Albert Pepitone
Biographic Data
| ID | 78700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Pepitone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pepitone |
| SIGNATURE | PEPITONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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A Social Psychology Perspective on the Study of Culture: An Eye on the Road to Interdisciplinarianism
This article deals with segregation among the social sciences, an especially dysfunctional state of affairs for those disciplines committed to understanding culture and social behavior through comparative research. A necessary condition to reduce barriers is a dialogue in which disciplines define their identities and perspectives on theory and research. The article initiates such a self-analysis in social psychology. First, a historical overview …
Additional cross-cultural evidence on the selective usage of nonmaterial beliefs in explaining life events
Two studies, one conducted in the Netherlands (N=87) and one in Italy with two samples—Catholic Youth (N=41) and Young Communists (N=41)—assessed the cross-cultural generality of the previously confirmed hypothesis (Pepitone & Saffiotti, 1997) that six universal nonmaterial beliefs—fate, God, luck, chance, just punishment, and just reward—are used selectively to interpret life events. A ‘selective correspondence’ between the six beliefs and the s…
The selectivity of nonmaterial beliefs in interpreting life events
The selectivity of nonmaterial beliefs in interpreting life events
An experimental study addresses the propositions that nonmaterial beliefs, including supernatural powers and transcendental moral laws, function to enhance comprehension of life events, and perform this function selectively. Informal surveys of newspaper articles and two pilot experiments consistently indicated that the beliefs in fate, God, luck, chance, just reward, and just punishment are elicited to explain life events that are difficult to e…
Justice in Cultural Context: A Social-Psychological Perspective
This article critically examines two major theoretical perspectives on justice in social psychology-equity and just world-particularly, the confusion between believing in justice versus believing that justice exists, and the neglected moral dimension of justice, the belief that God or transcendental law creates the universal imperative. Research on the implications for justice in life events confirms the hypothesis that justice is perceived when …
Descriptive and Prescriptive Beliefs About Justice: A Sino-U.S. Comparison
The present article focuses on the distinction between descriptive (i.e., what will happen) and prescriptive (i.e., what should happen) beliefs in justice and shows that person valence and belief type had an interactive effect on outcome valence. Specifically, the 2 (Chinese and American culture) x 2 (Good and Bad person) x 2 (Will as descriptive and Should as prescriptive belief) study revealed that both Chinese and Americans believe that good p…
The justice and injustice of life events
An experiment employing a sample (N=280) of undergraduates from an urban university was designed to test the general hypothesis that the perception of justice and injustice in life events depends upon the relationship between two variables that are part of the stimulus situation: the valence of the person being observed (good or bad), and the valence of the outcome experienced by that person (positive or negative). The findings from both qualitat…
Kurt Lewin Memorial Award, (1990): Harold H. Kelley
John Thomas Lanzetta (1926-1989): Obituary
John Thomas Lanzetta (1926–1989): Obituary
Toward a Cultural Social Psychology
The paper examines how the natural science perspective of social psychology expressed in the preference for intraindividual theories and models has systematically led the field away from a consideration of the specifically cultural sources of social behaviour. To demonstrate the role of cultural determinants in social behaviour, for example, the topic of moral behaviour has been discussed citing some experimental findings with implications for th…
On the Universality of Social Psychological Theories
As prescribed by the culture of natural science, theories of social psychology are essentially intraindividual mechanisms or information-processing structures that, when activated by stimulus conditions, determine cognitive and behavioral responses. Such theories are conceived to operate independently of the sociocultural context in which people exist. We argue that without being connected to the biology of the organism, or to features of the eco…
Social roles and strategies in prediction: Some determinants of the use of base-rate information
Lessons from the history of social psychology
Lessons from the history of social psychology
Attitudes toward Rape: A Comparison of the Role of Chastity in India and the United States
In comparing attitudes toward rape in India and in the United States, it was predicted that: (1) because of the importance of female chastity in Indian society, information about victim chastity would influence judgments about rape more in India than in the United States, and (2) because of cultural differences in concepts of individual self-determination, Indian respondents would blame both criminal and victim less than would Americans. Responde…
Toward a normative and comparative biocultural social psychology
Contrast effects in judgments of crime severity and the punishment of criminal violators
Social Psychological Perspectives on Crime and Punishment
This article addresses itself to the psychological basis of the legal system. The author examines attitudes toward crime and punishment and analyzes the psychological and cultural processes underlying them, with particular attention to the nonlegal or lay person (the observer). Questions of blame and causal responsibility, victim involvement, perceived seriousness of a violation, victim/offender relations, and motivations for punishment are consi…
Helping to reward another person: A cross-cultural analysis
Contrast effect in the use of punishment
Informal accounts of what has been termed a police riot indicate that more clubbing, prodding, and macing of protestors was done by men who carried a revolver than by those who did not. A contrast hypothesis was suggested whereby a strong but prohibited degree of punishment serves as an anchor in contrast with which lower degrees of permissible punishment are judged to be weaker than the case without the anchor. To compensate for the insufficienc…
Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The role of justice in interdependent decision making
Deindividuation in the small group: Further evidence
Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
On the Universality of Social Psychological Theories
As prescribed by the culture of natural science, theories of social psychology are essentially intraindividual mechanisms or information-processing structures that, when activated by stimulus conditions, determine cognitive and behavioral responses. Such theories are conceived to operate independently of the sociocultural context in which people exist. We argue that without being connected to the biology of the organism, or to features of the eco…
Group Cohesiveness and the Expression of Hostility
Motivational Effects in Social Perception
The effects of threat and frustration on group cohesiveness
Toward a normative and comparative biocultural social psychology
Social Psychological Perspectives on Crime and Punishment
This article addresses itself to the psychological basis of the legal system. The author examines attitudes toward crime and punishment and analyzes the psychological and cultural processes underlying them, with particular attention to the nonlegal or lay person (the observer). Questions of blame and causal responsibility, victim involvement, perceived seriousness of a violation, victim/offender relations, and motivations for punishment are consi…
Contrast effects in judgments of crime severity and the punishment of criminal violators
The role of justice in interdependent decision making
Some consequences of experimental rejection
Justice in Cultural Context: A Social-Psychological Perspective
This article critically examines two major theoretical perspectives on justice in social psychology-equity and just world-particularly, the confusion between believing in justice versus believing that justice exists, and the neglected moral dimension of justice, the belief that God or transcendental law creates the universal imperative. Research on the implications for justice in life events confirms the hypothesis that justice is perceived when …
Social roles and strategies in prediction: Some determinants of the use of base-rate information
Helping to reward another person: A cross-cultural analysis
Deindividuation in the small group: Further evidence
Change in attractiveness of forbidden toys as a function of severity of threat
Descriptive and Prescriptive Beliefs About Justice: A Sino-U.S. Comparison
The present article focuses on the distinction between descriptive (i.e., what will happen) and prescriptive (i.e., what should happen) beliefs in justice and shows that person valence and belief type had an interactive effect on outcome valence. Specifically, the 2 (Chinese and American culture) x 2 (Good and Bad person) x 2 (Will as descriptive and Should as prescriptive belief) study revealed that both Chinese and Americans believe that good p…
Leadership in the Small Group
Alvin Zander
Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications
Attitudes toward Rape: A Comparison of the Role of Chastity in India and the United States
In comparing attitudes toward rape in India and in the United States, it was predicted that: (1) because of the importance of female chastity in Indian society, information about victim chastity would influence judgments about rape more in India than in the United States, and (2) because of cultural differences in concepts of individual self-determination, Indian respondents would blame both criminal and victim less than would Americans. Responde…
Contrast effect in the use of punishment
Informal accounts of what has been termed a police riot indicate that more clubbing, prodding, and macing of protestors was done by men who carried a revolver than by those who did not. A contrast hypothesis was suggested whereby a strong but prohibited degree of punishment serves as an anchor in contrast with which lower degrees of permissible punishment are judged to be weaker than the case without the anchor. To compensate for the insufficienc…
Leadership in the Small Group
Alvin Zander
Techniques for the diagnosis and measurement of intergroup attitudes and behavior
Motivational Effects in Social Perception
Interracial Housing: A Psychological Evaluation of a Social Experiment
Group Cohesiveness and the Expression of Hostility
Some reactions to a hypothetical disaster
Individual response to a disaster situation is investigated by requiring subjects to describe what action they would take if faced with an impending bombing plane poison gas raid. For 34 Ss the disaster situation involved threat of death, for 33 Ss, only a mild, temporary incapacitation. Three patterns of action appear, evacuation, active defense, and encapsulation, with some probability that the tendency to take the safest path varies with the d…
Some evidence for conflict resolution in impression formation
Intentionality, Responsibility, and Interpersonal Attraction
Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications
The effects of threat and frustration on group cohesiveness
Some consequences of experimental rejection
Change in attractiveness of forbidden toys as a function of severity of threat
Deindividuation in the small group: Further evidence
The role of justice in interdependent decision making
Contrast effect in the use of punishment
Informal accounts of what has been termed a police riot indicate that more clubbing, prodding, and macing of protestors was done by men who carried a revolver than by those who did not. A contrast hypothesis was suggested whereby a strong but prohibited degree of punishment serves as an anchor in contrast with which lower degrees of permissible punishment are judged to be weaker than the case without the anchor. To compensate for the insufficienc…
Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Social Psychological Perspectives on Crime and Punishment
This article addresses itself to the psychological basis of the legal system. The author examines attitudes toward crime and punishment and analyzes the psychological and cultural processes underlying them, with particular attention to the nonlegal or lay person (the observer). Questions of blame and causal responsibility, victim involvement, perceived seriousness of a violation, victim/offender relations, and motivations for punishment are consi…
Helping to reward another person: A cross-cultural analysis
Toward a normative and comparative biocultural social psychology
Contrast effects in judgments of crime severity and the punishment of criminal violators
Lessons from the history of social psychology
Lessons from the history of social psychology
Attitudes toward Rape: A Comparison of the Role of Chastity in India and the United States
In comparing attitudes toward rape in India and in the United States, it was predicted that: (1) because of the importance of female chastity in Indian society, information about victim chastity would influence judgments about rape more in India than in the United States, and (2) because of cultural differences in concepts of individual self-determination, Indian respondents would blame both criminal and victim less than would Americans. Responde…
Social roles and strategies in prediction: Some determinants of the use of base-rate information
On the Universality of Social Psychological Theories
As prescribed by the culture of natural science, theories of social psychology are essentially intraindividual mechanisms or information-processing structures that, when activated by stimulus conditions, determine cognitive and behavioral responses. Such theories are conceived to operate independently of the sociocultural context in which people exist. We argue that without being connected to the biology of the organism, or to features of the eco…
Psychology (36 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works)