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Expectancy violations and the search for meaning among breast cancer survivors.

The journal of positive psychology

Schlegel RJ, Manning MA, Bettencourt BA.
PMID: 24400022
J Posit Psychol. 2013 Sep 01;8(5). doi: 10.1080/17439760.2013.807354.

A number of theoretical perspectives suggest that expectancy violations (EVs) threaten a person's sense of meaning and prompt efforts to reinstate meaning. Yet, little to no research has explicitly examined whether EVs predict actual efforts to search for meaning....

Reducing Racial Health Care Disparities: A Social Psychological Analysis.

Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences

Penner LA, Blair IV, Albrecht TL, Dovidio JF.
PMID: 25705721
Policy Insights Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Oct;1(1):204-212. doi: 10.1177/2372732214548430.

Large health disparities persist between Black and White Americans. The social psychology of intergroup relations suggests some solutions to health care disparities due to racial bias. Three paths can lead from racial bias to poorer health among Black Americans....

Modeling the sustainability of community health networks: novel approaches for analyzing collaborative organization partnerships across time.

Translational behavioral medicine

Manning MA, Bollig-Fischer A, Bobovski LB, Lichtenberg P, Chapman R, Albrecht TL.
PMID: 24653776
Transl Behav Med. 2014 Mar;4(1):46-59. doi: 10.1007/s13142-013-0220-5.

Sustainability is important if community health organizations are to be effective in collaborating to achieve long term health goals. We present a multi-method set of longitudinal analyses examining structural markers applied to a group of organizations brought together to...

Racial Healthcare Disparities: A Social Psychological Analysis.

European review of social psychology

Penner LA, Hagiwara N, Eggly S, Gaertner SL, Albrecht TL, Dovidio JF.
PMID: 25197206
Eur Rev Soc Psychol. 2013;24(1):70-122. doi: 10.1080/10463283.2013.840973.

Around the world, members of racial/ethnic minority groups typically experience poorer health than members of racial/ethnic majority groups. The core premise of this article is that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to race and ethnicity play a critical role...

The effects of racial attitudes on affect and engagement in racially discordant medical interactions between non-Black physicians and Black patients.

Group processes & intergroup relations : GPIR

Hagiwara N, Dovidio JF, Eggly S, Penner LA.
PMID: 27642254
Group Process Intergroup Relat. 2016 Jul;19(4):509-527. doi: 10.1177/1368430216641306. Epub 2016 May 03.

The association between physicians' and patients' racial attitudes and poorer patient-physician communication in racially discordant medical interactions is well-documented. However, it is unclear how physicians' and patients' racial attitudes independently and jointly affect their behaviors during these interactions. In...