Social Psychology and Human Nature
By Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 5th Edition, offers a remarkably fresh and compelling exploration of the fascinating field of social psychology. Respected researchers, teachers and authors Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman give students integrated and accessible insight into the ways that nature, the social environment and culture interact to influence social behavior. While giving essential insight to the power of situations, the text's contemporary approach also emphasizes the role of human nature -- viewing people as highly complex, exquisitely designed and variously inclined cultural animals who respond to myriad situations. Thoroughly updated with the latest research and developments, the new edition includes new coverage of social media use and loneliness, nonbinary gender theory, anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice and more. With strong visual appeal, an engaging writing style and the best of classic and current research, this text helps students make sense of the sometimes baffling -- but always interesting -- diversity of human behavior.
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 5th Edition, offers a remarkably fresh and compelling exploration of the fascinating field of social psychology. Respected researchers, teachers and authors Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman give students integrated and accessible insight into the ways that nature, the social environment and culture interact to influence social behavior. While giving essential insight to the power of situations, the text's contemporary approach also emphasizes the role of human nature -- viewing people as highly complex, exquisitely designed and variously inclined cultural animals who respond to myriad situations. Thoroughly updated with the latest research and developments, the new edition includes new coverage of social media use and loneliness, nonbinary gender theory, anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice and more. With strong visual appeal, an engaging writing style and the best of classic and current research, this text helps students make sense of the sometimes baffling -- but always interesting -- diversity of human behavior.
In real life, many decisions and dilemmas involve tradeoffs, meaning that often there is no single right answer that will suit everyone. "Tradeoffs" boxes help students develop a greater capacity to see both sides of many problems or behaviors and realize that solving one issue will sometimes create another. Topics include Now Versus Tomorrow: Delay of Gratification; Self-Handicapping; Affect Intensity or the Joys of Feeling Nothing; and Lower Expectations to Increase Happiness. These features help students truly understand tradeoffs -- which is a valuable and powerful way to improve critical thinking.
The text's popular self-quizzes include one relatively challenging item, which increases variety so that students of all ability levels can find questions that are helpful and appropriate for checking their progress and maximizing their study time.
"Money Matters" boxes illuminate social psychology concepts by applying them to concerns students recognize from everyday life. These entertaining, pragmatically useful extensions of each chapter's basic research themes include such topics as the price some football teams pay for racial prejudice; would you sell your soul for $1; and money, men and mating.
Focusing on key findings that have shaped theoretical thought -- including the best of both classic and current research -- the text helps students develop an integrative yet broad and informed understanding of the field. Graphs and images, such as a multi-country scatterplot graph in Chapter 10 "Aggression and Antisocial Behavior", illustrate decreased violence levels worldwide in the 20th century -- engaging students and enhancing their learning and understanding.
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