... in this area has lead him to a discursive psychological position arguing that the cognitive social approach is limiting in relation to categorisation and does not go far enough in its explanations of extreme prejudice and bigotry. Whilst paying tribute to Tajfel and Turner's paper on cognitive aspects of conflict (1979 cited in Brown 2007) Billig (2002 cited in Brown 2007) suggests ... emotions are constructed within social discursive interaction. He focuses on how emotional discourses perform in everyday interactions - it is not a psychological phenomenon which needs to be isolated and...

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... not always, for example the more undesirable trait of jealously and aggressiveness as it has no social purpose in today's societies, both the biological and the evolutionary explanations mentioned above gives more very plausible explanations for this. Once we are born the main concern of everyone around us is whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be ... ...

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... the person. As hypothesized, at older ages Americans gave greater weight to general dispositions in explanation than did Hindus. This cross-cultural difference, also as predicted, was more marked in explanations of deviant than of prosocial behaviors. All subjects made greatest reference to the context in explanation of prosocial behavior, an affect resulting from the greater number of normative reasons invoked ... ...

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