Applied Social Psychology

by Brewer, Marilynn B.; Hewstone, Miles

• ISBN13: 9781405110679
• ISBN10: 1405110678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Applied Social Psychology is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the applications of social psychological theory and research in various domains of personal, institutional, and societal well-being. The readings have been selected to illustrate how social psychological analyses of individual, interpersonal, and group level processes have contributed to important areas of applied psychology in roles that are both descriptive and prescriptive. The book is organized into three sections: Part I reviews the role of social psychological factors in physical and mental health; Part II examines the role of social psychology in social institutions such as law, politics, and social policy; and Part III considers the interface between social psychological processes and social institutions in the world of business and commerce.

Author Biography

Marilynn B. Brewer is Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Her primary research interests include social cognition, intergroup relations, and social identities and the self concept. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Intergroup Relations (with Norman Miller, 1996), and has served as President of the American Psychological Association and as editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology.

Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at Oxford University. His current research interests include the reduction of intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, and the social influence of majorities and minorities. He is the author of many books and articles, including Introduction to Social Psychology (edited with Wolfgang Stroebe and Geoffrey M. Stephenson, Third Edition 2001). He is founding co-editor of the European Review of Social Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	ix
Part I: Mental and Physical Health	1	(110)
Dealing with Adversity: Self-regulation, Coping, Adaptation, and Health	3	(25)
Lisa G. Aspinwall
Attachment Style and Affect Regulation: Implications for Coping with Stress and Mental Health	28	(22)
Mario Mikulincer
Victor Florian
Marital Therapy and Social Psychology: Will We Choose Explicit Partnership or Cryptomnesia?	50	(29)
Steven R. H. Beach
Frank D. Fincham
Therapeutic Groups	79	(32)
Donelson R. Forsyth
Part II: Law and Politics	111	(132)
Psychology and Law	113	(23)
Gunther Kohnken
Maria Fiedler
Charlotte Mohlenbeck
Procedural Mechanisms and Jury Behavior	136	(29)
R. Scott Tindale
Janice Nadler
Andrea Krebel
James H. Davis
The Psychological Determinants of Political Judgment	165	(21)
Victor C. Ottati
When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations	186	(20)
Janet W. Schofield
Rebecca Eurich-Fulcer
Addressing and Redressing Discrimination: Affirmative Action in Social Psychological Perspective	206	(19)
Faye J. Crosby
Bernardo M. Ferdman
Blanche R. Wingate
Intergroup Relations and National and International Relations	225	(18)
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Part III: Business and Organizational Behavior	243	(99)
Consumer Behavior	245	(23)
Sharon Shavitt
Michaela Wanke
The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation	268	(33)
Max H. Bazerman
Jared R. Curhan
Don A. Moore
Communication Technologies, the Internet, and Group Research	301	(17)
Andrea B. Hollingshead
Group Processes in Organizational Contexts	318	(24)
Joseph E. McGrath
Linda Argote
Author Index	342	(8)
Subject Index	350