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"Social Psychology" is confidently recommended
Now in a newly revised and expanded second edition, "Social Psychology: Handbook Of Basic Principles" is expertly compiled and deftly edited Aire W. Kruglanski (Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland) and E. Tory Higgins (Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY). The forty-one informed and informative essays and articles comprising "Social Psychology" are organized into five sections: Biological System; Cognitive Systems; Personal Motivational System; Interpersonal System; Group and Cultural System; and Applications of Social Psychology. Enhanced with a comprehensive Author Index and Subject Index, "Social Psychology" is confidently recommended as a core addition to academic library Social Psychology collections and student supplemental reading lists. ... Read more

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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?

The best book on organizations that I have ever read
Of all the books on my shelf referring to organizational life, Weick's classic is the only one in which almost all the pages are highlighted in yellow!This book is superb.Not only does it provide provocative fodderfor discussion amongst academics, it rings true with managers who haveexperienced organizational life in all its dimensions.It is a must-readfor anyone who is a student of organizations or for anyone who wishes tosucceed within them.And since organizations pervade our lives,understanding them better translates readily into making sense of the oftenoverwhelming complexity and contradiction they create.

Understanding how organizations really work
This is one of the best books I've ever read about understanding how organizations really work. Since we spend most of our waking lives inside organizations, that's pretty useful. Weick is an academic and you'll have to work a bit to get his points, but no where near as much as the average in academia. Most of the stuff you'll find in the average business section on organizations is either wrong or a watered down version of Weick's thinking. Why not go to the source? ... Read more

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Social Beings in a Social World
I highly recommend "Social Psychology" to practically any adult who can read. We are social beings and understanding each other helps us to create better relations. A better world. This book is excellent to examine and understand not only others' behavior but also ours.

Here is an excerpt that caught my attention: "how we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world-suggests that we are far from perfect in our ability to think clearly about other persons and reach accurate decisions or judgments about them."

"Social Psychology" covers many branches of psychology but the chapters give you enough information to learn just the basics. I think that this is great for lay people or new students in Psychology. I found that the personal stories that both authors used, helped me to better understand the topic of the chapters; however the, I met this psychologist and have been friends with since, led me to believe that this reaction was due to a schema. Perhaps our society has created a schema in which others' names define who we are. I particularly don't sympathize much with this.

The colorful pictures and cartoons in the book, I enjoyed greatly. I tend to be very visual in many occasions. In fact, I feel that many of the pictures were more thought provoking than the text. I found them very helpful to understand the subject. I also sensed that the targeted audience was mainly young students since many of the studies were conducted or focused on young students. I just wished that the authors had not forgotten that there are older people (like this book reviewer) who go back to school or who want to learn about social psychology. Once again, I highly recommend this book to anyone. You'll learn to view the world under a new perspective.

excellent book for a curious student in social psychology
I read several chapters from this book before I took a social psychology course, and saw that it was indeed very helpful. The author uses a lot of examples, which makes the concepts understandable. Also, the narrative text of the book is very high in quality according to me. It's pure, understandable, friendly and in harmony. (Look at the Franzoi's 1st edition: You will understand what I mean by no-harmony). I strongly believe that to write such a good book should have taken much time for the author. In addition, the author most probably had had an empathetic approach to understand the needs of the student and write accordingly. I don't mean to harm or criticize in any way those that made negative comments on this book. Nevertheless, let me convey you my opinion. According to me, using "I", the author only intended to provide a warm atmosphere to the student sharing his experiences and understandings. But, this is a way to encourage the student think of his/her own experiences in real life, which causes the assimilation of the knowledge moreeffectively. It's not to advertise himself(author), as far as I perceived from the book. Another thing is that, in psychology, phenomena that seem not logical to a human eye may be significant in a statistical sense. Very small differences, after the elimination of the error margin, may still be significant and therefore, meaningful. In the book, there are graphs not starting from the 0 point, and thus the difference may appear larger when looking superficially.Nonetheless, when looking carefully, undoing the illusory magnification, still the difference is observed, and I believe that the author made focus on the significant part of the graph to draw the attention of the reader and to make him understand better and easier. According to me, this is a good feature of the book and intention of the author.

Review of Baron & Byrne, "Social Psychology. 9/e"
I make specific what book this is a review of, because if you look at the user reviews for Shelly Taylor & D. Sears' social psychology textbook, you will find the exact same 5 reviews as are below mine.Either Amazon orsome user are up to something sneaky.

Despite the comments below, whichmay or may not reflect someone who has actually read or used the book, mycomments are based on using this book when I took the course and orderingit for a course I am teaching this summer.

Regarding the infractionscited below, I have not found this text any worse than others.It covers awide range of an exciting subfield of psychology, and it does so in a wayaccessible to an initiate to the field.Allyn and Bacon provide excellentsupport for the text, as well.

Finally, I wish to note that while I amcurrently working in the same Psychology department as Donn Byrne, thesecond author, we are not affiliated in any way.

sugestion
It need more summary and definition of key term

A comprehensive and balanced view of a complex field.
As a university psychology instructor who favors a text demonstrating good science, I appreciate the careful documentation of research contained in this book.I also appreciate the personal touch of the anecdotes at thebeginning of each chapter as a way of making the subject matter relevant tostudents.The authors do a masterful job of presenting a complex field,such as social psychology, to the college student.Teaching psychology asa science is a real challenge today and this text offers instructors apowerful tool for that purpose. ... Read more

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This introductory Social Psychology book examines the basic theories within the field of social psychology and illustrates some of the many ways in which these theories have been used to understand and solve real-world problems.Focuses on a class of social psychological theories, and applies them to a current social issue. Grouped into sections on social cognition, social relations, and social influence, these issues include school failure, bilingual education, Head Start, stereotypes and prejudice, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, divorce, aggression and violence in schools, environmental issues, and welfare reform.For anyone interested in an introduction to social psychology. ... Read more

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Great Book
I loved this book.
I had to read it for a class.It was east to read and informative. ... Read more

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This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. The volume is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.

• Provides an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes.
  
• Divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.
  
• Written by leading researchers in the field.
  
• Referenced throughout and include post-chapter annotated bibliographies so readers can access original research articles in order to further their study.
  
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intergroup processes
this was not the book i ordered and i do not have time to return this as my uni study is already up to week 5!!!!!!!!!i know that there was a printing problem wwith the book i ordered and i was v ery upset that they sent out a make do copy ... Read more

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Social Psychology is an important interdisciplinary field within Sociology. Psychology, focusing on processes that occur inside the individual and Sociology, focusing on social collectives and social institutions, come together in social psychology to explore the interface between the two fields. Social Psychology is the study of how both intra-individual factors and social interaction influence and are influenced by individual behavior. The core concerns of social psychology include:

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This edited text is written by some of the most visible, productive scholars and instructors in each of the areas the text covers. The book was designed to capture the excitement and vitality of this ongoing, open-ended area of research. ... Read more

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The best social psychology textbook that's never been updated
Abraham Tesser did a fantastic job of assembling the top names in social psychology in 1994 to write this book. Scholars such as Susan Fiske, Daniel Gilbert, and Robert Cialdini wrote a chapter each on the core topics of social psychology. They also presented a lecture, and the complete 12-part lecture series is available on video.

The only problem is, this book gives a fantastic insight into where social psychology was a decade ago, but much research has since been conducted. This is such a pity, because there are few social psychology textbooks that are written for students in 3rd-year to graduate-level courses. Most social psychology books are directed to either introductory students, the general public, or academic audiences. This book filled a gap (catering for advanced students), but has now fallen a little behind the times. It gets five stars for what it was, and for the fact that most of its content is still relevant.

One-stop shopping
Tesser has gathered a formidable anthology representing the best and brightest of the field. I am impressed by the clarity and relative 'timelessness' of the research he chose and the way each author rose to the occasion to present her or his projects in such a way that a layman could grasp its significance. I have seen the text used in graduate courses, but the language is such that, although challenging, it could be digested by an upper-level undergraduate class.

Top-notch, up-to-date, scholarly, yet entertaining
     It is rare to come across a scholarly textbook of research that is relatively understandable to lay people and beginning researchers.Yet Tesser's _Advanced Social Psychology_ succeeds where others fail.It is unlike other disciplinary or subdisciplinary textbooks, written by a single author covering tons of ground.This book is an anthology of reviews describing cutting-edge research in Social Psychology by those who are doing the cutting - the most prominent researchers in the field describing the state of their specialty.So while one does not get the perfectly smooth ('processed') feel of a textbook written by a single author, one gets an intimate feel for what is really being done, and a feel for what is on the horizon, for each line of inquiry by the people who are most interested in the area.

     Another outstanding facet of this anthology is the vibrance held within its pages, precisely because it was not written by a single author.Each chapter displays the personality of its author(s).And each is written with the student in mind, not only the attempt to relay information.The book, depite its relative brevity, is filled with (often humorous) examples and illustrations.Terminology, critical to any discipline, is spelled out at the beginning to assure a common ground between author and reader.And, as a book on Social Psychology, the research areas are incredibly interesting and personally relevant:Attitude Change (R. E. Petty), Social Influence (R. B. Cialdini), Attraction and Relationships (M. S. Clark & S. P. Pataki), and Prejudice (P. G. Devine), to name a few.Each chapter educates and intrigues the reader into the complexities of our daily lives that comprise modern social psychological research.This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of how the world works and appreciates intellectual challenges.And Tesser's _Advanced Social Psychology_ is the clear choice for both undergraduate and graduate courses in the area.

     - Richard J. Shakarchi
       Graduate Student, OSU Social Area ... Read more

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Understanding Critical Social Psychology is an exciting new textbook providing a comprehensive and reader-friendly approach to the theories and methods surrounding Critical Social Psychology. This book combines a critical examination of the traditional philosophies, practices and topics with an emphasis on introducing innovative and contemporary developments in social psychological research. In this way, Tuffin integrates newer insights with established modes of thinking.

Key Features:

• Student-friendly structure - contains numerous features suitable for undergraduate course use such as section summaries, further reading and a tutorial which answers students' questions about critical social psychology.
• Broad framework - Positions newer insights in relation to the historical, theoretical and ideological roots of social psychology. Ideal for students taking a Critical Social Psychology module having already studied a mainstream course.
• Applied focus - Understanding Critical Social Psychology tackles key themes in the discipline i.e. prejudice, politics, identity and emotions from critical perspectives.

Written in a clear and accessible style, with illustrative data, detailed chapter summaries and key readings at the end of each section, it will be welcomed by undergraduates seeking to develop their understanding of critical social psychology.

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This book features sociology's contribution to social psychology, and involves the inclusion of symbolic interactionism—the most important sociological theory in the field. Each chapter is written to illustrate how other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.Specific chapter topics include Socialization, The Self, Person Perception, Attitudes and Attitude Change, Interpersonal Relationships, Altruism and Moral Development, Aggression, Prejudice, Groups and Organizations, and Collective Behavior and Social Movements.For a comprehensive understanding of how other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. ... 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 authors 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 2nd edition by John Sabini
I just finished taking this class, and this was the textbook we used. It is thorough and mostly talks about studies that support the concepts presented. It was easy to understand, quick reading, and in-depth. Anexcellent textbook for Social Psychology. ... Read more

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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology.

This serial is part of the Social Sciences package on Science Direct.Visit www.info.sciencedirect.com for more information.

Advances Experimental Social Psychology is available online on ScienceDirectfull-text online of volumes 32 onwards.

Elsevier book series on ScienceDirect gives multiple users throughout an institution simultaneous online access to an important compliment to primary research. Digital delivery ensures users reliable, 24-hour access to the latest peer-reviewed content. The Elsevier book series are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in their fields and are selected from across the globe using Elseviers extensive researcher network.


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This textbook discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion, including: conscious and unconscious processes; the ways in which emotions arise in, and are constrained by, social situations and social processes; the regulation and sharing of emotion and their effects of mental health; and the manner in which culture (including subculture) shapes or moderates some of these processes.

The book also focuses on the component processes of emotion, their functions, and the ways in which these interact with the social environment.Rather than deny either that emotions are biologically determined or that they are culturally created or shaped, both biology and social situation are treated as important forces in the elicitation and the experience of emotion.

Each section of the book is structured around specific approaches or models, and the precise questions that they were constructed to address.The theories and models are also placed in their in historical context.Discussion of the different approaches is elaborated by summaries of the extant scientific evidence, as well as examples of specific experiments or studies that were designed to evaluate the question.Timely, engaging real-world examples are used from a variety of international contexts.

The pedagogic features, including concise introductions and summaries, discussion questions, and suggested readings, have been incorporated into the volume, making this an ideal text for a course of Emotion, which can be found as an option within many social psychology and cognitive psychology courses. ... Read more

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Appealing to those interested in social cognition
This is an excellent book, written in an engaging and accessible style, which makes it informative and agreeable to read. It constitutes a valuable resource for college students as well as graduate students who are interested in emotion processing from the perspectives of cognitive and social psychology. Both perspectives are well integrated. It is for me one of the best introductory textbook in a rapidly growing field of research.
This book is also a fine example of how the study of emotion has changed and how fascinating this domain is to those interested in social cognition. ... Read more

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Baron/Byrne/Branscombe's Social Psychologya text that has motivated students to take social psychology out of the classroom and into their lives for over four decadeshas gone through its most major revision to date! Welcoming Nyla Branscombe to the author team has been a key addition to the 11th edition.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. ... Read more

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Social psychology in sport has grown impressively in the last decade, but no single text has addressed all the important topics in the field—until now. Through the contributions of an international group of established scholars and creative young minds, Social Psychology in Sport offers readers a global perspective, a broad base of knowledge, and the latest thinking on topics such as social relationships, communication, coach leadership, team cohesion, motivation and motivational climate, audience effects, and morality.

This text allows readers to gain insight into the interactions and dynamics that affect sport performance and the sport experience for youth and adults. Using the latest research in the field, Social Psychology in Sport • provides a complete and current analysis of the field, exploring the social aspects of interactions, relationships, influences, and perceptions; • addresses a broad range of topics from theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives; • delves into established areas of interest such as group dynamics and coach-athlete and peer relationships; and• dissects emerging topics such as relational efficacy, passion, and cross-cultural issues.

The book is designed to allow readers to study issues in isolation or as part of a course or a module. The five main parts are Relationships in Sport, Coach Leadership and Group Dynamics, Motivational Climate, Key Social and Cognitive Processes in Sport, and The Athlete in the Wider Sport Environment. Each chapter is cross-referenced and provides a clear description of the topic and a concise theoretical overview along with a discussion of existing research. The chapters also introduce new research ideas, suggest practical research applications, and conclude with summaries and questions to help instructors engage the class in discussion and to help students follow the key points.

By following a progression of theory, research, and application, Social Psychology in Sport offers a framework that other sport psychology books often don't provide. With this approach, readers can appreciate the historical context of social psychology topics while also studying new, exciting, and developing social psychological questions.

Through the applicable nature of the research, Social Psychology in Sport will fuel more research interest, ensuring that the recent growth in the field continues well into the future. As such, this text should be of great interest to students in upper-undergraduate and graduate courses and to researchers interested in the psychosocial aspects of sport. It is an ideal book for social psychology of sport and physical activity courses as well as courses in the psychology of coaching, sport psychology, and sport sociology. ... Read more