This volume provides an exciting challenge to social psychology. John Greenwood advances and defends a realist account of social psychology that surmounts the problems of traditional empiricist accounts and repudiates the relativism of more recent social constructionist critiques. His detailed argument shows that realism offers many more theoretical possibilities than are recognized by empiricism and constructionism.The book synthesizes contemporary theory across disciplines and - by showing it to be entirely compatible with theories of the social dimensions of mind - illustrates the virtues of a realist interpretation of psychological theories. The author develops an original theory of the intrinsically social dimensions of identity and emotion; he documents many areas that have been neglected by both empiricist and constructionist accounts, and demonstrates that the social dimensions of mind and behaviour pose no threat to the objectivity, or to the prospects for empirical evaluation, of psychological theories of identity and emotion. Realism, Identity and Emotion presents a bold new vision of the possibilities and potential of social psychological science. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in social psychology, philosophy of social and psychological science and for anyone working on identity and emotion.

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