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Social Psychology: Exploring the Dynamics of Human Experience
Contributor(s): Vallacher, Robin R. (Author)
ISBN: 0815382898     ISBN-13: 9780815382898
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $266.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Psychology | Research & Methodology
- Psychology | Personality
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 8" W x 9.9" (4.00 lbs) 530 pages
 
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This textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, creating an integrative and cumulative framework to present students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience.

From a person's momentary impulses to a society's values and norms, the diversity of social psychology makes for a fascinating discipline, but it also presents a formidable challenge for presentation in a manner that is coherent and cumulative rather than fragmented and disordered. Using an accessible and readable style, the author shows how the field's dizzying and highly fragmented array of topics, models, theories, and paradigms can best be understood through a coherent conceptual narrative in which topics are presented in careful sequence, with each chapter building on what has already been learned while providing the groundwork for understanding what follows in the next chapter. The text also examines recent developments such as how computer simulations and big data supplement the traditional methods of experiment and correlation.

Also containing a wide range of features, including key term glossaries and compact "summing up and looking ahead" overviews, and covering an enormous range of topics from self-concept to social change, this comprehensive textbook is essential reading for any student of social psychology.