How we explain depends on whom we explain: the impact of social category on the selection of causal comparisons and causal explanations
Article Abstract:
Research in social psychology examines how people use comparison cases when explaining or judging events or behavior. Topics addressed include how social category, identity, and stereotypes impact the dynamics of causal explanations and causal comparisons.
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2000
United States, Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Categorization (Psychology)
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2000
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Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control moderates the relation between self-complexity and well-being
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Greater self-complexity refers to the extent that one's self-concept is comprised of many and relatively differentiated self-aspects. Results of two studies that found support for a moderating variable in self-aspect control are presented.
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2005
Science & research, Self-perception, Self-control, Self control, Self perception
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2005
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Subjects list: Research, Social psychology
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