III. Proposed Solutions
- IV. The Principle of Correspondence
- V. Prediction of Specific Actions
- VI. Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2. Prosocial Motivation: Is it Ever Truly Altruistic?
- I. Introduction
- II. Contemporary Psychological Discussions of Altruism
- III. A Three-Path Model Comparing and Contrasting Egoistic and Empathically Induced Altruistic Motivation for Helping
- IV. Making the Theoretical Assumptions Explicit: Three Hypotheses
- V. Empirical Evidence for Empathically Evoked Altruistic Motivation
- VI. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Dimensions of Group Process: Amount and Structure of Vocal Interaction
- I. Introduction
- II. Amount and Structure of Vocal Exchange
- III. The Grouptalk Model
- IV. Data Collection and Management
- V. Initial Studies
- VI. Amount of Vocal Activity
- VII. Structure of Vocal Activity
- VIII. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Opinion Formation
- I. Introduction
- II. Theoretical Background
- III. Consensus and Informational Social Comparison
- IV. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5. Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes, and Social Behavior
- I. Introduction
- II. The Influence of Positive Affect on Social Behavior
- III. The Influence of Positive Affect on Cognition
- IV. Concluding Comments
- References
- Chapter 6. Between Hope and Fear: The Psychology of Risk
- I. Introduction
- II. Psychological versus Motivational Theories of Risk
- III. The Task and the Representation of the Stimulus
- IV. A Two-Factor Theory for Risky Choice
- V. Evidence for the Two-Factor Theory
- VI. The Things We Don't Talk About
- References
- Chapter 7. Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives on Social Inference: A Biased Hypothesis-Testing Model
- I. Introduction
- II. The Self-Serving Attributional Bias
- III. The Hypothesis-Testing Model of Attributional Processing
- IV. Motivational Influences on the Hypothesis-Testing Process
- V. Responses to the Disconfirmation of Self-serving Hypotheses
- VI. Summary and Conclusion
- References
- Index
