
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Description
Key Features
- One of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field
- Contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest
- Represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology
Readership
Table of Contents
- Chapter One: Why Do Humans Form Long-Term Mateships? An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Model
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Part I: Adaptive Problems and Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Models
- 3 Part II: Long-term Mating as the Solution to Multiple Adaptive Problems
- 4 Part III: Novel Adaptive Problems Created by Long-term Relationships
- 5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter Two: The Why and How of Defending Belief in a Just World
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Why Do People Defend BJW?
- 4 How Do People Defend BJW?
- 5 Broader Issues
- 6 Conclusion
- Chapter Three: Positive Versus Negative Valence: Asymmetries in Attitude Formation and Generalization as Fundamental Individual Differences
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Individual Differences in Valence Weighting
- 3 Some Questions About Valence Weighting
- 4 Valence Asymmetries in Attitude Learning
- 5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Four: We’ll Always Have Paris: The Hedonic Payoff from Experiential and Material Investments
- Abstract
- 1 Money and Happiness
- 2 As Time Goes By: Adaptation and the Differential Hedonic Return on Experiences and Possessions
- 3 Making Plans that Far Ahead: The Prospective Benefits of Experiential Consumption
- 4 The Beginnings of a Beautiful Friendship: The Social Value of Experiential Consumption
- 5 Here's Looking at Me, Kid: Experiential Purchases are a More Meaningful Part of One's Identity
- 6 Of All the Gin Joints: Direct and Comparative Determinants of Enjoyment
- 7 What We Regret (Soon and for the Rest of our Lives)
- 8 Letters of Transit for the Road Ahead
- 9 Nudging us Out of the Malls and Out on the Trails
- 10 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Five: To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Historical Perspective on Nostalgia
- 3 What Nostalgia Is
- 4 What Nostalgia Does
- 5 How Nostalgia Works
- 6 Nostalgia's Future
- Appendix A Southampton Nostalgia Scale
- Appendix B Experimental Induction of Nostalgia: The Event Reflection Task
- Index
- Contents of Other Volumes
- Chapter One: Why Do Humans Form Long-Term Mateships? An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Model
Product details
- No. of pages: 304
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2015
- Published: January 8, 2015
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128024720
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128022740
About the Serial Editors
Mark Zanna

Mark P. Zanna is a retired University Professor and former Chair of Psychology at the University of Waterloo. He received his BA (‘66) and PhD (‘70) from Yale University.
Professor Zanna’s area of research is the psychology of attitudes. Primarily funded over the years by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he has studied attitude structure and function, attitude formation and change, communication and persuasion (including the persistence of persuasion), and the attitude-behaviour relation. He has also conducted research on (a) overcoming resistance to persuasion, including research on subliminal priming and persuasion, self-affirmation and persuasion, and narrative persuasion, and (b) implicit attitudes (i.e., relatively automatic, intuitive evaluations), including research on aversive racists (i.e., those individuals who test low on thoughtful, conscious measures of prejudice, but high on more automatic, intuitive measures of prejudice) and defensive self-esteem (i.e., those individuals who test high on thoughtful, conscious measures of self-esteem, but low on more automatic, intuitive measures of self-esteem). In the domain of health promotion, he has evaluated a ‘safer sex’ intervention and tested the subtle effects (e.g., on implicit norms) of movie stars’ smoking in feature films. Currently, he is investigating the causes and consequences of negative implicit norms toward females in STEM disciplines. A winner of several career awards for distinguished scientific contribution (D. O. Hebb Award, Canadian Psychological Association, 1993; D. T. Campbell Award, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1999; Inaugural Excellence in Research Award, UW, 2000; Inaugural Distinguished University Professor, UW, 2004; Inaugural Excellence in Graduate Supervision, UW, 2005; Distinguished Scientist Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2007; K. Lewin Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2010; Killam Prize Laureate, Canada Council for the Arts, 2011), Professor Zanna has been a consulting editor of the top four journals in social/personality psychology (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Personality) plus 7 other journals. Currently, he co-edits the Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology (since 1981) and the Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (since 1991), the two major edited book series in social psychology. He has also been elected to the presidencies of the two major learned societies in social psychology, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (1985) and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (1997). 32 (of 34) of Professor Zanna’s doctoral or postdoctoral students have taken academic positions. Six students chaired their respective departments (plus one was the President of a small US college) and 12 others became editors (or consulting editors) of major journals in the field. According to the Web of Science, Professor Zanna’s lifetime citations now (February, 2014) exceed 9,500 (h = 50; H = 55). According to Google Scholar, lifetime citations now (February, 2014) exceed 21,200 (h = 74). Finally, Professor Zanna has ranked 12th and 20th worldwide in citations in social psychology textbooks and social psychology handbooks, respectively.
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