Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

James M. Olsen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-817169-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 60, the latest release in this highly cited series, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest in social psychology. Chapters in this new release include Belief in Karma: How Cultural Evolution, Cognition, and Motivation Shape Belief in Supernatural Justice, Into Another’s Mind Darkly: How the Mechanisms of Social Judgment Yield Predictable Accuracy, Bias, and Insights for Improvement, Toward Capturing the Functional and Nuanced Nature of Social Stereotypes: An Affordance Management Theory, Mechanisms of Motivated Self-Perception and Their Relation to Authenticity, The Dual-Hormone Hypothesis of Testosterone and Cortisol Interactions in Human Behavior, and more.

Autor

Dr. James Olson obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo and has been a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, since 1978. He served as Chair of the Psychology Department from 1998 to 2003. He has conducted research on many topics, including attitudes, justice, social cognition, and humor. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters and has co-edited 15 books. He is a co-organizer of the Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, a well-known series of conferences on various topics in personality and social psychology. He has served as an Associate Editor of three scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1995 to 1998. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Inhalt

1. Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice
Cindel White and Ara Norenzayan
2. Through a looking glass, darkly: Using mechanisms of mind perception to identify accuracy, overconfidence, and underappreciated means for improvement
Nicholas Epley and Tal Eyal
3. The advantages and disadvantages of self-insight: New psychological and neural perspectives
Jennifer S. Beer and Michelle A. Harris
4. The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure
Timothy D. Wilson, Erin C. Westgate and Nicholas R. Buttrick
5. The social creation of action and inaction: From concepts to goals to behaviors
Dolores Albarracín, Aashna Sunderrajan, Wenhao Dai and Benjamin X. White

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
• Verlagsort: San Diego
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 590 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-817169-3 / 0128171693
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-817169-1 / 9780128171691
• Zustand: Neuware