Jeff Greenberg - Social Psychology: The Science of Everyday Life

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The Science of Everyday Life

2e

Jeff Greenberg

University of Arizona

Toni Schmader

University of British Columbia

Jamie Arndt

University of Missouri

Mark Landau

University of Kansas

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Jeff Greenberg, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and a College of Science Fellow at the University of Arizona. As a small child growing up in the Bronx, he was very curious about the human propensities for vanity and prejudice. Jeff majored in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, but it wasnt until he took social psychology in his final semester that he found a field where people were asking the questions he thought should be asked. Soon after starting a masters program in social psychology at Southern Methodist University, he knew this was what he wanted to spend his life studying and teaching. After receiving his M.A., Jeff completed his Ph.D. at University of Kansas in 1982, under the mentorship of Jack Brehm. He has since received numerous research and teaching awards. His research has contributed to understanding self-serving biases, how motivation affects cognition, the effects of ethnic slurs, the role of self-awareness in depression, cognitive dissonance, and how concerns about death contribute to prejudice, self-esteem striving, and many other aspects of social behavior. Jeff has also coauthored or coedited six prior books, including the Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology and The Worm at the Core.

Toni Schmader, Ph.D., is a Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She received her B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania before completing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before moving to Canada in 2009, Toni taught at the University of Arizona for 10 years. At the University of British Columbia, she was awarded the Killam Prize for excellence in research, and at the University of Arizona, she received the Magellan Prize for excellence in teaching. Toni has served on the executive committees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and as an associate editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She was drawn to research in social psychology for its ability to take a systematic empirical approach to examining important social issues and to teaching for the opportunity to share those insights with others. Her research examines how individuals are affected by and cope with tarnished identities and negative stereotypes. Toni has published work on topics of social identity threat, stigma and identity, stereotyping and prejudice, self-conscious emotion, and gender roles.

Jamie Arndt, Ph.D., is the 2012 Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri (MU). After attending Skidmore College in the eastern United States for his B.A. and the University of Arizona in the west for his Ph.D., he settled in the middle, accepting a position at MU in 1999. During his time at MU, he has received the Robert S. Daniel Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the Provosts Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the International Society for Self and Identity Outstanding Early Career Award, and the University of Missouri Chancellors Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Jamie is a founding member of the Social Personality and Health Network and former chair of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Training Committee, and he has served on the editorial boards of various journals in the field. He has authored or coauthored scholarly works pertaining to the self, existential motivation, psychological defense, and their implications for many topics, most notably health decision making, creativity, and legal judgment.