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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wayne A Lesko |
| ISBN: | 0205454399 9780205454396 |
| OCLC Number: | 58843088 |
| Description: | xvi, 437 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Chap. 1. The field of social psychology. Folk wisdom: was your grandmother right? / R. Epstein -- Human use of human subjects: the problem of deception in social psychological experiments / H.C. Kelman -- Lessons learned from a lifetime of applied social psychology research / A.S. Ross -- Chap. 2. Social perception. The once-over: can you trust first impressions? / C. Flora -- The warm-cold variable in first impressions of persons / H.H. Kelley -- Detecting true lies: police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies / S. Mann, A. Vrij & R. Bull -- Chap. 3. Social cognition. Some systematic biases of everyday judgment / T. Gilovich -- Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state / S. Schachter & J.E. Singer -- The fundamental attribution error in detecting deception: the boy-who-cried-wolf effect / M. O'Sullivan -- Chap. 4. Attitudes. Don't even think about it! / M. Ventura -- Cognitive consequences of forced compliance / L. Festinger & J.M. Carlsmith -- I'm a hypocrite, but so is everyone else: group support and the reduction of cognitive dissonance / B.M. McKimmie et al. -- Chap. 5. Social identity. The many me's of the self-monitor / M. Snyder -- The measurement of psychological androgyny / S.L. Bem -- Understanding sexual aggression in male college students: the role of self-monitoring and pluralistic ignorance / J.D. Flezzani & J.M. Benshoff -- Chap. 6. Prejudice and discrimination. Why we hate / M. Monteith & J. Winters -- Attitudes vs. actions / R.T. LaPiere -- Christian orthodoxy, religious fundamentalism, and right-wing authoritarianism as predictors of implicit racial prejudice / W.C. Rowatt & L.M. Franklin -- Chap. 7. Interpersonal attraction. Why I hate beauty / M. Levine with H.E. Marano -- What is beautiful is good / K. Dion, E. Berscheid & E. Walster -- "If only I were thin like her, maybe I could be happy like her": the self-implications of associating a thin female ideal with life success / P. Chin Evans -- Chap. 8. Close relationships. Great expectations / P. Shulman -- "Playing hard to get": understanding an elusive phenomenon / E. Hatfield, G.W. Walster, J. Piliavin & L. Schmidt -- Romantic behaviors of university students: a cross-cultural and gender analysis in Puerto Rico and the United States / J.A. Quiles -- Chap. 9. Social influence. Obedience in retrospect / A.C. Elms -- Behavioral study of obedience / S. Milgram -- Pluralistic ignorance and college student perceptions of gender-specific alcohol norms / J. Suls & P. Green -- Chap. 10. Prosocial behavior. Why don't moral people act morally?: motivational considerations / C.D. Batson & E.R. Thompson -- "From Jerusalem to Jericho": a study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior / J.M. Darley & C.D. Batson -- The effect of smiling on helping behavior: smiling and good Samaritan behavior / N. Gueguen & M. De Gail -- Chap. 11. Aggression. Bad girls / B. Yeoman -- Transmissions of aggression through imitation of aggressive models / A. Bandura, D. Ross & S.A. Ross -- Types of media violence and degree of acceptance in under-18s / M.A. Vidal, M. Clemente & P. Espinosa -- Chap. 12. Group behavior. Groupthink / I.L. Janis -- The effect of threat upon interpersonal bargaining / M. Deutsch & R.M. Krauss -- Group decision fiascoes continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a revised groupthink framework / G. Moorhead, R. Ference & C.P. Neck -- Chap. 13. The new-boy network: what do job interviews really tell us? / M. Gladwell -- One more time: how do you motivate employees? / F. Herzberg -- Relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership style: a gender comparison / B. Mandell & S. Pherwani -- Chap. 14. Forensic psychology. Illusory causation in the courtroom / G.D. Lassiter -- Beautiful but dangerous: effects of offender attractiveness and nature of the crime on juridic judgment / H. Sigall & N. Ostrove -- Effects of defendant age on severity of punishment for different crimes / C.E. Bergeron & S.J. McKelvie -- Chap. 15. Health psychology. Research to the heart of the matter / R.A. Clay -- The Social Readjustment Rating Scale / T.H. Holmes & R.H. Rahe -- Have there been lasting effects associated with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks among inner-city parents and children? / D.B. Henry, P.H. Tolan & D. Gorman-Smith. |
| Responsibility: | [compiled by] Wayne A. Lesko. |
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