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9780205579471

Current Directions in Social Psychology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205579471

  • ISBN10:

    0205579477

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-01-01
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This new and exciting reader includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspectivefrom a reliable sourceabout todayrs"s most current and pressing issues in social psychology.

Table of Contents

The Person In The Situation: Self-Protection
On the plasticity of self-defense
Social comparison: Why, with whom and with what effect?
The spotlight effect and the illusion of transparency: Egocentric assessments of how we are seen by others
The false-hope syndrome: Unfulfilled expectations about self-change
Influences On Social Knowledge: Unconscious Processes, Biases and Culture
Mere exposure: A gateway to the subliminal
Automaticity and the amygdala: Nonconscious responses to emotional faces
Universals and cultural differences in recognizing emotions
Culture and cognition
Close Relationships: Love, Sex and Marriage
Ideal standards in close relationships: Their structure and functions
The emerging field of adolescent romantic relationships
Human sexuality: How do men and women differ?
Marital conflict: Correlates, structure and context
Interpersonal Extremes: Prosocial Behavior and Aggression
Why don't moral people act morally? Motivational considerations
Forgiveness: Who does it and how do they do it?
Self-esteem
If the television program bleeds, memory for the advertisement recedes
Intergroup Conflict And Prejudice: Effects and Resolutions
What we know now about bias and intergroup conflict, the problem of the century
Pride and prejudice: Fear of death and social behavior
The psychology of sexual prejudice
Ethnicity-related sources of stress and their effects on well-being
Reducing prejudice: Combatting intergroup biases
Applying Social Psychology: Health and Justice
Social support, physiological processes and health
Citizens' sense of justice and the legal system
The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups
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