Sheldon Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheldon Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheldon |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Procedural Fairness, Blame Attributions, and Presidential Leadership
Social Justice and Moral Reasoning
The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior
Effects of Social Status and Attitude Similarity on Behavior in Dyads
This study attempted to (1) incorporate social status into Newcomb's theory of dyadic behavior, (2) replicate in the dyad the differences due to status found in larger groups, and (3) see if results due to actual differences in social status could be obtained when status differences were perceived rather than real. Social status and attitude similarity were varied in a 2 × 2 design with attraction, communication, attitude change, perceived attitu…
Some Psychological Correlates of Civil Rights Activity
Northern Negroes and whites at varying levels of participation in college student civil rights groups were compared with selected groups of northern, Negro non-members of civil rights groups on a number of personality and demographic variables (race, geographic location). Negro Actives showed more repression and ego strength than Negto non-actives. White Actives showed less social approval motivation and less repression than Negro Actives. In con…
The Effectiveness of the Anxiety Differential in Examination Stress Situations
The Anxiety Differential
The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Procedural Fairness, Blame Attributions, and Presidential Leadership
Social Justice and Moral Reasoning
The Anxiety Differential
The Effectiveness of the Anxiety Differential in Examination Stress Situations
Some Psychological Correlates of Civil Rights Activity
Northern Negroes and whites at varying levels of participation in college student civil rights groups were compared with selected groups of northern, Negro non-members of civil rights groups on a number of personality and demographic variables (race, geographic location). Negro Actives showed more repression and ego strength than Negto non-actives. White Actives showed less social approval motivation and less repression than Negro Actives. In con…
Effects of Social Status and Attitude Similarity on Behavior in Dyads
This study attempted to (1) incorporate social status into Newcomb's theory of dyadic behavior, (2) replicate in the dyad the differences due to status found in larger groups, and (3) see if results due to actual differences in social status could be obtained when status differences were perceived rather than real. Social status and attitude similarity were varied in a 2 × 2 design with attraction, communication, attitude change, perceived attitu…
The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior
Social Justice and Moral Reasoning
Procedural Fairness, Blame Attributions, and Presidential Leadership
Belief in a Just World, Social Influence and Illness Attributions
Characteristics of individuals and illnesses can both influence receptivity to preventative health messages. We examined whether receptivity to health messages depends on interactions between illness characteristics and dispositional concern for justice. Participants considered the preventability of six illnesses after exposure to a message that manipulated personal responsibility for illness. Paradoxically, participants with strong just world be…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Procedural justice (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works)