Readings about the Social Animal, Ninth Edition
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ISBN: 0716759667 / Publisher: Worth Publishers, August 2003
Organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal, this collection of classic and contemporary readings explores the most important ideas, issues, and debates in social psychology today.
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Intending this volume to serve as a supplement to his social psychology textbook The Social Animal, Aronson (U. of California at Santa Cruz) gathers 36 articles that focus more on research questions than the textbook. The contributions either describe research programs focusing on a specific topic or report on individual pieces of empirical research in order to provide students with a window into the research process. The pieces of individual reports are similarly formatted, moving from research hypothesis through research process, findings, and analysis. The readings are grouped into sections looking at conformity and obedience; mass communication, propaganda, and persuasion; social cognition; self- justification; human aggression; prejudice; and liking, love, and interpersonal sensitivity. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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