Social Psychology, Second Edition Handbook of Basic Principles

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

• ISBN13: 9781572309180
• ISBN10: 1572309180
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book has been replaced by Social Psychology, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4398-4.
 

Author Biography

Arie W. Kruglanski, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is a recipient of the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Senior Career Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Kruglanski is widely recognized for his distinguished research contributions, disseminated in over 200 articles and chapters, which focus on how people form judgments, beliefs, impressions, and attitudes, and the consequences for their interpersonal relations, group interactions, and intergroup relations. He has served as editor of the Journal of Social and Personality Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition and of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He is now a codirector of the START National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

 

E. Tory Higgins, PhD, is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. He has received a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Thomas M. Ostrom Award in Social Cognition, the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Lifetime Contribution Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. Dr. Higgins has also received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science from the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of Columbia University’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Table of Contents

Biological System

Evolutionary Theory for Social and Cultural Psychology

Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Historical Development, Core Principles, and Future Promise

Cognitive System

Prediction: The Inside View

Expectancy

The Principles of Social Judgment

Automatic Thought

Information Ecology and the Explanation of Social Cognition and Behavior

Knowledge Activation

Causal Explanation: From Social Perception to Knowledge-Based Causal Attribution

The Role of Metacognition in Social Judgment

Principles of Mental Representation

Standards

Decisions Constructed Locally: Some Fundamental Principles of the Psychology of Decision Making

Psychological Distance

Personal Motivational System

Feelings and Phenomenal Experiences

The Role of Impulse in Social Behavior

Social Identity and Self-Regulation

Value

Basic Human Needs

The Goal Construct in Social Psychology

Self-Regulation and the Executive Function: The Self as Controlling Agent

Self-Interest and Beyond: Basic Principles of Social Interaction

Interpersonal System

Attitude Change

Foundations of Interpersonal Trust

The Psychology of Negotiation: Principles and Basic Processes

Grounding Communication

Attachment Theory and Research: Core Concepts, Basic Principles, Conceptual Bridges

Social Power

Group and Cultural System

The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations: Social Categorization, Ingroup Bias, and Outgroup Prejudice

Social Psychology of Leadership

Dynamical Social Psychology: Finding Order in the Flow of Human Experience

Inclusion and Exclusion: Implications for Group Processes

Cultural Processes: Basic Principles

Applications of Social Psychology

Psychology and the Law: Reconciling Normative and Descriptive Accounts o

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