UID:
almahu_9949697652602882
Format:
1 online resource (616 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-12-802472-0
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0-12-802274-4
Series Statement:
Advances in experimental social psychology ; 51
Content:
This volume represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Contributors; Chapter One: Why Do Humans Form Long-Term Mateships? An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Model; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Part I: Adaptive Problems and Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Models; 3 Part II: Long-term Mating as the Solution to Multiple Adaptive Problems; 4 Part III: Novel Adaptive Problems Created by Long-term Relationships; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgment; Chapter Two: The Why and How of Defending Belief in a Just World; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Why Do People Defend BJW?; 4 How Do People Defend BJW?
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5 Broader Issues6 Conclusion; Chapter Three: Positive Versus Negative Valence: Asymmetries in Attitude Formation and Generalization as Fundamental Individual Differences; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Individual Differences in Valence Weighting; 3 Some Questions About Valence Weighting; 4 Valence Asymmetries in Attitude Learning; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter Four: We'll Always Have Paris: The Hedonic Payoff from Experiential and Material Investments; Abstract; 1 Money and Happiness; 2 As Time Goes By: Adaptation and the Differential Hedonic Return on Experiences and Possessions
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3 Making Plans that Far Ahead: The Prospective Benefits of Experiential Consumption4 The Beginnings of a Beautiful Friendship: The Social Value of Experiential Consumption; 5 Here's Looking at Me, Kid: Experiential Purchases are a More Meaningful Part of One's Identity; 6 Of All the Gin Joints: Direct and Comparative Determinants of Enjoyment; 7 What We Regret (Soon and for the Rest of our Lives); 8 Letters of Transit for the Road Ahead; 9 Nudging us Out of the Malls and Out on the Trails; 10 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter Five: To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire
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Abstract1 Introduction; 2 A Historical Perspective on Nostalgia; 3 What Nostalgia Is; 4 What Nostalgia Does; 5 How Nostalgia Works; 6 Nostalgia's Future; Appendix A Southampton Nostalgia Scale; Appendix B Experimental Induction of Nostalgia: The Event Reflection Task; Index; Contents of Other Volumes
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English
Language:
English
