Taking sides
Subtitle: Clashing views in social psychology
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Jason A. Nier
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Taking sides; McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series; Taking sides; McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780078139413
Subjects: Social psychology; Debates and debating; Aggressiveness; Socialpsykologi
Other titles: Clashing views in social psychology; Social psychology
Description: This volume presents current controversial issues surrounding social psychology in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. This topic is framed with a general summary and introduction, and a postscript or challenge questions. This work features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and an online instructor's resource guide with testing material available. This book's 18 issues are organized into four different sections. The first section of the book deals with ethical issues in the social psychology. Each of the next three sections reflects one of the major sub-fields within social psychology. One section examines some of the debates surrounding research in social cognition, another section will address contentious issues in social influence research, and the final portion of the book investigates the controversies in social relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. General issues in social psychology: Is deception of human participants ethical?; title: Should social psychologists try to solve social problems?; Can experimental social psychology and social constructionism coexist?; title: Unit 2. Social cognition: Are our social perceptions often inaccurate?; title: Does cognitive dissonance explain why behavior can change attitudes?; title: Are self-esteem programs misguided?; title: Can people accurately detect lies?; title: Are repressed memories real?; title: Do positive illusions lead to healthy behavior?; title: Unit 3. Social influence: Do Milgram's obedience experiments help explain the nature of the Holocaust?; title: Does the Stanford Prison Experiement help explain the effects of imprisonment?; title: Is subliminal persuasion a myth?; title: Can people really be brainwashed?; title: Unit 4. International Society for Research on Aggression: Is stereotyping inevitable?; title: Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure racial prejudice?; title: Can stereotypes lead to accurate perceptions of others?; title: Does true altruism exist?; title: Does media violence cause aggression?