Nicholas Emler
Biographic Data
| ID | 629333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Emler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Emler |
| SIGNATURE | EMLER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1351-9787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Gossip Rules the World
The recent surge in research interest about gossip can be attributed, at least in part, to the possibility that this activity underlies two of the unique features of human society, when compared to those of all other social vertebrates, their scale and their complexity. Two hypotheses have emerged which touch on these features, respectively that gossip supports exceptional levels of sociability, and that it operates as a form of social control en…
CAT-ty Gossip and Rumor
Despite the power and extensive applications of communication accommodation theory (CAT), it has yet to be linked to the most common of conversational activities, gossip. We examine both the ways in which gossip plays a role as a communicative adjustment and the influence of accommodative behaviors upon gossip. The latter are relevant to strategic uses of gossip to influence others’ reputations, particularly others regarded as sexual rivals. We c…
Psychosocial adjustment in aggressive popular and aggressive rejected adolescents at school
The purpose of the present study was to compare the profiles of aggressive adolescents who differed in social status in the classroom, popular vs. rejected, with those of adolescents of average sociometric status without documented behavior problems. The characteristics compared related to intra-individual, family, school, and social domains. A sample of 457 adolescents, aged 11 to 18 years old (48% girls), participated in the study. Differences …
La réputation comme instrument social
La idea que yo quiero defender en este artículo es que la reputación es un instrumento social proprio al ser humano que lo diferencia de las otras especies animales. Ella puede ser utilizada de una manera fiable como instrumento social, para extraer la información sobre lo que son los otros y lo que se puede esperar de ellos. Cuatro objeciones a este planteamiento serán discutidas aquí : las condiciones de la vida contemporánea, el cuestionamient…
Análisis de la Relación entre la Victimización y la Violencia Escolar
Previous studies have identified two subgroups of victims of school violence. A first subgroup is composed of the majority of victims who are characterized by their passive response and withdrawal in violent situations, while a lower percentage, although at more risk of psychosocial maladjustment, combines victimization with a defiant, hostile and aggressive behaviour. The present study is focused on the second case, with the purpose of analyzing…
Post-conventional moral reasoning and reputation
Morality and political orientations
Politics can be seen as a rule-governed contest between competing definitions of the morally desirable. This view gives rise to the following questions, examined in this chapter: How do individuals' moral characteristics shape their choice of sides in this contest? How are the rules of this contest interpreted, and how and why do individuals differ in their interpretation of these rules? What determines the degree to which people become engaged i…
Dimensions of political and related facets of identity in late adolescence
This study focuses on young people's political identity, investigating its dimensionality and relationships to other facets of personality and attitudes in late adolescence. The data used to operationalize the concepts are derived from a large-scale study of British youth carried out in the late 1980s. Analysis of data from this study isolated 16 dimensions underlying aspects of young people's self-concepts, social attitudes and political involve…
Politics
This article explores in some detail published research exploring the associations between aspects of education (knowledge and skill acquisition, attitude formation, credential acquisition, participation in networks and institutions) and political outcomes such as participation, partisan choice and political identity. Correlated effects models, direct effects models, and relative effects models are considered in turn. Particular attention is paid…
What does principled versus conventional moral reasoning convey to others about the politics and psychology of the reasoner
The well-documented relationship between political orientation and moral reasoning has most often been interpreted in terms of the influence of level of moral development (cf. Kohlberg, 1984) upon an individual's political inclinations: those who have reached the conventional level (or stage 4) in Kohlberg's terms will as a result tend to favour the political right, whereas those who progress to the principled level (stage 5) shift their politica…
Adolescence and Delinquency
Comparative identity and evaluation of socio-political change
Using questionnaire data concerning perceptions of the European Community (EC) in Scotland and Andalucia we explored how the EC is perceived, and a European identification adopted as a function of the salience of these ‘regional’ identities. Drawing on the work concerning the concept of ‘comparative identity’ (Ros, Cano & Huici, 1987) it is argued that disidentification with the ‘nation-state’ (i.e. Britain and Spain respectively) is a useful way…
Childhood origins of beliefs about institutional authority
Socialization entails insight into the nature of institutional authority among Scottish and French children
Self‐denial as a paradox of political and regional social identity
Data from a survey of 4591 16‐19‐year‐olds from four parts of Britain demonstrate that a North‐South divide is manifested both economically and politically. Southerners are materially better off and more supportive of the Conservative party. Adopting a social identity analysis of sectional effects, we hypothesized that party political support is a manifestation of identification with locality, and also that political support, rather than perceive…
A Social Psychology of Reputation
(1990). A Social Psychology of Reputation. European Review of Social Psychology: Vol. 1, European Review of Social Psychology, pp. 171-193.
The Psychology of Social Influence
The sexual distribution of benefits and burdens in the household
Socio‐moral development from the perspective of social representations
Children's Beliefs About Institutional Roles
In this paper we present some preliminary research into a relatively unexplored area of social development, children's acquisition of beliefs about institutional roles. We argue that the school is an important source of experience in this area, providing most children with their first close-up view of organisational roles. A total of 185 children, aged between 7 and 11 years, from Scotland and France, were questioned about aspects of the teacher'…
Moral Orientation as a Cue to Political Identity
Previous research has indicated a relationship between the political orientations of conservative versus radical and the styles of moral reasoning characterized in Kohlberg's (1976) cognitive-developmental theory as the Conventional and Principled levels. Conservatives are more likely to reason at the Conventional level and radicals at the Principled level. The only interpretation of this relationship consistent with Kohlberg's theory is that rad…
The relationship between moral reasoning and political orientation
Social interaction and cognitive conflict in the development of spatial coordination skills
In a recent experiment, Doise & Mugny (1979) have shown that pairs of children working on spatial representation tasks make more subsequent progress than children who work alone on such tasks. This appears to lend support to Piaget's claims about the effects of social interaction upon the development of operational thought. In the first of the two experiments reported here the effects of working in pairs on spatial representation problems but fro…
The Stimulation of Cognitive Development Through Co-operative Task Performance
Seventy-eight children, identified as pre-operational with respect to multiple classification skills and understanding of left-right relations, were provided with one of three forms of training. Two of these involved children working in pairs on classification problems (collective conditions), the difference between the two conditions being where each child stood in relation to the other and to the task. In the third form of training, children at…
A socioanalytic theory of moral development
Moral development proceeds in three phases: rule attunement, social sensitivity, and self-awareness
Children's Development and Use of Inferences About Intentions and Motives in Moral Judgment
S ummary . A sample of 42 children, age 5 to 7, were tested for their ability to give appropriate causal accounts of incidents and to consider intentions and motives in judging the characters involved in these incidents. Results indicated that children are able to consider intention before they develop the ability to consider motives in moral judgment. A comparison of the causal accounts and moral judgments showed that children can make the appro…
The relationship between moral reasoning and political orientation
Dimensions of political and related facets of identity in late adolescence
This study focuses on young people's political identity, investigating its dimensionality and relationships to other facets of personality and attitudes in late adolescence. The data used to operationalize the concepts are derived from a large-scale study of British youth carried out in the late 1980s. Analysis of data from this study isolated 16 dimensions underlying aspects of young people's self-concepts, social attitudes and political involve…
Self‐denial as a paradox of political and regional social identity
Data from a survey of 4591 16‐19‐year‐olds from four parts of Britain demonstrate that a North‐South divide is manifested both economically and politically. Southerners are materially better off and more supportive of the Conservative party. Adopting a social identity analysis of sectional effects, we hypothesized that party political support is a manifestation of identification with locality, and also that political support, rather than perceive…
Moral Orientation as a Cue to Political Identity
Previous research has indicated a relationship between the political orientations of conservative versus radical and the styles of moral reasoning characterized in Kohlberg's (1976) cognitive-developmental theory as the Conventional and Principled levels. Conservatives are more likely to reason at the Conventional level and radicals at the Principled level. The only interpretation of this relationship consistent with Kohlberg's theory is that rad…
Socio‐moral development from the perspective of social representations
Children's Beliefs About Institutional Roles
In this paper we present some preliminary research into a relatively unexplored area of social development, children's acquisition of beliefs about institutional roles. We argue that the school is an important source of experience in this area, providing most children with their first close-up view of organisational roles. A total of 185 children, aged between 7 and 11 years, from Scotland and France, were questioned about aspects of the teacher'…
Social interaction and cognitive conflict in the development of spatial coordination skills
In a recent experiment, Doise & Mugny (1979) have shown that pairs of children working on spatial representation tasks make more subsequent progress than children who work alone on such tasks. This appears to lend support to Piaget's claims about the effects of social interaction upon the development of operational thought. In the first of the two experiments reported here the effects of working in pairs on spatial representation problems but fro…
Post-conventional moral reasoning and reputation
A socioanalytic theory of moral development
Moral development proceeds in three phases: rule attunement, social sensitivity, and self-awareness
Children's Development and Use of Inferences About Intentions and Motives in Moral Judgment
S ummary . A sample of 42 children, age 5 to 7, were tested for their ability to give appropriate causal accounts of incidents and to consider intentions and motives in judging the characters involved in these incidents. Results indicated that children are able to consider intention before they develop the ability to consider motives in moral judgment. A comparison of the causal accounts and moral judgments showed that children can make the appro…
Social interaction and cognitive conflict in the development of spatial coordination skills
In a recent experiment, Doise & Mugny (1979) have shown that pairs of children working on spatial representation tasks make more subsequent progress than children who work alone on such tasks. This appears to lend support to Piaget's claims about the effects of social interaction upon the development of operational thought. In the first of the two experiments reported here the effects of working in pairs on spatial representation problems but fro…
The Stimulation of Cognitive Development Through Co-operative Task Performance
Seventy-eight children, identified as pre-operational with respect to multiple classification skills and understanding of left-right relations, were provided with one of three forms of training. Two of these involved children working in pairs on classification problems (collective conditions), the difference between the two conditions being where each child stood in relation to the other and to the task. In the third form of training, children at…
The relationship between moral reasoning and political orientation
Moral Orientation as a Cue to Political Identity
Previous research has indicated a relationship between the political orientations of conservative versus radical and the styles of moral reasoning characterized in Kohlberg's (1976) cognitive-developmental theory as the Conventional and Principled levels. Conservatives are more likely to reason at the Conventional level and radicals at the Principled level. The only interpretation of this relationship consistent with Kohlberg's theory is that rad…
Socio‐moral development from the perspective of social representations
Children's Beliefs About Institutional Roles
In this paper we present some preliminary research into a relatively unexplored area of social development, children's acquisition of beliefs about institutional roles. We argue that the school is an important source of experience in this area, providing most children with their first close-up view of organisational roles. A total of 185 children, aged between 7 and 11 years, from Scotland and France, were questioned about aspects of the teacher'…
The sexual distribution of benefits and burdens in the household
A Social Psychology of Reputation
(1990). A Social Psychology of Reputation. European Review of Social Psychology: Vol. 1, European Review of Social Psychology, pp. 171-193.
The Psychology of Social Influence
Childhood origins of beliefs about institutional authority
Socialization entails insight into the nature of institutional authority among Scottish and French children
Self‐denial as a paradox of political and regional social identity
Data from a survey of 4591 16‐19‐year‐olds from four parts of Britain demonstrate that a North‐South divide is manifested both economically and politically. Southerners are materially better off and more supportive of the Conservative party. Adopting a social identity analysis of sectional effects, we hypothesized that party political support is a manifestation of identification with locality, and also that political support, rather than perceive…
Adolescence and Delinquency
Comparative identity and evaluation of socio-political change
Using questionnaire data concerning perceptions of the European Community (EC) in Scotland and Andalucia we explored how the EC is perceived, and a European identification adopted as a function of the salience of these ‘regional’ identities. Drawing on the work concerning the concept of ‘comparative identity’ (Ros, Cano & Huici, 1987) it is argued that disidentification with the ‘nation-state’ (i.e. Britain and Spain respectively) is a useful way…
Politics
This article explores in some detail published research exploring the associations between aspects of education (knowledge and skill acquisition, attitude formation, credential acquisition, participation in networks and institutions) and political outcomes such as participation, partisan choice and political identity. Correlated effects models, direct effects models, and relative effects models are considered in turn. Particular attention is paid…
What does principled versus conventional moral reasoning convey to others about the politics and psychology of the reasoner
The well-documented relationship between political orientation and moral reasoning has most often been interpreted in terms of the influence of level of moral development (cf. Kohlberg, 1984) upon an individual's political inclinations: those who have reached the conventional level (or stage 4) in Kohlberg's terms will as a result tend to favour the political right, whereas those who progress to the principled level (stage 5) shift their politica…
Morality and political orientations
Politics can be seen as a rule-governed contest between competing definitions of the morally desirable. This view gives rise to the following questions, examined in this chapter: How do individuals' moral characteristics shape their choice of sides in this contest? How are the rules of this contest interpreted, and how and why do individuals differ in their interpretation of these rules? What determines the degree to which people become engaged i…
Dimensions of political and related facets of identity in late adolescence
This study focuses on young people's political identity, investigating its dimensionality and relationships to other facets of personality and attitudes in late adolescence. The data used to operationalize the concepts are derived from a large-scale study of British youth carried out in the late 1980s. Analysis of data from this study isolated 16 dimensions underlying aspects of young people's self-concepts, social attitudes and political involve…
Post-conventional moral reasoning and reputation
Análisis de la Relación entre la Victimización y la Violencia Escolar
Previous studies have identified two subgroups of victims of school violence. A first subgroup is composed of the majority of victims who are characterized by their passive response and withdrawal in violent situations, while a lower percentage, although at more risk of psychosocial maladjustment, combines victimization with a defiant, hostile and aggressive behaviour. The present study is focused on the second case, with the purpose of analyzing…
La réputation comme instrument social
La idea que yo quiero defender en este artículo es que la reputación es un instrumento social proprio al ser humano que lo diferencia de las otras especies animales. Ella puede ser utilizada de una manera fiable como instrumento social, para extraer la información sobre lo que son los otros y lo que se puede esperar de ellos. Cuatro objeciones a este planteamiento serán discutidas aquí : las condiciones de la vida contemporánea, el cuestionamient…
Psychosocial adjustment in aggressive popular and aggressive rejected adolescents at school
The purpose of the present study was to compare the profiles of aggressive adolescents who differed in social status in the classroom, popular vs. rejected, with those of adolescents of average sociometric status without documented behavior problems. The characteristics compared related to intra-individual, family, school, and social domains. A sample of 457 adolescents, aged 11 to 18 years old (48% girls), participated in the study. Differences …
How Gossip Rules the World
The recent surge in research interest about gossip can be attributed, at least in part, to the possibility that this activity underlies two of the unique features of human society, when compared to those of all other social vertebrates, their scale and their complexity. Two hypotheses have emerged which touch on these features, respectively that gossip supports exceptional levels of sociability, and that it operates as a form of social control en…
CAT-ty Gossip and Rumor
Despite the power and extensive applications of communication accommodation theory (CAT), it has yet to be linked to the most common of conversational activities, gossip. We examine both the ways in which gossip plays a role as a communicative adjustment and the influence of accommodative behaviors upon gossip. The latter are relevant to strategic uses of gossip to influence others’ reputations, particularly others regarded as sexual rivals. We c…
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