Social Psychology Special Issue

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Editor’s Column: A Social Psychology Special Issue! Charlotte R. Pennington ‘Psychologists have a penchant for irrational exuberances, and whenever we discover something new we feel the need to discard everything old. Social psychology is the exception. We kept cognition alive during the behaviourist revolution that denied it, and we kept emotion alive during the cognitive revolution that ignored it […]. But psychological revolutions inevitably collapse under their own weight and psychologists start hunting for all the babies they tossed out with the bathwater. Social psychology is where they typically go to find them. So the challenge for social psychologists watching yet another revolution that promises to leave them in the dustbin of history is to remember that we’ve outlived every revolutionary who has ever pronounced us obsolete.’ Professor Daniel Gilbert (2008) IAM VERY PLEASED to introduce you to the 97th issue of the PsyPAG Quarterly, which is a Social Psychology Special Issue! Given that 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of stereotype threat research, my reasoning for this special issue is to showcase the importance of Social Psychology and the contributions this field has made to the understanding of our social world. For me, social psychology is what bridges psychology sub-disciplines together; something that is certainly evident in the above quote! September 2015 also saw the British Psychological Society (BPS) Social Section join with the Developmental Section to host their annual conferences, highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of these two fields. This special issue is packed with an array of fantastic articles, reflections and conference and book reviews. Kicking us off, Ioanna Kapantai, Catarina Morais, and Fatima Tresh interview Professor Dominic Abrams about the Centre for the Study of Group Processes (CSGP), and discuss the future of social psychology in relation to intergroup relations research. Next, I discuss the contribution of stereotype threat research to social psychology, and review what we have learnt about this situational phenomenon over the past two decades. Candida Darling then discusses readiness for reconciliation in Northern Ireland; Michael Walton provides hints and tips for undertaking community research; and Tommy Van Steen provides an interesting account of the arising ethical issues that researchers may encounter during field research. Then, Professor James Hartley analyses the writing patterns of famous academics, and asks the interesting question; are postgraduates morning people? Reflecting on receiving the PsyPAG Rising Researcher Award, Craig Harper discusses his research looking at ontological insecurity on social and political values. Following on nicely, Amrita Ahluwalia discusses using Moral Foundations Theory as a social psychological framework to understand moral intuitions. Providing further food for thought, Kimberly Hill discusses Psychology as a STEM subject, and looks at the scientific rigour of our discipline. We also have three conference reviews: I am extremely excited to have received two conference reviews for the BPS Social and Developmental Conference. First, Kiran Purewal and Chloe Tyler provide a reflective account of their experiences as first time presenters. Marianne Erskine-Shaw and I then discuss the conference programme and reflect on the success of combining both the Social and Developmental sections. Issue 97 December 2015 1
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