The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology)
"To understand people one must know both who they are as individuals and who they are as social beings. This emphasis, alone, makes the handbook worthy... With a wonderful blend of longstanding scholars in the discipline and relative "newcomers" to the social personality research landscape, Deaux and Snyder have nurtured a perspective that is grounded in the literature but expands and builds on it as well. A "must have" resource. Summing up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - R.E. Osborne, Texas State University-San Marcos,CHOICE"... the chapters are uniformly well written and easy to read. PsycCRITIQUES readers will find much of interest in the chapters presented in this volume and can easily examine topics of both personal relevance to their own research and those further afield to gain insight into how personal and situational variables individually and together predict behavior... Not only willThe Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychologybe of interest to personality and social psychologists, but also particular chapters will be of considerable interest to people working directly in applied fields, including health, law, and industrial-organizational. Particular chapters from this book could also be a valuable supplement to a textbook for an upper level class in applications of social psychology." --PsycCRITIQUES"This volume is in many ways a pioneering effort that sort of creates a new science that could be called "persona-social psychology," a body of knowledge of facts learned from new research, using as its basis what is already known in personality psychology and in social psychology." --izIndia