Advanced Social Psychology ─ The State of the Science

Social psychology explores the most essential questions of the human psyche (e.g., Why do people help or harm others? How do influence professionals get us to do what they want, and how can we incluate ourselves against their sometimes-insidious persuasion factics? Why do social relationships exert such powerful effects on people's physical health?) and it does so with clever, ingenuitive research methods.

This edited volume is a textbook for advanced social phychology courses. Its primary target audience is first-year graduate students (MA or PhD) in social psychology, although it is also appropriate for upper level undergraduate courses in social psychology and for doctoral students in disciplines connecting to social psychology (e.g., marketing, organizational behavior). The authors of the chapters are world-renowned leaders on their topic, and they have written these chapters to be engaging and accessible students who are just learning the discipline.

"This excellent book, which fills a critical void at the top end of the educational spectrum, brings together a stellar cast of leading authorities on major topics that define social psychology today. It is a wonderful and entertaining read."---Jeffry A. Simpson, Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota

"An instant classic, this authortative and readable text fills an important and enduring need in the field---John T. Cacioppo, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, and Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. The University of Chicago

Roy F. Baumeister is currently the Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. His research spans multiple topics, including self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggession, self-esteem, meaning, and self-presentation. The Institute for Scientific Information lists him among the handful of most cited psychologists in the world.
Eli J. Finkel is an associate professor of psychology at Northwestern University. His research, which examines close relationships, self-regulation, and in tial romantic attraction, has garnered numerous accolades, including the Early Career Award from the Relationship Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology.