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Book SynopsisSocial psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some people and harm others? Why do we pay so much more attention to high-powered people than they pay to us? If humans evolved from great apes, why are human selves so much more elaborate? How does our attachment to our parents when we are infants influence the success or failure of our romantic relationships when we are adults? Can behaving morally license us to behave immorally shortly afterward? How do social relationships make us more versus less prone toward physical illness? This volume -- an update to the original, 2010 edition -- provides a graduate-level introduction to social psychology. The target audience consists of first-year graduate students (MA or PhD) in social psychology and related disciplines (marketing, organizational behavior, etc.), although it is also appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors are world
Trade ReviewNow what do I teach?' is a common refrain among social psychologists taken aback by recent failures to replicate some prominent and classic findings. Updating a social psychology textbook is an unenviable task at a time of substantial uncertainty about theories and findings that seemed almost ordinary in the last edition. Admirably, Editors Finkel and Baumeister aim to address reproducibility directly in this 2nd Edition of Advanced Social Psychology. The first three chapters discuss replicability challenges and reforms to improve rigor and credibility. They also set the stage that science does not have a canon of inarguable facts. Scientific understanding is always in revision, and every finding, claim, and theory is open to confrontation.
The other 18 substantive chapters approach replicability differently. Some highlight replicability success and challenges in their substantive domains; the chapters on Attraction, Morality, Health, and Computation stand out as effective examples. Others appear to address replicability implicitly by what is not said or cited. In those, the self-corrective process of science is working quietly by omission. Finally, a few chapters appear to have missed news of the "reproducibility crisis". These chapters treat each cited claim with the same enthusiastic certainty whether it is backed by a substantial body of evidence or a single paper with just significant effects. This diversity among contributed chapters reflects where we are today as a discipline * still wrestling, from many points of view, with the credibility of the rich theories and findings that comprise social psychology.Brian Nosek, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Social Psychology: Crisis and Renaissance Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 2. A Brief History of Social Psychology Harry Reis Chapter 3. New Developments in Research Methods Alison Ledgerwood Chapter 4. Social Cognition Susan Fiske Chapter 5. Self Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 6. Attitude Structure and Change Richard Petty, Pablo Briñol, Lee Fabrigar, and Duane Wegener Chapter 7. Social Influence Robert Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius Chapter 8. Aggression Brad Bushman Chapter 9. Attraction and Rejection Eli J. Finkel and Roy F. Baumeister Chapter 10. Close Relationships Shelly Gable Chapter 11. Intergroup Relations Marilynn Brewer Chapter 12. Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Jack Dovidio and James Jones Chapter 13. Morality Linda Skitka and Paul Conway Chapter 14. Emotion Wendy Berry Mendes Chapter 15. Social Neuroscience Thalia Wheatley Chapter 16. Evolutionary Social Psychology Jon Maner Chapter 17. Cultural Psychology Steve Heine Chapter 18. Health, Stress, and Coping Ted Robles Chapter 19. Judgment and Decision-making Kathleen Vohs and Mary Frances Luce Chapter 20. Personality Charles Carver Chapter 21. Computational Psychology Michal Kosinski
