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Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, 2nd EditionNovember 2009, ©2010
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Providing an entertaining yet responsible look at how humans influence each other, Social Beings, 2e offers a refreshingly new approach, while maintaining the standard chapter topics of traditional social psychology texts. Focusing on the five core social motives-to belong, to understand, to control, to self-enhance, and to trust, author Susan Fiske provides a highly readable and engaging narrative flow that integrates material showing the field’s relevance to human problems and incorporates motivation, social evolution, and culture, not as after-thoughts, but as intrinsic features of the text. The second edition seamlessly mixes classic research with cutting edge topics that affect the current world of social psychology. Additionally, Social Beings, 2e provides an in-depth look at social neuroscience, an emerging topic in the field today.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION: ADAPTIVE MOTIVES FOR SOCIAL SITUATIONS, VIA CULTURES AND BRAINS
Chapter 2
SCIENTIFIC METHODS FOR STUDYING PEOPLE IN INTERACTION
Chapter 3
ORDINARY PERSONOLOGY: FIGURING OUT WHY PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY DO
Chapter 4
SOCIAL COGNITION: MAKING SENSE OF OTHERS
INTRODUCTION: ADAPTIVE MOTIVES FOR SOCIAL SITUATIONS, VIA CULTURES AND BRAINS
Chapter 2
SCIENTIFIC METHODS FOR STUDYING PEOPLE IN INTERACTION
Chapter 3
ORDINARY PERSONOLOGY: FIGURING OUT WHY PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY DO
Chapter 4
SOCIAL COGNITION: MAKING SENSE OF OTHERS
Chapter 5
THE SELF: SOCIAL TO THE CORE
Chapter 6
ATTITUDES AND PERSUASION: CHANGING HEARTS AND MINDS
Chapter 7
ATTRACTION: INITIATING ROMANCE, FRIENDSHIP, AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 8
CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: PASSION, INTERDEPENDENCE, COMMITMENT, AND INTIMACY
Chapter 9
HELPING: PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Chapter 10
AGGRESSION: ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Chapter 11
STEREOTYPING, PREJUDICE, AND DISCRIMINATION: SOCIAL BIASES
Chapter 12
SMALL GROUPS: ONGOING INTERACTIONS
Chapter 13
SOCIAL INFLUENCE: DOING WHAT OTHERS DO AND SAY
Chapter 14
CONCLUSION: SOCIAL BEINGS
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
New To This Edition
- Social neuroscience appears throughout the books topics, to reflect its recent appearance in the field
- Cutting-edge topics such as embodied cognition, terrorism, and homosexual relationships join the already relevant topics of the previous edition.
- Every chapter has been updated based on the newest research in the subject.
Hallmark Features
- Emphasizes the core social motives: Belonging, Understanding, Controlling, Enhancing Self, and Trusting.
- Presents a truly social approach to adaptation that is at once progressive, responsible, and complete.
- Offers a balanced view of the intellectual development of the field, featuring both classic materials that provide a historical context and cutting-edge work that demonstrates contemporary excitement.
- Weaves coverage of gender and ethnicity into the narrative of the text.
- Integrates culture throughout, providing students with a realistic sense of how social psychology operates in an increasingly multi-cultural world.
- Applications, which are integral to the chapters, demonstrate the utility of social psychology to solve real-world problems.
Available Versions
Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, 2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0-470-12911-1
November 2009, ©2010
Paperback, 720 pages
E-book
Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, 2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0-470-57436-2
July 2010, ©2010
Wiley E-Text, 720 pages
