Social psychology

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COVER ABOUT THE AUTHORS BRIEF CONTENTS CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES PREFACE AUTHORS’ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS YOUR GUIDE TO THE BOOK AND ONLINE RESOURCES ONLINE RESOURCES CHAPTER 1 THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY WHAT IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? WHERE DOES SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY COME FROM? DOING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH THE TOOLS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ISSUES IN CONDUCTING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH CULTURAL ISSUES RESEARCH ETHICS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER DISCIPLINES DISSEMINATION OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CRITICAL THINKING IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS FURTHER READING PART 1 THINKING AND FEELING CHAPTER 2 THE SOCIAL SELF: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND THE SELF-CONCEPT SELF-AWARENESS THEORIES OF SELF SELF-ESTEEM SELF-PRESENTATION HOW ACCURATE IS OUR SELF-KNOWLEDGE? MOTIVATED SOCIAL COGNITION AND THE SELF CULTURE AND THE SELF CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 3 THE SOCIAL PERCEIVER: UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL WORLD TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS THE NAIVE SCIENTIST APPROACH TWO FAMOUS 'ERRORS' IN ATTRIBUTION APPLICATIONS OF ATTRIBUTION THEORY PERSON PERCEPTION HEURISTICS AND BIASES IN SOCIAL COGNITION OTHER BIASES AND ERRORS IN SOCIAL COGNITION THE NATURE OF SOCIAL COGNITION CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 4 THE SOCIAL JUDGE: ATTITUDES, EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER WHAT ARE ATTITUDES? ATTITUDE FORMATION IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT ATTITUDES ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE EMBODIED SOCIAL COGNITION EMOTIONS AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY PART 2 RELATING CHAPTER 5 COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE AND ITS RULES LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COGNITION LANGUAGE, PERSONALITY, IDENTITY AND GENDER LANGUAGE AND STEREOTYPING NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 6 PERSUASION TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER WHEN DOES PERSUASION WORK? HOW DOES PERSUASION WORK? WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO TO PERSUADE OTHERS? WHEN PERSUASION DOES NOT WORK CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 7 CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION THEORIES OF ATTRACTION LOVE AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ATTACHMENT AND BONDING MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WHEN RELATIONSHIPS END CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING PART 3 BELONGING CHAPTER 8 THE SOCIAL GROUP WHAT IS A GROUP? FORMATION OF GROUPS GROUP STRUCTURE THE FLEXIBILITY OF SOCIAL NORMS FITTING IN TO GROUPS WHAT DO GROUPS DO FOR US? CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 9 SOCIAL INFLUENCE TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER CLASSIC STUDIES OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE WHEN ARE PEOPLE INFLUENCED? WHY ARE PEOPLE INFLUENCED? WHO IS INFLUENCED? RESISTING SOCIAL INFLUENCE MAJORITY AND MINORITY SOCIAL INFLUENCE CHAPTER SUMMARY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 10 GROUP BEHAVIOUR SOCIAL FACILITATION SOCIAL LOAFING DEINDIVIDUATION GROUP DECISION MAKING LEADERSHIP CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 11 INTERGROUP RELATIONS TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER BASES OF STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION STEREOTYPING, PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION IN DIFFERENT INTERGROUP CONTEXTS VICIOUS CYCLES IN INTERGROUP RELATIONS CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING PART 4 APPLYING CHAPTER 12 IMPROVING INTERGROUP RELATIONS TOKENISM AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INTERGROUP CONTACT CATEGORIZATION-BASED APPROACHES VALUES-BASED APPROACHES THE MEDIA AND REAL-WORLD CONFLICT INTERGROUP APOLOGY AND FORGIVENESS COMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION COLLECTIVE ACTION CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 13 UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING AGGRESSION TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER THE HUMAN ANIMAL: BIOLOGICAL BASES OF AGGRESSION THE SOCIAL ANIMAL: SOCIAL CAUSES OF AGGRESSION THE TRIBAL ANIMAL: THE GROUP DIMENSION OF AGGRESSION CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 14 ALTRUISM AND JUSTICE ALTRUISM SOCIAL DILEMMAS ENCOURAGING COOPERATION THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF JUSTICE CHAPTER SUMMARY REVIEW QUESTIONS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FURTHER READING CHAPTER 15 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND YOU THE WISDOM OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND YOU CHAPTER SUMMARY FURTHER READING STUDENT PROJECTS REFERENCES SUBJECT INDEX AUTHOR INDEX