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Have you ever wondered why some people are attracted to each other? Or why some of your friends are more open to persuasion than others? Perhaps you've always wanted to know how to tell if someone is lying to you?
Social Psychology is a dynamic new textbook that captures the vitality of the discipline and its relevance to everyday life, helping you to answer questions such as these. With its distinctive coverage of classic concepts as well as emerging areas, this is the definitive introduction to social psychology. Furthermore, innovative feature boxes and fascinating real-life examples will help you develop a range of skills that will be relevant to your future career.
Social Psychology:
- takes an inclusive and open-minded look at key topics, incorporating a range of different viewpoints that are essential to understanding the discipline in the 21st century
- is written with a broad international perspective, covering classic and contemporary research from all parts of the world
- includes a variety of novel and lively features, including: 'blind spots in social psychology', 'student project' features, and 'try it yourself' exercises
- provides a chapter dedicated to the lessons and skills that can be learned from the study of social psychology and how you can apply these to your future studies and career.
Social Psychology comes with a companion website at www.palgrave.com/psychology/suttondouglas where students and lecturers can find a host of high-quality supporting materials.
An engaging and comfortable read … I am particularly impressed with the pedagogy included in this textbook … I would certainly consider adopting a structure to mirror this text.' - Fay Short, Bangor University, UK
'Very up-to-date … I think it is important for social psychology students to understand the usefulness of the material that they are learning and also the criticisms that have been made of the discipline … I would still definitely choose this book as a text.' - Jenny Boldero, University of Melbourne, Australia
'I'd describe the approach adopted as really excellent; refreshingly and distinctively engaging. Students will love it and the 'Try it yourself' and other features are great for teaching. Based on the work I have reviewed it is the best social psychology textbook I have seen recently…I think students would likely prefer it to Hogg and Vaughan.' - Victoria Scaife, University of East Anglia, UK
Social Psychology is a major new textbook that provides a lively introduction to this dynamic and fast-moving topic. Carefully crafted to suit the requirements of psychology students of all backgrounds and ability levels, it is comprehensive enough to be used on a broad introductory course while still remaining forward-thinking and research-oriented. All of the major topics that lecturers would expect are covered within the book, and the text sets itself apart with dedicated chapters on communication processes and social development. Unique pedagogical features like 'blind spots' and 'student features' engage without patronising the reader, and the book's emphasis on psychology as it's applied to real-world situations will encourage the student to take their studies beyond the classroom.
Robbie Sutton was born in Wellington, New Zealand and completed undergraduate degrees in English, philosophy and psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, and went onto study for his PhD there. He has had teaching positions at Massey University (NZ), Keele University (UK), and now the University of Kent, where he is Reader in Psychology. He has published over 50 articles and book chapters on topics such as justice, inequality, gender, the fear of crime, feedback and causal explanation. He has also acted as a consultant on projects in environmental and community psychology. He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Social Psychology, the British Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. With Matthew Hornsey and Karen Douglas, Robbie edited Feedback: The Communication of Praise, Criticism and Advice.
Karen Douglas was born in Blackburn, England and grew up in the Hunter Valley, Australia. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle and her PhD at the Australian National University. Karen moved back to the UK to take up a lectureship at Keele University and later moved to the University of Kent where she is now a Reader in Psychology. Karen has many research interests, most notably on the social psychology of conspiracy theories, language and communication, and the psychology of the internet, having published and taught broadly in these areas. She has been an associate editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology, Social Psychology and the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Title Page | i | ||
| Dedication | iii | ||
| About the authors | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | vi | ||
| List of figures | xiii | ||
| List of tables | xvii | ||
| Preface | xviii | ||
| Authors’ acknowledgements | xxiii | ||
| Publisher’s acknowledgements | xxv | ||
| 1 The discipline of social psychology | 2 | ||
| What is social psychology? | 7 | ||
| Where does social psychology come from?\r | 9 | ||
| Doing social psychological research \r | 14 | ||
| Critical\r Focus The ‘crisis’ in social psychology | 19 | ||
| The tools of social psychology\r | 20 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods Correlation versus causation | 22 | ||
| Issues in conducting social psychological research | 30 | ||
| Basic and applied research \r | 34 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World Social\rpsychology at work in the classroom\r | 35 | ||
| Cultural issues \r | 36 | ||
| Research ethics\r | 37 | ||
| Social psychology and links to other disciplines | 39 | ||
| Dissemination of social psychology\r | 43 | ||
| Applying social psychology Pets and psychological wellbeing: a critical thinking exercise \r | 46 | ||
| Student project Socially desirable responding\r | 47 | ||
| Part 1: Thinking and feeling \r | 49 | ||
| 2 The social self: understanding ourselves | 50 | ||
| Self-knowledge and the self-concept\r | 53 | ||
| Self-awareness\r | 58 | ||
| Theories of self\r | 63 | ||
| Critical Focus\r Ego depletion: mind over matter, or matter\rover mind? | 69 | ||
| Self-esteem\r | 75 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World\r The narcissism ‘epidemic’ and its consequences | 81 | ||
| Self-presentation\r | 82 | ||
| How accurate is our self-knowledge?\r | 85 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods Why social psychologists cannot just ask people why they do things \r | 89 | ||
| Motivated social cognition and the self\r | 90 | ||
| Culture and the self\r | 93 | ||
| Applying social psychology Encouraging healthy eating in a school\r | 97 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Narcissistic leaders and their\reffects on decision making\r | 98 | ||
| Student project The effect of specific modes of feedback on\rlearning in an HE setting\r | 98 | ||
| 3 The social perceiver: understanding the social world\r | 100 | ||
| Causal attributions\r | 104 | ||
| The naive scientist approach\r | 106 | ||
| Two famous ‘errors ’ in attribution | 111 | ||
| Applications of attribution theory | 116 | ||
| Person perception\r | 119 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World ‘Gaydar’, politics and the importance of judging a book by its cover | 125 | ||
| Heuristics and biases in social cognition\r | 132 | ||
| Critical Focus The conjunction fallacy\r | 134 | ||
| Other biases and errors in social cognition\r | 137 | ||
| The nature of social cognition\r | 143 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods Experimental control\rand replication\r | 145 | ||
| Applying social psychology Applying social cognition to business\rproblems\r | 151 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Why are morning people morning\rpeople?\r | 151 | ||
| Student project Victim blame in stranger and acquaintance rape\r | 152 | ||
| 4 The social judge: attitudes, emotions and behaviour\r | 154 | ||
| What are attitudes ? | 156 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Political attitudes | 159 | ||
| Attitude formation | 162 | ||
| Implicit and explicit attitudes | 172 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: The Implicit Association Test (IAT) | 176 | ||
| Attitudes and behaviours | 180 | ||
| Cognitive dissonance\r | 185 | ||
| Embodied social cognition\r | 193 | ||
| Critical Focus: Embodied social cognition | 198 | ||
| Emotions and social judgement\r | 199 | ||
| Applying social psychology: implementation intentions: turning ideas into action | 203 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology: Embodied warmth | 204 | ||
| Student project: Accurately predicting strangers’ emotions in the laboratory predicts higher quality relationships in real life | 205 | ||
| Part 2: Relating | 207 | ||
| 5 Communication\r | 208 | ||
| Language and the ‘rules ’ of language | 211 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods | 215 | ||
| Language, culture and cognition | 219 | ||
| Language, personality, identity and gender\r | 222 | ||
| Language and stereotyping\r | 227 | ||
| Nonverbal communication | 230 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Nonverbal communication and the haka | 238 | ||
| Critical Focus: The evolution of facial expressions | 243 | ||
| Conversation and discourse\r | 245 | ||
| Communication and technology | 247 | ||
| Applying social psychology: Training language use to reduce prejudice | 253 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology: Having something to talk about: the communicative logic of celebrity culture | 253 | ||
| Student project: What kind of person self-discloses online? | 254 | ||
| 6 Persuasion\r | 256 | ||
| When does persuasion work?\r | 259 | ||
| Social Psychology in the real World: How to\r\rget people to stop smoking | 268 | ||
| How does persuasion work?\r | 276 | ||
| What can people do to persuade others ?\r | 282 | ||
| When persuasion does not work \r | 285 | ||
| Critical Focus: How do people understand persuasion?\r | 289 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Subliminal messages \r | 291 | ||
| Applying social psychology Persuading people to change their\rways in order to avert or minimize climate change\r | 294 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology What is the psychological profile\rof a persuasive communicator?\r | 294 | ||
| Student project The extent to which people tailor persuasion\rattempts to ‘fit’ their audience\r | 295 | ||
| 7 Close relationships\r | 298 | ||
| Interpersonal attraction\r | 301 | ||
| Critical Focus: Sexual strategies theory\r | 306 | ||
| Theories of attraction | 321 | ||
| Love and romantic relations hips | 325 | ||
| Attachment and bonding | 330 | ||
| Maintaining relationships\r | 334 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Same-sex\rrelationships: ‘the love that dare not speak its name’\r | 336 | ||
| When relationships end\r | 336 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods Student samples in relationships research: Student samples in\rrelationships research\r | 340 | ||
| Applying social psychology Abusive relationships\r | 342 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology The politics of sexual variety\r | 343 | ||
| Student project Attachment style, disclosure and relationship quality\r | 343 | ||
| Part 3: Belonging\r | 345 | ||
| 8 The social group\r | 346 | ||
| What is a group? | 348 | ||
| Formation of groups | 351 | ||
| Group structure \r | 359 | ||
| Critical Focus: gender roles: a minefield of science and\rpolitics\r | 364 | ||
| Fitting in to groups\r | 369 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Impostors within \rgroups | 373 | ||
| What do groups do for us ? | 374 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Ethical\rconsiderations in ostracism research\r | 382 | ||
| Applying social psychology Multiple social identities and coping\r | 384 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology The upsides of social ostracism\r | 386 | ||
| Student project Social categories and person perception\r | 386 | ||
| 9 Social influence | 388 | ||
| Classic studies of social influence\r | 391 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Ethics and the\rMilgram studies\r | 398 | ||
| Critical Focus: The Stanford Prison Experiment and the\rpsychology of ‘evil’\r | 401 | ||
| When are people influenced? | 405 | ||
| Why are people influenced? | 410 | ||
| Who is influenced? | 414 | ||
| Resisting s\rocial influence | 418 | ||
| Minority social influence\r | 420 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: The\rsuffragette movement\r | 424 | ||
| Applying social psychology Can conformity decrease antisocial\rbehaviour?\r | 426 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Referent informational influence\r | 427 | ||
| Student project Social influence and prejudice\r | 428 | ||
| 10 Group behaviour\r | 430 | ||
| Social facilitation | 433 | ||
| Social loafing | 441 | ||
| Deindividuation | 446 | ||
| Critical Focus: Emergent norm theory: a theory of crowd\rbehaviour\r | 453 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Road\rrage: losing it behind the wheel\r | 454 | ||
| Group decision making\r | 455 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Studying groupthink\r | 461 | ||
| Leadership \r | 463 | ||
| Applying social psychology Women in leadership: the glass cliff\r | 469 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Race and leadership\r | 470 | ||
| Student project Civic disengagement and belief in conspiracy\rtheories\r | 470 | ||
| 11 Intergroup relations\r | 472 | ||
| Bases of stereotypes , prejudice and discrimination\r | 474 | ||
| Critical Focus: The minimal group paradigm\r | 490 | ||
| Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination in different intergroup contexts\r | 492 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Ageist stereotypes\rand cardiovascular events\r | 503 | ||
| Social Psychology in ihe Real World: Homophobia\r | 504 | ||
| Vicious cycles in intergroup relations | 504 | ||
| Applying social psychology Understanding and improving boys’\racademic achievement\r | 511 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology The contested nature of social\ridentity\r | 513 | ||
| Student project Marginalizing prejudice\r | 513 | ||
| Part 4: Applying\r | 515 | ||
| 12 Improving intergroup relations\r | 516 | ||
| Tokenism and affirmative action\r | 518 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Tokenism\rand the election of Barack Obama\r | 522 | ||
| Intergroup contact\r | 524 | ||
| Critical Focus: Reservations and unanswered questions\rabout contact\r | 528 | ||
| Categorization-based approaches\r | 532 | ||
| Values-based approaches\r | 538 | ||
| The media and real-world conflict | 545 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Reducing real-world\rintergroup conflict\r | 546 | ||
| Intergroup apology and forgiveness \r | 548 | ||
| Communication and negotiation | 550 | ||
| Collective action | 552 | ||
| Applying social psychology Intergroup emotions approach\r | 556 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Intergroup apology\r | 557 | ||
| Student project The effectiveness of imagined contact\r | 558 | ||
| 13 Understanding and controlling aggression | 560 | ||
| The human animal: biological bases of aggression\r | 563 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Alcohol\rand aggression\r | 574 | ||
| The social animal: social causes of aggression \r | 577 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods Measuring: aggression\rin the laboratory\r | 583 | ||
| The tribal animal: the group dimension of aggression\r | 591 | ||
| Critical Focus: Violence against women\r | 594 | ||
| Applying social psychology Bullying interventions\r | 605 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Ideology, sport and war\r | 606 | ||
| Student project Policing of crowd behaviour and violence\r | 606 | ||
| 14 Altruism and justice\r | 608 | ||
| Altruism\r | 611 | ||
| Critical Focus:\r Bystander intervention and the tragic case\rof Kitty genovese | 614 | ||
| Social dilemmas | 628 | ||
| Encouraging cooperation | 630 | ||
| The social psychology of justice\r | 636 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Eliciting distress in\rstudies of the ‘just world’\r | 645 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Economic\rinequality and economic crisis\r | 652 | ||
| Applying social psychology Encouraging energy saving among\rstudents\r | 656 | ||
| Blind spot in social psychology Changing social value orientation:\rCan people be made more prosocial?\r | 657 | ||
| Student project The psychology of ‘retail therapy’\r | 658 | ||
| 15 Social psychology: an overview \r | 660 | ||
| The wisdom of social psychology \r | 663 | ||
| Some challenges and limitations | 674 | ||
| Critical Focus: Sampling bias in social psychology\r | 675 | ||
| Current and future directions in social psychology\r | 683 | ||
| Ethics and Research Methods: Crowdsourcing\rsocial psychology\r | 685 | ||
| Social psychology and you\r | 692 | ||
| Social Psychology in the Real World: Nudge\rtheory\r | 698 | ||
| References | 707 | ||
| Subject index | 780 | ||
| Author index | 791 |