A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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SPN Professional Profiles - Directory of over 700 social psychologists. Search by name or keywords of interest, browse by research area, or view an alphabetical list of all profiles. This is the Web's primary site for learning about social psychologists.
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Agnew, Christopher - Personal relationships, health behavior (Purdue U., USA)
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Arkin, Robert - Attribution theory, self-presentation, self-handicapping, overachievement (Ohio State U., USA)
Arriaga, Ximena - Personal relationships, commitment, abusive relationships (Purdue U., USA)
Baldwin, Mark W. - Cognitive representation of interpersonal information (U. of Winnipeg, Canada)
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Becker, Lee A. - Methodology, statistics. (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)
Beyer, Sylvia - Gender, self-perception, causal attributions of performance (U. of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA)
Meta Description: [ Home page for Social Psychologist Sylvia Beyer ]
Bizer, George Y. - Attitudes, attitude strength, persuasion, political psychology. (Union College, NY, USA)
Blascovich, James J. - Social psychophysiology, challenge and threat motivation, immersive virtual environments as a research tool (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Bodenhausen, Galen - Social attitudes, social cognition (Northwestern U., USA)
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Brewer, Marilynn - Social cognition, intergroup relations, social identities and the self concept (Ohio State U., USA)
Carlston, Donal - Social cognition, mental representation, person perception, and impression formation (Purdue U., USA)
Collins, Nancy L. - Close relationships, interpersonal perception, social support, health psychology (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Dunning, David - Accuracy and illusion in human judgment, social perception, accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony (Cornell U., USA)
Eagly, Alice - Attitudes, gender, meta-analysis (Northwestern U., USA)
Edwards, John - Social cognition and individual differences: motivational and personality factors influencing social judgment (Oregon State U., USA)
Meta Description: [ A social psychologist specializing in social cognition and attribution ]
Feldman Barrett, Lisa - Research related to emotional experience, the structure of affect, experience-sampling procedures, adult attachment, and personality.
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Forgas, Joseph P. - Social cognition, affect and social behaviour, social interaction processes, social judgment (U. of New South Wales, Australia)
Gardner, Wendi L. - Physiological and social psychological investigation of evaluative and emotional processes (Northwestern U., USA)
Meta Description: [ Links and information about Wendi Gardner ]
Gasper, Karen - Affect and information processing (Penn State U., USA)
Glaser, Jack - Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination; intergroup conflict and hate crime; unconscious affect and cognition; political decision making and behavior; political ideology (U. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Gonzalez, Richard - Judgement and decision making, mathematical modeling of group processes (U. of Michigan, USA)
Greenwald, Anthony G. - Implicit social cognition, unconscious cognition, the self, research methodology attitudes and social cognition (U. of Washington, USA)
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Gurung, Regan A.R. - Social cognition and personal relationships, health behavior, cultural differences in health and coping (U. of Wisconsin, USA)
Hamilton, David - Social cognition, stereotypes, person perception, attribution processes (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Higgins, N. C. - Optimism, coping, attribution theory, risk perception, aggression, helping behaviour (St. Thomas U., Canada)
Hirt, Edward R. - Social cognition, reconstructive memory, mood effects, social identity (Indiana U., USA)
Holmes, Bjarne M. - Adult attachment theory, romatic relationships, appraisal and coping with relationship stress, gender and power (U. of Massachusetts, USA)
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Hoorens, Vera - Person perception and on self-favoring biases in social comparison (U. of Leuven, Belgium)
Karylowski, Jerzy J. - Social cognition (U. of North Florida, USA)
Kelly, Janice - Group interaction process analysis, social psychology of time, and the effects of mood and social factors on group interaction (Purdue U., USA)
Kirby, Leslie D. - Task engagement, psychophysiology of emotions, motivation and emotion, appraisal theories of emotion (Vanderbilt U., USA)
Klauer, Karl Christoph - Social cognition, cognitive psychology, research methods (Bonn U., Germany)
Klein, Stanley B. - Social cognition, mental representation of self, person memory (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
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Knippenberg, Ad van - Social cognition: social categorization, stereotyping, person perception and memory, habitual and automatic behavior (Radboud U. Nijmegen, Netherlands).
Meta Description: [ Website Sociale Psychologie,
Welkom bij de website van de afdeling sociale psychologie aan de faculteit der sociale wetenschappen. Op deze site vindt u informatie onderwijs, onderzoek en medewerkers.Secretariaat en Coordinator DoctoraalonderwijsHet secretariaat is geopend op maandag tot... ]
Krauss, Robert - Conversational hand gestures, communication and cognition, language and emotions, social representations in language and cognition (Columbia U., USA)
Krosnick, Jon - Formation and change of political attitudes, social and cognitive processes involved in responding to survey questionnaires (Stanford U., USA)
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Lambert, Alan - Stereotypes, the role of political ideology and values in social judgment, consequences of group variability, effects of the self on judgments of others (Washington U., USA)
Lips, Hilary M. - Gender and women's issues. (Radford U., USA)
Meta Description: [ currently Professor & Chair of Psychology, Drector of Gender Studies, consultant & author of three books: Sex & Gender, A New Psychology of Women, and Women, Men & Power; an international lecturer, consultant and researcher on gender and women's issues. ]
Mackie, Diane M. - Persuasion, social influence, affect, intergroup processes, social perception (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Major, Brenda N. - Prejudice and self-esteem, coping with stress, legitimacy (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Malle, Bertram F. - Social and personality psychology, judgment and decision making (U. of Oregon, USA)
Markman, Keith D. - Motivated social cognition, social judgment and decision-making, counterfactual thinking (Ohio U., USA)
McAndrew, Frank - social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and environmental psychology (Knox College, USA)
Meta Description: [ Frank McAndrew, Professor of Psychology, Links to Sites dedictated to psychology,medieval cosmology ]
McConnell, Allen R. - Forming impressions of social entities, self-concept representation, counterfactual thinking (Miami U., Ohio, USA)
Milgram, Stanley - Biography, key references, and quotations from Milgram's biographer, Thomas Blass.
Meta Description: [ The Stanley Milgram website offers the definitive, accurate source of information about the famed social psychologist and his work in the field of obedience to authority. ]
Nelson, Todd D. - Stereotyping and prejudice, counterfactual thinking, attitudes, prosocial behavior, and self-regulation (California State U., USA)
Olson, Michael A - Social cognition, attitudes, racial prejudice, and evolutionary psychology (U. of Tennessee, USA)
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Petty, Richard - Situational and individual difference factors responsible for changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors (Ohio State U., USA)
Plous, Scott - Prejudice and discrimination, decision making, the human use of animals and the environment (Wesleyan U., USA)
Meta Description: [ Home page for Scott Plous ]
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Ray, Jon J. - An academic site giving access to published and unpublished papers on authoritarian personality, achievement motivation, dogmatism, conservatism, racism, A-B personality.
Read, Stephen - Neural network models of reasoning and behavior, use of interactive media for studying and changing risky social behavior (U. of Southern California, USA)
Meta Description: [ USC Homepage ]
Reber, Rolf - Cognitive psychology, with special interests phenomenal experience and judgments, rule learning, and e-learning (U. of Bergen, Norway)
Reeder, Glen - Social cognition, impression formation and attribution process, prejudice toward people with AIDS/HIV (Illinois State U., USA)
Roese, Neal - Causal judgment, social comparison, emotion (U. of Illinois, USA)
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Rose, Paul - Social, personality, and economic psychology (Union College, USA)
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Ruscher, Janet - Stereotyping and prejudice in communication (Tulane U., USA)
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Russell, Gordon W. - Sport, riots, crowd violence, personality of rioters and peacemakers, sports heroes (U. of Lethbridge, Canada)
Meta Description: [ Recent articles and references to books and international psychological research on sports riots, crowd violence, personality of rioters and peacemakers, sports heroes ]
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Sackett, Aaron M. - Social judgment and decision making, judgments of self, self-identity, personal predictions, unrealistic optimism (Yale U., USA)
Meta Description: [ Aaron M. Sackett, University of Chicago GSB ]
Sanna, Lawrence J. - Social cognition and mental simulation, cognitive and affective influences on performance (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Shaw, Jerry I. - Information search and impression formation, psychology and law, jury training, attribution of causality, homophobia, centrality preferences in choice behavior (California State U., USA)
Sherman, Jeff - Social cognition, impression formation, self perception, stereotyping (U. of California Davis, USA)
Sherman, Richard C. - social cognition, processes underlying online self-presentation (Miami U., Ohio, USA)
Sherman, Steven J. - Information seeking and hypothesis testing strategies, illusory correlation (Indiana U., USA)
Shoda, Yuichi - Social psychology and personality, coherence and perception of personality, social cognition, computational modeling of personality processes, health and coping behavior (U. of Washington, USA)
Smith, Eliot R. - Social cognition, past experiences and social judgments, role of emotions in prejudice and intergroup relations, connectionist models in social psychology (Indiana U., USA)
Sokolowska, Joanna - Psychological theory of decision making, risk perception and acceptance (Warsaw, Poland) [some Polish content]
Meta Description: [ Strona Joanny Sokołowskiej dotycząca psychologicznej teorii podejmowania decyzji. Autorka jest profesorem w Instytucie Psychologii PAN ]
Stapel, Diederik A. - Person perception, self perception, social comparison, psychophysics and comparative and social judgment, motivational processing, prejudice and stereotyping, political psychology, consumer psychology (U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Stewart, Tracie L. - Stereotypes and prejudice (Georgia State University, USA)
Swim, Janet K. - Stereotyping and prejudice (Penn State U., USA)
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Tetlock, Philip - Accountability, evaluations of judgments, political psychology (Ohio State U., USA)
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Tormala, Zakary L. - Persuasion, resistance to persuasion, metacognition (Indiana U., USA)
Uleman, Jim - The role of intentions and culture in cognitive processes (New York U., USA)
Updegraff, John - happiness, subjective well-being, emotions, stress and coping, and posttraumatic growth. (Kent State U., USA)
Meta Description: [ Social-health psychologist with research interests in health-related persuasion, message framing, emotions, and well-being. ]
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von Hippel, Bill - Prejudice and stereotyping, implicit memory, self-concept, social cognition (U. of New South Wales, Australia)
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Vonk, Roos - Person perception and social cognition (Radboud U. Nijmegen, Netherlands).
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Weary, Gifford - Cognitive and motivational influences on social perception processes (Ohio State U., USA)
Wegener, Duane - Attitude change, social cognition (Purdue U., USA)
Williams, Lawrence E. (Yale U.) - Nonconscious goals in everyday life, emotion regulation, enjoyment of aversive forms of entertainment, automatic self-control.
Meta Description: [ Information about Lawrence Williams, social psychology graduate student at Yale University ]
Windschitl, Paul - Attribution theory and judgment, judgment of likelihood (U. of Iowa, USA)
Winkielman, Piotr - Affect and cognition, categorization and awareness in social judgment, conversational processes in social judgment (U. of California San Diego, USA)
Zarate, Michael A. - Cognitive processes underlying social categorization, prejudice, and stereotyping (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Meta Description: [ Dr. Michael Zárate ]
Zimbardo, Philip - Prisons, time, shyness, madness, violence and evil, persuasion, dissonance, hypnosis, teaching (Stanford U., USA)
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