A Comprehensive Survey of Social Behaviors in the O. J. Simpson Case from A to Z

by Hall, Lena E.

• ISBN13: 9780773478794
• ISBN10: 0773478795
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Author Biography

Lena Hall is psychologist and associate professor in the Behavioral Sciences Department at Nova Southeastern University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Overview of the Simpson Case	p. 1
The criminal trial	p. 8
The civil case	p. 22
The custody case	p. 28
Social Behaviors Beliefs and Cognition	p. 31
Adaptation level phenomenon	p. 31
Aggression	p. 34
Altruism	p. 38
Attitude	p. 43
Attitude inoculation	p. 46
Attractiveness	p. 49
Attribution theory	p. 52
Availability heuristic	p. 58
Balance theory	p. 64
Base rate fallacy	p. 67
Behavior confirmation	p. 70
Belief perseverance	p. 72
Central route to persuasion	p. 76
Channel of communication	p. 79
Cognitive dissonance	p. 82
Cohesiveness	p. 86
Collectivism	p. 89
Confirmation bias	p. 93
Conflicts	p. 96
Credibility	p. 101
Culture	p. 105
Discrimination	p. 110
Empathy	p. 112
Ethnocentrism	p. 115
Evaluation apprehension	p. 116
Free riders	p. 119
Fundamental attribution error	p. 120
Gender role	p. 122
Group	p. 125
Hindsight bias	p. 129
Illusion of correlation	p. 132
Individualism	p. 134
Information influence	p. 135
Ingratiation	p. 137
Ingroup/ out-group	p. 138
Interaction	p. 142
Jurors	p. 145
Just world phenomenon	p. 149
Kin selection	p. 152
Leadership	p. 153
Locus of control	p. 156
Matching phenomenon	p. 158
Mere exposure effect	p. 158
Naturalistic fallacy	p. 159
Need to belong	p. 161
Normative influence	p. 163
Norms	p. 165
Out-group homogeneity	p. 166
Peripheral route to persuasion	p. 167
Prejudice	p. 170
Primacy/ recency effect	p. 174
Priming	p. 176
Proximity	p. 178
Questions	p. 179
Race salience	p. 180
Relative deprivation	p. 187
Representative heuristics	p. 188
Self-monitoring	p. 191
Self presentation theory	p. 192
Self-serving bias	p. 193
Social dominance	p. 196
Social facilitation	p. 197
Social identity	p. 198
Social learning theory	p. 200
Social loafing	p. 203
Social responsibility norm	p. 205
Social roles	p. 206
Stereotype	p. 209
Two-step flow communication	p. 212
Unequal status	p. 214
Victims	p. 218
Well-being through love	p. 222
X-chromosomes	p. 225
Y-chromosomes	p. 225
Zero-sum phenomenon	p. 227
The Aftermath	p. 231
Winners and losers identified	p. 231
Boundaries defined	p. 239
Race religion and gender elaborated	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 249
References	p. 253
Index	p. 275
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