Bridging Social Psychology : Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches

by Van Lange, Paul A.M.

• ISBN13: 9780805850949
• ISBN10: 0805850945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-19
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Bridging Social Psychologyilluminates the unique contribution the field of social psychology can bring to understanding major scientific and societal problems. The book focuses on illustrating the benefits and costs of bridging social psychology with other fields of psychology, including cognitive, developmental, and personality psychology, as well as other disciplines such as biology, neuroscience and economics. The editor's hope is that the examination of these bridges will result in new theoretical, methodological, and societal benefits. The 65 essays, written by eminent leaders in the field, demonstrate the relationship of social psychology with: (1) biology, neuroscience and cognitive science; (2) personality, emotion, and development; (3) relationship science, interaction, and health; and (4) organizational science, culture, and economics. The book also examines the key assumptions of social psychology, where the field is headed, and its unique contribution to basic theoretical and broad societal questions (e.g. promoting health in society). Section introductions tie the book together. The book concludes with an enlighteningEpilogueby Walter Mischel. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and advanced students in social psychology wishing to demonstrate the cross-disciplinary aspect of their research. It will also be of interest to those in neighboring fields of psychology, especially personality, organizational, health, cognitive, and developmental psychology, as well as those in neuroscience, biology, sociology, communication, economics, political science, and anthropology. The user-friendly tone makes the book accessible to those with only a basic knowledge of social psychology. The book also serves as a text for advanced courses in social psychology and/or applied psychology. A helpful table, found on the book's Web site, indicates the cross-disciplinary applications addressed in each essay, to make it easier to assign the book in courses.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Part 1: Bridging Social Psychology
Bridging Social Psychology	3	(18)
Paul A. M. Van Lange
Theories as Bridges	21	(14)
Arie W. Kruglanski
Part 2: Social Psychology: General Views of Bridging
The Difficulty of Getting From Here to There and Back	35	(6)
Ellen Berscheid
Traffic Flow During the Last Twenty-Five Years of Social Psychology	41	(6)
Jeff Greenberg
Building Bridges Inside and Outside Social Psychology: A Case for Lumping-Neatly	47	(6)
Susan T. Fiske
Soft Versus Solid Foundations for Bridging Social Psychology	53	(6)
Norbert L. Kerr
Folly Bridges	59	(6)
C. Daniel Batson
On Theories and Societal Practice: Getting Rid of a Myth	65	(6)
Klaus Fiedler
Interdisciplinary Research and Creativity	71	(6)
Wolfgang Stroebe
Coherence in Human Experience and Psychological Science	77	(6)
Robin R. Vallacher
Andrzej Nowak
Social Psychology Deserves Better: Marketing the Pivotal Social Science	83	(8)
Abraham P. Buunk
Part 3: Bridges With Biology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science
A Bridge Linking Social Psychology and the Neurosciences	91	(6)
John T. Cacioppo
Gary G. Berntson
The Emergence of the ``Social'' in Cognitive Neuroscience: The Study of Interacting Brains	97	(6)
Tania Singer
Chris D. Frith
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy	103	(8)
Jean Decety
Sara D. Hodges
Bridging Social Psychology and Physiology	111	(6)
Jim Blascovich
Research on Affect and Social Behavior: Links to Cognitive, Learning, and Neuropsychology	117	(6)
Joseph P. Forgas
Animal Research in Social Psychology: A Bridge to Functional Genomics and Other Unique Research Opportunities	123	(6)
Samuel D. Gosling
Diane M. Mollaghan
Basic Lessons From Observing Nature	129	(6)
Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols
Getting Social Psychological Research Ideas From Other Human Sciences	135	(4)
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Mind in the Organized Social Environment	139	(6)
John C. Turner
Socially Situated Cognition as a Bridge	145	(6)
Eliot R. Smith
Gun R. Semin
How Social Psychology Can Build Bridges to the Social Sciences by Considering Motivation, Cognition, and Constraints Simultaneously	151	(8)
Siegwart Lindenberg
Bridging Social Psychology-Beyond Explicit Measures in Attitudinal Assessment	159	(8)
Fritz Strack
Lioba Werth
Bridging Social and Cognitive Psychology?	167	(6)
Bernhard Hommel
Baboons, Brains, Babies, and Bonding: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mimicry	173	(8)
Ad van Knippenberg
Rick van Baaren
Part 4: Bridges With Personality, Emotion, and Development
Assumptions About Personality and Core Motivations as Hidden Partners in Social Psychology	181	(6)
Charles S. Carver
Building Bridges Between Personality and Social Psychology: Understanding the Ties That Bind Persons and Situations	187	(6)
Mark Snyder
Accuracy of Judgments of Personality and Genetic Influences on Attitudes: Two Major Bridges Between Personality and Social Psychology	193	(6)
Peter Borkenau
Nadine Mauer
Thinking Integratively About Social Psychology: The Example of the Relational Self and the Social-Cognitive Process of Transference	199	(8)
Susan M. Andersen
S. Adil Saribay
Philosophy as the Queen of the Sciences, Emotions Research as Her Bastard Child	207	(6)
Robert C. Solomon
The Social Nature of Emotion and the Emotional Nature of the Social	213	(6)
Antony S. R. Manstead
Love, Hate, and Morality: Emotion and Communication as Bridging Concepts in Social Psychology	219	(6)
Ross Buck
Bridging Developmental and Social Psychology	225	(8)
Nancy Eisenberg
Adrienne Sadovsky
The Self as a Point of Contact Between Social Psychology and Motivation	233	(6)
Constantine Sedikides
Aiden P. Gregg
From Bicycle Racing to School: Competition, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Indicators of Success in Education	239	(6)
Judith M. Harackiewicz
John M. Tauer
Bridging the Areas of Social Psychology and Social Developmental Psychology	245	(8)
Daphne Blunt Bugental
Part 5: Bridges With Relationship Science, Interaction, and Health
The Relationship Context of Social Psychology	253	(8)
Harry T. Reis
Relationship Neuroscience: Advancing the Social Psychology of Close Relationships Using Functional Neuroimaging	261	(6)
Arthur Aron
Identifying the Tasks of Social Life: Using Other Disciplines to Understand the Nature of Social Situations	267	(6)
John G. Holmes
Speaker Perception and Social Behavior: Bridging Social Psychology and Speech Science	273	(6)
Robert M. Krauss
Jennifer S. Pardo
The Behavioral System Construct: A Useful Tool for Building an Integrative Model of the Social Mind	279	(6)
Mario Mikulincer
Phillip R. Shaver
Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: How Social Norms Emerge From Evolved Decision Rules	285	(8)
Douglas T. Kenrick
Jill M. Sundie
Social Relations: Culture, Development, Natural Selection, Cognition, the Brain, and Pathology	293	(8)
Alan Page Fiske
Social Psychology of Justice, Just Division of Household Labor, and the Reconciliation of Family and Work Demands	301	(6)
Gerold Mikula
The Bridge Between Social and Clinical Psychology: Wide but Sparsely Traveled	307	(6)
Mark R. Leary
Bridges from Social Psychology to Health	313	(6)
Shelley E. Taylor
Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Fulfillment: The Social Psychology of Subjective Well-Being	319	(6)
Ed Diener
Maya Tamir
Christie Napa Scollon
Social Psychology and Health Promotion	325	(8)
Gerjo Kok
Nanne K. de Vries
Bridging to Evidence-Based Public Health Policy	333	(8)
Geoffrey T. Fong
David Hammond
Mark P. Zanna
Part 6: Bridges With Organizational Science, Culture, and Economics
Bridging Between Micro and Macro Perspective in Social Psychology	341	(6)
Daniel Bar-Tal
Bridging Social Psychology and the Organizational Sciences	347	(6)
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
John M. Levine
Dissent in Teams and Organizations: Lessons for Team Innovation and Empowerment	353	(6)
Michael A. West
Improving Managerial Decision Making: Lessons From Experimental Social Dilemma Research	359	(6)
J. Mark Weber
David M. Messick
Cultural Evolutionary Theory: A Synthetic Theory for Fragmented Disciplines	365	(6)
Brian Paciotti
Peter J. Richerson
Robert Boyd
Social Context Inside and Outside the Social Psychology Lab	371	(6)
Agneta H. Fischer
A Paradox of Individual and Group Morality: Social Psychology as Empirical Philosophy	377	(8)
Tim Wildschut
Chester A. Insko
A Multilevel Perspective on Prejudice: Crossing: Disciplinary Boundaries	385	(6)
John F. Dovidio
Samual L. Gaertner
From Subtle Cues to Profound Influences: The Impact of Changing Identities on Emotions and Behaviors	391	(6)
Vincent Y. Yzerbyt
Political Psychology	397	(6)
David O. Sears
Maximizing Social Psychological Contributions to Addressing, Social Issues: The Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Perspective	403	(6)
Victoria M. Esses
Antionnette H. Semenya
Monika Stelzl
John F. Dovidio
Gordon Hodson
From Social Psychology to Economics and Back Again: The Benefits of a Two-Way Street	409	(6)
Eric van Dijk
Social Science in the Making: An Economist's View	415	(6)
Frans van Winden
Motivation and Happiness Bridge Social Psychology and Economics	421	(6)
Bruno S. Frey
How Do We Promote Cooperation in Groups, Organizations, and Societies?	427	(10)
Tom R. Tyler
David De Cremer
Part 7: Epilogue
Bridges Toward a Cumulative Psychological Science	437	(10)
Walter Mischel
Author Biographies	447	(20)
Author Index	467	(16)
Subject Index	483