Ebook: Social Psychology

Cover -- Social Psychology -- Brief contents -- Contents -- Advisory editorial board -- Preface -- About the authors -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Guided tour -- Introducing social psychology -- What is social psychology? -- Social psychology and its close neighbours -- Topics of social psychology -- Methodological issues -- Scientific method -- Experiments -- Non-experimental methods -- Data and analysis -- Research ethics -- Physical welfare of participants -- Respect for privacy -- Use of deception -- Informed consent -- Debriefing -- Theoretical issues -- Theories in social psychology -- Social psychology in crisis -- Reductionism and levels of explanation -- Positivism -- Historical context -- Social psychology in the nineteenth century -- The rise of experimentation -- Later influences -- The journals -- Social psychology in Europe -- About this book -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Social cognition and social thinking -- Social psychology and cognition -- A short history of cognition in social psychology -- Forming impressions of other people -- Asch's configural model -- Biases in forming impressions -- Cognitive algebra -- Social schemas and categories -- Types of schema -- Categories and prototypes -- Categorisation and stereotyping -- Schema use and development -- Schema use -- Acquisition, development and change -- Social encoding -- Salience -- Vividness -- Accessibility -- Person memory -- 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 -- Where is the 'social' in social cognition? -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Attribution and social explanation -- Social explanation.;Can we ever be genuinely unprejudiced? What can we learn about people from how they speak? How can a minority change the world? Why do people obey authority, even when ordered to do evil? Why do groups sometimes make bad decisions? Can we study love scientifically, or should we leave it to the poets? Do violent computer games make violent people? Mapping the connection between social psychology and our everyday lives, the sixth edition of this market-leading textbook provides a lively and engaging introduction to the field. The book is supported by a new, user-friendly website featuring an.