Social Behavior as Resource Exchange Explorations into the Societal Structures of the Mind

Kjell Törnblom has taught at universities in Sweden, the United States, and Canada and is currently affiliated to the Transdisciplinarity Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He has published research on social justice, resource theory, conflict, intergroup relations, theory integration, and co-edited three books including the Handbook of Social Resource Theory and Resource Theory, as well as six special issues of Social Justice Research. Kjell was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Missouri. He is currently co-editor-in-chief (with Ali Kazemi) for Social Justice Research since 2010 and a member of the International Society for Justice Research Executive Board.
Ali Kazemi is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at University West, Sweden, where he also serves as the director of the research center for positive organizational studies. He has published more than hundred articles, book chapters, technical reports, and books in various branches of psychology. He has edited several volumes in English and Swedish and is the co-author of Management in Retailing, nominated as the best HR book of 2013 in Sweden. He serves as ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is since 2011 the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Social Justice Research.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the contributors
From The Original Formulation to Advanced Elaborations of Social Resource Theory: The Contributions to This Book

PART I:
Abridgement of Uriel G. Foa and Edna B. Foa (1974) Societal Structures of The Mind
Chapter 1: Introduction: Man's Structuring of His Social World
Chapter 2: The Development of Basic Social Concepts
Chapter 3: From Developmental Sequence to Adult Structure
Chapter 4: Prelude to Resource Exchange
Chapter 5: Some Areas of Socio-Psychological Research In The Light of The Resource Exchange Paradigm
Chapter 6: Epilogue: Man and His Society
Appendix A - E
References

PART II:
New Theoretical and Empirical Developments
Chapter 1: Some Theoretical Advances Since the Original Foa & Foa Monograph
Kjell Yngve Törnblom and Ali Kazemi

Chapter 2: Social Resource Theory and Levels of Explanation: From Universal Structure to the Construal of Interpersonal Behavior
John Adamopoulos

Chapter 3: Resources and Social Justice in Meso- and Macro-Level Environmental Conflict
Susan Opotow

Chapter 4: Extending Social Resource Exchange to Events of Abundance and Sufficiency
Jonas Bååth and Adel Daoud

Chapter 5: When Your Heart Goes Bumpity Bump: Neurological Characteristics of Love
Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, and Stephanie Cacioppo

Chapter 6: Evaluating Foa and Foa's Social Resource Theory: A Data-Analytic Perspective
Clara Sabbagh and Manfred Schmitt

Epilogue: "There is nothing more practical than a good theory"
Ali Kazemi and Kjell Yngve Törnblom