Self-enhancement is a process by which individuals misperceive themselves by viewing themselves in a positively biased manner. Past research indicates that self-enhancement can have both positive and negative effects on romantic relationships. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role of self-enhancement in unmarried dating couples (N = 124 couples; 248 individuals) with respect to conflict, dyadic adjustment, causal and responsibility attributions, and possible moderators between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment. The results are organized in four sections. First, I found a curvilinear relationship between participant self-enhancement and conflict. At very low and very high levels of self-enhancement there were increased levels of conflict. Second, participant self-enhancement was positively associated with positively associated with increased participant dyadic adjustment, but there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and partner dyadic adjustment. Third, there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and causal and responsibility attributions. Fourth, forgiveness and commitment did not moderate the relationship between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment; however, there were main effects for both forgiveness and commitment - both forgiveness and commitment were positively associated with dyadic adjustment. I conclude by discussing limitations, areas of future research, and implications for counseling.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health attribution and the availability of organized internal resources and response style as measured by the Four Square of the Rorschach Inkblot Test. Forty-two subjects participated in this study. Six major hypotheses were explored in the study. None of the hypotheses was statistically significant. Several factors may have contributed to these results. The small sample size and the homogeneity of the sample limited the investigator's ability to interpret the results of the study. Statistically, health attribution may not be conceptually related to organized internal resources and response style since physical and emotional distress may require different coping mechanisms.

Existing scales were modified and factor-analysed through "prepilof' and pilot studies for exploring relations between academic motivation, achievement, and cognitive factors such as locus of control (LOC), attributions, perceived self-determination and ability. Distinct, conceptually meaningful factors emerged. Thirty-seven hypotheses were tested on Unisa students. Among notable findings were: • Internal LOC related to academic motivation, but treating LOC as a set of distinct factors rather than a bipolar dimension offered more insights (e.g. "Impotence" rather than other external LOC factors related negatively to · achievement). • Little was gained from categorising attributions according to Weiner's dimensions. • Intrinsic motivation and "identified regulation" related positively to motivation. • Students' (especially unsuccessful students') expectations of success and perceptions of their ability were over-estimated. • Different factors related to motivation and achievement in different cultural groups. • Although motivation and achievement are usually positively related, this did not apply to disadvantaged groups. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

A literatura filosófica sobre a Psicologia do Senso Comum se estende desde a década de 1970, e abrange diversas questões sobre nosso entendimento interpessoal cotidiano, nossa capacidade de interação e coordenação de atividades, o arcabouço conceitual intuitivo que relaciona estados mentais e atitudes proposicionais a comportamentos, e os mecanismos cognitivos de leitura mental que nos permitem atribuir estados mentais a outras pessoas. Nesta dissertação eu examino o desenvolvimento histórico desta literatura, identificando dois debates distintos, o primeiro (principalmente entre Paul Churchland e Jerry Fodor dos anos 70 aos anos 90) tendo como foco a relação entre a teoria da Psicologia do Senso Comum e teorias científicas (da neurociência e das ciências cognitivas), e o segundo (o debate contemporâneo) tendo como foco os mecanismos cognitivos de leitura mental e o papel das atribuições de estados mentais e atitudes proposicionais nas teorias da cognição corporificada, situada e estendida. Além do exame histórico do que argumento serem dois debates distintos e da transição conceitual entre ambos, também apresento aqui minha crítica à abordagem eliminativista contemporânea de Matthew Ratcliffe e, como alternativa, articulo os princípios de uma abordagem pluralista que combina leitura mental e interpretação contextual situada como fundamentais para a cognição social / The philosophical literature on Folk Psychology began in the 1970s, and encompasses various questions about our everyday interpersonal understanding, our ability to interact and coordinate activities, the intuitive conceptual framework that relates mental states and propositional attitudes to behaviors, and the cognitive mechanisms of mindreading that allow us to attribute mental states to other people. In this thesis I examine the historical development of this literature, identifying two distinct debates, the first (mainly between Paul Churchland and Jerry Fodor from the 70s to the 90s) focusing on the relationship between the theory of Folk Psychology and scientific theories (in neuroscience and cognitive science), and the second (the contemporary debate) focusing on the cognitive mechanisms of mindreading and the role played by attributions of mental states and propositional attitudes in theories of embodied, situated and extended cognition. In addition to the historical examination of what I argue are two distinct debates as well as of the conceptual transition between them, here I present my criticism of Matthew Ratcliffe\'s contemporary eliminativist approach and, as an alternative to it, I articulate the principles of a pluralistic approach that combines both mindreading and situated contextual interpretation as fundamental for social cognition

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:17:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirela Ferraz.pdf: 775171 bytes, checksum: 4b1f72bc57704c6316d721f36097bdb9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The present research has as its thematic the professional formation in Social Work, with the central issue in the apprenticeship s supervision, allowing to glimpse as the research s object the attributions of the Social Worker who is also the apprenticeship s supervisor, under the perspective of the mediation character. Therefore, such approach will be considering the experience of Social Works and their understandings about the development of the privative attribution, in the daily s professional exercise. This professional exercise is composed by the conditions of the wage-earning worker and mediated by the knowledge in ethics, politics, theories and methodologies that constitute the Social Work. Those knowledges enrich the Profession s legal propositions, as well as, the contemporaries debates about the apprenticeship that are consolidated by the Brazilian Association of Teaching and Research in Social Work (Abepss). This research will analyze this totality, under the reference of the critical theory critical and the use of the methodology of the Oral History, that allows the central issue in the political citizens and it evidences the meanings of their narrations, becoming faithful to the experience illustrated by the depositions of the Apprenticeship s Coordination in Social Work, such as, three Social Workers, as excellent citizens for the development of qualitative research. The bibliographical research will be composed by categories of the area of the Social Work, mainly, the Abepss s publications, and the Education, with the intention to not only illuminate the theoretical body of our profession as well the apprenticeship s supervision s exercise in Social Work / A presente pesquisa tem como temática a formação profissional em Serviço Social, com centralidade na supervisão de estágio, permitindo vislumbrar como objeto de pesquisa as atribuições do Assistente Social Supervisor de Campo de Estágio, sob a perspectiva de seu caráter mediador. Portanto, tal aproximação vai considerar a experiência de Assistentes Sociais em relação às suas compreensões no que concerne ao desenvolvimento de tal atribuição privativa, no cotidiano de seu exercício profissional. Exercício profissional esse que é composto por determinantes da condição de trabalhador assalariado e mediado pelos saberes e conhecimentos éticos, políticos, teóricos e metodológicos que constituem o Serviço Social. Reforçando que tais conhecimentos e saberes enriquecem as proposições legais da profissão, como, também, os debates contemporâneos sobre estágio, consolidados pela Associação Brasileira de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social (Abepss). A pesquisa pautar-se-á na análise dessa totalidade, sob o referencial teórico crítico e o uso da metodologia da História Oral, a qual, por permitir a centralidade nos sujeitos políticos, evidencia os significados de suas narrativas, tornando-as fiel à experiência ilustrada pela coleta dos depoimentos da Coordenação de Estágio da Instituição de Ensino Superior, e de três Assistentes Sociais Supervisoras de Campos de Estágios, como sujeitos relevantes para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas qualitativas. A pesquisa bibliográfica é composta por categorias da área do Serviço Social, principalmente as publicações da Abepss e da Educação, cujo intuito é iluminar não somente o corpo teórico de nossa profissão, como, também, o exercício de supervisionar campos de estágios pelos Assistentes Sociais

Le contextualisme est l'une des approches de la connaissance et des attributions de connaissance les plus discutées à l'heure actuelle. La motivation majeure communément invoquée en sa faveur est sa supposée capacité à fournir une solution satisfaisante au paradoxe sceptique, en proposant de concevoir les conditions de vérité des phrases de connaissance comme variables en fonction du contexte. Si sa visée prioritaire est d'ordre épistémologique, cette conception n'en a donc pas moins d'importantes implications pour la philosophie du langage. <br />Dans ce travail, nous examinons un certain nombre des principales objections, tant d'ordre linguistique qu'épistémologique, adressées à l'encontre de la forme dominante de contextualisme. Nous nous proposons de défendre une approche alternative du paradoxe sceptique, qui diffère de l'orthodoxie contextualiste sur plusieurs questions, dont celles de l'indexicalité du terme de connaissance, de l'analyse de la connaissance ordinaire, de la connaissance anti-sceptique, de l'importance du contexte du sujet, de l'accomplissement épistémique, et de la clôture et l'extensibilité déductive de la connaissance.

Cette recherche analyse la façon dont la politique du logement social contribue à la construction des frontières ethniques en Grande-Bretagne et en France à partir d'études de cas menées à Birmingham et à Marseille. La thèse défendue est celle selon laquelle la politique du logement social participe de façon décisive à la production des frontières ethniques dans les deux pays et que l'on ne peut, en conséquence, opposer un modèle français universaliste, qui serait aveugle à l'ethnicité, à un modèle britannique multiculturaliste, qui reconnaîtrait les différences ethniques et mobiliserait des catégories ethniques. Des deux côtés de la Manche, un racisme institutionnel peut être mis en évidence dans la gestion locale du logement social et notamment des attributions de logements sociaux. Les institutions de la politique du logement social construisent et mobilisent de façon routinière des principes de classification ethniques et développent des logiques d'ethnicisation et d'exclusion (ou de ségrégation) de certains groupes. Le racisme ne se réduit ni à une idéologie, ni à des actes individuels et intentionnels ; l'ethnicisation et l'exclusion de certains groupes du logement social (ou de certains logements sociaux) relèvent du fonctionnement banal, routinier, des institutions. La comparaison franco-britannique conduit à mettre à jour des conditions structurelles et culturelles de production des frontières ethniques. Elle éclaire aussi les apories des politiques locales antiracistes. En Grande-Bretagne, l'antiracisme multiculturaliste, fondé sur la reconnaissance de la « différence culturelle » et des communautés ethniques, favorise l'euphémisation des discriminations ethniques en simples « différences culturelles ». En France, l'antiracisme universaliste, sous-tendu par le mythe républicain de l'indifférenciation ethnique, favorise le déni des discriminations ethniques, euphémisées en inégalités socio-économiques ou attribuées à l'« inadaptation » de certains groupes.

Existing scales were modified and factor-analysed through "prepilof' and pilot studies for exploring relations between academic motivation, achievement, and cognitive factors such as locus of control (LOC), attributions, perceived self-determination and ability. Distinct, conceptually meaningful factors emerged. Thirty-seven hypotheses were tested on Unisa students. Among notable findings were: • Internal LOC related to academic motivation, but treating LOC as a set of distinct factors rather than a bipolar dimension offered more insights (e.g. "Impotence" rather than other external LOC factors related negatively to · achievement). • Little was gained from categorising attributions according to Weiner's dimensions. • Intrinsic motivation and "identified regulation" related positively to motivation. • Students' (especially unsuccessful students') expectations of success and perceptions of their ability were over-estimated. • Different factors related to motivation and achievement in different cultural groups. • Although motivation and achievement are usually positively related, this did not apply to disadvantaged groups. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

A literatura filosófica sobre a Psicologia do Senso Comum se estende desde a década de 1970, e abrange diversas questões sobre nosso entendimento interpessoal cotidiano, nossa capacidade de interação e coordenação de atividades, o arcabouço conceitual intuitivo que relaciona estados mentais e atitudes proposicionais a comportamentos, e os mecanismos cognitivos de leitura mental que nos permitem atribuir estados mentais a outras pessoas. Nesta dissertação eu examino o desenvolvimento histórico desta literatura, identificando dois debates distintos, o primeiro (principalmente entre Paul Churchland e Jerry Fodor dos anos 70 aos anos 90) tendo como foco a relação entre a teoria da Psicologia do Senso Comum e teorias científicas (da neurociência e das ciências cognitivas), e o segundo (o debate contemporâneo) tendo como foco os mecanismos cognitivos de leitura mental e o papel das atribuições de estados mentais e atitudes proposicionais nas teorias da cognição corporificada, situada e estendida. Além do exame histórico do que argumento serem dois debates distintos e da transição conceitual entre ambos, também apresento aqui minha crítica à abordagem eliminativista contemporânea de Matthew Ratcliffe e, como alternativa, articulo os princípios de uma abordagem pluralista que combina leitura mental e interpretação contextual situada como fundamentais para a cognição social / The philosophical literature on Folk Psychology began in the 1970s, and encompasses various questions about our everyday interpersonal understanding, our ability to interact and coordinate activities, the intuitive conceptual framework that relates mental states and propositional attitudes to behaviors, and the cognitive mechanisms of mindreading that allow us to attribute mental states to other people. In this thesis I examine the historical development of this literature, identifying two distinct debates, the first (mainly between Paul Churchland and Jerry Fodor from the 70s to the 90s) focusing on the relationship between the theory of Folk Psychology and scientific theories (in neuroscience and cognitive science), and the second (the contemporary debate) focusing on the cognitive mechanisms of mindreading and the role played by attributions of mental states and propositional attitudes in theories of embodied, situated and extended cognition. In addition to the historical examination of what I argue are two distinct debates as well as of the conceptual transition between them, here I present my criticism of Matthew Ratcliffe\'s contemporary eliminativist approach and, as an alternative to it, I articulate the principles of a pluralistic approach that combines both mindreading and situated contextual interpretation as fundamental for social cognition

隨著台灣社會對於性別平權的提倡與重視，有越來越多的女性投入職場，然而在高階領導階層的男女比例還是有明顯的差距。本研究希望以實驗法深入探討領導者在組織當中展現特定管理行為效果的性別差異，即男、女性領導者展現後效懲罰行為對部屬的影響。由於後效懲罰行為時常會伴隨生氣情緒展現，又後效懲罰與生氣情緒皆屬違反女性刻板印象行為，預期相較於男性領導者，女性領導者展現此管理行為時會受到部屬比較低的評價和工作表現。研究一透過閱讀後效懲罰短文情境並操弄領導者的性別，僅在部屬對女性領導者評價上發現些微符合預期的證據。研究二改採實際模擬互動情境，操弄領導者性別、給予的回饋並及情緒圖片，結果發現女性領導者展現後效懲罰行為時，確實較男性領導者有較低的評價及工作表現，且利用路徑分析發現內在歸因及部分正向意圖歸因的中介效果。綜合兩個研究可以凸顯女性領導者執行特定重要管理行為時所面臨的困境，並期許兩性在職場上能有更平等的發展機會。 / Despite women’s increasing worforce participation, the gender gap in organizations has not changed appreciably nowadays. Women are still underrepredented in leadership positions in Taiwan. This research reveals a delimma female leaders may face when exhibiting Contignet Punishment Behavior, which is not only an important but a counterstereotypical management behavior. Since Contignet Punishment Behavior is always accompany with anger expression, we conducted two experiments to examine whether people are biased against female leaders when they exhibited it. Although study 1 showed only a small tendency that female leader is less evaluated than male leader, we found participants did give less evaluation and work less when they received contingent punishment from female leader than male leader, and the mediating role of internal and positive intentional attribution also found in study 2. Overall, we reveal penalties for women when they display important menagment behavior which is perceived violating gender－stereotypic prescriptions. Implication and practical applications are discussed.