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Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology: Current Practices and New Recommendations

, 2011
A key aim of social psychology is to understand the psychological processes through which independent variables affect dependent variables in the social domain. This objective has given rise to statistical methods for mediation analysis.
Derek D. Rucker, Kristopher J Preacher, Zakary L. Tormala, R. Petty   +3 more
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Control theory: a useful conceptual framework for personality-social, clinical, and health psychology.

Psychological bulletin, 1982
Control theory provides a model of self-regulati on that we believe is useful in the analysis of human behavior. As an illustration of the breadth of its applicability, we present the basic construct of control theory—the discrepancy-reducing feedback ...
C. Carver, M. Scheier
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Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles.

, 1996
Part I: Biological System. Caporael, Evolutionary Theory for Social and Cultural Psychology. Blascovich, Seery, Visceral and Somatic Indexes of Social Psychological Constructs: History, Principles, Propositions, and Case Studies.
E. Tory Higgins, A. Kruglanski
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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology

, 1987
Arguing and Thinking is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric - from Classical times to the nineteenth century - viewed as social psychological theories. It is self-confessedly unorthodox.
M. Billig
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Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology

, 1981
The literature of social psychology contains a number of phenomena that appear to be paradoxical. For example, persons who face a threatening experience prefer to affiliate with threatened others rather than with nonthreatened others (Schachter, 1959 ...
T. Wills
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The Social in Social Psychology

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2014
AbstractIn this paper, I make a critical plea for the rehabilitation of the theoretical conception of the intrinsically social dimensions of cognition, emotion, and behavior shared by early social psychologists but progressively neglected and abandoned in the last century.
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Social Psychology

2023
We feel great pleasure in presenting this book. The book has been written keeping in view the requirements of undergraduate and post graduate students of Colleges and Universities. This book is strictly in accordance with the latest updated syllabus under National Education Policy-2020.
Dr. Vandana Gaur, Dr. Anil Bhatt
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The Psychology of Social Inertia

Soviet Education, 1989
Restructuring is often compared with NEP. However, NEP called upon people to return to the system of motives and incentives with which they were familiar, and in which they had been raised and had lived for centuries. A psychological restructuring was not required of them.
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Is Psychology a Social Science?

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2010
This presentation explicates the rationale for the claim that, contrary to the general opinion, psychology is not a social science. Sociology, the typical social science to represent all the others, starts from observing human behavior in the context of human relationships and abstracts from the samples of such behaviors the social rules governing ...
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The Social Psychology of Privacy

American Journal of Sociology, 1968
Patterns of interaction in any social system are accompanied by counter-patterns of withdrawal, one highly institutionalized (but unexplored) mode of which is privacy. There exists a threshold beyond which social contact becomes irritating for all parties; therefore, some provision for removing oneself from interaction and observation must be built ...
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