Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 60, the latest release in this highly cited series, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest in social psychology. Chapters in this new release include Belief in Karma: How Cultural Evolution, Cognition, and Motivation Shape Belief in Supernatural Justice, Into Another’s Mind Darkly: How the Mechanisms of Social Judgment Yield Predictable Accuracy, Bias, and Insights for Improvement, Toward Capturing the Functional and Nuanced Nature of Social Stereotypes: An Affordance Management Theory, Mechanisms of Motivated Self-Perception and Their Relation to Authenticity, The Dual-Hormone Hypothesis of Testosterone and Cortisol Interactions in Human Behavior, and more.

Provides one of the most cited series in the field of experimental social psychologyContains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interestRepresents the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology

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