A Grand Challenge for Personality and Social Psychology: Competition, Cooperation, or Co-existence?

Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology

Research examining the influence of affect on self-focused attention has concentrated exclusively on the valence dimension (i.e., negative-positive) of affect. The authors propose that the dimension of affect orientation (i.e., reflective-social) illuminates considerably this relation.A reflective orientationrefers to a tendency for inaction, whereas a social orientation refers to a tendency fo...

Personality and Social Psychology

In a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article, Sedikides, Gaertner and Vevea (2005) presented two meta-analyses that included eight papers to investigate the question of whether people from Eastern cultures self-enhance more for traits that they view to be important compared to those that they view as unimportant. The results supported their hypothesis: Self-enhancement appears to b...

Grand Challenges for Personality and Social Psychology: Moving beyond the Replication Crisis

The Grand Challenge for Psychology: Integrate and Fire!

Is psychology a scientifi c discipline of its own? Or is it the case, as Scott (1991) upheld, that “Psychology lacks a clear identity”? The latter is certainly the impression one gets reading Ludin (1979), who, in his opus titled “Theories and Systems of Psychology”, describes the emergence of psychology over the 20th century with retrospectively comical words that would perhaps best be used to...