Social psychology / / Michael Hogg, Graham Vaughan

• Autore: Hogg Michael A. <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education, Limited, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: Seventh edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (781 pages) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 302
• Soggetto topico: Social psychology
• Persona (resp. second.): VaughanGraham M.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Cover2 -- Cover3 -- Half Title Page -- Advisory editorial board -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- About the authors -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Guided tour -- Chapter 1: Introducing social psychology -- What is social psychology? -- Social psychology and its close neighbours -- Topics of social psychology -- Methodological issues -- Scientific method -- Experiments -- Non-experimental methods -- Data and analysis -- Research ethics -- Physical welfare of participants -- Respect for privacy -- Use of deception -- Informed consent -- Debriefing -- Theoretical issues -- Theories in social psychology -- Social psychology in crisis -- Reductionism and levels of explanation -- Positivism -- Historical context -- Social psychology in the nineteenth century -- The rise of experimentation -- Later influences -- The journals -- Social psychology in Europe -- About this book -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 2: Social cognition and social thinking -- Social psychology and cognition -- A short history of cognition in social psychology -- Forming impressions of other people -- What information is important? -- Biases in forming impressions -- Cognitive algebra -- Social schemas and categories -- Types of schema -- Categories and prototypes -- Categorisation and stereotyping -- How we use, acquire and change schemas -- Using schemas -- Acquiring schemas -- Changing schemas -- Social encoding -- Salience -- Vividness -- Accessibility -- Memory for people -- Contents of person memory -- Organisation of person memory -- Using person memory -- Social inference -- Departures from normality -- Heuristics -- Improving social inference -- Affect and emotion -- Antecedents of affect -- Consequences of affect -- Beyond cognition and neuroscience. ; Where is the 'social' in social cognition? -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 3: Attribution and social explanation -- Seeking the causes of behaviour -- How people attribute causality -- People as naive psychologists -- From acts to dispositions -- People as everyday scientists -- Extensions of attribution theory -- Explaining our emotions -- Attributions for our own behaviour -- Task performance attributions -- Applications of attribution theory -- Individual differences and attributional styles -- Interpersonal relationships -- Attributional biases -- Correspondence bias and the fundamental attribution error -- The actor-observer effect -- The false consensus effect -- Self-serving biases -- Intergroup attribution -- Attribution and stereotyping -- Social knowledge and societal attributions -- Social representations -- Rumour -- Conspiracy theories -- Societal attributions -- Culture's contribution -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 4: Self and identity -- Who are you? -- Self and identity in historical context -- Psychodynamic self -- Individual versus collective self -- Collective self -- Symbolic interactionist self -- Self-awareness -- Self-knowledge -- Self-schemas -- Regulatory focus theory -- Inferences from our behaviour -- Social comparison and self-knowledge -- Many selves, multiple identities -- Types of self and identity -- Contextual sensitivity of self and identity -- In search of self-coherence -- Social identity theory -- Personal identity and social identity -- Processes of social identity salience -- Consequences of social identity salience -- Self-motives -- Self-assessment and self-verification -- Self-enhancement -- Self-esteem -- Self-esteem and social identity -- Individual differences -- In pursuit of self-esteem -- Self-presentation and impression management. ; Strategic self-presentation -- Expressive self-presentation -- Cultural differences in self and identity -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 5: Attitudes -- Structure and function of attitudes -- A short history of attitudes -- Attitude structure -- Attitude functions -- Cognitive consistency -- Cognition and evaluation -- Decision making and attitudes -- Can attitudes predict behaviour? -- Beliefs, intentions and behaviour -- Attitude accessibility -- Attitude strength and direct experience -- Reflecting on the attitude-behaviour link -- Moderator variables -- Forming attitudes -- Behavioural approaches -- Cognitive development -- Sources of learning -- Concepts related to attitudes -- Values -- Ideology -- Social representations -- Measuring attitudes -- Attitude scales -- Using attitude scales today -- Physiological measures -- Measures of overt behaviour -- Measuring covert attitudes -- Concluding thoughts -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 6: Persuasion and attitude change -- Attitudes, arguments and behaviour -- Persuasive communication -- The communicator -- The message -- The audience -- Dual-process models of persuasion -- Elaboration-likelihood model -- Heuristic-systematic model -- Compliance -- Tactics for enhancing compliance -- Action research -- Cognitive dissonance and attitude change -- Effort justification -- Induced compliance -- Free choice -- The role of self -- Vicarious dissonance -- Alternative views to dissonance -- A new look at cognitive dissonance -- Resistance to persuasion -- Reactance -- Forewarning -- Inoculation -- Attitude accessibility and strength -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 7: Social influence -- Types of social influence -- Compliance, obedience, conformity -- Power and influence -- Obedience to authority. ; Factors influencing obedience -- The ethical legacy of Milgram's experiments -- Conformity -- The formation and influence of norms -- Yielding to majority group pressure -- Who conforms? Individual and group characteristics -- Situational factors in conformity -- Processes of conformity -- Minority influence and social change -- Beyond conformity -- Behavioural style and the genetic model -- Conversion theory -- Convergent-divergent theory -- Social identity and self-categorisation -- Vested interest and the leniency contract -- Attribution and social impact -- Two processes or one? -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 8: People in groups -- What is a group? -- Categories and group entitativity -- Common-bond and common-identity groups -- Groups and aggregates -- Definitions -- Group effects on individual performance -- Mere presence and audience effects: social facilitation -- Classification of group tasks -- Social loafing and social impact -- Group cohesiveness -- Group socialisation -- Norms -- Group structure -- Roles -- Status -- Communication networks -- Subgroups and crosscutting categories -- Deviants and marginal members -- Why do people join groups? -- Reasons for joining groups -- Motivations for affiliation and group formation -- Why not join groups? -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 9: Leadership and decision making -- Leaders and group decisions -- Leadership -- Defining leadership -- Personality traits and individual differences -- Situational perspectives -- What leaders do -- Contingency theories -- Transactional leadership -- Transformational leadership -- Charisma and charismatic leadership -- Leader perceptions and leadership schemas -- Social identity and leadership -- Trust and leadership -- Gender gaps, glass ceilings and glass cliffs -- Intergroup leadership. ; Group decision making -- Rules governing group decisions -- Brainstorming -- Group memory -- Groupthink -- Group polarisation -- Jury verdicts -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 10: Prejudice and discrimination -- Nature and dimensions of prejudice -- Prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory behaviour -- Targets of prejudice and discrimination -- Sexism -- Racism -- Ageism -- Discrimination against homosexuals -- Discrimination on the basis of physical or mental handicap -- Forms of discrimination -- Reluctance to help -- Tokenism -- Reverse discrimination -- Stigma and other effects of prejudice -- Social stigma -- Self-worth, self-esteem and psychological well-being -- Stereotype threat -- Failure and disadvantage -- Attributional ambiguity -- Self-fulfilling prophecies -- Dehumanisation, violence and genocide -- Explanations of prejudice and discrimination -- Frustration-aggression -- The authoritarian personality -- Dogmatism and closed-mindedness -- Right-wing authoritarianism -- Social dominance theory -- Belief congruence -- Other explanations -- Summary -- Literature, film and TV -- Learn more -- Chapter 11: Intergroup behaviour -- What is intergroup behaviour? -- Relative deprivation and social unrest -- Relative deprivation -- Social protest and collective action -- Realistic conflict -- Realistic conflict theory -- Cooperation, competition and social dilemmas -- Social identity -- Minimal groups -- Social identity theory -- Social cognition -- Categorisation and relative homogeneity -- Memory -- Distinctive stimuli and illusory correlation -- Optimal distinctiveness -- Intergroup emotions -- Collective behaviour and the crowd -- Early theories -- Deindividuation and self-awareness -- Emergent norm theory -- Social identity theory -- Improving intergroup relations -- Propaganda and education -- Intergroup contact. ; Superordinate goals.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Social psychology
• ISBN: 0-273-76460-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150210903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II