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Readings about The Social Animal

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Twelfth  Edition©2020  Joshua Aronson; Elliot Aronson

ISBN:9781319280314

ISBN:9781464178726

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Dig into the details of the research that forms the backbone of social psychology!

Coinciding with the major themes found in The Social Animal 12th edition by Elliot Aronson, Readings About The Social Animal examines the most important ideas in social psychology. This acclaimed collection of articles includes accounts of both classic and contemporary experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing relevant studies.

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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

Elliot Aronson

Elliot Aronson is one of the most eminent and versatile psychologists of our time.  He is the only person in the 120 year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: Distinguished Researcher (1999), Distinguished Teaching (1980), and Distinguished Writing (1975).  In addition, among his many honors are the Gordon Allport Prize for his contributions to the betterment of intergroup relations, and the Donald Campbell Award for distinguished research in social psychology. 

In 1981, he was named Professor of the Year by the American Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.  Inducted in 1992, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.  In 2007, he was named a William James Fellow in commemoration of a lifetime of creative contributions to scientific psychology.

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.