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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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- Steven Foy, Robert Freeland, Andrew Miles, Kim Rogers,and Lynn Smith-Lovin, "Emotion and affect in the social psychology of inequality.",
in Social Psychology of Inequality, edited by Edward Lawler, Jane McLeod and Michael Schwalbe (Forthcoming), Springer.
- Jody Clay-Warner and Dawn T. RObinson, Emotional Reactions to Over-Reward,
Social Psychology Quarterly (Submitted December 2010).
- Miller McPherson and Jeff A. Smith, "Social Distance in America: Homophily among Confidants in Sex, Education, Age and Religion.",
Received R&R from ASR; resubmission planned in January 2011 (in process).
- Timothy J. Owens and Dawn T. Robinson, "The Many Faces of Identity",
Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 36 (2010),
pp. 477-499.
- Piotr Winkleman, "The Social Psychologies of Emotion: A Bridge That Is Not Too Far",
Social Psychology Quarterly, vol. 73 no. 4 (2010),
pp. 327-332.
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Course Descriptions
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- SOCIOL 229S.01, EXPERMNTL STDIES GENDER &RACE
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Sociology
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