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Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned -- Metatheory: Lessons from Social Identity Research -- Taking the Social Origins of Human Nature Seriously: Toward a More Imperialist Social Psychology -- Common Sense, Intuition, and Theory in Personality and Social Psychology -- Tools, Toys, Truisms, and Theories: Some Thoughts on the Creative Cycle of Theory Formation -- Mind the Gap: In Praise of Informal Sources of Formal Theory -- Making a Theory Useful: Lessons Handed Down -- The Benefits of Abstract Functional Analysis in Theory Construction: The Case of Interdependence Theory -- The Quest for the Gist: On Challenges of Going Abstract in Social and Personality Psychology -- Collaboration: The Social Context of Theory Development -- A Perspectivist Approach to Theory Construction -- Dynamical Minimalism: Why Less is More in Psychology -- Theory in Social Psychology: Seeing the Forest and the Trees -- A Personalized Theory of Theory Construction -- The Naive Epistemology of a Working Social Psychologist (Or the Working Epistemology of a Naive Social Psychologist): The Value Of Taking "Temporary Givens" Seriously.

A distinction is proposed between two different senses of the treatment by background interaction (termed 'external invalidity' by Campbell & Stanley, 1966). The distinction parallels the dichotomy between universalistic (or theory centered) and particularistic (or context centered) objectives of behavioral research. In its universalistic sense the interaction above suggests a redefinition of the abstract meaning attached to the independent variables effective with respect to a given phenomenon of interest. In its particularistic sense this interaction defines the concrete contexts over which a given outcome will hold. The implications of the proposed distinction are discussed in reference to the phases of (1) designing the experiment and (2) evaluating the obtained results.

For the first time in the history of social psychology, we have a handbook on the history of social psychology. In it, leading luminaries in the field present their take on how research in their own domains has unfolded, on the scientists whose impact shaped the research agendas in the different areas of social psychology, and on events, institutions and publications that were pivotal in determining the field's history. Social psychology's numerous subfields now boast a rich historical heritage of their own, which demands special attention. The Handbook recounts the intriguing and often surpris.

The 3N model of radicalization posits that radicalization results from the confluence of the need for significance, the narrative, and the network. The network validates the narrative and rewards with significance those who adhere to it. Thus, it is critical to the radicalization process, leading scholars to suggest that no violent extremist truly acts alone. Similarly, understanding the role of the network is crucial to understanding and facilitating deradicalization, for one who is disillusioned with a violent extremist ideology may not leave their group if they lack an alternative group to replace it. This article discusses the power of the network in radicalization and deradicalization and proposes a novel theory of distinguishing between violent extremists who are more versus less influenced by their network, leading them to perpetrate violence in groups or on their own, respectively.

This article explores psychological factors involved in terrorism and counterterrorism on individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. On the individual level, we describe attempts to understand terrorist behavior as a form of psychopathology and/or as reflecting a unique constellation of personality traits. We also consider whether there exists a general motivational basis for participating in terrorism. On the group level of analysis, we address the process of shared reality construction, social influence involved in recruitment of new members to terrorist organization, their indoctrination into terrorist ideology, and the use of language in creating terrorism warranting norms. On the organizational level, we consider issues of training, logistics, and cost effectiveness as they apply to the decisions to launch or abstain from terrorist activities. We conclude by considering the implications of our analysis for possible ways and means for countering terrorism.