Notes on Contributors xvii Preface to Seventh Edition xx Guided Tour xxiii Accompanying Online Resources for Instructors and Students xxix Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology 1 Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone Introduction 2 Some classic studies 2 A Definition of Social Psychology 5 The core characteristics of social psychology 5 The Unique Perspective of Social Psychology 7 The study of the individual and the social 7 A Brief History of Social Psychology 11 The beginning 11 The early years 15 The years ...
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Notes on Contributors xvii Preface to Seventh Edition xx Guided Tour xxiii Accompanying Online Resources for Instructors and Students xxix Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology 1 Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone Introduction 2 Some classic studies 2 A Definition of Social Psychology 5 The core characteristics of social psychology 5 The Unique Perspective of Social Psychology 7 The study of the individual and the social 7 A Brief History of Social Psychology 11 The beginning 11 The early years 15 The years of expansion 17 Social Psychology In Europe 20 The Two Crises of Social Psychology 22 The first crisis of social psychology 22 The second crisis of social psychology 25 Why crises can be good for a field 28 Recent Developments In Social Psychology 29 Chapter Summary 32 Key Terms 33 Note 33 Suggestions For Further Reading 33 Chapter 2 Research Methods in Social Psychology 35 Andrew G. Livingstone and Antony S. R. Manstead Introduction 36 Summary 38 Research Strategies 38 Experiments and quasi-experiments 40 Survey research 42 Qualitative approaches 44 Summary 47 A Closer Look At Experimentation In Social Psychology 48 Features of the social psychological experiment 48 Experimental designs 51 Threats to validity in experimental research 56 Problems with experimentation 62 Summary 64 Data Collection Methods 64 Observational methods 65 Self-report methods 67 Implicit and physiological methods 68 'Big data': Social media and online behaviour as a source of data 70 Choosing a method 70 Social neuroscience 71 Summary 71 Chapter Summary 72 Key Terms 73 Suggestions For Further Reading 74 Chapter 3 Social Perception and Attribution 75 Brian Parkinson Introduction 76 Social Perception 77 Summary 81 Attribution Theory 81 Correspondent inference theory 82 Covariation theory 85 Access To Covariation Information 87 Knowledge, expectation and covariation 89 Learning about causation using covariation and causal power 90 Attributions and achievement 91 Attribution and depression 92 Misattribution of arousal 95 Attributional biases 99 Explaining intentional behaviour 111 The naive scientist metaphor 112 Attributions as discourse 114 Summary 114 Social Perception and Social Reality 115 Automatic and Controlled Social Perception 116 Chapter Summary 117 Key Terms 118 Suggestions For Further Reading 119 Chapter 4 Social Cognition 120 Roland Deutsch and Jenny Roth Introduction 121 Five Principles of Social Cognition 121 First principle: social phenomena can be explained by general cognitive processes 121 Second principle: social cognition is situated 132 Third principle: motivation shapes social cognition 140 Fourth principle: social cognition can be a special adaptation 145 Fifth principle: social phenomena are often caused by a mixture of general and more specifically social processes 155 Chapter Summary 158 Key Terms 160 Suggestions For Further Reading 160 Chapter 5 The Self 161 Carolyn C. Morf Introduction 162 Where Self-Knowledge Comes From 163 Through our own observation: personal sources 164 Through the help of others: social sources 166 Experiencing a coherent self: autobiographical memories and the self as narrative 170 Summary 171 The Organizational Function of The Self: The Self As Mental Representation 172 The nature of the self-concept 172 Actual, ideal and possible selves 175 Implicit and explicit self-knowledge 176 The nature of self-esteem 176 The neural underpinnings of self-knowledge 185 Summary 186 The Motivational Functions of The Self 186 Know thyself: the self-assessment motive 187 Bigger, better, faster, stronger: the self-enhancement motive 187 The puzzle of low self-regard: self-verification 193 Why do we self-enhance? 197 The pros and cons of pursuing self-esteem 198 Summary 201 The Regulatory Functions of The Self: The Self In Control 201 Self-awareness theory 202 Self-regulation theory 202 The consequences of
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