Then A Miracle Occurs Focusing on Behavior in Social Psychological Theory and Research

by Agnew, Christopher R.; Carlston, Donal E.; Graziano, William G.; Kelly, Janice R.

• ISBN13: 9780195377798
• ISBN10: 0195377796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Focusing attention on a multiplicity of issues surrounding the study of behavior is timely and important. Some scholars believe that, across various sub-disciplines of the field, social psychology actually has contributed a great deal to our understanding of behavior and its antecedents. From this perspective, there is considerable utility in drawing together such work in one place. Other scholars suggest that, though there has been great progress elucidating the internal cognitive, affective and motivational underpinnings of behavior, much less research focuses on external behavior itself. From this perspective, it is important to identify the theoretical gaps, the empirical needs, and the focal issues that still demand attention. Chapters in this timely volume review some of these key issues, with contributions from some of the world's leading social and personaltiy psychologists.

Author Biography

Christopher R. Agnew is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. His research focuses primary on close, interpersonal relationships, with particular emphasis on commitment, social influence, and dissolution processes. He has published widely, authoring more than 50 articles and chapters.
Donal E. Carlston is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977. His primary research interest is in the area of social cognition, with an emphasis on intentional and unintentional mechanisms of impression formation.
William G. Graziano is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1977. His research focuses primary on personality and interpersonal processes, with particular emphasis most recently on prosocial behavior.
Janice R. Kelly is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987. Her primary research interest is in group performance and interaction, with an emphasis on how time pressure and affective influences affect group performance and interaction.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. x
Behavior in Social Psychological Theory and Research	p. 1
Behavior and Miracles	p. 3
Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements: Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?	p. 12
Behavioral Assessment Practices Among Social Psychologists Who Study Small Groups	p. 28
Behavior and Intra-Individual Processes	p. 55
Individuals, Behavior, and What Lies Between the Two	p. 57
Habit: From Overt Action to Mental Events	p. 68
Unconscious Behavioral Guidance Systems	p. 89
Does Emotion Cause Behavior (Apart from Making People Do Stupid, Destructive Things)	p. 119
How to Maximize Implementation Intention Effects	p. 137
Distinguishing Between Prediction and Influence: Multiple Processes Underlying Attitude-Behavior Consistency	p. 162
Personality as Manifest in Behavior: Direct Behavioral Observation Using the Revised Riverside Behavioral Q-Sort (RBQ-3.0)	p. 186
Personality, Demographics, and Self-Reported Behavioral Acts: The Development of Avocational Interest Scales from Estimates of the Amount of Time Spent in Interest-Related Activities	p. 205
Measuring Self-Enhancement: From Self-Report to Concrete behavior	p. 227
Developing an Ecological Framework for Establishing Connections Among Dispositions, Behaviors, and Environments: From Affordances to Behavior Settings	p. 247
Behavior and Inter-Individual Processes	p. 273
Behavior Between People: Emphasizing the "Act" in Interaction	p. 275
Behavior, the Brain, and the Social Psychology of Close Relationships	p. 283
The Relationship Context of Social behavior	p. 299
The Atlas of Interpersonal Situations: A Theory-Driven Approach to Behavioral Signatures	p. 321
Mind-Behavior Relations in Attachment Theory and Research	p. 342
Grounding Social Psychology in Behavior in Daily Life: The Case of Conflict and Distress in Couples	p. 368
Communication, Coordinated Action, and Focal Points in Groups: From Dating Couples to Emergency Responders	p. 391
Nonverbal Behavior in Social Psychology Research: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	p. 412
Index	p. 438
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