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History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application
The effects of selfâconfrontation, role playing, and response feedback on the level of selfâesteem
Cortical and subcortical afferent connections of the primate's temporal pole: A study of rhesus monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and marmosets
History Of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, And Contributions To Theory And Application
Jones (1985) offered a particularly comprehensive account of five decades of social psychology, beginning with the late 1930s. His treatment of the contributions of Kurt Lewin, whom he rightly identified as the most important shaper of modern experimental social psychologyâand the groundbreaking work of Leon Festinger, whose dis-crepancy reduction model (borrowed from Lewinâs tension-system concept) was applied to both pressures toward uniformity within groups and consonant versus dis-sonant cognitions of actorsâremains essential reading for aspiring researchers who want to understand what social psychologists study, how they study it, and the âmiddle-range â level of theorizing they find most comfortable. Jones also offered balanced assessments of the most pro-vocative debates that had taken place within the field an