the purpose of the present study is to measure male and female students’ attitudes towards social studies course and to investigate its relationship with students’ exam anxiety in public high schools of the first and fifth areas of isfahan. students have different interpretations and attitudes toward school materials. curriculum developers must plan the curriculum based on real and valid data g...

the progress made in the field of information technology has increasingly encouraged social researchers to conduct social studies. researchers employ technology acceptance model (tam, davis, 1984, 1985.2000) to analyze the mechanism and the use it and the social factors affecting it. the attitude towards the computer is one of the variables of tam. the purpose of the present paper is to study t...

Implicit attitude research has expanded rapidly over the last decade and is seen as very promising as it counters biases present in much attitude research such as social desirability. However, most research in the area of intellectual disabilities has focused on explicit attitudes alone. This study examined implicit attitudes to this population and also examined their association with emotional...

security as a basic need for the members of society is in mutual relation to economic, social and cultural factors. today, this is of such importance in the progress of every society that it is considered as the prerequisite to any kind of development. social security has been defined as a complex – emotional – concept which is essential for protecting social groups and giving them the opportun...

Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of alcohol consumption on the self-aware state. Based on a model proposed by Hull (1981). it was predicted that alcohol would reduce self-awareness, In Experiment I. subjects consumed either alcohol or tonic and then gave short speeches about themselves. All subjects expected to consume alcohoL The speeches were coded for frequency of self...

Consistent with the affiliative social tuning hypothesis, this study showed that the desire to get along with another person shifted participants' automatic attitudes toward the ostensible attitudes of that person. In Experiment 1, the automatic racial attitudes of women but not men emulated those of an experimenter displaying race-egalitarian attitudes or attitudes neutral with respect to race...

Although Person X Situation (P X S) interactionism is central in current social-cognitive conceptions of personality organization, its implications for the encoding of the self remain unexplored. Two studies examined the causal role of P X S interactionism in self-encoding on affect regulation and discriminative social perception. Following failure (Studies 1 and 2) and success (Study 2) ideati...

This article, an expansion of remarks originally made on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in October of 1990, presents a selective and informal retrospective on the rapid growth of social psychology from a discipline uncertain of its identity and future 25 years ago to the robust field it is today. The entry of women into the field, the cumul...