Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction

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BRIEF TOC
1: Introduction to Social Psychology  
2: The Person and the Situation  
3: Social Cognition: Understanding Ourselves and Others  
4: Presenting the Self  
5: Attitudes and Persuasion  
6: Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience  
7: Affiliation and Friendship  
8: Love and Romantic Relationships  
9: Prosocial Behavior  
10: Aggression  
11: Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination  
12: Groups  
 
 
 
COMPLETE TOC
 
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
The Mysteries of Social Life
 
What Is Social Psychology?
Social Psychology Is an Interdisciplinary Bridge
 
Major Theoretical Perspectives of Social Psychology
The Sociocultural Perspective
The Evolutionary Perspective
The Social Learning Perspective
The Social Cognitive Perspective
Combining Perspectives
 
Basic Principles of Social Behavior
Social Behavior Is Goal Oriented
The Interaction between the Person and the Situation
 
How Psychologists Study Social Behavior
BRIDGING METHOD AND EVIDENCE: Why Good Theories Need Good Data
Descriptive Methods
Correlation and Causation
Experimental Methods
Why Social Psychologists Combine Different Methods
Ethical Issues in Social Psychological Research
 
Social Psychology’s Bridges with Other Areas of Knowledge
Social Psychology and Other Areas of Psychology
Social Psychology and Other Disciplines
 
Revisiting the Mysteries of Social Life
 
Summary
 
 
 
CHAPTER 2. THE PERSON AND THE SITUATION
 
The Enigma of an Ordinary and Extraordinary Man
 
The Person
Motivation: What Drives Us
Knowledge: Our View of the World
Feelings: Attitudes, Emotions, and Moods
BRIDGING METHOD AND EVIDENCE: Assessing Feelings
Introducing the Self
 
The Situation
Persons as Situations: Mere Presence, Affordances, and Descriptive Norms
BRIDGING FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: Descriptive Norms, Pluralistic Ignorance, and Binge Drinking on Campus
Rules: Injunctive Norms and Scripted Situations
Strong versus Weak Situations
Culture
 
The Person and the Situation Interact
Different Persons Respond Differently to the Same Situation
BRIDGING THEORY AND APPLICATION: Person-Situation Fit in the Workplace
Situations Choose the Person
Persons Choose Their Situations
Different Situations Prime Different Parts of the Person
Persons Change the Situation
Situations Change the Person
 
Revisiting the Enigma of an Ordinary and Extraordinary Man
 
Summary
 
 
 
CHAPTER 3. SOCIAL COGNITION: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS   
 
Portraits of Hillary Rodham Clinton  
 
The Social Thinker  
Four Core Processes of Social Cognition  
The Goals of Social Cognition  
 
Conserving Mental Effort  
Expectations  
BRIDGING FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy  
Dispositional Inferences  
Other Cogn

Riassunto

For an undergraduate introductory level course in social psychology.
Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction reveals the motives behind social behavior—why people love, hate, lead, and follow, for example- and bridges the person and the social situation.
A unique integrated approach to social behavior: What do terrorist bombings, testosterone, one-minute “hurry dates,” Facebook, and political smear campaigns have to do with one another? Social Psychology textbooks typically provide a laundry list of interesting, but disconnected facts and theories. This standard approach grabs interest but falls short as a way to learn. Kenrick, Neuberg, and Cialdini instead provide an integrative approach, one that both builds upon traditional lessons learned by the field and pushes those lessons to the cutting-edge. By organizing each chapter around the two broad questions–“What are the goals that underlie the behavior in question?” and “What factors in the person and the situation connect to each goal?” –the book presents the discipline as a coherent framework for understanding human behavior. Expanding he integrative theme in this edition, KNC highlights social psychology as the ultimate bridge discipline– connectingthe different findings and theories of social psychology, exploring the field’s links to other areas of psychology (e.g., clinical, organizational, and neuroscience), and bridging to other important academic disciplines (e.g., anthropology, biology, economics, medicine, and law).
Opening mysteries: Each chapter begins with a mystery, designed not only to grab student interest, but also to organize the ensuing discussion of scientific research: Why did the beautiful and talented artist Frida Kahlo fall for the much older, and much less attractive, Diego Rivera, and then tolerate his numerous extramarital affairs? What psychological forces led the Dalai Lama, the most exalted personage in Tibet, to forge a lifelong friendship with a foreign vagabond openly scorned by Tibetan peasants? Why would a boy falsely confess to murdering his own mother?
The latest scholarship, engaging writing, engrossing real-world stories and the authors' strengths as renowned researchers and expert teachers, all come together to make the fifth edition of Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction an accessible and engaging read for students, while providing a modern and cohesive approach for their teachers.
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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Cialdini, Robert B. Cialdini, Douglas Kenrick, Steven Neuberg, Steven L. Neuberg
• Editore: Pearson Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.06.2024
• EAN: 9781292027807
• ISBN: 978-1-292-02780-7
• Pagine: 580
• Dimensioni: 218 mm x 278 mm x 24 mm
• Peso: 1140 g
• Serie: Pearson; Pearson
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica