Aiming to empower you throughout your undergraduate journey, this textbook covers the entire social psychology curriculum. More importantly, it offers inspiration to help you become an adept social psychologist, ready to unravel the intricacies of human behaviour in the world around you.
This textbook helps you connect theories directly to your own experiences, world views, and behaviours. It features personal narratives from a diverse range of practising social psychologists, from academics to practitioners, offering a rich collection of real-world examples and encouraging deep thinking about your future career.
Each chapter moves through the foundations, advances and applications of the field with exercises and revision prompts to ensure success and real understanding.
Stefania Paolini is Professor of Social Psychology, Milica Vasiljevic is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Richard J. Crisp is Professor of Social Psychology. All are based at Durham University.
Rhiannon N. Turner is Professor of Social Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast.Tabela de Conteúdo
Chapter 1: History and Research Methods – Paddy Ross, Milica Vasiljevic and Stefania Paolini
Chapter 2: Self and Identity – Kimberly Rios and Alysson E. Light
Chapter 3: Affiliation, Friendship, and Love – Jenny Paterson
Chapter 4: Social Emotions – Smadar Cohen-Chen
Chapter 5: Social Cognition – Mario Weick
Chapter 6: Attitudes and Persuasion – Christopher R. Jones and Lambros Lazuras
Chapter 7: Social Influence – Fanny Lalot and Julie Van De Vyver
Chapter 8: Group Processes – David Rast and Amber Gaffney
Chapter 9: Prejudice – Shelley Mc Keown, Amanda Williams and Shazza Ali
Chapter 10: Intergroup and Intercultural Relations – Michèle Denise Birtel
Chapter 11: Behaviour Change – Milica Vasiljevic
Sobre o autor
Richard Crisp is Professor of Social Psychology at Durham University. He read Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and carried out his doctoral research at Cardiff University. In addition to Durham University Richard has held positions at the Universities of Birmingham, Kent and Sheffield as well as the Aston Business School. Richard’s research has covered the full range of topics that comprise social psychology, from the formation and reduction of prejudice, to the self and identity processes involved in interpersonal relations, from mere exposure and attitude formation, to stereotyping and social categorization. He has published this work in over 150 articles, chapters and books, including papers in American Psychologist, Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin and Science. This work has been recognized with awards from scholarly societies, including the British Psychological Society President’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge and Spearman Medal. Together with Rhiannon Turner he received the 2011 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (for the best paper of the year on intergroup relations). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology and was founding editor of the Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.