: Social Structure and Social Personality . Jerold H. Starr.

Social Structure and Personality

Social structure and personality (SSP) research is concerned with the relationship between macro-social systems or processes and individual feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. It is considered a perspective or framework rather than a theoretical paradigm because it is not associated with general theoretical claims that transcend specific substantive problems. Rather, it provides a set of orient...

Personality structure and social style in macaques.

Why regularities in personality can be described with particular dimensions is a basic question in differential psychology. Nonhuman primates can also be characterized in terms of personality structure. Comparative approaches can help reveal phylogenetic constraints and social and ecological patterns associated with the presence or absence of specific personality dimensions. We sought to determ...

Social Structure and Personality Enhanced Group Recommendation

The social aspects of the group members are usually omitted in today’s group recommenders. In this paper we propose novel approach for the intergroup processes modeling, while the friendship type, user’s personality and the group context is considered in order to reflect the group member influence. Moreover, the bi-directional emotional contagion is reflected by the spreading activation over th...

Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology

In a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article, Sedikides, Gaertner and Vevea (2005) presented two meta-analyses that included eight papers to investigate the question of whether people from Eastern cultures self-enhance more for traits that they view to be important compared to those that they view as unimportant. The results supported their hypothesis: Self-enhancement appears to b...