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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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- " The strength of weak identities: Social structural sources of self, situated identity and emotional experience",
Social Psychology Quarterly (June, 2007) (Cooley-Mead Award Address.).
- Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears, "Loosening the ties that bind",
Contexts (Forthcoming, Spring 2008).
- Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears, "The Racial Divide: Homophily and Heterogeneity Among Confidants, 1985-2004,
Revising for resubmission to American Sociological Review
(2007).
- Noah Mark and Cecilia Ridgeway, "The Origins of Consensual Status Beliefs",
Resubmitted to American Journal of Sociology
(2007).
- "Do we need a public sociology? It depends on what you mean by 'sociology'",
in Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Mizra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton and Michael Burawoy (2007), University of California Press.
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Course Descriptions
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Sociology
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