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Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations
A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer
Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series
Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with groups of others. The advances of evolutionary theory, social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations, respectively, as major fields of...
Published May 24th 2011 by Psychology Press
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Social Decision Making
Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments
Series: Series in Organization and Management
This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making and ethics which was so important to Dave. The book offers a unique and...
Published June 23rd 2009 by Psychology Press
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The Psychology of Leadership
New Perspectives and Research
Series: Series in Organization and Management
In this book, some of the world's leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. Most of the chapters were originally presented as papers at a research conference held in 2001 at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern...
Published August 1st 2004 by Psychology Press
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The Psychology of the Social Self
Series: Applied Social Research Series
Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth. The chapters build on the assumption, developed out of social identity theory, that people create a social self that both defines them...
Published November 30th 1998 by Psychology Press