Description
Book SynopsisMichael Hogg received his BSc from the University of Birmingham and his PhD from the University of Bristol and is currently Professor of Social Psychology and Chair of the Social Psychology Program at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, and an Honorary Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent. A former President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, he has also been a Professor at Bristol University, Princeton University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, and a Visiting Fellow at SapienzaUniversità di Roma.
Graham Vaughan, a former Professor of Psychology and Chair of Department at the University of Auckland, has been a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Visiting Lecturer and Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Bristol, a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, a Visiting Directeur d'Etudes at the Maison des Sci
Table of Contents
Preface About the authors Acknowledgements Guided tour
- Introducing social psychology
- Social cognition and social thinking
- Attribution and social explanation
- Self and identity
- Attitudes
- Persuasion and attitude change
- Social influence
- People in groups
- Leadership and group decision-making
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Intergroup behaviour
- Aggression
- Prosocial behaviour
- Attraction and close relationships
- Language and communication
- Culture
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