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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Table of Contents:
- 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.