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Lynn Smith-Lovin, Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology
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Lynn Smith-Lovin
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Short Description of Research
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Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology
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348A Soc/Psych |
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(919) 660-5786 |
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(919) 660-5623 |
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Tuesday and Thursday 2-3:30pm |
Social Psychology,
Emotions,
Gender
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| I study identity, action and emotional response. I’m interested in the basic question of how identities affect social interaction. I use experimental, observational, survey and simulation methods to describe how identities, actions and emotions are interrelated. The experiments I do usually involve creating social situations where unusual things happen to people, then seeing how they respond behaviorally or emotionally. I observe small task group interactions to see how identities influence conversational behavior. My survey work often focuses on gender and other social positions that influence the groups and networks in which people are imbedded. My simulations studies involve affect control theory, a mathematical model of how identities, actions and emotions affect one another. Now, I’m putting affect control theory together with McPherson’s ecological theory of affiliation to show how social systems, identities, and emotional experience are connected.
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Selected Publications/Recent
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- Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears, "Models and Marginals: Using Survey Data to Study Social Networks.",
American Sociological Review, vol. 74 no. 3 (August 2009),
pp. 670-81.
- Noah Mark and Cecilia Ridgeway, "Why Do Nominal Characteristics Acquire Status Value? A Minimal Explanation for Status Construction",
American Journal of Sociology (November 2009).
- with Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears, "Social Isolation in America: Changes in core discussion networks over two decades",
in Social Pathology: An Introduction
(2008), ICFAI Research Center.
- Noah Mark and Cecilia Ridgeway, "The Origins of Consensual Status Beliefs",
Resubmitted to American Journal of Sociology (2008).
- Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears, "Loosening the ties that bind",
Contexts (2008).
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Course Descriptions
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- SOCIOL 190AS.01, SOCIOLOGY HONORS SEMINAR
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Sociology
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