Bücher der Reihe Frontiers of Social Psychology

The principal processes involved in language production and communication are explored in depth, and their effects on all main social psychological phenomena revealed.

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love, addictions, and money.

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love, addictions, and money.

Offers a state-of-the-art review of the evidence and theory supporting the existence and the significance of automatic processes in our daily lives. This volume provides an introduction and overview of the central topics to graduates and researchers in social psychology and a range of allied disciplines with an interest in human behavior.

This book offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on topics at the frontier of the study of social psychological influences¿including interpersonal relationships like friendship and romance¿on subjective well-being and life satisfaction.

This book offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on topics at the frontier of the study of social psychological influences-including interpersonal relationships like friendship and romance-on subjective well-being and life satisfaction.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and empirical contributions to positive psychology.

Computational Social Psychology showcases a new approach to social psychology that enables theorists and researchers to implemented and test models of processes using the power of high speed computing technology and sophisticated software.

Computational Social Psychology showcases a new approach to social psychology that enables theorists and researchers to implemented and test models of processes using the power of high speed computing technology and sophisticated software.

This book provides a scholarlyoverview of aggression and violence by internationally renowned researchers inthe field Multiple perspectives are taken, including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychophysiology, gender studies, developmental psychology, and family studies. It looks at the two major risk factors for aggressive behavior: individual and contextual. Common individual and group-wide targets of violence are alsoexamined. Other contemporary issues covered include gun violence, the role of the media, cyberbullying and terrorism. The book concludes with work showing how we may make the world a more peaceful place by preventing and reducing aggression and violence.

This book provides a scholarly overview of aggression and violence by internationally renowned researchers in the field Multiple perspectives are taken, including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychophysiology, gender studies, developmental psychology, and family studies. It looks at the two major risk factors for aggressive behavior: individual and contextual. Common individual and group-wide targets of violence are also examined. Other contemporary issues covered include gun violence, the role of the media, cyberbullying and terrorism. The book concludes with work showing how we may make the world a more peaceful place by preventing and reducing aggression and violence.

Social Neuroscience provides an updated and critically important survey of contemporary social neuroscience research. In response to recent advances in the field, this book speaks to the various ways that basic biological functions shape and underlie social behavior. The book also shows how an understanding of neuroscience, physiology, genetics, and endocrinology can foster a fuller, more consilient understanding of social behavior and of the person. These collected chapters cover traditional and contemporary social psychology topics that have received conceptual and empirical attention from social neuroscience approaches. While the focus of the chapters is demonstrating how social neuroscience methods contribute to understanding social psychological topics, they also cover a wide range of social neuroscience methods, including hormones, functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, event-related brain potentials, cardiovascular responses, and genetics.

This volume explores the complex and contentious political influences within the field of social psychology. It reveals how political biases affect theory development, selection of methodologies, data analysis, and the interpretation of findings.

The current volume brings together social psychological theories and concepts and discusses their relevance to understanding substance use and addiction. It identifies convergence points between traditional perspectives on addiction and social psychological theory and research. This coexistence, which acknowledges the value of the conceptual and methodological advancements in each relevant field and attempts to integrate them, promotes scientific understanding and a more effective prevention and treatment of addiction.

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of social cognition from worldwide leaders in the field, whose chapters combine an overview of seminal research with the state-of-the-art in this central topic in social psychology.

The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research.

This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provide an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book¿s chapters cover all of the most critical features of attitude measurement, attitude development, and attitude change. Implicit and explicit approaches to measurement and conceptualization are featured throughout, making this one of the most up-to-date treatments of attitude theory and research currently available.The comprehensive coverage of the central topics in this important field provides a useful text in advanced courses on persuasion or attitude change.

This volume provides a cutting-edge exposition to research on the self. Sixteen authoritative overviews highlight the role of the self around four themes.Throughout the volume, the exposition is both scholarly and accessible. It also offers critical assessments along with thoughtful discussions of challenges and problems ahead, as well as the generation of novel hypotheses. As such, the book aspires to influence the research agenda for several years to come.

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about politics, this volume reflects the exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the contemporary functioning of government.

`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 behavior, and thus are critical for a complete understanding of human social behavior.This volume presents and discusses the latest research into metacognition. Specifically, the chapters are organized into four substantive content areas: Attitudes and Decision Making, Self and Identity, Experiential, and Interpersonal. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and presents a state-of-the-art view of the many ways in which metacognition has been examined by social psychologists.

This volume reviews and extends theory and research on the psychology of justice in social contexts. Incorporating many major theories in social psychology, including groundbreaking work from neuroscience, it brings together two traditionally distinct branches of the discipline: social cognition and interpersonal relations.

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about politics, this volume reflects the exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the contemporary functioning of government.

'Negotiation Theory and Research' serves as a comprehensive overview of the topic with original contributions from leaders in social psychology and negotiation research. All topics covered are core to the understanding of the negotiation process.

This volume provides coverage of the latest social-psychological research into consumer behavior, including cognitive and affective processes, media influences, and self-regulation.