Journeys in Social Psychology: Looking Back to Inspire the Future

by Levine; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780805861341
• ISBN10: 0805861343
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-24
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

Journeys in Social Psychology consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover a time range beginning with the work of Morton Deutsch through to the present, and touch upon virtually every important movement and person in the history of academic social psychology by describing their personal career journeys, the significant people and events that influenced their paths, the major turning points, the main decisions, the challenges, the opportunities, and the setbacks they experienced. These chapters chronicle the history of modern social psychology while hoping to shine a light for future social psychologists.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
One Happy Autobiography	p. 1
Organizing for Surprise: A Career of Arranging to Be Captured	p. 19
From Social Psychology to Neuroscience and Back	p. 39
A Career on the Interdisciplinary Divide: Reflections on the Challenges of Bridging the Psychological and the Social	p. 55
Life Experiences and Their Legacies	p. 69
The Journey from the Bronx to Stanford to Abu Ghraib	p. 85
The Full Cycle of an Interamerican Journey in Social Psychology	p. 105
Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion: The Story of a Career	p. 129
An Autobiography: Why Did Culture Shape My Career?	p. 145
Toward Understanding Social Power: A Personal Odyssey	p. 165
A Social Psychologist Examines His Past and Looks to the Future	p. 189
Some Reflections on 50 Years in Social Psychology	p. 211
A Career That Spans the History of Modern Social Psychology	p. 221
Conclusions: Looking Back to Inspire the Future	p. 241
Author Index	p. 251
Subject Index	p. 255
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