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Social Psychology Digital Update

The Science of Everyday Life: Prejudice and Discrimination ChaptersThird Edition ©2024 Jeff Greenberg; Toni Schmader; Jamie Arndt; Mark Landau

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With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by Achieve, Macmillan’s premier online courseware, Social Psychology, 3e Digital Update offers a fresh approach to the study of social psychology that no other available text can match. The authors draw on over 50 years of combined teaching and research to guide students through the rich diversity of the science of social psychology, weaving together explanations of theory, research methods, empirical findings, and applications to show  how social psychologists work to understand and solve  real-world problems. The updated Third Edition in Achieve provides new current research and topics in the Prejudice and Discrimination chapters and brings together all student and instructor resources, including an interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, videos, Video Activities, and more.

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  • Video Activities (at least one per chapter) combine video clips with multiple-choice assessments to help students think critically about key issues.
  • Science of Everyday Life Experiments and Activities let students explore high-impact  applications of actual research in social psychology. 

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Recurring “Applications” Feature
Woven into the main chapter narratives, Application discussions help students understand the relevance of social psychology’s insights into human behavior in many domains of life, including politics, law, social justice, health, education, business, art, and fashion.

Features that Link Core Content to Students’ World

  • Social Psych at the Movies explores how social psychological principles are reflected in classic and contemporary films.
  • Social Psych Out in the World takes a social psychological perspective on significant current and historical issues and events.

Think About questions are embedded within the text to encourage students to relate topics to their own lives and to think critically.

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Updated Edition:

Updated Video collection with about 12 new videos including “Covid-19 and Loneliness” and “Hate Incidents and discussions about Asian Americans”

New and updated coverage in Chapters 10 and 11 (Prejudice and Reducing Prejudice): New research on topics such as: aggression against Asian Americans during the pandemic; relationship of fear of immigrants and security on one’s wealth; white privilege; and increased prejudicial attitudes among Trump supporters after his election as president. Among new topics are: election of Kamala Harris; overturning of Roe V. Wade; unifying forces such as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the global need to confront climate change.

A wealth of new material throughout, including for example new research on: social media and memory (Ch 5); the gap between reflected and actual appraisals (chapter 5); forgiving politicians who make up facts when they argue for positions we support (Ch 8); uncertainty and radicalization (Ch 9); discrimination and health outcomes (Ch 11); the weapons effect and driving (Ch12); introduction of the concept “existential isolation” (Ch 14); attraction in gender non-conforming relationships (Ch 14).

New Critical Learning Activities at the end of each chapter encourage students to think critically and apply concepts presented in the chapter.

Social Psychology in Everyday Life feature in Achieve points to real students’ stories, told in their own words, about how what they learned in class related to their lives outside of school.

New and updated Applications features such as Using Social Learning from Television to Better Lives (Ch 7) and Should Universities be Selling Beer? (Ch8).

“This textbook presents the material in a way that engages the students. One of the reasons I chose this textbook is because I like the way it relates the topics to the real world. My favourite section is the one on schemas and priming.”   
— Lori Doan, University of Manitoba

“I adopted this text because I like the way it was written. It is a very well written text for social psychology and covers the major areas in a way students can understand. I also like the research emphasis in the text and how implicit attitudes and the IAT are discussed in several areas, which complement the diversity initiative I have in my class. “ 
— Chrysalis Wright, University of Central Florida

"The text is integrative and does an excellent job emphasizing the interconnectedness of the processes that govern all aspects of human social life. The student resources are top notch and forward thinking. Today’s students will love interacting with this book. "
—Matthew Vess, Texas A & M University

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Table of Contents

C H A P T E R 1. The Revealing Science of Social Psychology
C H A P T E R 2.  Fundamentals of Social Behavior
C H A P T E R 3. The Core Elements of Social Cognition
C H A P T E R 4. Thinking About People and Events
C H A P T E R 5. The Nature, Origins, and Functions of the Self
C H A P T E R 6. The Key Self-motives: Consistency, Esteem, Presentation, and Growth
C H A P T E R 7. Social Influence
C H A P T E R 8. Persuasion, Attitudes, and Behavior
C H A P T E R 9. Group Processes
C H A P T E R 10. Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
C H A P T E R 11. Responding to and Reducing Prejudice
C H A P T E R 12. Interpersonal Aggression
C H A P T E R 13. Prosocial Behavior
C H A P T E R 14. Interpersonal Attraction
C H A P T E R 15. Close Relationships

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Jeff Greenberg

Jeff Greenberg is a Professor of Psychology and College of Science Fellow at the University of Arizona. As a small child growing up in the Bronx, he was very curious about the human propensities for vanity and prejudice. Jeff majored in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, but it wasn’t until his final semester, and his first course in social psychology, that he found a field where people where asking the questions he thought should be asked. Soon after starting a master’s program in social psychology at Southern Methodist University, he knew this was what he wanted to spend his life studying and teaching. After receiving his M.A., Jeff completed his Ph.D. at University of Kansas in 1982 under the mentorship of Jack Brehm. He has since received numerous research and teaching awards. His research has contributed to understanding self-serving biases, how motivation affects cognition, the effects of ethnic slurs, the role of self-awareness in depression, cognitive dissonance, and how concerns about death contribute to prejudice, self-esteem striving, and many other aspects of social behavior. Jeff has also co-authored or co-edited six prior books, including the Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology and In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror.

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Toni Schmader

Toni Schmader is a Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She received her B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania before completing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before moving to Canada in 2009, she taught at the University of Arizona for 10 years. At UBC, she was awarded the Killam Prize for excellence in research, and at the U of A she received the Magellan Prize for excellence in teaching. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She was drawn to research in social psychology for its ability to take a systematic empirical approach to examining important social issues and to teaching for the opportunity to share those insights with others. Her research examines how individuals are affected by and cope with tarnished identities and negative stereotypes. She has published work on topics of social identity threat, stigma and identity, stereotyping and prejudice, self-conscious emotion, and gender roles.

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Jamie Arndt

Jamie Arndt is the 2012 Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri (MU). After attending Skidmore College in the eastern United States for his B.A., and the University of Arizona in the west for his Ph.D., he settled in the middle, accepting a position at MU in 1999. During his time at MU he has received the Robert S. Daniel Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the Provost’s Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award, and the University of Missouri Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is a founding member of the Social Personality and Health Network, former Chair of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Training Committee, and has served on the editorial board of various journals in the field. He has authored or co-authored scholarly works pertaining to the self, existential motivation, psychological defense, and their implications for many topics, most notably health decision making, creativity, and legal judgment.

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Mark Landau

Mark J. Landau is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas. Mark received his B.A. from Skidmore College, where he became very interested in the fusion of experimental psychology and existential philosophy. He continued his research and education at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and then the University of Arizona, where he received his Ph.D. in 2007. His research explores how existential motives influence social perceptions and behavior, and how people use conceptual metaphors to construct meaning. He has received a number of awards recognizing his research, including the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Outstanding Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. Mark has taught social psychology for over 14 years. He enjoys showing students that research, much like an inspiring novel or movie, affirms our common humanity – reminds us that we are not alone in our strivings, insecurities, and foibles – and thereby sharpens our ethical awareness.

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