Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Getting Grounded in Social Psychology
The Essential Literature for Beginning Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume provides a fast and efficient way for undergraduate and graduate students to gain a solid understanding of the social psychology literature. Each chapter reviews a major subsection of research in the field, written by a leading social psychology researcher in that area. Coverage includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
This edited volume captures an exciting new trend in research on intergroup attitudes and relations, which concerns how individuals make judgments, and interact with individuals from different group categories, broadly defined in terms of gender, race, age, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1990, this title presents work that bridges social psychology and organizations. The primary goal is understanding, but that goal has two opposite sides: understanding organizations by bringing to bear the concepts and methods of social psychology (along with other social sciences),...
The Social Psychology of Gullibility
Conspiracy Theories, Fake News and Irrational Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Gullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. In The Social Psychology of Gullibility, Forgas and Baumeister explore what we know about the causes, functions, and consequences of gullibility, and the social psychological processes that promote or inhibit...
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy, Psychology of Revolution, The Analysis of the Ego...
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This book is one of the first to provide an overview of recent developments in social psychological theory as it applies to organizational issues. It brings together outstanding scholars whose research touches the interfaces of social psychology , IO psychology and organizational behavior.
Social...
by Michael Argyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
First published in 1964, Psychology and Social Problems looks at a changing society and research into problems of the time. Many of the themes in the book, such as delinquency, mental health and racial conflict, are still familiar and current topics of discussion today.
Social scientists had...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in it with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world is cloudy...
Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
This innovative two-volume handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories that have taken place over the past half century, culminating in a state of the art overview of the primary theories and models that have been developed in this vast...
by John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial...
by Donald C. Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Social Psychology of Behaviour in Small Groups covers theories of group behaviour and their application in organizational psychology. Topics include the structure and formation of groups and the roles that individuals play within groups, as well as more applied areas such as co-operation and...
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology
An Iconoclast's Guide to the Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments.Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Theories in Social Psychology is an edited volume that identifies and discusses in-depth the important theoretical perspectives and theories that underlie the discipline of social psychology.
The only current book focusing specifically on the theories within social psychology
Brings together...
by Michael Argyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1957, this book presented an up-to-date account of psychological research into human social behaviour of the time. There are chapters on interaction between pairs of people, behaviour in small social groups, and human relations in industry. The author avoided the adoption of...