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41. Self Continuity

    Individual and Collective Perspectives

    Edited by Fabio Sani

    This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology. The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms....

    Published April 14th 2008 by Psychology Press
42. Personality and Social Behavior

    Edited by Frederick Rhodewalt

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology. Many theories of personality are set on an interpersonal stage and many social phenomena are played out differently as the cast of characters change. At times the study of persons and situations...

    Published February 20th 2008 by Psychology Press
43. The Self

    By Jonathon Brown

    Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships, the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social psychology on intra-psychic processes. This area of psychology has become very popular in recent years, yet there is...

    Published August 31st 2007 by Psychology Press
44. The Self and Social Relationships

    Edited by Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes

    Although the two major research areas of the "Self" and "Social Relationships" have flourished, they have done so largely independently of each other. More and more research, however, has indicated that relationships shape the nature of the self and identity, and that self-views influence...

    Published August 21st 2007 by Psychology Press
45. The Self

    Edited by Constantine Sedikides, Steven J. Spencer

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    This volume provides a cutting-edge exposition to research on the self. Sixteen authoritative overviews highlight the role of the self around four themes. The first theme is Brain and Cognition, which includes a social neuroscience perspective on the self, implicit self-cognition, the structure of...

    Published June 25th 2007 by Psychology Press
46. The Implicit Self

    A Special Issue of Self and Identity

    Edited by Laurie A. Rudman, Steven J. Spencer

    Series: Special Issues of Self and Identity

    The ten papers in this special issue of Self and Identity use a variety of cutting-edge empirical approaches to advance social psychological theory and extend the applications of the implicit self to under-investigated domains, including the clinical consequences of the implicit self, the...

    Published May 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press
47. Identity and the Modern Organization

    Edited by Caroline A. Bartel, Steven Blader, Amy Wrzesniewski

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and...

    Published February 21st 2007 by Psychology Press
48. Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity

    By Peter Herriot

    The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States of September 11th, 2001 brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world's attention.Sociological research has clearly demonstrated that fundamentalists are primarily reacting against modernity, and believe...

    Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge
49. Social Comparison Theories

    Edited by Diederik A. Stapel, Hart Blanton

    Series: Key Readings in Social Psychology

    Self-perception and behavior do not occur in a social vacuum: who we are, and what we do, is often a function of what other people are and do. Others can inform us of who we are ("I am the only sane person here"), or where we stand ("I am quite intelligent compared to him"); others can inspire us (...

    Published December 14th 2006 by Psychology Press
50. An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology

    By R.M. Beard

    Published November 1st 2006 by Routledge