Handbook of Social Psychology: Volume One - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470137487 ISBN 13: 9780470137482

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. The field has since evolved and expanded tremendously, and in each subsequent edition, The Handbook of Social Psychology is still the foremost reference that academics, researchers, and graduate students in psychology turn to for the most current, well-researched, and thorough information covering the field of social psychology. This volume of the Fifth Edition covers the science of social psychology and the social being.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan T. Fiske, Ph.D.?is author of numerous journal articles and the Wiley college textbook, Social Beings, 1998, and with Gardner Lindzey and Daniel Gilbert, editor of the 4th edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology, McGraw-Hill 1998. Current editor of Annual Review of Psychology, (2000-2010). Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power.

Daniel T. Gilbert, Ph.D. His popular Stumbling onto Happiness, published by Knopf in May 2006 reflects his research on affective forecasting, which is an attempt to understand how and how well people predict their emotional reactions to future events.

Gardner Lindzey, Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences, Stanford, CA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470137487
• ISBN 13: 9780470137482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 896
• Editor: Fiske Susan T., Gilbert Daniel T., Lindzey Gardner