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This comprehensive and accessible textbook overviews the applications of social psychology to a wide range of problems and issues in contemporary society. With internationally respected contributors who survey the major developments in their fields, this practical guide incorporates advice, examples and reading lists.

The first part of the book outlines a number of general frameworks that inform the applications of social psychology, namely language, attitudes, decision-making and survey research; Part Two focuses on major behavioural domains, including health and economic behaviour; Part Three explains the relationship between social psychology and social institutions, highlighting, for instance, the media, law and politics; and the final part addresses the broader social and cultural implications of contemporary social psychology, covering such key concerns as violence, ageing and cross-cultural questions.

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• Part 1 General Frameworks in Applied Social Psychology
• Attitudes and Behaviour
• Judgement and Decision-Making
• Survey Research
• Collecting Data by Asking Questions
• Language in Applied Contexts
• Part 2 Focal Behaviour Domains
• Health-Impairing Behaviours
• The Social Psychology of Economic and Consumer Behaviour
• Social Psychology and Environmental Issues
• The Social Psychology of Driver Behaviour
• Part 3 The Social Psychology of Social Institutions
• Social Psychology and Organizations
• Social Psychology and the Law
• Political Psychology
• Social Psychology and the Media
• Part 4 The Social Psychology of Societal Issues
• Aggression and Violence in Society
• Social Construction and Old Age
• Normative Conceptions and Interpersonal Processes
• Culture and Migration

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CHOICE Review

The 15 chapters of Semin and Fiedler's book were written by 18 professors and researchers from Europe, Canada, and the US, all of whom have both research and application backgrounds. The work is divided into four parts: general perspectives (attitudes and behavior, decisions and judgments, survey research, language in applied contexts), focal domains (health, consumers, environment, driving), social institutions (law-criminal behavior, organizations, political psychology, media), and societal issues (aggression and violence, old age, migration). Some 50 pages of reference material are provided, along with lists of suggested further reading for each of the chapters. The book will be valuable mainly as a classroom or teaching resource, principally for upper-division undergraduate students, since a basic knowledge of sociology, psychology, research methods, and statistics is needed. E. Palola; emeritus, SUNY Empire State College

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

G[um]un R Semin is Professor of Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Klaus Fiedler is a Professor at the Psychologisches Institut, Universit[um]at Heidelberg.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Gunter Bierbrauer Universitat Osnabruck

Patrizia Catellani Milan

Helga Dittmar University of Sussex

Klaus Fielder Universitat Heidelberg

Jutta Heckhausen Max Planck Institut fur Bildungsforschung, Berlin

G Konhnken Universitat Kiel

B Krahe Universitat Potsdam

F Lang Max Planck Institut fur Bildungsforschung, Berlin

A S R Manstead Universiteit van Amsterdam

Diana Parker University of Manchester

P Pedersen Universitat Osnabruck

W Stroebe Universiteit van Utrecht

Joop van der Pligt Universiteit van Amsterdam

HG Walbott Universitat Salzburg

J Wit Universiteit van Utrecht