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Readings about The Social Animal
Twelfth Edition| ©2020 Joshua Aronson; Elliot Aronson
Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. The new edition adds 15 new readings...
Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. The new edition adds 15 new readings while retaining a number of classics by leading psychological thinkers such as Stanley Milgram on obedience and Solomon Asch on conformity.
Readings makes the perfect companion for the Aronsons highly praised book, The Social Animal as it follows the same major themes. The Reader can also be used with any introductory social psychology text or even in lieu of a text.
Using both The Social Animal textbook and the reader is a unique and engaging combination for understanding social psychology and its research.
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Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. The new edition adds 15 new readings while retaining a number of classics by leading psychological thinkers such as Stanley Milgram on obedience and Solomon Asch on conformity.
Readings makes the perfect companion for the Aronsons highly praised book, The Social Animal as it follows the same major themes. The Reader can also be used with any introductory social psychology text or even in lieu of a text.
Using both The Social Animal textbook and the reader is a unique and engaging combination for understanding social psychology and its research.
Features
- Paints a clear picture of the current state of social-psychological knowledge and how such knowledge might be applied to alleviate some problems plaguing us in the world today.
- Complements and supplements the material contained in the twelfth edition of The Social Animal, elaborating on major themes in the field.
- Each article is written by a leading expert(s) in the field enabling the reader to gain a close understanding of exactly what happens in the research.
New to This Edition
Over 15 new articles including:
- Scientific Reproducibility in the Study of Social Animals by Jay Van Bavel and William Al Cunningham
- The Replicability Issue and Stereotype Threat Research by Steven J. Spencer and Claude M. Steele
- A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels by Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, and Vladas Griskevicius
- Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda by Elizabeth Levy Paluck
- Implicit Bias in Social Interactions by Kate Riley Thorson and Tessa V. West
- A Purpose for Working Hard: When Transcending the Self Creates Self-Regulation by David S. Yeager
- Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment by Kent D. Harber and Christian H. Williams
- You Are What You Do: Implicating the Self to Influence Behavior by Christopher J. Bryan
- Work and the Art of Motivation Maintenance by Adam M. Grant
- The Mindful Social Animal by Barry Cohen and Joshua Aronson
"The articles are approachable for the broad undergraduate audience I teach in the course. I like the compatibility with the primary Aronson The Social Animal text. The articles follow thematically and generally extend the major points of the text. I also like the inclusion of the best of the classics. Students hear about studies like Milgram and Asch in introductory psychology courses, but it makes a huge difference to have them read the articles in their primary source form."
— Cynthia Edwards, Meredith College"The major strengths are: historical as well as contemporary research is presented in a fashion that is accessible to students just beginning to study social psychology and the articles capture the interest of students."
— Joel Wade, Bucknell University"I use The Social Animal and the Reader. I have used them for 20 years. The key strengths are the breadth of articles and the depth they add to the text book. I teach this course with a lab so I must teach both a strong social psychological content base and a methodological/statistical base – I find the Social Animal and Reader perfect for accomplishing these goals. In fact, the reader is perfect for teaching the methodological component of
the course."
— William Dragon, Cornell College
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Twelfth Edition| ©2020
Joshua Aronson; Elliot Aronson
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Readings about The Social Animal
Twelfth Edition| 2020
Joshua Aronson; Elliot Aronson
Table of Contents
Part I. What Is Social Psychology?
1. Social Psychology – The Science of Human Experience
Daniel M. Wegner and Daniel T. Gilbert
Part II. Social Cognition
2. Students’ Mindsets: Messages That Motivate
Carol S. Dweck
3. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Timothy D. Wilson
4. A Purpose for Working Hard: When Transcending the Self
Creates Self-Regulation
David S. Yeager
5. Human Autonomy: Its Basic Science and Applied
Significance
Edward Deci and Richard Ryan
6. The Mindful Social Animal
Barry R. Cohen and Joshua Aronson
Part III. Self-Justification
7. Dissonance, Hypocrisy, and the Self-Concept
Elliot Aronson
8. Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects
David K. Sherman and Geoffrey Cohen
9. Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgement
Kent Harber and Christian H. Williams
10. Using Cognitive Dissonance to Encourage Water Conservation
Chris Ann Dickerson, Ruth Thibodeau, Elliot Aronson, and Dayna Miller
11. Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited
Frederick Crews
Part IV. Conformity
12. Opinions and Social Pressure
Solomon E. Asch
13. Behavioral Study of Obedience
Stanley Milgram
14. "From Jerusalem to Jericho": A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior
John M. Darley and C. Daniel Batson
15. A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels
Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius
Part V. Mass Communication, Propaganda, and Persuasion
16. Attribution Versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior
Richard L. Miller, Philip Brickman, and Diana Bolen
17. You Are What You Do: Implicating the Self to Influence Behavior
Christopher J. Bryan
18. Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique
Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser
19. Work and the Art of Motivation Maintenance
Adam M. Grant
Part VI. HUMAN AGGRESSION
20. Low Glucose Relates to Greater Aggression in Married Couples
Brad J. Bushman, C. Nathan DeWall, Richard S. Pond, Jr., and Michael D. Hanus
21. Deindividuation and Anger-Mediated Interracial Aggression: Unmasking Regressive Racism
Ronald W. Rogers and Steven Prentice-Dunn
22. Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding
Brad J. Bushman
23. Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict Using the Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda
Elizabeth Levy] Paluck
Part VII. PREJUDICE 379
24. Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals
Elliot Aronson and Diane Bridgeman
25. Implicit Bias in Social Interactions
Kate Riley Thorson and Tessa V. West
26. Prejudice as Self-Image Maintenance: Affirming the Self Through Derogating Others
Steven Fein and Steven J. Spencer
Part VIII. LIKING, LOVING, AND INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY
27. Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat
James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson
28. The Long Reach of the Social in "Social Animal": Affiliation Motivation Is the Foundation on Which Achievement Motivation Rests
Andrew J. Elliot
29. The Social Animal Encounters Social Rejection: Cognitive, Behavioral, Emotional, and Interpersonal Effects of Being Excluded
Roy F. Baumeister and Dianne M. Tice
30. Arbitrary Social Norms Influence Sex Differences in Romantic Selectivity
Eli J. Finkel and Paul W. Eastwick
IX. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
31. Scientific Reproducibility in the Study of Social Animals Jay Van Bavel and William A. Cunningham
32. The Replicability Issue and Stereotype Threat Research Steven J. Spencer and Claude M. Steele
33. Research in Social Psychology as a Leap of Faith
Elliot Aronson
Authors
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Elliot Aronson
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Joshua Aronson
Joshua Aronson is associate professor of developmental, social, and educational psychology, at New York University. He has won awards for both research and teaching, including most recently, the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He is best known for his pioneering research on stereotype threat, research that has been cited in three Supreme Court cases and has been among the most widely cited research programs in psychology and education. He is also known as a pioneer in work on "growth Mindset," which also has had wide influence in education. Aronson has authored numerous scholarly articles on this work and is the Editor of Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education (Academic Press). His current work is devoted to enhancing the school experiences of disadvantaged students and their teachers, improving, teaching, learning and well being using insights from social psychology alongside innovations such was mindfulness meditation. He directs a laboratory at the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. Education Week lists him among the most influential education scholars in America.  
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Twelfth Edition| 2020
Joshua Aronson; Elliot Aronson
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