Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski (Ph.D., UCLA) is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA, and a co-founding Principal Investigator at START, the national center of excellence for the study of terrorism and the response to terrorism. Kruglanski has published 500 articles and books on basic psychological processes and the psychology of extremism, and received numerous scientific awards including Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for the Science of Motivation, and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Motivational science: Social personality perspectives
A collection of articles that define the field of motivational science. It provides an introduction to social-personality contributions to motivational science at a level suitable for both advanced... (more)
Feeling Big, Feeling Small: The Human Yearning for Significance and Wonder
Why do we sometimes feel powerful, expansive, and driven—only to feel small, humbled, or overwhelmed moments later? This book proposes that much of human experience is shaped by a fundamental... (more)