Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (eBook)

Cover 1
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Chapter 1. Accuracy in Social Perception: Criticisms, Controversies, Criteria, Components, and Cognitive Processes 12
I. What Is Social Perceptual Accuracy? 13
II. Why Is Accuracy Research Valuable? 16
III. Why Addressing Controversies in Accuracy Research Is Important 20
IV. What This Review Does Not Address 22
V. Structure of This Review 24
VI. What Are the Main Conceptual Objections to Accuracy Research? A Critical Evaluation of 50 Years of Criticisms 25
VII. How Can One Establish Criteria for Evaluating the Accuracy of Social Perception? 47
VIII. Must All Research on Accuracy Assess Components? 67
IX. Conclusions 86
References 96
Chapter 2. Over Thirty Years Later: A Contemporary Look At Symbolic Racism 106
I. The Theory of Symbolic Racism 109
II. Controversies About Symbolic Racism 112
III. The Symbolic Racism Belief System 117
IV. Consistency of the Political Effects of Symbolic Racism 120
V. Origins of Symbolic Racism 129
VI. Distinctiveness of Symbolic Racism from Alternative Constructs 134
VII. Outgroup Antagonism or White Group Consciousness? 139
VIII. Summary 143
IX. Further Questions 146
X. Conclusions 155
References 157
Chapter 3. Managing Group Behavior: The Interplay Between Procedural Justice, Sense of Self, and Cooperation 162
I. Introduction and Overview 162
II. The Relation Between Procedural Fairness and Cooperation 165
III. Procedural Fairness Models: Motives and Social Self 169
IV. Overview of Procedural Fairness Research 174
V. Social Dilemmas and Procedural Fairness: Trust and Goal-Transformation 185
VI. Overview of Cooperation Research 191
VII. The Self and Justice Research 197
VIII. Summary and Conclusions 204
Appendix I 217
Appendix II 218
References 218
Chapter 4. So Right It’s Wrong: Groupthink and the Ubiquitous Nature of Polarized Group Decision Making 230
I. The History of a Fine Idea 230
II. The Ubiquity of Groupthink 238
III. Rethinking Groupthink: The Ubiquity Model 249
IV. Strong Versus Moderate Versions of the Ubiquity Model 256
References 259
Chapter 5. An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Contact 266
I. Introduction 267
II. The Contact Hypothesis and Its Early Modifications 269
III. Theoretical Developments of the Contact Hypothesis 272
IV. Experimental Studies of the Impact of Stereotype-Disconfirming Information: A Cognitive Analysis of Contact 278
V. Experimental Studies of Group Salience 281
VI. Correlational Studies Using Group Salience as a Moderator Variable 286
VII. Mediators of the Effects of Contact 295
VIII. Evidence from Educational Settings 320
IX. Acculturation Orientations and Intergroup Attitudes 326
X. Toward an Integration 328
References 342
Chapter 6. Says Who?: Epistemic Authority Effects in Social Judgment 356
I. Introduction 357
II. The Early Work: Hovland et al.’s (1953) Learning Theory Paradigm of Source Effects 357
III. Source Effects from the Dual-Mode Perspective: The Elaboration Likelihood Model 359
IV. Source Effects in the Heuristic Systematic Model 360
V. Source Effects in the Unimodel 361
VI. Empirical Research in the Epistemic Authority Framework 368
VII. Summary and Conclusions 397
References 400
Index 404
Contents of Other Volumes 420