{"id":3118,"date":"2014-09-02T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/socialpsychology\/front-matter\/about-the-adapted-edition\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T19:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:23:44","slug":"about-the-adapted-edition","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/socialpsychology\/front-matter\/about-the-adapted-edition\/","title":{"raw":"Adapting Authors' Notes","rendered":"Adapting Authors&#8217; Notes"},"content":{"raw":"Although the original edition\u00a0of this textbook was favourably reviewed\u00a0by B.C. faculty, the reviewers noted several\u00a0areas and issues that needed to be addressed before it was ready for adoption. These included incorporating new research and theoretical developments,\u00a0updating the chapter opening anecdotes and real world examples to make them more relevant for\u00a0contemporary students, changing examples, references, and statistics to reflect\u00a0a\u00a0more\u00a0international context, and merging the separate chapters on \"Social Learning\" and \"Social Affect\" to create a single \"Social Cognition\" chapter. Over the course of our adaptation we attempted to address all of these issues (with the exception of American spelling, which was retained in order to focus on more substantive issues), while making other changes and additions we\u00a0thought necessary, such as writing\u00a0overviews\u00a0of some concepts, theories, and key studies not included in the original edition. Finally, we added a list of learning objectives at the start of each chapter and a glossary of key terms at the end of the textbook as a quick-reference for students.\r\n\r\nWe hope that our work enables more instructors to adopt this open textbook for their Social Psychology or related courses and we further invite you to build upon our work by modifying this textbook to suit your course and pedagogical goals.\r\n\r\nRajiv Jhangiani and Hammond Tarry\r\n\r\nAugust 2014","rendered":"<p>Although the original edition\u00a0of this textbook was favourably reviewed\u00a0by B.C. faculty, the reviewers noted several\u00a0areas and issues that needed to be addressed before it was ready for adoption. 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