Social psychology / David Myers, Jackie Abell and Fabio Sani.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : McGraw Hill, 2014.Edition: 2nd Revised editionDescription: xxiv, 719 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780077152352
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This edition has been revised to introduce a more flexible structure for the teaching and studying of social psychology and includes up-to-date, international research in the area.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introducing Social Psychology (p. 3)
- What is Social Psychology? (p. 4)
- A Brief History of Social Psychology (p. 5)
- 1908: A Crucial Year? (p. 8)
- The 'Crisis' in Social Psychology (p. 9)
- Social Psychology and Human Values (p. 11)
- Obvious Ways Values Enter Psychology (p. 12)
- Not-So-Obvious Ways Values Enter Psychology (p. 12)
- The Subjective Aspects of Science (p. 12)
- Psychological Concepts Contain Hidden Values (p. 13)
- Social Psychology's Key Ideas (p. 15)
- We Construct Our Social Reality (p. 15)
- Social Intuitions Are Powerful but Can Be Perilous! (p. 17)
- Social Influences Shape Our Behaviour (p. 17)
- Genetic Heritage and Individual Dispositions Influence Behaviour (p. 18)
- Behaviour is Shaped by Intragroup and Intergroup Relations (p. 19)
- Social Psychological Processes are Biologically Rooted (p. 19)
- Social Psychology's Principles are Applicable in Everyday Life (p. 20)
- Summing Up: Introducing Social Psychology (p. 20)
- Critical Questions (p. 21)
- Recommended Reading (p. 21)
- 2 Research Methods in Social Psychology (p. 23)
- I Knew It All Along: Is Social Psychology Simply Common Sense? (p. 24)
- Approaches to Doing Research (p. 26)
- Quantitative Social Psychology (p. 26)
- Qualitative Social Psychology (p. 27)
- Some General Observations on the Two Approaches (p. 28)
- Quantitative Research (p. 29)
- Correlational Research: Exploring Associations (p. 30)
- Experimental Research: Searching for Cause and Effect (p. 36)
- Qualitative Research (p. 39)
- Collecting Data in Qualitative Research (p. 40)
- Qualitative Data Analysis (p. 41)
- Research Ethics (p. 44)
- Ethics in Online Research (p. 45)
- Focus On: The Importance of Replication (p. 46)
- Summing Up: Research Methods in Social Psychology (p. 47)
- Critical Questions (p. 49)
- Recommended Reading (p. 49)
- 3 The Self (p. 51)
- Spotlights and Illusions (p. 52)
- Research Close-Up: On Being Nervous about Looking Nervous (p. 53)
- Self-concept: Who Am I? (p. 55)
- Our Sense of Self (p. 55)
- Development of the Social Self (p. 58)
- Self and Culture (p. 60)
- Self-knowledge (p. 64)
- Research Close-Up: An Illusion of Conscious Will (p. 66)
- Self esteem (p. 69)
- Self-esteem Motivation (p. 69)
- The 'Dark Side' of Self-esteem (p. 70)
- Self-love (p. 71)
- Perceived Self-control (p. 72)
- Locus of Control (p. 73)
- Learned Helplessness versus Self-determination (p. 74)
- Self-serving Bias (p. 75)
- Explaining Positive and Negative Events (p. 75)
- Can We All Be Better than Average? (p. 76)
- Unrealistic Optimism (p. 76)
- False Consensus and Uniqueness (p. 77)
- Reflections on Self-esteem and Self-serving Bias (p. 78)
- Impression Management (p. 79)
- False Modesty (p. 80)
- Self-handicapping (p. 81)
- Self-presentation (p. 82)
- Focus On: Are We Witnessing an Epidemic of Narcissism among Younger Generations? (p. 84)
- Summing Up: The Self (p. 86)
- Critical Questions (p. 88)
- Recommended Readings (p. 88)
- 4 Social Beliefs and Judgements (p. 91)
- Perceiving our Social World (p. 92)
- Priming (p. 93)
- Categorical Thinking (p. 94)
- Perceiving and Interpreting Events (p. 95)
- Belief Perseverance (p. 97)
- Constructing Memories of Ourselves and our Worlds (p. 98)
- Judging our Social World (p. 102)
- Intuitive Judgements (p. 102)
- Social Schema Theory (p. 104)
- Social Encoding (p. 106)
- Overconfidence (p. 110)
- Heuristics: Menial Shortcuts (p. 113)
- Illusory Thinking (p. 118)
- Research Close-up: Heuristics and Illusions of Control in Slot Machine Gamblers (p. 120)
- Moods and Judgements (p. 122)
- Explaining our Social World (p. 124)
- Attributing Causality: to the Person or the Situation (p. 124)
- The Fundamental Attribution Error (p. 130)
- Intergroup Attribution (p. 138)
- Communicating our Social World: Social Representations Theory and a Thinking Society (p. 141)
- Research Close-Up: Can the Way We Retrieve Information from Memory Affect How We Judge Other People? (p. 142)
- Expectations of our Social World (p. 145)
- Teacher Expectations and Student Performance (p. 146)
- Getting from Others What We Expect (p. 147)
- Conclusions (p. 149)
- Focus On: How Do We Know if We Are Poor Judges of Social Reality or Highly Efficient at these Judgements? (p. 150)
- Summing Up: Social Beliefs and Judgements (p. 152)
- Critical Questions (p. 154)
- Recommended Reading (p. 154)
- 5 Attitudes and Behaviour (p. 157)
- Organization of Attitudes (p. 160)
- Formation of Attitudes (p. 160)
- Function of Attitudes (p. 162)
- Measuring Attitudes (p. 164)
- Research Close-Up- Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Attitudes toward Non-Drinkers (p. 167)
- How Well Do our Attitudes Predict our Behaviour? (p. 171)
- When Attitudes Predict Behaviour (p. 172)
- When Social Influences on What We Say Are Minimal (p. 172)
- When Other Influences on Behaviour Are Minimal (p. 173)
- When Attitudes Specific to the Behaviour Are Examined (p. 173)
- When Attitudes Are Potent (p. 176)
- Research Close-Up: You've Not Got Mail: Prejudicial Attitudes Predict Discriminatory Behaviour (p. 177)
- When Does our Behaviour Affect our Attitudes? (p. 179)
- Role Playing (p. 180)
- When Saying Becomes Believing (p. 180)
- Evil and Moral Acts (p. 181)
- Why Does our Behaviour Affect our Attitudes? (p. 182)
- Presenting Consistency (p. 182)
- Self-justification: Cognitive Dissonance (p. 182)
- Insufficient Justification (p. 183)
- Dissonance after Decisions (p. 185)
- Dissonance and Group Identity (p. 186)
- Self-perception (p. 187)
- Expressions and Attitude (p. 188)
- Overjustification and Intrinsic Motivations (p. 188)
- Comparing the Theories (p. 191)
- Attitudes as Social Actions (p. 192)
- Focus On: Do Attitudes to Conservation and the Environment Predict Protective Behaviours towards Wildlife? (p. 194)
- Summing Up: Attitudes and Behaviour (p. 196)
- Critical Questions (p. 197)
- Recommended Reading (p. 198)
- 6 Persuasion (p. 201)
- What Paths Lead to Persuasion? (p. 205)
- The Central Route (p. 206)
- The Peripheral Route (p. 206)
- Different Routes for Different Purposes (p. 207)
- Just One Route to Persuasion? (p. 208)
- The Elements of Persuasion and their Relationship to Social Norms (p. 209)
- Who Says? The Communicator (p. 209)
- What Is Said? The Message Content (p. 215)
- How Is It Said? The Channel of Communication (p. 221)
- Research Close-up: I Know this Brand, but Did I Like the Ad? (p. 224)
- To Whom Is It Said? The Audience (p. 230)
- How Old Are They? (p. 230)
- Research Close-up: Adult Residents' Perceptions of Neighbourhood Safety (p. 231)
- Extreme Persuasion: How Do Cults Indoctrinate? (p. 234)
- Attitudes Follow Behaviour (p. 236)
- Persuasive Elements (p. 238)
- Group Effects (p. 239)
- How Can Persuasion Be Resisted? (p. 241)
- Strengthening Personal Commitment (p. 241)
- Real-life Applications: Inoculation Programmes (p. 243)
- Implications of Attitude Inoculation (p. 244)
- Focus On: The Lucifer Effect: Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? (p. 245)
- Summing Up: Persuasion (p. 246)
- Critical Questions (p. 247)
- Recommended Reading (p. 247)
- 7 Conformity and Obedience (p. 251)
- What Is Conformity? (p. 251)
- What Are the Classic Conformity and Obedience Studies? (p. 253)
- Sherif's Studies of Norm Formation (p. 253)
- Research Close-Up: Contagious Yawning (p. 256)
- Asch's Studies of Group Pressure (p. 258)
- Milgram's Studies of Obedience (p. 260)
- What Breeds Obedience? (p. 264)
- Reflections on the Classic Studies (p. 267)
- Banality of Evil or Celebration of Virtue? (p. 273)
- Infrahumanization (p. 275)
- Laboratory and Everyday Life (p. 276)
- Research Close-Up: Judging our Own and Others' Misdeeds (p. 277)
- What Predicts Conformity? (p. 279)
- Group Size (p. 280)
- Unanimity (p. 281)
- Cohesion (p. 282)
- Social Impact Theory (p. 282)
- Status (p. 283)
- Public Response (p. 284)
- No Prior Commitment (p. 284)
- Why Conform? (p. 284)
- Culture (p. 286)
- Who Conforms? (p. 288)
- Personality (p. 288)
- Would People Still Obey Today? (p. 289)
- Conformity as Entertainment? (p. 290)
- Gender Differences in Conformity? (p. 290)
- Research Close-Up: A Virtual Replication of Milgram's Obedience Study (p. 291)
- Do We Ever Want to Be Different? (p. 292)
- Reactance (p. 293)
- Asserting Uniqueness (p. 293)
- Focus On: The Ordinary Monster (p. 294)
- Summing Up: Conformity and Obedience (p. 296)
- Critical Questions (p. 298)
- Recommended Reading (p. 298)
- 8 Aggression (p. 301)
- What Is Aggression? (p. 302)
- Some Theories of Aggression (p. 303)
- Aggression as a Biological Phenomenon (p. 303)
- Aggression as a Response to Frustration (p. 308)
- Aggression as Learned Social Behaviour (p. 311)
- Some influences on Aggression (p. 315)
- Aversive Incidents (p. 315)
- Interpreting Arousal (p. 317)
- Research Close-Up: Harassment Online (p. 318)
- Aggression Cues: The Influence of the Environment (p. 320)
- Media Influences: Pornography and Sexual Violence (p. 322)
- Media Influences: Television (p. 324)
- Media Influences: Video Games (p. 330)
- Gender and Aggression (p. 333)
- Can Aggression Be Reduced? (p. 337)
- Catharsis? (p. 337)
- Research Close-Up: When Provoked, Are Groups More Aggressive than Individuals? (p. 338)
- A Social Learning Approach (p. 341)
- Focus On: Teaching Them a Lesson: Motivations for Driver Aggression (p. 342)
- Summing Up: Aggression (p. 343)
- Critical Questions (p. 344)
- Recommended Reading (p. 345)
- 9 Attraction and Intimacy (p. 347)
- What Leads to Friendship and Attraction? (p. 349)
- Where Do You Find your Partner? (p. 349)
- Internet Dating (p. 354)
- Physical Attractiveness (p. 355)
- Similarity versus Complementarity (p. 363)
- Liking Those Who Like Us (p. 367)
- Evaluative Conditioning (p. 370)
- Who Is Love? (p. 372)
- Passionate Love (p. 372)
- Companionate Love (p. 376)
- What Enables Close Relationship? (p. 377)
- Commitment (p. 377)
- Attachment (p. 378)
- Equity (p. 382)
- Self-disclosure (p. 383)
- Research Close-Up: Does Love Mean Never Having to Say You're Sorry? (p. 386)
- How Do Relationships End? (p. 388)
- Focus On: Sexuality and Attraction: Are there Real Differences? (p. 391)
- Summing Up: Attraction and Intimacy (p. 392)
- Critical Questions (p. 393)
- Recommended Reading (p. 393)
- 10 Helping (p. 395)
- Altruism and Helping (p. 396)
- Why Do We Help? (p. 397)
- Social Exchange and Social Norms (p. 397)
- Research Close-Up: Young Children Are Intrinsically Motivated to See Others Helped (p. 400)
- Evolutionary Explanations (p. 407)
- Genuine Altruism (p. 409)
- When Will We Help? (p. 412)
- Number of Bystanders (p. 413)
- Helping When Someone Else Does (p. 419)
- Time Pressures (p. 420)
- Similarity (p. 421)
- Helping on the Internet (p. 423)
- Research Close-Up: Identity and Emergency Intervention (p. 424)
- Who Will Help? (p. 426)
- Personality, Gender and Age (p. 426)
- Religious Faith (p. 428)
- How Can We Increase Helping? (p. 429)
- Reduce Ambiguity, Increase Responsibility (p. 429)
- Guilt and Concern for Self-image (p. 430)
- Socializing Altruism (p. 431)
- Focus On: The Benefits - and the Costs - of Empathy-induced Altruism (p. 436)
- Summing Up: Helping (p. 437)
- Critical Questions (p. 438)
- Recommended Reading (p. 439)
- 11 Small Group Processes (p. 441)
- What Is a Group? (p. 442)
- The Structure and Composition of Groups (p. 443)
- Social Facilitation: How Are We Affected by the Presence of Others? (p. 445)
- The Mere Presence of Others (p. 445)
- Research Close-Up: An Experiment on the Social Facilitation of Gambling Behaviour (p. 445)
- Why Are We Aroused in the Presence of Others? (p. 448)
- Social Loafing: Do Individuals Exert Less Effort in a Group? (p. 450)
- Many Hands Make Light Work (p. 450)
- Social Loafing in Everyday Life (p. 452)
- Research Close-Up: The Relationship Between Group Cohesion, Group Norms and Perceived Social Loafing in Soccer Teams (p. 455)
- Group Polarization: Do Groups Intensity our Opinions? (p. 456)
- The Case of the 'Risky Shift' (p. 456)
- Do Groups Intensify Opinions? (p. 458)
- Explaining Polarization (p. 460)
- Groupthink: Do Groups Hinder or Assist Good Decisions? (p. 464)
- Symptoms of Groupthink (p. 465)
- Preventing Groupthink (p. 469)
- Group Problem Solving (p. 469)
- How Do Minorities Influence the Group? (p. 471)
- Consistency (p. 472)
- Self-confidence (p. 473)
- Defections from the Majority (p. 474)
- Is Leadership Minority Influence? (p. 475)
- Focus On: Have Small Group Processes such as Risky Shift and Groupthink Contributed to Cyber-bullying? (p. 477)
- Summing Up: Small Group Process (p. 478)
- Critical Questions (p. 480)
- Recommended Reading (p. 480)
- 12 Social Categorization and Social Identity (p. 483)
- A Categorized Social World (p. 484)
- Level of Category Inclusiveness (p. 484)
- Category Prototypes and Exemplars (p. 485)
- The Accentuation Effect (p. 485)
- Social Categories and Stereotypes (p. 487)
- The Social Categorization of the Self (p. 489)
- Social Identity (p. 491)
- People Conform to Majorities Categorized as Ingroup (p. 492)
- People Convert to Minorities Seen as Ingroup (p. 493)
- Why are Ingroup Members Especially Influential? (p. 493)
- Research Close-up, Laughing: The Influence of the Ingroup (p. 494)
- Leaders as 'Entrepreneurs of Social Identity' (p. 495)
- Social Identity and Respect (p. 498)
- Social Identity and Help (p. 499)
- Group Identity Norms, Deviance and Schism (p. 500)
- The Black Sheep Effect (p. 500)
- When Deviance and Criticism from the Inside Are Accepted (p. 501)
- Research Close-Up: Evaluating Deviants in Individualistic and in Collectivistic Cultures (p. 502)
- Peripheral Group Members (p. 504)
- Contested Identities and Schism (p. 505)
- Social Identity Motives (p. 507)
- The Self-esteem Motive (p. 507)
- The Distinctiveness Motive (p. 508)
- The Motive to Belong (p. 508)
- The Motive to Achieve Symbolic Immortality (p. 509)
- The Motive for Uncertainty Reduction (p. 509)
- Social Identity and Health (p. 510)
- Social Identity and Symptom Perception (p. 510)
- Social Identity and Health Behaviour (p. 511)
- Social Identity, Positive Physiological Processes and Health (p. 512)
- The Development of Social Categorization and Social Identity (p. 514)
- Social Categorization in Children (p. 514)
- The Beginnings of Self-categorization (p. 514)
- From Self-categorization to Social Identity (p. 515)
- Social Identity and Derogation of Ingroup Deviants (p. 516)
- Focus On: The Group in the Mind (p. 516)
- Summing Up: Social Categorization and Social Identity (p. 517)
- Critical Questions (p. 520)
- Recommended Reading (p. 520)
- 13 Prejudice, Intergroup Relations and Conflict (p. 523)
- Understanding Prejudice (p. 524)
- What Is Prejudice? (p. 525)
- The Prejudiced Personality (p. 525)
- The Social Context of Prejudice (p. 528)
- The Language of Prejudice (p. 535)
- Subtle and Implicit Prejudice (p. 538)
- Intergrop Conflict (p. 545)
- Realistic Conflict Theory (p. 546)
- Categorization, Stereotyping and Social Groups (p. 546)
- Research Close-Up: The Robbers Cave Experiment (p. 547)
- Social Comparison (p. 549)
- Crowds (p. 550)
- The Group Mind (p. 550)
- Deindividuation (p. 552)
- Emergent Norm Theory (p. 553)
- Social Identity Theory and Crowds (p. 555)
- Research Close Up: The Psychology of Tyranny (p. 556)
- Intergroup Harmony (p. 558)
- Contact (p. 558)
- Communication (p. 567)
- Focus On: Is Prejudice all in our Heads? (p. 571)
- Summing Up: Prejudice Intergroup Relations and Conflict (p. 572)
- Critical Questions (p. 574)
- Recommended Reading (p. 574)
- 14 Genes, Culture and Gender (p. 577)
- How Are We Influenced by Human Nature and Cultural Diversity? (p. 579)
- Genes, Evolution and Behaviour (p. 580)
- Neurobiology and Culture (p. 584)
- Culture and Behaviour (p. 586)
- Cultural Similarity (p. 589)
- Research Close-Up: Passing Encounters, East and West (p. 590)
- How Are Gender $$$ and Differences Explained? (p. 593)
- Independence versus Connectedness (p. 595)
- Social Dominance (p. 597)
- Research Close-Up: Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Leads to Gender Inequality (p. 600)
- Evolution and Gender: Doing What Comes Naturally? (p. 603)
- Gender and Mating Preferences: The Evolutionary Approach (p. 604)
- Reflections on Evolutionary Psychology (p. 605)
- Gender and Hormones (p. 605)
- Culture and Gender: Doing as the Culture Says? (p. 606)
- The Social Construction of Gender (p. 607)
- Gender Roles Vary with Culture (p. 608)
- Peer-transmitted Culture (p. 609)
- What Can We Conclude about Genes, Culture and Gender (p. 611)
- Biology and Culture (p. 611)
- The Power of the Situation and the Person (p. 612)
- Focus On: Mind the Gap: From Sexed Brains to Gendered Behaviour (p. 613)
- Summing Up: Genes, Culture and Gender (p. 614)
- Critical Questions (p. 615)
- Recommended Reading (p. 615)
- References (p. 617)
- Name Index (p. 683)
- Subject Index (p. 702)