TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hogg,Michael A.
AU  - Vaughan,Graham M.
TI  - Social psychology
SN  - 9781292090450
AV  - HM1033 .H64 2018
U1  - 302 HO.S 2018 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Harlow, United Kingdom
PB  - Pearson
KW  - Social psychology
N1  - 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
N2  - The eighth edition of this lively introduction places social psychology in a contemporary, real-world context and explores new, cutting-edge research as well as bringing classic theories to life. Thoroughly revised to enhance accessibility, and updated to include over 250 new references, this trusted, market-leading, cutting edged textbook remains as comprehensive as ever. Key features include: in-depth scientific coverage of social psychological theory and research; combines UK, European and North American perspectives effectively to provide coverage with a unique global take; updated and expanded coverage of morality, affect and emotion, rumour and gossip, trust and leadership, social media-based communication, multiculturalism, radicalization, deviance, and sexual minorities; and thoroughly revised and rewritten chapters and sections on aggression, prosocial behaviour, close relationships, and attitude-behaviour relations particularly in the context of health. Social Psychology 8th edition includes a range of pedagogically developed features to aid independent study: Research Classic and Research highlight sections focus on either seminal or contemporary areas of research to help you to refine your understanding of these key areas; Your Life sections explore everyday social psychological and encourage you to apply the ideas within your own life; Our World boxes consider examples of social psychology or social issues within the wider world to help you gain a deeper and applied understanding of concepts and issues; and a range of photos, reflective questions and the film/literature and TV section in each chapter further help to bring alive this fascinating subject for everyone
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