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CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER CHANGES Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology • New chapter-opening story
• Expanded section on the social cognitive perspective
• Expanded section on the evolutionary perspective
• Expanded section on the social neuroscience perspective
Chapter 2: Research Methods in Social Psychology • Expanded coverage of the steps in the research process
• Expanded coverage of survey research
• New section on emerging technologies, including virtual environments, the Internet, and brain imaging
Chapter 3: The Self • Completely rewritten and reorganized chapter
• New chapter-opening story
• New sections on the neurological basis of self-awareness and self-regulation
• Expanded coverage of private self-consciousness effects
• New research and expanded coverage on how culture shapes self-concept
• Expanded coverage of how bicultural individuals negotiate competing cultural expectations
• New section on self-esteem development and stability
• New section on how self-esteem affects responses to positive and negative events
• New discussion of implicit versus explicit self-esteem
• New Featured Study on adaptive self-regulation
Chapter 4: Self-Presentation and Person Perception • New chapter-opening story
• New discussion on automatic versus consciously controlled self-presentations
• New section on nonconscious mimicry
• New section on how culture, gender, and personality factors shape expression and perception of nonverbal behavior
• Revamped section on personality impressions
• Inclusion of Gustav Ichheiser's early contributions to attribution theory
• New section on effortful versus effortless attributions and pragmatic accuracy in person perception
• New Featured Study on the multiple audience problem in maintaining lies
Chapter 5: Thinking About Our Social World • Completely rewritten and reorganized chapter
• New section on serial versus sequential information processing
• New section on implicit versus explicit cognition
• New section on thought suppression
• New sections on how schemas shape social thinking
• Expanded discussion of heuristics
• Expanded discussion of the confirmation bias and the just-world belief
• Expanded Applications discussion of how we explain negative events in our lives
Chapter 6: Attitudes • Expanded discussion of implicit attitudes
• New theory and research on how values shape attitudes and behavior
• New research on the neurological basis of attitudes
• New research on how body movements may unconsciously shape attitudes
• New Featured Study on group membership and assumed attitude similarity
Chapter 7: Persuasion • New chapter-opening story
• New research on the sleeper effect
• New research on how fear and humor affect persuasion
• New research on age and life-stage effects on persuasion
• New section on attempting to resist persuasion
• New Featured Study on subliminal priming and persuasion
• Expanded Applications discussion of new research on subliminal persuasion
Preface xix Chapter 8: Prejudice And DiscriminatioN • Completely rewritten and reorganized chapter
• New chapter-opening story
• Updated definition of prejudice and new section on three basic forms of prejudice
• New research on the neurological correlates of prejudice
• New section on stigma and prejudice
• New section on weight prejudice
• Completely revised sections on stereotyping and prejudice
• New research on race-based cues and prejudice
• New research on authoritarianism and prejudice
• New section on a dual process model of personality-influenced prejudice
• New research on sexual harrassment
• New research on the contact hypothesis
• New Featured Study on intergroup contact, friendship, and prejudice reduction
• Expanded Applications discussion of reducing intergroup conflict and promoting academic achievement in schools
Chapter 9: Social Influence • New chapter-opening story
• New section on social power
• New section on the automatic activation of social norms
• New research on the neurological correlates with conformity
• New research on minority influence
Chapter 10: Group Behavior • New discussion of brain evolution and optimum group size
• Expanded discussion of the temporal model of group membership
• Expanded discussion of social loafing
• New research on Internet use and deindividuation
• Expanded discussion of social dilemmas, including the prisoner's dilemma
• New Featured Study on group decision rules in civil juries
Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction • New chapter-opening story
• Expanded coverage of evolutionary and neurological explanations for affiliation desires
• Expanded coverage of culture and affiliation desires
• New research on Internet use and the mere exposure effect
• New section on anxiety and affiliation in the aftermath of a national disaster
• New research on the physical attractiveness stereotype
• New research on physical attractiveness standards and body esteem effects
• New research on possible cultural shifts in physical attractiveness standards in mate selection
• New Featured Study on the alleviation of speech anxiety Chapter 12: Intimate Relationships • Updated and expanded coverage of attachment styles and intimacy
• New research on gender differences in friendships
• New research on the neurological correlates of romantic love
• Expanded discussion of evolutionary and sociocultural explanations of romantic love
• New section on how self-esteem influences romantic love
• New section on how romantic partners “read” each other
• New Featured Study on mate poaching
• Expanded Applications discussion on coping with jealousy
Chapter 13: Aggression • New research on personality and aggression
• Expanded coverage of collective aggression
• Expanded coverage of the evolutionary and biological influences on aggression
• New research on the weapons effect • New discussion of the influence of violent muic videos and video games on aggression
• New Featured Study on sexually aggressive men's cognitive associations about women, sex, hostility, and power
Chapter 14: Prosocial Behavior • New research on culture and helping
• New research on diffusion of responsibility and helping on the Internet
• New Featured Study on how imagining the presence of others can induce the bystander effect
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