Conversations About Social Psychology

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This compendium includes the following 5 complete books featuring renowned psychologists </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Roy Baumeister Carol Dweck Barbara Fredrickson Philip Zimbardo</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> professional tennis player Janko Tipsarevic </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic research while revealing the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I. Being Social - A conversation with Roy Baumeister Professor of Psychology University of Queensland.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Topics covered include: a detailed exploration of Baumeister's unique combination of biological and psychological thinking from recognizing essential energetic factors involved with willpower and decision-making to framing free will in evolutionary biological terms to measuring the numbness associated with social rejection as a form of analgesic response.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>II. Mindsets: Growing Your Brain - A conversation with Carol Dweck the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This wide-ranging conversation provides behind-the-scenes detailed insights into the development of Dweck's important work on growth mindsets and fixed mindsets: how different ways of thinking influence learning ability and success.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>III. The Mind-Body Problem - A conversation with Janko Tipsarevic founder and CEO of Tipsarevic Tennis Academy in Belgrade Serbia.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Tipsarevic is a former professional tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8. This conversation gives unique behind-the-scenes insights into what it takes to achieve excellence in professional sports what mindset is needed to reach one's true potential and a penetrating and inspirational window into the social psychology of professional tennis.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>IV. The Science of Emotions - A conversation with Barbara Fredrickson Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director Positive Emotions & Psychology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Topics covered include Fredrickson's extensive work on the science of positive emotions including her broaden-and-build theory the undoing effect and upward spirals while highlighting relevant evolutionary-driven hypotheses together with measurement details of empirical studies.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>V. Critical Situations - A conversation with Philip Zimbardo Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Philip Zimbardo relates his intriguing life history and the survival techniques that he developed from the particular dynamics of his upbringing in the Bronx to his quarantine experiences his relationship with his former classmate Stanley Ingram and the impact those experiences in his youth had on the development of his personal situational awareness and how that influenced his psychological research. After a detailed description of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment Zimbardo discusses what we have-and haven't-learned since then the Abu Ghraib trial his Heroic Imagination Project and more.</span></p>