Social Psychology and Human Nature, Brief

Social Psychology and Human Nature, Brief

Language: English

Pages: 688

ISBN: 1133956408

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


You are a member of a social world on a planet that is home to about 7 billion people. This social world is filled with paradox, mystery, suspense, and outright absurdity. Explore how social psychology can help you make sense of your own social world with this engaging and accessible book. Roy F. Baumeister and Brad J. Bushman's SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 3rd Edition can help you understand one of the most interesting topics of all--the sometimes bizarre and baffling but always fascinating diversity of human behavior, and how and why people act the way they do.

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gold medal in wrestling at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Sanderson is currently the head wrestling coach at Iowa State University. When he was a college student, Sanderson was a student in Bushman’s social psychology class—but now his picture serves to remind his former professor to strive for excellence! Successful people actually seem to manage their social lives partly on the basis of these mental connections (Fitzsimons & Shah, 2008). When they have a goal, they automatically think more about

process of keeping others from interfering with your goals. • People’s plans tend to be overly optimistic, especially over a long time span. SELF-REGULATION • Self-regulation, or self-control, refers to the self ’s capacity to alter its own responses; it is essential for cultural animals to adapt to many different demands. • The three components of self-regulation are standards (concepts of how things should be), monitoring (keeping track of behaviors), and willpower/capacity for change

hot hand players. FALSE CONSENSUS EFFECT People tend to overestimate the number of people who share their opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs. This tendency is called the false consensus effect (Krueger & Clement, 1994; Marks & Miller, 1987). An early demonstration asked students whether they would walk around campus carrying a sign that said “Eat at Joe’s” (Ross, Greene, & House, HOT HAND the tendency for gamblers who get lucky to think they have a “hot” hand and their luck will continue

Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. • 5 2. Who published the first social psychology textbook? (a) Floyd Allport (b) William McDougall (c) Edward Ross (d) Both (b) and (c) 3. Who claimed that attitudes were the most important and useful concept in social psychology? (a) Gordon Allport (b) Kurt Lewin (c) Edward Ross (d) Norman Triplett 4. In the 1950s and 1960s, psychology was divided between what two camps? (a) Behaviorist and

might be. For one thing, people with low self-esteem have been found to be more vulnerable to social influence than people with high self-esteem, a pattern that social psychologists began to uncover in the 1950s (Brockner, 1983; Janis, 1954; Janis & Field, 1959). This led many experts to hope that increasing self-esteem among young people would enable them to resist peer pressures to participate in sex at a young age. In particular, they thought that girls with low self-esteem might be talked

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