Social psychology : how other people influence our thoughts and actions

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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Timeline of Social Psychology
1. The History of Social Psychology
Part I: Individuals and Social Psychology
	2. The Self and Social Comparison Processes
	3. Stereotyping and Its Impact
	4. Emotional Intelligence and the Attachment Behavioral System
	5. Application: Who Am I Now? Understanding and Supporting Veterans Transitioning to College
	6. Application: Trauma and Its Social Implications
	7. Application: Autism and Its Social Implications
	8. Application: Self-Harm
	9. Conflict, Aggression, and Cyberbullying
	10. Application: Mass Shootings: Individual, Community, and Societal Perspectives
	11. Application: The Self and False Confessions in the Courtroom
	12. Application: Social Issues in the Transgender Community
Part II: Groups and Social Psychology
	13. Mindfulness and Social Caring: Affecting Our Internal  and Social World
	14. We Communicate, Therefore I Think: Making Thoughtful Action
	15. Attraction: The Many Factors
That Draw Us to Like, Lust, and Love
	16. Sexuality and Sexual Behavior
	17. Group Perception and Social Norms
	18.
Application: Reducing Prejudice
	19. Crowds, Riots, and Collective Violence
	20.
Application: A Social Psychology Experiment on Learning by Social Immersion
	21. Addiction and Social Learning
Part III: Culture and Social Psychology
	22. Application: Epidemics and the Epidemic of Fear They Bring
	23. Application: Latino Social Identity and the Cultural Influence of the Supernatural
	24. Application: Prison, Culture, and Community
	25. Application: The Social Implications of Restorative Justice
	26. Application: Cultural Trauma in American Indian Populations
	27. Application: Social Influence and the Anatomy of a Presidential Election Campaign
Part IV: Perspectives and Debates
	Debate 1. Is Love Biological or Is It a Cultural Phenomenon?
	Debate 2. Sex Education in Schools: Comprehensive versus Abstinence Education
	Debate 3. Do We Try to Encourage Gender-Variant Children to Stay in Standard Roles or Support Them?
	Debate 4. Stand Your Ground or Flee?
	Debate 5. Are Leaders Born or Made?
Important Historical Figures in Social Psychology
	Floyd H. Allport
	Gordon W. Allport
	Solomon Asch
	Roger Brown
	Donald T. Campbell
	Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark
	Morton Deutsch
	Leon Festinger
	Fritz Heider
	Evelyn Gentry Hooker
	Carl Iver Hovland
	Irving Janis
	Gustave Le Bon
	Kurt Lewin
	William McDougall
	Stanley Milgram
	Maximilien Ringelmann
	Stanley Schachter
	Carolyn Wood Sherif
	Muzafer Sherif
	Francis Cecil Sumner
	Henri Tajfel
	Norman Triplett
Classic Experiments in Social Psychology
	1939–1940s—Clark Doll Experiment
	1951—Conformity
	1954–1961—The  Robbers Cave Experiment
(Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation)
	1958—Harlow’s “Wire/Cloth” Monkey Experiments
	1959—Cognitive  Dissonance
	1961—Bobo  Doll Experiment
	1962—Interpersonal
Bargaining
	1963—Obedience
Experiment
	1968—Bystander
Effect or Bystander Apathy
	1968—The Blue-Eyed Children
Experiment (“A Class Divided\")
	1971—Stanford
Prison Experiment
	1971—Social
Identity Theory
	1977—False
Consensus Bias/Egocentric Bias
	1979—Halo Effect
Glossary
Recommended Reading
About the Editor and Contributors
Index