Glenn S Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 121895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn S Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn S |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies
A meta-analysis was performed in an attempt to clarify the proposed relationship between religiosity and psychological adjustment. Specific focus was given to the issue of definition, namely, whether differences in researchers' conceptualizations of religiosity and mental health could account for the various contradictory findings by psychologists of religion. Analysis of 34 studies conducted during the past 12 years revealed that the definitions…
Social Psychology of Health and Illness (Environment and Health)
Self-presentation and drive in social facilitation
Accuracy in perceptions of consensus: Differential tendencies of people with majority and minority positions
When people are interested in how common one or more of their attributes is in a reference population, they must often generate their own comparison information based on a limited sample of acquaintances and experiences. Subjects in the present research were asked to describe themselves in terms of a variety of attributes, and were also asked to estimate the percentage of other college students who would indicate possession of each attribute. For…
Social comparison as a basis for evaluating others
The effects of social comparison on ability evaluations
Investigated the effects of comparisons with similar and dissimilar performances on estimates of relative ability. Male and female undergraduates (n = 162) took a test of analogy‐making ability, and received veridical feedback about their own performance and manipulated feedback about the scores of other college students. Supporting Festinger's similarity hypothesis, variations within a range of small discrepancies between self and others' scores…
Social Comparison, Competition and Marriage
Several views have been expressed concerning reactions of marital partners to how well they compare with each other in competitive situations. Intimacy may make performance comparisons particularly salient so that spouses react strongly to competitive outcomes. On the other hand, marital partners may suppress the implications of performance comparisons in the interests of maintaining a sense of unity. The present study recruited married couples t…
Driven by distraction: An integrative review of social facilitation theory and research
Toward a comprehensive account of social facilitation: Distraction/conflict does not mean theoretical conflict
Differential methods of causal attributions for strangers vs acquaintances
Some conditions maximizing eyewitness accuracy: A learning/memory analogy
Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern and social facilitation
A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the task performance of Type A coronary-prone individuals relative to Type B's in three types of social situations: alone, with a similarly performing coactor, or with a better-performing coactor. The results indicate that Type A's performance on a simple task was facilitated by the presence of either a similar or superior coactor, whereas the presence of coactors impaired performance on a complex t…
Distraction as a source of drive in social facilitation research
Distraction-conflict theory maintains that findings from social facilitation research result from the fact that the presence of others distracts subjects, thereby creating attentional conflict, which in turn produces drive effects. In support of this position, there already is a large amount of data indicating that presenting various forms of distraction during task settings produces drive effects. The present research complements these data by d…
Distraction and social comparison as mediators of social facilitation effects
An integration of shifts toward risk and caution in gambling situations
Is social comparison irrelevant for producing choice shifts
The motivating effects of distraction on task performance
Two studies were conducted to assess whether distraction has drivelike effects on task performance. In both, the effects of distraction over all trials interacted significantly with the nature of the task; jlistraction tended to facilitate the performances of simple tasks and signirkantiy~impaired performance on complex tasks. Moreover, analyses focusing upon drive carryover effects generally replicated these effects; when distraction was momenta…
Pain cues and uncertainty as determinants of aggression in a situation involving repeated instigation
In contrast to the Buss aggression paradigm, a situation was employed in which subjects were given an expanded range of response options and were exposed to instigation throughout their response period. It was found that (a) despite these changes pain cues depressed aggressiveness in the present situation as they generally do in the Buss paradigm, but that this effect only occurred where the subjects' aggression was initially ineffective in chang…
Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies
A meta-analysis was performed in an attempt to clarify the proposed relationship between religiosity and psychological adjustment. Specific focus was given to the issue of definition, namely, whether differences in researchers' conceptualizations of religiosity and mental health could account for the various contradictory findings by psychologists of religion. Analysis of 34 studies conducted during the past 12 years revealed that the definitions…
Is social comparison irrelevant for producing choice shifts
Distraction and social comparison as mediators of social facilitation effects
The motivating effects of distraction on task performance
Two studies were conducted to assess whether distraction has drivelike effects on task performance. In both, the effects of distraction over all trials interacted significantly with the nature of the task; jlistraction tended to facilitate the performances of simple tasks and signirkantiy~impaired performance on complex tasks. Moreover, analyses focusing upon drive carryover effects generally replicated these effects; when distraction was momenta…
Accuracy in perceptions of consensus: Differential tendencies of people with majority and minority positions
When people are interested in how common one or more of their attributes is in a reference population, they must often generate their own comparison information based on a limited sample of acquaintances and experiences. Subjects in the present research were asked to describe themselves in terms of a variety of attributes, and were also asked to estimate the percentage of other college students who would indicate possession of each attribute. For…
Driven by distraction: An integrative review of social facilitation theory and research
Pain cues and uncertainty as determinants of aggression in a situation involving repeated instigation
In contrast to the Buss aggression paradigm, a situation was employed in which subjects were given an expanded range of response options and were exposed to instigation throughout their response period. It was found that (a) despite these changes pain cues depressed aggressiveness in the present situation as they generally do in the Buss paradigm, but that this effect only occurred where the subjects' aggression was initially ineffective in chang…
The effects of social comparison on ability evaluations
Investigated the effects of comparisons with similar and dissimilar performances on estimates of relative ability. Male and female undergraduates (n = 162) took a test of analogy‐making ability, and received veridical feedback about their own performance and manipulated feedback about the scores of other college students. Supporting Festinger's similarity hypothesis, variations within a range of small discrepancies between self and others' scores…
Differential methods of causal attributions for strangers vs acquaintances
An integration of shifts toward risk and caution in gambling situations
The motivating effects of distraction on task performance
Two studies were conducted to assess whether distraction has drivelike effects on task performance. In both, the effects of distraction over all trials interacted significantly with the nature of the task; jlistraction tended to facilitate the performances of simple tasks and signirkantiy~impaired performance on complex tasks. Moreover, analyses focusing upon drive carryover effects generally replicated these effects; when distraction was momenta…
Pain cues and uncertainty as determinants of aggression in a situation involving repeated instigation
In contrast to the Buss aggression paradigm, a situation was employed in which subjects were given an expanded range of response options and were exposed to instigation throughout their response period. It was found that (a) despite these changes pain cues depressed aggressiveness in the present situation as they generally do in the Buss paradigm, but that this effect only occurred where the subjects' aggression was initially ineffective in chang…
Is social comparison irrelevant for producing choice shifts
Distraction as a source of drive in social facilitation research
Distraction-conflict theory maintains that findings from social facilitation research result from the fact that the presence of others distracts subjects, thereby creating attentional conflict, which in turn produces drive effects. In support of this position, there already is a large amount of data indicating that presenting various forms of distraction during task settings produces drive effects. The present research complements these data by d…
Distraction and social comparison as mediators of social facilitation effects
An integration of shifts toward risk and caution in gambling situations
Differential methods of causal attributions for strangers vs acquaintances
Some conditions maximizing eyewitness accuracy: A learning/memory analogy
Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern and social facilitation
A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the task performance of Type A coronary-prone individuals relative to Type B's in three types of social situations: alone, with a similarly performing coactor, or with a better-performing coactor. The results indicate that Type A's performance on a simple task was facilitated by the presence of either a similar or superior coactor, whereas the presence of coactors impaired performance on a complex t…
Driven by distraction: An integrative review of social facilitation theory and research
Toward a comprehensive account of social facilitation: Distraction/conflict does not mean theoretical conflict
Social comparison as a basis for evaluating others
The effects of social comparison on ability evaluations
Investigated the effects of comparisons with similar and dissimilar performances on estimates of relative ability. Male and female undergraduates (n = 162) took a test of analogy‐making ability, and received veridical feedback about their own performance and manipulated feedback about the scores of other college students. Supporting Festinger's similarity hypothesis, variations within a range of small discrepancies between self and others' scores…
Social Comparison, Competition and Marriage
Several views have been expressed concerning reactions of marital partners to how well they compare with each other in competitive situations. Intimacy may make performance comparisons particularly salient so that spouses react strongly to competitive outcomes. On the other hand, marital partners may suppress the implications of performance comparisons in the interests of maintaining a sense of unity. The present study recruited married couples t…
Accuracy in perceptions of consensus: Differential tendencies of people with majority and minority positions
When people are interested in how common one or more of their attributes is in a reference population, they must often generate their own comparison information based on a limited sample of acquaintances and experiences. Subjects in the present research were asked to describe themselves in terms of a variety of attributes, and were also asked to estimate the percentage of other college students who would indicate possession of each attribute. For…
Self-presentation and drive in social facilitation
Social Psychology of Health and Illness (Environment and Health)
Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies
A meta-analysis was performed in an attempt to clarify the proposed relationship between religiosity and psychological adjustment. Specific focus was given to the issue of definition, namely, whether differences in researchers' conceptualizations of religiosity and mental health could account for the various contradictory findings by psychologists of religion. Analysis of 34 studies conducted during the past 12 years revealed that the definitions…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Distraction (6 works) · Facilitation (6 works) · Social facilitation (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works)