NIH-CSR <script type="text/javascript"> var wmNotice = "UNT Web Archive - External links, forms, and search boxes may not function within this collection. Url: http://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/CSRIRGDescription/RPHBIRG/SPIP.htm time: 15:02:12 Sep 20, 2008"; var wmHideNotice = "hide"; var contextRoot = "https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/js/disclaim.js"></script> <span id="Postingname3_PostingDisplayName">Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study Section [SPIP]</span> (RPHBIRG)

[SPIP Roster]

The Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes [SPIP] Study Section reviews applications for research on fundamental psychological and social conditions and processes, including personality, emotions, motivation, social identities, social roles, social cognition, attitudes and attitude change, individual differences, and small group dynamics and their relation to mental and physical health and substance use/abuse. Social, cultural, situational and experiential effects and interactions are included. Basic studies may include normative or risk processes relevant to health outcomes across the life course [from infancy to old age].

Specific areas covered by SPIP:

Individual differences in personality [e.g., dominance, introversion, achievement orientation], including their development, change, and their role in life transitions and stressful conditions; social and cultural influences on personality; personality traits as they influence and are influenced by emotional processes and states.
Motivation and emotion; motivational needs and orientations; self-regulatory and coping strategies and processes; prosocial and antisocial motivation; emotional experiences and their influence on motivation, performance, and their development.
Self-esteem, self-evaluation, and social identity; self-efficacy and self-control; developmental investigations of these behaviors across the lifespan, including cultural variation in the dynamics of self.
Social cognition; formation, maintenance, and change of attitudes and culturally based beliefs; the relation of attitudes and behavior; persuasion; stereotypes and prejudice; social schemata and representations; social information processing, social perception and comparison; attributional processes; social-cognitive development.
The influence of social norms and roles; the effects of social and cultural stereotypes on self-perception; the relationship between role norms and mental and physical health or alcohol or drug abuse; and the reciprocal effects of goals, values and standards.
Family organization and relationships that do not emphasize intergenerational influences.
Small group dynamics; joint decision-making; emergence of group roles and leaders; group cohesion, identity, and conformity; intergroup conflict and negotiation.
Relation of these processes to mental and physical health, disease, and alcohol, tobacco or drug abuse. Motivational, personality, and social-cognitive mechanisms and models when used to understand applied and clinical issues such as: the development or emergence of mental or physical disorder or addictions; framing and communication of health behavior messages in affecting general public, patient, and/or health care provider behavior; symptom perception; help seeking; compliance and adherence; the therapeutic process and treatment response.

SPIP has the following shared interests within the RPHB IRG:

With Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention [PDRP]: Studies that focus on social/cognitive mechanisms and processes in interpersonal settings could be assigned to SPIP. Studies that include assessment of social cognitive strategies, individual differences in personality, or motivation as targets or components of preventive interventions could be assigned to PDRP.
With Risk, Prevention and Intervention for Addictions [RPIA]: Studies with a primary focus on personality or social cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in addictive behaviors within interpersonal settings may be assigned to SPIP. When the primary focus is on addictive behaviors, RPIA may be more appropriate.

SPIP has the following shared interests outside the RPHB IRG:

With the Biology of Development and Aging IRG [BDA]: Applications with a primary focus on physiological or biological processes of aging could be reviewed by the BDA IRG. However, applications with a primary emphasis on behavioral or social antecedents, correlates, or outcomes of aging, e.g., falls, mood disorders, or social support mechanisms, as well as behavioral interventions to cope with the physical and psychological correlates of aging, could be reviewed by SPIP.
With the Health of the Population IRG [HOP]: Applications focused on macro-level influences on personality, motivation, social cognitive processes or risk behavior, including multi-level studies, and studies that use of these influences to change risk behavior could be reviewed by the HOP IRG, as could studies that directly address clinical nursing practice related to the care of persons, that have an emphasis on nursing science, or that emphasize the organization of health service delivery. Applications concerned specifically with personality, motivation, social roles, and social cognitive processes on the individual or small group level could be assigned to SPIP. The HOP IRG reviews methodological research with broad application to one or more areas in the behavioral and social sciences. Development of measures and indicators of specific social psychological conditions and processes could be reviewed by SPIP.
With the Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes IRG [BBBP]: Applications focused on basic biopsychological mechanisms and processes of affect, emotions, or stress could be assigned to the BBBP IRG. Studies that include emotion as a form of motivation, that examine affective style in personality, or that focus on general psychological mechanisms of coping could be assigned to SPIP.