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Table of Content:
- 1 What Is Social Psychology?
- A Definition of Social Psychology
- The Scientific Study …
- …of the Effects of Social and Cognitive Processes …
- …on the Way Individuals Perceive, Influence, and Relate to Others
- Historical Trends and Current Themes in Social Psychology
- Social Psychology Becomes an Empirical Science
- Social Psychology Splits from General Psychology Over What Causes Behavior
- The Rise of Nazism Shapes the Development of Social Psychology
- Growth and Integration
- Integration of Cognitive and Social Processes
- Integration with Other Research Trends
- Integration of Basic Science and Social Problems
- How the Approach of This Book Reflects an Integrative Perspective
- Two Fundamental Axioms of Social Psychology
- Construction of Reality
- Pervasiveness of Social Influence
- Three Motivational Principles
- People Strive for Mastery
- People Seek Connectedness
- People Value “Me and Mine”
- Three Processing Principles
- Conservatism: Established Views Are Slow to Change
- Accessibility: Accessible Information Has the Most Impact
- Superficiality Versus Depth: People Can Process Superficially or In Depth
- Common Processes, Diverse Behaviors
- Plan Of The Book
- Summary
- 2 Asking and Answering Research Questions
- A Note to the Student on How to Use This Chapter
- Research Questions and the Role of Theory
- Origins of Research Questions
- What Is a Scientific Theory?
- How Research Tests Theories
- Construct Validity and Measurement
- Threats to Construct Validity
- Ensuring Construct Validity by Using Appropriate Measures
- Ensuring Construct Validity by Using Multiple Measures
- Internal Validity and Types of Research Design
- Threats to Internal Validity
- Ensuring Internal Validity
- Experimental Versus Nonexperimental Research Designs
- External Validity and Research Populations and Settings
- Generalizing to Versus Generalizing Across People and Places
- External Validity and Research Participants
- Cultures and External Validity
- External Validity and Laboratory Research
- External Validity and Nonlaboratory Research
- Ensuring External Validity
- Evaluating Theories: The Bottom Line
- The Importance of Replication
- Competition with Other Theories
- Getting the Bias Out
- The Role of Ethics and Values in Research
- Being Fair to Participants
- The Use of Deception in Research
- Being Helpful to Society
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 3 Perceiving Individuals
- Forming First Impressions: Cues, Interpretations, and Inferences
- The Raw Materials of First Impressions
- Impressions From Physical Appearance
- Social Psychology in Practice: Physical Appearance in the Workplace
- Impressions from Nonverbal Communication
- Detection of Deception
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
- Impressions from Familiarity
- Social Psychology in Practice: Lie Detection in the Legal System
- Impressions from Environments
- Impressions from Behavior
- Which Cues Capture Attention?
- Automatic Interpretations of Cues
- The Role of Associations in Interpretation
- The Role of Accessibility in Interpretation
- Accessibility from Concurrent Activation
- Accessibility from Recent Activation
- Accessibility from Frequent Activation
- Social Psychology in Practice: Accessibility of Sexism from the Media
- Characterizing the Behaving Person: Correspondent Inferences
- When Is a Correspondent Inference Justified?
- The Correspondence Bias: People Are What They Do
- Limits on the Correspondence Bias
- Social Psychology in Practice: Correspondence Bias in the Workplace
- Beyond First Impressions: Systematic Processing
- Causal Attributions
- Sources of Attribution
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Differences in Attributions
- Using Attributions to Correct First Impressions
- Putting It All Together: Forming Complex Impressions
- Integrating Multiple Traits
- Integrating the Good and the Bad
- The Accuracy of Considered Impressions
- Motive for Accuracy
- Motives for Connectedness and Valuing Me and Mine
- Attempting to Undo Biases
- The Impact of Impressions: Using, Defending, and Changing Impressions
- Using Impressions
- Superficial Processing: Using a Single Attribute
- Systematic Processing: Integrating Multiple Factors
- Defending Impressions
- Impressions Shape Interpretations
- Impressions Resist Rebuttal
- Social Psychology in Practice: Perseverance in the Courtroom
- Selectively Seeking Impression-Consistent Behavior
- Creating Impression-Consistent Behavior: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Social Psychology in Practice: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in the Classroom
- Limits on the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Dealing with Inconsistent Information
- Reconciling Inconsistencies
- Integrating Inconsistencies
- Altering Impressions: Is Fundamental Change Possible?
- Social Psychology and Culture: Culture and Perceptions of Change
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 4 The Self
- Constructing the Self-Concept: Learning Who We Are
- Sources of the Self-Concept
- Learning Who We Are from Our Own Behavior
- Learning Who We Are from Thoughts and Feelings
- Learning Who We Are from Other People’s Reactions
- Learning Who We Are from Social Comparison
- Learning About Self and Others: The Same or Different?
- Differences in Cues and Knowledge
- Differences in Inferences
- Similar Shortcomings: More Is Not Always Better
- Multiple Selves
- Putting It All Together: Constructing a Coherent Self-Concept
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Differences in the Self Concept
- Constructing Self-Esteem: How We Feel about Ourselves
- Balancing Accuracy and Enhancement
- Evaluating Personal Experiences: Some Pain but Mainly Gain
- Social Comparisons: Better or Worse than Others?
- Why Self-Enhance?
- Social Psychology and Culture: Self-Esteem and Self-Enhancement in Cultural Context
- Effects of the Self: Self-Regulation
- The Self and Thoughts About Ourselves and Others
- The Self and Emotions
- How Do Emotions Arise?
- Appraisals, Emotions, Bodily Responses: All Together Now
- The Self in Action: Regulating Behavior
- Self-Expression and Self-Presentation
- Personality Differences In Preference for Self Expression and Self Presentation: Self-Monitoring
- Regulating Behavior to Achieve a Desired Self
- From Self to Behavior, and Back Again
- Temptations That May Derail Self-Regulation
- Negative Effects of Not Reaching Goals
- Defending the Self: Coping With Stresses, Inconsistencies, and Failures
- Threats to the Well-Being of the Self
- Emotional and Physical Effects of Threat
- Threat and Appraisals of Control
- Social Psychology in Practice: Control and Depression
- Defending Against Threat: Emotion-Focused Coping
- Escaping from Threat
- Downplaying Threat By Focusing on the More Positive Aspects of the Self
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Awareness of Personal Mortality as a Psychological Threat
- Working Through Threat by Writing About It
- Tend and Befriend
- Attacking Threat Head-On: Problem-Focused Coping
- Making Excuses: It’s Not My Fault
- Self-Handicapping
- Taking Control of the Problem
- Social Psychology in Practice: Control and Life Goals
- How to Cope?
- Self-Esteem as a Resource for Coping
- Controllability and Coping
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 5 Perceiving Groups
- Targets of Prejudice: Social Groups
- Social Categorization: Dividing the World into Social Groups
- Forming Impressions of Groups: Establishing Stereotypes
- The Content of Stereotypes
- Stereotypes Include Many Types of Characteristics
- Stereotypes Can Be Either Positive or Negative
- Stereotypes Can Be Accurate or Inaccurate
- Seeking the Motives behind Stereotyping
- Motives for Forming Stereotypes: Mastery through Summarizing Personal Experiences
- Between-Group Interactions Generate Emotion
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Stressful Effects of Cross-Racial Interaction
- People Notice Some Members More Than Others
- Some Information Attracts More Attention Than Other Information
- Social Roles Trigger Correspondence Biases
- Social Roles and Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Stereotypes from the Media
- Gender Stereotypes and the Media
- Motives for Forming Stereotypes: Connectedness to Others
- Learning Stereotypes from Others
- Social Communication of Stereotypes
- Motives for Forming Stereotypes: Justifying Inequalities
- USING STEREOTYPES: FROM PRECONCEPTIONS TO PREJUDICE
- Activation of Stereotypes and Prejudice
- What Activates Stereotypes?
- Stereotypes Can Be Activated Automatically
- Prejudice Can Be Activated Automatically
- Measuring Stereotypes and Prejudice
- Impact of Stereotypes on Judgments and Actions
- Effects of Cognitive Capacity
- Effects of Emotion
- Effects of Power
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Intersections of Race and Gender Categories
- Trying to Overcome Prejudice and Stereotype Effects
- Suppressing Stereotypes and Prejudice
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Who Can Suppress Stereotype Activation?
- Correcting Biased Judgments
- Activating Counterstereotypic Information
- Beyond Simple Activation: Effects of Stereotypes on Considered Judgments
- Seeking Evidence to Confirm The Stereotype: Just Tell Me Where to Look
- Interpreting Evidence to Fit the Stereotype: Well, If You Look at It That Way
- Comparing Information to Stereotypic Standards: That Looks Good, for a Group Member
- Constraining Evidence to Fit the Stereotype: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Social Psychology in Practice: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in School and at Work
- Changing Stereotypes and Reducing Prejudice
- Barriers to Stereotype Change
- Explaining Away Inconsistent Information
- Compartmentalizing Inconsistent Information
- Differentiating Atypical Group Members: Contrast Effects
- Overcoming Stereotype Defenses: The Kind of Contact that Works
- Repeated Inconsistency: An Antidote for “Explaining Away”
- Widespread Inconsistency: An Antidote for Subtyping
- Being Typical as Well as Inconsistent: An Antidote for Contrast Effects
- Reducing Prejudice Through Contact
- Social Psychology in Practice: Intergroup Contact in the Wild
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 6 Social Identity
- Categorizing Oneself as a Group Member
- Learning About Our Groups
- Feeling Like a Group Member
- Direct Reminders of Membership
- Presence of Out-Group Members
- Being a Minority
- Conflict or Rivalry
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Differences in the Importance of Group Membership
- Me, You, and Them: Effects of Social Categorization
- “I” Becomes “We”: Social Categorization and the Self
- Seeing Oneself as a Group Member
- Liking Ourselves: Social Identity and Self-Esteem
- Social Identity and Emotions
- Balancing Individuality and Connectedness
- Others Become “We”: Social Categorization and the In-Group
- Perceiving Fellow In-Group Members
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Is the Self Similar to In-Group, or Is the In-Group Similar to Self?
- Liking-In-Group Members: To Be Us Is to Be Lovable
- Treating the In-Group Right: Justice and Altruism
- Others Become “They”: Social Categorization and the Out-Group
- Perceiving the Out-Group as Homogeneous: “They’re All Alike!”
- Social Psychology in Practice: Out-Group Homogeneity in Eyewitness Identification
- Effects of Mere Categorization: Minimal Groups
- Discrimination and Social Identity
- Effects of Perceived Mild Threat
- Effects of Perceived Extreme Threat: Moral Exclusion and Hate Crimes
- They Don’t Like Us: Consequences of Belonging to Negatively Perceived Groups
- We Are Stigmatized: Effects on What We Do and How We Feel
- Effects on Performance
- Effects on Self-Esteem
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Sports Defeats, Collective Self-Esteem, and Unhealthy Behavior
- Defending Individual Self-Esteem
- Using Attributions to Advantage
- Making the Most of Intragroup Comparisons
- Social Psychology in Practice: Attributional Ambiguity in the Workplace
- Individual Mobility: Escaping Negative Group Membership
- Disidentification: Putting the Group at a Psychological Distance
- Dissociation: Putting the Group at a Physical Distance
- Social Creativity: Redefining Group Membership as Positive
- Social Change: Changing the Intergroup Context
- Social Competition
- Social Competition or Prejudice Reduction: Mutually Exclusive Goals?
- One Goal, Many Strategies
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 7 Attitudes and Attitude Change
- Attitudes and Their Origins
- Measuring Attitudes
- Attitude Function
- Social Psychology in Practice: Attitude Functions and the Environment
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Differences and Attitude Functions
- Attitude Formation
- The Informational Base of Attitudes
- Putting It All Together
- Linking Attitudes to Their Objects
- Superficial and Systematic Routes to Persuasion: From Snap Judgments to Considered Opinions
- Superficial Processing: Persuasion Shortcuts
- Attitudes by Association
- The Familiarity Heuristic: Familiarity Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- Social Psychology in Practice: Familiarity Effects and Health Warnings
- The Attractiveness Heuristic: Agreeing with Those We Like
- The Expertise Heuristic: Agreeing with Those Who Know
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Competence and Trustworthiness
- The Message-Length Heuristic: Length Equals Strength
- Systematic Processing: Thinking Persuasion Through
- Processing Information about the Attitude Object
- The Consequences of Systematic Processing
- Superficial and Systematic Processing: Which Strategy, When?
- How Motivation Influences Superficial and Systematic Processing
- How Capacity Influences Superficial and Systematic Processing
- Social Psychology and Culture: Culture and Connectedness Matching
- Social Psychology in Practice: Cognitive Ability and Advertising Aimed at Children
- How Moods and Emotions Influence Superficial and Systematic Persuasive Processing
- Social Psychology in Practice: Motivation and Capacity Consequences of Fear-Inducing Health Messages
- The Interplay of Cues and Content
- Defending Attitudes: Resisting Persuasion
- Ignoring, Reinterpreting, and Countering Attitude-Inconsistent Information
- Inoculation: Practice Can Be the Best Resistance Medicine
- What it Takes to Resist Persuasion
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 8 Attitudes and Behavior
- Changing Attitudes with Actions
- From Action to Attitude via Superficial Processing
- Associations with Action
- Inferences from Action: Self-Perception Theory
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Self-Perception and Choice
- The Foot-in-the-Door Technique: Could You Do This Small Thing (First)?
- Social Psychology in Practice: Self-Perception Processes and Health
- When Do Action-to-Attitude Inferences Change Attitudes?
- Cognitive Dissonance: Changing Attitudes to Justify Behavior
- The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
- Justifying Attitude-Discrepant Behavior: I Have My Reasons!
- Justifying Effort: I Suffered for It, so I Like It
- Justifying Decisions: Of Course I Was Right!
- The Processing Payoff: Justifying Inconsistent Actions Creates Persistent Attitudes
- Social Psychology in Practice: Dissonance Processes and Health Interventions
- Alternatives to Attitude Change
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Dissonance and Diet
- Which Dissonance Reduction Strategy Is Used?
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Differences and Dissonance
- Changing Actions with Attitudes
- How Attitudes Guide Behavior
- Attitudes Guide Behavior Without Much Thought
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Evaluating is Seeing
- Attitudes Guide Behavior Through Considered Intentions
- When Do Attitudes Influence Action?
- Attitude Accessibility
- Attitude Correspondence
- Implicit and Explicit Attitudes as Guides for Behavior
- When Attitudes Are Not Enough
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 9 Norms and Conformity
- Conformity to Social Norms
- What Are Social Norms?
- Public Versus Private Conformity
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: The Social Neuroscience of Conformity
- Social Psychology and Culture: Conformity and Culture
- Motivational Functions of Conformity to Norms
- Expecting Consensus
- Norms Fulfill Mastery Motives
- Norms Fulfill Connectedness Motives
- Whose Consensus? Me and Mine Norms Are the Ones that Count
- Social Psychology in Practice: Reference Group Effects in Food Preference
- Mastery, Connectedness, or Me and Mine?
- How Groups Form Norms: Processes of Social Influence
- Group Polarization: Going to Normative Extremes
- Explaining Polarized Norm Formation
- Superficial Processing: Relyig on Others’ Positions
- Systematic Processing: Attending to Both Positions and Arguments
- Undermining True Consensus
- When Consensus Seeking Goes Awry
- Consensus Without Consideration: Unthinking Reliance on Consensus
- Consensus Without Independence: Contamination
- Consensus Without Acceptance: Public Conformity
- Social Psychology in Practice: Pluralistic Ignorance and Health Risk Behavior
- Consensus Seeking at Its Worst: Groupthink
- Remedies for Faulty Consensus Seeking
- Minority Influence: The Value of Dissent
- Successful Minority Influence
- Offering an Alternative Consensus
- Negotiating Similarity and Difference
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Consequences of Norm Mismatch
- Promoting Systematic Processing
- Social Psychology in Practice: Minority Inflfluence in the Courtroom
- Processes of Minority and Majority Influence
- Beyond Minority Influence: Using Norms to Strengthen Consensus
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 10 Norms and Behavior
- Norms: Effective Guides for Social Behavior
- Activating Norms to Guide Behavior
- Direct Reminders of Norms
- Environments Activate Norms
- Groups Activate Norms
- Deindividuation
- Which Norms Guide Behavior?
- Descriptive Norms as Guides for Behavior
- Social Psychology in Practice: Using Norms to Influence Health Behaviors
- Injunctive Norms as Guides for Behavior
- The Interplay of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms
- Why Norms Guide Behavior So Effectively
- Enforcement: Do It, or Else
- Private Acceptance: It’s Right and Proper, So I Do It
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Is Following Norms in the Genes?
- Norms for Mastery and Connectedness: Reciprocity and Commitment
- The Norm of Reciprocity
- Returning Favors
- Reciprocating Concessions: The Door-in-the-Face Technique
- The Norm of Social Commitment
- The Low-Ball Technique
- Social Psychology and Culture: Norm-Consistent Behavior across Cultures
- The Norm of Obedience: Submitting to Authority
- Milgram’s Studies of Obedience
- Attempting to Explain Obedience
- Social Psychology in Practice: Obedience in Organizations
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Obedience in Virtual Reality
- The Norm of Obedience to Authority
- Authority Must Be Legitimate
- Authority Must Accept Responsibility
- The Norm of Obedience Must Be Activated
- Social Identification and Obedience
- Maintaining and Escalating Obedience
- Normative Trade-Offs: The Pluses and Minuses of Obedience
- Resisting, Rejecting, and Rebelling Against Norms
- Reactance
- Social Psychology and Culture: Perceptions of Illegitimacy and Disobedience Across Culture
- Resisting and Rejecting Norms Using Systematic Processing
- Using Norms Against Norms
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Resisting Norms Sometimes Has Rewards
- Putting it All Together: Multiple Guides for Behavior
- Both Attitudes and Norms Influence Behavior
- The Superficial Route
- The Thoughtful Route
- When Attitudes and Norms Conflict: Accessibility Determines Behavior
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 11 Interaction and Performance in Groups
- Social Facilitation: Effects of Minimal Interdependence
- Social Facilitation: Improvement and Impairment
- Evaluation Apprehension
- Social Psychology in Practice: Evaluation Apprehension in the Workplace and the Classroom: Monitoring and Performance
- Distraction
- Performance in Face-To-Face Groups: Interaction and Interdependence
- How Groups Change: Stages of Group Development
- Group Socialization: Mutual Evaluation by Members and Groups
- Group Development: Coming Together, Falling Apart
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Preference for Hierarchy
- Time and Group Development
- Being Pushed Out of Groups: Rejection and Ostracism
- Getting the Job Done: Group Performance
- Forms of Task Interdependence
- Gains and Losses in Group Performance
- Losses from Decreased Motivation: Social Loafing
- Social Psychology and Culture: Social Loafing Across Cultures
- Social Psychology in Practice: Social Loafing in the Classroom
- Losses from Poor Coordination
- Social Psychology in Practice: Poor Coordination in the Workplace
- Processes that Affect Performance: Group Communication
- Technology and Communication
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Virtual Minority Influence
- Processes that Affect Performance: Emotions and Mood in Groups
- Cures for Group Performance Losses
- Leadership and Power
- What Do Leaders Do?
- Leadership Effectiveness: Person or Situation?
- Social Psychology in Practice: Coaching Leadership in Youth Sports
- Who Becomes Leader?
- Stereotypes and Leadership
- Putting the Group First: Transformational Leadership
- The Dark Side of Leadership
- Power
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Power Poses
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 12 Attraction, Relationships, and Love
- Challenges in Studying Attraction, Relationships, and Love
- From Attraction to Liking
- Physical Attractiveness
- Biological Bases of Physical Attractiveness
- Experiential Bases of Physical Attractiveness
- Similarity
- Why Similarity Increases Liking
- Positive Interaction
- Why Interaction Increases Liking
- From Acquaintance to Friend: Relationship Development
- Exchanges of Rewards: What’s in It for Me and for You?
- Self-Disclosure: Let’s Talk about Me and You
- Effects of Self-Disclosure
- Social Psychology and Culture: Self-Disclosure and Culture
- Close Relationships
- Cognitive Interdependence: The Partner Becomes Part of the Self
- Behavioral Interdependence: Transformations in Exchange
- Affective Interdependence: Intimacy and Commitment
- Intimacy
- Social Psychology in Practice: Intimate Interactions and Health
- Commitment
- Individual Differences in Close Relationships: Attachment Styles
- Social Psychology and Culture: Relationships in Cultural Perspective
- Romantic Love, Passion, and Sexuality
- Passionate Feelings
- Mate Preference: Who’s Looking for What?
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Finding and Meeting Romantic Partners Online
- Sex in the Context of a Romantic Relationship
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Attraction, and Romantic Love
- When Relationships Go Wrong
- Threats to Relationships
- Handling Conflict: Maintaining Relationships in the Face of Threat
- Constructive and Destructive Accommodation to Negative Acts
- Social Psychology in Practice: Relationship Conflict and Social Problems
- Resources for Constructive Accommodation
- Social Psychology in Practice: Relationship Conflict and Clinical Psychology
- Declining Intimacy and Commitment
- Break-Up, Bereavement, and Loneliness
- After the Break-Up: Grief and Distress for Two
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Loneliness
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 13 Aggression and Conflict
- The Nature of Aggression and Conflict
- Defining Aggression and Conflict
- Origins of Aggression
- Research on Aggression
- Interpersonal Aggression
- What Causes Interpersonal Aggression? The Role of Rewards and Respect
- Counting Rewards and Costs
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Gender and Aggression
- Responding to Threats
- Social Psychology and Culture: Cultural Norms and Responses to Threat
- The Role of Negative Emotions
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Disgust and Aggression
- Increasing Aggression: Models and Cues
- Models of Aggression
- Social Psychology in Practice: Aggressive Models in the Media
- Learned Cues to Aggression
- Deciding Whether or Not to Aggress
- Putting It All Together: The General Aggression Model
- Intergroup Conflict
- Sources of Intergroup Conflict: The Battle for Riches and Respect
- Realistic Conflict Theory: Getting the Goods
- Relative Deprivation: When Is Enough Enough?
- Social Competition: Getting a Little Respect
- The Special Competitiveness of Groups: Groups Often Value Respect over Riches
- Escalating Conflict: Group Communication and Interaction
- Talking to the In-Group: Polarization and Commitment
- The Special Competitiveness of Groups: When Conflict Arises, Groups Close Ranks
- Talking to the Out-Group: Back Off, or Else!
- Social Psychology in Practice: Threat and Deterrence in International Affairs
- Vicarious Retribution: They Hurt Us, Now I Hurt Them
- Coalition Formation: Escalation as Others Choose Sides
- Perceptions in Conflict: What Else Could You Expect from Them?
- Polarized Perceptions of In-Group and Out-Group
- Biased Attributions for Behavior
- The Impact of Emotion and Arousal: More Heat, Less Light
- The Special Competitiveness of Groups: People Expect Groups To Be Supercompetitive, So They React in Kind
- “Final Solutions”: Eliminating the Out-Group
- The Special Competitiveness of Groups: Groups Offer Social Support for Competitiveness
- Final Solutions in History
- Reducing Interpersonal and Intergroup Conflict and Aggression
- Altering Perceptions and Reactions
- Promote Norms of Non-Aggression
- Minimize Cues for Aggression
- Interpret, and Interpret Again
- Promote Empathy with Others
- Resolving Conflict Through Negotiation
- Types of Solutions
- Achieving Solutions: The Negotiation Process
- Building Trust
- Mediation and Arbitration: Bringing in Third Parties
- Social Psychology and Culture: Negotiating across Cultural Lines
- Intergroup Cooperation: Changing Social Identity
- Superordinate Goals
- Why Does Intergroup Cooperation Work?
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- 14 Helping and Cooperation
- When Do People Help?
- Is Help Needed and Deserved?
- Perceiving Need
- Judging Deservingness
- Should I Help?
- Is Helping Up to Me? Diffusion of Responsibility
- When Norms Make Helping Inappropriate
- When Norms Make Helping Appropriate
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
- Why Do People Help? Helping and Cooperation for Mastery and Connectedness
- Biological Perspectives: Is Prosocial Behavior in Our Genes?
- Helping for Mastery: The Personal Rewards and Costs of Helping
- Rewards and Costs of Helping
- Emotional Rewards of Helping
- Is Helping Pure Egoism?
- Helping for Connectedness: Empathy and Altruism
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Helping and Happiness
- Mastery and Connectedness in Cooperation
- Social Dilemmas: Self-Interest Versus Group Interest
- Mastery Motives in Social Dilemmas: Rewards and Costs
- The Role of Trust
- Social Psychology and Culture: Culture, Trust, and Punishment
- Connectedness Motives in Social Dilemmas: Social Identification
- Individual Differences in Cooperation
- Role of Superficial or Systematic Processing in Helping and Cooperation
- The Impact of Processing
- Superficial Processing, Spontaneous Helping
- Systematic Processing, Planned Helping
- More Helping from Impulse or from Deliberation?
- Social Psychology in Practice: Helping in Organizations
- Prosocial Behavior in Society
- Help That Helps; Help That Hurts
- Increasing Prosocial Behavior in Society
- Hot Topics in Social Psychology: Global-Scale Social Dilemmas Require Global Cooperation
- Concluding Comments
- Summary
- Epilogue
- Core Principles of Social Psychology
- How the Principles Interrelate
- An Invitation to Social Psychology
- Photo and Cartoon Credits
- Glossary
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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