Psychology, focusing on processes that occur inside the individual and Sociology, focusing on social collectives and social institutions, come together in Social Psychology to explore the interface between the two fields. The core concerns of social psychology include the impact of one individual on another; the impact of a group on its individual members; the impact of individuals on the groups in which they participate; the impact of one group on another. This book is a successor to Social Psychology: Social Perspectives and Sociological Perspectives in Social Psychology. The current text expands on previous handbooks in social psychology by including recent developments in theory and research and comprehensive coverage of significant theoretical perspectives.
This development was facilitated by two factors discussed together in Thibaut and Kelley's ( 1959 ) book . One of these was the matrix representation of interdependence borrowed from game theory ( Von Neumann and Morgenstern , 1944 ) .
The classic Handbook of Social Psychology has been the standard professional reference for the field of social psychology for many years.
`This Volume is everything one would want from a one-volume handbook′ - Choice Magazine In response to market demand, The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology: Concise Student Edition has been published and represents a slimmer (16 chapters ...
This volume of the Fifth Edition covers the science of social psychology and the social being.
"This authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the psychological processes that underlie social behavior.
United in their belief in the possibility of liberation from oppression, with this Handbook, Hammack and his contributors offer a stirring blueprint for a new, important kind of social psychology today.
Unique to this handbook, these narratives provide a rich background for understanding how theories are created, nurtured, and shaped over time, and examining their unique contribution to the field as a whole.
intergroup comparisons but also develop diverse, culturally-based approaches to a range of social psychological issues. Chapter 1 presents a social cognition perspective on cross-cultural research and acculturation as a central concept ...
The Handbook of the History of Social Psychology provides an essential resource for any social psychologist’s collection.
This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes.