Main description:

For the Love of Social Psychology examines the most exciting and important contributions to the study of human nature in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Focusing on thought leaders in social psychology today, author John Jost scrutinizes the theorists and their work. This is particularly important as the discipline faces a period of intense self-criticism and conflict over statistical methods and practices. The ideas of social and personality psychology, which may well constitute its greatest asset to society and to interdisciplinary scholarship, are at risk of being lost or abandoned. For the Love of Social Psychology is a critical component in understanding these various thinkers within the context of the discipline, and in providing an optimistic vision for students, theorists, and practitioners so they can fulfill their goals of bettering society through scientific means.

Contents:

1. THEODOR W. ADORNO (1903-1969): The Fascist Potential in Human Personality
2. GORDON ALLPORT (1897-1967): Stereotyping and Prejudice as Rationalizations for Inequality
3. SILVAN TOMKINS (1911-1991): Ancient Origins of the Left-Right Dimension of Personality and Ideology
4. MORTON DEUTSCH (1920-2017): Awakening the Sense of Social Injustice
5. WILLIAM J. MCGUIRE (1925-2007): The Structure and Dynamics of Human Thought
6. SERGE MOSCOVICI (1925-2014): The Grand Theorist of Social Representations
7. ARIE W. KRUGLANSKI (1939-): Getting Closure on Conservatism, or the Politics of Epistemic Motivation
8. GYOERGY HUNYADY (1942-): A Social Psychologist behind the Iron Curtain
9. DANNY BAR-TAL (1946-): The "Ethos of Conflict" in the Middle East
10. MAHZARIN R. BANAJI (1956-): The Discovery of Implicit Bias