Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association Social Psychology Summer 2005 SECTION OFFICERS Chair Jane Sell CHAIR’S REMARKS Texas A&M University Jane Sell [email protected] Texas A&M University

Chair-Elect [email protected] Murray Webster Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte [email protected] From the Chair’s Desk: Across the Social Psychological Spectrum Secretary-Treasurer Lisa Troyer (2007) University of Iowa This year, our section’s theme is “Across the Social Psychological Spectrum.” [email protected] There are many different perspectives within social psychology and Council communication within and across these perspectives is essential. Sometimes, Peter Callero (2006) because our research might demand it, we become extremely focused upon Western Oregon University our own specialty. However, if we do not keep in touch with different [email protected] developments outside our own research we run two related risks. We risk Diane Felmlee (2007) developing insular perspectives that cannot adapt to other concerns and, we Univ. of California - Davis risk being ignored. Historically, social psychology has been committed to [email protected] reaching across perspectives, and across methodologies; it was born as the Cathryn Johnson (2005) intersection between two disciplines. This heritage, with its focus on social Emory University interaction, has served us well because it encouraged researchers who utilized [email protected] very different methodologies not just to co-exist but also to actively engage Michael J. Lovaglia (2007) in discourse. And there have been enormous pay-offs with multi-faceted University of Iowa investigation of issues such as emotions and emotional socialization and the [email protected] generation and maintenance of inequality in multiple and layered settings. I Stefanie Bailey Mollborn (student) would like to see our section become more aggressive about encouraging dialogues and multilogues about issues that absolutely require different views. [email protected] These include theoretical, methodological and ethical issues. Sample issues Dawn Robinson (2005) that I think we should be discussing include how physiological measures do or University of Iowa do not fit into our field, how evolutionary models are or are not appropriate for [email protected] social psychological models, what constitutes informed consent, and how we Jan Stets (2006) might make our research procedures more public. Univ. of California-Riverside [email protected] Directly addressing this call for more conversation are our website and SPQ Editor our newsletter. They are important for maintaining critical informal Spencer Cahill communication and have been expanded this year. My enthusiastic thanks to University of South Florida [email protected] Gretchen Peterson for her work on the newsletter and to Tim Owens for his maintenance, refurbishing and constant updating of the section’s website. Webmaster Timothy J. Owens Purdue University [email protected] (continued on pg. 4)

Newsletter Editor Gretchen Peterson California State University-LA [email protected] 1 Social Psychology Section Sessions at the ASA Table 2: Ideal, Ought, and Authentic Selves in Inter- action Saturday, August 13th *Exploring the Relationship between Identities, Self-Esteem, and Distress: An Application of Iden- 6:30pm-7:30pm tity Discrepancy Theory - Kristin Marcussen Cooley-Mead Award Ceremony *To Thine Own Self Be True? Says Who! A Theo- Location: Philadelphia Marriott retical Model of Authenticity - Alex Franzese

Cooley-Mead Award Address: Interaction Differ- Table 3: Identities and Marginalization: Conse- ence and Inequality: Cecilia Ridgeway quences for the Self Introduction: Edward J. Lawler *Ethnic Identity and Self-Concept in Adolescents and Young Adults - Aya Kimura, Nancy Miller, R. 7:30-8:30pm Falk, and Samuel Noh Section Reception (co-sponsored with the Section *Sexual Minorities’ Transitions to Adulthood and on Children and Youth) will immediately follow the Mental Health Consequences: A Perspective the Cooley-Mead Award Ceremony. from Coping Behaviors - Koji Ueno

Sunday August 14th Table 4: Emotional Framing and Storytelling *“Take the Shackles Off My Soul, Lord”: Emotions, 9:30-10:10am Framing, and Church Commitment in Lesbian and Section on Social Psychology Business Meeting Gay-Affirming Protestant Congregations - Krista Location: Philadelphia Marriott McQueeney *Storytelling as a Way to Better Understand Ill- 10:30am-12:10pm ness: The Case of Women in Breast Cancer Support Across the Social Psychologocal Spectrum: New Groups - Jaqueline Clark Developments in Methods Location: Philadelphia Marriott Table 5: Potpourri Organizers: Jodi O’Brien (Seattle University) and *Minority Influence, Status, and Divergent Thinking Timothy J. Owens (Purdue University) in Group Problem Solving - Reef Youngreen Presider: Jodi O’Brien (Seattle University) *Social Psychological Correlates of Social move- ment Participation Among Youth - Catherine Cor- Panelists: Sherryl Kleinman (UNC - Chapel Hill) rigall-Brown Douglas W. Maynard (University of Wisconsin) Jane Sell (Texas A&M University) (continued on pg. 6) Richard T. Serpe (Calif. State Univ. - San Marcos)

12:30-2:10pm Section Roundtables Organizers: Alicia Cast and Martha Copp GROUP PROCESSES CONFERENCE

Table 1: Perceived Control: Structural and Interac- Friday, August 12 tional Influences 8:30am-5:30pm * Changing Locus of Control: Steelworkers at the Philadelphia Loews Hotel Adjusting to Forced Unemployment - Elizabeth Legerski, Marie Cornwall, and Brock O’Neil *Effects of Childhood Physical and Emotional Maltreatment on Adults’ General and Domain- Specific Perceived Control - Alex Bierman 2 GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE Robb Willer [email protected]

Robb Willer is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at In Robb’s recent experiment on masculine overcompen- Cornell University. His main areas of research sation, men who were given gender identity feedback are social psychology, collective action, political saying they lacked masculinity were more homophobic, psychology, gender roles, and social networks. experienced greater negative affect, supported the Iraq His dissertation, “Testing A Status Theory of war more, and expressed greater interest in purchasing Collective Action and Altruism” employs ex- an SUV than did men given feedback stating that they pectation states theory to model the status and were very masculine. Women participants were unaf- material rewards that motivate contributors to fected by feedback saying that they lacked femininity collective action. Across three experiments, Robb or not. Robb is currently working on several follow-up finds support for his status-based explanation of experiments to this study. contributions to collective action over compet- ing accounts. This research contributes both to Robb’s research has been assisted by three different social psychology and a growing body of multi- NSF grants written with collaborators Michael Macy, disciplinary research in sociology, psychology, Michael Lovaglia, and Lisa Troyer. He also won the experimental economics and evolutionary biology Javits fellowship (full four-year funding) as well as on the interplay of cooperation and reputation a Sage fellowship (two years). His research with col- systems. His dissertation committee is made up of leagues has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Michael Macy, Ed Lawler, and David Grusky. Annual Review of Sociology, Social Networks, and The Sociological Quarterly. In addition to his dissertation research, Robb is also working on several research projects in a Robb has recently completed the experiments for his wide variety of areas. His recent paper on the dissertation and will be on the job market this Fall. positive effects of government-issued terror warn- ings on presidential approval ratings received widespread media attention this Fall, being noted in , USA Today, CNN, the ELECTION RESULTS Today Show, and elsewhere. To supplement this paper, Robb is currently working on a follow-up paper including both an ARFIMA analysis of Chair-Elect: Judy Howard presidential approval poll results and a laboratory Council: Karen Hegtvedt and Elizabth Menaghan experiment. Bylaws Revision: Approved Robb has also recently completed multi-ex- periment projects on the following topics: 1) the behavioral and attitudinal effects of masculine Thanks go to all of the candudates who agreed to overcompensation, 2) the social psychologi- serve the section if elected. cal basis of generalized exchange, 3) the role of sanctioning in the promotion of unpopular norms (with Michael Macy and Ko Kuwabara), and 4) the role of fear of death in belief in the afterlife. EDITOR’S COLUMN CHAIR’S COLUMN Gretchen Peterson (continued from pg.1) California State University, LA [email protected] Our program for the ASAs in Philadelphia is also meant to address the call for discussion across perspectives. On page 2 of the newsletter, all the section sessions and There are a number of exciting sessions of interest the organizers are listed. My thanks to all these social to social psychologists at this year’s ASA. Along psychologists for their time and commitment. Addition- with all of the section sessions, I have tried to list ally, there is a listing of the section committees for this some other sessions of interest here in the newslet- year on page 7. The section depends upon prompt and ter. One new event at this year’s conference is the efficient work of these committees and when every- Job Market Reception organized by Jane Sell. This thing proceeds smoothly (as it certainly did this year), event provides an opportunity for the students in we sometimes forgot how the smoothness covers up the our section on the job market to meet with social amount of time spent on the goal. Some important an- psychologists from universities that are hiring. nouncements from the committees: First, the Cooley- Two such job candidates, Jessica Collett and Robb Mead Ceremony and Cecilia Ridgeway’s Cooley Mead Willer, can be found profiled in this edition of the Address will be on Saturday at 6:30pm. Our reception newsletter. (held jointly with Children and ) will immediately fol- low. Second, the Student Awards will be presented at See you in Philadelphia! the business meeting on Sunday at 9:30. Also at the business meeting, we will hear short presentations from representatives of the committees and Tim Owens and Gretchen Peterson. International Sociological Association Announcement I have served on committees in different sections, and I have to say that this section is really distinguished The International Sociological Association RC by its cooperation! As a student of the study of coop- 42 (Social Psychology) has been active in the last eration, I would say that this cooperation is the likely year. The Committee was a co-sponsor of a result of a potent in-group identity and a healthy antici- specialty conference on theory and social psychol- pation of interaction. In line with this, I look forward ogy at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland in to our discussions in Philadelphia! June of 2004. This summer, there are four sessions organized by the Committee at the Inter- national Institute of Sociology Congress in Stock- holm, Sweden. The Quadrennial Congress of the ISA will be in Durban, South Africa in July, 2006. ANNOUNCEMENT: Members interested in participating in this meet- Job Market Reception at ASA ing are urged to be sure their dues are up to date for ISA. The number of sessions we can organize There will be an very informal reception oriented is based on research committee membership. The toward graduate students getting ready to go on the job cost of a four year membership for American market. Students are invited to meet other social psy- scholars is $255, plus $20 for Research Committee chologists from universities recruiting social psycholo- dues. On an annual basis, this is roughly equiva- gy candidates. The reception will be on Friday, August lent to the cost of many of our regional associa- 12th from 6 to 7:30 at a room in the Loews Hotel (room tions. Membership information and information to be announced). Watch for details in the listserv an- about the Congress is on the ISA website: http:// nouncements and the section website. www.ucm.es/info/isa/. For further information contact Bob Shelly, Secretary/Treasurer of RC 42 at [email protected]. 4 GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE Jessica Collett University of Arizona [email protected]

Jessica Collett is a PhD candidate at the University interaction. In addition to her solo projects, Jessica of Arizona. Her primary interest is social psychol- is working with Linda Molm and David Schaefer on ogy. This social psychological focus significantly a number of experiments and publications in social shapes the work she does in her other research exchange, as well as with fellow graduate students areas, including family, religion, gender, inequality, on research and papers currently under review and justice. exploring sociological explanations for gender dif- ferences in religiosity, effective strategies for the Jessica’s dissertation, funded by an NSF dissertation incorporation of media in sociology courses, and the improvement grant, examines how intermediar- effects of faith-based initiatives on social service ies’ intervention in a resolution process affects the referrals. Her paper “Socioeconomic Status and the disputing individuals’ perceptions of fairness of one Experience of Anger” (with Omar Lizardo) recently another. Most dispute resolution is between employ- won the Sociology of Emotion’s Outstanding Gradu- ers and employees, family or friends, neighbors, and ate Student Paper Award and is also under review. other groups who have continued contact after they leave the courtroom, mediator’s office, or agree to For the past three years, Jessica has worked in Arizo- contract terms. Because of such ongoing relation- na’s social interaction laboratory, with Linda Molm. ships, a vital component of any kind of dispute In addition to assisting in designing and conducting resolution is how conflicting parties feel about each social exchange experiments and working on related other after the process is over. Unlike previous publications, Jessica was in charge of training and research which focuses primarily on the fairness of supervising undergraduate and graduate assistants in the third-party, process, or outcome, her dissertation the laboratory. centers around how various levels of third-party intervention affect how the two parties engaged in Jessica is also an award winning instructor. Her com- the process perceive each other and their relations. mitment to teaching and her success in the classroom She is also investigating the role that status (dis- earned her both departmental and university-wide advantage, advantage, and equality) plays in such teaching awards. She has taught introduction to perceptions. Jessica plans to follow-up this disserta- sociology, as well as specialized courses in social tion with subsequent experimental and qualitative inequality and education. In addition to her courses projects. at the University of Arizona, in the summer of 2003 Jessica returned to Winthrop University, her under- Other current research of Jessica’s includes an ar- graduate alma mater, and taught two courses. ticle forthcoming in Symbolic Interaction on moth- erhood and impression management. Drawing on Jessica is currently on the job market and plans to interviews with mothers of young children, Jessica finish her dissertation by Spring 2006. She seeks a suggests that women use well-dressed and groomed job that fosters both her involvement in research and children to enact and confirm identities as “good her commitment to teaching. mothers” – and to protect and enhance their own self-concepts – during the course of everyday social

5 ASA Sessions, continued ADDITIONAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SESSIONS

2:30-4:10pm Saturday, August 13th Across the Social Psychological Spectrum: New Theo- 10:30am-12:10pm retical Developments Social Psychology Location: Philadelphia Marriott Location: Philadelphia Marriott Organizers: Michael G. Flaherty (Eckerd College) and Organizer and Presider: Pamela Braboy Jackson (Indi- Linda D. Molm (University of Arizona) ana University) Presider: Michael G. Flaherty (Eckerd College) *Attribution and Commitment in Different Types of Papers: Exchange - Alexandra M. Gerbasi (Stanford Univer- *Where the Action Is Again: Tiny Publics and Their sity) Cultures - Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University) *Verifying and Maintaining Social Actors: The Role and Brooke Harrington (Brown University) of Resources - Jan E. Stets (University of California, *Language and Social Interaction - John Heritage Riverside) and Alicia D. Cast (Iowa State University) (UCLA) *The of : Does Body Weight *Identity, Action, and Emotion in 21st Century Theory Affect The Quality of Interpersonal Relationships? and Research - Lynn Smith-Lovin (Duke University) - Deborah Carr (Rutgers University) *Affect in Social Exchange - Edward J. Lawler (Cor- *The Captive Heart: Women’s Satisfaction and Com- nell University) mitment in Prison Inmate Relationships - Susan Miller (Palomar College) and Diane H. Felmlee (University Monday, August 15th of California-Davis)

8:30-10:10am Sunday, August 14th 12:30-2:10pm Across the Social Psychological Spectrum: New De- Open Refereed Roundtable - Table 16. Social Psychol- velopments in Ethical Concerns ogy Location: Philadelphoa Marriott Location: Philadelphia Marriott Organizers: Karen A. Hegtvedt (Emory University) Organizer: Jennifer C. Lena (Vanderbilt University) and Anna Johansson (Harvard University) Presider: Emily Tanner-Smith (Vanderbilt University)

Papers: *Narrating the Racial Self: Symbolic Boundaries and *Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography: Sex, Intimacy, the Reference Group Identification Among Biracial and Exploitation in the Field - Katherine Irwin (Uni- Black Jews - Bruce D. Haynes (University of Califor- versity of Hawaii-Manoa) nia- Davis) *Even the Rats are White: Power and Privilege in Ex- *Self-Verification, Status, Self-Evaluations, and perimental Methodology - Carla D’Ann Goar (North- Emotions - Michael Harrod (University of California, ern Illinois University) Riverside) *Use of Deception in Research: A View Across Dis- *Volunteer work and trajectories of - ciplines - Anna Johansson (Harvard University) and Joongbaeck Kim (University of Texas at Austin) Jane Sell (Texas A&M University) *Some Positive Aspects of Informed Consent - Joseph Tuesday, August 16th A. Kotarba (University of Houston) 12:30-2:10pm *Regulating Social and Behavioral Science Research: Teaching Social Psychology Workshop Questions of Justice and Legitimacy - Karen A. Hegt- Location Philadelphia Marriott vedt (Emory University) Organizer and Leader: Laura Fingerson (Univ. of Wis- consin - Milwaukee) Co-Leaders: Sharon K. Araji (Univ. of Alaska - An- chorage), Anne F. Eisenberg (SUNY - Geneseo), and Rosemary F. Powers (Eastern Oregon University) Social Psychology Section Committees 2004-2005 Group Processes Session at the ASA Saturday, August 13 Cooley-Mead Award Committee 2:30-4:10pm - Group Processes: Norms, Justice and Edward J. Lawler, Cornell (Chair) Exchange Processes Jody Clay-Warner, University of Georgia Organizer: Shelley J. Correll (Cornell University) Judy Howard, University of Washington Presider: Stephen W. Benard (Cornell University) David Knottnerus, Oklahoma State Brian Powell, Indiana *Explaining Norm Enforcement - Christine Horne (Washington State Univ.) Nominations Committee *Votes, Favors, Toys and Ideas: Resource Characteris- Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford (Chair) tics and Power in Exchange Networks - David R Schae- Viktor Gecas, Purdue fer (Univ. of Arizona) Carla Goar, Northern Illinois *Affective Responses and Attributions in Positively Karen Miller-Loessi, Arizona State Connected Exchange Networks - Gretchen Peterson Kevin Vryan, Indiana (student member) (California State Univ-Los Angeles) *Conflict and Fairness: Explaining Effects of the Form Graduate Affairs Committee of Exchange - Jessica L. Collett (Univ. of Arizona), Da- Jan Stets, UC-Riverside (Chair) vid R Schaefer (Univ. of Arizona), and Linda D. Molm Jessica Brown, Arizona (student member) (Univ. of Arizona) Larry Hembroff, Michigan State *Inferring Just Rewards - Kimmo Eriksson (Mälardalen Kathy Kuipers, Montana University College) and Barry Markovsky (Univ. of Terri Orbuch, Oakland South Carolina) *Selfista, Subgroupista, Groupista: New Results on Program Committee These Emergent Subgroups and the Coalitions They Jane Sell (Chair), Texas A&M Represent Among Pre-Existing Subgroups - Guillermina Alicia Cast, Iowa State Jasso (New York Univ.) Martha Copp, Eastern Tennessee State Michael Flaherty, Eckerd 4:30-6:10pm - Group Processes: Developments in Sta- Karen Hegtvedt, Emory tus Research Anna Johansson, Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Center Organizer: Shelley J. Correll, Presider: Robb Willer Linda Molm, Arizona Jodi O’Brien, Seattle *Gift Exchange and Status Differences: An Experimen- Timothy Owens, Purdue tal Test of Behavior-Status and Social Exchange Theo- ries - Alison J. Bianchi (Kent State Univ.), Elisa Jayne Professional Affairs Bienenstock, Donna A Lancianese (Kent State Univ.), Sheldon Stryker, Indiana (Chair)(04-05) and Vicki L. Hunter (Kent State Univ.) Jeylan Mortimer, Minnesota (05-06) *Legitimacy, Status, and the Acoustic Signature of In- Carmi Schooler, NIH (06-07) fluential Speech - Christopher Moore (Univ. of Georgia) and Dawn T. Robinson (Univ. of Georgia) SSSI Liaison: *Expectation States Theory and Research: New Obser- Kent Sandstrom, Northern Iowa vations from Meta-Analysis - Will Kalkhoff (Kent State Univ.) and Shane Thye (Univ. of South Carolina) Ad hoc Committees *Status and the Legitimacy of Power - Jeffrey W. Lucas Membership (Univ. of Maryland--College Park), Michael J. Lovaglia Lisa Rashotte, UNC-Charlotte (Univ. of Iowa) Stuart Hysom, Texas A&M *The Emergence of Status Structures - Peter J. Burke (Univ. of California, Riverside) Bylaws *Structural Power and Status in Groups. New Theoreti- Guillermina Jasso, NYU cal Approach. - Kinga Anna Wysienska (Jagiellonian Jane Sell, Texas A&M Univ.) Call for Papers Mid-Annual Group Processes Announcement for A Special Issue of Sociological Focus Titled “Group Processes” The first Mid-annual Group Processes Meeting was held in April in conjunction with the North Central Sociological Focus invites papers that contribute direct- Sociological Association meetings in Pittsburgh, ly to understanding Group Processes in a contemporary Pennsylvania. Three paper sessions were organized sociological context. Papers are encouraged across the by Ali Bianchi of Kent State University and Bob broad range of specific theories and varied empirical Shelly of Ohio University. Attendees represented contexts encompassed by the Group Processes para- eight different institutions of higher education digm. and one private employer. The second Mid-annual Meeting is planned for next year at the Southern For further information about this special issue, please Sociology Meetings in New Orleans and will be contact the guest editor Alison J. Bianchi at 323 Merrill organized by Lisa Rashotte of UNC-Charlotte. The Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, or call for papers will be forthcoming from the South- e-mail her at [email protected]; you can also contact ern Sociological Society. Organizers hope guest editor Robert K. Shelly at Department of So- to make this an annual event, and rotate it among the ciology and Anthropology, 129 Bentley Hall Annex, regional associations. Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, or e-mail him at [email protected]. Submission requirements are avail- able at the journal’s web site: http://www.ncsanet. CALL FOR NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS org/sociological_focus/notice05.pdf. Future issues of the newsletter depend on contribu- Sociological Focus will forward manuscripts to the tions from section members. Any ideas for future special issue editors. All manuscripts will be peer teaching columns, theory/reaserach columns, gradu- reviewed. Authors of accepted manuscripts can expect ate student profiles, or other announcements should publication in early 2007. Submit complete manu- be sent to the newsletter editor, Gretchen Peterson, scripts to Sociological Focus, Department of Sociology, at [email protected]. Box 210378, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378, no later than February 17, 2006. The fall edition of the newsletter will be published in November. Any contributions for the fall should be sent by October 28, 2005.

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