Mindfulness in Social Psychology (Current Issues in Social Psychology)

Scientific interest in mindfulness has expanded in recent years, but it has typically been approached from a clinical perspective. This volume brings recent mindfulness research to classic social psychology topics such as romantic relationships, prejudice, prosocial behavior, achievement, and self-control. Written by renowned scholars in social psychology, it combines a comprehensive research overview with an in-depth analysis of the processes through which mindfulness affects people’s daily life experiences. It provides theoretical and methodological guidance for researchers across disciplines and discusses fundamental processes in mindfulness, including its effect on emotion regulation, executive control, automatic and deliberative processing, and its relationship to self-construal and self-identity. This book will be of particular interest to upper-level students and researchers in social psychology, health psychology, and clinical psychology, as well as social work and psychology professionals.

Johan C. Karremans is Associate Professor in the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Esther K. Papies is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.