David G Myers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1232937 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David G Myers |
| PRENOMES | David G |
| SOBRENOME | Myers |
| ASSINATURA | MYERS D G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hope College |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-5045-0047 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 509 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Sometimes less is more
I concur with Bernstein and Frantz (2026) that students, alas, forget much of what is taught in introductory psychology and that we are well-advised to focus-with memorable storytelling and demonstrations-on psychology's life-relevant big ideas that educated people should know. I affirm and extend their commentary, with examples of such, along with examples of topics we might defer to later courses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rig…
Exploring Social Psychology
Loose-Leaf Version for Psychology in Everyday Life 5e & Launchpad for Psychology in Everyday Life 5e
Myers' Psychology for the Ap Course
Psychology
Exploring Psychology in Modules 10e & LaunchPad for Myers's Exploring Psychology in Modules 10e
Psychology in Everyday Life
Exploring Psychology
Psychology for High School
Psychology in Modules
Exploring Social Psychology
Myers' Psychology for AP
Reflections on religious belief and prosociality
Luke Galen (2012) offers a timely analysis of associations between religiosity and prosocial and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. After identifying 10 points of agreement, I raise 8 questions for further reflection and research: (1) Is ingroup giving and volunteerism not prosocial? (2) Are religion-related prosocial norms part of the religious factor? (3) Is social support also appropriately considered part of the religious factor? (4) Are sel…
The religion paradox
As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, people are rapidly leaving organized religion in economically developed nations where religious freedom is high. Why would people leave religion if it enhances their happiness? After controlling for circumstances in both the Un…
Social psychology
Exploring Psychology
Psychology
Psychologie
The funds, friends, and faith of happy people
Reflections on scholarship from the liberal arts academy
Reflections on scholarship from the liberal arts academy
Teaching, Texts, and Values
How should and do psychologists’ values color their writing and research? As Christians, our ultimate allegiance to God frees us to fearlessly and rigorously pursue truth. Nevertheless, our values inevitably influence our emphases, ethics, interpretations, labels, and goals. They also fuel the passions that motivate our work. Finally, in at least seven distinct ways religious beliefs and values can be linked with psychological research and writin…
Who Is Happy
A flood of new studies explores people's subjective well-being (SWB) Frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and a global sense of satisfaction with life define high SWB These studies reveal that happiness and life satisfaction are similarly available to the young and the old, women and men, blacks and whites, the rich and the working-class Better clues to well-being come from knowing about a person's traits, close relationships, wo…
Joan McKay versus John McKay
Joan McKay versus John McKay
Etude meta-analytique des recherches ayant utilise le paradigme experimental de Goldberg (1968), dans le but d'un examen critique des conclusions sur l'evaluation plus favorable, chez les femmes, des auteurs de sexe masculin
Who Is Happy
A flood of new studies explores people's subjective well-being (SWB) Frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and a global sense of satisfaction with life define high SWB These studies reveal that happiness and life satisfaction are similarly available to the young and the old, women and men, blacks and whites, the rich and the working-class Better clues to well-being come from knowing about a person's traits, close relationships, wo…
The group polarization phenomenon
The religion paradox
As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, people are rapidly leaving organized religion in economically developed nations where religious freedom is high. Why would people leave religion if it enhances their happiness? After controlling for circumstances in both the Un…
Enhancement of dominant attitudes in group discussion
Joan McKay versus John McKay
Etude meta-analytique des recherches ayant utilise le paradigme experimental de Goldberg (1968), dans le but d'un examen critique des conclusions sur l'evaluation plus favorable, chez les femmes, des auteurs de sexe masculin
Discussion-Induced Attitude Polarization
Two experiments examined the group polarization hypothesis. In Experiment I group discussion polarized the evaluations of six hypothetical faculty members, three described positively and three negatively. 'Good' faculty were rated and paid even more favorably after group interaction and contrariwise for 'bad' faculty. Experiment II separated subjects into groups which were conservative or liberal in attitudes regarding women. Subsequent discussio…
Polarizing effects of social comparison
Normative and Informational Effects of Group Interaction
Sources of group-induced shift on choice dilemma items were examined by comparing the typical discussion treatment with normative and informational treatments. Control condition groups responded to three risky choice dilemma items without prior treatment. Social comparison condition groups responded after being exposed to the percentage distribution of initial responses by control subjects. Relevant arguments condition groups responded after disc…
Discussion effects on militarism-pacifism
Reflections on religious belief and prosociality
Luke Galen (2012) offers a timely analysis of associations between religiosity and prosocial and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. After identifying 10 points of agreement, I raise 8 questions for further reflection and research: (1) Is ingroup giving and volunteerism not prosocial? (2) Are religion-related prosocial norms part of the religious factor? (3) Is social support also appropriately considered part of the religious factor? (4) Are sel…
Discussion Effects on Racial Attitudes
We predicted that discussion would enhance dominant group values, leading to increased polarization between homogeneously composed groups of high-, medium-, and low-prejudice high school subjects. In an experimental condition, group members made individual attitude judgments, discussed them, and remade judgments. Control groups discussed irrelevant materials before responding again to the attitude items. As predicted, discussion of the racial att…
Responsibility diffusion and drive enhancement effects on risky shift1
Discussion produced expected risky and cautious shifts on choice dilemma items It was predicted from responsibility diffusion theory that, compared with low-anxious, high-defensive groups, high-anxious, low-defensive groups produce greater risky shift It was predicted from drive enhancement theory that, compared with low-anxious groups, high-anxious groups produce greater risky shift on risk-dominant items and greater cautious shift on caution-do…
Note on Prejudice and Personality
The relationship between prejudice and personality was examined in a sample of 101 high school Ss. Contrary to prediction, no significant correlation of prejudice with repression (.18) or anxiety (.05) scores was observed
Enhancement of dominant attitudes in group discussion
Enhancement of Dominant Risk Tendencies in Group Discussion
Much recent research indicates that discussion predictably affects responses to choice-dilemma items. In the present experiment, 12 choice-dilemma items were discussed to consensus by 40 female groups of varying size (2, 3, 5, or 7 members). Group size did not significantly affect shift scores. Over all groups, the mean of initial risk taking on an item was an excellent predictor of the mean amount of shift that item elicited ( r = –.89), a findi…
Normative and Informational Effects of Group Interaction
Sources of group-induced shift on choice dilemma items were examined by comparing the typical discussion treatment with normative and informational treatments. Control condition groups responded to three risky choice dilemma items without prior treatment. Social comparison condition groups responded after being exposed to the percentage distribution of initial responses by control subjects. Relevant arguments condition groups responded after disc…
Discussion effects on militarism-pacifism
Discussion-Induced Attitude Polarization
Two experiments examined the group polarization hypothesis. In Experiment I group discussion polarized the evaluations of six hypothetical faculty members, three described positively and three negatively. 'Good' faculty were rated and paid even more favorably after group interaction and contrariwise for 'bad' faculty. Experiment II separated subjects into groups which were conservative or liberal in attitudes regarding women. Subsequent discussio…
Machiavellianism, Discussion Time, and Group Shift
The first purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the social-emotional and rational-cognitive explanations of group risky shift on choice dilemmas (hypothetical life situations) by comparing shift in groups of low Mach (emotional) and high Mach (non-emotional) subjects. Consistent with the rationalcognitive explanations of group shift, group composition was not observed to affect shift magnitude.The second purpose was to examine the effects…
Group Discussion Effects on Conflict Behavior and Self-Justification
Although most social conflicts involve opposing groups of people, experimental research on conflict behavior has almost exclusively utilized individual participants. The present research compared the conflict behavior of individuals and groups using an expanded prisoner's dilemma matrix cast in the language of an economic (gas war) simulation. There was no difference in the conflict behavior of individual and group players, both being highly nonc…
The group polarization phenomenon
Polarizing effects of social comparison
Joan McKay versus John McKay
Joan McKay versus John McKay
Etude meta-analytique des recherches ayant utilise le paradigme experimental de Goldberg (1968), dans le but d'un examen critique des conclusions sur l'evaluation plus favorable, chez les femmes, des auteurs de sexe masculin
Teaching, Texts, and Values
How should and do psychologists’ values color their writing and research? As Christians, our ultimate allegiance to God frees us to fearlessly and rigorously pursue truth. Nevertheless, our values inevitably influence our emphases, ethics, interpretations, labels, and goals. They also fuel the passions that motivate our work. Finally, in at least seven distinct ways religious beliefs and values can be linked with psychological research and writin…
Who Is Happy
A flood of new studies explores people's subjective well-being (SWB) Frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and a global sense of satisfaction with life define high SWB These studies reveal that happiness and life satisfaction are similarly available to the young and the old, women and men, blacks and whites, the rich and the working-class Better clues to well-being come from knowing about a person's traits, close relationships, wo…
Reflections on scholarship from the liberal arts academy
Reflections on scholarship from the liberal arts academy
The funds, friends, and faith of happy people
Exploring Psychology
Psychology
Psychologie
Social psychology
The religion paradox
As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, people are rapidly leaving organized religion in economically developed nations where religious freedom is high. Why would people leave religion if it enhances their happiness? After controlling for circumstances in both the Un…
Reflections on religious belief and prosociality
Luke Galen (2012) offers a timely analysis of associations between religiosity and prosocial and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. After identifying 10 points of agreement, I raise 8 questions for further reflection and research: (1) Is ingroup giving and volunteerism not prosocial? (2) Are religion-related prosocial norms part of the religious factor? (3) Is social support also appropriately considered part of the religious factor? (4) Are sel…
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