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Social Psychology, Twelfth Edition, engages students with the dynamic field of social psychology, encouraging exploration of personal passions-from sports to politics-while providing insights into the scientific principles that underpin daily interactions and behaviors, dispelling misconceptions, and demonstrating social psychology's real-world relevance

Intro -- Introduction: What Is Collective Intelligence? -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contents -- Author's Bio -- Chapter 1: Social Cognition -- 1.1 Cognitive Psychology -- 1.1.1 Pattern Recognition -- 1.1.2 Attention -- Joint Attention -- Give It a Try: "Selective Attention Task" -- 1.1.3 Memory -- Implicit Memory -- False Memory -- Spreading Activation Hypothesis -- Accessibility -- 1.1.4 Knowledge Structure -- Priming Effect -- Category -- Schema -- Mental Model -- 1.1.5 Inference Process -- Confirmation Bias -- Heuristics -- Collaborative Problem-Solving -- 1.1.6 Metacognition -- Two Neural Signalings of Emotion -- Give it a Try: "The Iowa Gambling Task" -- Misunderstanding of Agreement -- 1.2 Game Theory -- 1.2.1 Prisoner's Dilemma -- Give it a Try: Prisoner's Dilemma -- 1.2.2 Tragedy of Commons -- 1.2.3 Give it a Try: NetLogo -- 1.3 Evolutionary Psychology -- 1.3.1 Evolutionary Game -- Influence of Culture -- Relational Mobility -- 1.4 Social Cognition -- 1.4.1 Perspective in Social Cognition -- 1.4.2 Dual Process Theory -- Automatic Processing and Control Processing -- Misattribution -- Give it a Try -- 1.4.3 Self-Regulation -- 1.4.4 Motivation -- 1.4.5 Goal Contagion -- 1.4.6 Relationship Schema -- 1.4.7 Attitude -- Implicit Attitude -- Mere Exposure Effect -- Online Processing and Memory-Based Processing -- Associative Network Model of Emotion -- Give it a Try -- 1.5 Social Neurosciences -- 1.5.1 Cognitive Neuroscience -- 1.5.2 Empathy -- Embodied Cognition -- Innateness of Empathy -- Give it a Try: Rubber Hand Illusion -- 1.5.3 Self-Regulation and Brain -- 1.5.4 Default-Mode Network -- Nervous System Responsible for Social Cognition -- Social Exclusion -- Give it a Try: "Mobile Electroencephalograph Device" -- 1.6 Common Sense -- 1.7 Summary -- Chapter 2: Group Process -- 2.1 What Is a Group? -- 2.1.1 Organization and Group.

Most research has investigated Multiracial and Multicultural populations as separate topics, despite demographic and experiential overlap between these. This Element bridges that divide by reviewing and comparing Multiracial and Multicultural research to date-their origins, theoretical and methodological development, and key findings in socialization, identity negotiation and discrimination-to identify points of synthesis and differentiation to guide future research. It highlights challenges researchers face when studying these populations because such research topics necessitate that one moves beyond previous frameworks and theories to grapple with identity as flexible, malleable, and influenced both by internal factors and external perceptions. The areas of overlap and difference are meaningful and illustrate the social constructive nature of race and culture, which is always in flux and being re-defined. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core

Originally published in 1984, this book proposes a structural theory of social attitudes, presents the empirical evidence for the theory, and defines and explores liberalism and conservatism and the justification for associating social attitudes with these terms

Volume 29 of "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" honors Ron Pelias' contributions to symbolic interaction and performance studies. The work of Patricia Ticineto Clough is also honored. New theoretical developments in the areas of race, identity, politics and authenticity are presented, as are performance essays interrogating mental health care, and the representations of gender and sexuality in the popular HBO series, "Sex in the City". It honors the work of Ron Pelias and Patricia Ticineto Clough and features a performance essay that discusses representations of gender and ethnicity in HBO's "Sex and the City".

How do we explain the lurid fascination that most people experience when confronted by real or simulated acts of violence, murder, horror, and crime? This is the subject examined in this candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills. Based on a series of interviews with perpetrators, victims, and "consumers" of violence, including several celebrities, the author of a best-selling book on serial killers explores what there is about this subject that draws such a wide audience. Unlike many other books that attempt to probe the murky psyches of deviant individuals, this book focuses on normal, average people who, despite themselves, enjoy getting close to the most forbidden, perverse side of destruction and evil. The persons interviewed range from homicide detectives and emergency room personnel to a heavyweight boxer and groupies of serial killers on death row. The author considers ideas from a variety of theories and research to explain our responses to violence, raises questions about the shifting line between normal and abnormal, evaluates the confusion and ambivalence that many people feel when witnessing others' suffering, and suggests future trends in society's attitudes toward violence

DisConnected offers a new vision of human nature and a new understanding of human behaviour and social problems. Connection is the most essential human trait - it determines our behaviour and our level of well-being. Cruelty is the result of a sense of disconnection, while "goodness" stems from connection. Unfortunately, the most disconnected people gravitate to positions of power, which leads to "pathocracy," the most common form of government during the 20th century. Disconnected societies are patriarchal, hierarchical and warlike. Connected societies are egalitarian, democratic and peaceful. We can measure both social progress and personal development in terms of how far we move along a continuum of connection. At the most essential level, we are always interconnected. Altruism and spirituality are experiences of our fundamental connection. Regaining awareness of our connection is the only way by which we can live in harmony with ourselves, one another, and the world itself

"Unsurprisingly, people are consumed with interest in people - themselves, other people, how we interact as individuals in close relationships or as members of groups, and how groups interact with other groups. Attraction, love, language, communication, influence, persuasion, leadership, conformity, self and identity, culture, aggression, prejudice, and discrimination are all part of the human condition and of our everyday lives. It is therefore not unexpected that people might be preoccupied to understand the psychology underlying these phenomena, and this is precisely what social psychology offers - more than a century of systematic scientific research on, and associated theorizing of, the breadth and diversity of social behavior. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Psychology synthesizes what we know about human social behavior and explores avenues for future research. Across 79 scholarly and exhaustively referenced chapters, all written in an accessible style, nearly every topic that social psychologists study is comprehensively covered. Each chapter, which is self-contained but carefully cross-referenced, is written by a distinguished social psychologist and internationally prominent expert on the topic. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in discovering what social psychology has discovered. It is a trusted source that can be turned to with confidence by students and researchers across the social and behavioral sciences, as well as by those who work in policy and applied settings, or by those who are simply interested in social psychology and human social behavior"--

This book utilizes cultural psychology as a cultural theory and psychological theory capable of explaining and improving social issues. In particular Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology, and Ratner's macro-cultural psychology are invoked to explain racism and mitigate it. This explanation of, and solution to, racism are utilized as a framework for analyzing and refining contemporary movements for racial justice. Among the topics discussed: Macro cultural psychology and Vygotsky's Marxist cultural-historical psychologyDifferentiating psychological racism from economic racismHistorical examples of racism during American slavery which reveal their cultural and psychological featuresCultural-psychological analysis and refinement of Black Lives Matter, racial capitalism, intersectionism, and Ta-Nehishi Coates' work Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice will be of interest to the fields of social policy, social transformation, psychological theory, cultural theory, and history

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century's most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The remarkable study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman's thought. Framed as a "report on a study of conversational interaction," the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island "crofters." It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the "interaction order" he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the "Rosetta stone for his entire work." It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.