Advances in Experimental Social Psychology: Volume 60

ISBN-13: 9780128171691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 280 str.

James M. Olsen

Spis treści

1. Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice Cindel White and Ara Norenzayan 2. Through a looking glass, darkly: Using mechanisms of mind perception to identify accuracy, overconfidence, and underappreciated means for improvement Nicholas Epley and Tal Eyal 3. The advantages and disadvantages of self-insight: New psychological and neural perspectives Jennifer S. Beer and Michelle A. Harris 4. The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure Timothy D. Wilson, Erin C. Westgate and Nicholas R. Buttrick 5. The social creation of action and inaction: From concepts to goals to behaviors Dolores Albarracín, Aashna Sunderrajan, Wenhao Dai and Benjamin X. White

O autorze

Dr. James Olson obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo and has been a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, since 1978. He served as Chair of the Psychology Department from 1998 to 2003. He has conducted research on many topics, including attitudes, justice, social cognition, and humor. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters and has co-edited 15 books. He is a co-organizer of the Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, a well-known series of conferences on various topics in personality and social psychology. He has served as an Associate Editor of three scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1995 to 1998. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.