1. The social dimension in European social psychology Henri Tajfel, Joseph M. F. Jaspars and Colin Fraser

Part I. Social Development: 2. Early social interaction and the development of emotional understanding Judy Dunn

3. The development of communicative competence with language in young children: a social psychological perspective W. P. Robinson

4. Learning: a social actualization and reconstruction of knowledge Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Jean Brun, El Hadi Saada and Maria-Luisa Schubauer-Leoni

5. The development of thinking about socio-economic systems Gustav Jahoda

6. The development of ethnic attitudes David Milner

7. Imperfect identities: a socio-psychological perspective for the study of the problems of adolescence Augusto Palmonari, Felice Carugati, Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti and Guido Sarchielli

Part II. Interpersonal Behaviour and Communication: 8. Communication in the family and psychopathology: a social-developmental approach to deviant behaviour Rolv Mikkel Blakar

9. The nonverbal dimension: a fad, a field, or a behavioural modality? Klaus R. Scherer

10. Aggression as an interpersonal phenomenon Jacques-Philippe Leyens and Adam Fraczek

11. Justice and fairness in interpersonal relations: thoughts and suggestions Gerold Mikula

12. Towards a comprehension of friendship development and breakdown Steve Duck and Dorothy Miell

13. When love dies: an integration of attraction and bereavement research Wolfgang Stroebe and Margaret S. Stroebe

Part III. Social Contexts of Individual Actions: 14. The social dimension of goal-directed action Mario von Cranach and Ladislav Valach

15. Social rules and social rituals Rom Harré

16. Social differentiation and non-differentiation Jean-Paul Codol

17. Social differentiation in the scientific community Gé

rard Lemaine

Part IV. Representations of social reality: 18. Attitudes in a social context J. Richard Eiser and Joop van der Pligt

19. Social dimensions of attribution Miles Hewstone and Joseph M. F. Jaspars

20. The historical dimension of social psychology: the case of unemployment Peter Kelvin

21. Rationality and social control in orthodox systems Jean-Pierre Deconchy

22. Political ideology: social psychological aspects Michael Billig

Part V. Group Processes: 23. Social groups, nonsense groups and group polarization Colin Fraser and Donald Foster

24. The influence of minorities: ten years later Gabriel Mugny

25. Social identification and psychological group formation John C. Turner

Part VI. Intergroup Relations: 26. The social psychology of intergroup relations and categorical differentiation Jean-Claude Deschamps

27. Intergroup differences in group perceptions Ad F. M. van Knippenberg

28. The individual and social functions of sex role stereotypes Carmen Huici

29. The role of similarity in intergroup relations Rupert J. Brown

30. Social psychology and political economy Sik Hung Ng

31. Intergroup and interpersonal dimensions of bargaining and negotiation G. M. Stephenson

32. Second language acquisition: the intergroup theory with catastrophic dimensions Peter Ball, Howard Giles and Miles Hewstone

33. Intergroup relations, social myths and social justice in social psychology Henri Tajfel

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