Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

by Kruglanski, Arie W.; Higgins, E. Tory

• ISBN13: 9780805895483
• ISBN10: 0805895485
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-10
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This special issue features papers that offer deeply felt, valuable perspectives on diverse aspects of theory construction in social-personality psychology. The goal is to furnish a basis for starting a discussion about the considerable challenges of theorizing, the ways of meeting those challenges, and the great rewards that successful theorizing offers to the discipline as a whole.

Table of Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE: THEORY CONSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS LEARNED
Arie W. Kruglanski
E. Tory Higgins
Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned	96	(2)
Arie W. Kruglanski
E. Tory Higgins
Metatheory: Lessons from Social Identity Research	98	(9)
Dominic Abrams
Michael A. Hogg
Taking the Social Origins of Human Nature Seriously: Toward a More Imperialist Social Psychology	107	(7)
Marilynn B. Brewer
Common Sense, Intuition, and Theory in Personality and Social Psychology	114	(9)
John T. Cacioppo
Tools, Toys, Truisms, and Theories: Some Thoughts on the Creative Cycle of Theory Formation	123	(9)
Klaus Fiedler
Mind the Gap: In Praise of Informal Sources of Formal Theory	132	(6)
Susan T. Fiske
Making a Theory Useful: Lessons Handed Down	138	(8)
E. Tory Higgins
The Benefits of Abstract Functional Analysis in Theory Construction: The Case of Interdependence Theory	146	(10)
John G. Holmes
The Quest for the Gist: On Challenges of Going Abstract in Social and Personality Psychology	156	(8)
Arie W. Kruglanski
Collaboration: The Social Context of Theory Development	164	(9)
John M. Levine
Richard L. Moreland
A Perspectivist Approach to Theory Construction	173	(10)
William J. McGuire
Dynamical Minimalism: Why Less is More in Psychology	183	(10)
Andrzej Nowak
Theory in Social Psychology: Seeing the Forest and the Trees	193	(8)
Yaacov Trope
A Personalized Theory of Theory Construction	201	(9)
Robert S. Wyer, Jr.
The Naive Epistemology of a Working Social Psychologist (Or the Working Epistemology of a Naive Social Psychologist): The Value Of Taking ``Temporary Givens'' Seriously	210
Mark P. Zanna