ISBN:
9780340548462
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (422 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Gross, Richard Social Psychology
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Social psychology and everyday life -- The scope of social psychology -- Assumptions about human behaviour -- Historical perspective -- Social psychology as science -- Methods of investigation -- Validity of experiments -- The social psychology of experiments -- Ethics and values in social psychological research -- About this book -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 2 Social development -- Introduction -- Infancy -- The first relationship
Description / Table of Contents:
Effects of maternal deprivation -- Erikson's stages of psychosocial development -- Childhood -- Adolescence: stormy or sunny? -- Adulthood -- Application: why do adolescents take risks? -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 3 Attitudes, attitude change and behaviour -- The importance of attitudes -- Formation of attitudes -- What are attitudes? -- Measuring attitudes -- Attitude change and persuasion -- Resisting attitude change -- Attitudes and behaviour -- Application: attitudes and health -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Social cognition I: Perception of self and others -- Introduction -- Social perception -- Schema types -- Schematic processing -- Biases in schematic processing -- Forming impressions of people -- Biases in forming impressions -- Application: education -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 5 Social cognition II: The attribution approach -- Introduction -- Basic considerations -- Models of attribution -- Attributional accuracy and error -- Attribution and the social context -- Personality and attributional style -- Application: attribution and depression -- Summary
Description / Table of Contents:
Suggestions for further reading -- 6 Non-verbal communication and interpersonal behaviour -- Introduction -- Animal communication -- Non-verbal behaviour -- Gender and cultural issues relating to non-verbal behaviour -- Functions of non-verbal behaviour -- Interaction of verbal and non-verbal behaviours in conversation -- Verbal communication and questioning -- Application: health professional-client interaction -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 7 Social relationships -- Introduction -- Affiliation -- Interpersonal attraction -- Development and maintenance of close relationships
Description / Table of Contents:
Intimate/sexual relationships -- Rewards of building good relationships -- When relationships break down -- Consequences of relationship breakdown -- Application: social support and health -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 8 Social influence -- Introduction -- Compliance -- Conformity or major influences -- Group polarization -- Obedience to authority -- The influence of roles -- Minority influence -- Application: group polarization in a legal context -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 9 Pro-social and anti-social behaviour -- Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Defining pro-social and anti-social behaviour
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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