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  Stereotypes and Stereotyping

  C. Neil Macrae, Charles Stangor, Miles Hewstone, and Carey S. Ryan

  Chapter 4: Assessing stereotype accuracy: Implications for understanding the stereotyping process, co-authored by Carey S. Ryan, UNO faculty member.

  Where do stereotypes come from? How accurate are they, and how do they affect interpersonal and intergroup relations? Can stereotypes be changed? Stereotypes--structured sets of beliefs about the characteristics of members of social categories--influence how people attend to, encode, represent, and retrieve information about others, and how they judge and respond to them. A comprehensive overview of contemporary research, this volume highlights important approaches that have considerably expanded our understanding of stereotyping in recent years. Integrating cognitive, motivational, emotional, and linguistic perspectives, Stereotypes and Stereotyping demonstrates the diversity and richness of the field today and illuminates new directions for future research.

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  Problem Finding, Problem Solving, and Creativity

  Mark A. Runco and Roni Reiter-Palmon

  Chapter: Problem construction and cognition: Applying problem representations in ill-defined domains, co-authored by Roni Reiter-Palmon, UNO faculty member.

  Many individuals studying problem solving consider creativity a special type of problem solving. On the other hand, many individuals studying creativity view problem solving as a special type of creative performance. What is truly the role of creativity in problem solving? What is the role of problem solving in creativity? And how are problem solving and creativity related to problem finding? This book addresses these questions, and fills an obvious need for an overview of the research on problem finding.

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  Biodata Handbook: Theory, Research, and Use of Biographical Information in Selection and Performance Prediction

  Garnett S. Stokes, Michael D. Mumford, William A. Owens, and Roni Reiter-Palmon

  Chapter: Background data and development: Structural issues in the application of life history measures, co-authored by Roni Reiter-Palmon, UNO faculty member.

  Chapter: Personality and background data: Life history and self concepts in an ecological system, co-authored by Roni Reiter-Palmon, UNO faculty member.

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  European Review of Social Psychology - Volume 2

  Wolfgang Stroebe, Miles Hewstone, and Carey S. Ryan

  Chapter: Social categorization and the representation of variability information, co-authored by Carey S. Ryan, UNO faculty member.

  The European Review of Social Psychology is an annual series that reflects the dynamism of social psychology in Europe and the attention now paid to European ideas and research. Although open to authors from all nations, one of its major purposes is to further the international exchange of ideas by providing an outlet for substantial accounts of theoretical and empirical work that has not been previously published in English. With the help of an editorial board consisting of senior scholars from various European countries and the United States, the editors will invite outstanding researchers to contribute to these volumes. The emphasis of these contributions will be on critical assessment of major areas of research, and substantial individual programmes of research as well as on topics and initiatives of contemporary interest and originality. The authors of this second volume are drawn from Europe and the United States. They represent the international scope and quality which the editors intend should become the hallmarks of this series.