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From aggression to altruism, prejudice to persuasion,
Essential Social Psychology, Fourth Edition introduces students to the discoveries and debates that define social psychology today.
List of contents
Chapter 1: History, Methods and Approaches
Chapter 2: Attribution
Chapter 3: Social Cognition
Chapter 4: Attitudes
Chapter 5: Social Influence
Chapter 6: Group Processes
Chapter 7: Self and Identity
Chapter 8: Prejudice
Chapter 9: Intergroup Relations
Chapter 10: Aggression
Chapter 11: Prosocial Behaviour
Chapter 12: Affiliation and Attraction
Chapter 13: Friendship and Love
Chapter 14: Applications
About the author
Richard Crisp is Professor of Social Psychology at Durham University. He read Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and carried out his doctoral research at Cardiff University. In addition to Durham University Richard has held positions at the Universities of Birmingham, Kent and Sheffield as well as the Aston Business School. Richard¿s research has covered the full range of topics that comprise social psychology, from the formation and reduction of prejudice, to the self and identity processes involved in interpersonal relations, from mere exposure and attitude formation, to stereotyping and social categorization. He has published this work in over 150 articles, chapters and books, including papers in
American Psychologist,
Psychological Science,
Psychological Bulletin and
Science. This work has been recognized with awards from scholarly societies, including the British Psychological Society President¿s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge and Spearman Medal. Together with Rhiannon Turner he received the 2011 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (for the best paper of the year on intergroup relations). He is Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Applied Social Psychology and was founding editor of the
Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Summary
From aggression to altruism, prejudice to persuasion, Essential Social Psychology, Fourth Edition introduces students to the discoveries and debates that define social psychology today.
