Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volume 15, Numbers 1 & 2, April 1994

Special Issue: Social Psychological Perspectives on Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action: Insights From Social Psychological and Organizational Research
Marlene E. Turner and Anthony R. Pratkanis
Understanding Affirmative Action
Faye J. Crosby
Affirmative Action as Help: A Review of Recipient Reactions to Preferential Selection and Affirmative Action
Marlene E. Turner and Anthony R. Pratkanis
Aversive Racism and Resistance to Affirmative Action: Perceptions of Justice Are Not Necessarily Color Blind
Audrey J. Murrell, Beth L. Dietz-Uhler, John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, and Cheryl Drout
If Empowerment Is the Goal . . . : Affirmative Action and Social Interaction
Rupert Barnes Nacoste
Attributional Ambiguity of Affirmative Action
Brenda Major, Jeffrey Feinstein, and Jennifer Crocker
Impact of Affirmative Action on Beneficiary Groups: Evidence From the 1990 General Social Survey
Marylee C. Taylor
A Comparative Perspective on Affirmative Action: Positieve Aktie in The Netherlands
Sjiera de Vries and Thomas F. Pettigrew
Affirmative Action in Theory and Practice: Issues of Power, Ambiguity, and Gender Versus Race
Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Susan T. Fiske

Volume 15, Number 3, September 1994

Announcement
Editorial
Effects on the Persuader of Employing a Coercive Influence Technique
Edgar C. O'Neal, David Kipnis, and K. M. Craig
What You Expect Is What You Believe (But Not Necessarily What You Get): A Test of the Effectiveness of Subliminal Self-Help Audiotapes
Anthony R. Pratkanis, Jay Eskenazi, and Anthony G. Greenwald
Social Comparison in Medical School: What Students Say About Gender and Similarity
Diane M. Felicio and Carol T. Miller
Affective Consequences of Self-Monitoring Style in a Job Interview Setting
Judith E. Larkin and Harvey A. Pines
Assumptive Worlds, Self-Definition, and Striving Among Women
Paula S. Nurius
The Effects of Social Responsibility and Satisfaction on Extrarole Behaviors
L. Alan Witt and N. Clayton Silver
The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered: Effects of the Atypical Outgroup Member on the Outgroup Stereotype
Yair Hamburger
Attributions for Presidential Elections: The Situational Shift Over Time
Jerry M. Burger and Julie L. Pavelich
Difficulty as a Determinant of Interpersonal Appeal: A Social-Motivational Application of Energization Theory
Bruce F. Roberson and Rex A. Wright

Volume 15, Number 4, December 1994

Toward a Multiple-Method View of Mood Induction: The Appropriateness of a Modified Velten Mood Induction Technique and the Problems of Procedures With Group Assignment to Conditions
Robert C. Sinclair, Melvin M. Mark, Michael E. Enzle, Thomas D. Borkovec, and Anita G. Cumbleton
Implicit Leadership Theories: Prototypes for New Leaders
Robert A. Kenney, Jim Blascovich, and Phillip R. Shaver
The Hindsight Bias: The Role of the Availability Heuristic and Perceived Risk
Robert P. Agans and Leigh S. Shaffer
Metaperception Accuracy: An Israeli Study
Zipora Shechtman and David A. Kenny
Memory for the Experience of Donating Blood: Just How Bad Was It?
Steven J. Breckler
Member Preferences for Discussion Content in Anticipated Group Decisions: Effects of Type of Issue and Group Interactive Goal
Martin F. Kaplan, Evelyn G. Schaefer, and Lucy Zinkiewicz
Public Self-Awareness and Success-Failure Feedback as Disinhibitors of Restrained Eating
Gretchen C. Stephens, Steven Prentice-Dunn, and Jean C. Spruill
The Kernel of Truth in Judgments of Deceptiveness
Charles F. Bond, Jr., Diane S. Berry, and Adnan Omar
The Impact of Actual and Perceived Changes in Body Weight on Women's Physical Attractiveness
Thomas R. Alley and Katherine M. Scully