Browsing by Subject "Social psychology"
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A Multiple Goal Perspective on Eating Behavior
(2016)Although people frequently pursue multiple goals simultaneously, these goals often conflict with each other. For instance, consumers may have both a healthy eating goal and a goal to have an enjoyable eating experience. ... -
Branded: How Mental Disorder Labels Alter Task Performance in Perception and Reality
(2013)Extensive evidence demonstrates how mental illness symptomatology can inhibit perceptions of and actual performance on important tasks. However, receiving treatment from the medical establishment for such symptomatology ... -
Cultural Cognition and Bias in Information Transmission
(2017)Cultural transmission processes are not well understood within the field of sociology. Popular models both in cultural and network sociology tend to conceptualize transmission as simple replication, with limited research ... -
Does Everyone Have a Price? The Demand Side of Clientelism and Vote-Buying in an Emerging Democracy
(2012)Public opinion tools are used to look at voter motivations to engage in clientelistic practices and their variation across structures of competition. -
Economic Insecurity, Political Inequality, and the Well-Being of American Families
(2020)This dissertation explores the interrelated dynamics of economic and political inequality, economic insecurity, and psychological well-being through three connected empirical studies. The first study adjudicates between ... -
Effect of Grandparent-grandchild Interaction on Socio-emotional and Cognitive Outcomes of Adolescent Grandchildren in Sri Lanka
(2015)Background: The role of grandparents has changed in response to social, economic and demographic factors, which may operate both in favour of or against the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren. The ... -
Emotion and Identity in the Transition to Parenthood
(2018)Though families come in all shapes and sizes, many people recognize the birth of their first child as the start of their new family. The transition to parenthood that expectant parents experience has important implications ... -
Fragile Masculinity: Operationalizing and Testing a Novel Model of Identity Fragility
(2022)In this dissertation, I propose, operationalize, and test a novel model of identity fragility using fragile masculinity as a case study. To date, identity research has largely focused on understanding how people’s membership ... -
Gender, Loneliness, and Friendship Satisfaction in Early Adulthood: The Role of Friendship Features and Friendship Expectations
(2013)Three studies focus on an intriguing paradox in the associations between gender, friendship quality, and loneliness, and examine whether gender differences in friendship expectations help explain why the paradox occurs. ... -
Getting From Trust to Cooperation: The Moderating Role of Cultural Trust
(2020)Social trust has long been of interest as a micro-level factor that is predictive of prosocial attitudes and behaviors. In this dissertation I argue that the relationship between social trust and prosocial behaviors not ... -
Goal Pursuit and the Pursuit of Social Networks
(2013)An abstract of a dissertation that examines the motivational foundations of social networks. Five studies using diverse methods examine goal pursuit as an antecedent to social network structure, finding that self-oriented ... -
Interpersonal Protection: How Others May Shield Pursuits from Distraction
(2018)Four studies were conducted to determine the process by which other people, referred to as goal defenders, may protect individual goal pursuit by inhibiting goal alternatives, specifically focusing on the way goal defenders ... -
Licensing in the Eating Domain: Implications for Effective Self-Control Maintenance
(2015)The current study assessed the relationship between licensing and self-control maintenance. Previous research on licensing has found mixed results for the effect of perceived progress on goal pursuit. Some studies find evidence ... -
Mapping the Social Ecology of Culture: Social Position, Connectedness, and Influence as Predictors of Systematic Variation in Affective Meaning
(2013)A strong model of culture should capture both the structured and negotiated elements of cultural meaning, allowing for the fluidity of social action and the agency of social actors. Although cultural meanings often reproduce ... -
Misjudging our Influence on Others: Blind Spots in Perceptions of Peer Use of Advice
(2015)People give each other advice on a variety of topics throughout their lifetimes. In this dissertation, I ask: Do advisors accurately perceive the impact of their advice? Or, do they possess blind spots that prevent them ... -
Self-Presentational Congruence and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Test of Three Models
(2017)People regularly monitor and control the impressions others form of them but differ in the degree to which they both convey impressions that are consistent with their private self-views (self-presentational congruence) and ... -
Stereotypes Can Be Learned through Implicit Associations or Explicit Rules
(2011)Two studies examined whether stereotypes can be created using different learning paradigms and whether the resulting stereotypes will have different properties that affect their activation, suppression, and explicit knowledge. ... -
Stigma, Avoidant-Orientation, and Self-Disclosure in Friendships
(2017)The stigma surrounding mental illness has been shown to have a negative impact on social relationships. However, less research has focused on the mechanisms through which the connection between stigma and relational outcomes ... -
Strengthening Self-Control by Practicing Inhibition and Initiation
(2013)An abstract of a dissertation that examines the effect of practicing different forms of self-control, inhibition and initiation, on the occurrence of subsequent behaviors reflecting one or both types of self-control. Previous ... -
Subjective Expertise and Consumption Enjoyment
(2015)Consumers’ beliefs can influence enjoyment via beliefs about a product (e.g., whether a wine is believed to be high quality) and explored beliefs about themselves (e.g., where the consumers believes they have the expertise ...
