Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
Acknowledgments
Preface
About the Book
1. Chapter Learning Objectives
2. Defining Social Psychology: History and Principles
3. Affect, Behavior, and Cognition
4. Conducting Research in Social Psychology
5. Chapter Summary
6. Chapter Learning Objectives
7. Sources of Social Knowledge
8. How We Use Our Expectations
9. Social Cognition and Affect
10. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Cognition
11. Chapter Summary
12. Chapter Learning Objectives
13. The Cognitive Self: The Self-Concept
14. The Feeling Self: Self-Esteem
15. The Social Self: The Role of the Social Situation
16. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about the Self
17. Chapter Summary
18. Chapter Learning Objectives
19. Exploring Attitudes
20. Changing Attitudes through Persuasion
21. Changing Attitudes by Changing Behavior
22. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Attitudes, Behavior, and Persuasion
23. Chapter Summary
24. Chapter Learning Objectives
25. Initial Impression Formation
26. Inferring Dispositions Using Causal Attribution
27. Biases in Attribution
28. Individual Differences in Person Perception
29. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Person Perception
30. Chapter Summary
31. Chapter Learning Objectives
32. The Many Varieties of Conformity
33. Obedience, Power, and Leadership
34. Person, Gender, and Cultural Differences in Conformity
35. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Influence
36. Chapter Summary
37. Chapter Learning Objectives
38. Initial Attraction
39. Close Relationships: Liking and Loving over the Long Term
40. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Liking and Loving
41. Chapter Summary
42. Chapter Learning Objectives
43. Understanding Altruism: Self and Other Concerns
44. The Role of Affect: Moods and Emotions
45. How the Social Context Influences Helping
46. Other Determinants of Helping
47. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Altruism
48. Chapter Summary
49. Chapter Learning Objectives
50. Defining Aggression
51. The Biological and Emotional Causes of Aggression
52. The Violence around Us: How the Social Situation Influences Aggression
53. Personal and Cultural Influences on Aggression
54. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Aggression
55. Chapter Summary
56. Chapter Learning Objectives
57. Understanding Social Groups
58. Group Performance
59. Group Decision Making
60. Improving Group Performance and Decision Making
61. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Social Groups
62. Chapter Summary
63. Chapter Learning Objectives
64. Social Categorization and Stereotyping
65. Ingroup Favoritism and Prejudice
66. Reducing Discrimination
67. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
68. Chapter Summary
69. Chapter Learning Objectives
70. Conflict, Cooperation, Morality, and Fairness
71. How the Social Situation Creates Conflict: The Role of Social Dilemmas
72. Strategies for Producing Cooperation
73. Thinking Like a Social Psychologist about Cooperation and Competition
74. Chapter Summary
75. Your textbook is an Open Education Resource! (OER)
76. Welcome to the class!
77. Will you be successful in this course?
78. Course Learning Activities - What we do in this course
79. Grade Expectations! - How Your Course Grade is Determined
80. My expectations of your commitment to this class
81. How this course works!
82. Course Objectives
83. Hints on how to succeed in this course!
84. The Two Cardinal Rules
85. Internet Resource Reviews and Discussions
86. Textbook Discussion Forums
87. Reflective Blogs
88. How to view your discussion thread in a forum.
89. Icebreaker Activities
90. Open SUNY Student Orientation - Get off to a great start!
91. Creating a Good Discussion Question
92. Icebreaker Discussion
93. Icebreaker Internet Resource Assignment
94. Instructions for completing the Term Research Project assignment
95. Learning activities in this Module
96. Internet Resources Assignments
97. Textbook Assignments
98. Blog Assignment
99. Talk with the Professor
100. Rate Your Professor
101. How to participate in the Chat Rooms
About the Authors
Glossary
Previous/next navigation
Principles of Social Psychology Copyright © 2014 by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.