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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck

Values Orientation theory

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universal problems - value based solutions - attitudes

Values as cognitive representations of 3 human reqs, bi

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Rokeach Value Survey

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Terminal vs instrumental values

- Values generally influence behaviour and attitudes

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Schwartz Values Cirumplex

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Values may influence behaviours unconsciously, but they are available to be recalled
values are relatively stable
Congruent and conflicting values as beside/opposite in the circle
10 Broad values, subsets

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Main Value dimensions after factor analysis, causes of values change

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  1. Conservation, openness, self-enhancement and self-transcendence
  2. Cohort effect, Age effect, Historical period effect
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Dimensions of Cultures - Hofstede

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Attempted to locate the value structures that distinguish cultures
- four main: power distance, individualistic vs collectivistic, uncertainty avoidance and Masculine vs feminine

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Hofstede vs Shwartz

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originally limited to non-post comm countries and big business employees, so maybe less universal?
No acknowledgement of post-materialist changes in the 1980s plus

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Social Distance scale - Bogardus

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Attitudes towards a culture or ethnic group are expressed in the respondent score (the acceptable distance at which the outgroup may exist)

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Semantic differential - Osgoode

3 Aspects of semantics

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Measures attitudes towards polar opposite words by assessing their meaning to people

  1. Evaluation (good or bad, most relevant to att)
  2. Potency: strong or weak in meaning
  3. Activity: active or passive
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Problems with verbal reports

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  1. Unwilling to express real internal opinions
  2. May possess attitudes of which we are explicitly unaware
  3. Response styles can affect answers
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Theory of Planned Behaviour - Icek Azjen

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Attitudes as the sum of beliefs about behaviours weighted by the evaluation of beliefs
Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control result in behavioural intent
Perceived behavioural control may exert influence in 2 directions, when low, lots, when high, little.

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MODE model

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Motivation and Opportunity as Determinants of Behaviour

  • can actively control our behaviour when we possess sufficient motivation and opportunity
  • otherwise … only highly accessible attitudes will influence
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RIM model

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Reflective - Impulsive model

  • Reflective as reasoned consideration of available info
  • Impulsive as not that
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Authoritarianism - Adorno

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More hostile to lower authority, high listening to above - read again

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Right wing Authoritarianism - Altemeyer

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Authoritarian submission - Agreeable to legitimate authorities
Conventionalism - High degree of conformity to norms
Authoritarian Aggression - Generalized aggression towards outgroups, or where the violence is legitimized by an authority figure

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predictors of RW authoritarianism

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  1. Family background - attachment type, use of physical punishment, limited experience w outgrips
  2. Education: decreases
  3. Parenthood:
  4. Increased RWA In the 80s - social factors
  5. Social crisis increase RWA
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Social Dominance theory

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The tendency to form group based hierarchies
Legitimizing Myths - justify inequalities
Potential lethal combo w RWA

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SDO - Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth and Malle

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SDO is the degree of preference of social inequalities
men higher than women
High SDO people seek out hierarchy enhancing professional roles, vice versa
Support beliefs in social ideologies that support inequalities and the policies that allow for them

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Belanger’s 3-N Model

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psychology of martyrdom - studies 1 and 2 demonstrate the construct validity, as well as showing that the scales are predictive of extreme behaviours
- Perceived moral justification links social alienation and political violence

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FBI Hate crimes report

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list a few I guess

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Ma and Schoeneman - Industrial vs non-industrial

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Self or group category responses as dependent on developmental degree (industrial or non-industrial)

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Stability/Malleability of the self concept - Markus and Kunda

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Significant contextual variations in salient features of the self concept, unique traits (in context) become more salient, more central to the self concept

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Pan cultural self-enhancement - Sedikis et al.

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West and East use distinct mechanisms to achieve positive self regard
West will improve individual traits, east opposite

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Social class and Self esteem- Rosenberg and Pearlin
- 4 principles
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Class contextualized SE is void in childhood, gradually increases over the years
- 4 principles that alter in their content, but not importance
1. Social comparison
2. Reflected appraisals
3 Self- perception theory
4. Psychological centrality

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Implications of Rejection Sen. for Intimate relationships

  • Downey and Feldman
  • 4 studies
  • Gender differences
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Ppl w high rs tend to anxiously expect, readily perceive and overreact to rejection criteria
4 studies:
1. Measure that operationalizes the anxious expectation component
2. anxious expecters perceive ambiguous behaviour as intent to reject
3. Entering a relationship w high RS/ anxiously expecting tend to perceive rejection in insensitive behaviour
4. partners in rel w ppl w high RS tend to be less satisfied
Male: high jealousy
Female: Hostility and diminished supportiveness

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Mortality Selience - Greenberg et al.

3 studies

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Based on terror management theory
when reminded of mortality, people make more positive attributions to ppl who share their belief system
1. Xtian reminded of mortality - att a jew and another xtian, hyp stands.
2. Negative attraction - READ
3. Make positive attributions to people who vocally accept their world view, and negative to those who criticize it

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Autokinetic conformity - Sherif

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succumb to the auto kinetic illusion in:

Highly ambiguous, or low competency situations

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Asch’s line conformity

10 factors

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Normative social influence based on the desire to avoid disapproval from the group
Conformity pressure is the underlying mechanism
Factors
1. Group size - up to a point
2. Group unanimity
3. Anonymity - eliminates the phenom
4. Expertise and status of audience members
- exp increases info
- status increases normative SI
5. Culture - conformity increases in interdep. cultures
6. Tight vs loose cultures
7. Public vs private compliance
8. Explanations for behaviours: conformity decreases if explanations are understood
9. Minority influence on the majority - informational, unanimity
10. Foot - in - the door

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Social Facilitation - Zajonc

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Arousal increase in the presence of others which results in the increased prevalence of a dominant response
- mere presence vs evaluation apprehension ? - further studies

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Distraction conflict theory

-experiments?

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Awareness of others as conflicting interests, which is arousing

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Weapons effect - Gallina and Fass

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Weapons illicit aggressive thoughts in college females

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Excitation transfer theory

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Frustration causes physiological arousal, which is expressed as hostility or ext (displacement)

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Video games and Aggressive thoughts - Anderson and Dill

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both increase longterm and in experiment conditions

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Violence in the media

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Copy cat violence, Chicago children study

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Everyday Sadism - Paulus and Dutton

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Sadism as a natural human condition

  • still evident in our tendencies to view so many violent things
  • Dark Triad
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why people watch terrorist beheadings

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  • for paper, no worries
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Alcohol and Heat effects on aggression

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u kno

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Southern culture of Honour - Cohen, nisbett, bowdle and Shwartz

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cycle of insult and aggression

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Empathy - Altruism hypothesis - Batson

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Altruism as the potential motivation for helping

- 4 principles, not reducible to collectivism

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Negative-State-Relief-Model - Cialdini

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Witnessing distress is distressing, so we attempt to relief this negative affect
- Empathic concern as potentially motivational, but maybe just to relieve our own distress

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Situational determinants and Kitty Genovese - Darley and Batson

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Good Samaritan study

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Situational determinants and Kitty Genovese - Darley and Batson

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Good Samaritan study: people in a rush decrease altruism
Why dont people help?
1. Number effect
2. Decision making model - diffuse responsibility, pluralistic ignorance and Audience inhibition
3. Self-efficacy

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Pillivian study, modelling effects

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Cane victims, drunk victims, MODELLING EFFECTS

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