Handbook of Social Psychology

Jan E. Stets is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Social Psychology Research Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside. Professor Stets is a social psychologist who works in the areas of self and identity, emotions, and morality. She uses identity theory to understand individuals' self-views, emotions, and moral sensibilities. She is the author of 12 books, 100 papers, and numerous grants. Recent books include Advancing Identity Theory, Measurement, and Research (with Ashley V. Reichelmann and K. Jill Kiecolt, Springer, 2023), Identity Theory: Expanded, 2nd Edition (with Peter J. Burke, Oxford University Press, 2023), and Identities in Action: Developments in Identity Theory (with Philip S. Brenner and Richard T. Serpe, Springer, 2021). The Sociology of Emotions (with Jonathan H. Turner, Cambridge University Press, 2005) has been translated into Japanese, Croatian, Polish, and Chinese. The Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (with Jonathan H. Turner, Springer, 2006) received the 2008 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Emotions. In 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASA Emotions Section. In 2020, she received the Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the ASA Social Psychology Section. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is past co-chair of the Department of Sociology at UCR, past director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation, past co-editor of Social Psychology Quarterly, and past chair of the ASA Section on Emotions, the ASA Section on Social Psychology, and the ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity. 

Karen A Hegtvedt is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. As a social psychologist, she works in the area of group processes. Her scholarly interests pertain specifically to processes of justice, legitimacy, and emotions. She has coedited a volume “Justice” in the Advances in Group Processes series and is coauthor (with Cathryn Johnson) of the text, Individuals, Interaction, and Inequality. Her 60 publications address basic issues regarding perceptions of and responses to injustice and factors affecting perceptions of leader legitimacy; more applied work examines issues of environmental justice and justice processes within schools. Her work has appeared in Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Work and Occupations, and other journals. She is the former chair of her department and coeditor of Social Psychology Quarterly. She has served as the chair of ASA Emotions and Social Psychology sections and is the incoming president of the International Society for Justice Research.

Long Doan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Group Processes Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Doan is broadly interested in how various social psychological processes motivate behavior and explain patterns of inequality. In particular, Doan is interested in the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race. His work examines how seemingly subtle differences in evaluations of individuals based on their social characteristics lead to larger, more concrete implications, such as the acceptance or denial of legal rights or decisions related to hiring. His recent publications have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Methodology. He has received the Lupia-Mutz Award for Outstanding Publication and paper awards from the ASA’s Sex and Gender, Social Psychology, and Emotions sections.