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Showing 1 to 20 of 1221 for “"Social Psychology"”.
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Rethinking integration: what we can learn from social psychology
… difficult. In order to increase trust and social cohesion between citizens and migrant populations, various forms of multicultural and assimilatory policies have been enacted with mixed success. This study challenges the usefulness of the current way people think about integration …
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At the Edge: A Social Psychology of the Alienated Self
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915348.pdf: 11583950 bytes, checksum: 279e11e8961ff0191dc8891f9e6351b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Personality and Social Psychology through Design Sciences
Conventional approaches to personality and social psychology focus on identifying statistical regularities between variables, resulting in a limited understanding of how these relationships are generated. A complex adaptive systems (CAS) approach offers a theoretical lens through which existing …
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A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Personality and Social Psychology through Design Sciences
Conventional approaches to personality and social psychology focus on identifying statistical regularities between variables, resulting in a limited understanding of how these relationships are generated. A complex adaptive systems (CAS) approach offers a theoretical lens through which existing …
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The social psychology of self-segregation the case of university student friendship groups
… contrasting backdrop of the ideal and value of social inclusion captured by the image of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ in South Africa and the academic record of self-segregation, the main objective of this study is to identify social and psychological factors and processes that influence the formation of …
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Social Psychology of Globalization: Joint Activation of Cultures and Reactions to Foreign Cultural Influence
Globalization has resulted in experiential compression of time and space—people are often exposed to local and foreign cultural symbols simultaneously. Psychological consequences of this kind of cultural exposure (termed bicultural priming) remained largely unexplored. This research examines how …
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Toward a Social Psychology of Social Movement Participation: Social Networks and the Process of Involvement
Theory and research on social movement participation have often focused on only one aspect of involvement (such as structural background variables) and made deterministic assumptions. In this research, I investigated the multifaceted process which individuals undergo in becoming involved by doing …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
<p>Social identity has the ability to permeate a multitude of domains in everyday life. Therefore, the science of social psychology—influential due to its impact in education, social and public policy, and the law—rightfully foregrounds the presence of social identity categories in the theorizing …
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Exploring the use of qualitative social psychology in political science : discursive themes of an 18-24 cohort shaping their propensity to vote
This thesis explores the use of qualitative social psychology in political science. The reason for conducting the research was the realisation that research within political science was dominated by quantitative realist methodologies and that existing qualitative research methods were ill-equipped …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
… Indigenous law intensives. However, processes of social categorization and racialization subordinate Indigenous peoples and their legal orders in Canadian legal education. These processes present a barrier to the implementation of the Calls. To ethically and respectfully implement these Calls, …
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An analysis of Japanese foreign policy behavior : 1905-1941
… the study draws upon diplomatic history and social psychology. The study is an exploratory one which offers a theoretical not empirical analysis although some operational measures are offered. A modest attempt is made to demonstrate how diplomatic history and social science, rather than being …
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The prediction and understanding of consumer purchase decisions: applying the Fishbein model to certain marketing issues
In the fields of social psychology Martin Fishbein has developed the 'theory of reasoned action'. A literature search was undertaken in both social psychology and marketing which revealed that the theory has been widely tested in social psychology, but to a much lesser extent in its marketing …
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Transmission and Transformation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Indigenous Communities From the Amazon and the Peten: Cultural and Generational Variations
… cross-cultural human development, cognitive, and social psychology. Practical applications of the findings for programs aimed at the protection of TEK transmission in indigenous groups are also discussed.
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Sociální psychologie nacismu: konformismus, poslušnost a zneužití moci
Social psychology of Nazism: Conformism, Obedience and Abuse of Power Thesis Social Psychology of Nazism: Conformism, Obedience and Abuse of Power deals with a human behaviour at the time of Nazism. Since the end of the Second World War, we have been trying to find an explanation of our actions at …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… of religion on environmentalism. For example, social psychology posits the importance of experience as well as of culture on attitudes about matters one encounters directly, so the dissertation posits the Direct Experience Hypothesis and confirms the differentiation of local from global …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
This thesis addresses multiple social and psychological implications found within three types of theatre and their communities and audiences. In particular it embraces the theory that people can benefit from the group-healing effect found when one becomes part of the theatre audience or a member of …
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