Table of Contents
Each chapter concludes with “Summary and Review of Key Points,” “Key Terms,” and “For More Information.”
1.The Field of Social Psychology: How We Think about and Interact with Others.
Social Psychology: A Working Definition.
Social Psychology: Where It Is Now, and Where It Seems to Be Going.
Answering Questions about Social Behavior and Social Thought: Research Methods in Social Psychology.
The Quest for Knowledge and Rights of Individuals: Seeking an Appropriate Balance.
Using This Book: A Road Map for Readers.
2.Social Perception: Understanding Others.
Nonverbal Communication: The Unspoken Language.
Attribution: Understanding the Causes of Others' Behavior.
Impression Formation and Impression Management: How We Combine — and Use — Social Information.
3.Social Cognition: Thinking about the Social World.
Schemas: Mental Frameworks for Organizing — and Using — Social Information.
Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts in Social Cognition.
Potential Sources of Error in Social Cognition: Why Total Rationality is Scarcer Than You Think.
Affect and Cognition: How Feelings Shape Thought and Thought Shapes Feelings.
4.Attitudes: Evaluating the Social World.
Attitude Formation: How We Come to Hold the Views We Do.
Do Attitudes Influence Behavior? And If So, When and How?
The Fine Art of Persuasion: Using Messages to Change Attitudes.
When Attitude Change Fails: Resistance to Persuasion.
Cognitive Dissonance: Why Our Behavior Can Sometimes Influence Our Attitudes.
5.Aspects of Social Identity: Self and Gender.
The Self: Components of One's Identity.
Other Aspects of Self-Functioning: Focusing, Monitoring, and Efficacy.
Gender: Maleness or Femaleness as a Crucial Aspect of Identity.
6.Prejudice and Discrimination.
Prejudice and Discrimination: Their Nature and Effects.
The Origins of Prejudice: Contrasting Perspectives.
Why Prejudice Is Not Inevitable: Techniques for Countering Its Effects.
Prejudice Based on Gender: Its Nature and Effects.
7.Interpersonal Attraction: Initial Contact, Liking, Becoming Acquainted.
Recognizing and Evaluating Strangers: Proximity and Emotions.
Becoming Acquaintances: The Need to Affiliate and the Effect of Observable Characteristics.
Becoming Close Acquaintances and Moving toward Friendship: Similarity and Reciprocal Positive Evaluations.
8.Close Relationships: Family, Friends, Lovers, and Spouses.
Interdependent Relationships With Family and Friends — or Loneliness.
Romantic Relationships, Love, and Physical Intimacy.
Marriage: Moving beyond Romance.
9.Social Influence: Changing Others' Behavior.
Conformity: Group Influence in Action.
Compliance: To Ask — Sometimes — Is to Receive.
Obedience: Social Influence by Demand.
10.Prosocial Behavior: Helping Others.
Responding to an Emergency: Why Are Bystanders Sometimes Helpful, Sometimes Indifferent?
The Helpers and Those Who Receive Help.
Explaining Prosocial Behavior: Why Do People Help?
11.Aggression: Its Nature, Causes, and Control.
Theoretical Perspectives on Aggression: In Search of the Roots of Violence.
Determinants of Human Aggression: Social, Personal, Situational.
Child Abuse and Workplace Violence: Aggression in Long-Term Relationships.
The Prevention and Control of Aggression: Some Useful Techniques.
12.Groups and Individuals: The Consequences of Belonging.
Groups: Their Nature and Function.
How Groups Affect Individual Performance: Facilitation or Social Loafing?
Coordination in Groups: Cooperation or Conflict?
Perceived Fairness in Groups: Getting What We Deserve — Or Else!
Decision Making by Groups: How It Occurs and the Pitfalls It Faces.
13.Social Psychology in Action: Legal, Medical, and Organizational Applications.
Applying Social Psychology to the Interpersonal Aspects of the Legal System.
Applying Social Psychology to Health-Related Behavior.
Applying Social Psychology to the World of Work: Job Satisfaction, Helping, and Leadership.
References.
Glossary.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
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