Contents	6
	Contributors	9
	Preface	11
	1 On the scope of social psychology: An introduction	14
	Part 1: Attitudes and attitude change	24
	2 Positive accentuation: Why a good product still needs an advertisement	26
	3 Attitudinal ambivalence	42
	4.Changing health-related behaviours: An approach based on the theory of planned behaviour	56
	5 In defence of ourselves: The effects of defensive processing on attitudinal phenomena	78
	Part 2: Social cognition and emotion	98
	6 Conceptualising group perception: A 35-year evolution	100
	7 The epistemic bases of interpersonal communication	120
	8 Thinking about your life: Healthy lessons from social cognition	134
	Part 3: Interpersonal and group processes	150
	9 Situational variance in intergroup conflict: Matrix correlations, matrix interactions, and social support	152
	10 Group creativity and the stages of creative problem solving	172
	11 Contrasting and integrating social identity and interdependence approaches to intergroup discrimination in the minimal group paradigm	186
	Part 4: Health behaviour and health behaviour change	204
	12 Positive affect and meaning-focused coping during significant psychological stress	206
	13 Self-regulation of health communications: A motivated processing approach to risk perception and persuasion	222
	14 An organisational and social psychological perspective on burnout and work engagement	240
	Part 5: Bereavement and coping	264
	15 Reflections on extended Bowlby theory	266
	16 A scientist’s role in bereavement research: The case of Wolfgang Stroebe	276
	17 The effects of emotional disclosure during bereavement	290
	Part 6: Psychology in context	306
	18 Social psychology is not enough: The Interdisciplinary Social Science Working Group	308
	19 Epilogue: Impressions of Wolfgang Stroebe	322
	Author index	334
	Subject index	345
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