Most partners had not imagined entering into a formalised same-sex relationship or marriage before their current relationship. While several women had had previous committed couple relationships with men, and some had children in this context, only one had married a man in the past. Neil recounted that he had once dreamt of a life with […]
День: 27.09.2015
A Processing Capacity Explanation for Age Differences in Social Judgments
Based on the research discussed so far, it appears that processing resource limitations play an important role in understanding how older adults process and access social information. In fact, social cognitive researchers use information-processing models to describe how individuals make social judgments (e. g., Gilbert & Malone, 1995). For example, Gilbert and his colleagues have […]
Knowledge Accessibility and Social Judgments
When we are faced with new situations, we draw on our previous experiences stored in memory, in other words, our social knowledge. The content of those experiences and knowledge and how easily we can retrieve it will affect what types of social judgments we make and how we behave in social situations. If you are […]
OF DIFFERENCE’
The intervention of feminism within the academy has been strengthened by the developments in the 1980s and 1990s of a greater degree of feminist pluralism, particularly as a result of debates emerging from non-Western women and women of colour. As indicated earlier, women of colour have challenged the uncritical use of concepts such as ‘oppression’ […]
Toward solutions
Although a government study found that men’s health was much worse than women s health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: "Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap."69 They did not say: "Men Face Large Health Care Gap." Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men’s lives with the saving […]
Don’t male doctors treat men’s symptoms more seriously?
The feeling that male doctors treat men more seriously seemed to have been respectably documented when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on such a study conducted by Lawrence Schneiderman.65 But when I spoke with Dr. Schneiderman, he explained that he had, in fact, done two studies: one found that men were […]
Social Judgment Processes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is the negativity bias in impression formation, and how does it influence older adults’ thinking? • Are there age differences in accessibility of social information? • How does processing context influence social judgments? • To what extent do processing capacity limitations influence social judgments in older adults? A lexandra and Klaus […]
A Note on the Definition and Institutionalization of Gender
In common-sense understanding gender is a property of individual people. When biological determinism is abandoned, gender is still usually seen in terms of socially produced individual character. It is a considerable leap to think of gender as being also a property of collectivities, institutions and historical processes. This view is nevertheless required by evidence and […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY MEANINGS: GRATITUDE TO NURTURANCE
Sometimes a “mis-giving" stays light, in the sense that a missed exchange does not make one or another person feel unloved. At other times, it cuts dangerously deep into signs by which partners know they are loved. Consider a light “mis-giving” between Peter and Nina Loyola, married twelve years, the parents of two. Peter was […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY MEANINGS: GRATITUDE TO NURTURANCE
Sometimes a “mis-giving" stays light, in the sense that a missed exchange does not make one or another person feel unloved. At other times, it cuts dangerously deep into signs by which partners know they are loved. Consider a light “mis-giving” between Peter and Nina Loyola, married twelve years, the parents of two. Peter was […]