1. Podcast
A discussion between Professor Susan Fiske and Professor John Dixon
Journey to the Edges: Social Structures and Neural Maps of Intergroup Processes
2. Professor John Dixon, Lancaster University, UK
Co-Editor, British Journal of Social Psychology
Professor Jolanda Jetten, Professor of Social
Psychology, University of Queensland,
Australia
Co-Editor, British Journal of Social Psychology
3.
4. Professor Susan Fiske, Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
Landmark Article: Journey to the Edges: Social Structures
and Neural Maps of Intergroup Processes
Volume 51 Issue 1 BJSP, March 2012
5. Why did you become interested in working on both the sociological and neurological
levels of analysis?
Where there particular research problems or questions that led you to be interested in
both areas?
6. Macro level Micro level
structures of analysis
society Journey
Intergroup relations Neural structures
Ideology
Economic systems
7. What is the main message of your Landmark Article?
What are the key points that you would like the next generation of Social Psychologists
to think about or use to inform their own research on intergroup relations?
8. “Be open to a variety of
methods that may
triangulate on a
phenomenon you care
about in different ways.”
9. How have you approached the challenges of integrating the macro and micro level
analysis, both conceptually and methodologically?
10.
11. Politics of knowledge production in social psychology: where some forms of knowledge
are valued more highly than others and are seen as more glamorous and fundable.
What is your view on this?
14. Professor Susan Fiske, Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
Landmark Article: Journey to the Edges: Social Structures
and Neural Maps of Intergroup Processes
Volume 51 Issue 1 BJSP, March 2012
15. Acknowledgements
The Editorial team of BJSP and Wiley-Blackwell wish to thank
Professor Susan Fiske and Professor John Dixon for their support in
contributing to this podcast.
