Then a miracle occurs : focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research : Purdue Symposium on Psychological Sciences / edited by Christopher R. Agnew [and others].

Symposium held on the West Lafayette, Indiana campus of Purdue Univ. in May of 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Behavior and miracles / Christopher R. Agnew ... [et al.] -- Psychology as the science of self-reports and finger movements : whatever happened to actual behavior? / Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, and David C. Funder -- Behavioral assessment practices among social psychologists who study small groups / Richard L. Moreland ... [et al.] -- Individuals, behavior, and what lies between the two / Donal E. Carlston and William G. Graziano -- Habit : from overt action to mental events / Bas Verplanken -- Unconscious behavioral guidance systems / John A. Bargh and Ezequiel Morsella -- Does emotion cause behavior (apart from making people do stupid, destructive things)? / Roy F. Baumeister ... [et al.] -- How to maximize implementation intention effects / Peter M. Gollwitzer ... [et al.] -- Distinguishing between prediction and influence : multiple processes underlying attitude-behavior consistency / Leandre R. Fabrigar, Duane T. Wegener, and Tara K. MacDonald -- Personality as manifest in behavior : direct behavioral observation using the revised riverside behavioral Q-sort (RBQ-3.0) / R. Michael Furr, Seth A. Wagerman, and David C. Funder -- Personality, demographics, and self-reported behavioral acts : the development of avocational interest scales from estimates of the amount of time spent in interest-related activities / Lewis R. Goldberg -- Measuring self-enhancement : from self-report to concrete behavior / Delroy L. Paulhus and Ronald R. Holden -- Developing an ecological framework for establishing connections among dispositions, behaviors, and environments : from affordances to behavior settings / Reuben M. Baron -- Behavior between people : emphasizing the "act" in interaction / Christopher R. Agnew and Janice R. Kelly -- Behavior, the brain, and the social psychology of close relationships / Arthur Aron -- The relationship context of social behavior / Harry T. Reis -- The atlas of interpersonal situations : a theory-driven approach to behavioral signatures / John G. Holmes and Justin V. Cavallo -- Mind-behavior relations in attachment theory and research / Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer -- Grounding social psychology in behavior in daily life : the case of conflict and distress in couples / Niall Bolger ... [et al.] -- Communication, coordinated action and focal points in groups : from dating couples to emergency responders / Andrea B. Hollingshead -- Nonverbal behavior in social psychology research : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Judy A. Hall.

"Focusing attention on a multiplicity of issues surrounding the study of behavior is timely and important. Some scholars believe that, across various sub-disciplines of the field, social psychology actually has contributed a great deal to our understanding of behavior and its antecedents. From this perspective, there is considerable utility in drawing together such work in one place. Other scholars suggest that, though there has been great progress elucidating the internal cognitive, affective and motivational underpinnings of behavior, much less research focuses on external behavior itself. From this perspective, it is important to identify the theoretical gaps, the empirical needs, and the focal issues that still demand attention. Chapters in this timely volume review some of these key issues, with contributions from some of the world's leading social and personaltiy psychologists."--Publisher description.

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