The Social Psychology of Living Well

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 The Social Psychology of Living Well: Historical, Social and Cultural Perspectives -- Part I Conceptual Issues -- 2 Happiness and Meaningfulness as Two Different and Not Entirely Compatible Versions of the Good Life -- 3 Evolutionary Imperatives and the Good Life -- 4 On the Adaptive Functions of Good Life: Going Beyond Hedonic Experience -- 5 Living Life Well: The Role of Mindfulness and Compassion -- Part II The Role of Purposeful Activities in Living Well -- 6 For What It's Worth: The Regulatory Pleasure and Purpose of a Good Life -- 7 Whither Happiness? When, How, and Why Might Positive Activities Undermine Well-Being -- 8 Understanding the Good Life: Eudaimonic Living Involves Well-Doing, Not Well-Being -- 9 Religious Engagement and Living Well -- Part III Affective and Cognitive Aspects of Living Well -- 10 Biological Underpinnings of Positive Emotions and Purpose -- 11 Nostalgia Shapes and Potentiates the Future -- 12 Negative Affect and the Good Life: On the Cognitive, Motivational and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Mood -- 13 Expansive and Contractive Learning Experiences: Mental Construal and Living Well -- Part IV Social and Cultural Factors in Living Well -- 14 Satisfying and Meaningful Close Relationships -- 15 Early Social Experiences and Living Well: A Longitudinal View of Adult Physical Health -- 16 Positive Parenting, Adolescent Substance Use Prevention, and the Good Life -- 17 Internet and Well-Being -- 18 Technology and the Future of Happiness -- Index -- Backcover.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 In Search of Homo moralis: The Social Psychology of Morality -- Part I The Nature of Moral Values and Decisions -- 2 God Save Us: A Terror Management Perspective on Morality -- 3 Moral Opportunities Versus Moral Tests -- 4 Threat, Morality and Politics: A Differentiated Threat Account of Moral and Political Values -- 5 Computational Modeling of Moral Decisions -- 6 Understanding Responses to Moral Dilemmas: Deontological Inclinations, Utilitarian Inclinations, and General Action Tendencies -- Part II Moral Aspects of Interpersonal Behavior -- 7 A Relational Perspective of Social Influence on Moral Issues -- 8 When Perspective-Takers Turn Unethical -- 9 Confessing to an Immoral Act: Consequences to Moral Beliefs and Inferences About Moral Dispositions -- 10 Affective Influences on Moral Decisions: Mood Effects on Selfishness Versus Fairness -- Part III Ironic and Paradoxical Effects of Morality -- 11 Can High Moral Purposes Undermine Scientific Integrity? -- 12 Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Notions of Harm and Their Moral Basis -- 13 Ethical Norms and Moral Values Among Scientists: Applying Conceptions of Morality to Scientific Rules and Practices -- Part IV Morality and Collective Behavior -- 14 Moralization and Intolerance of Ideological Outgroups -- 15 Sin, Morality, and Opponent Motives for Prosocial Behavior -- 16 The Moral Psychology of Resource Use -- 17 Of Baboons and Elephants: Inequality and the Evolution of Immoral Leadership -- 18 Groups Create Moral Superheroes to Defend Sacred Values -- Index.

Ever since Plato's 'Republic' was written over two thousand years ago, one of the main concerns of social philosophy and later empirical social science was to understand the moral nature of human beings. The faculty to think and act in terms of overarching moral values is as much a defining hallmark of our species as is our intelligence, so homo moralis is no less an appropriate term to describe humans as homo sapiens. This volume makes a case for the pivotal role of social psychology as the core discipline for studying morality. The book is divided into four parts. First, the role of social psychological processes in moral values and judgments is discussed, followed by an analysis of the role of morality in interpersonal processes. The sometimes paradoxical, ironic effects of moral beliefs are described next, and in the final section the role of morality in collective and group behavior is considered. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences concerned with moral behavior, as well as professionals and practitioners in clinical, counseling, organizational, marketing and educational psychology where issues of ethics and morality are of importance

Ever since Plato's 'Republic' was written over two thousand years ago, one of the main concerns of social philosophy and later empirical social science was to understand the moral nature of human beings. The faculty to think and act in terms of overarching moral values is as much a defining hallmark of our species as is our intelligence, so homo moralis is no less an appropriate term to describe humans as homo sapiens. This volume makes a case for the pivotal role of social psychology as the core discipline for studying morality. The book is divided into four parts. First, the role of social psychological processes in moral values and judgments is discussed, followed by an analysis of the role of morality in interpersonal processes. The sometimes paradoxical, ironic effects of moral beliefs are described next, and in the final section the role of morality in collective and group behavior is considered. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences concerned with moral behavior, as well as professionals and practitioners in clinical, counseling, organizational, marketing and educational psychology where issues of ethics and morality are of importance