Experimental Social Psychology
Text with Illustrative Readings
- 1st Edition - September 3, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Chester A. Insko, John Schopler
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 2 6 5 0 - 6
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 1 0 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 3 7 5 - 4
Experimental Social Psychology: Text with Illustrative Readings represents a new approach to undergraduate social psychology by combining both text and readings. This book grew out… Read more
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Request a sales quoteExperimental Social Psychology: Text with Illustrative Readings represents a new approach to undergraduate social psychology by combining both text and readings. This book grew out of the authors’ laborious and yet rewarding collaboration as associate editors of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The book is organized into three parts that cover the three overlapping categories of social psychology: attitude and belief change, interpersonal processes, and small groups. The investigation of attitude and belief change typically involves the persuasive impact produced by a written or orally presented communication when directed at a person. The area of interpersonal processes typically involves two people, puts greater emphasis upon the interactive nature of social relations, and is not restricted to just certain effects such as attitude or belief change. The study of interpersonal processes includes person perception, interpersonal attraction, conformity, conflict resolution, norm formation, etc. The area of small groups includes the study of groups varying in size between two and the number beyond which face-to-face interaction among all the members does not, or cannot easily, occur. Included within this category is the study of leadership, status, group decision-making, etc.
Preface
Introduction
Part I Attitude and Belief Change
The Concepts of Attitude and Belief
Two Experimental Designs
Chapter 1 Balance and Balance-Related Theories
Heider's Balance Theory
Rosenberg's Affective-Cognitive Consistency Theory
Osgood and Tannenbaumes Congruity Theory
Overview of the Three Theories
Readings
Chapter 2 Reward and Fear: The Hedonistic Account of Attitude Change
Three Types of Psychological Hedonism
Reward
Fear
Final Statement
Readings
Chapter 3 Source Characteristics and Persistence Effects
Source Characteristics
Persistence Effects
Readings
Chapter 4 Dissonance in Free-Choice Situations
General Formulation of Dissonance Theory
Application to Specific Situations
Final Statement
Readings
Chapter 5 Dissonance in Forced-Compliance Situations
Counterattitudinal Role-Playing
Reward and Forced Compliance
Punishment and Forced Compliance
Effort and Forced Compliance
Toward the Reinterpretation of Dissonance Theory
Final Statement
Readings
Chapter 6 Communicator Discrepancy
Dissonance in Exposure Situations
Dissonance Theory of Communicator Discrepancy
Methodological and Quasi-Methodological Problems
Research
Final Statement
Readings
Chapter 7 Resistance to Persuasion
Inoculation Theory
Reactance Theory
Final Statement
Readings
Part II Interpersonal Processes
Chapter 8 Person Perception and Attribution Processes
Categories and Relationships
Combining Cues
Accuracy of Impressions
Causal Attributions
The Internal-External Dimension
Overview
Readings
Chapter 9 Interpersonal Attraction
People as Instrumental to the Satisfaction of a Self-Evaluative Need
Similarity
Implied Evaluation
Spatial Propinquity and Social Contact
Physical Attractiveness
Frustration and Aggression
The Belief in a Just World
Overview
Readings
Chapter 10 Conformity
Experimental Techniques or Situations for the Demonstration of Conformity
Why Does Conformity Occur?
Overview
Readings
Chapter 11 Norm Formation and Exchange Theory
What Is a Norm?
Thibaut and Kelley's Exchange Theory
The Formation of Norms
Readings
Part III Small Groups
Defining Small Groups
Problems of Systematization
A Working Organization
An Important Distinction
Chapter 12 Preînteraction Variables
Seating Arrangement
Group Size
Group Composition
Overview
Readings
Chapter 13 Group Processes—Structure
Status
Leadership
Participation
Communication Networks
Overview
Readings
Chapter 14 Extremity Shifts
The Risky Shift
Polarization of Attitudes through Group Discussion
Overview
Readings
Chapter 15 Intergroup Relationships: Outgroup Rejection
Overevaluation of Ingroup Products
Theories of Outgroup Rejection
Readings
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 3, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123726506
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483241005
- eBook ISBN: 9781483273754
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