People approach pleasure and avoid pain. To discover the true nature of approach–
avoidance motivation, psychologists need to move beyond this hedonic principle to the …

▪ Abstract This survey of attitude theory and research published between 1996 and 1999
covers the conceptualization of attitude, attitude formation and activation, attitude structure …

One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation
immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the …

The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation
grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions …

Social role theory originated as an effort to understand the causes of sex differences and
similarities in social behavior. In the 1980s when the theory emerged, many research …

Positive psychology is the study of the conditions and processes that contribute to the
flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups, and institutions. In this brief introduction …

The cognitive significance of being in a close relationship is described in terms of including
other in the self (in Lewin's sense of overlap** regions of the life space and in James's …

Education policy faces a familiar public policy challenge: Local implementation is difficult. In
this article we develop a cognitive framework to characterize sense-making in the …

The origins of sex differences in human behavior can lie mainly in evolved dispositions that
differ by sex or mainly in the differing placement of women and men in the social structure …

What causes sex differences and similarities in behavior? At the core of our account are
societal stereotypes about gender. These stereotypes, or gender role beliefs, form as people …