Table of Contents

I. Biological System
1. Evolutionary Theory for Social and Cultural Psychology, Linnda R. Caporael
2. Visceral and Somatic Indexes of Social Psychological Constructs: History, Principles, Propositions, and Case Studies, Jim Blascovich & Mark D. Seery
3. Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Historical Development, Core Principles, and Future Promise, Kevin N. Ochsner
II. Cognitive System
4. Prediction: The Inside View, David Dunning
5. Expectancy, Neal J. Roese & Jeffrey W. Sherman
6. The Principles of Social Judgment, Arie W. Kruglanski & David Sleeth-Keppler
7. Automatic Thought, Susan M. Andersen, Gordon B. Moskowitz, Irene V. Blair, & Brian A. Nosek
8. Information Ecology and the Explanation of Social Cognition and Behavior, Klaus Fiedler
9. Knowledge Activation, Jens Förster & Nira Liberman
10. Causal Explanation: From Social Perception to Knowledge-Based Causal Attribution, Denis Hilton
11. The Role of Metacognition in Social Judgment, Richard E. Petty, Pablo Briñol, Zakary L. Tormala, & Duane T. Wegener
12. Principles of Mental Representation, Robert S. Wyer, Jr.
13. Standards, Monica Biernat and Scott Eidelman
14. Decisions Constructed Locally: Some Fundamental Principles of the Psychology of Decision Making, Eldar Shafir
15. Psychological Distance, Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope, & Elena Stephan
III. Personal Motivational System
16. Feelings and Phenomenal Experiences, Norbert Schwarz & Gerald L. Clore
17. The Role of Impulse in Social Behavior, Fritz Strack & Roland Deutsch
18. Social Identity and Self-Regulation, Daphna Oyserman
19. Value, E. Tory Higgins
20. Basic Human Needs, Thane S. Pittman & Kate R. Zeigler
21. The Goal Construct in Social Psychology, Ayelet Fishbach & Melissa J. Ferguson
22. Self-Regulation and the Executive Function: The Self as Controlling Agent, Roy F. Baumeister, Brandon J. Schmeichel, & Kathleen D. Vohs
23. Self-Interest and Beyond: Basic Principles of Social Interaction, Paul A. M. Van Lange, David De Cremer, Eric Van Dijk, & Mark Van Vugt
IV. Interpersonal System
24. Attitude Change, Gregory R. Maio & Geoffrey Haddock
25. Foundations of Interpersonal Trust, Jeffry A. Simpson
26. The Psychology of Negotiation: Principles and Basic Processes, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Bianca Beersma, Wolfgang Steinel, & Gerben A. Van Kleef
27. Grounding Communication: Synchrony, Gün R. Semin
28. Attachment Theory and Research: Core Concepts, Basic Principles, Conceptual Bridges, Phillip R. Shaver & Mario Mikulincer
29. Social Power, Susan T. Fiske & Jennifer Berdahl
V. Group and Cultural System
30. The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations: Social Categorization, Ingroup Bias, and Outgroup Prejudice, Marilynn B. Brewer
31. Social Psychology of Leadership, Michael A. Hogg
32. Dynamical Social Psychology: Finding Order in the Flow of Human Experience, Robin R. Vallacher & Andrzej Nowak
33. Inclusion and Exclusion: Implications for Group Processes, John M. Levine & Norbert L. Kerr
34. Cultural Processes: Basic Principles, Chi-yue Chiu & Ying-yi Hong
VI. Applications of Social Psychology
35. Psychology and the Law: Reconciling Normative and Descriptive Accounts of Social Justice and System Legitimacy, Tom R. Tyler & John T. Jost
36. The Reciprocal Relation between Principles and Practice: Social Psychology and Health Behavior, Alexander J. Rothman & Peter Salovey
37. Contributions of Social Psychology to Clinical Psychology: Three Views of a Research Frontier, Timothy J. Strauman, Philip R. Costanzo, Neil P. Jones, Amy Noll McLean, & Kari A. Merrill
38. Consumer Behavior and Marketing, Eric J. Johnson, Michel Tuan Pham, & Gita Venkataramani Johar
39. Psychology and Politics: The Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Social Science, Philip E. Tetlock
40. Organizational Behavior, Leigh Thompson & Jo-Ellen Pozner
41. Social Action, Mark Snyder & Allen M. Omoto

About the Author

Arie W. Kruglanski, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is a recipient of the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Senior Career Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Kruglanski is widely recognized for his distinguished research contributions, disseminated in over 200 articles and chapters, which focus on how people form judgments, beliefs, impressions, and attitudes, and the consequences for their interpersonal relations, group interactions, and intergroup relations. He has served as editor of the Journal of Social and Personality Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition and of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He is now a codirector of the START National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

E. Tory Higgins, PhD, is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. He has received a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Thomas M. Ostrom Award in Social Cognition, the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Lifetime Contribution Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. Dr. Higgins has also received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science from the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of Columbia University’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Reviews

"One rarely says about a handbook, 'I couldn’t put it down.' Yet, that was the case with this volume. New principles, issues, methods, and a new focus on social psychology’s role in society make this a 'must-have' book for everyone in the field."--Carol S. Dweck, PhD, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

"If you thought the first edition of this handbook was good, this new edition is even better. This volume presents a thoroughly fresh, cutting-edge vision of what social psychology is and where we are heading in the 21st century. The list of topics is innovative, and the authors, without exception, are leaders in the field. The Handbook exemplifies the hard-nosed attitude toward theory, process, and evidence that characterizes modern social psychology, while eloquently illuminating the principles that make social psychological knowledge relevant across all facets of human life. This refreshingly forward-looking work is sure to occupy a central place in the literature for many years."--Harry Reis, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of Rochester

"A superb work that should prove as influential as the first edition. The continued emphasis on basic principles makes this handbook an outstanding resource for established researchers, as well as for students who are seeking to master the knowledge our science has accumulated."--Russell H. Fazio, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University

"This important second edition continues to have the unique goal of capturing and distilling the basic principles of social behavior that lie behind our extensive base of empirical observations. This is a very new book, however, with many novel chapters, an impressive new section on applications of social psychology, and many new contributors. This exceptional handbook will become a primary reference text for everyone from senior undergraduates to senior scientists."--John G. Holmes, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada