OTHER TITLES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULAR CULTURE SERIES -- Title Page -- Introduction -- THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUPERHEROES -- THE HAPPINESS OF SUPERHEROES -- THE CHARACTER STRENGTHS OF SUPERHEROES -- THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF SUPERHEROES -- SUPERHEROES AND SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA -- THE BENEFITS OF A GROUP -- MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES -- NOT ALL GROUPS ARE CREATED EQUAL -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SUPERMAN'S PERSONALITY: FROM KRYPTON, KANSAS, OR BOTH? -- TEMPERAMENT: BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION AND INHIBITION SYSTEMS -- ATTACHMENT STYLE -- BIRTH ORDER -- GROWING UP INVULNERABLE -- GIFTED MORALITY -- YOU ARE WHERE YOU LIVE: CULTURE AND VALUES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ANTI-HEROISM IN THE CONTINUUM OF GOOD AND EVIL -- THE ANTI-HERO CONCEPT -- THE ANTI-HEROES THEMSELVES -- THE ANTI-HERO SPACE -- BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL -- POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF PETER PARKER -- SPIDER STRENGTH AND STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER -- THE PROPORTIONAL HUMOR OF A SPIDER? -- SPIDEY'S OTHER SUPER-POWER: HOPE -- HAPPILY EVER AFTER? -- PREJUDICE LESSONS FROM THE XAVIER INSTITUTE -- PREJUDICE IN THE X-UNIVERSE -- AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY THEORY -- REALISTIC GROUP CONFLICT THEORY -- SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY -- PARALLELS TO OTHER FORMS OF OPPRESSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO -- ALL ABOUT FIT: CAREER CHOICE -- ADAPTING TO CHANGE: CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LONG HAUL -- A SUPERHERO'S CALLING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IS THERE A SUPERHERO IN ALL OF US? -- IN THE BEGINNING -- UNDERSTANDING SUPER-PERCEPTION AND SUPER-ACTION -- SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONFERS SUPERPOWERS -- MORE OR LESS HUMAN -- SUPER RESPONSIBILITY -- THE SUPER HERO IN ALL OF US -- REFERENCES.

MIND-READING SUPERHEROES: FICTION AND FACT -- IS IT POSSIBLE TO MEASURE PEOPLE'S EVERYDAY MIND-READINGABILITY? -- DOES TELEPATHY PLAY A ROLE IN EVERYDAY MIND READING? -- IF TELEPATHY DOESN'T PLAY A ROLE IN OUR EVERYDAY MIND READING, WHAT DOES? -- WHAT IS THE UPPER LIMIT OF OUR EVERYDAY MIND-READING ABILITY? ARE THERE ANY ... -- ON AVERAGE, ARE WOMEN BETTER MIND READERS THAN MEN? -- CAN WE IMPROVE PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO "READ" OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS? -- REFERENCES -- AN APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: AGGRESSION AND THE BATMAN -- OUR CASE STUDY: THE BATMAN -- "HURTING CRIMINALS INCIDENTALLY HELPS THEIR VICTIMS": THE REAL MOTIVATION OF ... -- REFERENCES -- THE STEREOTYPICAL (WONDER) WOMAN -- WONDER WOMAN'S PSYCHE FROM A SOCIAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS -- GENDER STEREOTYPES -- USE OF GENDER STEREOTYPES IN THE WONDER WOMAN SERIES (1941-1998) -- DISCUSSION OF THE SERIES -- REFERENCES -- WHAT WOULD FREUD SAY? PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THE PUNISHER -- THE PUNISHER: A CASE OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER, OR SOMETHING ELSE? -- DEFINING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR -- DIAGNOSING FRANK CASTLE -- TREATING FRANK CASTLE -- REFERENCES -- COMING TO TERMS WITH BIZARRO -- CAPED CRUSADERS AND COSTUMED PERVERTS -- (BIZARRO) CULTURE AND (BIZARRO) IDENTITY -- ME AM BIZARRO -- REFERENCES -- COPING WITH STRESS . . . THE SUPERHERO WAY -- STRESS -- COPING WITH STRESS -- 1. PROBLEM-FOCUSED COPIN-SILVER BULLETS -- 2. EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING-INVISIBLE SHIELDS -- 3. PROACTIVE COPING-SPIDEY-SENSE, STOCKPILES, AND A SUPPORTING CAST -- YOU ARE HEROIC -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ARKHAM ASYLUM: FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND GOTHAM'S (NOT SO) "SERIOUS HOUSE" -- ARKHAM: A HISTORY -- ARKHAM ASYLUM VS. BLACKGATE PENITENTIARY -- MALINGERING AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY -- ARKHAM IN THE REAL WORLD -- INCOMPETENCY VS. INSANITY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE INCREDIBLE HULK: ORIGINS OF RAGE.

BRUCE BANNER A.K.A. THE HULK: KEY STORY ELEMENTS -- ANGER AND AGGRESSION: BASIC UNDERLYING MECHANISMS -- INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN ANGER AND AGGRESSION -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANGRY/AGGRESSIVE TENDENCIES -- ROOTS OF RAGE: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- GENDER TYPICALITY AND EXTREMITY IN POPULAR CULTURE -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER -- OUR STUDY -- BOB PARR → MR. INCREDIBLE -- HELEN PARR → ELASTIGIRL -- SUPER BEHAVIORS -- SUPER SUMMATION -- REFERENCES -- CRACKING THE SUPERHERO'S MORAL CODE -- SUPERMAN'S DILEMMA -- DO PEOPLE THINK LIKE SUPERMAN? -- WITHIN- VS. BETWEEN-GROUP CONFLICT -- RISE OF THE CRIME FIGHTER -- THIRD-PARTY MORAL JUDGMENT -- MORALISTIC PUNISHMENT -- MORAL IMPARTIALITY -- PULSE OF THE SUPERHERO -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Copyright Page.