Frontiers of Social Psychology

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1. Personality and Social Behavior

   Edited by Frederick Rhodewalt

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology. Many theories of personality are set on an interpersonal stage and many social phenomena are played out differently as the cast of characters change. At times the study of persons and situations...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. Group Processes

   Edited by John M. Levine

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   It is impossible to understand human behavior without understanding the critical role that groups play in people’s lives. Most of us belong to a range of formal and informal groups, including families, work teams, and friendship cliques. These groups absorb a great deal of our time and energy and...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
3. Social Metacognition

   Edited by Pablo Briñol, Kenneth DeMarree

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. Goal-Directed Behavior

   Edited by Henk Aarts, Andrew Elliot

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Psychology Press
5. Social Judgment and Decision Making

   Edited by Joachim I. Krueger

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What...

   Published October 17th 2011 by Psychology Press
6. Intergroup Conflicts and Their Resolution

   A Social Psychological Perspective

   Edited by Daniel Bar-Tal

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   This book provides a framework that sheds an illuminating light into the psyche of people involved in macro-level destructive intergroup conflicts, involving societies and ethnic groups, that take place continuously in various parts of the globe. It focuses on the socio-psychological repertoire...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Psychology Press
7. Social Motivation

   Edited by David Dunning

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research. This volume provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of major topics in social motivation. All contributors are...

   Published October 11th 2010 by Psychology Press
8. Social Cognition

   The Basis of Human Interaction

   Edited by Fritz Strack, Jens Förster

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Psychology Press
9. Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior

   Edited by Michaela Wanke

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior brings together the most promising and theoretically fruitful research developments by internationally renowned scholars, whose work is at the cutting edge of research. Experts from both fields – social psychology and consumer behavior – provide an...

   Published December 15th 2008 by Psychology Press
10. Attitudes and Attitude Change

    Edited by William D. Crano, Radmila Prislin

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provide an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book’s chapters cover all of the most critical features of attitude...

    Published May 27th 2008 by Psychology Press