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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Characterizing Social Psychology | |
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The Power of the Situation | |
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The Role of Construal | |
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Automatic and Controlled Processing | |
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Evolution and Human Behavior: How we are the Same | |
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Culture and Human Behavior: How we are Different | |
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Doing Research | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Connecting to Others | |
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Groups | |
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The Nature and Purpose of Group Living | |
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Social Facilitation | |
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Deindividuation and the Psychology of Mobs | |
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Group Decision Making | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Attraction | |
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Studying Attraction | |
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Propinquity | |
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Similarity | |
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Physical Attractiveness | |
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Theoretical Integration | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Relationships | |
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Characterizing Relationships | |
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The Importance of Relationships | |
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The Origins of How We Relate to Others | |
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Different Ways of Relating to Others | |
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Romantic Relationships | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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The Social Self | |
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Foundations of the Self-Concept | |
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Self-Knowledge | |
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Self-Evaluation | |
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Self-Presentation | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading and Films | |
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Influencing Others | |
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Social Influence | |
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What is Social Influence? | |
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Conformity | |
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Obedience to Authority | |
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Compliance | |
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Resisting Social Influence | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Attitudes and Persuasion | |
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The Basics of Attitudes | |
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Functions of Attitudes | |
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Persuasion and Attitude Change | |
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The Media and Persuasion | |
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Resistance to Persuasion | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading and Films | |
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Attitudes and Behavior | |
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Predicting Behavior from Attitudes | |
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Predicting Attitudes from Behavior | |
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Self-Perception Theory | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Social Thought | |
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Causal Attribution | |
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Why Social Psychologists Study Causal Attribution | |
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The Processes of Causal Attribution | |
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Errors and Biases in Attribution | |
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Culture and the Fundamental Attribution Error | |
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Beyond the Internal/External Dimension | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Social Judgment | |
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Why Study Social Judgment? | |
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The Information Available for Judgment | |
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How Information is Presented | |
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Prior Knowledge and Knowledge Structures | |
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Reason, Intuition, and Heuristics | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination | |
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Characterizing Intergroup Bias | |
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The Economic Perspective | |
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The Motivational Perspective | |
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The Cognitive Perspective | |
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Being a Member of a Stigmatized Group | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Social Sentiments | |
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Emotion | |
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Characterizing Emotion | |
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Universality and Cultural Specificity of Emotion | |
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Emotion in the Mind and Body | |
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Unconscious and Conscious Elicitation of Emotion | |
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The Rationality of Emotions | |
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Happiness | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Aggression and Altruism | |
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Aggression | |
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Altruism | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Morality, Justice, and Cooperation | |
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The Evolution of Morality, Justice, and Cooperation | |
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Morality | |
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Justice | |
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Cooperation | |
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Summary | |
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Critical Thinking About Basic Principles | |
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Further Reading | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Credits and Acknowledgments | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |