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Distinguished by its current-events emphasis, strong diversity coverage, and engaging connections drawn between social psychology and students' everyday lives, Social Psychology, Seventh Edition, remains one of the most scholarly and well-written texts in its field. Integrating classic and contemporary research, the text also includes comprehensive coverage of social cognition and evolutionary psychology, and features authoritative material on social psychology and the law. For this edition, Saul Kassin and Steven Fein welcome Hazel Rose Markus to the author team. As a leader and respected researcher in the study of cultural psychology, Markus has made significant contributions from her area of expertise to every chapter of this new edition. ... Read more

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I just had to buy it again!
I love this book! i had this book way back but i did a buyback. it was a mistake. i bought it again from amazon and i love it! i'm re-reading ! lol

this Social Psychology book rocks more than the social psychology books for my upper-divs!

Another great buy
This book was exactly what I needed. I ordered it a little last minute but it still got to me before my class began! The little writing that was in the book was pretty helpful - and I loved that it wasn't a suprise aspect.

Shipping
The book was fine and in good shape. I ordered it 2 weeks prior to my class and I did not receive it in time.
It took almost 3 weeks to get the book.

Theresa, Trinidad
This book was in magnifiscient condition when received.Greater than I expected.It was delivered in a timely manner.

satisfied customer
Received book before time and in the condition as stated by seller.I was very pleased with my order. ... Read more

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For an undergraduate introductory level course in social psychology.

Research made relevant through a storytelling approach.

This renowned text maintains its acclaimed storytelling approach to convey the science of social psychology while making research relevant to students. The authors bring the material under study to life through real-world examples that capture students' attention and motivate further exploration. Paying particular attention to the classic research that has driven the field and introducing cutting-edge research that is the future of Social Psychology, Aronson/Wilson/Akert provide a firm foundation for students to build their understanding of this rigorous science in a way that engages and fascinates. 

This is the main text only-- if you want the valuepack order ISBN 0205773796 / 9780205773794 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY& MYPSYCHLAB WITH EBOOK  

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Customer Reviews (27)

overpriced textbook
This Text is a slight revision from an older text and not much new added. It is hard to read easily because the authors insert sources into the text making it difficult to follow the flow. The sources should have been footnotes instead.

Great!
Its in such a great condition for its price, I'm glad I bought my college books online this time...the bookstores are murder on my moneys D:

Great!
The book arrived with in a few days and had me tooting along in my class in no time. Its great when a book doesn't take half a semester to get delivered!

Fast delivery
Almost brand new condition. Minimal signs of wear. No markings or high lighting insde.
Arrived very quickly. Shipped the next day.

Great Addition to the Personal Library
I love this. I've had some interest in Psychology in general, so when I needed this book for my Social Psych. class, this was well-informed of all the issues and concepts that are presented in analysing society as individuals and groups. It has opened my eyes to see people in a different outlook when people are rude, inconsiderate, or when people come as "weird."

Besides those particular points, it also helps in understanding your own personal actions. You can receive a lot from this book that can benefit yourself and others for the good of your social environment. Highly recommend this. ... Read more

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Social Psychology
Prompt service and delivery.Product was exactly as described!Painless order process and excellent results!

A must for every psych student
I love this edition, the modules are compact and the graphs are presented in a simplistic context.

Textbook
The book was recieved in excellent condition and within 2 days. Customer service was excellent and extremely helpful. I will definitely be ordering from this company again.

Social Psychology
Book was in very good condition,I will order from person again in the future.

social psychology
The book was in good condition when I receive it just as the seller stated. I was very satisfied with this product. ... Read more

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Three dynamic authors bring a fresh perspective to social psychology.Authors Gilovich, Keltner, and Nisbett cover classic content while integrating themes like culture, evolution, and neuroscience. Emergent areas of study like emotion, morality, and judgment are included throughout the text to give students the most accurate and contemporary picture of the field. To emphasize the relevance of social psychology in everyday life, the Second Edition includes a capstone chapter on applications, which focuses on topics like personal finance, education, and health. Throughout the text, an illustration program engages students in the scientific process, with “You Be the Subject” activities and “Scientific Method” figures. ... Read more

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Social Psychology
This book was delivered fast and was in great condition. It was easy to understand and I learned much from it.

New not used.
Even though this book was listed as used, there wasn't a single mark in it.It was basically a new book, and I got a GREAT price.I was very happy with the condition of the book.I was also happy that the book arrived relatively quicker than I expected.I was glad I made the choice to purchase from you.Thank you very much for such an awesome product.

The book was in great shape!
I am very happy with the condition of the book. Thank you for your accurate description!

Social Psychology
THe textbook was awful!I would not recommend it but had to have it for class. I glad to be rid of it.

book purchased
The book was in good condition but i wasnt expecting it to be a teachers addition because the saler didnt say anything about it. Although, the book is what i need for class, so it its good for my class. I also got the book pretty fast. ... Read more

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David Myers' Social Psychology continues to set the standard by which other Social Psychology texts are judged. Its renowned author’s engaging writing style and unique, intimate voice make the text compelling without being simplistic. The organization logically moves the student through the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another, with an appropriate balance of basic research and application. This edition features additional contemporary research, supplemented by video clips and vignettes that demonstrate social psychology's relevance. ... Read more

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social psychology with socialsense student cd-rom
the book was received on time and in good condition.the link indicated a cd-rom was included.i purchased a used copy that did not come with the cd.i had to contact the publisher.

My book received
the book arrived on time, it was in good condition and was cheaper than the bookstore in school.

Social Psychology with CD-ROM
The book was delivered on time even choosing the slower, free shipping option. The CD-ROM, however, hasn't worked. Perhaps it's incompatible with Vista, but it was a let down.

Text Book
The text book was in great condition and I received it within the scheduled time frame.

CD-Rom didn't work
The book came wrapped and was as advertised, however the social sense cd-rom that came with it, did not work, in multiple computers, or with different operating systems. ... Read more

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First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. The field has since evolved and expanded tremendously, and in each subsequent edition, The Handbook of Social Psychology is still the foremost reference that academics, researchers, and graduate students in psychology turn to for the most current, well-researched, and thorough information covering the field of social psychology. This two-volume Fifth Edition continues the tradition of representing the full field. ... Read more

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While ego psychological theory still holds a pre-eminent position in clinical social work practice, the field has changed in many ways. This revised edition addresses these major changes, bringing the reader up to date. ... Read more

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Poor service
It is over a month since I have purchased the text book "Abnormal Psychology' and haven't receive it as yet. I would like to have the money return to my account and let the seller keep his book. This is rediculous. I do not know if this is a prank, or if he is walking cross country to deliver the book himself.

Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice
purchasing through Amazon was breeze.Got product quickly.Purchased new.Product obviosly new and in perfect condition.Book itself is superb.All in all it's a 10 on a 0 to 5 scale, with 5 being best!

Eda Goldstein & Ego Psychology
Eda Goldstein does a great job of describing, in detail, Ego Psychology from a historical, theoretical, and practical perspective. I was particularly fond of Part II dealing with the ego and its functions and defenses. She writes with a clarity that is difficult to find when reading books dealing with detailed theoretical perspectives. I would highly recommend this book to socials workers and pyschologists alike. It is a wealth of information that you will find yourself referencing again and again.

Excellent introduction to Ego Psychological Theory
Dr. Goldstein's book provides students with a survey of the major contributors to ego psychological theory. To her credit, she manages to effectively communicate sometimes difficult material without resorting to the complicated jargon that one often finds in similar psychoanalytic texts.Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice 2nd Edition enables beginners to appreciate some of the insights of the ego psychologists without having to read and interpret the original texts.This would be a daunting task and unnecessarily laborious for a beginning student.It also provides more experienced clinicians the opportunity to review material germane to clinical practice or as an accompaniment to more advanced reading.

the best!!
Hot-n-hulky Eda Goldstein has written a classic for mental health practitioners. A skillful integration of Ego Psychology practice and treatment. ... Read more

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Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction explores how social behavior is goal-directed and a result of interactions between the person and the situation.

In addition to an overhauled design in the 4e, Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction has two elements that continue to set it apart from other social psychology textbooks.

A unique integrated approach to social behavior: Rather than providing a laundry list of unconnected facts and theories, the authors organize each chapter around the two broad questions: (1) what are the goals that underlie the behavior in question? (2) what factors in the person and the situation connect to each goal? The book thus presents the discipline as a coherent framework for understanding human behavior.  The new subtitle, “Goals in Interaction” underscores this integrated approach to understanding behavior. 

Opening mysteries: Each chapter begins with a mystery of social behavior, designed not only to grab student interest, but also to organize the ensuing discussion of scientific research: Why would a poor black washerwoman give away her hard-earned life-savings? What psychological forces led the Dalai Lama, the most exalted personage in Tibet, to forge a lifelong friendship with a foreign vagabond openly scorned by Tibetan peasants? Why would a boy falsely confess to murdering his own mother?

Customer Reviews (12)

Easy to Read
I needed this book for my Social Psychology class where the online version of the tenth edition of this same text was required.It works fairly well.I can't stand reading textbooks online.Most of the material is exactly the same.

first book i have thrown out the trash
i purchased this book eager to read it

when i picked it up i noticed a couple of things i didn't like

1.the studies are not accurate

2.it was like reading advertisements


after reading enough i threw it in the trashcan

Dull, but Great Teacher
I had to use this book for a Social Psych class at school, and while it was very very clear in descriptions, it was a little bit slow to get through. The stuff to learn about is fascinating, if you have a deep interest for psychology. For anyone teaching a social psych class, I would recommend it as the accompanying text book.

It works
The copy of this book that I bought was actually given as a free "examiner's copy" to someone who sold it to a book buyer to make some fast cash. As far as I can tell though, the only thing that is different is the cover, and for half price, I think thats worth it.

Best possible price
The book was in excellent condition and was WAAAAYYYY cheaper than the college bookstore's price.I would definitely recommend other college students to get their books from Amazon.com and save some serious cash. ... Read more

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A Theoretical Maverick at his brooding best
Although among theorists, George Herbert mead must be considered the "theorists' theorist," he nevertheless remains a towering enigma who marched through life to the cadence in his own head. A pragmatic philosopher by both training and intellectual predilection, and a life-long friend of John Dewey, Mead was also a brooding, pensive, tormented, uncertain craftsman, whose dabbling into Sociology turned out to be more important than the whole of his contributions to his chosen field, philosophy. He is known best for his ambiguity and for his paltry professional output owning in large part to an obsessive need to rewrite, rework, and massage his ideas until either there was nothing left of them, or they had either come full-circle and watered-down to the last precipitate.In the end, his endless massaging amounted to procrastination that left the task of pulling together his large fragments of theoretical papers, to his students and admiring colleagues.

That said, Mead is important not because of these eccentricities, but because until the end of his life he was a deep structure systemic thinker unafraid to embrace "cutting-edge," and sometimes even tentative ideas -- especially those borrowed from the hard sciences which often served as the bedrock of his theoretical enterprises. He is known best for his large ideas, such as that science is the best instrument we have for intelligence control over our environment, for promoting the idea that even discrete interactions are affixed to the larger reality in a holistic way, for fully embracing and then evoking Darwin's Theory of evolution, and for his almost maverick interactionist posture that went against the grain of established structuralist theoreticians. He situated himself somewhere between the American pragmatist school and the European phenomenological school. Thus he was an intellectual Maverick without being intellectually promiscuous. He followed science more closely than he followed theoretical developments in either philosophy or sociology, or on either side of the Atlantic, and was quick to adopt the changing worldviews of the leading scientists, especially that of Darwin and the Quantum Physicists.

Mead believed "intelligence" to be a verb and that "perception" by definition can never be passive: only active. To "perceive" is to be alive in the world and engaged with ones environment. According to Mead's theory, it is this "act" (of perception) and its emergent interactive and communicative properties that define social structure. Therefore interactions are not (as his critiques claim) structure-less: for process always precedes, is prior to, and is instrumental in defining form and shaping structure, Thus, following Berger and Luckmann's seminal "The Construction of Social Reality," fundamental to Mead's theoretical formulation, is the notion that social structure emerges from social process, i.e., from social interactions and communications.

Thus as a result, the "social order" too is an emergent property of communications as that process matures and evolves. This "emergent evolution of communications" definition of the social order implies that the "social order" is perhaps less well defined and has many more degrees of freedom than we might at first want to admit. What is difficult to see at the level of context alone is that the social order is very much a "negotiated reality," one in which the individual is "free" to break the rules of society as well as to help reshape them.

Modern societies then, according to Mead's formulation, are not static, unified, homogeneous, well-defined entities that dictate their rules from the top down. They are in fact congeries of bottom up sub level social worlds, sub-worlds that are continually coming into and going out of existence; sub-worlds that are continually being negotiated with those of competing interests and are being reified in institutions and social organizations.

An enduring feature of these sub-worlds (that eventually becomes the centerpiece of Mead's explorations) is the idea of social movements. Again "social movements" are systemic processes, and not always nationally or culturally dependent or determined. Nations for instance are not (as the common wisdom imagines them to be) monolithic units held together by a core set of values, etc., but are territories in which many interacting sub worlds exist. These emerge, come alive, evolve negotiate and then die. Thus evolution is not just an attribute of these sub worlds, but a larger and higher systemic process that flows within as well as above them and the societal processes and institutions they bring into being.

Undergirding all of these novel ideas was Mead's belief that Intelligence plus symbolization, plus the self-reflexive ability of man, constitutes the ultimate palette for individual self-creation and self-construction. A prominent subtext of this view is the notion that it was Darwin and the quantum physicists who released man from the shackles of determinism.

As a personal note, I worked under the leadership of the renown Professor Charles A. McClelland on the World Interaction Survey (WEIS) at USC., which (without knowing it at the time) was in a real sense a bold attempt to realize in the real world Mead's theoretical approach. We used computerized newspaper clippings of international events from around the world as a basis for measuring international tensions based solely on cross-national communicated interactions. Although at the time, McClelland's "interactionist approach" was fashioned after and grounded in the theoretical frame work of the General Systems theorists such as Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, et. al. While we were remotely aware of Mead's work, it would have been impossible to see its full power in context at the time. For much of his work appeared as scattered fragments.At the time I had read Mead's "Mind, Self, and Society" missing the deep implications it could have had for our project altogether. The WEIS project did have some success (used as a basis for university research, in the intelligence community and by a few military contractors for a time and is still being maintained by Professor Rodney Tomlison at the U.S. Naval Academy) and then died a normal death. But what a missed opportunity!

Five Stars

Social Phychology & Sociology
Mead, unhappy had never written a book, but this book is him ideas, and is the only phylosopher that makes a way between nature science and culture science. he makes the link between concrete & abstract ... Read more

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This is the 3rd edition provides a conceptually integrated undergraduate introduction to social psychology, in which the focus is on underlying processes that operate across topics, rather than treating each topic in isolation. It is contemporary, comprehensive and relevant to social psychology students' and instructors' needs.

All traditional topics in social psychology are covered and emerging hot topics have been introduced. As with the previous edition, there is a strong focus on Methodology and deeper explanation of impact norms than the simplistic coverage of the competitors.

The integrative approach, together with inclusion of some non-US perspectives, reflect the increased cross-disciplinary developments and internationalization of the field.

Following extensive reviewer feedback, pedagogical features have been refined and include chapter summaries, margin glossaries, tables, graphs, photograph, an Advance Organizer and an Integrative Organizer.

An attractive two-color, student-friendly format and lively, accessible narrative by two leading US scholars makes this text among the most acclaimed on the market.

Supplementary materials

An extensive online Student Learning Package (SocSLP) is in development, which will include: Revision Notes;Interactive exercises; Simulations of key experiments; Active reference links to articles in Psychology Press journals; Revision MCQ test banks; Fill-in-the-blank questions; Key term definitions; Case studies; Research activities; weblinks; References to classic research articles in Social Psychology: A General Reader edited by Kruglanski & Higgins.

Instructors resources will be free-of-charge to lecturers who adopt the book and will include Powerpoint lecture slides andMCQ test creator ... Read more

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Birdhwy
The book arrived in great condition and in a very timely manner. I will use this seller again if needed! Thanks again!

Clear, readable... a very good book
An easy-to-read, very informative book, covering a wide area of interest. Not just the details, but also the larger picture is well-presented.

Informative, but not capturing
"Social Psychology" by Smith and Mackie is an ok text. It isn't great, but it doesn't totally fail to inform the student about the issues that social Psychologists of today face. The bottom line is that the book has an overabundance of examples, but wading through them to find the meaning is difficult.

Aesthetically the book is terrible. All blacks and light blues, it wears on the readers eyes. Unlike publishers like Wadsworth, Psychology Press seems to not be too keen on keeping the reader focused on the book. This may not bother all people, but reading about norms for an hour and a half is bland on it's own. And when adding few variations to the text, it becomes quite the chore.

2 out of 5 because the book does it's job. It just doesn't do it very well. ... Read more

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Amazing deeds of heroism and horrific acts of terrorism.  Undying love, friendships gone wrong, and inspirational leadership.  Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction introduces the student to the fascinating mysteries of social behavior.  By revealing the motives behind social behavior—why people love, hate, lead, and follow, for example—and bridging the person and the social  situation, KNC actively engages the students’ natural curiosity while providing the only textbook with a truly integrative, coherent approach.

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This classic text retains the hallmark of its own past success: up-to-date coverage of the quickly evolving subject matter written in a lively manner that has been embraced by hundreds of thousands of students around the world. This book continues to balance its coverage of fundamentals with current research.

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Social Pyschology
Good value. Condition was described accurately and that was really appreciated! Shipped quickly and in time for my class.
Would buy from dealer again.

So informative!
I read this text in conjunction with my social psychology class and it was an informative and pleasant read!

I Would Have Adopted It--Even Without the Peer Pressure
Our university adopted this text through the usual committee process--into which I did not have direct input.So I am in a position to grumble about it as a psychologist and as a sometimes-instructor.But I don't care to do so.This is a reasonably good text that covers the standard areas of social psychology, has been kept up to date, and has a good set of student learning aids.

Sandwiched between the introduction and a closing survey of applied disciplines, the ten meaty content chapters serve up a satisfying helping of core topics in social psychology.Chapters two through eleven cover Social Cognition, Social Perception, The Self, Attitudes, Stereotyping-Prejudice-Discrimination, Interpersonal Attraction-Close Relationships, Social Influence, Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, and Groups and Individuals.Across chapters, the authors emphasize broad themes of emotion, culture, neuroscience, evolution, gender and social aspects of the web and other technologies.My only complaint is that the Aggression chapter comes so late in the chapter sequence.Makes me kind of mad, it does.

Three types of boxed sections are distributed among the chapters and describe selected topics in depth."Building the Science: Classics of Social Psychology" sections highlight important research and theories that have influenced the evolution of social psychology."Social Psychology: What It Tells Use About..." sections relate the field to aspects of daily life."Making Sense of Common Sense: A Social Psychological Perspective" showcases research findings that challenge "what everybody knows" about key topics.There are eleven of each type of section.They are well-written and fairly interesting.Most of them, anyway.

Students are given assistance in mastering the content by standard instructional features.They include effective section summaries and review questions, end-of-chapter summaries, well-annotated charts, and a suitably comprehensive glossary, references section and subject index.Students have come to expect and rely on many of these features.It's harder to teach them when a textbook does them poorly.This text does not disappoint.

I would have recommended this book to my department and don't feel particularly grumpy about having missed that committee assignment.I will recommend it to you.Whether faculty or student, you will do well with it.It's too expensive, of course--but that's just how it is with textbooks these days.

Great Service
Received this in very timely manner, it was in condition as advertised.Am very happy with purchase

what delivery?
I ordered this item and it was sent to my apartment. Now mind you I have ordered plenty of times through amazon and I have never had any issues with receiving books I have ordered. Well this time around I waited 3 weeks and then I look online to check the status where my Social Psychology book was and it said that customer refused delivery!?!?! I contacted the seller and asked them why it said I refused delivery and they had no answer. The only good part was that I was able to get a 100% refund. This was a huge inconvenience to me seeing as to how now I dont have the book for class. Bad experience this time around. ... Read more

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What decides who someone will fall in love with? Where do aggressive, violent, and criminal behaviors come from? Why are some people more charitable than others? Why do some people obey authority and conform while others always have to buck the trend? Why are some people lazier when they work in groups? What is the source of people's stereotypes and prejudices? What causes conflict between groups? What makes us who we are? SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY covers topics ranging from interpersonal attraction to social structure, allowing you to explore essential questions in the field. ... Read more

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Social Psychology
Book is required for my class and was in the condition it was stated to be in when I bought it.

Great condition, just like described!
The book was in mint condition. It had a used sticker, but that's expected. It was a lot cheaper to buy it this way. The book arrived promptly too. Thank so much! ... Read more

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Fiske provides psychologists with a cutting-edge approach on evolutionary and cross-cultural psychology. The book addresses research on three different levels:  brain function and cognition, individual and situations, and groups and cultures. The second edition has been updated to present contemporary research in social psychology. It also discusses increasingly important issues in the field. This includes emotion science and the impact of neuroscience on social and personality psychology. Psychologists agree that the second edition captures an important movement in social psychology with the core motives approach. ... Read more

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exactly what I ordered
The seller described this book in good condition and it was in better than good.I appreciate the quick service!

Social Beings
I like the book. It's pretty great for a used book because there's only a few highlighted pages. The book came pretty promptly which was totally awesome.

Social Beings
This text was required reading for a Masters level class in Psychology. Fiske has a refreshing way of writing in that she talks to you as if she is lecturing. She asks questions and then answers those questions with empricial research. She seems very knowledgeable and well versed in the study of social psychology. I am mid way through the course and so far I give the text a thumbs up!

Great Service!
This was a wonderful purchase.I ordered the book and after a short time I emailed the seller to check on the status.Upon receipt of my email, she worked diligently to get my book to me as I am a student and wanted to get going with it at soon as possible.She was very helpful, informative, and professional.My book arrived in a timely matter and it was in great condition just as it was advertised.Thanks for another great Amazon experience.

Textbook
Ultimately, this is a textbook. It is a very good textbook that covers all the material it should, and enhances it's coverage with examples that occur in real life. If you're serious about learning and don't mind reading a textbook than this is a good one to start with. If you're simply dabbling in the study of Social Psychology I'd start with Cialdini's Influence book which is more reader friendly although doesn't cover all this material. ... Read more

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Psychologists need access to recent data and industry trends. They can get all they need here in this updated bestseller.Keeping close to its roots, this edition retains both the classic and current research, coverage of diverse issues and a lively writing style. Topics include: understanding social behavior, perception, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, and more. Ideal for social psychologists at any stage of their career. ... Read more

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Go for the comics first... enjoy the rest later.
You've got to love a book with comics in it.The actual text was pretty good too.The book covers several psychological experiments, which were interesting.Works well for general reading as well as a text book if you are interested in psychology. ... Read more

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This title presents readable research. This distinctive, theory-driven text uses 'The Self' as a theme to give students a meaningful context for exploring the key concepts of social psychology. 'Applications' sections have been incorporated into most chapters, and 'Featured Study' sections at the end of every chapter summarize the purpose, method, and results of recently published scientific articles. Retaining the emphasis on methodology, the text also continues the tradition of strong gender coverage, while expanding the coverage of social cognition and social neuroscience. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Excellent alternative to the high priced version
A plus of this book is that the content is Identical to the edition sold in the US.Comparing prices this was a no brainer for content and savings on a college budget.

A must read if...
If you enjoy psychology and like to know the basics of social psychology then this is a must read, I haven't read other social psychology books, but this is a good book. I read it at my first psychology term in Denmark, and it is one of my favorites books at the University so far.

Cons: I wish it had another writer on the book so it would present better and less biased examples.

Good Book!!
I liked the way Stephen Franzoi writes and enjoyed reading this book so much I returned the borrowed copy and ordered one of my own.

Informative, although too much jargon
I like this book because I think it does a really nice job of incorporating ideas of social psychology with their respectable theorists. However, I would not encourage professors to use this book because it is abit too broad. ... Read more

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Applied Social Psychology: Understanding and Addressing Social and Practical Problems is an excellent introductory textbook that helps students understand how people think about, feel about, relate to, and influence one another. The book is unique in that it provides a balanced emphasis on social psychological theory and research. Editors Frank W. Schneider, Jamie A. Gruman, and Larry M. Coutts examine the contributions of social and practical problems in several areas including everyday life, clinical psychology, sports, the media, health, education, organizations, community psychology, the environment, and human diversity.

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Great service.Great delivery.Speedy response.Will buy from this vendor again.

Amazon
Service was excellent as usual!Thank you for your fine service and prompt attention to my orders.

social psychology
Definitely easy reading and the author makes it enjoyable throughout. I would suggest this text for any social psychology course whether it is required or supplemental reading.

Easy to read text.
Very reader friendly, simplifies subject matter with lots of great examples.Quite comprehensive coverage of topics. Some bias is evident as both positives and negatives on issues is not always presented with balanced. A great text for the subject area. ... Read more

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Social psychology is a flourishing discipline. It explores the most essential questions of the human psyche (e.g., Why do people help or harm others? How do influence professionals get us to do what they want, and how can we inoculate ourselves against their sometimes-insidious persuasion tactics? Why do social relationships exert such powerful effects on people's physical health?), and it does so with clever, ingenuitive research methods.

This edited volume is a textbook for advanced social psychology courses. Its primary target audience is first-year graduate students (MA or PhD) in social psychlogy, although it is also appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses in social psychology and for doctoral students in disciplines connecting to social psychology (e.g., marketing, organizational behavior). The authors of the chapters are world-renowned leaders on their topic, and they have written these chapters to be engaging and accessible to students who are just learning the discipline.

After reading this book, you will be able to understand almost any journal article or conference presentation in any field of social psychology. You will be able to converse competently with most social psychologists in their primary research domain, a use skill that is relevant not only in daily life but also when interviewing for a faculty position. And, most importantly, you will be equipped with the background knowledge to forge ahead more confidently with your own research. ... Read more

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Fantastic
This is a fantastic book for ANYONE studying upper level psychology but especially those in the field of Social Psychology. This book is going to help me out TONS in graduate school! ... Read more

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One of the best books on management ever written
This is one of the rare books on organizations and management that does not age. Its insights are as sharp and useful now as when I read the book in graduate school 30 years ago.Filled with superb insights about people, their motivations, and why they organize.Highly recommended.

Probably the best business book ever written
This book is that rarest of commodities....an attempt to catch the act of serious (but also playful) thinking in mid-act.Worth many reads.

The Social Psychology of Organizing
OUtstanding service.It came before time announced and was in mint condition.Thanks,

Do something. Now decide what have you done.
Weick in his brillant book shows how different is organizational practice from what we try to believe in. He suggests a completely different from traditional approach to organizations - he claims, that in organizations people attach sense to their actions AFTER they perform them, but afterwards try to reason they 'had decided' before. Unclear as it may seem, it is pretty easy to grasp from the book.Weick also develops a notion of 'organizing' rather than 'organizations' and shows how processes are important in describing actions performed by organizational actors.The book is old, but is worth studying for researchers, scholars and even the consultants.

A grammar for understanding
Weick book is based on a few simple principles: organising is a kind or reiterated, continuous, evolutionary process of interaction. All kind of simple theories on processes are true, most of all the process of callingsomething "true". Its is true because it has been called so. Ourgoal: reduce equivocality, equivocality introduced by (external) changes. The book contains examples, case studies, facts, theories and cartoons onthe way we organize organizations. It has even picture you may finishyourself! Somebody stole my edition years ago - or thought i had agreed ona long lease contract -, and that book was loaded with annotation, dirtyand used. Need i say more? ... Read more

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First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. The field has since evolved and expanded tremendously, and in each subsequent edition, The Handbook of Social Psychology is still the foremost reference that academics, researchers, and graduate students in psychology turn to for the most current, well-researched, and thorough information covering the field of social psychology. This volume of the Fifth Edition covers the science of social psychology and the social being. ... Read more