Prototype analysis of the concepts of love and commitment.

Abstract

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Zeroing in on heroes: A prototype analysis of hero features.

“…It is subsequently used to guide information-processing (e.g., speed of processing, memory, interpretation; Mervis & Rosch, 1981;Rosch, 1978). Prototype methods have been used to offer insight into concepts such as love, commitment (Fehr, 1988), modesty (Gregg et al, 2008) and nostalgia (Hepper, Ritchie, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2011). We expect that the construct of hero also has a prototypic structure and that understanding of heroes will profit as a result of revealing its prototype.…”

A disztributív igazságosság fogalmának értelmezése a szolgáltatóvállalat nézőpontjából

“…A kutatási módszertan és elemzés a prototípus-alkotás (Rosch, 1975;Fehr, 1988) megközelítésre épül. A prototípus olyan jellemzők felsorolása, amelyet a vizsgálati alanyok egy adott jelenséghez vagy elméleti koncepcióhoz kötnek.…”

Evidence for a distinct forgiveness prototype: Convergent and discriminant validity

“…For the feature nomination exercises, participants either spontaneously produced lists of forgiveness traits according to the domain in question (thoughts, emotion, communication and action) or they wrote more narrative descriptions. All responses were independently categorized by two trained judges according to linguistic units following a procedure originally proposed by Rosenberg and Jones (1972), and widely employed by other researchers investigating prototype structures of social psychological concepts such as love and commitment (Fehr, 1988), and relationship quality (Hassebrauck, 1997). For this procedure, responses are organized according to the subject followed by adjective modifiers.…”

“…In the 1990s, as attribution theory was assimilated into a broader social cognitive framework, researchers began adopting cognitive terms such as schemas, scripts, prototypes, working models, mental models, and lay relationship theories to further describe lay representations of relationship information. These assorted terms were enhanced by a variety of additional relationship theories including (but not limited to), interdependence theory (Thibaut & Kelley, 1959), attachment theory (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), prototype theory (Fehr, 1988), and selfexpansion theory (Aron & Aron, 1986). While each of these theoretical perspectives account for a variety of relationship phenomena, none of them explicitly describe how relationship information is cognitively structured or organized.…”

“…Thus, researchers have concentrated on this aspect in investigating lay social psychological constructs, including emotions such as anger Russell & Fehr, 1994), hatred (Fitness & Fletcher, 1993), and jealousy (Sharpsteen, 1991), and relationship constructs such as love (Aron & Westbay, 1996;Fehr, 1988), commitment (Fehr, 1999), respect (Frei & Shaver, 2002), and relationship quality (Hassebrauck, 1997;Hassebrauck & Aron, 2001). One major appeal of this approach is that it provides useful information about the content and structure of a concept's features, delineating typical from atypical elements; and it is this graded structure that has been found to play an important role in cognitive processing -influencing memory, reaction time, learning, and decision making (Barsalou, 1987).…”