Social Psychology Arena

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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Art and Human Development

• Edited by Constance Milbrath, and Cynthia Lightfoot.

Published November 2009

This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part…
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Symbolic Transformation

The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society

• Edited by Brady Wagoner.

Published November 2009

This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question of how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols…
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Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

• Edited by Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven J. Heine, Toshio Yamagishi and Tatsuya Kameda.

Published September 2009

An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted…
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Social Cognition

The Basis of Human Interaction

• Edited by Fritz Strack, and Jens Förster.

Published March 2009

Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has…
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Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

• Edited by Todd D. Nelson.

Published February 2009

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent prejudice researchers who explore key topics, by presenting an overview of current research and, where appropriate,…
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Unified Social Cognition

• By Norman Anderson.

Published July 2008

This eagerly awaited volume presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. The research is grounded in the three fundamental laws of information integration theory. Research shows these laws to apply to topics in social and personality psychology such as person cognition,…
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Social Relationships

Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Processes

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, and Julie Fitness.

Published May 2008

Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful…
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Rationality and Social Responsibility

Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes

• Edited by Joachim I. Krueger.

Published April 2008

This volume brings together a diverse group of authors who have been associated with Robyn Dawes over the years. The breadth of topics covered reflects Dawes’s wide-ranging impact on psychological theory and empirical practice. The two themes of rationality and social responsibility are well…
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