The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology

Book excerpt: The Handbook of Social Psychology provides a comprehensive, scholarly and up-to-date survey of the field of social psychology, providing readers with a one-stop, authoritative guide to the major themes and debates, both past and present. Key features of this volume include: its single volume format; international coverage; basic and applied research integrated within chapters; traditional emphasis on individual and interpersonal processes balanced with full emphasis on the study of group processes and intergroup relations and chapters on language, culture and self. The Handbook of Social Psychology will serve as indispensable reading for all graduate students, academics and researchers in the field of social psychology, as well as to many others in cognate disciplines who have a need or wish to find out more about this exciting and lively discipline.