Social psychology / Michael A. Hogg, Graham M. Vaughan.

Revised edition of the authors' Social psychology, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-758) and indexes.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Advisory Editorial Board -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Guided Tour -- 1 Introducing social psychology -- What is social psychology? -- Social psychology and its close neighbours -- Topics of social psychology -- Research methods -- Scientific method -- Experiments -- Non-experimental methods -- Data and analysis -- Research ethics -- Physical welfare of participants -- Respect for privacy -- Use of deception -- Informed consent -- Debriefing -- Theories and theorising -- Theories in social psychology -- Social psychology in crisis -- Reductionism and levels of explanation -- Positivism and post-positivism -- Historical context -- Social psychology in the nineteenth century -- The rise of experimentation -- Later influences -- The journals -- Social psychology in Europe -- About this text -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- 2 Social cognition and social thinking -- Social psychology and cognition -- A short history of cognition in social psychology -- Forming impressions of other people -- What information is important? -- Biases in forming impressions -- Cognitive algebra -- Social schemas and categories -- Types of schemas -- Categories and prototypes -- Categorization and stereotyping -- How we use, acquire and change schemas -- Using schemas -- Acquiring schemas -- Changing schemas -- Social encoding -- Salience -- Vividness -- Accessibility -- Memory for people -- Contents of person memory -- Organisation of person memory -- Using person memory -- Social inference -- Departures from normality -- Heuristics -- Improving social inference -- Affect and emotion -- Antecedents of affect -- Consequences of affect -- Emotion regulation -- Beyond cognition and neuroscience -- Where is the 'social' in social cognition? -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- 3 Attribution and social explanation -- Seeking the causes of behaviour -- How people attribute causality -- People as naive psychologists -- From acts to dispositions -- People as everyday scientists -- Extensions of attribution theory -- Explaining our emotions -- Attributions for our own behaviour -- Task performance attributions -- Applications of attribution theory -- Individual differences and attributional styles -- Interpersonal relationships -- Attributional biases -- Correspondence bias and the fundamental attribution error -- The actor-observer effect -- The false consensus effect -- Self-serving biases -- Intergroup attribution -- Attribution and stereotyping -- Social knowledge and societal attributions -- Social representations -- Rumour and gossip -- Conspiracy theories -- Societal attributions -- Culture's contribution -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- 4 Self and identity -- Who are you? -- Self and identity in historical context -- Psychodynamic self -- 5 Attitudes -- structure and function of attitudes -- can attitudes predict behaviour -- forming attitudes -- concepts related to attitudes -- measuring attitudes -- summary -- literature, film, and TV, learn more -- 6 Persuasion and attitude change -- attitudes, arguments and behavior -- persuasive communication -- the communicator -- the message -- the audience -- dual-process models of persuasion -- compliance -- cognitive dissonance and attitude change -- resistance to persuasion -- 7 social influence -- types of social inf;uence -- obedience to authority -- conformity -- minority influence and social change -- 8 people in groups -- what is group -- group effects on individual performance -- group cohesiveness -- group socialisation -- norms -- group structure -- why do people join groups -- 9 Leadership -- 10 Prejudice and discrimination -- 11 Intergroup behaviour -- 12 Aggression -- 13 Prosocial behaviour -- 14 Attraction and close relationships -- 15 Language and communication 16 Culture -- Glossary -- References -- Author index -- Subject index

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