Readings in Social Psychology : General, Classic, and Contemporary Selections

by Lesko, Wayne A.

• ISBN13: 9780205287208
• ISBN10: 0205287204
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This collection of readings provides students with the maximum exposure to the various sources of information available in the field of social psychology. Each of this text's fourteen chapters begins with an introduction and contains three articles: one popular, one classic, and one contemporary. Each individual article is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by a set of Critical Thinking Questions, which ask the student to carefully examine some part of the article presented, to speculate about generalizations and implications of the research, and in some cases, to suggest new studies based on the information in the article. Classic articles are followed by Additional Related Readings which invite students to examine more contemporary articles on the same topic. Organized to correspond with the sequence and coverage of Baron and Byrne's Social Psychology, Ninth Edition, this reader is also designed to work with a broad range of courses and texts.

Table of Contents

The Field of Social Psychology

Folk Wisdom: Was Your Grandmother Right?

Human Use of Human Subjects: The Problem of Deception in Social Psychological Experiments

"Thats Completely Obvious...and Important": Lay Judgments of Social Psychological Findings

Social Perception

The New-Boy Network: What do Job Interviews Really Tell Us?

The Warm-Cold Variable in First Impressions of Persons

Detecting Deceit Via Analysis of Verbal and Noverbal Behavior

Social Cognition

Some Systematic Biases of Everyday Judgment

Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State

"I Knew We Would Win": Hindsight Bias for Favorable and Unfavorable Team Decision Outcomes

Attitudes

Don''t Even Think about It!

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance

Do Attitudes Affect Memory? Tests of the Congeniality Hypothesis

Social Identity: Self and Gender

The Many Me''s of the Self-Monitor

The Measurement of Psychological Androgyny

Adolescents Use of Tobacco, Health Locus of Control, and Self-Monitoring

Prejudice and Discrimination

Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes

Attitudes vs Actions

An Attribution-value Model of Prejudice: Anti-fat Attitudes in Six Nations

Interpersonal Attraction

The Biology of Beauty

What Is Beautiful Is Good

Physical and Psychological Correlates of Appearance Orientation

Close Relationships: Friendship, Love, and Sexuality

Will Your Marriage Last?

"Playing Hard to Get"

Perception of Physical Attractiveness Throughout Loving Relationships

Social Influence

The Education of a Torturer

Behavioral Study of Obedience

Doing What the Mob Do: Priming Effects on Conformity

Prosocial Behavior

Why Dont Moral People Act Morally? Motivational Considerations

"From Jerusalem to Jericho": A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior

The Way to Console May Depend on the Goal: Experimental Studies of Social Support

Aggression

Bad Girls

Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive ModelsAlbert BanduraBandura, AlbertDorothea RossRoss, Dorothea

Heat and Violence

Groups and Individual Behavior

Groupthink

The Effect of Threat upon Interpersonal Bargaining

Testing the Groupthink Model: Effects of Promotional Leadership and Conformity Predisposition

Applying Social Psychology: Law and Business

Juries and Justice: Is the System Obsolete?

Beautiful but Dangerous: Effects of Offender Attractiveness and Nature of the Crime on Juridic Judgment

Aversive Racism and Selection Decisions: 1989 and 1999

Applying Social Psychology: Health and Environment

Research to the Heart of the Matter

Territorial Defense and the Good Neighbor

Satisfaction in a Dormitory Building: The Effects of Floor Height on the Perception of Room Size and Crowding

Author Index

Subject Index

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