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1. Social Psychology

   Edited by Richard J. Crisp

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Gordon W. Allport, one of social psychology’s founding fathers, described the subdiscipline as ‘an attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others’. From pioneering studies in the 1940s and...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
2. Multiple Social Categorization

   Processes, Models and Applications

   Edited by Richard J. Crisp, Miles Hewstone

   'Ethnic cleansing', 'institutional racism', and 'social exclusion' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in...

   Published October 11th 2006 by Psychology Press