"Understanding Social Psychology" provides clarity and accessibility to this core area of study in an undergraduate psychology degree, and for related social and health sciences. In order to help you firmly grasp the essential concepts and theories, this book expertly guides us through social perception and cognition, attitudes and attitude change, interpersonal attraction, social identity, prejudice and discrimination, social influence, pro-social and anti-social behaviour, aggression, leadership, group behaviour and new developments in social constructionism, ensuring that all the topics encountered in your course can be found within it. Key theories and leading thinkers are helpfully described in separate boxes throughout to help you identify elements for revision or discussion in seminars and tutorials, and the text is supported throughout with illustrations and tables, providing variety and useful summaries of the main ideas. Chapters are clearly introduced, and each ends with a summary to help you reflect on the key information you have learned, as well as further reading to help you delve deeper into the topic.
To help with unfamiliar terminology, definitions have been set apart from the main text, helping you to gain confidence in this subject. To place the concepts encountered in a real-life setting, interesting applications of each chapter topic are included, showing how social psychology can really help us to understand and address everyday issues and develop solutions for them. An online resource accompanies this book, containing multiple choice questions to test your knowledge, and resources relating to the key applications for each chapter, bringing the topics to life. Web links are also available to signpost useful information and organisations online.
- ISBN10 1444121812
- ISBN13 9781444121810
- Publish Date 25 January 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Education
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English