Individual and Society: Sociological Social Psychology [PDF]
Unlike the few other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses that present 3 distinct traditions (or faces ) ... Symbolic Interactionist (SI), Social Structure and Personality (SSP), and Group Processes and Structure (GPS) by topic
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Stumbling Toward a Social Psychology of Organizations: An Autobiographical Look at the Direction of Organizational Research [PDF]
I recount some of my early experiences in the field and how they shaped my views about conducting research. As I describe it, my entry into organizational behavior was not at all seamless, requiring a series of adjustments along the way.
Staw, BM
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What Can Talk Tell Us About Design? Considering Practice Through Symbolic Interactionism and Conversation Analysis [PDF]
How can scholars conduct rigorous research into the social activities that help constitute design practice? This paper considers this question through exploring how the interactive aspects of design may be fruitfully examined from the perspective of ...
Oak, Arlene
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An Interpretation of the Continuous Adaptation of the Self/Environment Process [PDF]
Insights into the nondual relationship of organism and environment and their processual nature have resulted in numerous efforts at understanding human behavior and motivation from a holistic and contextual perspective. Meadian social
Francovich, Chris
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Simon’s scissors and ecological psychology in design for behaviour change [PDF]
Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic PublishingThis paper introduces a series of working papers (Lockton 2011a,b and 2012a-f) providing a background literature review of different disciplinary perspectives on behaviour, informing the development of
Lockton, D
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New Zealand families: Child-rearing practices and attitudes [PDF]
Traditionally, the study of families has been the domain of sociology rather than of psychology. For sociologists the family is an important ‘institution’ because it is a key social structure that shapes the way society is organised.
Ritchie, Jane
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Lessons from Social Psychology for Complex Operations [PDF]
This short essay looks at several social forces that powerfully affect human behavior, often trumping individual “character,” personality, knowledge, and even deeply held moral beliefs.
Brooks, Rosa
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Fostering Critical Thinking about Climate Change: Applying Community Psychology to an Environmental Education Project with Youth [PDF]
This article argues for the participation of community psychology in issues of global climate change. The knowledge accumulated and experience gained in the discipline of community psychology have great relevance to many topics related to the environment.
Dittmer, Livia D., Riemer, Manuel
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Modulating Emotion to Understand Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
Reviews the book, Prosocial motives, emotions, and behavior: The better angels of our nature edited by Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver This book serves as a well-organized primer for anyone interested in factors governing prosocial behaviors ...
Gordon, Nakia S.
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Self-enhancement in scientific research: the self-citation bias [PDF]
A typical psychology article contains 3 to 9 self-citations, depending on the length of the reference list (10% of all citations). In contrast, cited colleagues rarely receive more than 3 citations.
Brysbaert, Marc, Smyth, Sinead
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