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About BCcampus Open Education
Acknowledgments
Preface
Adapting Authors' Notes
1.1 Defining Social Psychology: History and Principles
1.2 Affect, Behavior, and Cognition
1.3 Conducting Research in Social Psychology
1.4 Chapter Summary
2.1 Sources of Social Knowledge
2.2 How We Use Our Expectations
2.3 Social Cognition and Affect
2.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Cognition
2.5 Chapter Summary
3.1 The Cognitive Self: The Self-Concept
3.2 The Feeling Self: Self-Esteem
3.3 The Social Self: The Role of the Social Situation
3.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about the Self
3.5 Chapter Summary
4.1 Exploring Attitudes
4.2 Changing Attitudes through Persuasion
4.3 Changing Attitudes by Changing Behavior
4.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Attitudes, Behavior, and Persuasion
4.5 Chapter Summary
5.1 Initial Impression Formation
5.2 Inferring Dispositions Using Causal Attribution
5.3 Biases in Attribution
5.4 Individual Differences in Person Perception
5.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Person Perception
5.6 Chapter Summary
6.1 The Many Varieties of Conformity
6.2 Obedience, Power, and Leadership
6.3 Person, Gender, and Cultural Differences in Conformity
6.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Influence
6.5 Chapter Summary
7.1 Initial Attraction
7.2 Close Relationships: Liking and Loving over the Long Term
7.3 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Liking and Loving
7.4 Chapter Summary
8.1 Understanding Altruism: Self and Other Concerns
8.2 The Role of Affect: Moods and Emotions
8.3 How the Social Context Influences Helping
8.4 Other Determinants of Helping
8.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Altruism
8.6 Chapter Summary
9.1 Defining Aggression
9.2 The Biological and Emotional Causes of Aggression
9.3 The Violence around Us: How the Social Situation Influences Aggression
9.4 Personal and Cultural Influences on Aggression
9.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Aggression
9.6 Chapter Summary
10.1 Understanding Social Groups
10.2 Group Performance
10.3 Group Decision Making
10.4 Improving Group Performance and Decision Making
10.5 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Groups
10.6 Chapter Summary
11.1 Social Categorization and Stereotyping
11.2 Ingroup Favoritism and Prejudice
11.3 Reducing Discrimination
11.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
11.5 Chapter Summary
12.1 Conflict, Cooperation, Morality, and Fairness
12.2 How the Social Situation Creates Conflict: The Role of Social Dilemmas
12.3 Strategies for Producing Cooperation
12.4 Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Cooperation and Competition
12.5 Chapter Summary
About the Authors
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