Contents
For Students: How to Access and Use this Textbook
Chapter 1. Introducing Social Psychology
1.1 Defining Social Psychology: History and Principles
1.2 Affect, Behavior, and Cognition
1.3 Conducting Research in Social Psychology
2.1 Sources of Social Knowledge
2.2 How We Use Our Expectations
2.3 Social Cognition and Affect
2.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Cognition
3.1 The Cognitive Self: The Self-Concept
3.2 The Feeling Self: Self-Esteem
3.3 The Social Self: The Role of the Social Situation
3.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about the Self
Chapter 4. Attitudes, Behavior, and Persuasion
4.2 Changing Attitudes through Persuasion
4.3 Changing Attitudes by Changing Behavior
4.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Attitudes, Behavior, and Persuasion
5.1 Initial Impression Formation
5.2 Inferring Dispositions Using Causal Attribution
5.4 Individual Differences in Person Perception
5.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Person Perception
Chapter 6. Influencing and Conforming
6.1 The Many Varieties of Conformity
6.2 Obedience, Power, and Leadership
6.3 Person, Gender, and Cultural Differences in Conformity
6.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Influence
7.2 Close Relationships: Liking and Loving over the Long Term
7.3 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Liking and Loving
Chapter 8. Helping and Altruism
8.1 Understanding Altruism: Self and Other Concerns
8.2 The Role of Affect: Moods and Emotions
8.3 How the Social Context Influences Helping
8.4 Other Determinants of Helping
8.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Altruism
9.2 The Biological and Emotional Causes of Aggression
9.3 The Violence around Us: How the Social Situation Influences Aggression
9.4 Personal and Cultural Influences on Aggression
9.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Aggression
Chapter 10. Working Groups: Performance and Decision Making
10.1 Understanding Social Groups
10.4 Improving Group Performance and Decision Making
10.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Groups
Chapter 11. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
11.1 Social Categorization and Stereotyping
11.2 Ingroup Favoritism and Prejudice
11.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Chapter 12. Competition and Cooperation in Our Social Worlds
12.1 Conflict, Cooperation, Morality, and Fairness
12.2 How the Social Situation Creates Conflict: The Role of Social Dilemmas
12.3 Strategies for Producing Cooperation
12.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Cooperation and Competition
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