Introduction and a short history of social psychology, C. McGarty and S.A. Haslam; the theory of cognitive dissonance - the evolution and vicissitudes of an idea, E. Aronson; discursive, rhetorical and ideological messages, M. Billig; on the social origins of human nature, M.B. Brewer; organizing social psychological explanations - W. Doise; predicting, understanding and changing socially relevant behaviours - lessons learned, M. Fishbein; let social psychology be faddish or, at least, heterogeneous, S.T. Fiske and J-Ph. Leyens; social psychology as social construction - the emerging vision, K.J. Gergen; social life as rule-governed patterns of joint action, R. Harre; beliefs, knowledge and meaning from the perspective of the perceiver - need for structure-order, O.J. Harvey; three lessons from social psychology - multiple levels of analysis, methodological pluralism and statistical sophistication, M. Hewstone; biases in social cognition - aboutness as a general principle, E.T. Higgins; dynamic social impact - the societal consequences of human interaction, B. Latane; going beyond limitation of Bubbapsychology - a perspectivist social psychology, W.J. McGuire; situations, belongingness, attitudes and culture - four lessons learned from social psychology, A.S.R. Manstead; non-material beliefs - theory and research in cultural social psychology, A. Pepitone; evolution of persuasion theory - from single to multiple, R.E. Petty; the relevance of language for social psychology, G.R. Semin; integrating the psychological and the social to understand human behaviour, E.R. Smith and D.M. Mackie; in the beginning there is society - lessons from a sociological social psychology, S. Stryker; the social psychology of Invictus - conceptual and methodological approaches to indomitability, P. Suedfeld; a cross-cultural perspective on social psychology, H.C. Triandis; the socially structured mind, J.C. Turner and P.J. Oakes.