Allan Fenigstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 648960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Fenigstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fenigstein |
| SIGNATURE | FENIGSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Milgram’s shock experiments and the Nazi perpetrators: A contrarian perspective on the role of obedience pressures during the Holocaust
In contrast to many scholars who believe that Milgram’s studies of obedience provide an incisive understanding of the Holocaust perpetrators, this article argues that pressures to obey authority had little role in the Holocaust. Unlike Milgram’s participants, most Nazi perpetrators showed no remorse or moral distress over the murders, severely compromising the explanatory necessity of obedience pressures; the excesses of the Nazis’ brutal and wan…
The Faking Orgasm Scale for Women: Psychometric Properties
The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of “Ideal”
The present research investigated gender differences in the ideally desired number of sex partners, examining several different kinds of "ideals." In two separate samples, participants were a) first asked to report their ideal number of desired sex partners - identified as a Nonspecific Ideal; b) next, they responded after considering some of the health and social risks, and the opportunity limitations, associated with sexual activity--a Pragmati…
"The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of "Ideal
Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect
1Kenyon College Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect NormanSolkoff Lanham, MDUniversity Press of America 2001376$65.00
Distress Over the Infidelity of a Child’s Spouse: A Crucial Test of Evolutionary and Socialization Hypotheses
Parents of undergraduates were asked whether they would be more distressed by the sexual or the emotional infidelity of their child’s partner. Comparing the responses of mothers and fathers may offer a rare, “crucial” instance in which evolutionary and socialization perspectives offer different predictions. Socialization theory, broadly conceived, predicts an effect for the gender of the parent: Consistent with their differing gender socializatio…
Ethnic differences in subclinical paranoia: An expansion of norms of the Paranoia Scale
The Paranoia Scale (PS) was designed to assess subclinical paranoid ideation (A. Fenigstein & P. A. Vanable, 1992). Despite its established validity, the PS has several problems that need to be addressed. There are no normative data on ethnic minority groups such as African Americans, making it difficult to interpret this group's performance on the PS. Data from the present research revealed that African Americans scored higher on the PS than non…
Were Obedience Pressures A Factor in the Holocaust
A number of scholars have suggested that Milgram’s laboratory studies of obedience offer an incisive analysis of the behavior of the Holocaust perpetrators. The present paper rejects that position. The contrasts between the two events, at every level of analysis, are striking: In Milgram’s research, innocent peers were harmed in the context of science; in the Holocaust, rabidly hated, subhuman enemies were murdered in the context of ‘war’. With r…
Self-Attention and the Egocentric Assumption of Shared Perspectives
Paranoia and self-consciousness
Presented, in Study 1, a new instrument designed to assess paranoid thought in college students, together with reliability and validity data. A single general factor accounted for a substantial portion of the variance in the full scale. Public self-consciousness was consistently and significantly correlated with the present measure of paranoia. In Study 2, both pretested paranoia and public self-consciousness were related to feelings of being wat…
On the Nature of Public and Private Self‐Consciousness
Wicklund and Gollwitzer raise a number of questions concerning the explanatory value of self‐consciousness as a trait and the validity of the distinction between public and private self‐consciousness These questions are based on strawperson arguments, the issues they attack are largely of their own creation and bear little relation to the original authors' own positions My response attempts to point out their false assumptions concerning the natu…
Influential works and authors in psychology: A survey of eminent psychologists
Surveyed 19 experimental, 13 personality and/or clinical, 9 developmental and/or educational, and 16 social psychologists who were among the 102 most frequently cited psychologists in the 1975 Social Science Citation Index to determine the works and authors in the field they found most influential. Two of the authors, both experimental psychologists, were women; all Ss received their PhDs between 1927 and 1967. 39 authors and their cited works ar…
Self-consciousness and the overperception of self as a target
Three studies, with 233 undergraduates, examined an egocentric bias toward overperceiving the self as the target of an action or event and the relation of this bias to dispositional self-consciousness. The 1st study found that, immediately prior to the return of their test results, Ss were more likely to believe that an especially good or an especially bad exam singled out by the teacher was theirs rather than a classmate's. In the 2nd study, Ss …
Self-attention, concept activation, and the causal self
Does aggression cause a preference for viewing media violence
Two experiments tested the hypotheses that physical aggression and fantasy aggression would lead to a preference for viewing violence. In Exp I, 45 female and 42 male undergraduates were induced to express aggressive, nonaggressive, or no fantasies and were then given an opportunity to select film clips for viewing. The films chosen by men contained more violence than those chosen by women. In addition, aggressive fantasies in males, compared to …
Self-consciousness, self-attention, and social interaction
Conducted 2 experiments with a total of 128 female undergraduates to test the effects of self-focused attention on positive and negative social interactions. In Study 1 the behavior of dispositionally high and low publicly self-conscious women (as measured by the Self-Consciousness Scale) was examined in an interpersonal situation involving rejection by a group. It was hypothesized that persons high in self-consciousness, being more aware of how …
Self-focusing effects of heartbeat feedback
Two studies tested the hypothesis that auditory heartbeat feedback leads to an increase in self-directed attention. In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise. Furthermore, subjects in the heartbeat condition showed a pattern of color-naming latencies (on a color-word test) that was …
Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.
Describes the development of a scale to assess individual differences in self-consciousness. Construction of the scale involved testing the 38 initial items with 130 female and 82 male undergraduates. A principal components factor analysis of the data yielded 3 factors accounting for 43% of the variance: Private Self-Consciousness, Public Self-Consciousness, and Social Anxiety. The final version of the scale, which contained 23 items, was adminis…
Association and affect as determinants of displaced aggression
Self-awareness and physical aggression
Paranoia and self-consciousness
Presented, in Study 1, a new instrument designed to assess paranoid thought in college students, together with reliability and validity data. A single general factor accounted for a substantial portion of the variance in the full scale. Public self-consciousness was consistently and significantly correlated with the present measure of paranoia. In Study 2, both pretested paranoia and public self-consciousness were related to feelings of being wat…
Self-awareness and physical aggression
Self-consciousness, self-attention, and social interaction
Conducted 2 experiments with a total of 128 female undergraduates to test the effects of self-focused attention on positive and negative social interactions. In Study 1 the behavior of dispositionally high and low publicly self-conscious women (as measured by the Self-Consciousness Scale) was examined in an interpersonal situation involving rejection by a group. It was hypothesized that persons high in self-consciousness, being more aware of how …
Self-consciousness and the overperception of self as a target
Three studies, with 233 undergraduates, examined an egocentric bias toward overperceiving the self as the target of an action or event and the relation of this bias to dispositional self-consciousness. The 1st study found that, immediately prior to the return of their test results, Ss were more likely to believe that an especially good or an especially bad exam singled out by the teacher was theirs rather than a classmate's. In the 2nd study, Ss …
Self-attention, concept activation, and the causal self
Does aggression cause a preference for viewing media violence
Two experiments tested the hypotheses that physical aggression and fantasy aggression would lead to a preference for viewing violence. In Exp I, 45 female and 42 male undergraduates were induced to express aggressive, nonaggressive, or no fantasies and were then given an opportunity to select film clips for viewing. The films chosen by men contained more violence than those chosen by women. In addition, aggressive fantasies in males, compared to …
Self-Attention and the Egocentric Assumption of Shared Perspectives
The Faking Orgasm Scale for Women: Psychometric Properties
Self-focusing effects of heartbeat feedback
Two studies tested the hypothesis that auditory heartbeat feedback leads to an increase in self-directed attention. In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise. Furthermore, subjects in the heartbeat condition showed a pattern of color-naming latencies (on a color-word test) that was …
The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of “Ideal”
The present research investigated gender differences in the ideally desired number of sex partners, examining several different kinds of "ideals." In two separate samples, participants were a) first asked to report their ideal number of desired sex partners - identified as a Nonspecific Ideal; b) next, they responded after considering some of the health and social risks, and the opportunity limitations, associated with sexual activity--a Pragmati…
Ethnic differences in subclinical paranoia: An expansion of norms of the Paranoia Scale
The Paranoia Scale (PS) was designed to assess subclinical paranoid ideation (A. Fenigstein & P. A. Vanable, 1992). Despite its established validity, the PS has several problems that need to be addressed. There are no normative data on ethnic minority groups such as African Americans, making it difficult to interpret this group's performance on the PS. Data from the present research revealed that African Americans scored higher on the PS than non…
Association and affect as determinants of displaced aggression
"The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of "Ideal
Association and affect as determinants of displaced aggression
Self-awareness and physical aggression
Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.
Describes the development of a scale to assess individual differences in self-consciousness. Construction of the scale involved testing the 38 initial items with 130 female and 82 male undergraduates. A principal components factor analysis of the data yielded 3 factors accounting for 43% of the variance: Private Self-Consciousness, Public Self-Consciousness, and Social Anxiety. The final version of the scale, which contained 23 items, was adminis…
Self-focusing effects of heartbeat feedback
Two studies tested the hypothesis that auditory heartbeat feedback leads to an increase in self-directed attention. In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise. Furthermore, subjects in the heartbeat condition showed a pattern of color-naming latencies (on a color-word test) that was …
Does aggression cause a preference for viewing media violence
Two experiments tested the hypotheses that physical aggression and fantasy aggression would lead to a preference for viewing violence. In Exp I, 45 female and 42 male undergraduates were induced to express aggressive, nonaggressive, or no fantasies and were then given an opportunity to select film clips for viewing. The films chosen by men contained more violence than those chosen by women. In addition, aggressive fantasies in males, compared to …
Self-consciousness, self-attention, and social interaction
Conducted 2 experiments with a total of 128 female undergraduates to test the effects of self-focused attention on positive and negative social interactions. In Study 1 the behavior of dispositionally high and low publicly self-conscious women (as measured by the Self-Consciousness Scale) was examined in an interpersonal situation involving rejection by a group. It was hypothesized that persons high in self-consciousness, being more aware of how …
Influential works and authors in psychology: A survey of eminent psychologists
Surveyed 19 experimental, 13 personality and/or clinical, 9 developmental and/or educational, and 16 social psychologists who were among the 102 most frequently cited psychologists in the 1975 Social Science Citation Index to determine the works and authors in the field they found most influential. Two of the authors, both experimental psychologists, were women; all Ss received their PhDs between 1927 and 1967. 39 authors and their cited works ar…
Self-consciousness and the overperception of self as a target
Three studies, with 233 undergraduates, examined an egocentric bias toward overperceiving the self as the target of an action or event and the relation of this bias to dispositional self-consciousness. The 1st study found that, immediately prior to the return of their test results, Ss were more likely to believe that an especially good or an especially bad exam singled out by the teacher was theirs rather than a classmate's. In the 2nd study, Ss …
Self-attention, concept activation, and the causal self
On the Nature of Public and Private Self‐Consciousness
Wicklund and Gollwitzer raise a number of questions concerning the explanatory value of self‐consciousness as a trait and the validity of the distinction between public and private self‐consciousness These questions are based on strawperson arguments, the issues they attack are largely of their own creation and bear little relation to the original authors' own positions My response attempts to point out their false assumptions concerning the natu…
Paranoia and self-consciousness
Presented, in Study 1, a new instrument designed to assess paranoid thought in college students, together with reliability and validity data. A single general factor accounted for a substantial portion of the variance in the full scale. Public self-consciousness was consistently and significantly correlated with the present measure of paranoia. In Study 2, both pretested paranoia and public self-consciousness were related to feelings of being wat…
Self-Attention and the Egocentric Assumption of Shared Perspectives
Were Obedience Pressures A Factor in the Holocaust
A number of scholars have suggested that Milgram’s laboratory studies of obedience offer an incisive analysis of the behavior of the Holocaust perpetrators. The present paper rejects that position. The contrasts between the two events, at every level of analysis, are striking: In Milgram’s research, innocent peers were harmed in the context of science; in the Holocaust, rabidly hated, subhuman enemies were murdered in the context of ‘war’. With r…
Distress Over the Infidelity of a Child’s Spouse: A Crucial Test of Evolutionary and Socialization Hypotheses
Parents of undergraduates were asked whether they would be more distressed by the sexual or the emotional infidelity of their child’s partner. Comparing the responses of mothers and fathers may offer a rare, “crucial” instance in which evolutionary and socialization perspectives offer different predictions. Socialization theory, broadly conceived, predicts an effect for the gender of the parent: Consistent with their differing gender socializatio…
Ethnic differences in subclinical paranoia: An expansion of norms of the Paranoia Scale
The Paranoia Scale (PS) was designed to assess subclinical paranoid ideation (A. Fenigstein & P. A. Vanable, 1992). Despite its established validity, the PS has several problems that need to be addressed. There are no normative data on ethnic minority groups such as African Americans, making it difficult to interpret this group's performance on the PS. Data from the present research revealed that African Americans scored higher on the PS than non…
Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect
1Kenyon College Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect NormanSolkoff Lanham, MDUniversity Press of America 2001376$65.00
The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of “Ideal”
The present research investigated gender differences in the ideally desired number of sex partners, examining several different kinds of "ideals." In two separate samples, participants were a) first asked to report their ideal number of desired sex partners - identified as a Nonspecific Ideal; b) next, they responded after considering some of the health and social risks, and the opportunity limitations, associated with sexual activity--a Pragmati…
"The Desired Number of Sexual Partners as a Function of Gender, Sexual Risks, and the Meaning of "Ideal
The Faking Orgasm Scale for Women: Psychometric Properties
Milgram’s shock experiments and the Nazi perpetrators: A contrarian perspective on the role of obedience pressures during the Holocaust
In contrast to many scholars who believe that Milgram’s studies of obedience provide an incisive understanding of the Holocaust perpetrators, this article argues that pressures to obey authority had little role in the Holocaust. Unlike Milgram’s participants, most Nazi perpetrators showed no remorse or moral distress over the murders, severely compromising the explanatory necessity of obedience pressures; the excesses of the Nazis’ brutal and wan…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Consciousness (5 works) · Self-consciousness (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works)