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Social psychology (sociology)

About: Social psychology (sociology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18151 publications have been published within this topic receiving 907731 citations. The topic is also known as: Social psychology & sociological social psychology.


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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: This chapter discussesMotivation Processes, Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings, and the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory.
Abstract: Part 1 Introduction Harmon-Jones, Winkielman, A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience Part 2 Emotion Processes Beer, The Importance of Emotion-Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex Heberlein, Adolphs, Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates Kudielka, Hellhammer, Kirschbaum, Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test - Revisited Norris, Cacioppo, I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain Ochsner, How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach Part 3 Motivation Processes Harmon-Jones, Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction Knutson, Wimmer, Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation Schultheiss, A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration van Honk, Schutter, Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives Part 4 Attitudes and Social Cognition Cunningham, Johnson, Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework Decety, A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy Fazendeiro, Chenier, Winkielman, How Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings: Psychology and Neuroscience of the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory Lieberman, The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition Stone, An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence Part 5 Person Perception, Stereotyping, and Prejudice Amodio, Devine, Harmon-Jones, Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach Bartholow, Dickter, Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential Ito, Willadsen-Jensen, Correll, Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping Part 6 Interpersonal Relationships Carter, Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds Iacoboni, The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience Taylor, Gonzaga, Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model Uchino, Holt-Lunstad, Uno, Campo, Reblin, The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways

321 citations

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04 Mar 2021
TL;DR: According to as discussed by the authors, humor is a useful vehicle for communicating certain messages and dealing with situations that would be more difficult to handle using a more serious, unambiguous mode of communication.
Abstract: According to recent theory, many of the interpersonal functions of humor derive from its inherently ambiguous nature due to the multiple concurrent meanings that it conveys. Because of this ambiguity, humor is a useful vehicle for communicating certain messages and dealing with situations that would be more difficult to handle using a more serious, unambiguous mode of communication. Importantly, a message communicated in a humorous manner can be retracted more easily than if it were expressed in the serious mode, allowing both the speaker and the listener to save face if the message is not well received. These insights concerning the ambiguity and face-saving potential of humor have been applied by theorists and researchers to account for a wide variety of social uses of humor, including self-disclosure and social probing, decommitment and conflict de-escalation, enforcing social norms and exerting social control, establishing and maintaining status, enhancing group cohesion and identity, discourse management, and social play. The multiple interpersonal functions of humor suggest that it may be viewed as a type of social skill or interpersonal competence. Employed in an adept manner, humor can be a very useful tool for achieving one's interpersonal goals.

319 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20224
2021273
2020309
2019356
2018374
2017534