Stephanie K Decker
Biographic Data
| ID | 76812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie K Decker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie K |
| FAMILY NAME | Decker |
| SIGNATURE | DECKER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Far from a Few Bad Apples
An analysis of testimonies of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) found that members used public confessions to frame war crimes as the result of deep-rooted institutional contradictions rather than isolated instances of criminal behavior to call for social change. The veterans used confessions to 1. reveal the back region behavior of war, 2. expose the informational preserve of the self, and 3. disclose dark secrets. The term whistle blowing co…
The Role of Public Confessions in Show Trials
Authority figures may organize show trials featuring public confessions when they are faced with deep rooted contradictions within the social order and want to increase their legitimacy, delegitimize defendants, and justify increased social control in society. An analysis of the court report of the Moscow Show Trials found that these public confessions frame conflicts rooted in contradictions within the social order as acts of deviance that can b…
Self and Agency in Context
This work considers sociocultural foundations of self and agency in material affordances associated with affluence and poverty. We first review work that links independent self-construal and disjoint agency to material abundance. We then report an experiment among students at North American ( n = 52) and West African ( n = 60) universities, in which we manipulated abundance and scarcity concepts and assessed effects on a pronoun-selection measure…
Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds
Being Period
An ethnography found that when members of a historical reenactment group behave in ways that seem inconsistent with the group's ideology, they engage in discourse to demonstrate to other members that their behavior is congruent with the group's ideology and, in doing so, strengthen connections with other members who have different standards for behavior or different interpretations of the group's ideology. The term bridging discourse is introduce…
Altruism or psychological escape
Why does empathy promote prosocial behavior? Previous research suggests that empathically aroused individuals help those in need, even when physical escape from the need situation is easy, and this evidence has been used to support the claim that empathy evokes an altruistic motive. However, existing research has not addressed the possibility that empathically aroused participants help because ease of physical escape fails to provide adequate psy…
Altruism or psychological escape
Why does empathy promote prosocial behavior? Previous research suggests that empathically aroused individuals help those in need, even when physical escape from the need situation is easy, and this evidence has been used to support the claim that empathy evokes an altruistic motive. However, existing research has not addressed the possibility that empathically aroused participants help because ease of physical escape fails to provide adequate psy…
Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds
The Role of Public Confessions in Show Trials
Authority figures may organize show trials featuring public confessions when they are faced with deep rooted contradictions within the social order and want to increase their legitimacy, delegitimize defendants, and justify increased social control in society. An analysis of the court report of the Moscow Show Trials found that these public confessions frame conflicts rooted in contradictions within the social order as acts of deviance that can b…
Being Period
An ethnography found that when members of a historical reenactment group behave in ways that seem inconsistent with the group's ideology, they engage in discourse to demonstrate to other members that their behavior is congruent with the group's ideology and, in doing so, strengthen connections with other members who have different standards for behavior or different interpretations of the group's ideology. The term bridging discourse is introduce…
Altruism or psychological escape
Why does empathy promote prosocial behavior? Previous research suggests that empathically aroused individuals help those in need, even when physical escape from the need situation is easy, and this evidence has been used to support the claim that empathy evokes an altruistic motive. However, existing research has not addressed the possibility that empathically aroused participants help because ease of physical escape fails to provide adequate psy…
Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds
Being Period
An ethnography found that when members of a historical reenactment group behave in ways that seem inconsistent with the group's ideology, they engage in discourse to demonstrate to other members that their behavior is congruent with the group's ideology and, in doing so, strengthen connections with other members who have different standards for behavior or different interpretations of the group's ideology. The term bridging discourse is introduce…
Self and Agency in Context
This work considers sociocultural foundations of self and agency in material affordances associated with affluence and poverty. We first review work that links independent self-construal and disjoint agency to material abundance. We then report an experiment among students at North American ( n = 52) and West African ( n = 60) universities, in which we manipulated abundance and scarcity concepts and assessed effects on a pronoun-selection measure…
The Role of Public Confessions in Show Trials
Authority figures may organize show trials featuring public confessions when they are faced with deep rooted contradictions within the social order and want to increase their legitimacy, delegitimize defendants, and justify increased social control in society. An analysis of the court report of the Moscow Show Trials found that these public confessions frame conflicts rooted in contradictions within the social order as acts of deviance that can b…
Far from a Few Bad Apples
An analysis of testimonies of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) found that members used public confessions to frame war crimes as the result of deep-rooted institutional contradictions rather than isolated instances of criminal behavior to call for social change. The veterans used confessions to 1. reveal the back region behavior of war, 2. expose the informational preserve of the self, and 3. disclose dark secrets. The term whistle blowing co…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social control (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works)