| Description |
xx, 410 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series |
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McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Ethical issues in social psycholgy: Is deception of human participants ethical? -- Should scoial psychologists try to solve social problesm? -- Part 2. Social cognition: Are our social perceptions often inaccurate? -- Does cognitive dissonance explain why behavior can change atteitudes? -- Applying social psychology: are self-esteem programs misguided? -- Do positive illusions lead to helathy behavior? -- Can people accurately detect lies? -- Are repressed memories real? -- Part 3. Social influence: Can social psychological research help explain the Abu Ghraib prison scandal? -- Do Milgram's obedience experiments help explain the nature of the holocaust? -- Does the Stanford Prison Experiement help explain the effects of imprisonment? -- Is subliminal persuasion a myth? -- Can people really be brainwashed? -- Part 4. Social relations: Is stereotyping inevitable? -- Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure racial prejudice? -- Can sterotypes lead to accurate perceptions of others? -- Does true alturism exist? -- Does media violence cause aggression? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social psychology.
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| Author |
Nier, Jason A.
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| ISBN |
0073515035 paperback |
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