400:162g Social Psychology
Spring 2001 Reading list
January 10: Relationship science
Berscheid, E. (1999). The greening of relationship science. American Psychologist, 54, 260-266.
Duck, S. (1995). Talking relationships into being. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 535-540.
Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1995). Three suggestions for increased emphasis in the study of personal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 559-562.
Kenny, D. A. (1995). Relationship science in the 21st century. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 597-600.
International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships
International Network on Personal Relationships
Dating, love, marriage, and sex --information on lots of relationship topics from a psychological perspective
January 17: Initial attraction
Brehm, S. S. (1992). Interpersonal attraction. In Intimate relationships (2nd ed., pp. 59-91). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Wheeler, L., & Kim, Y. (1997). What is beautiful is culturally good: The physical attractiveness stereotype has different content in collectivistic cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 795-800.
*Look up and read an article on some aspect of initial attraction. It can either be an article mentioned in one of the two readings or one that you find on PsycLit. Come to class with at least one idea for what your group could study.
Ronald Henss's home page --information on Henss's research on physical attractiveness and evolutionary psychology, including on-line experiments
January 24: Mate selection and evolutionary psychology
Kenrick, K. T., & Trost, M. R. (1997). Evolutionary approaches to relationships. In S. Duck (Ed.) Handbook of personal relationships: Theory, research and interventions (2nd ed., pp. 151-177). New York: Wiley.
Bailey, J. M., Gaulin, S., Agyei, Y., & Gladue, B. A. (1994). Effects of gender and sexual orientation on evolutionarily relevant aspects of human mating psychology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1081-1093.
Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W. (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions versus social roles. American Psychologist, 54, 408-423.
Daniel Kruger's evolutionary psychology page --background information on evolutionary psychology in general (not necessarily social psychology)
January 31: Attachment
Hazan, C., & Shaver, P. R. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 511-524.
Fraley, R. C., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Airport separations: A naturalistic study of adult attachment dynamics in separating couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1198-1212.
*Read the information on this web page: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Shaver/measures.html
Phil Shaver's home page --this page includes lots of information on measures of attachment.
SUNY- Stony Brook attachment research --includes articles by Everett Waters and Judith Crowell on adult attachment research. It's a little more clinically-oriented than Shaver's page.
Attachment Research Interest Group --home page for researchers interested in studying attachment.
February 7: Methods
Ickes, W. (1994). Methods of studying close relationships. In A. L. Weber & J. H. Harvey (Eds.), Perspectives on close relationships (pp. 18-44). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Rubin, Z., & Mitchell, C. (1976). Couples research as
couples counseling: Some unintended effects of studying close relationships. American
Psychologist, 31, 17-25.
Bradbury, T. N. (1994). Unintended effects of marital
research on marital relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 8,
187-201.
*Keep an interaction diary for three days.
Egger, Smith, & Phillips article on meta-analysis
Lyon's article on meta-analysis
Meta-analysis in educational research
Industrial/organizational psychology statistics guide --includes links and information on structural equation modelling
Dave Kenny's home page --includes lots of methodological/statistical information on topics such as statistical significance, mediation, and the Social Relations Model
StatSoft Electronic Textbook --index on information on statistical procedures
SPSS --site for the SPSS statistical software, including a downloadable book
February 14: Midterm exam
February 21: Love
Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. S. (1986). A theory and method of love. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 392-402.
Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological Review, 93, 119-135.
Sternberg, R. J. (1995). Love as a story. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 541-546.
*Check out the love quiz on this site: http://world.topchoice.com/~psyche/love/. Complete the other love scales distributed in class. (If you don’t currently have a romantic partner, complete them based on a relationship you’ve had in the past or on one you’d like to have.)
Love and Relationships page --this page contains information on theories and research on love, including a love styles test that is scored on-line
February 28: Relationship cognition
Karney, B. R., &
Bradbury, T. N. (2000). Attributions in marriage: State or trait? A growth
curve analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78,
295-309.
De La Ronde, C., & Swann, W. B., Jr. (1998). Partner verification: Restoring shattered images of our intimates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 374-382.
Murray, S. L.,
Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (2000). Self-esteem and the quest for felt
security: How perceived regard regulates attachment processes. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 478-498.
*Keep track of the attributions you make about your partner or about a friend this week.
Florida Project on Close Relationships and Adolescent Development (Ben Karney)
March 7: Communication
Cohan, C. L., & Bradbury, T. N. (1997). Negative life events, marital interaction, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 114-128.
Noller, P., & Feeney, J. A. (1998). Communication in early marriage. In T. Bradbury (Ed.) The developmental course of marital dysfunction (pp. 11-43). Oxford: Cambridge.
Christensen, A., & Walczynski, P. T. (1997). Conflict and satisfaction in couples. In R. J. Sternberg & M. Hojjat (Eds.) Satisfaction in close relationships (pp. 249-274). New York: Guilford.
March 21: Equity and exchange theories
Sprecher, S., & Schwartz, P. (1994). Equity and balance in the exchange of contributions in close relationships. In M. J. Lerner & G. Mikula (Eds.), Entitlement and the affectional bond: Justice in close relationships (pp. 11-41). New York: Plenum.
Rusbult, C. E., & Martz, J. M. (1995). Remaining in an
abusive relationship: An investment model analysis of nonvoluntary dependence. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 558-571.
Drigotas, S. M., Safstrom, C. A., & Gentilia, T. (1999). An investment model prediction of dating infidelity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 509-524.
March 28: Jealousy and passion
Buunk, B. P., Angleitner, A., Oubaid, V., & Buss, D. M. (1996). Sex differences in jealousy in evolutionary and cultural perspective: Tests from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. Psychological Science, 6, 359-363.
Guerrero, L. K., & Andersen, P. A. (1998). The dark side of jealousy and envy: Desire, delusion, desperation, and destructive communication. In B. H. Spitzberg & W. R. Cupach (Eds.), The dark side of close relationships (pp. 33-70). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
April 4: Final exam
April 11: Dissolution (and personality)
Battaglia, D. M., Richard, F. D., Datteri, D. L., & Lord, C. G. (1998). Breaking up is (relatively) easy to do: A script for the dissolution of close relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15, 829-845.
Rusbult, C. E., Zembrodt, I. M., & Gunn, L. K. (1982). Exit, voice, loyalty, neglect: Responses to dissatisfaction in romantic involvements. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 1230-1242.
Robins, R. W., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. E. (2000). Two personalities, one relationship: Both partners’ personality traits shape the quality of their relationship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 251-259.
April 19: Student presentations/poster workshop
April 26: Student presentations/topics
May ?: Poster session
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