Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, these classic and contemporary readings include accounts of specific experimental findings, plus more generalsummaries of key topics. This acclaimed collection of articles is organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's highly praised book, The Social Animal. Elliot Aronson, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. . Joshua Aronson, New York University, USA INDICE: * = New to this Edition Preface - An Open Letter to the Reader I. Introduction: Reflections on the Research Process - 1. Research in Social Psychology as a Leap of Faith, Elliot Aronson - 2. On Baseball and Failure, Elliot Aronson II. Conformity and Obedience - 3. Opinions and Social Pressure, Solomon E. Asch - 4. Behavioral Study of Obedience, Stanley Milgram - 5. 'From Jerusalem to Jericho': A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior, John M. Darley and C. Daniel Batson - 6. A Focus Theory of Normative Conduct: Recycling the Concept of Norms to Reduce Littering in Public Places, Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno and Carl A. Kallgren - 7. Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown, Neal Osherow III. Mass Communication, Propaganda, and Persuasion - 8. Effects of Varying the Recommendations in a Fear-Arousing Communication, James M. Dobbs Jr., and Howard Leventhal- 9. Attribution versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior, RichardL. Miller, Philip Brickman, and Diana Bolen - 10. The Impact of Mass Media Violence on U.S. Homicides, David P. Philips IV. Social Cognition - 11. Contrast Effects and Judgments of Physical Attractiveness: When Beauty Becomes a Social Problem, Douglas T. Kenrick and Sara E. Gutierres - 12. The Effect of Attitude on the Recall of Personal Histories, Michael Ross, Cathy McFarland, and Garth J. O. Fletcher - 13. The Peculiar Longevity of Things Not So Bad, Daniel T. Gilbert, Matthew D. Lieberman, Carey K. Morewedge, and Timothy D. Wilson - 14. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, Timothy D. Wilson - 15. Self-Theories of Intelligence, Carol S. Dweck V. Self-Justification - 16. Dissonance, Hypocrisy, and The Self-Concept, Elliot Aronson - 17. Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique, Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser - 18. Reducing Weight by Reducing Dissonance: The Role of Effort Justification in Inducing Weight Loss, Danny Axsom and Joel Cooper - 19. Dishonest Behavior as a Function of Differential Levels of Induced Self-Esteem, Elliot Aronson and David R. Mettee - 20. Using Cognitive Dissonance to Encourage Water Conservation, Chris Dickerson, Ruth Thibodeau, Elliot Aronson, and Dayna Miller - 21. A Self-Affirmation Intervention to Reduce the Racial Achievement Gap, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, and Allison MasterVI. Human Aggression - 22. The Effects of Observing Violence, Leonard Berkowitz - 23. Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, - Anger, and Aggressive Responding, Brad J. Bushman - 24. Peacetime Casualties: The Effects of War on the Violent Behavior of Noncombatants,Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner - 25. Deindividuation and Anger-Mediates Interracial Aggression: Unmasking regressive Racism, Ronald W. Rogers and Steven Prentice-Dunn - 26. Predictors of Naturalistic Sexual Aggression, Neil M. Malamuth VII. Pr
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-3342-2
- Editorial: WH Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 532
- Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2011
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