Therapeutic Groups

Forsyth, Donelson R.

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“…Baumeister & Leary, 1995). Accordingly, a variety of psychotherapeutic interventions have been established for helping individuals reduce their sense of isolation or need for affiliation (e.g., Forsyth, 1991; Osterman, 2000). If one key to reducing bias contagion is to improve individuals’ sense of belonging, there are thus established educational and social resources that can help in this reduction, including several impactful social–psychological interventions implemented in the United States that do not require large‐scale curricular changes (Cohen, Garcia, Apfel & Master, 2006; Walton & Cohen, 2007; Walton & Cohen, in press).…”

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The Nonverbal Transmission of Intergroup Bias: A Model of Bias Contagion with Implications for Social Policy

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Pauker

2011

Social Issues Policy Review

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Social and policy interventions over the last half-century have achieved laudable reductions in blatant discrimination. Yet members of devalued social groups continue to face subtle discrimination. In this article, we argue that decades of anti-discrimination interventions have failed to eliminate intergroup bias because such bias is contagious. We present a model of bias contagion in which intergroup bias is subtly communicated through nonverbal behavior. Exposure to such nonverbal bias “infects” observers with intergroup bias. The model we present details two means by which nonverbal bias can be expressed—either as a veridical index of intergroup bias or as a symptom of worry about appearing biased. Exposure to this nonverbal bias can increase perceivers’ own intergroup biases through processes of implicit learning, informational influence, and normative influence. We identify critical moderators that may interfere with these processes and consequently propose several social and educational interventions based on these moderators.

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Pauker

2011

Social Issues Policy Review

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“…Perceived similarity in values can lead to someone identifying with a group as a whole. How that individual perceives the values of the in-group they belong to can then, in turn, shape their own values (Forsyth and Burnette, 2010). The result can be that, for many topics, instead of thoroughly evaluating information on the issue themselves, individuals adopt the attitude of the group they identify with (Stroud et al, 2014).…”

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Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”

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Freiling

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New Media & Society

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The use of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the curation of news content by social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter has upended the gatekeeping role long held by traditional news outlets. This has caused some US policymakers to argue that platforms are skewing news diets against them, and such claims are beginning to take hold among some voters. In a nationally representative survey experiment, we explore whether traditional models of media bias perceptions extend to beliefs about algorithmic news bias. We find that partisan cues effectively shape individuals’ attitudes about algorithmic news bias but have asymmetrical effects. Specifically, whereas in-group directional partisan cues stimulate bias perceptions for members of both parties, Democrats, but not Republicans, also respond to out-group cues. We conclude with a discussion about the implications for the formation of attitudes about new technologies and the potential for polarization.

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“… 14 This has been empirically well documented; for further social influences on smoking cessation see Forsyth ( 2001 , p. 635), Quintana (1993) , and Collins et al (1990) . …”

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Collaborative Irrationality, Akrasia, and Groupthink: Social Disruptions of Emotion Regulation

Szanto

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The present paper proposes an integrative account of social forms of practical irrationality and corresponding disruptions of individual and group-level emotion regulation (ER). I will especially focus on disruptions in ER by means of collaborative agential and doxastic akrasia. I begin by distinguishing mutual, communal and collaborative forms of akrasia. Such a taxonomy seems all the more needed as, rather surprisingly, in the face of huge philosophical interest in analysing the possibility, structure, and mechanisms of individual practical irrationality, with very little exception, there are no comparable accounts of social and collaborative cases. However, I believe that, if it is true that individual akrasia is, in the long run, harmful for those who entertain it, this is even more so in social contexts. I will illustrate this point by drawing on various small group settings, and explore a number of socio-psychological mechanisms underlying collaborative irrationality, in particular groupthink. Specifically, I suggest that in collaborative cases there is what I call a spiraling of practical irrationality at play. I will argue that this is typically correlated and indeed partly due to biases in individual members’ affect control and eventually the group’s with whom the members identify.

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Therapeutic Groups

Cited by 6 publications

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The Nonverbal Transmission of Intergroup Bias: A Model of Bias Contagion with Implications for Social Policy

The Nonverbal Transmission of Intergroup Bias: A Model of Bias Contagion with Implications for Social Policy

Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”

Collaborative Irrationality, Akrasia, and Groupthink: Social Disruptions of Emotion Regulation

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