Book Review: Psychology: The Millon Inventories: Clinical and Personality Assessment

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Personality and Social Psychology Review

This article describes a 2-systems model that explains social behavior as ajointfunction ofreflective and impulsiveprocesses. Inparticular, it is assumed thatsocial behavior is controlled by 2 interacting systems thatfollow different operatingprinciples. The reflective system generates behavioral decisions that are based on knowledge about facts and values, whereas the impulsive system elicits ...

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Personality and Social Psychology Review

The present article reviews evidence for the malleability of automatic stereotypes and prejudice. In contrast to assumptions that such responses are fixed and inescapable , it is shown that automatic stereotypes and prejudice are influenced by, (a) self-and social motives, (b) specific strategies, (c) the perceiver's focus of attention , and (d) the configuration of stimulus cues. In addition, ...

Personality and Social Psychology Review