Social psychologists discuss the history of approaches and domains of inquiry in the discipline to provide both veterans and newcomers a broad context for current theory and practice. Among their topics are the importance of history to social psychology, a history of social cognition, a historical analysis of the social dimensions of social psychology, social judgment research, attitudes and persuasion research, intergroup relations, and culture in psychology. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)