"Bridging Social Psychology" illuminates the unique contribution the field of social psychology can bring to understanding major scientific and societal problems. It focuses on illustrating the benefits and costs of bridging social psychology with o

The Psychology of Group Perception is focused on a central issue in social psychology, namely how social groups are perceived and thought about.

This groundbreaking work by leading social psychologists, who have all contributed in important ways to the psychology of group perception, focuses in particular on three interrelated issues: (1) whether groups are seen to be diverse or relatively homogeneous; (2) whether groups are seen as real and stable or only transitory and ephemeral; and (3) whether group membership derives from some essential quality of the members or rather is based on social constructions.