Cover; Half Title; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned; Metatheory: Lessons from Social Identity Research; Taking the Social Origins of Human Nature Seriously: Toward a More Imperialist Social Psychology; Common Sense, Intuition, and Theory in Personality and Social Psychology; Tools, Toys, Truisms, and Theories: Some Thoughts on the Creative Cycle of Theory Formation; Mind the Gap: In Praise of Informal Sources of Formal Theory; Making a Theory Useful: Lessons Handed Down and The Benefits of Abstract Functional Analysis in Theory Construction: The Case of Interdependence TheoryThe Quest for the Gist: On Challenges of Going Abstract in Social and Personality Psychology; Collaboration: The Social Context of Theory Development; A Perspectivist Approach to Theory Construction; Dynamical Minimalism: Why Less is More in Psychology; Theory in Social Psychology: Seeing the Forest and the Trees; A Personalized Theory of Theory Construction