Advanced Social Psychology

Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some people and harm others? Why do we pay so much more attention to high-powered people than they pay to us? If humans evolved from great apes, why are human selves so much more elaborate? How does our attachment to our parents when we are infants influence the success or failure of our romantic relationships when we are adults? Can behaving morally "license" us to behave immorally shortly afterward? How do social relationships make us more versus less prone toward physical illness? This volume -- an update to the original, 2010 edition -- provides a graduate-level introduction to social psychology. The target audience consists of first-year graduate students (MA or PhD) in social psychology and related disciplines (marketing, organizational behavior, etc.), although it is also appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors are world-renowned leaders on their topic, and they have written state-of-the-art overviews of the discipline's major research domains. The chapters are not only scientifically rigorous, but also accessible and engaging. They convey the joy, excitement, and promise of scientific investigations into human sociality.

Auteur

Eli J. Finkel is Professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in the psychology department and the Kellogg School of Management. He earned his BA in 1997 from Northwestern and his PhD in 2001 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published more than 140 academic papers, is a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, and is the author of the bestselling book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work (2017). He has received several career awards, including the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Social and Personality Psychology, the Caryl E. Rusbult Young Investigator Award from the Relationship Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relational Research. He has received dozens of teaching awards and recognitions, including recognition by College Magazine as one of the Top 10 Professors at Northwestern. Roy F. Baumeister is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, in Australia, as well as Professor Emeritus at Florida State. He received his PhD in social psychology from Princeton University in 1978, having worked with the great Edward E. Jones as his mentor. He has published hundreds of articles and a couple dozen books on a broad range of topics, including self and identity, interpersonal belongingness and rejection, sexuality, evil and violence, emotion, self-regulation, free will, decision making, consciousness, and the meaning of life. He has received several lifetime achievement awards, including the William James Fellow award, which is the highest honor given by the Association for Psychological Science. As of 2018, his publications have been cited in the scientific journals over 150,000 times. Writing for publication and mentoring graduate students are his favorite parts of the job.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Social Psychology: Crisis and Renaissance Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 2. A Brief History of Social Psychology Harry Reis Chapter 3. New Developments in Research Methods Alison Ledgerwood Chapter 4. Social Cognition Susan Fiske Chapter 5. Self Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 6. Attitude Structure and Change Richard Petty, Pablo Briñol, Lee Fabrigar, and Duane Wegener Chapter 7. Social Influence Robert Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius Chapter 8. Aggression Brad Bushman Chapter 9. Attraction and Rejection Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 10. Close Relationships Shelly Gable Chapter 11. Intergroup Relations Marilynn Brewer Chapter 12. Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Jack Dovidio and James Jones Chapter 13. Morality Linda Skitka and Paul Conway Chapter 14. Emotion Wendy Berry Mendes Chapter 15. Social Neuroscience Thalia Wheatley Chapter 16. Evolutionary Social Psychology Jon Maner Chapter 17. Cultural Psychology Steve Heine Chapter 18. Health, Stress, and Coping Ted Robles Chapter 19. Judgment and Decision-making Kathleen Vohs and Mary Frances Luce Chapter 20. Personality Charles Carver Chapter 21. Computational Psychology Michal Kosinski