Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 14
PART 1 Bridging Social Psychology......Page 20
CHAPTER 1 Bridging Social Psychology......Page 22
CHAPTER 2 Theories as Bridges......Page 40
PART 2 Social Psychology: General Views of Bridging......Page 52
CHAPTER 3 The Difficulty of Getting From Here to There and Back......Page 54
CHAPTER 4 Traffic Flow During the Last Twenty-Five Years of Social Psychology......Page 60
CHAPTER 5 Building Bridges Inside and Outside Social Psychology: A Case for Lumping—Neatly......Page 66
CHAPTER 6 Soft Versus Solid Foundations for Bridging Social Psychology......Page 72
CHAPTER 7 Folly Bridges......Page 78
CHAPTER 8 On Theories and Societal Practice: Getting Rid of a Myth......Page 84
CHAPTER 9 Interdisciplinary Research and Creativity......Page 90
CHAPTER 10 Coherence in Human Experience and Psychological Science......Page 96
CHAPTER 11 Social Psychology Deserves Better: Marketing the Pivotal Social Science......Page 102
PART 3 Bridges With Biology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science......Page 108
CHAPTER 12 A Bridge Linking Social Psychology and the Neurosciences......Page 110
CHAPTER 13 The Emergence of the “Social” in Cognitive Neuroscience: The Study of Interacting Brains......Page 116
CHAPTER 14 The Social Neuroscience of Empathy......Page 122
CHAPTER 15 Bridging Social Psychology and Physiology......Page 130
CHAPTER 16 Research on Affect and Social Behavior: Links to Cognitive, Learning, and Neuropsychology......Page 136
CHAPTER 17 Animal Research in Social Psychology: A Bridge to Functional Genomics and Other Unique Research Opportunities......Page 142
CHAPTER 18 Basic Lessons From Observing Nature......Page 148
CHAPTER 19 Getting Social Psychological Research Ideas From Other Human Sciences......Page 154
CHAPTER 20 Mind in the Organized Social Environment......Page 158
CHAPTER 21 Socially Situated Cognition as a Bridge......Page 164
CHAPTER 22 How Social Psychology Can Build Bridges to the Social Sciences by Considering Motivation, Cognition, and Constraints Simultaneously......Page 170
CHAPTER 23 Bridging Social Psychology— Beyond Explicit Measures in Attitudinal Assessment......Page 178
CHAPTER 24 Bridging Social and Cognitive Psychology?......Page 186
CHAPTER 25 Baboons, Brains, Babies, and Bonding: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mimicry......Page 192
PART 4 Bridges With Personality, Emotion, and Development......Page 198
CHAPTER 26 Assumptions About Personality and Core Motivations as Hidden Partners in Social Psychology......Page 200
CHAPTER 27 Building Bridges Between Personality and Social Psychology: Understanding the Ties That Bind Persons and Situations......Page 206
CHAPTER 28 Accuracy of Judgments of Personality and Genetic Influences on Attitudes: Two Major Bridges Between Personality and Social Psychology......Page 212
CHAPTER 29 Thinking Integratively About Social Psychology: The Example of the Relational Self and the Social-Cognitive Process of Transference......Page 218
CHAPTER 30 Philosophy as the Queen of the Sciences, Emotions Research as Her Bastard Child......Page 226
CHAPTER 31 The Social Nature of Emotion and the Emotional Nature of the Social......Page 232
CHAPTER 32 Love, Hate, and Morality: Emotion and Communication as Bridging Concepts in Social Psychology......Page 238
CHAPTER 33 Bridging Developmental and Social Psychology......Page 244
CHAPTER 34 The Self as a Point of Contact Between Social Psychology and Motivation......Page 252
CHAPTER 35 From Bicycle Racing to School: Competition, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Indicators of Success in Education......Page 258
CHAPTER 36 Bridging the Areas of Social Psychology and Social Developmental Psychology......Page 264
PART 5 Bridges With Relationship Science, Interaction, and Health......Page 270
CHAPTER 37 The Relationship Context of Social Psychology......Page 272
CHAPTER 38 Relationship Neuroscience: Advancing the Social Psychology of Close Relationships Using Functional Neuroimaging......Page 280
CHAPTER 39 Identifying the Tasks of Social Life: Using Other Disciplines to Understand the Nature of Social Situations......Page 286
CHAPTER 40 Speaker Perception and Social Behavior: Bridging Social Psychology and Speech Science......Page 292
CHAPTER 41 The Behavioral System Construct: A Useful Tool for Building an Integrative Model of the Social Mind......Page 298
CHAPTER 42 Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: How Social Norms Emerge From Evolved Decision Rules......Page 304
CHAPTER 43 Social Relations: Culture, Development, Natural Selection, Cognition, the Brain, and Pathology......Page 312
CHAPTER 44 Social Psychology of Justice, Just Division of Household Labor, and the Reconciliation of Family and Work Demands......Page 320
CHAPTER 45 The Bridge Between Social and Clinical Psychology: Wide but Sparsely Traveled......Page 326
CHAPTER 46 Bridges From Social Psychology to Health......Page 332
CHAPTER 47 Happiness, Life Satisfaction, and Fulfillment: The Social Psychology of Subjective Well-Being......Page 338
CHAPTER 48 Social Psychology and Health Promotion......Page 344
CHAPTER 49 Bridging to Evidence-Based Public Health Policy......Page 352
PART 6 Bridges With Organizational Science, Culture, and Economics......Page 358
CHAPTER 50 Bridging Between Micro and Macro Perspectives in Social Psychology......Page 360
CHAPTER 51 Bridging Social Psychology and the Organizational Sciences......Page 366
CHAPTER 52 Dissent in Teams and Organizations: Lessons for Team Innovation and Empowerment......Page 372
CHAPTER 53 Improving Managerial Decision Making: Lessons From Experimental Social Dilemma Research......Page 378
CHAPTER 54 Cultural Evolutionary Theory: A Synthetic Theory for Fragmented Disciplines......Page 384
CHAPTER 55 Social Context Inside and Outside the Social Psychology Lab......Page 390
CHAPTER 56 A Paradox of Individual and Group Morality: Social Psychology as Empirical Philosophy......Page 396
CHAPTER 57 A Multilevel Perspective on Prejudice: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries......Page 404
CHAPTER 58 From Subtle Cues to Profound Influences: The Impact of Changing Identities on Emotions and Behaviors......Page 410
CHAPTER 59 Political Psychology......Page 416
CHAPTER 60 Maximizing Social Psychological Contributions to Addressing Social Issues: The Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Perspective......Page 422
CHAPTER 61 From Social Psychology to Economics and Back Again: The Benefits of a Two-Way Street......Page 428
CHAPTER 62 Social Science in the Making: An Economist’s View......Page 434
CHAPTER 63 Motivation and Happiness Bridge Social Psychology and Economics......Page 440
CHAPTER 64 How Do We Promote Cooperation in Groups, Organizations, and Societies?......Page 446
PART 7 Epilogue......Page 454
CHAPTER 65 Bridges Toward a Cumulative Psychological Science......Page 456
Author Biographies......Page 466
Author Index......Page 486
Subject Index......Page 502