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In this paper, we assess what neuroscience theory and method have contributed to the study of group processes and intergroup relations and what we see as potential future contributions to the discipline. We briefl y review the historical relation between neuroscience and social psychology, identify issues that may limit the value of neuroscience to the study of group processes and relations, an...

A growing body of literature has documented cultural differences in cognitive processes and also proposed various factors underlying these cultural differences. At the same time, not much attention has been paid to proximal-level processes that connect distal-level societal factors to individuals’ cognitive processing. This chapter aims to present a framework to integrate factors at multiple le...

College students (60 female, 33 male) were asked to describe their personal standards for romantic relationships and what types of information were important for their creation. Respondents' open-ended responses revealed an average of over six standards, the content of which closely matched a comprehensive framework of relationship standards (Vangelisti & Daly, 1997). Open-ended descriptions re...

Normative fit (the consistency between stimulus persons’ features and perceivers stored stereotypes or group-based expectations) is known to facilitate social categorization. The present study expands upon earlier findings by showing that this effect extends to situations in which normative fit is based on generalized evaluation (i.e. evaluative fit). We presented 80 White participants with sti...

One corollary of social identity theory's self-esteem hypothesis proposes that intergroup bias enhances social identity, which in turn leads to enhanced self-esteem (the enhanced esteem hypothesis). There is mixed evidence for this corollary, due in part to methodological and measurement issues (Rubin & Hewstone, 1998). The present study carefully addressed these issues to test whether intergro...

Pelham, Koole, Hardin, Hetts, Seah, and DeHart (2005) found that implicit and explicit selfesteem correlated more strongly among women than men. The goal of this study was to replicate this finding and test whether it was due to gender differences in socially desirable responding (SDR). Ninety-nine German students completed measures of implicit self-esteem (Implicit Association Test and name-le...

Sex differences in social behavior are center stage in recent formulations of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology, with its emphasis on the long-term consequences of early adaptations, offers itself as an alternative meta-theory to mainstream social psychology, which emphasizes the importance of social structures in determining the existence and extent of social and cognitive sex d...