Applied Social Psychology

Applied Social Psychology is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the applications of social psychological theory and research in various domains of personal, institutional, and societal well-being. The readings have been selected to illustrate how social psychological analyses of individual, interpersonal, and group level processes have contributed to important areas of applied psychology in roles that are both descriptive and prescriptive. The book is organized into three sections: Part I reviews the role of social psychological factors in physical and mental health; Part II examines the role of social psychology in social institutions such as law, politics, and social policy; and Part III considers the interface between social psychological processes and social institutions in the world of business and commerce.

Marilynn B. Brewer is Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Her primary research interests include social cognition, intergroup relations, and social identities and the self concept. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Intergroup Relations (with Norman Miller, 1996), and has served as President of the American Psychological Association and as editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology.

Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at Oxford University. His current research interests include the reduction of intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, and the social influence of majorities and minorities. He is the author of many books and articles, including Introduction to Social Psychology (edited with Wolfgang Stroebe and Geoffrey M. Stephenson, Third Edition 2001). He is founding co-editor of the European Review of Social Psychology.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

ix

Part I: Mental and Physical Health

1

(110)

Dealing with Adversity: Self-regulation, Coping, Adaptation, and Health

3

(25)

Lisa G. Aspinwall

Attachment Style and Affect Regulation: Implications for Coping with Stress and Mental Health

28

(22)

Mario Mikulincer

Victor Florian

Marital Therapy and Social Psychology: Will We Choose Explicit Partnership or Cryptomnesia?

50

(29)

Steven R. H. Beach

Frank D. Fincham

Therapeutic Groups

79

(32)

Donelson R. Forsyth

Part II: Law and Politics

111

(132)

Psychology and Law

113

(23)

Gunther Kohnken

Maria Fiedler

Charlotte Mohlenbeck

Procedural Mechanisms and Jury Behavior

136

(29)

R. Scott Tindale

Janice Nadler

Andrea Krebel

James H. Davis

The Psychological Determinants of Political Judgment

165

(21)

Victor C. Ottati

When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations

186

(20)

Janet W. Schofield

Rebecca Eurich-Fulcer

Addressing and Redressing Discrimination: Affirmative Action in Social Psychological Perspective

206

(19)

Faye J. Crosby

Bernardo M. Ferdman

Blanche R. Wingate

Intergroup Relations and National and International Relations

225

(18)

Thomas F. Pettigrew

Part III: Business and Organizational Behavior

243

(99)

Consumer Behavior

245

(23)

Sharon Shavitt

Michaela Wanke

The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation

268

(33)

Max H. Bazerman

Jared R. Curhan

Don A. Moore

Communication Technologies, the Internet, and Group Research

301

(17)

Andrea B. Hollingshead

Group Processes in Organizational Contexts

318

(24)

Joseph E. McGrath

Linda Argote

Author Index

342

(8)

Subject Index

350

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Applied Social Psychology

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