Conversations About Social Psychology

This compendium includes the following 5 complete books featuring renowned psychologists Roy Baumeister, Carol Dweck, Barbara Fredrickson, Philip Zimbardo and professional tennis player Janko Tipsarevic providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic research while revealing the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.

I. Being Social - A conversation with Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland. 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.

II. Mindsets: Growing Your Brain - A conversation with Carol Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. 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.

III. The Mind-Body Problem - A conversation with Janko Tipsarevic, founder and CEO of Tipsarevic Tennis Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. 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.

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. 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.