The classic Handbook of Social Psychology has been the standard professional reference for the field of social psychology for the past 50 years. Now available in a new edition, this internationally acclaimed resource maintains the high standards of previous editions by recruiting leading experts from all areas of social psychology to bring readers up to date on new scientific methods and analytic techniques and to take stock of research advances in their respective specialties. In addition to a new and diverse group of authors, this edition is filled with new topics, such as emotions, self, automaticity, stigma, memory, and evolution, among others. The editors, who are three of social psychology's most noted researchers, have structured the volume to highlight the many levels of analysis used by contemporary psychologists, while maintaining a focus on social psychology's core concern: how do people think about, feel, and act toward one another? Social Psychology's central questions have changed throughout the past 50 years, and the scientific approaches to them have changed even more. This expanded focus has led to many exciting developments that are detailed in this new edition. All academics, graduate students, and professional social psychologists will want to own a copy of this essential resource.
"The broad focus of most of the chapters and the appreciation they convey of the history of research and theory should maintain the Handbook's importance as the best distillation of the foundations of current knowledge in social psychology." --Contemporary Psychology (on the third ed.)
About the Author
Gardner Lindzey is at Stanford University. Susan T. Fiske is at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Hardcover: 1984 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 4 edition (February 12, 1998)
Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands).
She has written more than 250 articles and chapters, as well as editing many books and journal special issues. She has written three editions of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2008, each with Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She also wrote an upper-level integrative text, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2004, 2010) and edited Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008, with Borgida). On a regular basis, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Schacter and others) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (with Gilbert and Lindzey, 5e, 2010).
Her forthcoming book (spring 2011) is about how we compare ourselves all the time, and the problems this makes for us as individuals, partners, students, employees, and citizens. The book is Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us.
Currently, as a social psychologist, she investigates emotional prejudices (pity, contempt, envy, and pride) at cultural, interpersonal, and neural levels, research funded by the Russell Sage Foundation (2008-2010) and previously funded by the National Science Foundation (1984-1986, 1995-1997) and the National Institutes of Health (1986-1995).
Her expert testimony in discrimination cases was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1989 landmark decision on gender bias. In 1998, she also testified before President Clinton's Race Initiative Advisory Board, and in 2001-03, she co-authored a National Academy of Science report on Methods for Measuring Discrimination. In 2004, she published a Science article explaining how ordinary people can torture enemy prisoners, through processes of prejudice and social influence.
Most recently, she won several scientific honors: the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Donald T. Campbell Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Previously, she won the American Psychological Association's Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest for anti-discrimination testimony and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues' Allport Intergroup Relations Award for ambivalent sexism theory (with Glick), as well as Harvard's Graduate Centennial Medal. She was elected President of the Association for Psychological Science, President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her graduate students conspired to nominate her for Princeton's graduate mentoring award in 2009. She is grateful to them and to all her generous colleagues for these recognitions that all in fact reflect collaborative work. Please see her lab webpage: http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/fiske/
Her expert witness work has familiarized her with workplace discrimination in settings from shipyards and assembly lines to international investment firms, and she has served on diversity committees in several nonprofit settings, including Princeton's Carl A. Fields Center. She grew up in Chicago's Hyde Park (Obama's neighborhood!), a stable, racially integrated community, and she still wonders why the rest of the world does not work that way. She now lives in Princeton and Vermont with her sociologist husband Doug Massey, with treasured visits by daughter, stepdaughter, stepson, and his family.
This review is from: The Handbook of Social Psychology, Fourth Edition (2 Volume Set) (Hardcover)
Since the first edition appeared in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology has been considered the standard reference work in social psychology, offering historic, integrative, and penetrating surveys of the topics that constitute the discipline. All chapters are written by the world's foremost authorities, and the list of contributors continues to read like an International Who's Who in Social Psychology. The fourth edition is not merely an update of the third, but a completely new collection of chapters written by and for a new generation of social psychologists. In its two volumes and 38 chapters, readers will find remarkably thorough and insightful coverage of social psychology's full spectrum of research topics-from mental representation to world politics. In addition to chapters on traditional topics such as attitudes, altruism, and aggression, this edition also contains numerous chapters on emerging topics never before featured in The Handbook of Social Psychology (e.g., close relationships, stigma, emotion, evolutionary psychology, the self, culture, automaticity and mental control). These substantive surveys are complemented by historical essays written by some of the field's most distinguished leaders, and by a full range of highly accessible chapters on methodology and statistics (e.g. measurement, data analysis, experimentation, survey methods). This edition of The Handbook of Social Psychology summarizes the science of social psychology in the 20th century while bringing it boldly into the 21st.
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