Social Psychology Arena

Social Thinking and Interpersonal Behavior

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Klaus Fiedler and Constantine Sedikides.

Published March 2012

The connection between mental and social life remains one of the most intriguing topics in all of psychology. This book reviews some of the most recent advances in research exploring the links between how people think and behave in interpersonal situations. The chapters represent a variety of…
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Face Perception

• By Vicki Bruce, and Andy Young.

Published December 2011

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In…
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Social Metacognition

• Edited by Pablo Briñol, and Kenneth DeMarree.

Published December 2011

Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and…
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Social Judgment and Decision Making

• Edited by Joachim I. Krueger.

Published October 2011

This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What…
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The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

• By Jamie Ward.

Published October 2011

Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the…
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Theories of Team Cognition

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

• Edited by Eduardo Salas, Stephen M. Fiore and Michael P. Letsky.

Published September 2011

Cognitive processes in teams have been a valuable arena for team researchers to explore. Team cognition research advances and informs a variety of disciplines, including cognitive and social sciences, engineering, military science, organizational science, human factors, medicine, and communications…
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Trust and Conflict

Representation, Culture and Dialogue

• Edited by Ivana Marková, and Alex Gillespie.

Published August 2011

Trust, distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind, although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture, representation and dialogue, this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and…
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Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations

A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer

• Edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli and Robert W. Livingston.

Published May 2011

Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with groups of others. The advances of evolutionary theory, social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations, respectively, as major fields of…
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The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper and William D. Crano.

Published May 2010

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying…
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Minority Influence and Innovation

Antecedents, Processes and Consequences

• Edited by Robin Martin, and Miles Hewstone.

Published December 2009

Social groups form an important part of our daily lives. Within these groups pressures exist which encourage the individual to comply with the group’s viewpoint. This influence, which creates social conformity, is known as ‘majority influence’ and is the dominant process of social control. However,…
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