Bücher der Reihe European Monographs in Social Psychology

Michael Billig's rhetorical approach has been key to the discursive turn in the social sciences. In a new introduction, he offers further reflections on rhetoric and social psychology and allows some forgotten voices in the history of rhetoric to be heard.

Offers theoretical and empirical arguments for the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. Phenomena such as social facilitation and social loafing are also examined.

This volume explicates the proposition that many stereotypes originate not so much in individual brains, but in the stimulus environment that interacts with and constitutes the social individual. The authors describe factors in tests such as judgment, memory and expectation and go on to suggest viable ecological learning approaches to them.

This 1986 book describes a large-scale, cross-cultural study of emotional experience and emotional reaction which was conducted in seven European countries and Israel. A questionnaire approach resulted in a wealth of quantitative data that dealt with the emotions of joy, sadness, fear and anger.

This 1991 book addresses the question of stability and change in our concepts of ourselves. The self is described as part of an ecological system, seen as a conjunction of other people, environments and objects. These serve as the sources and settings, instruments and symbols of social experience.

This text provides an analysis of collective behaviour - a central topic in social psychology. It considers why individuals do or don't get involved in collective action.

A 1993 study of social facilitation, the oldest topic in social psychology. Bernard Guerin reviews all the research on how the presence of one person affects the behaviour of another from the first study in 1898. He looks at both human and animal research and develops his own theory, based on modern behaviour analysis.

This book explores tax evasion through an extensive psychological approach, surveys and official records to simulate real-world cases.

A survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning peoples's self-awareness, explanations of their actions, cognitive illusions and self-misunderstandings.

This important monograph systematically examines the ways in which mental illness may affect non-verbal interaction patterns.

Love and money are important aspects of the everyday lives of couples. This book focuses on the daily routines of disagreement, conflict and joint decisions on these, and other issues such as work, leisure and children, create in the household. It is of interest to students and researchers in social psychology and economic psychology.

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. This work documents the negative psychological impact consumer culture can have on how individuals view themselves and on their emotional welfare. It looks at the social psychological dimensions of having, buying and wanting material goods.

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the processes and spread of social innovation: the mechanisms of this innovation are rooted in the conflict that minorities are capable of creating in others and introducing into the social system. These innovations give rise to rejection, discrimination and denial of the minority group.

Originally published in 1991, this study examines the views of politics presented by young people in contemporary Britain. Bhavnani uses ethnographic approaches and open-response interviewing within the broad theoretical framework of social representations.

Originally published in 1988, this book asks the question, how does the political system affect the behaviour of individuals? Granberg and Holmberg use long-term cross-sectional and panel national surveys of electorates in two democratic systems to examine an issue that has implications for our understanding of both social and psychological processes and also political systems in general.

This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life, and looks at social thinking through the complex patternings and functions of discourse. It is based on extensive empirical evidence about the language of contemporary racism and nationalism.

This 1990 volume was written to re-examine the long-standing controversy about consistency in personality from a social psychological perspective. Barbara Krahe reconsiders the concept of consistency in terms of the systematic coherence of situation cognition and behaviour across situations.

Responsibility and accountability are the issues at the heart of this book. An account episode is a four-phase interaction between an actor and an opponent. The basic questions addressed are under what circumstances an account episode is likely to be successful, and under which other conditions it is likely to founder.

This innovative study argues that intelligence is a plural concept, socially and historically determined, and that it can only be understood when the socio-psychological foundations of intelligence have been explored. It becomes clear that 'intelligence' is defined differently by different societies, and also by different sub-groups in the same society.

This 1986 study presents an insightful perspective on public attitudes towards the European Community. It contains a review of the findings from public opinion surveys of the time on this issue, but goes beyond straightforward description to provide a real understanding of European attitudes.

Peter Kelvin and Joanna Jarrett examine the effects of unemployment identified by research conducted since the 1930s and consider the implications of these effects on both personal relationships and the public treatment of the unemployed. The book brings together a wide variety of material.

Professor Peabody examines how different nationalities have different psychological characteristics in this 1985 study.