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Browsing Social Psychology - Faculty Research by Issue Date
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Individualism, Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward Assisted Death: Cross-Cultural, Cross-Regional, and Experimental Evidence
(2002)We hypothesized that in individualistic cultures, individualism predicts positive attitudes toward assisted death, whereas authoritarianism is negatively associated with favorable views of this issue. Study 1 confirmed ... -
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Individualism, Collectivism, and Authoritarianism in Seven Societies
(2003)Building on Hofstede's finding that individualism and social hierarchy are incompatible at the societal level, the authors examined the relationship between individualism-collectivism and orientations toward authority at ... -
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German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging
(2003)Kemmelmeier reviews "German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging" edited by Stefan Wolff. -
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Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas
(2003)Racial-ethnic minorities are at risk of academic disengagement: pulling back effort in school. Our model focuses on implications of content of racial-ethnic self-schemas (RES) for disengagement. We postulate that risk ... -
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Individualism and Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action: Evidence From Priming Experiments
(2003)Theorists have argued that Americans' ambivalence toward affirmative action policies is fueled by a notion of justice that champions the rights of individuals. This conception of justice is not compatible with the idea of ... -
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What Research Participants Learn from Rewards: A Conversational Logic Analysis of Rewarding Reasoning Performance
(2004)Based on a conversational logic framework (Grice, 1975), we examined the implications of rewarding performance on a reasoning task. We argued that, in the interaction between experimenter and participant, financial incentives ... -
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Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Does Discriminating Between Diagnostic and Nondiagnostic Information Eliminate the Dilution Effect?
(2004)The dilution effect refers to the finding that judgments are often unduly influenced by nondiagnostic information, producing regressive judgment. Because the dilution effect is a problem in various domains, strategies to ... -
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Authoritarianism and Candidate Support in the U.S. Presidential Elections of 1996 and 2000
(2004)Kemmelmeier sought to replicate and extend the findings of a link between a person's candidate preference and the degree of his or her authoritarianism in the US presidential elections of 1996 and 2000. The findings confirm ... -
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Language and Self-Construal Priming: A Replication and Extension in a Hong Kong Sample
(2004)Previous research has argued that language serves as a cognitive cue to reinforce culturally normative self-construals. We hypothesize that language-priming effects would be stronger for women than men and that they would ... -
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The Effects of Race and Social Dominance Orientation in Simulated Juror Decision Making
(2005)Recent mock‐jury research often has found no evidence that White jurors are more likely to convict and impose harsher sentences on Black compared to White defendants. Drawing on social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, ... -
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Putting If s to Work: Goal-Based Relevance in Conditional Directives
(2005)Conditional directives are used by speakers to instruct hearers which actions are to be taken should certain events occur. The authors demonstrate that conditional directives are distinct from indicative conditionals in ... -
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What's in a Grade? Academic Success and Political Orientation
(2005)Expanding the literature on person-environment fit, the authors argue that political orientation is an important factor in shaping academic success in college. Based on social dominance theory, it was expected that academic ... -
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Individualism and Good Works: Cultural Variation and Volunteering across the United States
(2006)Building on previous research by Allik and Realo and Conway, Ryder, Tweed, and Sokol, the present study investigates whether cultural individualism is related to greater levels of prosocial behavior toward strangers. ... -
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Is Diagnostic Evidence on the Dilution Effect Weakened When Nondiagnostic Objections Are Added? A Response to Igou (2007)
(2007)Kemmelmeier (2007) challenges the notion of conversational basis of the dilution effect by providing a reanalysis of Igou and Bless (2005), new data, and a metaanalysis. Responding to this evidence, Igou (2007) raises a ... -
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Does the Dilution Effect Have a Conversational Basis?
(2007)The dilution effect refers to the finding that judgments are often unduly influenced by nondiagnostic information, producing regressive judgment. The hypothesis of a conversational basis of the dilution effect, advanced ... -
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Political Conservatism, Rigidity, and Dogmatism in American Foreign Policy Officials: The 1966 Mennis Data
(2007)Researchers have established a relationship between political orientation and cognitive styles (A. Chirumbolo, 2002; J. T. Jost, J. Glaser, A. W. Kruglanski, & F. Sulloway, 2003a, 2003b; M. Kemmelmeier, 1997). In this ... -
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How Competition Is Viewed Across Cultures: A Test of Four Theories
(2007)Competition is a pervasive aspect of human life. Yet the values and attitudes that people have concerning competition vary widely, from the belief that it underpins the social order to the belief that it corrodes positive ... -
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Is There a Relationship Between Political Orientation and Cognitive Ability? A Test of Three Hypotheses in Two Studies
(2008)Two studies tested one linear and two curvilinear hypotheses concerning the relationship between political conservatism-liberalism and cognitive ability. Study 1, focusing on students at a selective US university (n = ...