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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

  • 1st Edition, Volume 62 - July 2, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Bertram Gawronski
  • Language: English

The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the serie… Read more

Description

The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in Volume 62 include Racial Bias in Weapon Identification and Decisions to Shoot, Evolution of Pride and Social Hierarchy, Valence Asymmetries in Information Processing, Goal Congruity and Social Structure, and Affordance Management and Social Stereotypes.

Key features

  • Provides one of the most cited series in the field of experimental social psychology
  • Contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest
  • Represents the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology

Readership

Researchers, librarians, and academics in social psychology and personality

Table of contents

1. Race, weapons, and the perception of threat

B. Keith Payne and Joshua Correll

2. The evolution of pride and social hierarchy

Jessica L. Tracy, Eric Mercadante, Zachary Witkower and Joey T. Cheng

3. Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information

Christian Unkelbach, Hans Alves and Alex Koch

4. Goal congruity theory: Navigating the social structure to fulfill goals

Amanda B. Diekman, Mansi P. Joshi and Tessa M. Benson-Greenwald

5. Toward capturing the functional and nuanced nature of social stereotypes: An affordance management approach

Steven L. Neuberg, Keelah E.G. Williams, Oliver Sng, Cari M. Pick, Rebecca Neel, Jaimie Arona Krems and Angela G. Pirlott

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 62
  • Published: July 2, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Bertram Gawronski

Dr. Bertram Gawronski, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in psychology from Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) in 2001. In addition to editing five influential books on a broad range of social psychological topics, Dr. Gawronski has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, David Wechsler Regents Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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