Exploring social psychology / David G. Myers
Exploring Social Psychology provides a brief and economical introduction to social psychology, which presents concepts and findings in smaller bites - 30 modules that are crisp, concise, and ideally suited to students' attention spans. Written in the engaging Myers style the text attempts to re...
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Boston
McGraw-Hill
2000
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | McGraw-Hill series in social psychology
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| 300 | |a xvii, 440 p. |b ill. |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Doing social psychology -- Did you know it all along? -- Intuition: the power and limits of our inner knowing -- Reasons for unreason -- Clinical intuition: the perils of psychologizing -- The fundamental attribution error -- A new look at pride -- The power of positive thinking -- Behavior and belief -- Gender, genes, and culture -- How nice people get corrupted -- Two routes to persuasion -- Indoctrination and inoculation -- The mere presence of others -- Many hands make diminished responsibility -- Doing together what we would never do alone -- How groups intensify decisions -- Power to the person -- The dislike of diversity -- The roots of prejudice -- The nature and nurture of aggression -- Do the media influence social behavior? -- Causes of conflict -- Blessed are the peacemakers -- Who likes whom? -- The ups and downs of love -- When do people help? -- Who is miserable, and why? -- Who is happy, and why? -- Big ideas in social psychology and religion. | |
| 520 | |a Exploring Social Psychology provides a brief and economical introduction to social psychology, which presents concepts and findings in smaller bites - 30 modules that are crisp, concise, and ideally suited to students' attention spans. Written in the engaging Myers style the text attempts to reveal social psychology as an investigative reporter might, by providing a current summary of important social phenomena by showing how social psychology uncovers and explains such phenomena and by reflecting on their human significance. By focusing on humanly significant issues such as belief and illusion, independence and interdependence, love and hate, Myers presents social psychology in ways that inform and stimulate all students, not just future social psychologists. In addition, Module topics focus on the scope social psychology and on highlighting the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. | ||
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