P Niels Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5449706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Niels Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | P Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rejection of Self or Others? Majority–Minority Status Moderates Responses to Strongly Identified Members of the Out-group
The actor-partner interdependence model was used to examine how one's own ethnic identification - and one's interaction partners' ethnic identification - predicted reactions to mixed-group discussions. The 104 participants interacted in groups of four, with half from the ethnic majority (European Americans) and half from an ethnic minority (African-, Asian-, or Latino Americans) in each group. Analyses revealed that ethnic identification had gene…
Projection and Mirror Effects in Cross-group Interactions: A Social Relations Model Study of Similarity Perceptions
Unstructured interactions between members of different ethnic groups are increasingly common, yet have received relatively little research attention. The present research examined whether membership of an ethnic majority/minority group and one's ethnic identification predicted perceptions of similarity with cross-group interaction partners. Each participant spoke individually with three members of another ethnic group in round-robin fashion. Anal…
Of Practicalities and Perspective: What Is Fair in Group Decision Making
Establishing fair procedures to regulate intragroup disagreements should engender cooperation while inhibiting conflict . Yet what is a “fair” procedure might vary for members of different factions . To understand perceptions of fairness in group decision making , the present research developed and utilized the Fair Group Procedures Scale (FGPS). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a four‐factor structure along two dimensions: t…
Social change in the aftermath of successful minority influence
This chapter describes a programme of research on group dynamics in the aftermath of successful minority influence that reverses minority and majority positions within a group. Supporting the authors' gain - loss asymmetry model of change, converging evidence suggests that loss of the majority position generates strong disidentification from the superordinate group whereas gaining the majority position does not yield comparable identification. Th…
When reasons matter: Quality of support affects reactions to increasing and consistent agreement
Social Norms and Identity Relevance: A Motivational Approach to Normative Behavior
Two studies demonstrated that greater identification with a group was associated with more positive emotions for members who conformed with versus violated the group's norms. These effects were found with injunctive norms, which specify what members should do or what they ideally would do, but emerged less consistently with descriptive norms, which specify what members typically do. Descriptive norms affected emotional responses when they acquire…
Group conversion versus group expansion as modes of change in majority and minority positions: All losses hurt but only some gains gratify
This study examined reactions to minority and majority positions that were either stable or reversed through group conversion that transformed opponents (supporters) of the minority (majority) into supporters (opponents) or through group expansion that brought new supporters (opponents) for the minority (majority) into the group. Minorities who became majorities through group expansion, compared with those who changed through group conversion, pe…
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
Conformity to sex-typed norms, affect, and the self-concept
The self-concept plays an important role in conformity to sex-typed social norms. Normative beliefs that men are powerful, dominant, and self-assertive and that women are caring, intimate with others, and emotionally expressive represent possible standards for whom people ought to be and whom they ideally would like to be. In the present research, to the extent that sex role norms were personally relevant for participants, norm-congruent experien…
Conformity to sex-typed norms, affect, and the self-concept
The self-concept plays an important role in conformity to sex-typed social norms. Normative beliefs that men are powerful, dominant, and self-assertive and that women are caring, intimate with others, and emotionally expressive represent possible standards for whom people ought to be and whom they ideally would like to be. In the present research, to the extent that sex role norms were personally relevant for participants, norm-congruent experien…
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
Of Practicalities and Perspective: What Is Fair in Group Decision Making
Establishing fair procedures to regulate intragroup disagreements should engender cooperation while inhibiting conflict . Yet what is a “fair” procedure might vary for members of different factions . To understand perceptions of fairness in group decision making , the present research developed and utilized the Fair Group Procedures Scale (FGPS). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a four‐factor structure along two dimensions: t…
Group conversion versus group expansion as modes of change in majority and minority positions: All losses hurt but only some gains gratify
This study examined reactions to minority and majority positions that were either stable or reversed through group conversion that transformed opponents (supporters) of the minority (majority) into supporters (opponents) or through group expansion that brought new supporters (opponents) for the minority (majority) into the group. Minorities who became majorities through group expansion, compared with those who changed through group conversion, pe…
When reasons matter: Quality of support affects reactions to increasing and consistent agreement
Conformity to sex-typed norms, affect, and the self-concept
The self-concept plays an important role in conformity to sex-typed social norms. Normative beliefs that men are powerful, dominant, and self-assertive and that women are caring, intimate with others, and emotionally expressive represent possible standards for whom people ought to be and whom they ideally would like to be. In the present research, to the extent that sex role norms were personally relevant for participants, norm-congruent experien…
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
Group conversion versus group expansion as modes of change in majority and minority positions: All losses hurt but only some gains gratify
This study examined reactions to minority and majority positions that were either stable or reversed through group conversion that transformed opponents (supporters) of the minority (majority) into supporters (opponents) or through group expansion that brought new supporters (opponents) for the minority (majority) into the group. Minorities who became majorities through group expansion, compared with those who changed through group conversion, pe…
Social Norms and Identity Relevance: A Motivational Approach to Normative Behavior
Two studies demonstrated that greater identification with a group was associated with more positive emotions for members who conformed with versus violated the group's norms. These effects were found with injunctive norms, which specify what members should do or what they ideally would do, but emerged less consistently with descriptive norms, which specify what members typically do. Descriptive norms affected emotional responses when they acquire…
Social change in the aftermath of successful minority influence
This chapter describes a programme of research on group dynamics in the aftermath of successful minority influence that reverses minority and majority positions within a group. Supporting the authors' gain - loss asymmetry model of change, converging evidence suggests that loss of the majority position generates strong disidentification from the superordinate group whereas gaining the majority position does not yield comparable identification. Th…
When reasons matter: Quality of support affects reactions to increasing and consistent agreement
Of Practicalities and Perspective: What Is Fair in Group Decision Making
Establishing fair procedures to regulate intragroup disagreements should engender cooperation while inhibiting conflict . Yet what is a “fair” procedure might vary for members of different factions . To understand perceptions of fairness in group decision making , the present research developed and utilized the Fair Group Procedures Scale (FGPS). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a four‐factor structure along two dimensions: t…
Projection and Mirror Effects in Cross-group Interactions: A Social Relations Model Study of Similarity Perceptions
Unstructured interactions between members of different ethnic groups are increasingly common, yet have received relatively little research attention. The present research examined whether membership of an ethnic majority/minority group and one's ethnic identification predicted perceptions of similarity with cross-group interaction partners. Each participant spoke individually with three members of another ethnic group in round-robin fashion. Anal…
Rejection of Self or Others? Majority–Minority Status Moderates Responses to Strongly Identified Members of the Out-group
The actor-partner interdependence model was used to examine how one's own ethnic identification - and one's interaction partners' ethnic identification - predicted reactions to mixed-group discussions. The 104 participants interacted in groups of four, with half from the ethnic majority (European Americans) and half from an ethnic minority (African-, Asian-, or Latino Americans) in each group. Analyses revealed that ethnic identification had gene…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Perception (5 works) · Social group (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works)