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"This book has been developed from two main theses which justify my venture into the field of social psychology. The first is that the visceral-organic structure of man is basic to the understanding of psychology. However extreme the assertion may seem, I think it fair to say that the thinkers who have formed the knowledge of mind in its largest and truest terms have been those who have shown the relationship of drive, emotions, and intelligence to the structures of the body, and vice versa. The second thesis is that apart from his group a man is a mere potentiality. He is developed in a milieu that fosters, modifies, or destroys his capacities. And how that milieu works, the psychiatrist and physician has ample opportunity to witness. To explain the individual and discuss his psychology as something distinct from the psychology of the society that daily becomes more complex and ranges from the remote past far into the future is, as the anatomists would say, a false dissection, by which structures are isolated from one another artificially and their organic connection destroyed. Therefore I have begun with the structure and organic functions of the individual and have endeavored to show how social forces, like the gases of the environment, sweep in and out of him--taking command of his viscera and transforming their functions into approved deeds, and creating within him both the pleasures of conformity and the bitter, self-dividing struggle that results from the disharmony of individual capacity and desire with social authority. While the facts presented are not new, the emphasis and formulation of principles are to a certain extent original, and they merit appreciative attention. I make no pretense of having fulfilled my aim completely, the shortcomings of my work being as discernible to me as to any critic; but withal, I hope and even feel assured that both the visceral-organic and the sociological bases of social psychology are here given the emphasis they deserve"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: The basics of social psychology; 1.1 - Definition; 1.2 - Social psychology and related disciplines/theories; 1.3 - History of social psychology; 1.4 - Cultural differences in psychology; 1.5 - Founding figures and their core ideas; 1.6 - Thinking like a social psychologist; 1.7 - Learning outcomes and assessment; 1.8 - Running themes; Part II: Course companion to the curriculum; 2.1 - The self; 2.2 - Social cognition; 2.3 - Attribution; 2.4 - Attitudes and attitude change; 2.5 - Social influence; 2.6 - Group processes

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Timeline of Social Psychology -- 1. The History of Social Psychology -- Part I: Individuals and Social Psychology -- 2. The Self and Social Comparison Processes -- 3. Stereotyping and Its Impact -- 4. Emotional Intelligence and the Attachment Behavioral System -- 5. Application: Who Am I Now? Understanding and Supporting Veterans Transitioning to College -- 6. Application: Trauma and Its Social Implications -- 7. Application: Autism and Its Social Implications -- 8. Application: Self-Harm

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.

"This book has been written for use as a text in college courses in social psychology. Basically, the field is conceived to be the study of those aspects of human personal behavior which are developed and controlled by the interaction which takes place between the individual and his small intimate circle of associations known as the primary group. Recent years have witnessed a significant expansion of the content of social psychology. Because of the diverse views of experimenters and the contribution of different fields of study, the increase in knowledge has sometimes proved to be an embarrassment of riches. A major purpose of this book is to show the essential unity of the knowledge that has been acquired and to emphasize the areas of fundamental agreement in the field rather than one particular school of thought. Moreover, materials from the subject fields of either sociology or psychology which do not bear directly on this conception of the subject have been excluded in the interest of a clear and integral organization. Although designed primarily as an introduction to social psychology, this discussion also includes a review of the latest scholarship in the field and an analysis of the methods by which new knowledge has been acquired. The constant emphasis on the experimental background should lead the student to an understanding of the present research frontiers of social psychology. It has been intended, finally, that the discussion of human behavior presented here will provide a direct and meaningful application by the reader to situations encountered in everyday living. It is recommended as a valuable exercise, in fact, that the student analyze his own life history or the experiences of the subject of a good fictional or biographical work in the light of the principles brought out in this volume"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Using current socio-political thought and research, the authors of Social Psychology - Identities and Relationships examine topics such as violence, social and political transition, race and racism, and sexualities. Identities and interpersonal relationships are used as ordering themes to create a book that is truly distinctive. Theoretical and empirical research is related to topical problems, highlighting the complex relations of individuals to their societies and to one another. The histories and complexities of problems and their interconnectedness are examined, and possible solutions suggested. Special attention is paid to class, sexuality, gender and race, making psychology in general, and social psychology in particular, relevant and exciting.

"The approach to this textbook is interactionist. It is hoped that this framework permeates the entire substantive area of the book. While the major part of this book is thus dedicated to presenting the subject matter of social psychology with this interactionist viewpoint, a minor part (quantitatively speaking) is devoted to an account of the scope and method of social psychology, its long history as a social philosophy, and its short history as a social science. There is included a critique of postulates and values in social science which, it is hoped, is sufficiently developed so that it is not necessary to offer negative and reproachful comments on modern viewpoints dealing with empirical evidence. In fact, the effort has been to reduce to a minimum the polemic approach to the subject and simply present that large and fascinating field which envelops parts of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology as a scientific body of knowledge in its own right. With the anchoring points of the historical backgrounds and the philosophical discussion confined to one chapter, the Catholic college student should suffer no adverse reaction from his exposure to the remainder of the text, which is purely social-psychological as distinct from, say, a sectarian bias. Can it be hoped that this volume will contribute to the development of this subject in the Catholic college? It is the author's expectation that a large measure of the reward for this undertaking will be in the satisfaction that would result from such a development"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

"The growing interest in social psychology as an academic subject in the last twenty years has stimulated the demand for more and more texts in the field. Each new appearing text heretofore has meant, practically, an innovation, a projection of a novel point of view, a creation of a separate school of social psychological thought. We feel, therefore, that the time is only too ripe for a slight pause in the manufacture of new ideas in the field of social psychology and for an inventory to be taken of the most usable material in social psychological observation and research. We have found in the literature of the field and in our own research many valuable assets and have used them as capital for the present venture. More particularly, we have drawn on Cooley, Dewcy, Mead, Thomas, Watson, Kantor, Allport, Thurstone, Faris, Park, Koffka, Kohler, Stern, Piaget, McDougall, Bernard--to mention a few of the living representatives of social psychology, psychology, and sociology--for many of our ideas. At the risk of some overlapping, we have treated each chapter subject as a totality in all its significant ramifications. Consequently, we have been able to emphasize and to integrate certain fundamental points, which will be found to recur in slightly different context throughout the various chapters. The text has been planned to meet the requirements of a short or long course. By a graduated use of exercises and bibliographies, the volume can be made to cover a term, a semester, or a year. We have intended that the bibliographies and exercises should be used to build up the course and acquaint the student with as wide a vista as possible. The instructor should make free use of articles and case-materials for class discussion, in order to amplify points raised in the text and to escape the limitations of a purely textbook course"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Now in its ninth edition, Hogg & Vaughan's Social Psychology offers a comprehensive, lively introduction to social psychological theory and research. It places social psychology in a contemporary, real-world context and explores new, cutting-edge research as well as bringing classic theories to life, making it an essential student resource.

The point of view of this work is that of gestalt theory. Gestalt concepts were applied to examine issues in social psychology. The author hopes that the reader will find them of help in widening the horizon and in deepening perspective of the human situation. It is contended that this starting point accounts for a number of emphases of this work. Social relations at the human level, even the simplest, require emotional and intellectual capacities of a high order. The author calls attention to their productive character, which is necessary for the understanding of destructive social processes. It is argued that psychological processes have the extraordinary property of providing (under certain conditions) a knowledge of things and persons. One should not assume that they are generally subjective phantoms, that the world might be seen properly but for people. The author has kept in the forefront the human modes of experiencing the world of nature and men, since the social actions of which are those of conscious beings who act largely in terms of what they understand and feel. It is contended that sound progress requires a clarification of what is unique about social-psychological facts and their investigation on the level at which they reveal their special properties. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

"Of the writing of texts in social psychology there is no end. The author or each of them believes that he has a special justification for offering his own particular version of the common theme, and I am no exception to this general rule. Perhaps I can formulate the raison d'etre of this volume by outlining a little of its history and by expressing my indebtedness to a few of the individuals from whom its main ideas have been borrowed. These and other converging influences have led me to frame nearly every kind of social-psychological problem in terms of psychological processes which take their particular form from the interactional context in which they occur. And I have come to see group memberships as providing the sine qua non for specifying the interactional context of human social behavior. Groups provide their members with shared frames of reference--particularly in the form of positions and roles, in terms of which they perceive themselves as well as one another. So little social behavior is immune to such shared influences, and so much of it is very largely determined by them, that I have come to accord them a central place in my own thinking. I hope that, in so doing, I have not fallen into the fallacy of assuming that social behavior springs merely from the interiorizing of social norms. This would be quite as disastrous as to ignore social norms altogether. At any rate, this point of view has led me to view social behavior as occurring on the part of biological organisms which are also group members. To understand it we must study both individual life and group life, in terms of a single body of coherent concepts and principles. I have therefore tried to sketch an outline of the psychology of group membership in a way which is neither merely psychological nor merely sociological but which, I hope, may contribute to the growth of a body of concepts and principles of truly social-psychological nature"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

For courses in Social Psychology Make research relevant through a storytelling approach Social Psychology introduces the key concepts of the field through an acclaimed storytelling approach that makes research relevant to students. Drawing upon their extensive experience as researchers and teachers, authors Elliot Aronson, Tim Wilson, and Sam Sommers present the classic studies that have driven the discipline alongside the cutting-edge research that is the future of social psychology. In addition to updated research references, the 10th Edition, Global Edition offers engaging new student-focused features that help students understand how what they're studying is applicable to their own lives. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you will receive via email the code and instructions on how to access this product. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

"We believe that it is possible to meet the requirements of scientific validity and conceptual adequacy within the bounds of the experimental tradition. The development of experimental work in social psychology has progressed to a stage wherein a fairly complete treatment of the entire subject matter can now be given in the light of experimentally derived knowledge. In other words, where actual experiments remain yet to be performed, the problems can even now be envisaged in terms of experimentally established facts. Specifically, the plan of organization to be followed in this book attempts an adequate, vital approach by introducing materials and problems from the point of view of different participants in the social scene. The social world as it appears to the man on the street, social phenomena as seen through the eyes of the clinician or psychiatrist, and the social drama as viewed by the social engineer or planner all provide points of departure for our study. A unity in these descriptions derives from a continuing emphasis upon naturalistic and scientific interpretation. A whole section (Part II) , moreover, is devoted to a detailed analysis of the mechanisms and mainsprings of action, the motives of men, and the processes of social interaction as revealed in experimental findings. Part I is descriptive and sociological, Part II is analytical and experimental, Part III is genetic and developmental, Part IV historical and dialectical. It is hoped that the instructor will find this treatment a broad exposition which includes many phases of the behavior of the individual as he encounters the social world of his fellows. The gearing of this account to the problems of everyday life increases its vitality to the student"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

For courses in Social Psychology Show how the ever-changing field of Social Psychology is useful in students everyday lives Social Psychology, Fourteenth Edition retains the hallmark of its past success: up-to-date coverage of the quickly evolving subject matter written in a lively manner that has been embraced by thousands of students around the world. Authors Nyla Branscombe and Robert Baronboth respected scholars with decades of undergraduate teaching experiencegenerate student excitement by revealing the connections between theory and real-world experiences. The Fourteenth Edition offers updated content to engage students, as well as new What Research Tells Us About sections in each chapter that illustrate how research findings help answer important questions about social life