Motivated Social Perception: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 9

by Spencer, Steven J.; Fein, Steven; Zanna, Mark P.; Olson, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780805840360
• ISBN10: 0805840362
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

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 on how they see themselves and others. Motivated Social Perception shows how these two approaches often overlap and provides insights into how these two perspectives are integrated. Motivated Social Perception contains chapters on: *the effect of motivation on the activation and application of stereotypes; *self-affirmation in the evaluations of the self and others; *implicit and explicit aspects of self-esteem; *self-esteem contingencies and relational aspects of the self; *an investigation of the roots and functions of basic goals; and *extensions of self-regulatory theory. This book is intended for scholars, researchers, and advanced students interested in social perception and social cognition.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Impact of Comprehension Goals on the Ebb and Flow of Stereotype Activation During Interaction	1	(20)
Ziva Kunda
Paul G. Davies
Etsuko Hoshino-Browne
Christian H. Jordan
Self Image Maintenance Goals and Sociocultural Norms in Motivated Social Perception	21	(24)
Steven Fein
Etsuko Noshino-Browne
Paul G. Davies
Steven J. Spencer
The Zealous Self Affirmer: How and Why the Self Lurks So Pervasively Behind Social Judgment	45	(28)
David Dunning
Defensive Zeal: Compensatory Conviction About Attitudes, Values, Goals, Groups, and Self Definition in the Face of Personal Uncertainty	73	(20)
Ian McGregor
On the Nature of Implicit Self-Esteem: The Case of the Name Letter Effect	93	(24)
Sander L. Koole
Brett W. Pelham
``I Love Me . . . I Love Me Not:'' Implicit Self Esteem, Explicit Self-Esteem, and Defensiveness	117	(30)
Christian H. Jordan
Steven J. Spencer
Mark P. Zanna
What Does the Self Want? Contingencies of Self-Worth and Goals	147	(24)
Connie Wolfe
Jennifer Crocker
An Expectancy-Value Approach to Self-Esteem	171	(24)
Mark W. Baldwin
Jodene R. Baccus
The Self, Online	195	(20)
John A. Bargh
Grainne M. Fitzsimons
Katelyn Y. A. McKenna
Ancestral Environments and Motivated Social Perception: Goal-Like Blasts From the Evolutionary Past	215	(18)
Mark Schaller
Five Core Social Motives, Plus or Minus Five	233	(14)
Susan T. Fiske
Goal Systems Theory: Integrating the Cognitive and Motivational Aspects of Self-Regulation	247	(30)
James Y. Shah
Arie W. Kruglansk
Ron Friedman
Counterfactual Thinking and Regulatory Focus	277	(22)
Ginger L. Pennington
Neal J. Roese
Motivated Perception and the Warm Look: Current Perspectives and Future Directions	299	(18)
Richard M. Sorrentino
Author Index	317