scholarly journals The integration of group dynamics within social psychology and biology: Reviewing the history and future directions of research into conformity and cultural diffusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170
Author(s):  
Masaki Suyama ◽  
Junko Yamada ◽  
Ayaka Takimoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Cultural Diffusion

A Science So-Called

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-55
Author(s):  
Megan Faragher
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Inherent Difficulty ◽  
Group Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
The Universe

H.G. Wells’s life extends the radical evolution of psychographics outlined in the Introduction, but his oeuvre also proves the inherent difficulty in aestheticizing the emergent age of social psychology—a point evinced when producer Alexander Korda demanded Wells revise the script version of his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come three times to make it “filmable.” While Wells’s novel imagines a peaceable future wherein social psychology becomes the “whole literature, philosophy, and general thought of the world,” the film adaptation instead symbolizes this philosophical transformation by starring a sole philosopher-king who, against the people’s will, seeks to control and colonize the universe. This chapter argues that the conflict between these two Wellsian visions is prefigured by his intimate and conflicted relationship to sociology and group psychology. As early as 1906, Wells sought out the position as the first British chair of sociology at the University of London. But Wells was immediately to become a gadfly in academia: he engaged in scathing critiques of sociology for denying its utopian impulses and refuted theories of group dynamics put forward by Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter. Incorporating readings across Wells’s literary career—including Anticipations, An Englishman Looks at the World, and In the Days of the Comet—this chapter contends that Wells’s writing captures a life-long effort to reprise the scope of sociology from outside academia, and captures the writer’s foundering efforts to aestheticize the institutional promise of social psychology—efforts that inevitably succumb to Wells’s fetishization of pseudo-authoritarian technocracy.

scholarly journals Jealousy as a Function of Rival Characteristics: Two Large Replication Studies and Meta-Analyses Support Gender Differences in Reactions to Rival Attractiveness But Not Dominance

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1428-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. Pollet ◽  
Tamsin K. Saxton
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Meta Analyses

Jealousy is a key emotion studied in the context of romantic relationships. One seminal study (Dijkstra, P., & Buunk, B. (1998). Jealousy as a function of rival characteristics: An evolutionary perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24 (11), 1158–1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672982411003) investigated the interactions between a participant’s gender and their reactions to the attractiveness or dominance of a romantic rival. In a vignette-based study, it was found that women’s jealousy was more responsive than men’s to a rival’s attractiveness, whereas in contrast, the rival’s dominance evoked more jealousy from men than from women. Here, we attempt to replicate these interactions in two samples ( N = 339 and N = 456) and present subsequent meta-analyses (combined Ns = 5,899 and 4,038, respectively). These meta-analyses showed a small, significant effect of gender on jealousy provoked by rival attractiveness, but no such response to rival dominance. We discuss the potential reasons for these findings and future directions for research on jealousy and rival characteristics.

The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bryce Yaden ◽  
Jonathan Haidt ◽  
Ralph W. Hood ◽  
David R. Vago ◽  
Andrew B. Newberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Depersonalization Disorder ◽  
Transcendent Experience

Various forms of self-loss have been described as aspects of mental illness (e.g., depersonalization disorder), but might self-loss also be related to mental health? In this integrative review and proposed organizational framework, we focus on self-transcendent experiences (STEs)—transient mental states marked by decreased self-salience and increased feelings of connectedness. We first identify common psychological constructs that contain a self-transcendent aspect, including mindfulness, flow, peak experiences, mystical-type experiences, and certain positive emotions (e.g., love, awe). We then propose psychological and neurobiological mechanisms that may mediate the effects of STEs based on a review of the extant literature from social psychology, clinical psychology, and affective neuroscience. We conclude with future directions for further empirical research on these experiences.

scholarly journals Interactional Adjustment: Three Approaches in Language and Social Psychology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Gasiorek ◽  
Ann Weatherall ◽  
B Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Communication Accommodation ◽  
Communication Accommodation Theory ◽  
Accommodation Theory ◽  
Language Style Matching

© The Author(s) 2020. Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of these three approaches, highlighting what defines and distinguishes them, as well as what insights into interactional adjustment each offers. We draw out the connections and points of tensions between these approaches; in so doing, we identify future directions for research on interactional adjustment as a fundamental aspect of human communication, and in the study of language and social psychology.

Demonstrating Dynamic Social Impact: Consolidation, Clustering, Correlation, and (Sometimes) the Correct Answer

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen C. Harton ◽  
Laura R. Green ◽  
Craig Jackson ◽  
Bibb Latané
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Correct Answer ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
The Social

This demonstration illustrates principles of group dynamics and dynamic social impact and can be used in classes in social psychology or group dynamics. Students discuss their answers to multiple-choice questions with neighbors and answer them again. Discussion consistently leads to the consolidation (reduced diversity), clustering (spatial-self-organization), correlation (emergent linkages), and continuing diversity of responses. “Truth” does not necessarily win, showing that the social reality of the group may be more important than objective reality.

The Language and Social Psychology of Savoring: Advancing the Communication Savoring Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-259
Author(s):  
Margaret Jane Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Relational Communication ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Positive Communication ◽  
Intergroup Relationships

Savoring is a well-established construct in positive psychology referring to one’s capacity to recognize and appreciate enjoyable life experiences. Guided by phenomenological inquiry and constructivist grounded theory, I propose communication savoring as a new dimension of social savoring that has theoretical and practical relevance in the fields of positive communication and language and social psychology. Evidence is drawn from young adults’ narrative descriptions of communication moments they savored. From these narratives, I proffer a typology of communication savoring that includes aesthetic communication, communication presence, nonverbal communication, recognition and acknowledgment, relational communication, extraordinary communication, and implicitly shared communication. I also describe the phenomenological experiences of savoring social interactions in the past, present, and future. To advance the communication model of savoring, I offer initial conceptual and operational definitions of communication savoring and recommend future directions for research within interpersonal and intergroup relationships.

scholarly journals Current States of Opinion and Future Directions on the Epidemiology of Sex Differences in Human Pain

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 317-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob M Vigil
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Phenotypic Expression ◽  
Sensory Systems ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Situational Influences ◽  
Pain Behaviors ◽  
Pain Research

One of the most commonly neglected findings in the human pain literature is the observation of sex differences in the mechanisms that support the phenotypic expression of pain. The present commentary describes an assessment of the prevalence of observed sex differences in various pain processes, and of how expert pain researchers interpret the epidemiology and, hence, the proximate and ultimate causes of such differences. Forty-two pain investigators completed an anonymous survey on the epidemiology of sex differences in the human pain experience. Investigator responses indicated that sex differences are pervasive across various areas of pain research, that sex differences are particularly pronounced in the area of situational influences on pain behaviors, and that contemporary pain researchers largely disagree on the epidemiology of, and hence, proximate and ultimate causes of the differences. The relevance of social situational factors on sex differences in pain behaviours is discussed in the context of evolutionary, developmental, social psychology and pain sensory systems that may function, in part, for regulating interpersonal intimacy.

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