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• Preface(p. x)
• Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology(p. 3)
• Social Psychology and Related Disciplines(p. 6)
• Social Psychology and Sociology(p. 6)
• Social Psychology and Personality Psychology(p. 6)
• Social Psychology and Biology(p. 7)
• Levels of Explanation(p. 7)
• Social Psychology and Human Values(p. 8)
• Obvious Ways in Which Values Enter Psychology(p. 9)
• Not-So-Obvious Ways in Which Values Enter Psychology(p. 9)
• I Knew It All Along: Is Social Psychology Simply Common Sense?(p. 13)
• How We Do Social Psychology(p. 17)
• Forming and Testing Hypotheses(p. 17)
• Correlational Research: Detecting Natural Associations(p. 19)
• Experimental Research: Searching for Cause and Effect(p. 25)
• Generalizing from Laboratory to Life(p. 31)
• Personal Postscript: Why I Wrote This Book(p. 32)
• Part 1 Social Thinking
• Chapter 2 The Self in a Social World(p. 37)
• Self-Concept: Who Am I?(p. 38)
• At the Center of Our Worlds: Our Sense of Self(p. 39)
• Development of the Social Self(p. 41)
• Self and Culture(p. 43)
• Self-Knowledge(p. 46)
• Perceived Self-Control(p. 53)
• Self-Efficacy(p. 54)
• Locus of Control(p. 54)
• Learned Helplessness Versus Self-Determination(p. 55)
• Self-Serving Bias(p. 58)
• Explaining Positive and Negative Events(p. 58)
• Can We All Be Better than Average?(p. 61)
• Unrealistic Optimism(p. 62)
• False Consensus and Uniqueness(p. 64)
• Other Self-Serving Tendencies(p. 64)
• Self-Esteem Motivation(p. 66)
• The Dark Side of Self-Esteem(p. 68)
• Reflections on Self-Efficacy and Self-Serving Bias(p. 69)
• Self-Presentation(p. 73)
• False Modesty(p. 73)
• Self-Handicapping(p. 74)
• Impression Management(p. 75)
• Personal Postscript: Twin Truths--The Perils of Pride, the Power of Positive Thinking(p. 77)
• Chapter 3 Social Beliefs and Judgments(p. 79)
• Explaining Others(p. 80)
• Attributing Causality: To the Person or the Situation(p. 80)
• The Fundamental Attribution Error(p. 84)
• Why Do We Make the Attribution Error?(p. 88)
• How Fundamental Is the Fundamental Attribution Error?(p. 91)
• Why We Study Attribution Errors(p. 93)
• Constructing Interpretations and Memories(p. 94)
• Perceiving and Interpreting Events(p. 94)
• Belief Perseverance(p. 97)
• Constructing Memories(p. 99)
• Judging Others(p. 103)
• Thinking Without Awareness(p. 104)
• Judgmental Overconfidence(p. 106)
• Heuristics(p. 110)
• Illusory Thinking(p. 113)
• Mood and Judgment(p. 116)
• Self-Fulfilling Beliefs(p. 118)
• Teacher Expectations and Student Performance(p. 118)
• Getting from Others What We Expect(p. 120)
• Conclusions(p. 123)
• Personal Postscript: Reflecting on Intuition's Powers and Limits(p. 126)
• Chapter 4 Behavior and Attitudes(p. 129)
• Do Attitudes Determine Behavior?(p. 131)
• Are We All Hypocrites?(p. 131)
• When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?(p. 132)
• Does Behavior Determine Attitudes?(p. 136)
• Role Playing(p. 137)
• Saying Becomes Believing(p. 139)
• The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon(p. 140)
• Evil Acts and Attitudes(p. 142)
• Interracial Behavior and Racial Attitudes(p. 144)
• Social Movements(p. 145)
• Why Do Actions Affect Attitudes?(p. 147)
• Self-Presentation: Impression Management(p. 147)
• Self-Justification: Cognitive Dissonance(p. 148)
• Self-Perception(p. 152)
• Comparing the Theories(p. 157)
• Personal Postscript: Changing Ourselves Through Action(p. 162)
• Part 2 Social Influence
• Chapter 5 Genes, Culture, and Gender(p. 167)
• Human Nature and Cultural Diversity(p. 168)
• Evolution and Behavior(p. 168)
• Culture and Behavior(p. 169)
• Social Roles(p. 175)
• Gender Similarities and Differences(p. 178)
• Independence Versus Connectedness(p. 179)
• Social Dominance(p. 182)
• Aggression(p. 184)
• Sexuality(p. 184)
• Evolution and Gender: Doing What Comes Naturally?(p. 186)
• Gender and Mating Preferences(p. 186)
• Gender and Hormones(p. 189)
• Reflections on Evolutionary Psychology(p. 190)
• Culture and Gender(p. 192)
• Gender Roles Vary with Culture(p. 193)
• Gender Roles Vary Over Time(p. 194)
• Peer-Transmitted Culture(p. 195)
• Conclusions(p. 197)
• Biology and Culture(p. 197)
• The Great Lesson of Social Psychology(p. 199)
• Personal Postscript: Should We View Ourselves as Products or Architects of Our Social Worlds?(p. 200)
• Chapter 6 Conformity(p. 203)
• Classic Studies(p. 205)
• Sherif's Studies of Norm Formation(p. 205)
• Asch's Studies of Group Pressure(p. 209)
• Milgram's Obedience Experiments(p. 211)
• What Breeds Obedience?(p. 214)
• Reflections on the Classic Studies(p. 217)
• When Do People Conform?(p. 223)
• Group Size(p. 224)
• Unanimity(p. 224)
• Cohesion(p. 225)
• Status(p. 226)
• Public Response(p. 227)
• No Prior Commitment(p. 227)
• Why Conform?(p. 229)
• Who Conforms?(p. 231)
• Personality(p. 231)
• Culture(p. 233)
• Resisting Social Pressure(p. 234)
• Reactance(p. 234)
• Asserting Uniqueness(p. 236)
• Personal Postscript: On Being an Individual Within Community(p. 238)
• Chapter 7 Persuasion(p. 241)
• The Paths to Persuasion(p. 243)
• The Elements of Persuasion(p. 247)
• Who Says? The Communicator(p. 247)
• What Is Said? The Message Content(p. 251)
• How Is It Said? The Channel of Communication(p. 258)
• To Whom Is It Said? The Audience(p. 262)
• Case Studies in Persuasion: Cult Indoctrination(p. 268)
• Attitudes Follow Behavior(p. 269)
• Persuasive Elements(p. 270)
• Group Effects(p. 272)
• Resisting Persuasion: Attitude Inoculation(p. 274)
• Strengthening Personal Commitment(p. 274)
• Case Studies: Large-Scale Inoculation Programs(p. 275)
• Implications(p. 278)
• Personal Postscript: Being Open but not Naive(p. 278)
• Chapter 8 Group Influence(p. 281)
• What Is a Group?(p. 282)
• Social Facilitation(p. 282)
• The Presence of Others(p. 282)
• Crowding: The Presence of Many Others(p. 285)
• Why Are We Aroused in the Presence of Others?(p. 287)
• Social Loafing(p. 289)
• Many Hands Make Light Work(p. 290)
• Social Loafing in Everyday Life(p. 292)
• Deindividuation(p. 294)
• Doing Together What We Would Not Do Alone(p. 295)
• Diminished Self-Awareness(p. 299)
• Group Polarization(p. 300)
• The Case of the "Risky Shift"(p. 300)
• Do Groups Intensify Opinions?(p. 302)
• Explaining Polarization(p. 304)
• Groupthink(p. 308)
• Symptoms of Groupthink(p. 309)
• Critiquing Groupthink(p. 311)
• Preventing Groupthink(p. 314)
• Groupthink and Group Influence(p. 315)
• Minority Influence(p. 317)
• Consistency(p. 318)
• Self-Confidence(p. 319)
• Defections from the Majority(p. 319)
• Is Leadership Minority Influence?(p. 320)
• Personal Postscript: Are Groups Bad for Us?(p. 322)
• Part 3 Social Relations
• Chapter 9 Prejudice: Disliking Others(p. 327)
• The Nature and Power of Prejudice(p. 328)
• What Is Prejudice?(p. 328)
• How Pervasive Is Prejudice?(p. 330)
• Social Sources of Prejudice(p. 341)
• Social Inequalities(p. 341)
• Social Identity(p. 346)
• Conformity(p. 350)
• Institutional Supports(p. 350)
• Emotional Sources of Prejudice(p. 352)
• Frustration and Aggression: The Scapegoat Theory(p. 352)
• Personality Dynamics(p. 354)
• Cognitive Sources of Prejudice(p. 356)
• Categorization(p. 357)
• Distinctiveness(p. 359)
• Attribution: Is It a Just World?(p. 364)
• Cognitive Consequences of Stereotypes(p. 367)
• Personal Postscript: Can We Reduce Prejudice?(p. 372)
• Chapter 10 Aggression: Hurting Others(p. 375)
• What Is Aggression?(p. 377)
• Theories of Aggression(p. 378)
• Is Aggression Biological?(p. 378)
• Is Aggression a Response to Frustration?(p. 382)
• Is Aggression Learned Social Behavior?(p. 385)
• Influences on Aggression(p. 390)
• Aversive Incidents(p. 390)
• Arousal(p. 394)
• Aggression Cues(p. 395)
• Media Influences: Pornography and Sexual Violence(p. 396)
• Media Influences: Television(p. 401)
• Group Influences(p. 409)
• Reducing Aggression(p. 413)
• Catharsis?(p. 413)
• A Social Learning Approach(p. 414)
• Personal Postscript: Reforming a Violent Culture(p. 416)
• Chapter 11 Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving Others(p. 419)
• Friendships(p. 421)
• Proximity(p. 421)
• Physical Attractiveness(p. 426)
• Similarity Versus Complementarity(p. 436)
• Liking Those Who Like Us(p. 440)
• Relationship Rewards(p. 444)
• Love(p. 447)
• Passionate Love(p. 447)
• Companionate Love(p. 450)
• Maintaining Close Relationships(p. 453)
• Attachment(p. 453)
• Equity(p. 455)
• Self-Disclosure(p. 457)
• Ending Relationships(p. 462)
• Who Divorces?(p. 463)
• The Detachment Process(p. 464)
• Personal Postscript: Making Love(p. 466)
• Chapter 12 Altruism: Helping Others(p. 469)
• Why Do We Help?(p. 470)
• Social Exchange(p. 471)
• Social Norms(p. 476)
• Evolutionary Psychology(p. 478)
• Comparing and Evaluating Theories of Altruism(p. 480)
• When Will We Help?(p. 481)
• Situational Influences: Number of Bystanders(p. 483)
• Situational Influences: Helping When Someone Else Does(p. 489)
• Situational Influences: Time Pressures(p. 491)
• Personal Influences: Feelings(p. 491)
• Personal Influences: Personality Traits(p. 496)
• Personal Influences: Religiosity(p. 497)
• Whom Do We Help?(p. 499)
• Gender(p. 499)
• Similarity(p. 500)
• How Can We Increase Helping?(p. 502)
• Undoing the Restraints on Helping(p. 502)
• Socializing Altruism(p. 505)
• Personal Postscript: Taking Social Psychology into Life(p. 509)
• Chapter 13 Conflict and Peacemaking(p. 511)
• Conflict(p. 512)
• Social Dilemmas(p. 512)
• Competition(p. 520)
• Perceived Injustice(p. 522)
• Misperception(p. 524)
• Peacemaking(p. 531)
• Contact(p. 531)
• Cooperation(p. 533)
• Communication(p. 543)
• Conciliation(p. 549)
• Personal Postscript: Communitarianism(p. 552)
• Modules: Social Psychology Applied
• Module A Social Psychology in the Clinic(p. 557)
• Making Clinical Judgments(p. 558)
• Illusory Correlations(p. 558)
• Hindsight and Overconfidence(p. 559)
• Self-Confirming Diagnoses(p. 560)
• Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction(p. 562)
• Implications(p. 564)
• Social Cognition in Problem Behaviors(p. 566)
• Social Cognition and Depression(p. 566)
• Social Cognition and Loneliness(p. 571)
• Social Cognition and Anxiety(p. 573)
• Social Cognition and Illness(p. 575)
• Social-Psychological Approaches to Treatment(p. 581)
• Inducing Internal Change through External Behavior(p. 582)
• Breaking Vicious Cycles(p. 582)
• Maintaining Change through Internal Attributions for Success(p. 584)
• Social Support and Well-Being(p. 587)
• Close Relationships and Health(p. 587)
• Close Relationships and Happiness(p. 588)
• Personal Postscript: Enhancing Happiness(p. 592)
• Module B Social Psychology in Court(p. 595)
• Eyewitness Testimony(p. 597)
• How Persuasive Is Eyewitness Testimony?(p. 597)
• How Accurate Are Eyewitnesses?(p. 599)
• The Misinformation Effect(p. 600)
• Retelling(p. 603)
• Feedback to Witnesses(p. 603)
• Reducing Error(p. 605)
• Other Influences on Judgments(p. 609)
• The Defendant's Characteristics(p. 610)
• The Judge's Instructions(p. 613)
• Other Issues(p. 615)
• The Jurors as Individuals(p. 617)
• Juror Comprehension(p. 617)
• Jury Selection(p. 620)
• "Death-Qualified" Jurors(p. 621)
• The Jury as a Group(p. 622)
• Minority Influence(p. 623)
• Group Polarization(p. 623)
• Leniency(p. 624)
• Are 12 Heads Better than 1?(p. 625)
• Are 6 Heads as Good as 12?(p. 625)
• From Lab to Life: Simulated and Real Juries(p. 626)
• Personal Postscript: Thinking Smart with Psychological Science(p. 628)
• Module C Social Psychology and the Sustainable Future(p. 631)
• The Global Crisis(p. 632)
• Overshooting the Earth's Carrying Capacity(p. 633)
• Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles(p. 636)
• The Social Psychology of Materialism and Simplicity(p. 639)
• Increased Materialism(p. 639)
• Wealth and Well-Being(p. 640)
• Why Materialism Fails to Satisfy(p. 643)
• Toward Sustainable Consumption(p. 646)
• Personal Postscript: A Final Word(p. 648)
• Glossary(p. 1)
• References(p. 1)
• Acknowledgments(p. 1)
• Indexes(p. 1)
• Name(p. 1)
• Subject(p. 1)

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