The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology

For decades, the relationship between personality psychology and social psychology has been defined by its contrasts: sometimes highly overlapping and intertwined, at other times conflicting and even competing. This contradiction has been ultimately counterproductive, as it has precluded the understanding of people as both individuals and social beings.
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology captures the history, current status, and future prospects of personality and social psychology -- presented not as a set of parallel accounts, but as an integrated perspective on the behavior of persons in social contexts. The contributors to this handbook were charged not only with presenting examples of work that crosses the boundaries of personality and social psychology, but also with thinking deeply and generatively about the ways in which a unified social-personality perspective can provide a greater understanding of the phenomena that concern psychological investigators.
The chapters of this handbook weave together work from personality and social psychology, addressing both distinctive contributions and common ground. In so doing, the authors offer compelling evidence for the power and the potential of an integrated approach, as well as new suggestions and directions for research. This volume is a groundbreaking achievement for the field of psychology, one which promises to set the agenda for future generations of scholars.

Kay Deaux, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emerita, CUNY Graduate Center, and Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, New York University.
Mark Snyder, Ph.D., is McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology, University of Minnesota, and is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society.

1. Introduction to the volumeMark Snyder and Kay Deaux
Section A: Foundations of Personality and Social Psychology: Historical, Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives
2. The intertwined histories of personality and social psychologyThomas F. Pettigrew and Frances Cherry
3. Perspectives on the person: Rapid growth and opportunities for integrationWilliam Fleeson
4. Perspectives on the situationHarry T. Reis and John G. Holmes
5. Behavior and behavior assessmentJanice R. Kelly and Christopher R. Agnew
6. Neuroscience approaches in social and personality psychologyDavid M. Amodio and Eddie Harmon-Jones
7. Evolutionary perspectivesSteven W. Gangestad
8. Context in person, person in context: A cultural psychology approach to social-personality psychologyGlenn Adams
9. Conceptual and methodological issues in the analysis of data from dyads and groupsDeborah A. Kashy and M. Brent Donellan
10. Multilevel modeling in personality and social psychologyOliver Christ, Chris G. Sibley, and Ulrich Wagner
Section B: Substantive Areas Approached from Personality and Social Psychology Perspectives
11. Self and identity: Dynamics of persons and their situationsJennifer Crocker and Amy Canevello
12. Motivation and goal pursuit: Integration across the social/personality divideJulie K. Norem
13. Five new ideas about emotion and their implications for social-personality psychologyGerald L. Clore and Michael D. Robinson
14. Initial impressions of othersJames S. Uleman and S.Adil Saribay
15. Attitudes and persuasionIcek Ajzen
16. From help-giving to helping relations: Belongingness and independence in social interactionArie Nadler
17. Anti-social behavior in individuals and groups: An empathy-focused approachEmanuele Castano
18. Personality and social interaction: Interpenetrating processesRodolfo Mendoza-Denton and ?zlem Ayduk
19. Attachment theory expanded: A behavioral systems approachMario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver
20. Person by situation perspectives on close relationshipsJeffry A. Simpson and Heike A. Winterheld
21. Personality influences on group processes: The past, present, and futureCraig D. Parks
22. Intergroup processes: From prejudice to positive relations between groupsLinda R.Tropp and Ludwin E. Molina
Section C: Life Domains
23. Personality, social psychology and psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian visionPhilip R. Costanzo, Rick H. Hoyle and Mark R. Leary
24. Individual and societal well-beingShigehiro Oishi
25. Multiculturalism: Cultural, social, and personality processesVerónica Benet-Martínez
26. Personality and social contexts as sources of change and continuity across the life spanAbigail J. Stewart and Kay Deaux
27. Leadership: A person-in-situation perspectiveDaan van Knippenberg
28. Work and organizations: Contextualizing personality and social psychologyDavid V. Day and Deidra J. Schleicher
29. A person x intervention strategy approach to understanding health behaviorAlexander J. Rothman and Austin S. Baldwin
30. Forensic personality and social psychologySaul Kassin and Margaret Bull Kovera
31. The psychology of collective actionLauren E. Duncan
32. Policy implicationsAllen Omoto
33. EpilogueKay Deaux and Mark Snyder