Social Psychology Arena

Dual-career Marriage

A System in Transition

• By Lisa R. Silberstein

Dual-career marriage, in which wife and husband each pursue a professional career, offers a window into the changing landscape of gender roles and relations. In...

Published June 1st 1992 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Personality Assessment in America

A Retrospective on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Society for Personality Assessment

• Edited by Edwin I. Megargee, Charles D. Spielberger

Whereas most psychology books discuss current or future trends, this one focuses on the past. It consists of a collection of important and historically significant...

Published June 1st 1992 by Routledge.

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Dual-career Marriage

A System in Transition

• By Lisa R. Silberstein

Dual-career marriage, in which wife and husband each pursue a professional career, offers a window into the changing landscape of gender roles and relations. In...

Published June 1st 1992 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Explaining One's Self To Others

Reason-giving in A Social Context

• Edited by Margaret L. McLaughlin, Michael J. Cody, Stephen John Read

To date, the study of communicated explanations has been, at best, unsystematic. There has been little recognition that many, if not most, explanations are eventually...

Published May 1st 1992 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Life Crises and Experiences of Loss in Adulthood

• Edited by Leo Montada, Sigrun-Heide Filipp, Melvin J. Lerner

A result of a conference at the University of Trier, Germany, this volume mirrors its goals:

* to provide an overview of recent...

Published April 1st 1992 by Routledge.

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Self-Concept

• By John Hattie

The aim of this book is to discuss the notions of self-concept, self-esteem, and related terms from an educational and psychological perspective. Specifically, this book...

Published November 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Cognition in Close Relationships

• Edited by Garth J.O. Fletcher, Frank D. Fincham

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest and research on close relationships and social cognition. In both areas, numerous handbooks, textbooks, and journal...

Published September 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Content, Structure, and Operation of Thought Systems

Advances in Social Cognition, Volume IV

• Edited by Jr., Robert S. Wyer, Thomas K. Srull

If anyone deserves the title "father of social cognition," it is William J. McGuire who, along with his wife and colleague Claire V. McGuire, has...

Published September 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Sexuality in Close Relationships

• Edited by Kathleen McKinney, Susan Sprecher

This is one of the first volumes to examine the interface between research undertaken in sexuality and that in close relationships from a social psychological...

Published August 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Altruism Question

Toward A Social-psychological Answer

• By C. Daniel Batson

Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)?...

Published July 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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