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Social Psychology, 3/E
Robert S. Feldman, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

ISBN-10: 0130274798
ISBN-13: 9780130274793

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2001
Format: Cloth; 614 pp
Published: 07/26/2000
Status: Out of Print

Suggested retail price: $97.33
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For Social Psychology courses at the sophomore through senior level.

This broad-based overview of the field of social psychology by best selling psychology author Bob Feldman, introduces and integrates the theories, research, and applications of the discipline, capturing the excitement of this diverse field as it is evolving today. The book is designed to show the relevance of social psychology to students' lives while acquainting them with the scientific basis of the discipline.

NEW - New topics and areas added.
- Provides students with the latest advances in such areas as culture, emotions, close relationships, psychophysiology, and evolutionary approaches to social behavior. Ex.___

NEW - A wealth of contemporary research is cited.
- Provides students with new material on behavioral genetics, counterfactual thinking, paternalistic and envious prejudice, relationship harmony, resiliency, the slime effect, mandatory volunteerism and helping, exposure to gratuitous violence, the disrupt-then-frame approach to persuasion, and antinormative behavior and deindividuation. Ex.___

NEW - Social Links marginal icons.
- Links students to the book's Companion Website. Ex.___

NEW - Social Web features.
- Discusses how technology, the use of the Internet, and the Web are changing people's social lives. Ex.___

NEW - An Epilogue —Ends each chapter.
- Challenges students with critical thinking questions about the chapter-opening Prologue. Ex.___

NEW - The Informed Consumer of Social Psychology feature.
- Describes specific everyday uses that can be derived from research conducted by social psychologists. Ex.___

Speaking of Social Psychology features.
- Provides students with interviews conducted with people who use the findings of social psychology in their work, offering suggestions for particular career paths and examples of how social psychology is used outside the field. Ex.___

Exploring Diversity features.
- Highlights for students those issues relevant to the multicultural society in which we live. Ex.___

Applying Social Psychology boxes.
- Describes for students current social psychological research or research issues, applied to everyday problems. Ex.___

Application chapters—Integrated throughout the text.
- Demonstrates to students how social psychologists use theory, research, and applications to help solve significant social problems. Ex.___

Chapter-opening prologues.
- Presents high interest, current vignettes describing an individual or situation that is representative of basic social psychological phenomena. Ex.___

Extensive student pedagogy.
- Provides within each chapter Looking Ahead, Looking Back, Review and Rethink, marginal glossary, summary, lists of key terms and concepts, and annotated supplementary reading lists. Ex.___

New topics and areas added.
- Provides students with the latest advances in such areas as culture, emotions, close relationships, psychophysiology, and evolutionary approaches to social behavior. Ex.___

A wealth of contemporary research is cited.
- Provides students with new material on behavioral genetics, counterfactual thinking, paternalistic and envious prejudice, relationship harmony, resiliency, the slime effect, mandatory volunteerism and helping, exposure to gratuitous violence, the disrupt-then-frame approach to persuasion, and antinormative behavior and deindividuation. Ex.___

Social Links marginal icons.
- Links students to the book's Companion Website. Ex.___

Social Web features.
- Discusses how technology, the use of the Internet, and the Web are changing people's social lives. Ex.___

An Epilogue —Ends each chapter.
- Challenges students with critical thinking questions about the chapter-opening Prologue. Ex.___

The Informed Consumer of Social Psychology feature.
- Describes specific everyday uses that can be derived from research conducted by social psychologists. Ex.___

1. An Introduction to Social Psychology.

2. Social Cognition: Perceiving and Understanding People.

3. Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotypes.

4. The Self: Perceiving and Understanding Oneself.

5. Well-Being and the Self: Applying Social Psychology to Health and Wellness.

6. Interpersonal Attraction: Developing Liking.

7. Close Relationships: Developing Connections with Others.

8. Helping: Origins and Consequences of Prosocial Behavior.

9. Aggression: Origins and Consequences of Violence and Hostility.

10. Attitudes: Evaluating the Social World.

11. Persuasion: Changing Attitudes and Behavior.

12. Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience.

13. Law and Order: Applying Social Psychology in the Legal and Political Arenas.

14. Groups: Joining with Others.

15. Business, Organizations, and the Environment: Applying Social Psychology in a Complex World.

Social Psychology (Psychology)

Author Bios

ROBERT S. FELDMAN is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies, former head of the Personality and Social Psychology Division, and winner of the College Distinguished Teacher Award. He was educated as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, where he graduated with High Honors, and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, from which he earned a Masters and Ph.D.

Author of More than 100 books, chapters, and articles, his books include the editor volumes Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (Cambridge University Press, with Bernard Rime), and Social Aspects of Nonverbal Behavior (Cambridge University Press, with Pierre Philippot and Erik Coats). He is a recipient of grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of the Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, which have supported his research on nonverbal behavior and emotional development. He is also a former Fulbright lecturer and research scholar.

During the course of his two decades as a college teacher, he has taught social psychology numerous times at a wide range of institutions, including Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. An excellent cook, a passionate music lover, but a lapsed pianist, he lives with his wife and three children in Amherst, Massachusetts, overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.

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