The Handbook of Social Psychology (2-Volume Set)

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Summary: The standard reference work in social psychology
Review: Since the first edition appeared in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology has been considered the standard reference work in social psychology, offering historic, integrative, and penetrating surveys of the topics that constitute the discipline. All chapters are written by the world's foremost authorities, and the list of contributors continues to read like an International Who's Who in Social Psychology. The fourth edition is not merely an update of the third, but a completely new collection of chapters written by and for a new generation of social psychologists. In its two volumes and 38 chapters, readers will find remarkably thorough and insightful coverage of social psychology's full spectrum of research topics-from mental representation to world politics. In addition to chapters on traditional topics such as attitudes, altruism, and aggression, this edition also contains numerous chapters on emerging topics never before featured in The Handbook of Social Psychology (e.g., close relationships, stigma, emotion, evolutionary psychology, the self, culture, automaticity and mental control). These substantive surveys are complemented by historical essays written by some of the field's most distinguished leaders, and by a full range of highly accessible chapters on methodology and statistics (e.g. measurement, data analysis, experimentation, survey methods). This edition of The Handbook of Social Psychology summarizes the science of social psychology in the 20th century while bringing it boldly into the 21st.