Full Description
Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some people and harm others? Why do we pay so much more attention to high-powered people than they pay to us? If humans evolved from great apes, why are human selves so much more elaborate? How does our attachment to our parents when we are infants influence the success or failure of our romantic relationships when we are adults? Can behaving morally "license" us to behave immorally shortly afterward? How do social relationships make us more versus less prone toward physical illness?
This volume -- an update to the original, 2010 edition -- provides a graduate-level introduction to social psychology. The target audience consists of first-year graduate students (MA or PhD) in social psychology and related disciplines (marketing, organizational behavior, etc.), although it is also appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors are world-renowned leaders on their topic, and they have written state-of-the-art overviews of the discipline's major research domains. The chapters are not only scientifically rigorous, but also accessible and engaging. They convey the joy, excitement, and promise of scientific investigations into human sociality.
Contents
Chapter 1. Social Psychology: Crisis and Renaissance
Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister
Chapter 2. A Brief History of Social Psychology
Harry Reis
Chapter 3. New Developments in Research Methods
Alison Ledgerwood
Chapter 4. Social Cognition
Susan Fiske
Chapter 5. Self
Roy F. Baumeister
Chapter 6. Attitude Structure and Change
Richard Petty, Pablo Briñol, Lee Fabrigar, and Duane Wegener
Chapter 7. Social Influence
Robert Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius
Chapter 8. Aggression
Brad Bushman
Chapter 9. Attraction and Rejection
Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister
Chapter 10. Close Relationships
Shelly Gable
Chapter 11. Intergroup Relations
Marilynn Brewer
Chapter 12. Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Jack Dovidio and James Jones
Chapter 13. Morality
Linda Skitka and Paul Conway
Chapter 14. Emotion
Wendy Berry Mendes
Chapter 15. Social Neuroscience
Thalia Wheatley
Chapter 16. Evolutionary Social Psychology
Jon Maner
Chapter 17. Cultural Psychology
Steve Heine
Chapter 18. Health, Stress, and Coping
Ted Robles
Chapter 19. Judgment and Decision-making
Kathleen Vohs and Mary Frances Luce
Chapter 20. Personality
Charles Carver
Chapter 21. Computational Psychology
Michal Kosinski
