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Collaboration in Psychological Science

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First  Edition©2017  Richard Zweigenhaft; Eugene Borgida

ISBN:9781319120221

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Are you doing collaborative research? Get insights from leading psychological scientists.

This remarkable collection of essays gives you and other researchers a firsthand look at how collaborative scientific research is done. The 35 contributors here are leading psychological and social scientists with extensive experience working as members of a research team. Each author offers a distinctive perspective on the collaborative research process—its pros and cons, challenges and benefits, practical implications and ethical dilemmas.

Each essay focuses on a set of guiding questions: What motivated the collaboration? What about the collaboration made the research work more effective (or less?) Does the substantive domain in which the collaboration occurs shape the nature of the collaboration? How have technological advances changed collaboration? Are there particular issues that arise for students collaborating with faculty members, or faculty members collaborating with students?

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Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: Behind the Scenes
Richard L. Zweigenhaft and Eugene Borgida

Part II. Collaboration Within Psychological Science
1. Elaine Hatfield and Ellen Berscheid, In Research, as in Love, One Is the
Loneliest Number
2. Dominic Abrams and Michael A. Hogg, Building Bridges: A Collaboration
Across Three Continents
3. John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner. Living What We Learn: Dual
Identity and Collaboration
4. Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor, Collaboration: Interdependence
in Action
5. Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon, Psychologys
Folie a Trois: ’Til Death Do Us Part
6. Miles Hewstone and Robin Martin, “One of Us”: Group Processes, Division
of Labor, and Transactive Memory in Pursuit of the Enigma of Minority
Influence
7. Charles Judd and Bernadette Park, Social Cognition About a
Collaboration in Social Cognition
8. Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama, Dialogues Across Difference:
The Two-Self Solution
9. Richard E. Nisbett and Lee Ross, A 50-Year Conversation
10. Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer, An International Collaboration
Based on Similarity and Complementarity


Part III. Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
11. John L. Sullivan and Eugene Borgida, It Takes a Village:
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Political Psychology
12. Steven W. Gangestad, Scientific Collaboration Illustrates
Extraordinary Features of Our Species—and the Risks That Collaboration
Entails
13. Steven J. Sherman, A Career of Collaborations: A Plan Designed to NOT
Get You Tenure in Todays World
14. Gary L. Wells, Some Functions and Dysfunctions of Collaboration
15. Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Studying Diversity in the American Power
Structure, Collaboratively


Part IV. Collaboration With Institutional and Community Partners
16. Steven J. Breckler, The Social Psychology of National Science Policy
17. Nancy Cantor and Peter Englot, Psychological Science in Public: It
Takes a Diverse Village to Make a Difference
18. Geoffrey L. Cohen and Julio Garcia, No Researcher Is an Island
19. James S. Jackson, The Program for Research on Black Americans: Team
Science in the Study of Ethnic and Racial Influences
20. Barbara Loken and Deborah Roedder John, Collaboration in Applied
Psychological Research
21. Mark Snyder and Allen M. Omoto, Finding the Sweet Spot: What Makes for
Successful Collaboration?


Part V. Conclusion: Best Practices for Collaborative Research in
Psychological Science
Richard L. Zweigenhaft and Eugene Borgida

Richard Zweigenhaft

Richard L. Zweigenhaft is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College.  He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in Social Psychology from Columbia University, and a Ph. D. in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He has taught at Guilford since 1974, where he has served as the chair of the psychology department (many times), as the chair of the social science division, and as the director of the interdisciplinary minor in Communications.  He is the author and coauthor of many articles, and the coauthor (with G. William Domhoff) of a series of books on the American power structure, the most recent of which is The New CEOs:  Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies (2014). 

Eugene Borgida

Eugene Borgida is Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Minnesota, and a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology. Borgida is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Founding Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Borgida has served as Associate Dean and Executive Officer of the College of Liberal Arts, and as chair of the Psychology Department. He received the Distinguished Teacher Award from the College of Liberal Arts and the system-wide Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. He is a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has served on the Board of Directors for the APS and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Borgida has published extensively in social psychology, law and psychology, and political psychology, and his research has been supported by NIMH, NIH, NSF, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. He is co-author of four books, the most recent of which (with John Bargh) is the APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition (2015).