A Table for 65

Reviews the book, Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches edited by Paul A. M. Van Lange (see record 2006-01813-000), calling it "as revolutionary a social psychology volume as [the reviewer] has read in quite a few years". The difficulty in reviewing this volume is explained as being because: it is in the genre on the crisis of social psychology, trying to recast the field; it contains 65 essays by leading personality and social psychologists on the transdisciplinary bridges they have built out of basic social psychology as they have defined it; the essays are generally brief, of the four- to six-page type, and sometimes the bridge metaphor gets a bit wobbly in some essays. Also, the essays are grouped in seven large parts, and the net effect was that the reviewer could not read more than a few of the essays at a time without taking time out to think about what was being said, and in some cases doing some research. Finally, the volume is about breaking down territorial boundaries, and that is one of the most difficult issues social psychology has faced over the last century. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)