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The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in Volume 62 include Racial Bias in Weapon Identification and Decisions to Shoot, Evolution of Pride and Social Hierarchy, Valence Asymmetries in Information Processing, Goal Congruity and Social Structure, and Affordance Management and Social Stereotypes.
List of contents
1. Race, weapons, and the perception of threat
B. Keith Payne and Joshua Correll
2. The evolution of pride and social hierarchy
Jessica L. Tracy, Eric Mercadante, Zachary Witkower and Joey T. Cheng
3. Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information
Christian Unkelbach, Hans Alves and Alex Koch
4. Goal congruity theory: Navigating the social structure to fulfill goals
Amanda B. Diekman, Mansi P. Joshi and Tessa M. Benson-Greenwald
5. Toward capturing the functional and nuanced nature of social stereotypes: An affordance management approach
Steven L. Neuberg, Keelah E.G. Williams, Oliver Sng, Cari M. Pick, Rebecca Neel, Jaimie Arona Krems and Angela G. Pirlott
About the author
Dr. Bertram Gawronski, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in psychology from Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) in 2001. In addition to editing five influential books on a broad range of social psychological topics, Dr. Gawronski has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Review.
