Readings in social psychology : the art and science of research / Steven Fein, Saul M. Kassim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fein, Steven.

Contributor:

Kassim, Saul M.

Brehm, Sharon S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Title of accompanying CD-ROM: PsychAbilities

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2002]

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "study outlines corresponding to each chapter of the textbook, along with relevant interactive NetLab exercises for each chapter, self-quizzes, a glossary, and a link to the PsychAbilities web site." -- [p. xxiii, Social psychology / ed. by Sharon S. Brehm, et al.].

Contents:

pt. 1. Social perception

Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: a test of the "overjustification" hypothesis / Lepper, Greene, Nisbett

Culture and the development of everyday social explanation / Miller

Social perception and interpersonal behavior: on the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes / Snyder, Tanke, Berscheid

Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans / Steele, Aronson

pt. 2. Social influence

Cognitive consequences of forced compliance / Festinger, Carlsmith

Chameleon effect: the perception-behavior link and social interaction / Chartrand, Bargh

Behavioral study of obedience / Milgram

Many hands make light the work: the causes and consequences of social loafing / Latané, Williams, Harkins

pt. 3. Social relations

Nature and predictors of the trajectory of change in marital quality for husbands and wives over the first 10 years of marriage / Kurdek

Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies / Latané, Darley

Weapons as aggression-eliciting stimuli / Berkowitz, LePage

Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life / Anderson, Dill

pt. 4. Applying social psychology

Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory / Loftus, Palmer

Social psychology of false confessions: compliance, internalization, and confabulation / Kassin, Kiechel

Equity and workplace status: a field experiment / Greenberg

Negative life events, perceived stress, negative affect, and susceptibility to the common cold / Cohen, Tyrrell, Smith

Notes:

To accompany the textbook Social psychology, 5th ed. / by Sharon S. Brehm, Saul M. Kassim, and Steven Fein.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Brehm, Sharon S. Social psychology.

ISBN:

061824669X

OCLC:

49979901