This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers, and therefore evolved into two distinct traditions. The first tradition shows that the motivation to maintain a positive self-concept and to define oneself in the social world can dramatically affect people's social perception. The second one shows that people's goals have a dramatic effect...
This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers develope...
The 10th Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology was held in 2002 on the topic of culture and social behavior. This book consists of the expanded and updated versions of papers presented initially at the conference. Though much of the research discusses East-West cultural differences and similarities, contributors also focus on how the East-West research can help in cross-cultural studies more generally. processes to broad level cultural syndromes that pervade social arrangements, laws, and public representations. Pioneers in the field of cross-cultural psychology present their...
The 10th Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology was held in 2002 on the topic of culture and social behavior. This book consists of th...