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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Authors
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Authors’ acknowledgements
• Your guide to the book and online resources
• 1. The discipline of social psychology
• What is social psychology?
• Where does social psychology come from?
• Doing social psychological research
• CRITICAL FOCUS The 1970s ‘crisis’ in social psychology
• The tools of social psychology
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Correlation versus causation
• Issues in conducting social psychological research
• Basic and applied research
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Social psychology at work in the classroom
• Cultural issues
• Research ethics
• Social psychology and other disciplines
• Dissemination of social psychology
• Critical thinking in social psychology
• PART 1 THINKING AND FEELING
• 2. The social self: understanding ourselves
• Self-knowledge and the self-concept
• Self-awareness
• Theories of self
• CRITICAL FOCUS Ego depletion
• Self-esteem
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD The narcissism ‘epidemic’ and its consequences
• Self-presentation
• How accurate is our self-knowledge?
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Why social psychologists cannot just ask people why they do things
• Motivated social cognition and the self
• Culture and the self
• 3. The social perceiver: understanding the social world
• Causal attributions
• The naive scientist approach
• Two famous ‘errors’ in attribution
• Applications of attribution theory
• Person perception
• CRITICAL FOCUS Are physical and psychological warmth related?
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD The real-life importance of first impressions
• Heuristics and biases in social cognition
• Other biases and errors in social cognition
• The nature of social cognition
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Experimental control and replication
• 4. The social judge: attitudes, emotions and behaviour
• What are attitudes?
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Political attitudes
• Attitude formation
• Implicit and explicit attitudes
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS The Implicit Association Test (IAT)
• Attitudes and behaviours
• Cognitive dissonance
• Embodied social cognition
• CRITICAL FOCUS Embodied social cognition
• Emotions and social judgement
• PART 2 RELATING
• 5. Communication
• Language and its rules
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS The logic of conversation in survey design
• Language, culture and cognition
• Language, personality, identity and gender
• Language and stereotyping
• Nonverbal communication
• CRITICAL FOCUS The evolution of facial expressions
• Conversation and discourse
• Communication and technology
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD The power of words: detecting lies in crime, politics and online
• 6. Persuasion
• When does persuasion work?
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD How to get people to stop smoking
• How does persuasion work?
• What can people do to persuade others?
• When persuasion does not work
• CRITICAL FOCUS How do people understand persuasion?
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Subliminal messages
• 7. Close relationships
• Interpersonal attraction
• CRITICAL FOCUS Sexual strategies theory
• Theories of attraction
• Love and romantic relationships
• Attachment and bonding
• Maintaining relationships
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Same-sex relationships: ‘the love that dare not speak its name’
• When relationships end
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Student samples in relationships research
• PART 3 BELONGING
• 8. The social group
• What is a group?
• Formation of groups
• Group structure
• The flexibility of social norms
• CRITICAL FOCUS Gender roles: a minefield of science and politics
• Fitting in to groups
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Impostors within groups
• What do groups do for us?
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Ethical considerations in ostracism research
• 9. Social influence
• Classic studies of social influence
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Ethics and the Milgram studies
• CRITICAL FOCUS The Stanford Prison Experiment and the psychology of ‘evil’
• When are people influenced?
• Why are people influenced?
• Who is influenced?
• Resisting social influence
• Majority and minority social influence
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD The suffragette movement
• 10. Group behaviour
• Social facilitation
• Social loafing
• Deindividuation
• CRITICAL FOCUS Emergent norm theory: a theory of crowd behaviour
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Road rage: losing it behind the wheel
• Group decision making
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Studying groupthink
• Leadership
• 11. Intergroup relations
• Bases of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination
• CRITICAL FOCUS The minimal group paradigm
• Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination in different intergroup contexts
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Ageist stereotypes and cardiovascular events
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Homophobia
• Vicious cycles in intergroup relations
• PART 4 APPLYING
• 12. Improving intergroup relations
• Tokenism and affirmative action
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Tokenism and the election of Barack Obama
• Intergroup contact
• CRITICAL FOCUS Reservations and unanswered questions about contact
• Categorization-based approaches
• Values-based approaches
• The media and real-world conflict
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Reducing real-world intergroup conflict
• Intergroup apology and forgiveness
• Communication and negotiation
• Collective action
• 13. Understanding and controlling aggression
• The human animal: biological bases of aggression
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Alcohol and aggression
• The social animal: social causes of aggression
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Measuring aggression in the laboratory
• The tribal animal: the group dimension of aggression
• CRITICAL FOCUS Violence against women
• 14. Altruism and justice
• Altruism
• CRITICAL FOCUS Bystander intervention and the tragic case of Kitty Genovese
• Social dilemmas
• Encouraging cooperation
• The social psychology of justice
• ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS Eliciting distress in studies of the ‘just world’
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD Economic inequality and economic crisis
• 15. Social psychology and you
• The wisdom of social psychology
• Social psychology and you
• Student Projects
• References
• Subject index
• Author index