SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 2ND EDITION offers a remarkably fresh and compelling exploration of the fascinating field of social psychology. Respected researchers, teachers, and authors Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman give students integrated and accessible insight into the ways that nature, the social environment, and culture interact to influence social behavior. While giving essential insight to the power of situations, the text's contemporary approach also emphasizes the role of human nature - viewing people as highly complex, exquisitely designed, and variously inclined cultural animals who respond to myriad situations. With strong visual appeal, an engaging writing style, and the best of classic and current research, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE helps students make sense of the sometimes baffling - but always interesting - diversity of human behavior.
Chapter 1 The Mission and the Method
Chapter 2 Culture and Nature
Chapter 3 The Self
Chapter 4 Choices and Actions: The Self in Control
Chapter 5 Social Cognition
Chapter 6 Emotion and Affect
Chapter 7 Attitudes, Beliefs, and Consistency
Chapter 8 Social Influence and Persuasion
Chapter 9 Prosocial Behavior: Doing What's Best for Others
Chapter 10 Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
Chapter 11 Attraction and Exclusion
Chapter 12 Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
Chapter 13 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
Chapter 14 Groups