Key Readings in Social Psychology

About the Series

Series Editor: Arie W. Kruglanski, University of Maryland at College Park

"Given the need to be selective and to provide a coherent perspective on each theme within a single book, the editors have generally tackled a difficult brief extremely well. The breadth and depth make a volume suitable for use in many final-year and masters-degree courses in social psychology. It also provides an ideal introduction to top-level original research articles that should motivate students to pursue the current literature in a more targeted way. [...] This is an excellent series that will provide an invaluable compendium of the themes that have dominated the 20th Century."

Diane Houston, University of Kent, in the Times Higher Education Supplement

The aim of the series is to make available to senior undergraduate and graduate students key articles in each area of social psychology in an attractive, user-friendly format. Many professors want to encourage their students to engage directly with research in their fields, yet this can often be daunting for students coming to detailed study of a topic for the first time. Moreover, declining library budgets mean that articles are not always readily available, and course packs can be expensive and time-consuming to produce.

Key Readings in Social Psychology aims to address this need by providing comprehensive volumes, each one of which is edited by a senior and active researcher in the field. Articles are carefully chosen to illustrate the way the field has developed historically as well as current issues and research directions.

Each volume has a similar structure that includes:

• An overview chapter, as well as introduction to sections and articles;
• Questions for class discussion;
• Annotated bibliographies;
• Full author and subject indices;
• The article How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology, especially prepared for this series by Christian H. Jordan and Mark P. Zanna

About the Series Editor: Arie Kruglanski is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist award and the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology. He has served as editor of the Personality and Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition section.