Abstract Two perspectives on the nature of the social group and psychological group formation are discussed. The traditional social cohesion approach traces group formation to p...
It was hypothesized that intergroup cooperation would increase intergroup attraction to the extent that previous group identities were erased. In the first phase of the present ...
Sixty male and 60 female subjects were made to feel relatively depressed or relatively elated prior to giving attraction responses toward a target person whose affective state w...
Damasio’s somatic-marker hypothesis claims that people rely on somatic markers—physiological responses to situations of gain or loss—to make value-relevant decisions, not simply...
For the 2 decades prior to 1960, published research in social psychology was based on a wide variety of subjects and research sites. Content analyses show that since then such r...
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