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

by Lesko, Wayne A.

• ISBN13: 9780205595778
• ISBN10: 0205595774
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This collection of readings gives students exposure to a wide variety of perspectives in the field of social psychology.Each of the fifteen chapters begins with an introduction and is followed by three articles: one general ("popular"), one classic, and one contemporary. The articles are followed by critical questions designed to facilitate comprehension and encourage discussion. Topic integration questions conclude each chapter. The use of both popular readings and research articles provides students with a broad range of views and theories within the discipline of social psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
A Note to the Reader	p. xv
The Field of Social Psychology	p. 1
Folk Wisdom: Was Your Grandmother Right?	p. 2
Human Use of Human Subjects: The Problem of Deception in Social Psychological Experiments	p. 9
How to Be a Wise Consumer of Psychological Research	p. 20
Social Perception	p. 25
The Once-Over: Can You Trust First Impressions?	p. 26
The Warm-Cold Variable in First Impressions of Persons	p. 31
Detecting Lies in Children and Adults	p. 37
Social Cognition	p. 47
Some Systematic Biases of Everyday Judgment	p. 48
Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State	p. 55
Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up	p. 74
Attitudes	p. 82
Don't Even Think about It!	p. 83
Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance	p. 89
Self-Esteem, Trivialization, and Attitude Change	p. 98
Social Identity	p. 106
The Many Me's of the Self-Monitor	p. 107
The Measurement of Psychological Androgyny	p. 114
Examining Masculinity Norms, Problem Drinking, and Athletic Involvement as Predictors of Sexual Aggression in College Men	p. 122
Prejudice and Discrimination	p. 131
Why We Hate	p. 132
Attitudes vs. Actions	p. 137
The Contact Hypothesis Revisited: Status Bias in the Reduction of Implicit Prejudice in the United States and Lebanon	p. 145
Interpersonal Attraction	p. 155
Why I Hate Beauty	p. 156
What Is Beautiful Is Good	p. 161
One Woman's Behavior Affects the Attractiveness of Others	p. 168
Close Relationships	p. 176
Great Expectations	p. 177
"Playing Hard to Get": Understanding an Elusive Phenomenon	p. 182
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words: The Social Effects of Expressive Writing	p. 192
Social Influence	p. 199
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Lesson in the Power of Situation	p. 200
Behavioral Study of Obedience	p. 206
The Influence of Social Pressure and Black Clothing on Crime Judgements	p. 216
Prosocial Behavior	p. 227
Helping Others, Helping Ourselves	p. 228
"From Jerusalem to Jericho": A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior	p. 232
The Effect of Smiling on Helping Behavior: Smiling and Good Samaritan Behavior	p. 243
Aggression	p. 250
Bad Girls	p. 251
Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models	p. 256
Guns, Testosterone, and Aggression: An Experimental Test of a Mediational Hypothesis	p. 267
Group Behavior	p. 273
Groupthink	p. 274
The Effect of Threat upon Interpersonal Bargaining	p. 279
Gender Differences in Cooperation and Competition: The Male-Warrior Hypothesis	p. 291
Business Psychology	p. 299
The Psychology of Voluntary Employee Turnover	p. 300
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?	p. 306
Doing Better but Feeling Worse: Looking for the "Best" Job Undermines Satisfaction	p. 318
Forensic Psychology	p. 330
Can Psychology Prevent False Confessions?	p. 331
Beautiful but Dangerous: Effects of Offender Attractiveness and Nature of the Crime on Juridic Judgment	p. 335
Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes	p. 341
Health Psychology	p. 347
America: A Toxic Lifestyle?	p. 348
The Social Readjustment Rating Scale	p. 352
Psychological Resilience after Disaster: New York City in the Aftermath of the September 11th Terrorist Attack	p. 359
Author Index	p. 369
Subject Index	p. 373
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