Preface: To Students and Their Teachers
Chapter 1: How Do Social Psychologists Think?
To Wear or Not to Wear an Ineffective Mask: That Was the Question During the Coronavirus Pandemic
An Exercise About Sex and Social Interactionism
The Neighs Have It: Testing Theories With Experiments
A Painful Intuition: Bloodletting
Chapter 2: The Social Psychologist’s Toolbox
Crucial Experiments: Who’s Talking Now?
Ethnography: Gang Leader for a Day
Health Detective: The Missing Pump Handle
Witchcraft and False Confessions: Then and Now
Chapter 3: The Social Self
Phineas Gage: The Self With a Hole in His Head
The Changing Self: Identity of Transgender Individuals
The Disappearing Self: Lost Memory
The Pregnant Self: Does My Bump Look Big in This?
Chapter 4: Social Cognition
Intuition in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Dual Processing Medical Diagnoses
Girl or Boy? Gender Socialization Begins at Ultrasound
Sexual Scripts and Sexual Regrets
Chapter 5: Person Perception
“Tell Me the Truth—Am I Too Pretty?” Marilyn Monroe and the Halo Effect
From Street Kid to Magician: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Intellectual Bloomers: The Slow Creation of a Classic Study
The Rock in the Coffin: Terror Management Theory
Chapter 6: Attitudes and Persuasion
Cognitive Dissonance, Part I: Prelude to a Theory
Cognitive Dissonance, Part II: The Flying Saucer That Never Came
Understanding Drug Use: The Theory of Planned Behavior
Chapter 7: Social Influence
Obedience Plus: More Data From the Shock Experiments
Mods and Rockers: A Moral Panic
Big Fish Eat Small Fish: Social Coordination in a Violent World
Chapter 8: Group Processes
More Than a Game: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Interpersonal Rejection: A Case Study of 14 School Shootings
On the Shoulders of Giantesses: The First Computer Programmers
Chapter 9: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Economic Anxiety and the Illegal Deportation of U.S. Citizens
Intersectionality: Sojourner Truth
Environmental Psychology and Institutional Discrimination: What Happened at Erasmus High School?
Footnote 11: After the Doll Studies
Chapter 10: Helping and Prosocial Behavior
The Misunderstood Murder of Kitty Genovese: A Continuing Case Study
Zombie Wasps and Altruistic Vampire Bats
The Bacon Truce: Cooperation Despite War
The Subway Samaritan: The Mathematics of Relative Altruism
Chapter 11: Aggression
Doloreisa’s Story: Aggression, Prostitution, and Sex Trafficking
The Great Train Robbery: Violence as Entertainment
Chapter 12: Intimate Relationships
Religion and Marriage Counseling
Male Victims of Relationship Abuse
The Influence of Dating Technology
Happily Ever After: Ingredients to a Long, Happy Marriage
References
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