Social Psychology and Human Nature
By Brad J. Bushman, Roy F. Baumeister
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Bushman/Baumeister's SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 6th Edition, offers a remarkably fresh and compelling exploration of social psychology. Respected researchers, teachers and authors Brad Bushman and Roy Baumeister 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 a myriad of situations. With strong visual appeal, an engaging writing style, integrated content 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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Bushman/Baumeister's SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE, 6th Edition, offers a remarkably fresh and compelling exploration of social psychology. Respected researchers, teachers and authors Brad Bushman and Roy Baumeister 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 a myriad of situations. With strong visual appeal, an engaging writing style, integrated content 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.
Thoroughly updated with the latest research and developments, this edition includes coverage of new topics, including impersonal cooperation, gunfighter’s dilemma, positive and negative emodiversity, emotions from cultures other than the USA, self-validation theory, a type of lying called bulls**tting, “Vitamin S” (for social contact), parasocial relationships, gender dysphoria and more.
Most social psychology textbooks focus on humans as blank slates who just respond to situations. This textbook has the goal of putting the person back in the situation. People are regarded as highly complex, exquisitely designed and variously inclined cultural animals who are influenced but not defined by situations. This textbook will tell students plenty about the power of situations, but it also seeks to tell them about the people in those situations.
Many social psychology textbooks offer a “laundry list” of topics, much like a handbook or encyclopedia. This textbook offers an integrated, coherent vision of human nature. There are many social animals (e.g., elephants, wolves, bees, ants), but humans are much more than social animals -- they are cultural animals. This cultural animal theme is integrated through all chapters.
Most social psychology textbooks focus on how animals are like people. This textbook focuses on how people are different than other animals.
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