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LITERATURE TYPE B: Journal Articles. The above has summarized some noteworthy features of TYPE A literature and its chief contributors. TYPE B literature consists of thousands of single articles published in scientific and professional journals. Some well known journals in social psychology are:

• American Anthropologist

• American Journal of Sociology

• American Psychologist

• American Sociological Review

• Annual Review of Psychology

• Behavioral Science

• Harvard Educational Review

• Human Relations

• International Journal of Psycholinguistics

• International Journal of Psychology

• International Journal of Symbology

• Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

• Journal of Conflict Resolution

• Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

• Journal of Social Issues

• Journal of Social Psychology

• Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

• Psychological Bulletin

• Psychological Review

• Social Forces

• Sociometry

• Trans-action

Some examples of the titles of journal articles give an indication of the topical focus:

Social comparison and interpersonal attraction
A system research approach to organizational effectiveness
The theory of complementary needs in mate selection: an analytic and descriptive study
An experimental study of three response modes in social influence situations
Tasks, bargains, and identities in social interaction
An experimental study of coalitions in the triad
Three cross-cultural studies of subjective culture
Drive theory and manifest anxiety
Personal factors associated with leadership
Social perception of authoritarians and nonauthoritarians
Conflicting group membership: a study of parent-peer group cross-pressures
Relationship between self-acceptance and sociometric choices
The nature and measurement of meaning
Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality
Behavioral study of obedience
A follow-up study in the long-range study of emotional role playing
Air travel across time zones
Note on need complementarity in marriage
Processes of opinion change
Accuracy of judgment of personal attributes from speech etc. etc.

(Note: References to the above will be found in Hollander's book.) As can be seen, the topical focus of TYPE B literature is similar to that of TYPE A literature. However, journal articles usually have a more restricted scope.