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Chapter 2. Research Methods
What Are the Elements of the Scientific Method?
The Cycle of Science: The Scientific Method
Creating and Measuring Constructs
Types of Research
Archival Studies
Naturalistic Observation
Surveys
Case Studies
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Social Desirability
How Do Social Psychologists Design Studies?
Preexperimental Designs
True Experiments
Independent and Dependent Variables
Types of True Experiment
Between-Participants Versus Within-Participants
Quasi-Experimental Designs
Correlational Designs
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Correlation and Causation in Harry
Potter
Cutting-Edge Combinations
How Do Social Psychologists Analyze Their Results?
Comparing Groups
Comparing Two Groups: The t Test Statistic
Comparing Three or More Groups: Analysis of Variance
Patterns in a Single Group: Correlations
Testing for Statistical Significance: p Values
How Can Research Be Analyzed in Terms of Quality?
Reliability, Validity, and Replication
Ethical Considerations
Spotlight on Research Methods: Questions Your Institutional Review Board
Might Ask
Chapter Summary
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
Chapter 3. The Social Self
What Is the “Self”?
The Scientific Study of Self-Awareness
Early Research on Self-Awareness: Darwin and Imitation
Testing Self-Awareness: The Mirror Self-Recognition Test
Defining and Measuring the Self-Concept
Social Comparison Theory
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Social Identity Theory
The Regional Self
The Cultural Self
Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals
Self-Schema Theory
How Do We Know the Self Is Social?
Self-Perception Theory: Behaviors Tell Us Who We Are
Self-Discrepancy Theory: Are We Trying to Juggle Three Selves?
The Actual Self
The Ideal Self
The Ought Self
When Selves Don’t Align: Self-Discrepancy
Self-Expansion Theory: Inclusion of Others in the Self
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Self-Discrepancy Theory and Wonder
Woman
Why Do We Present Different Selves in Different Situations?
We Use Impression Management to Get What We Want
Ingratiation: Other-Enhancements and Opinion Conformity
Self-Promotion: Self-Enhancements and Entitlements
Conspicuous Consumption
Brain Damage Can Limit Self-Presentation Ability
Phineas Gage: A Landmark Case Study
Say Goodbye to Self-Presentation
Self-Monitoring: Social Chameleons
Low Self-Monitors
High Self-Monitors
Adaptability Versus Authenticity: Which Way Is Best?
The Symphonic Self: The Poetry of Science
Is the Truth Always the Self’s Friend?
Optimal Margin Theory: Positive Illusions Can Be Beneficial
Self-Serving Cognitive Biases
Biased Views of Our Own Traits
Biased Views of Our Own Behaviors
Biased Views of Feedback About the Self
Spotlight on Research Methods: Positive Illusions in Dating Relationships
What Is Self-Esteem and How Can We Measure It?
Defining Self-Esteem
Two Strategies for Measuring Self-Esteem
Measuring Explicit Self-Esteem (Directly)
Measuring Implicit Self-Esteem (Indirectly)
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Rosenberg’s (1965) Self-Esteem Scale
Collective Self-Esteem
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Collective Self-Esteem and Race
Sports Fan Psychology: Basking in Reflected Glory
Self-Esteem Has a Dark Side
The Boosting Self-Esteem Movement
Dangers of Elevated Self-Esteem
Negative Feedback Can Help Us Improve
The Self-Esteem Intervention That Backfired
The Relentless Pursuit of Self-Esteem May Be Harmful
Insidious Dangers of Overvaluing Self-Esteem
The Dangers of Narcissism
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
Chapter 4. Social Cognition
How Do We Think?
Dual Processing: Intuition and Logic
Our Two Thinking Systems Interact
Social Thinking Is Shaped by Cultural Influences
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Need for Cognition
Spotlight on Research Methods: Culture Influences How We Think
How Do We Remember Social Information?
Schemas Label and Categorize
Scripts Create Expectations About What Happens Next
Stereotypes Ignore Individual Differences Within Groups
Why Do Our Brains Sometimes Make Mistakes?
Information Overload Leads to Mental Errors
Cognitive Misers
Satisficers Versus Maximizers
Magical Thinking Encourages Mental Errors
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: The Maximization Scale
“If Only . . .” Wishes
Counterfactual Thinking: Upward and Downward
The Optimistic Bias and the Planning Fallacy
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Counterfactual Thinking in Spider-Man
From Where Does Intuition Come?
Intuition Relies on Mental Accessibility
Priming Increases Mental Accessibility
Spotlight on Research Methods: How Priming Can Test for Racism
Experience Improves Mental Accessibility
Can We Trust Our Intuition? The Role of Heuristics and Biases
Heuristics Facilitate Mental Accessibility
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The Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic
The Availability Heuristic
The Representativeness Heuristic
Parallel Heuristics
We Can Respect—but Not Trust—Our Intuitions
The Confirmation Bias: A Dangerous Way to Think
The Hindsight Bias: A Self-Deceiving Way to Think
The Negativity Bias: Bad Is More Memorable Than Good
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
Chapter 5. Person Perception
How Do We Form Impressions of Others?
First Impressions, Expectations, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Halo Effects
What-Is-Beautiful-Is-Good
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Hollywood
Films
Applications of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Prophecy and Experimenter Bias
Prophecy and Elementary Schoolchildren
Halo Effects and “Intellectual Bloomers”
Replicating and Refining the Research
The External Validity of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Application: Expectations About Young Hockey Players
How Do We Communicate Nonverbally?
Facial Expressions Across Cultures: The Universality Hypothesis
Cross-Cultural Tests of the Universality Hypothesis
Converging Evidence Through Replication
Can You Tell When People Are Lying?
Micro-Expressions: Duping Delight Versus the Duchenne Smile
Affect Blends and Negative Emotions
It Is Difficult to Lie Well
Culturemes Communicate Social Impressions
How Do We Explain Other People’s Behavior?
Attribution Theory: We Try to Isolate the Cause of Behavior
We Make Internal and External Attributions
The Danger of Internal Attributions: Victim Blaming
The Injustice of Believing in a Just World
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Belief in a Just World
Locus of Control
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Defensive Attributions: Terror Management Theory
Kelley’s Covariation Model of Attribution
Spotlight on Research Methods: Experimentally Manipulating Thoughts of
Death
Why Do We Misjudge One Another?
Cognitive Errors Accumulate Into Flawed Perceptions
The Fundamental Attribution Error
The Actor-Observer Attribution Bias
Attributions to Explain History
Cultural Expectations Affect Attribution Errors
We Make Self-Serving Attributions
The False Consensus Bias
The False Uniqueness Bias
The Good and Bad of Bias
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
Chapter 6. Attitudes and Persuasion
What Are Attitudes, and Do They Predict Behavior?
Attitudes Evaluate Something
The Model of Dual Attitudes
Implicit Versus Explicit Attitudes
Attitudes Facilitate Decision Making
Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
Converging Evidence About Attitudes and Behavior
The Specificity Principle
Self-Perception Theory and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Self-Affirmation Theory
Attitudes and the Theory of Planned Behavior
Subjective Norms and Perceived Control
Three Predictors Are Better Than One
From Where Do Attitudes Come?
Nature and Nurture Interact: Twin Studies
Attitudes Come From Experience
Social Learning Theory
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Applying Attitude Acquisition to Real Life
How Are Attitudes Measured?
Direct Measures of Explicit Attitudes
Social Desirability and the Bogus Pipeline
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Indirect Measures of Implicit Attitudes
The Implicit Associations Test (IAT)
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: The Implicit Attitudes Test
Spotlight on Research Methods: An Ingenious Method to Create
Cognitive Dissonance
How Does Cognitive Dissonance Influence Attitudes?
Cognitive Dissonance Motivates Attitude Change
Beware of the Rationalization Trap
Individual, Situational, and Cultural Differences in Dissonance
How Do Attitudes Change?
There Are Two Paths to Persuasion
Inoculation Against Persuasion
The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and the
Heuristic-Systematic Model (HSM)
Applying the Persuasion Model to the Courtroom
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Persuasion of Juries in My Cousin
Vinny Versus A Time to Kill
Applying the Persuasion Model to Retail Sales
Explaining Celebrity Endorsements: The Communication-
Persuasion Matrix
Four Elements of Persuasion: The Message-Learning Approach
Source Variables
Message Variables
Recipient Variables
Context Variables
What Persuasion Techniques Are Used to Change Attitudes?
Commitment and Consistency
The Lowball Technique
Foot-in-the-Door
The Norm of Reciprocity
Door-in-the-Face
Not-So-Free Samples
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflections
Chapter 7. Social Influence: Conformity, Social Roles, and Obedience
What Types of Social Influence Exist?
Social Norms and the Herd Mentality
Conforming Is Contagious
Social Contagion
Mass Psychogenic Illness
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The Tanganyikan Laughter Epidemic
Why and When Do We Choose to Conform?
Informational Social Influence
Why We’re Tempted by Informational Social Influence
Public and Private Conformity
Spotlight on Research Methods: Sherif and the Auto-Kinetic Effect
Generational Influence on Conformity
Normative Social Influence
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Conformity
Fitting in Beats Being Right
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Conformity in Mean Girls and The
DUFF
Cultural Values and Conformity
Conformity, Culture, and Eating
Ironic Conformity: Hippies and Goth
How Do Social Roles Change Our Behavior?
The Setup for the Stanford Prison Study
Anonymity, Deindividuation, and Disinhibition
Clothing Can Facilitate Particular Social Roles
Clothes That Prime Positive and Negative Social Roles
Anonymity That Encourages Intimacy
The Self Behind the Mask
What Can We Learn From Milgram’s Experiments on Authority?
The Man Behind the Controversy: Stanley Milgram
The Historical Context
The Study’s Procedure
Milgram’s Replications
The Path to Disobedience
Ethical Considerations
Beyond Obedience: Sacrificing for a Higher Cause
Sacrificing for a “Noble” Cause
Historical Evidence
Two Interpretations of Milgram—and of the Holocaust
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
Chapter 8. Group Processes
Why Are Groups So Important to Us?
Groups Provide Social Support
The Westgate Housing Projects at MIT
The Housing Projects at the Robert Taylor Homes
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Groups Provide a Sense of Identity
Groups Make Us Feel Safe
Groups Provide Meaningful Information
Why Are We More Committed to Certain Groups?
Difficult-to-Get-Into Groups Are More Appealing: The Initiation Effect
We Get Caught in the Escalation Trap: The Hazing Effect
Spotlight on Research Methods: Group Initiations Foster Group Commitment
Initiation Rituals Strengthen the Group’s Authority
Maltreatment Effects
Stockholm Syndrome
Fear of Being Ostracized
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Rejection Sensitivity
Optimal Distinctiveness Theory: Being Special Matters
How Do Groups Help and Hinder Individual Effort?
The Presence of Others Can Help Performance: Social Facilitation
The Competitive Instinct: Triplett’s Bicycle Racing Experiments
When Facilitation Fails
The Cockroach Experiments
Evaluation Apprehension Versus Mere Presence
The Presence of Others Can Hinder Performance: Social Loafing
Free Riders: Ringelmann’s Oxen Experiments
Not Everyone Loafs: Situational, Personality, and Cultural Effects
Process Loss Versus Coordination Loss
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Likelihood to Be a Social
Loafer
Diffusion of Responsibility
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Group Dynamics in the Justice League
of America
How Do Individuals Influence Groups?
The Most Effective Leader Depends on the Situation
Contingency Theory of Leadership
Applying the Contingency Theory of Leadership
Types of Leaders
Individuals Can Influence Group Decision Making
Group Polarization and the Risky Shift
Groupthink
The Spiral of Silence and Pluralistic Ignorance
What Increases Group Creativity?
The Wisdom of Crowds and Crowdsourcing
Brainstorming Can Help
Inspiring Creativity
When Brainstorming Doesn’t Work
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Guidelines for Successful Brainstorming
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflections
Chapter 9. Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Why Do We Stereotype?
Stereotypes Are Efficient but Biased: Adaptive Categorization
Stereotypes Help Us to Be Cognitive Misers
The Minimal Group Paradigm
Ingroups Are Comforting and Validating: Social Identity Theory
Culture Reinforces Stereotypes: The Power of Privilege
Intergenerational Transmission: Social Learning Theory
Stereotypes as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Social Role Theory
Becoming Our Own Worst Enemy: Stereotype Threat
Spotlight on Research Methods: Dolls, Prejudice, Schools, and the Supreme
Court
How Do Stereotypes Turn Into Prejudices?
We Compete Over Limited Resources: Realistic Conflict Theory
Frustration Leads to Aggression: Scapegoat Theory
Maintaining Positive Self-Esteem: Applying Social Identity Theory
We React With Emotions: The Stereotype Content Model
Is Prejudice a Personality Problem?
The Authoritarian Personality
Social Dominance Orientation
Religiosity
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring “Prejudiced” Personality
Traits
Has Prejudice Decreased Over Time?
Old-Fashioned Prejudice
Modern-Symbolic Prejudice
Benevolent + Hostile = Ambivalent Prejudice
How Can We Reduce Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination?
An Early Hope: The Contact Hypothesis and Robbers Cave
Sherif’s Solution: Superordinate Goals
Applying Superordinate Goals: Jigsaw Classrooms
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Prejudice Reduction in Remember the
Titans
Try This at Home: Forming Friendships
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
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Personal Reflections
Chapter 10. Helping and Prosocial Behavior
What Motivates People to Help Others, in General?
The Evolutionary Perspective: Prosocial Behaviors Help Our Groups
Survive
Kinship Selection
Reciprocal Altruism
Prosocial Social Norms Increase Helping
The Difficulty of Studying Prosocial Behavior
Helping and Belief in a Just World
Helping and the Social Responsibility Norm
We Help to Avoid Negative Emotions: Negative State Relief
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Captain America: A Paragon of
Prosocial Action
We Help Because We Care: The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
Why Do Some People Help More Than Others?
A Prosocial Personality
Religious Norms Promote Obligations and Options
Intrinsic Versus Quest Religiosity
Spotlight on Research Methods: Personality and Prosocial Behavior
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Prosocial Personality
Traits
When Religion Isn’t Enough: The Good Samaritan Experiment
Gender and Communal Behaviors
Gender Socialization: Agency and Communion
Changing Patterns of Gender Socialization
Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping
What Circumstances Make Helping More or Less Likely?
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Kitty Genovese’s Story on Film
More People = Less Helping
The Urban Overload Hypothesis
Diffusion of Responsibility: The Bystander Effect
We Help People We Like (and Who Are Similar to Us)
Latane and Darley’s Five-Step Model of Helping
Step 1: Notice the Event
Step 2: Interpret the Event as an Emergency
Step 3: Take Responsibility
Step 4: Knowing How to Help
Step 5: Implementing the Decision to Help
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
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Personal Reflection
Chapter 11. Aggression
What Does It Mean to Be “Aggressive”?
Typologies Help Define Aggression
A Descriptive Typology
A Motivational Typology
Microaggressions
The Persistence of Aggression Over Time
The Escalation of Aggression: Stages of Provocation
The Big Picture of Worldwide Aggression
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Aggressive Tendencies
Is Aggression Explained by Biological Instincts?
Genetic Determinism
Status and Mating Motives
Biological Mechanisms of Aggression
Responding to Threat
A Low Resting Heart Rate
The Role of Alcohol in Aggression
Spotlight on Research Methods: Low Heart Rate and Domestic Violence
The Influence of Testosterone on Aggression
Is Aggression Explained by Cultural Influences?
Cultures of Honor
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Belief in a Culture of
Honor
Gender Roles and Aggression
Sports Culture
Perpetrators and Targets
The Color Black: A Cultural Cue for Aggressive Behavior
Sports Can Be a Humanizing Influence
Is Aggression Explained by Situational Influences?
Aggression in Times of War
Modeling Aggression
Bandura’s Bobo Doll Studies
Media Cues
Violent Television
Violent Video Games
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Aggression in the Movies
A Cognitive Explanation for Environmental Cues
Weapons Priming
Cognitive Associations With Alcohol
Heat
How Can We Manage or Reduce Aggression?
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Tempting but Bad Ideas: Catharsis and Revenge
Testing the Catharsis Hypothesis
Revenge Is Sweet, but Only Briefly
Hope for the Future: Cultures of Peace and Modeling Forgiveness
Creating Cultures of Peace
Modeling Forgiveness
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflections
Chapter 12. Intimate Relationships
What Causes Attraction?
Similarity
Mere Exposure and Proximity
The Westgate Housing Study
Exposure Leads to Liking
Spotlight on Research Methods: Misattribution of Arousal in the Shaky Bridge
Study
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Misattribution and Love in The Hunger
Games
Physiological Arousal and Misattribution
What Makes Us Physically Attractive?
Symmetry
“Average” Faces
Waist-to-Hips and Waist-to-Shoulders Ratios
Do We Have a Relationship Personality?
The History of Attachment Theory
The Strange Situation
Three Attachment Styles
Advances in Attachment Research
A New Model: Four Styles Instead of Three
Applying Social Psychology to Your Life: Measuring Your Attachment Style
Social Psychology in Popular Culture: Attachment Theory in Harry Potter
How Do We Decide to Commit?
“Nontraditional” Relationship Options
Arranged Marriages
Hooking Up
Friends With Benefits
Polyamorous Relationships
Interdependence Theory (Social Exchange Theory)
Satisfaction
Alternatives
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Investments
Do Men and Women Act Differently and, if So, Why?
Sex Differences in Attraction
Sex Differences in Jealousy
Sex Differences in Promiscuity
An Evolutionary Explanation
A Cultural Explanation
Same-Sex Relationships
Chapter Summary
Theories in Review
Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Application
Personal Reflection
APPLIED MINI-CHAPTERS
A. Social Psychology and a Sustainable Environment
What Are Threshold Effects, and Why Are They Important?
Defining Threshold Effects
Responding to Threshold Effects
Evaluating Scientific Claims
Collecting and Analyzing Data
Persuading Others of the Value of Science
What Happens When Environmental Thresholds Are Exceeded?
Noise
PTSD and the Sounds of War
Soundscapes: From Problem to Solution
Crowding
Density Versus Crowding
Environmental Design
A Role for Social Psychologists
The Tragedy of the Commons
B. Social Psychology of Law and the Courtroom
How Do Psychology and Law Fit Together?
Common Goals: Reliability and Validity
Different Philosophies: Advocacy Versus Objectivity
Hugo Münsterberg
Louis Brandeis
Mamie Clark and Kenneth Clark
The Social Psychology of False Confessions
A Confession Does Not Equal Guilt
Instrumental, Coerced Confessions
Instrumental, Voluntary Confessions
Authentic, Coerced False Confessions
Authentic, Voluntary False Confessions
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Psychologists and the APA Torture Scandal
The Social Psychology of Eyewitness Testimony
What Career Opportunities Unite Psychology and Law?
The False Television World of Forensic Psychology
The Real World of Forensic Psychology
Trial Consultants
Dispute Mediation
Evaluation
Reformers
C. Social Psychology of Stress and Health
How Do Environmental Stressors Influence Health and Health Care?
Stress-Related Health Problems
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Measuring Stress
Managing Stress
The Mindfulness Approach to Stress Management
Social Support
Personality Types: Promoting Health and Preventing Heart
Disease
A Healthy Environment
How Can Social Psychology Facilitate Adherence to Medical Advice?
Nonadherence Is a Big Problem
Nonadherence to Prescribed Medicines
Nonadherence Is a Persuasion Problem
Use the Principles of Persuasion
Persuasion Tactic: Create Cognitive Dissonance
Alternative Persuasion Tactics
Evaluation and Assessment
D. Social Psychology and Happiness: Positive Psychology
What Is Positive Psychology?
Three Pillars of Positive Psychology
Positive Subjective Experiences
Positive Individual Traits
Positive Institutions
Subjective Well-Being: Shifting From Negative to Positive
Psychology
Positive Psychology Is Not “Pop Psychology”
Placebo Effects
The Peer Review Process
The PERMA Approach
What Are Historical and Upcoming Topics in Positive Social
Psychology?
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The Early History of Positive Psychology
The First Positive Psychology Experiment: Triplett and
Sport Psychology
Peak Performance, Ethics Interventions, and Slumping
Athletes
The Future of Positive Social Psychology
Clinical Applications: Building Resilience
Military Training
Game-Based Assessments
The Controversy of Life Coaches
Health
Positive Psychology’s Strange Definition of Success
E. Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics?
A Brief History of Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Economics Maps the Boundary Between Rational and
Irrational Behavior
Psychology and the Nobel Prize in Economics
Psychology Guides the Behavioral Economic Model
How Is Behavioral Economics Applied to Everyday Situations?
The Psychology of Tax Policy: The Laffer Curve
Game Theory Predicts Interactions Between Economics and
Psychology
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Ultimatum Game: Quantifying Fairness
F. Social Psychology and Relationship Violence
What Are Different Types of Relationship Violence?
The Importance of Choosing Research Methodology: Surveys
Versus Archival Data
Archival Data
Self-Report Surveys
Type 1: Intimate Terrorism
Type 2: Situational Couple Violence
Male Victims
What Is the Psychology of People Experiencing Relationship Violence?
The Cycle of Violence
Romantic Myths
Cognitive Dissonance and Minimization
Faulty Affective Forecasting
How Can Survivors Heal and Move Forward?
Escape: From Victims to Survivors
Healing and Moving Forward
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Narrative Therapy
Posttraumatic Growth
G. Social Psychology of Work: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
What Is Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and What Is Its History?
I/O’s Pioneer: Walter Dill Scott
The Origins of Psychological Testing
The Science-Practitioner Gap
Modern Psychological Tests
What Content Areas Are Included in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology?
How I/O Psychologists Help Employees
Employee Morale and Employee Satisfaction
Performance Appraisal
Compensation
Work/Life Balance
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
How I/O Psychologists Help the Organization
Job Analysis
Personnel Needs Assessment
Organizational Development
Organizational Structure
Evaluation and Assessment
Leadership
Careers in Social Psychology and I/O Psychology
H. Social Psychology of Volunteerism and Internships
Why Do People Volunteer?
Personality
Job Hunting
Health Benefits
Life Satisfaction
Altruistic Service Versus Overjustification
How Do Internships Provide Career Guidance?
High-Impact Internships
Diversify Your Experience
An Internship on Your Resume
Abuse of Interns
Reevaluate Your Prior Decisions
References
Glossary
Index
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Preface
If social psychology is a roller coaster and we are its passengers, then the recent pace of
discovery justifies throwing our hands into the air and screaming. Since the 1930s, the
percentage of articles published in PsycINFO (the largest database of psychological
research) related to social psychology has quadrupled. This is an impressive growth pattern
because when you are actually doing science, the pace of discovery feels more like a race
between snails than a careening roller coaster. So why is social psychology growing so fast?
Why all the excitement?
The number of articles published in journals devoted to social psychology has quickly
increased since the 1930s.
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Three Social Forces
There are three social forces at work that explain the excitement behind what is happening
in social psychology: numbers, psychological literacy, and a scientific mission.
Numbers.
More than one million students in the United States are taking at least one course in
psychology every year, and social psychology is among the most popular offerings. It’s gone
global. In China in the 1970s, there were only three or four departments of psychology;
there are now approximately 250–300 (see Halpern, 2010). Social psychology’s insights
provide practical guidance. The head of a start-up software company finally understood the
fundamental attribution error (a major concept within the field) when he said, “You mean .
. . if an entire department is unproductive, then the problem might not be with them, but
in the situation I created in that department?” Social psychology provides practical
guidance to retail consumers and marketers, to trial lawyers and judges, to athletes and
coaches, and to politicians and voters. We have a large and growing audience. We can’t tell
social psychology’s distinctive story often enough or well enough. Numbers = New
Opportunities.
Psychological Literacy.
A new term is clarifying our mission as teachers: psychological literacy (Cranney & Dunn,
2011; McGovern et al., 2010). A free society requires intelligent citizenship; psychological
literacy creates better citizens. We shouldn’t be surprised. Everyone benefits from social
psychological insights into conformity, aggression, attitudes, attraction, prejudice . . . and
much more. A psychologically literate parent will (politely, we hope!) ask, “How do we
know whether the D.A.R.E. program really reduces drug abuse . . . that an anger
management class really reduces domestic violence . . . that boosting self-esteem solves
specific social problems?” Psychological literacy helps citizens ask better questions of people
in authority—and helps people in authority make better decisions. Psychological Literacy =
Better Citizenship.
A Scientific Mission.
We college and university teachers of social psychology are the front line soldiers in the
ancient war between science and superstition. Science wins every time a student dares to
publicly ask, “How do you know that?” But we teachers of social psychology wield unusual
weapons in this war. Like Shakespeare, we employ both tragedy and comedy. The
motivating tragedies behind scientific social psychology are both obvious (wars and mass
murder) and small (stereotyping and prejudices). Social psychology’s studies of tragedies are
brightened by flashes of humor. (What else can you call a memory-related study about
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virginity pledgers titled Reborn a Virgin?) Social psychology has so many engaging sub-plots
that we don’t always recognize the beautiful arc to our own story, but here it is: A Scientific
Mission = A Triumph Over Superstition.
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Our Teaching Approach
Any textbook reflects, to some degree, how its authors tend to teach. Textbook writing is
unlike classroom teaching, but there is some overlap. The approach in this textbook
synthesizes what we regard as the best teaching and textbook writing we have absorbed
from the scholarship of teaching and learning, the excellent practices we have observed in
others, and the techniques we have developed based on our own experiences.
A Conversation.
This textbook is closer to a conversation with an individual student than a lecture to a class.
Every chapter begins with several core questions. Each major heading discusses the science-
based answers—with candor when we are uncertain and with conviction when we can. A
satisfying conversation also ends when its main points have been clearly understood. So,
within each chapter we offer timely summaries of the main points used to answer each of
the core questions. Intermittent summaries are a common courtesy extended by most
textbook authors, supported by specific learning objectives. Our underlying purpose in
these summaries is to give the conversation a chance to breathe, a pause that provides
succinct answers to the current question—a natural way to say, “Okay. Got that. What’s
next?”
When traditional textbooks get to revisions, the authors rightly point out all their updated
references. We anticipate that this text, in comparison to others, will have many more
references to studies taking place before 1950. There is a reason behind this historical
sensitivity. We have tried to understand the arc of the stories within social psychology as
they evolved into our current state of knowing. (Particular features of the PsychINFO
database have made capturing the chronology easier than you might imagine.) So one
subtle but distinctive feature of this text is capturing social psychology’s story through the
chronological twists and turns of its research. Of course, we also make sure to include
cutting-edge advances in the field, based on this historical foundation.
Original Features.
The potential value of capturing research as a story with a past is that it can usher an
informed reader into the present. We want students to experience their present in a
personal way, so we created features that would invite them deeper into the world of social
psychology.
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personal self-knowledge. A professor can use these scales in several ways. They can certainly
provide students with significant social self-knowledge. But they also can provide practical
experience with the insights of statistical reasoning through within-class and between-class
comparisons.
Feature 2. Spotlight on Research Methods. There are some experiments that seem to
scream, “You can use me to teach about ______.” It could be a clear example of why we
need to control confounding variables or why ethical constraints require us to use a quasi-
experiment. Every chapter features an in-depth discussion of some element of the research
methods used in social psychology. The scientific method is not one thing; it is a toolbox of
techniques. Consequently, repetition and training in each chapter help students get
comfortable with using each of those tools.
There’s scant literature about how to write a textbook. Fortunately, there is a wealth of
material about good writing. Two sources have been particularly helpful: On Writing Well
by William Zinsser (1991) and the importance of storytelling in Talks to Teachers on
Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals by William James (1899/1983). Although
we are proud of what we have produced, we can do it much better next time—we just
don’t know how right now. But we know we will get better because reviewers will tell us
how to get better. Good writing, like good science, grows through candid feedback. And
for that, we have many more people to thank.
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Acknowledgments
To Lara, Lucy, Zach, Marian, David, Stephanie, Patrice, all the reviewers, SAGE, and the
Amazing Randi.
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students with course content. All videos are accessible through the interactive eBook
available to pair with the text.
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About the Authors
Thomas Heinzen
is a full-time teacher/researcher at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He
conducted evaluation research for the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and
Policy, consulted on preventing tractor roll-overs at the New York Center of
Agricultural Health and Medicine in Cooperstown, New York, and conducted
statistical analyses for a temporary commission on homeless veterans in New York
State. He has invested in students’ lives by mentoring more than 60 student articles
and presentations, designing a novel internship program, and creating a lab testing
game-based interventions to increase rates of college completion among at-risk
students.
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Wind Goodfriend
has been teaching psychology at Buena Vista University, a Midwestern liberal arts
school of 800 students, for twelve years. In that time, she has won the Faculty of the
Year award three times and was named Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs. She
also serves as the co-director of the trauma advocacy program and volunteers as the
chief research officer for the Institute for the Prevention of Relationship Violence.
Wind has written 13 book chapters on psychology in pop culture, covering topics
including Game of Thrones, Wonder Woman, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and more. She
has developed sixteen different courses including special topics classes such as
Psychology of Colonialism, Psychology in Popular Film, and Relationship Violence.
She received her B.A. from Buena Vista University and both her master’s and Ph.D.
in Social Psychology from Purdue University.
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DANCE ON STILTS AT THE GIRLS’ UNYAGO, NIUCHI
I see increasing reason to believe that the view formed some time
back as to the origin of the Makonde bush is the correct one. I have
no doubt that it is not a natural product, but the result of human
occupation. Those parts of the high country where man—as a very
slight amount of practice enables the eye to perceive at once—has not
yet penetrated with axe and hoe, are still occupied by a splendid
timber forest quite able to sustain a comparison with our mixed
forests in Germany. But wherever man has once built his hut or tilled
his field, this horrible bush springs up. Every phase of this process
may be seen in the course of a couple of hours’ walk along the main
road. From the bush to right or left, one hears the sound of the axe—
not from one spot only, but from several directions at once. A few
steps further on, we can see what is taking place. The brush has been
cut down and piled up in heaps to the height of a yard or more,
between which the trunks of the large trees stand up like the last
pillars of a magnificent ruined building. These, too, present a
melancholy spectacle: the destructive Makonde have ringed them—
cut a broad strip of bark all round to ensure their dying off—and also
piled up pyramids of brush round them. Father and son, mother and
son-in-law, are chopping away perseveringly in the background—too
busy, almost, to look round at the white stranger, who usually excites
so much interest. If you pass by the same place a week later, the piles
of brushwood have disappeared and a thick layer of ashes has taken
the place of the green forest. The large trees stretch their
smouldering trunks and branches in dumb accusation to heaven—if
they have not already fallen and been more or less reduced to ashes,
perhaps only showing as a white stripe on the dark ground.
This work of destruction is carried out by the Makonde alike on the
virgin forest and on the bush which has sprung up on sites already
cultivated and deserted. In the second case they are saved the trouble
of burning the large trees, these being entirely absent in the
secondary bush.
After burning this piece of forest ground and loosening it with the
hoe, the native sows his corn and plants his vegetables. All over the
country, he goes in for bed-culture, which requires, and, in fact,
receives, the most careful attention. Weeds are nowhere tolerated in
the south of German East Africa. The crops may fail on the plains,
where droughts are frequent, but never on the plateau with its
abundant rains and heavy dews. Its fortunate inhabitants even have
the satisfaction of seeing the proud Wayao and Wamakua working
for them as labourers, driven by hunger to serve where they were
accustomed to rule.
But the light, sandy soil is soon exhausted, and would yield no
harvest the second year if cultivated twice running. This fact has
been familiar to the native for ages; consequently he provides in
time, and, while his crop is growing, prepares the next plot with axe
and firebrand. Next year he plants this with his various crops and
lets the first piece lie fallow. For a short time it remains waste and
desolate; then nature steps in to repair the destruction wrought by
man; a thousand new growths spring out of the exhausted soil, and
even the old stumps put forth fresh shoots. Next year the new growth
is up to one’s knees, and in a few years more it is that terrible,
impenetrable bush, which maintains its position till the black
occupier of the land has made the round of all the available sites and
come back to his starting point.
The Makonde are, body and soul, so to speak, one with this bush.
According to my Yao informants, indeed, their name means nothing
else but “bush people.” Their own tradition says that they have been
settled up here for a very long time, but to my surprise they laid great
stress on an original immigration. Their old homes were in the
south-east, near Mikindani and the mouth of the Rovuma, whence
their peaceful forefathers were driven by the continual raids of the
Sakalavas from Madagascar and the warlike Shirazis[47] of the coast,
to take refuge on the almost inaccessible plateau. I have studied
African ethnology for twenty years, but the fact that changes of
population in this apparently quiet and peaceable corner of the earth
could have been occasioned by outside enterprises taking place on
the high seas, was completely new to me. It is, no doubt, however,
correct.
The charming tribal legend of the Makonde—besides informing us
of other interesting matters—explains why they have to live in the
thickest of the bush and a long way from the edge of the plateau,
instead of making their permanent homes beside the purling brooks
and springs of the low country.
“The place where the tribe originated is Mahuta, on the southern
side of the plateau towards the Rovuma, where of old time there was
nothing but thick bush. Out of this bush came a man who never
washed himself or shaved his head, and who ate and drank but little.
He went out and made a human figure from the wood of a tree
growing in the open country, which he took home to his abode in the
bush and there set it upright. In the night this image came to life and
was a woman. The man and woman went down together to the
Rovuma to wash themselves. Here the woman gave birth to a still-
born child. They left that place and passed over the high land into the
valley of the Mbemkuru, where the woman had another child, which
was also born dead. Then they returned to the high bush country of
Mahuta, where the third child was born, which lived and grew up. In
course of time, the couple had many more children, and called
themselves Wamatanda. These were the ancestral stock of the
Makonde, also called Wamakonde,[48] i.e., aborigines. Their
forefather, the man from the bush, gave his children the command to
bury their dead upright, in memory of the mother of their race who
was cut out of wood and awoke to life when standing upright. He also
warned them against settling in the valleys and near large streams,
for sickness and death dwelt there. They were to make it a rule to
have their huts at least an hour’s walk from the nearest watering-
place; then their children would thrive and escape illness.”
The explanation of the name Makonde given by my informants is
somewhat different from that contained in the above legend, which I
extract from a little book (small, but packed with information), by
Pater Adams, entitled Lindi und sein Hinterland. Otherwise, my
results agree exactly with the statements of the legend. Washing?
Hapana—there is no such thing. Why should they do so? As it is, the
supply of water scarcely suffices for cooking and drinking; other
people do not wash, so why should the Makonde distinguish himself
by such needless eccentricity? As for shaving the head, the short,
woolly crop scarcely needs it,[49] so the second ancestral precept is
likewise easy enough to follow. Beyond this, however, there is
nothing ridiculous in the ancestor’s advice. I have obtained from
various local artists a fairly large number of figures carved in wood,
ranging from fifteen to twenty-three inches in height, and
representing women belonging to the great group of the Mavia,
Makonde, and Matambwe tribes. The carving is remarkably well
done and renders the female type with great accuracy, especially the
keloid ornamentation, to be described later on. As to the object and
meaning of their works the sculptors either could or (more probably)
would tell me nothing, and I was forced to content myself with the
scanty information vouchsafed by one man, who said that the figures
were merely intended to represent the nembo—the artificial
deformations of pelele, ear-discs, and keloids. The legend recorded
by Pater Adams places these figures in a new light. They must surely
be more than mere dolls; and we may even venture to assume that
they are—though the majority of present-day Makonde are probably
unaware of the fact—representations of the tribal ancestress.
The references in the legend to the descent from Mahuta to the
Rovuma, and to a journey across the highlands into the Mbekuru
valley, undoubtedly indicate the previous history of the tribe, the
travels of the ancestral pair typifying the migrations of their
descendants. The descent to the neighbouring Rovuma valley, with
its extraordinary fertility and great abundance of game, is intelligible
at a glance—but the crossing of the Lukuledi depression, the ascent
to the Rondo Plateau and the descent to the Mbemkuru, also lie
within the bounds of probability, for all these districts have exactly
the same character as the extreme south. Now, however, comes a
point of especial interest for our bacteriological age. The primitive
Makonde did not enjoy their lives in the marshy river-valleys.
Disease raged among them, and many died. It was only after they
had returned to their original home near Mahuta, that the health
conditions of these people improved. We are very apt to think of the
African as a stupid person whose ignorance of nature is only equalled
by his fear of it, and who looks on all mishaps as caused by evil
spirits and malignant natural powers. It is much more correct to
assume in this case that the people very early learnt to distinguish
districts infested with malaria from those where it is absent.
This knowledge is crystallized in the
ancestral warning against settling in the
valleys and near the great waters, the
dwelling-places of disease and death. At the
same time, for security against the hostile
Mavia south of the Rovuma, it was enacted
that every settlement must be not less than a
certain distance from the southern edge of the
plateau. Such in fact is their mode of life at the
present day. It is not such a bad one, and
certainly they are both safer and more
comfortable than the Makua, the recent
intruders from the south, who have made USUAL METHOD OF
good their footing on the western edge of the CLOSING HUT-DOOR
plateau, extending over a fairly wide belt of
country. Neither Makua nor Makonde show in their dwellings
anything of the size and comeliness of the Yao houses in the plain,
especially at Masasi, Chingulungulu and Zuza’s. Jumbe Chauro, a
Makonde hamlet not far from Newala, on the road to Mahuta, is the
most important settlement of the tribe I have yet seen, and has fairly
spacious huts. But how slovenly is their construction compared with
the palatial residences of the elephant-hunters living in the plain.
The roofs are still more untidy than in the general run of huts during
the dry season, the walls show here and there the scanty beginnings
or the lamentable remains of the mud plastering, and the interior is a
veritable dog-kennel; dirt, dust and disorder everywhere. A few huts
only show any attempt at division into rooms, and this consists
merely of very roughly-made bamboo partitions. In one point alone
have I noticed any indication of progress—in the method of fastening
the door. Houses all over the south are secured in a simple but
ingenious manner. The door consists of a set of stout pieces of wood
or bamboo, tied with bark-string to two cross-pieces, and moving in
two grooves round one of the door-posts, so as to open inwards. If
the owner wishes to leave home, he takes two logs as thick as a man’s
upper arm and about a yard long. One of these is placed obliquely
against the middle of the door from the inside, so as to form an angle
of from 60° to 75° with the ground. He then places the second piece
horizontally across the first, pressing it downward with all his might.
It is kept in place by two strong posts planted in the ground a few
inches inside the door. This fastening is absolutely safe, but of course
cannot be applied to both doors at once, otherwise how could the
owner leave or enter his house? I have not yet succeeded in finding
out how the back door is fastened.