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Exploring Social Psychology succinctly explores social psychological science and applies it to contemporary issues and everyday life. Based on the bestselling text, Social Psychology by David Myers and Jean Twenge, the book presents 31 short modules—each readable in a single sitting—that introduce students to such scientific explorations as love and hate, conformity and independence, prejudice and helping, and persuasion and self-determination.
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- Höfundur: David Myers
- Útgáfa:9
- Útgáfudagur: 2020-06-01
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781260589467
- Print ISBN: 9781260570724
- ISBN 10: 1260589463
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Social Psychology
- Connect
- PART ONE: Introducing Social Psychology
- MODULE 1 Doing Social Psychology
- Forming and Testing Theories
- Correlational Research: Detecting Natural Associations
- Correlation and Causation
- Experimental Research: Searching for Cause and Effect
- Random Assignment: The Great Equalizer
- Control: Manipulating Variables
- The Ethics of Experimentation
- Generalizing from Laboratory to Life
- MODULE 2 Did You Know It All Along?
- MODULE 1 Doing Social Psychology
- PART TWO: Social Thinking
- MODULE 3 Self-Concept: Who Am I?
- At the Center of Our Worlds: Our Sense of Self
- Self and Culture
- Growing Individualism Within Cultures
- Culture and Self-Esteem
- Self-Knowledge
- Predicting Our Behavior
- Predicting Our Feelings
- The Wisdom and Illusions of Self-Analysis
- MODULE 3 Self-Concept: Who Am I?
- MODULE 4 Self-Serving Bias
- Explaining Positive and Negative Events
- Can We All Be Better Than Average?
- Unrealistic Optimism
- False Consensus and Uniqueness
- Self-Esteem Motivation
- MODULE 5 Narcissism and the Limits of Self-Esteem
- The Trade-off of Low Versus High Self-Esteem
- Narcissism: Self-Esteem’s Conceited Sister
- Self-Efficacy
- The Trade-off of Low Versus High Self-Esteem
- MODULE 6 The Fundamental Attribution Error
- The Fundamental Attribution Error in Everyday Life
- Why Do We Make the Attribution Error?
- Perspective and Situational Awareness
- Cultural Differences
- How Fundamental is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
- MODULE 7 The Powers and Perils of Intuition
- The Powers of Intuition
- The Limits of Intuition
- We Overestimate the Accuracy of Our Judgments
- Remedies for Overconfidence
- Constructing Memories of Ourselves and Our Worlds
- Reconstructing Our Past Attitudes
- Reconstructing Our Past Behavior
- Our Preconceptions Control Our Interpretations
- We Are More Swayed By Memorable Events Than Facts
- We Misperceive Correlation and Control
- Illusory Correlation
- Our Beliefs Can Generate Their Own Confirmation
- Do Teacher Expectations Affect Student Performance?
- Do We Get from Others What We Expect?
- Conclusions
- Do Attitudes Influence Behavior?
- Does Behavior Influence Attitudes?
- Role Playing
- Saying Becomes Believing
- Evil Acts and Attitudes
- Interracial Interaction and Racial Attitudes
- Brainwashing
- Why Does Our Behavior Affect Our Attitudes?
- Illusory Correlations
- Hindsight
- Self-Confirming Diagnoses
- Clinical Intuition Versus Statistical Prediction
- Implications for Better Clinical Practice
- Social Cognition and Depression
- Distortion or Realism?
- Is Negative Thinking a Cause or a Result of Depression?
- Social Cognition and Loneliness
- Social Cognition and Anxiety
- Social-Psychological Approaches to Treatment
- Inducing Internal Change Through External Behavior
- Breaking Vicious Cycles
- MODULE 12 Biology and Culture
- Evolution and Behavior
- Biology and Gender
- Gender and Hormones
- Reflections on Evolutionary Psychology
- Culture and Behavior
- Cultural Diversity
- Cultural Similarity
- Culture and Gender
- Evolution and Behavior
- How Are Females and Males Alike and Different?
- Independence Versus Connectedness
- Social Dominance
- Aggression
- Sexuality
- What Can We Conclude About Biology, Culture, and Gender?
- Asch’s Studies of Conformity
- Milgram’s Obedience Studies
- What Breeds Obedience?
- Institutional Authority
- Reflections on the Classic Studies
- Behavior and Attitudes
- The Power of Social Norms
- The Two Routes
- The Elements of Persuasion
- Who Says? The Communicator
- What Is Said? The Message Content
- Message Context
- To Whom Is It Said? The Audience
- The Two Routes to Persuasion in Therapy
- Resisting Persuasion: Attitude Inoculation
- Attitude Inoculation
- Implications of Attitude Inoculation
- The Mere Presence of Others
- Crowding: The Presence of Many Others
- Why Are We Aroused in the Presence of Others?
- Evaluation Apprehension
- Driven by Distraction
- Mere Presence
- Many Hands Make Light Work
- Social Loafing in Everyday Life
- Deindividuation
- Group Size
- Anonymity
- Arousing and Distracting Activities
- Diminished Self-Awareness
- The Case of the “Risky Shift”
- Do Groups Intensify Opinions?
- Group Polarization Experiments
- Group Polarization in Everyday Life
- Explaining Group Polarization
- Informational Influence
- Normative Influence
- Groupthink
- Symptoms of Groupthink
- Groupthink in Action
- Preventing Groupthink
- Resisting Social Pressure
- Reactance
- Asserting Uniqueness
- Minority Influence
- Consistency
- Self-Confidence
- Defections from the Majority
- Is Leadership Minority Influence?
- MODULE 22 The Reach of Prejudice
- What Is Prejudice?
- Prejudice: Implicit and Explicit
- Racial Prejudice
- Gender Prejudice
- LGBT Prejudice
- What Is Prejudice?
- Social Sources of Prejudice
- Socialization
- Motivational Sources of Prejudice
- Frustration and Aggression: The Scapegoat Theory
- Social Identity Theory: Feeling Superior to Others
- Cognitive Sources of Prejudice
- Categorization: Classifying People into Groups
- Distinctiveness: Perceiving People Who Stand Out
- Attribution: Is It a Just World?
- The Consequences of Prejudice
- Self-Perpetuating Prejudgments
- Discrimination’s Impact: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Stereotype Threat
- Theories of Aggression
- Is Aggression an Instinct?
- Neural Influences
- Genetic Influences
- Blood Chemistry
- Psychological Influences on Aggression
- Frustration and Aggression
- The Learning of Aggression
- Environmental Influences on Aggression
- Painful Incidents
- Heat
- Attacks
- Crowding
- Reducing Aggression
- Catharsis?
- A Social Learning Approach
- Culture Change and World Violence
- Pornography and Sexual Violence
- Distorted Perceptions of Sexual Reality
- Aggression Against Women
- Television, Movies, and the Internet
- Media’s Effects on Behavior
- Another Media Influence: Video Games
- Proximity
- Interaction
- Anticipation of Interaction
- Mere Exposure
- Physical Attractiveness
- Attractiveness and Dating
- The Matching Phenomenon
- The Physical-Attractiveness Stereotype
- Who Is Attractive?
- Similarity Versus Complementarity
- Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?
- Do Opposites Attract?
- Liking Those Who Like Us
- Our Need to Belong
- How Important is the Need to Belong?
- Passionate Love
- A Theory of Passionate Love
- Variations in Love: Culture and Gender
- Companionate Love
- Maintaining Close Relationships
- Equity
- Self-Disclosure
- Ending Relationships
- Who Divorces?
- The Detachment Process
- Social Dilemmas
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma
- The Tragedy of the Commons
- Resolving Social Dilemmas
- Competition
- Perceived Injustice
- Misperception
- Mirror-Image Perceptions
- Shifting Perceptions
- Contact
- Does Contact Predict Attitudes?
- Does Desegregation Improve Racial Attitudes?
- When Does Desegregation Improve Racial Attitudes?
- Cooperation
- Common External Threats Build Cohesiveness
- Superordinate Goals Foster Cooperation
- Cooperative Learning Improves Racial Attitudes
- Communication
- Bargaining
- Mediation
- Arbitration
- Conciliation
- Why Do People Help?
- When Do People Help?
- Number of Bystanders
- Noticing
- Interpreting
- Assuming Responsibility
- Psychology and Climate Change
- Psychological Effects of Climate Change
- Public Opinion About Climate Change
- Enabling Sustainable Living
- New Technologies
- Reducing Consumption
- The Social Psychology of Materialism and Wealth
- Increased Materialism
- Wealth and Well-Being
- Materialism Fails to Satisfy
- Toward Sustainability and Survival
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