Our Followers Are Lions, Theirs Are Sheep: How Social Identity Shapes Theories About Followership and Social Influence

SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES SOCIAL VALUATION Running head: SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES SOCIAL VALUATION Social Identity Shapes Social Valuation: Evidence from Prosocial Behavior and Vicarious Reward

How accurate are our assumptions about our students' background knowledge?

Teachers establish prerequisites that students must meet before they are permitted to enter their courses. It is expected that having these prerequisites will provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need to successfully learn the course content. Also, the material that the students are expected to have previously learned need not be included in a course. We wanted to determine ...

How automatic are social judgments?

Do people infer personality dispositions automatically when they encode behavior? Tulving's encoding-specificity paradigm was adapted to test three operational indicants of automatism: absence of intention, of interference from other mental activity, and of awareness. Recruited for a digit-recall study, subjects read sentences describing actions during the retention interval of either an easy o...

How social are task representations?

The classical Simon effect shows that actions are carried out faster if they spatially correspond to the stimulus signaling them. Recent studies revealed that this is the case even when the two actions are carried out by different people; this finding has been taken to imply that task representations are socially shared. In work described here, we found that the "interactive" Simon effect occur...

How social identity shapes the working self-concept

• We were interested in testing the principle of functional antagonism. • When ingroups were salient, participants increased endorsement of group traits. • This effect mainly emerged for ingroups with high psychological utility. • The impact of personal traits, however, did not diminish during ingroup salience. • We did not find evidence for functional antagonism, but rather for adaption. a b s...