| The Sage Handbook of Social Psychology Contributor(s): Hogg, Michael (Editor), Cooper, Joel M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761966366 ISBN-13: 9780761966364 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 301.1 |
| LCCN: 2002114575 |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 7.12" W x 9.92" (2.49 lbs) 526 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is everthing one would want from a one-volume handbook of social psychology or, indeed, of any scientific discipline. Comprehensive in scope, authoritative, clearly written, and detailed, it covers not only the usual topics one would expect in such a survey--history, methodology, social cognition, emotions, interpersonal relations and relationships, and group processes, both positive and negative--but also those especially relevant to social psychology as it enters its second century. The volume is edited by two of the most prominent social psychologists in their own right, and the list of contributors is a veritable who′s who of the discipline but also includes a number of younger and non-US-based scholars. Essential. No library should be without this book. --CHOICE This is a comprehensive, scholarly, up-to-date survey of the field of social psychology for the new millennium - a single volume Handbook containing 23 chapters by leading researchers from around the world. It is a state of the art text with an eye to the future, in which rich integrative chapters are thorough analytic reviews. The chapters fall into 5 sections that reflect the scope of social psychology as a global scientific endeavour - history and nature of social psychology, individual processes, interpersonal processes, processes within groups, and intergroup processes and society. The book is edited by Michael Hogg and Joel Cooper, with Dominic Abrams, Elliot Aronson, and Shelley Taylor acting as advisory editors. The main featu |
Contributor Bio(s): Cooper, Joel M.: - Joel M. Cooper is the owner/CEO at Red Scientific, Inc. He received a PhD in cognition and neural science in 2010 from the University of Utah.Hogg, Michael: - Michael Hogg is Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Kent and the University of Queensland. His research focuses on social identity processes within and between large and small groups, and he has published widely on topics including intergroup relations, group cohesion, leadership, group motivations, and conformity processes. Professor Hogg is co-editor of the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Senior Consulting Editor for the SAGE Social Psychology Program. He is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Western Psychological Association, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Michael Hogg' home page: http: //www.cgu.edu/pages/3948.asp Social Identity Lab: http: //www.cgu.edu/pages/5271.asp |
