Bücher der Reihe Springer Series in Social Psychology

We, on the other hand, are convinced that social psychology is, after all, a social science and that a study based on orthodox theories is still eminently significant.

In the fall of 1983, we began to organize a symposium entitled "General Social Psychological Theories of Group Behavior."

When it came his tum to contribute to the discussion, one student brought up an enigmatic journal he had seen in the library stacks: the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.

Psychology has worked hard to explore the inner self. More recently, psychology has turned some of its attention to the outer self, that is, the self that is seen and known by other people. But how is the outer self related to the inner self? The easy answer is that the outer self is mostly the same as the inner self.

Several years ago Coleman (1981) reported that in 1979 one of the many in ternational cosmetics companies had an annual sales figure of $2.

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical work that was performed in a large-scale, cross-university research project on the relationship between attitudes and behavior. Rather, we emphasize cognitive processes and structures that predispose a person's behavior, that accompany behavior, or that change as a result of prior behavior.

This work has the aim of making facet theory, and the approach to research which derives from it, more accessible to behavioral and social scientists than has been possible in the past.

, mood could "automatically" influence the availabil ity of mood-related cognitions and, thereby, behavior, or mood, especially of the "bad" variety, might capture our attention in that if it were sufficiently aversive we might consciously try to get rid of it, a "controlled" or "strategic" response.

"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990"--title page verso.

The study of groups certainly deserves a central role in these disciplines since much of our behavior occurs in groups and many important social phenomena involve groups.

My interest in nonverbal behavior has remained constant for over 15 years. Other works, such as Siegman and Feldstein's (1978) edited Nonverbal Behavior and Commu nication, and Harper, Wiens, and Matarazzo's (1978) Nonverbal Communication: The State of the Art, have provided excellent reviews of the research on nonverbal behavior.

I was in the first grade, I believe, when the ideas that eventually developed into this social psychology of creativity first began to germinate. As a result, the social psychology of creativity presented in this book gives prominence to social variables that affect motivational orientation.

Sports Violence is perhaps the first collection of scholarly theory and research to examine in detail aggression within and surrounding sports. Dunning and Liischen, both sociologists of sport, examine the origins, structure, and functions of violence, of sports, and of their interconnections.