MIOP: Weekly Readings

History of Social Psychology

• Field Social Psychology
• The long past and the short history of social psychology

Psychological 'Types' in Social Psychology

• The Rebirth and Renewal of Psychological Types
• The five functions of psychological type
• Cognitive Theory of Psychological Types in Solving Problems of Intercultural Communication

Cognition

• Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered
• Emotion and persuasion: Cognitive and meta-cognitive processes impact attitudes

Impression Management / Formation

• Impression management and retrospective sense‐making in corporate narratives: A social psychology perspective
• A diary study of the impression management strategies utilised by industrial and organisational psychology interns
• How to include me: incorporating impression management into the person-organization fit framework

Behaviorism

• The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: The Narrative and the Numbers
• Humanism’s Revival in Third‐Wave Behaviorism

Psychodynamics

• Looking at the gap between social psychological and psychodynamic perspectives on group dynamics historically
• The Psychodynamics of Performance Anxiety: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Cognition

• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition
• Social Cognition in the Real World: Reconnecting the Study of Social Cognition With Social Reality

Cognitive Heuristics

• Heuristics as adaptive decision strategies in management
• Social Heuristics and Social Roles: Intuition Favors Altruism for Women but Not for Men

Attitude

• Rethinking attitudes and social psychology - issues of function, order, and combination in subject-side and object-side assessments in natural settings
• Attitude strength: Distinguishing predictors versus defining features

Schemas

• Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making
• Implicit bias and social schema: a transactive memory approach

Affect

• The Acute Relationships Between Affect, Physical Feeling States, and Physical Activity in Daily Life: A Review of Current Evidence
• Bodies, Representations, Situations, Practices: Qualitative Research on Affect, Emotion and Feeling

Attribution Theory (Heider, 1958)

• Attribution Theory in the Organizational Sciences: The Road Traveled and the Path Ahead
• Teaching Scientific Reasoning through Attribution Theory
• Reflections on the History of Attribution Theory and Research: People, Personalities, Publications, Problems

Correspondent Interference Theory (Jones and Davis, 1965)

• Distinguishing Judgments About What From Judgments About Why : Effects of Behavior Extremity on Correspondent Inferences and Causal Attributions
• Correspondent Interference Theory

Covariation Theory (Kelly, 1967)

• Models of covariation-based causal judgment: A review and synthesis
• The effect of previous causal knowledge on the persuasive strength of confirming covariation data

Schema Theory (Bartlett, 1932)

• The serial reproduction of an urban myth: revisiting Bartlett’s schema theory
• Schema theory revisited
• Schema Theory: A Critical Appraisal and Reevaluation

Attitude Structure (Allport, 1935)

• Individual Differences in Attitude Structure and the Accessibility of the Affective and Cognitive Components of Attitude
• Attitudes: Content, Structure and Functions

Implicit / Explicit Measures

• Temporal Stability of Implicit and Explicit Measures: A Longitudinal Analysis
• Investigating the predictive validity of implicit and explicit measures of motivation in problem-solving behavioural tasks

Persuasion

• Language and persuasion: A discursive psychological approach
• Within-Individual Increases in Innovative Behavior and Creative, Persuasion, and Change Self-Efficacy Over Time: A Social-Cognitive Theory Perspective

Metacognition

• The Perceptual and Social Components of Metacognition
• How to measure metacognition

Valance of Thinking

• Emotion and persuasion: Cognitive and meta-cognitive processes impact attitudes
• Activation and Valence in Responses to Organizational Change: Development and Validation of the Change Response Circumplex Scale

Social Influence

• Exploring the determinants of knowledge adoption in virtual communities: A social influence perspective
• The Role of Executive Symbolism in Advancing New Strategic Themes in Organizations: A Social Influence Perspective

Prosocial & Aggressive Behavior

• The Bright Side of Being Prosocial at Work, and the Dark Side, Too: A Review and Agenda for Research on Other-Oriented Motives, Behavior, and Impact in Organizations
• Now You Do It, Now You Don’t: The Mixed Blessing of Creative Deviance as a Prosocial Behavior

Motivation Theories

• From Needs to Goals and Representations: Foundations for a Unified Theory of Motivation, Personality, and Development
• Motivation to learn: an overview of contemporary theories

Forms & Functions of Aggression

• Two types of aggression in human evolution
• “First, Do No Harm”: The Role of Negative Emotions and Moral Disengagement in Understanding the Relationship Between Workplace Aggression and Misbehavior

Aggression Reduction

• Understanding the connection between self-esteem and aggression: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation
• Blame It on the Supervisor or the Subordinate? Reciprocal Relations Between Abusive Supervision and Organizational Deviance

Persuasion & Ethics

• Putting persuasion (back) in its interactional context
• The Consumers’ Emotional Dog Learns to Persuade Its Rational Tail: Toward a Social Intuitionist Framework of Ethical Consumption

Groupthink

• Groupthink and Project Performance: The Influence of Personal Traits and Interpersonal Ties
• The drawbacks of group decision making from a psychological aspect The pitfalls of groupthink and how to handle them

Theories of Perception

• Cognitive Dissonance: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
• Sartre and Merleau-Ponty’s Theories of Perception as Cognition in the Context of Phenomenological Thought in Cognitive Sciences

The Self as Research Instrument

• The Distributed Use of Self-as-Instrument for Improvement of Organizational Safety Culture
• Using one’s self as an instrument for organizational diagnosis

Decision Making at Work

• Participate or else!: The effect of participation in decision-making in meetings on employee engagement
• The Ethics of Meaningful Work: Types and Magnitude of Job-Related Harm and the Ethical Decision-Making Process

Unintentional Bias

• Unconscious Bias: Definition and Significance
• Defeating Unconscious Bias: The Role of a Structured, Reflective, and Interactive Workshop

Group Dynamics

• Kurt Lewin: 70 Years on
• Understanding the group dynamics and success of teams

Organizational Culture

• Introduction to Organizational Psycholinguistics
• High-performance human resource practices, organizational identification and employee commitment: the moderating role of organizational culture

Cross-cultural Dynamics

• Dimensions and Dynamics of National Culture: Synthesizing Hofstede With Inglehart
• The Implicit Legacy of American Protestantism

Hofstede's Theory

• A test of Hofstede’s model of culture following his own approach
• Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and management in corporations

Native American Organizational Culture

• All My Relations: An Inquiry into a Spirit of a Native American Philosophy of Business
• Native American Cultural Capital and Business Strategy: The Culture-of-Origin Effect

Interpersonal Communication

• Challenges for meaningful interpersonal communication in a digital era
•  Interpersonal communication in small groups

Schein's Structure of Organizational Culture

• Opinions: All About Culture
• Organizational culture, innovation, and performance: A test of Schein’s model

Empathy in Organizations

• Unraveling the Complexities of Empathy Research: A Multi-Level Model of Empathy in Organizations
• I feel your pain: A critical review of organizational research on empathy

Emotions in Organizations

• Emotion in Organizations: Considerations for Family Firms
• Age and Emotions in Organizations: Main, Moderating, and Context-Specific Effects

Intercultural Communication

• Identifying Cultural Differences in Metacognition 
• Analysis of Intercultural Communication in Organizations