BRIEF TOC
1: Introduction to Social Psychology
2: The Person and the Situation
3: Social Cognition: Understanding Ourselves and Others
4: Presenting the Self
5: Attitudes and Persuasion
6: Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
7: Affiliation and Friendship
8: Love and Romantic Relationships
9: Prosocial Behavior
10: Aggression
11: Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
12: Groups
COMPLETE TOC
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Mysteries of Social Life
What Is Social Psychology?
Social Psychology Is an Interdisciplinary Bridge
Major Theoretical Perspectives of Social Psychology
The Sociocultural Perspective
The Evolutionary Perspective
The Social Learning Perspective
The Social Cognitive Perspective
Combining Perspectives
Basic Principles of Social Behavior
Social Behavior Is Goal Oriented
The Interaction between the Person and the Situation
How Psychologists Study Social Behavior
BRIDGING METHOD AND EVIDENCE: Why Good Theories Need Good Data
Descriptive Methods
Correlation and Causation
Experimental Methods
Why Social Psychologists Combine Different Methods
Ethical Issues in Social Psychological Research
Social Psychology’s Bridges with Other Areas of Knowledge
Social Psychology and Other Areas of Psychology
Social Psychology and Other Disciplines
Revisiting the Mysteries of Social Life
Summary
CHAPTER 2. THE PERSON AND THE SITUATION
The Enigma of an Ordinary and Extraordinary Man
The Person
Motivation: What Drives Us
Knowledge: Our View of the World
Feelings: Attitudes, Emotions, and Moods
BRIDGING METHOD AND EVIDENCE: Assessing Feelings
Introducing the Self
The Situation
Persons as Situations: Mere Presence, Affordances, and Descriptive Norms
BRIDGING FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: Descriptive Norms, Pluralistic Ignorance, and Binge Drinking on Campus
Rules: Injunctive Norms and Scripted Situations
Strong versus Weak Situations
Culture
The Person and the Situation Interact
Different Persons Respond Differently to the Same Situation
BRIDGING THEORY AND APPLICATION: Person-Situation Fit in the Workplace
Situations Choose the Person
Persons Choose Their Situations
Different Situations Prime Different Parts of the Person
Persons Change the Situation
Situations Change the Person
Revisiting the Enigma of an Ordinary and Extraordinary Man
Summary
CHAPTER 3. SOCIAL COGNITION: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS
Portraits of Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Social Thinker
Four Core Processes of Social Cognition
The Goals of Social Cognition
Conserving Mental Effort
Expectations
BRIDGING FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Dispositional Inferences
Other Cogn
