Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Represents the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in the area of experimental social psychology

James M. Olson (Series edited by)

9780128121207, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 17 July 2017

320 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 56, the latest release in this highly cited series, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest that represent the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology. New chapters in this updated release include The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights, Stereotype Threat and Learning, Changing Our Implicit Minds: How, When, and Why Implicit Evaluations Can Be Rapidly Revised, The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God, and Implicit Theories: Assumptions That Shape Social and Moral Cognition.

1. The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights
Neal J. Roese and Kai Epstude
2. Stereotype Threat and Learning
Robert J. Rydell and Kathryn L. Boucher
3. Changing Our Implicit Minds: How, When, and Why Implicit Evaluations Can Be Rapidly Revised
Jeremy Cone, Thomas C. Mann and Melissa J. Ferguson
4. The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God
Kristin Laurin and Aaron C. Kay
5. Implicit Theories: Assumptions That Shape Social and Moral Cognition
Jason E. Plaks

Subject Areas: Experimental psychology [JML], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychological theory & schools of thought [JMA]