Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volume 28, Number 1, March 2006

Improved Self-Control: The Benefits of a Regular Program of Academic Study
        Megan Oaten and Ken Cheng


Items as Context: Effects of Item Order and Ambiguity on Factor Structure
        Andrea H. Weinberger, Jack Darkes, Frances K. Del Boca, Paul E. Greenbaum, and Mark S. Goldman

The Influence of Social Categories and Patient Responsibility on Healthcare Allocation Decisions: Bias or Fairness?
       
Alison P. Lenton, Irene V. Blair, and Reid Hastie

The impact of cognitive styles on authoritarianism based conservatism and racism
       
Ilse Cornelis and Alain Van Hiel

A stereotype boost or choking under pressure? Positive gender stereotypes and men who are low in domain identification
       
Jessi L. Smith and Camille S. Johnson


Effects of Standards on Self-Enhancing Interpretations of Ambiguous Social Comparison Information
        William M. P. Klein, Matthew M. Monin, Katrina L. Steers-Wentzell, and Justin T. Buckingham

The Impact of Personal Expectations on Counterfactual Thinking About Life and Death Medical Decisions
       
Robert J. Wellman and David B. Sugarman

A multi-level analysis of rumor transmission: Effects of anxiety and belief in two field experiments
        Mark V. Pezzo and Jason W. Beckstead


Volume 28, Number 2, June 2006

Collective Self-Verification Among Members of a Naturally-Occurring Group: Possible Antecedents and Long-Term Consequences
        Serena Chen, Lindsay Shaw, and Kevin Y. Jeung


A Structural Equation Model of Social Influences and Exposure to Media Smoking on Adolescent Smoking
        Jennifer J. Tickle, Jay G. Hill, James D. Sargent, Madeline A. Dalton, and Todd F. Heatherton

Reigning Cats and Dogs: A Pet-Enhancement Bias and its Link to Pet Attachment, Pet-Self Similarity, Self-Enhancement, and Well-Being
       
Amani El-Alayli, Amy Lystad, Sara Adams, Staci Hollingsworth, and Jen Ciolli

Generic Prejudice in the Law: Sexual Assault and Homicide
       
Richard L. Wiener, Lucy Arnot, Ryan Winter, and Brian Redmond

I AM Being Fair: The Bias Blind Spot as a Stumbling Block to Seeing Both Sides
       
Cynthia McPherson Frantz


Cognitive Concepts of the Self and Romantic Relationships
        Youngmee Kim

Helping Friends Manage Impressions: We Like Helpful Liars But Respect Non-Helpful Truth Tellers
       
Beth A. Pontari and Barry R. Schlenker

Publicly Committing Oneself to an Identity
       
Anita E. Kelly and Robert R. Rodriguez

The Correlates of Law Enforcement Officers' Automatic and Controlled Race-based Responses to Criminal Suspects
        B. Michelle Peruche and E. Ashby Plant


Volume 28, Number 3, September 2006

Effects of Social-Comparative Memory Feedback on Eyewitnesses' Identification Confidence, Suggestibility, and Retrospective Memory Reports
        Michael R. Leippe, Donna Eisenstadt, Shannon M. Rauch, and Mark A. Stambush


Large Minorities and Small Majorities: Interactive Effects on Inferred and Explicit Consensus on Attitudes
        Hans-Peter Erb, Gerd Bohner, Miles Hewstone, Lioba Werth, and Marc-André Reinhard

Thinking Well of African Americans: Measuring Complimentary Stereotypes and Negative Prejudice
       
Alexander M. Czopp and Margo J. Monteith

How Negative Are Attitudes toward Persons with AIDS?
       
J. A. Skelton

Effects of Two Appearance-based Interventions on the Sun Protection Behaviors of Southern California Beach Patrons
       
Heike I. M. Mahler, James A. Kulik, Meg Gerrard, and Frederick X. Gibbons


Beauty in the "I" of the Beholder: Effects on Idealized Media Portrayals on Implicit Self-Image
        Inbal Gurari, John J. Hetts, and Michael J. Strube

A Field Experiment on Perspective-Taking, Helping, and Self-Awareness
       
Costanza Scaffidi Abbate, Antonella Isgrò, Robert A. Wicklund, and Stefano Boca


Volume 28, Number 4, December 2006

Security in the Aftermath of 9/11
        Patrick Carroll, Aaron Wichman, and Robert M. Arkin


Ethnicity and Gender in the Face of a Terrorist Attack: A National Longitudinal Study of Immediate Responses and Outcomes Two Years after September 11
        Thai Q. Chu, Mark D. Seery, Whitney A. Ence, Alison Holman, and Roxane Cohen Silver

After 9/11 at Ground Zero: The Anxiety-Buffering Effects of Worldview Support on the First Anniversary of 9/11
       
Chandra Y. Osborn, Blain T. Johnson, and Jeffrey D. Fisher

Conservative Shift among High-Exposure Survivors of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
       
George A. Bonanno and John T. Jost

From National Trauma to Moralizing Nation
       
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Sana Sheikh


On the Psychology of Religion: The Role of Personal Uncertainty in Religious Worldview Defense
        Kees van den Bos, Jitse van Ameijde, and Hein van Gorp

Zeal Appeal: The Allure of Moral Extremes
       
Ian McGregor

Fatal Distratcion: The Impact of Mortality Salience on Dissociative Responses to 9/11 and Subsequent Anxiety Sensitivity
       
Spee Kosloff, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Florette Cohen, Beth Gershuny, Clay Routledge, and Tom Pyszczynski

A Positive Psychology Perspective on Post 9/11 Security
        Christopher Peterson and Nansook Park

Anti-American Sentiment and America's Perceived Intent to Dominate: An 11-Nation Study

Peter Glick, Susan T. Fiske, Dominic Abrams, Benoit Dardenne, Maria Cristina Ferreira, Roberto Gonzalez, Christopher Hachfeld, Li-li Huang, Paul Hutchison, Hyun-Jeong Kim, Anna Maria Manganelli, Barbara Masser, Angelica Mucchi-Faina, Shinya Okiebisu, Nadim N. Rouhana, José L. Saiz, Nurray Sakalli-Ugurlu, Chiara Volpato, Mariko Yamamoto, and Vincent Yzerbyt


Confrontational and Preventative Policy Responses to Terrorism: Anger Wants a Fight and Fear Wants "Them" to Go Away
        Linda J. Skitka, Christopher W. Bauman, Nicholas P. Aramovich, and G. Scott Morgan

Bombing versus Negotiating: How Preferences for Combating Terrorism are Affected by Perceived Terrorist Rationality
       
Emily Pronin, Kathleen Kennedy, and Sarah Butsch