PSYCHOLOGY: Social Preferences

Psychology, Social Psychology and Risk

Social psychology.

The historical and professional development of Sociological Social Psychology is described, with attention given to particular accomplishments from mid-century to the present. Then several of the more recent perspectives that contribute to the growth of social psychology are discussed such as symbolic interaction, social exchange theory, expectation states theory, and theories of everyday life....

Re-reading Discourse and Social Psychology: transforming social psychology.

This paper considers one theme in the contemporary legacy of Potter and Wetherell's (1987) Discourse and Social Psychology. It overviews the context that led to that book and considers a series of critical responses from both experimental and critical/qualitative social psychologists. It refutes criticisms and corrects confusions. Focusing on contemporary discursive psychology, it highlights (a...

Social Preferences

This paper surveys the theories of social preferences. Social preferences are based on that people not only care about their own well-being, but they have a certain concern with payo¤s and/or actions of others. We classify two approaches: distributional and intention-based models, and later discuss models that combine both theories. In order to provide a better illustration of the discussed mod...

Evolutionary Psychology of Personality Mate Preferences

Personality characteristics figure prominently in unstmctured nominations of what people want in a mate (Langhome & Secord, 1955). Both women and men say they want a mate who is kind, understanding , dependable, sociable, stable, and intelligent. Personality traits such as these have made their way onto more stmctured instmments designed to assess mate preferences but not in a systematic fashio...