Book Details
Orange Code:56764
Paperback:279 pages
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1. One Happy Autobiography2. Organizing for Surprise: A Career of Arranging to Be Captured3. From Social Psychology to Neuroscience and Back4. A Career on the Interdisciplinary Divide: Ref ections on the Challenges of Bridging the Psychological and the Social5. Life Experiences and Their Legacies6. The Journey from the Bronx to Stanford to Abu Ghraib7. The Full Cycle of an Interamerican Journey in Social Psychology8. Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion: The Story of a Career9. An Autobiography: Why Did Culture Shape My Career?10. Toward Understanding Social Power: A Personal Odyssey11. A Social Psychologist Examines His Past and Looks to the Future12. Some Ref ections on 50 Years in Social Psychology13. A Career That Spans the History of Modern Social Psychology14. Conclusions: Looking Back to Inspire the Future
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This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover a time range from Morton Deutsch to today, and touch upon virtually every important movement and person in the history of academic social psychology.This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of outstanding academic careers and will be a source of inspiration to seasoned researchers and beginning students alike, in the fields of social psychology, history of psychology, and beyond.
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