Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology / Edition 3

by Susan T. Fiske

Overview

Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, 3rd Edition provides psychologists with a cutting-edge approach on evolutionary and cross-cultural psychology. The book addresses research on three different levels:  brain function and cognition, individual and situations, and groups and cultures. The second edition has been updated to present contemporary research in social psychology. It also discusses increasingly important issues in the field including emotion science and the impact of neuroscience on social and personality psychology. The Third Edition retains the previous editions’ features and adds the most up-to-date literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118552544
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/31/2013
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	706
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University. A Harvard Ph.D., she has honorary doctorates from the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. She has just finished a third edition of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2008, each with Shelley Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She has written more than 200 articles and chapters, as well as editing many books and journal special issues. Notably, as part of her effort to keep up with the field she loves, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Daniel Schacter and Robert Sternberg) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (5th edition, 2010, with Daniel Gilbert and Gardner Lindzey).

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

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