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Title

The scientist and the humanist : a festschrift in honor of Elliot Aronson / edited by Marti Hope Gonzales, Carol Tavris, Joshua Aronson.

Publication

New York : Psychology Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Aronson, Elliot
• Aronson, Joshua.
• Gonzales, Marti Hope.
• Tavris, Carol

Description

xv, 379 p.; 24 cm. +

Summary

• "Before Blink, Nudge, and Happiness, we had Elliot Aronson: A legendary wizard, master impresario, beautiful writer, pioneering experimenter, and caring mentor. Just as his Social Animal thrilled seekers after social knowledge, this book introduces the Willie Mays of social psychology to anyone who cares about practical theories and cool research."--Susan T. Fiske, Ph. D., Eugene Higgins Professor, Princeton University, USA.
• "Elliot Aronson is a pioneer in so many areas--attraction, prejudice, cognitive dissonance theory, energy policy, classroom learning strategies--to name a few. In this engrossing collection, aptly including Scientist and Humanist in its title, readers learn about his important contributions to Social Psychology, but are also brought up to date on contemporary work that he so masterfully inspired, A fitting tribute to the scholarship and wisdom of a psychological superstar."--Elizabeth Loftus, Ph. D., Distinguished Professor, University of California-Irvine, Past President, Association for Psychological Science, USA.
• "It is only fitting that this volume brings together a stellar array of authors and a deeply instructive set of chapters. Nothing less could properly honor the extraordinary contributions of Professor Aronson."--Robert B. Cialdini, Ph. D., Author of Influence: Science and Practice, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Marketing, Arizona State University.
• Elliot Aronson is among the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his theorizing and research on cognitive dissonance theory--one of the most provocative and enduring theories in contemporary psychology--and for his design of the "jigsaw classroom," an applied method of reducing conflict and prejudice in multiethnic schools. Throughout his illustrious career, he has championed the application of social-psychological theory and methods for solving such pressing social problems as prejudice, energy efficiency, conflict and miscommunication in relationships, and the reasons is the only psychologist in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its top awards: for research, teaching, and writing.
• In this Festschrift, friends, colleagues, and former students write with warmth, clarity, and humor about Aronson's enduring influence on the field of social psychology and on their own professional lives as researchers, writers, and teachers. Topics covered include contemporary research on cognitive dissonance theory; the changing face of experimentation in social psychology; and applied research on energy policy, education, the legal system, intergroup conflict, and prejudice and discrimination. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

[Modern pioneers in psychological science: an APS-Psychology Press series]

Uniform Title

Modern pioneers in psychological science.

Subject

• Aronson, Elliot
• Social psychology

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Festschrift
• Festschriften.

Note

• Series title from CIP data.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: The wizard of Santa Cruz / Mark R. Lepper -- Editors' introduction / Marti Hope Gonzales, Carol Tavris, and Joshua Aronson -- A tribute to Elliot Aronson / Walter Mischel -- Honoring Elliot Aronson / Philip G. Zimbardo
• PART ONE: Issues in social psychology -- The ultimate Lewinian / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- Forbidden toys and transgressive thoughts / Mark R. Lepper -- Dealing with conflict: Experience and experiments / Lee Ross -- Rejection, consistency, and interpersonal processes / Roy F. Baumeister -- The rise and fall of the high-impact experiment / Phoebe C. Ellsworth
• PART TWO: Cognitive dissonance and its descendants -- Decisions, action, and neuroscience: A contemporary perspective on cognitive dissonance / Eddie Harmon-Jones -- The power of the self-consistency motive in social life / Jeff Stone -- Riding the D train wiht Elliot: The Aronsonian legacy of the cognitive dissonance / Joel Cooper -- Self-persuasion when it matters to self: Attitude importance and dissonance reduction after counterattitudinal advocacy / Michael R. Leippe and Donna Eisenstadt
• PART THREE: Research and applications -- A tiller in the greening of relationship science / Jeffry A. Simpson -- Lies, damned lies, and the path from police interrogation to wrongful conviction / Deborah Davis -- Giving psychology away to energy policy / Paul C. Stern -- Under what conditions does intergroup contact improve intergroup harmony? / Anthony G. Greenwald -- Jigsaw and the nurture of Human Intelligence / Joshua Aronson
• PART FOUR: Writing and teaching -- Writing about psychological science / Carol Tavris -- Chance encounter / Timothy D. Wilson -- The art of teaching: Lessons from a teacher who was never taught how to teach / Marti Hope Gonzales
• PART FIVE: Codas -- Elliot Aronson and the spirit of Yom Kippur: The adjustment to Atrocity / Rabbi Hillel Cohn -- The last word / Elliot Aronson.

ISBN

• 9781848728677 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 1848728670 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010011730

OCLC

436030536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library